Hunter
At a Glance
The cheapest honest way to turn a list of target companies into owner email addresses, with the price and the unit both published. It is a sales tool, not an acquisition tool: it will not tell you which company to write to.
- Pricing
- Subscription, Published on its own pricing page: Free at 50 credits a month, Starter $49 a month (2,000 credits), Growth $149 (10,000), Scale $299 (25,000), Enterprise quoted. Each plan shows a lower annual-billed figure beside the monthly one ($34, $104, $209). The unit is stated plainly: "1 credit = 1 email found via Domain Search, Email Finder, or Bulk Email Finder" and "0.5 credit = 1 email verified".
- Best For
- A self-funded searcher running proprietary outreach who already has a company list and needs the owner's address, and who wants the verification step in the same tool that finds it
- Roadmap Stages
- 2. Define & Test Your Thesis4. Source & Screen Deals
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Publishes its prices and its unit: a credit is one email found and half a credit is one verified, so a campaign of a known size can be costed before paying anything
- The free tier is 50 credits a month, which is enough to test whether a niche's owners are findable at all before committing to a plan
- Verification sits beside the finder, and a bounced campaign is what burns the sending domain a searcher needs for the next hundred owners
Cons
- It finds addresses and nothing else: there is no company discovery, no revenue or succession signal, so it presumes a target list that came from somewhere else
- Built for sales teams rather than for buyers of businesses, so nothing in it knows what an acquisition target looks like
- A practitioner using it on a search paired it with a separate verification service rather than relying on Hunter's alone, which is two paid tools stacked for one job
What Searchers Say
Named in a Searchfunder thread on cold outreach for search funds as part of a stack ("Use email-format.com, Hunter, Google search for email patterns... and NeverBounce for verification"), which is how this category's tools actually get used: horizontal sales tooling assembled by hand. The poster's role is not stated as searcher, so the mention establishes usage in this community rather than an endorsement by a named buyer.