Hunter.io Review: Features, Pricing & more

Finding email addresses for your link-building outreach or searching for new leads for your business can be time-consuming and tiring.

I spent hours working manually on my first sites for link-building outreach. I used to browse for those blogs I wished to get in touch with, check out their contact page, and only then adapt an email template to their business. And yes, it was as time-consuming as it sounds. But then I discovered this fantastic plugin, Hunter.io.

Hunter changed my entire lead generation process. It is a great plugin that helped me optimize my outreach efforts. Its email verifier, email finder tools, and domain search helped me crawl for addresses, and its campaigns and leads features proved to be a wonderful aid for my link-building and emailing needs.

In this review, we will see how it proves to be the right choice for your business, too.

Hunter.io Overview

Hunter.io searches the Internet to help you find and verify professional email addresses. The tool has been designed to support businesses with email outreach and lead-generation processes.

Over 4+ million users use Hunter. And more than 40,00,000 professionals have used Hunter to grow their businesses.

Whether you are searching to contact and locate other business webmasters, owners, or even employees, the tool has your back. Hunter.io even includes bulk functionalities that can save you time while conducting mass email campaigns.

Other than that, Hunter’s browser plugin and online dashboard come in a minimalist design that makes the complete working highly convenient for you.

How to use Hunter.io?

Hunter.io is a legal tool, so you need not worry; you have to abide by the rules and regulations to get started. Follow these simple steps to use Hunter-

• Open the official Hunter website and sign up using your Google Account
• Complete the starting process simply by entering all the asked details
• Do your very first research by entering your target website address on the search bar and then clicking the button “Find email address.”
• Provide your phone number so that you can receive a verification code
• Once that is done, a list of available email addresses will show up for you
• Verify these email addresses so that you can discard the invalid ones

Hunter Features

Find every email

There are many cases where you want to reach out to someone but you don’t have their contact information. In such a scenario Hunter.io can be of help.

There is a feature in Huntor.Io to find emails. You have to have an idea of the person’s name or their company website. This allows you to look up particular email addresses of businesses and individuals.

This feature of Hunter.io is most useful for reaching out to people you met during a networking event.

Accurate Email Verification

The email verifier feature of Hunter.io is straightforward. Hunter permits you to verify a specified email address and avoid email bouncing.

The tool even helps you to make sure that the email address is an original one. All you have to do is- paste the email address you want to verify and leave it on Hunter.Io to do its magic.

Hunter.io will provide you with many helpful details like- whether the address is publicly available, what type of email address it is, and the server status of that website’s email address.

However, when it comes to starters, you can’t verify the email addresses ending with @yahoo or @gmail.

Bulk Tasks

If you have to work on many email addresses then Hunter.io has a solution. It allows you to work on multiple emails simultaneously saving you time and energy.

With Hunter.io’s bulk tasks feature you can perform searches, checks, and verifications of all the emails together. You can also browse many domains, optimize your list, and find many people based on other important information.

This feature helps find the correct email addresses of specific companies.

Easy Searching

Hunter’s domain search lets you search for any business and export these results to the spreadsheet. For instance, if you wish to find the VP of any random company.

In such a scenario, type the name of that domain, and you will get all the details of that person like position, name, social media links, contact number, etc.

Wide Outreach

For gathering a huge amount of leads for your business outreach, Hunter.Io allows you to connect your personal Gmail account with it. After that, you can even enhance your campaigns by creating amazing email templates.

Also, you can deal with a huge amount of data and verify the lists of many domains or addresses simply with ease in no time.

Leads

Hunter.io has a customer relationship management dashboard, where you can easily sift and sort through your database of emails.

All the activities you do on Hunter.Io can be seen here. It’s a place where you can collect all the emails you have found till now.

You can make lists of emails and filter through them based on the industry, company, or position. You can also export these leads to an email marketing platform like Mailchimp or your CRM.

For purposes like link building, this is all you need to do, since the more advanced features of a CRM are not needed.

Campaigns

The Campaigns features of Hunter.Io can help you start reaching out for any purpose. It comes with its cold email templates.

If you don’t want to set up option forms or complex email sequences, Hunter.io’s simplicity can be helpful.

For small campaigns such as link-building outreach, or campaigns where you wish to personalize follow-up, this feature of Hunter.io is all you need.

Hunter.io’s Other Tools

Besides the features of Hunter.Io discussed above there are tools of Hunter.io that can ease your outreach process.

These are not different from the main Hunter.io but they can simplify your work in some situations.

Hunter For Chrome

Hunter for Chrome is a plugin. This plugin allows you to search as well as verify email addresses. It makes your work easier and quicker.

Using the plugin is simple, while surfing a website, clicking on this plugin can analyze the domain and provide you with all the related email addresses.

From the plugin itself, you can add them to a list, making it easier to research prospects.

But for the campaign management, you have to go for the main tool as with the plugin you can’t send the emails directly from the screen.

Hunter For Google Sheets

The Google Sheets add-on is great. With this, you can search for email addresses by domain and add these emails directly to the sheet you have kept open. You can also verify the emails that are already there in your sheet.

But note that, Google Spreadsheets can’t allow you to do bulk actions as it is limited to 500 actions at a time. So do it in the main Hunter.io application and then import it to Drive.

Hunter.Io For Developers

The tool offers an API that is easy to use and install. It lets you install Hunter on your crawlers, apps, and other tools.

So, this is something you should use to power up your applications.

Alternatives to Hunter.io

FindThatLead

FindThatLead is a top Hunter.Io alternative lead creation solution for generating more qualified leads.

The platform uses the power of artificial intelligence to discover the finest businesses in your niche and ultimately push them to the top of search results so that potential consumers can easily find them.

It is an amazing tool for mass email verification and comes with over 50 free credits for lead generation. The yearly pricing for Findthatlead is ^€46 per month.

Snov.io

Snov.io provides lead creation and email address search tools and embeds them into a CRM that your sales staff can use easily. Snov.io is essentially a reloaded Hunter.io, with identical tools, a low barrier to entry, and workflows.

There are, however, some distinctions between the two. Snov.io, for example, includes social media research capabilities and is comparatively less expensive.

The pricing of Snov.io starts at $39 per month.

AnyMail Finder

AnyMail Finder acts as your typical email finder, with features such as a bulk research tool, a standard email finder search engine for many different addresses, and APIs that allow you to integrate their system into your tools.

It’s a little more expensive than the other options mentioned – the cheapest plan of AnyMail Finder is $108 per year, and you get over 600 credits for that.

Furthermore, no free plan is available, and the free trial is limited to as many as 7 days.

FindEmails

FindEmails is great for organizations seeking a reliable yet reasonably-priced email finder. Unlike other email finders, FindEmails employs its technology to search and validate prospective emails simply in a single step, rather than relying on LinkedIn or internal databases.

Unlike Hunter, which lacks a two-in-one email discovery and verification capability and doesn’t use LinkedIn as its major prospecting source, FindEmails provides both.

Furthermore, FindEmails also provides a thorough score in addition to discovered addresses, you can even access it via a browser plugin or their website. It’s pricing starts at $29 per month.

FindEmails is a good option if you want the best features, accuracy, and affordability.

Pricing of Hunter

Hunter.io doesn’t provide a free trial but offers a free plan.

Plans	Free	Starter ($34/mo)	Growth ($104/mo)	Business ($349/mo)
Seats	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Upgrade/Downgrade	Anytime	Anytime	Anytime	Anytime
Monthly Searches	25	500	5,000	50,000
Additional Searches (per 100 credits)	$10.00	$3.00	$1.50	$0.75
Monthly Verifications	50	1,000	10,000	50,000
Additional Verifications (per 100 credits)	$5.00	$1.50	$0.75	N/A
Domain Search – Full Results Access	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️
CSV Exports	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️
Unlimited Team Members	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Support	Regular	Priority	Priority	Priority+ Account manager
Browser Extension	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Google Sheets Add-on	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
CRM integration	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
API	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Connected Emails Account	1	3	10	20
Additional email accounts	❌	+$10/mo per account	+$10/mo per account	+$10/mo per account
SMTP/IMAP accounts	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️
Email account rotation	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️
Attachments and images in emails	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️
Link tracking	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️
Custom tracking domain	❌	❌	✔️	✔️
Reporting	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️
Recipients pet campaign	500	2.500	5,000	10,000

Recently, Hunter.io has integrated campaigns that permit you to perform direct outreach instead of uploading contacts to the other CRM. And in terms of usability, the tool is convenient and practical.

FAQs

What makes Hunter.Io stand out?

• Hunter is a tool that helps find professional email addresses quickly and easily.
• It is free to use and beneficial for businesses.
• Hunter is designed for email outreach and lead generation.
• The platform has a user-friendly interface.
• After signing up, users get access to over 50 email searches.
• Key features include lead management, free cold email templates, bulk email management, email verification, and campaign optimization.
• The tool is suitable for checking existing email addresses or finding new ones.
• Hunter offers excellent customer support and pricing plans.

Conclusion

All in all, we found that Hunter does its job nicely. While we have tried to cover all that Hunter can provide in this review, you can still give it a free trial before deciding to continue with it.

Hunter.io’s pricing can be a bit too much for certain businesses, but its excellent quality support and service never fail to justify its price.

I would say that Hunter.Io is one of the simplest and easiest-to-use tools I have ever reviewed. So, you will not face any problems getting started with the platform. Its unique email finder is as easy to use as Google’s.

However, many similar tools exist, so if you are not interested in Hunter, you might consider the alternatives mentioned above in this article.