Free
$0
Free
50 credits a month, unlimited users, API access.
API included
Comparison
Hunter vs Prospeo: which email finder API fits your workflow?
Both charge 1 credit per email found and nothing on a miss. Hunter finds emails published on the open web, verifies for 0.5 credit, has free company discovery, unlimited users and built-in cold-email sequences, from $49 a month. Prospeo is a people database: filter-rich search at 1 credit per 25 results, bulk enrichment of 50 per call and mobiles at 10 credits, from $49 per user a month.
Pick Hunter if
- You already have company domains and want every published email at each one
- You want verification in the same tool: 0.5 credit per check, unknown results free
Pick Prospeo if
- You build lists by title, seniority, funding, hiring or technologies in one search call
- You enrich in bulk: 50 records per call
Hunter
Enrichment, Verification
Prospeo
Sourcing, Enrichment
At a glance
Hunter
- From
- $49/moStarter monthly, $34 yearly
- Free plan
- Yes50 credits/mo with API
- Cost per unit
- 1 credit/email; verify 0.5; no phones
- MCP server
- Official
Prospeo
- From
- $49/user/moStarter monthly, $37 yearly
- Free plan
- Yes100 credits/mo, no API
- Cost per unit
- 1 credit/email, 10 for mobile
- MCP server
- Official
Where they differ
16 points side by side. Open a value for the full detail.
| What | Hunter | Prospeo |
|---|---|---|
| Open-web email finder and verifierAn open-web email finder: domain search, email finder and verifier, with free company discovery, person and company enrichment and cold-email sequences. | B2B people and company databaseA B2B people and company database: search 200M+ contacts and 30M+ companies with 30+ filters, then enrich for verified email and mobile. | |
| Starter $49/mo monthly, $34 yearlyStarter: $49 a month billed monthly, or $34 a month billed yearly ($408 a year). Unlimited users. Verified 2026-10-25. | Starter $49/user/mo monthly, $37 yearlyStarter: $49 per user a month billed monthly, or $37 a month billed yearly ($441 a year). Verified 2026-10-25. | |
| One pool per account, unlimited usersOne credit pool per account, with unlimited users. Monthly credits reset and do not roll over; yearly plans get all credits upfront. An API-only Data Platform sells search and verification credits separately, usable for 12 months. | Credits per user, no rolloverCredits per user. Credits do not roll over. Add-ons start at 1,000 credits for $10. Yearly plans get all credits upfront. | |
| 1 credit/email; verify 0.5; no phones1 credit per email found, free if not found. Verification costs 0.5 credit, and an unknown result is free. No phone finder. | 1 credit/email, 10 for mobile1 credit per verified email found, 10 credits for a mobile with the email included. Free on no match, and re-enriching the same record within 90 days is free. | |
| Discover free; 1 credit per email foundCompany Discover, Email Count, Lookalikes and Domain Finder are free. Domain Search returns every published email at a company for 1 credit per email found (the API reference counts per call with results). | 1 credit per page of 251 credit per page of 25 people or companies, only when the page has results. The same page within 30 days is free. Up to 25,000 results per search. | |
| 50 credits/mo with API50 credits a month with API access. The credits arrive after you confirm your email. | 100 credits/mo, no API100 credits a month with the MCP server, but no Public API access. | |
| Every plan, Free includedEvery plan, Free included. A test key returns fixed dummy data for plumbing tests. | Starter and upStarter and up. Some search filters need Growth or Pro. | |
| X-API-KEY header, Bearer or queryX-API-KEY header (preferred), a Bearer header or an api_key query parameter. | X-KEY headerX-KEY header. Several keys per account. | |
| 15/sec and 500/min on finderPer key: Domain Search, Email Finder and enrichment 15 a second and 500 a minute; Verifier 10 a second and 300 a minute; Discover 5 a second and 50 a minute. A rate-limit hit returns 403; 429 means out of credits. | Enrich 5/sec on StarterSeparate enrich and search buckets per plan. Enrich runs from 5 a second, 300 a minute and 2,000 a day on Starter to 30, 1,800 and 500,000 on Pro. Search runs from 1, 30 and 1,000 to 5, 180 and 250,000. | |
| Bulk in web app; unsigned message and lead webhooksBulk domain search, finder and verifier run in the web app. The API has multi-domain search with reveal and leads bulk endpoints, but no general bulk enrichment job. Webhooks cover message events (sent, read, clicked, replied) and lead.created through Zapier, and are unsigned. | 50 per bulk call, no webhooksBulk enrichment takes up to 50 people or companies per call, synchronously. No webhooks. | |
YesOfficial server at https://mcp.hunter.io/mcp, included in all plans. OAuth for Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini apps, or an API key header. 102 tools, covering search, verification, leads and sequences. | YesOfficial hosted server at https://mcp.prospeo.io with OAuth or an API key, or run locally with npx. Eight tools for search, enrichment and account info. | |
| Email with confidence score and sourcesEmail with confidence score, the public pages it was found on with first and last seen dates, and verification status; name, position, seniority and department. Hunter says it indexes 150M professional emails from 650M public sources. | Verified email, mobile, firmographics, job postingsPerson profile and job history, verified email with MX provider, mobile; company firmographics, funding, technologies and job postings. High-intent records refresh weekly, the rest about every 30 days. | |
| Clay, Zapier, Make, HubSpot, SalesforceClay, Zapier, Make, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Google Sheets and a Chrome extension. | CRMs, sequencers, Clay, Zapier, n8n, MakeCRMs (HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive and others), sequencers (Smartlead, Instantly, lemlist and others), Clay, Zapier, n8n, Make and Google Sheets. | |
| GDPR and CCPA, no SOC 2States GDPR and CCPA compliance for its database and returns 451 for people who opted out. Hosted on Google Cloud in Belgium. No SOC 2 statement on its security page. | GDPR alignment, no SOC 2 listedStates GDPR alignment on its trust center. No SOC 2 report is listed there. | |
| Opted-out (451) addresses not processedDo not process an address that returns 451, because that person opted out. Abusive or very frequent API use can get API access suspended. | No resale or competing databaseNo resale or disclosure of output data to third parties, and no use of it to build a competing database or model. | |
| Emails at known domains, free discoveryFinding and verifying emails at known company domains, free company discovery, and small teams that also send sequences from the same tool. | Persona list builds with many filtersBuilding lists by persona with many filters and enriching them in bulk, with mobiles when you need them. |
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Pricing, plan by plan
US dollars as each vendor's page showed them on 25 Oct 2026. One panel per tool; switch each between monthly and annual billing (an annual price is the monthly rate when you pay for the year up front).
Hunter
6 plans · API reviewStarter
$49/mo
billed monthly
$34/mo
billed annually
2,000 credits a month, or 24,000 a year upfront ($408 a year).
API included
Plan details
3 email accounts.
Growth
$149/mo
billed monthly
$104/mo
billed annually
10,000 credits a month, or 120,000 a year ($1,248 a year).
API included
Plan details
10 email accounts.
Scale
$299/mo
billed monthly
$209/mo
billed annually
25,000 credits a month, or 300,000 a year ($2,508 a year).
API included
Plan details
20 email accounts, account manager.
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Enterprise
Custom quote
Custom number of credits.
API included
Data Platform (API only)
Usage-based
Prepaid search and verification credits on a volume slider, usable 12 months.
API included
Plan details
Search from $0.05 down to $0.0056 a credit and verification from $0.011 down to $0.0022 as volume grows.
Prospeo
4 plans · API reviewFree
$0
Free
100 credits a month, MCP server, no Public API.
No API
Starter
$49/mo
billed monthly
$37/mo
billed annually
Per user. 2,000 credits a month, or 24,000 a year upfront ($441 a year).
API included
Growth
$99/mo
billed monthly
$74/mo
billed annually
Per user. 5,000 credits a month, or 60,000 a year ($888 a year).
API included
Pro
$249/mo
billed monthly
$187/mo
billed annually
Per user. 15,000 credits a month, or 180,000 a year ($2,241 a year). Highest API rate limits.
API included
Which one to pick
Choose Hunter if
- You already have company domains and want every published email at each one.
- You want verification in the same tool: 0.5 credit per check, unknown results free.
- Several people share the account: Hunter has unlimited users on every plan.
- You want free company discovery and email counts before you spend credits.
- You want to test the API on a free plan: Hunter Free includes it.
Choose Prospeo if
- You build lists by title, seniority, funding, hiring or technologies in one search call.
- You enrich in bulk: 50 records per call.
- You need mobile numbers: 10 credits each, email included.
- You want cheap credit top-ups from $10 per 1,000.
If neither fits: Many teams run both: a cheap finder first and a second provider for its misses, then verify everything before sending.
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Questions people ask
Which finds emails cheaper, Hunter or Prospeo?
Both charge 1 credit per email found and nothing on a miss. Starter is $49 a month on both when billed monthly, for 2,000 credits; Hunter's covers unlimited users while Prospeo's is per user. Yearly, Hunter Starter is $34 a month and Prospeo Starter $37. Verified 2026-10-25.
Can I use the API on a free plan?
On Hunter, yes: the Free plan has 50 credits a month and API access. Prospeo's Free plan has 100 credits a month and the MCP server, but its plan table shows no Public API access.
Does Hunter or Prospeo find phone numbers?
Prospeo returns mobiles for 10 credits each, with the email included. Hunter has no phone finder; it returns a phone only where one is published.
Do credits roll over?
Not on monthly plans for either. Hunter's monthly credits reset each month; yearly plans get all credits upfront, and Data Platform credits last 12 months. Prospeo credits expire at renewal.
Do Hunter and Prospeo have MCP servers?
Yes. Hunter's is at https://mcp.hunter.io/mcp, included in all plans, with 102 tools. Prospeo's is at https://mcp.prospeo.io, available on its Free plan too.
Related
Read from hunter.io/pricing, prospeo.io/pricing and each tool's API docs. Verified 25 Oct 2026.
