Hunter alternatives: 11 lead generation tools compared
Teams look for a Hunter alternative when credits stop covering their volume, when they need phone numbers or LinkedIn lists rather than domain searches, or when they want the lookup and the sending tool bought from one supplier. Others want a vendor that states where processing happens. Options range from small European finders to full outreach platforms.
Short answer: Looking for a replacement for Hunter? Dropcontact, Skrapp and Evaboot come first in our lead generation software ranking. We open the ranking with smaller vendors and put the established brands from fourth place onward. Start with Dropcontact if your legal team wants EU processing and a vendor that holds no contact database. Below are 11 alternatives, each taken from the Best Lead Generation Software in 2026 ranking, with its main difference from Hunter.
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Built for: Teams that find and verify prospect addresses in one place.
Not for: Anyone cleaning large existing marketing lists in one pass.
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Why buyers look past Hunter
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Credits reset every month
Hunter's paid plans grant 2,000, 10,000 or 25,000 credits a month on Starter, Growth and Scale, and monthly credits reset and do not roll over. Yearly billing releases the whole year's credits upfront. A team with uneven prospecting weeks can lose allowance it paid for.
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Sending capacity is priced apart
The plan tiers include 3, 10 and 20 email accounts, and further accounts are add-ons from 10 euros a month each. Custom domains and Inbox Protection are also add-ons. Costs for a busy outbound programme therefore sit partly outside the headline plan price.
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Phone and LinkedIn data are not the focus
The API documentation lists phone and LinkedIn fields in responses but states no coverage rates, and its sample responses show them empty. Hunter's core is the email address for a domain or a named person. Teams that call prospects, or work from LinkedIn searches, usually add a second tool.
you want the database, outreach and calling in a single platform and accept credits that expire
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What each one does differently
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Dropcontact
France · Published
Dropcontact says it keeps no contact database and builds each address with its own algorithms on EU-based servers, and describes itself as fully GDPR compliant. Starter is listed at 79 euros a month and Growth at 120, with 50 free credits to try. A miss is re-credited. CRM enrichment is a separate subscription, and carry-over of unused credits is a Growth feature.
Switch from Hunter if your legal team wants EU processing and a vendor that holds no contact database.
Skrapp charges a credit only when an address comes back Valid or Catch-all, so Invalid and Unknown results cost nothing. Professional is listed at 29 dollars a month on annual billing for 2,000 credits and two users, Enterprise at 262 for 50,000 credits and 15 users. Credits roll over and survive cancellation. Only Professional and Enterprise carry rollover.
Switch from Hunter if you want to pay only for usable addresses and keep unused credits.
Evaboot turns your own Sales Navigator searches into spreadsheets with verified emails, one credit per lead, from 9 dollars a month for 100 credits. Seats are unlimited and a credit balance can be shared. It needs an active Sales Navigator seat, caps a search at 2,500 leads, and gives no phone numbers. A lead with no email found still costs a credit.
Switch from Hunter if your team already pays for Sales Navigator and wants its lists exported with emails.
France (product HQ); part of Cognism Group, UK · Published
Kaspr is a LinkedIn extension from a Paris company, priced per user: Starter lists 45 euros and Business 79 euros a month. Paid plans include unlimited B2B emails, while phone credits are capped at 100 a month on Starter and 200 on Business. The free plan allows 15 email credits, 5 phone and 5 direct email credits a month.
Switch from Hunter if you prospect on LinkedIn and need many emails with a smaller phone allowance.
Surfe queries several data providers and writes emails and mobile numbers straight into Salesforce or HubSpot. Pricing is per user: a free tier with 20 email and 5 mobile credits monthly, Essential at 49 dollars and Pro at 89 dollars a month. The CRM connector is included on those two plans, or 29 dollars a month as a standalone add-on.
Switch from Hunter if the lookups should land in your CRM record and you also need mobile numbers.
Snov.io bundles search, verification, mailbox warm-up and sending, so it covers what Hunter's sequences do and more. Starter costs 39 dollars a month for 1,000 credits and 5,000 recipients, Pro S 99 dollars for 5,000 credits. Seats are unlimited. You watch credits, recipients and enrichment tokens together, and LinkedIn automation is 69 dollars a month per slot.
Switch from Hunter if you want one subscription for finding, warming up and sending with unlimited users.
Wiza exports LinkedIn searches into lists with validated contact data. Plans are per user and split into email-only and email-plus-phone, with phone numbers metered beyond the allowance. There is a free plan. Annual billing unlocks unlimited reveals, but each extra seller is a full seat, and teams of three or more are moved to a custom plan.
Switch from Hunter if a single researcher builds lists from LinkedIn searches and wants phone numbers too.
LeadIQ is a browser extension for reps who prospect on a profile and push the contact into a CRM. Credits are weighted: an email costs one, a phone number ten, an email plus phone eleven. There is a free plan, and the lower tiers show limited database search. Signals and job-change alerts sit in the plan comparison.
Switch from Hunter if your reps work from the browser and need job-change alerts alongside contact data.
Lusha reveals contacts with a browser extension and CRM integrations. The free plan gives up to forty credits a month, enough to judge data quality on a few dozen people. An email costs one credit and a phone number five. Monthly credits roll over up to twice the plan limit; annual credits reset at year end.
Switch from Hunter if you need mostly phone numbers and want to trial data quality on a small free allowance.
UpLead sells a searchable database where one credit unlocks one contact with email and direct dial together. A 7-day trial is offered and monthly plans carry no contract, but Professional is annual only. Buyer intent, full API access and two-way CRM sync sit in that tier, and the top tier is quoted by sales.
Switch from Hunter if you want a filterable database with a trial rather than a domain-by-domain finder.
Apollo.io joins a contact database, sequencing, a dialer and pipeline tools in one login, with a free plan and a trial. Credits are pooled across the team and granted upfront, yet they expire at the end of each billing cycle, add-ons included. All seats on an account must sit on one plan level. Annual billing is a twelve-month commitment.
Switch from Hunter if you want the database, outreach and calling in a single platform and accept credits that expire.
You want to pay only for addresses that come back usable
Skrapp: Credits are spent only on Valid or Catch-all results, and unused credits roll over on paid plans.
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You need EU processing you can describe to a compliance team
Dropcontact: Its pricing page says processing runs on EU-based servers with its own algorithms, with a miss re-credited.
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You already pay for Sales Navigator
Evaboot: Exports start at 9 dollars a month for 100 credits, with unlimited seats; phone numbers are not included.
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You want finding, warm-up and sending under one login
Snov.io: Starter lists 1,000 credits and 5,000 recipients for 39 dollars a month, with unlimited seats.
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You need lookups written into Salesforce or HubSpot
Surfe: Emails and mobile numbers come from several providers, and the CRM connector is included on Essential and Pro.
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When Hunter is still the right choice
Hunter remains a sound choice when the job is finding and verifying email addresses by domain or name. Every plan has unlimited users sharing one credit pool, a search that finds nothing costs nothing, and a verification costs half a credit. The free plan with 50 credits is enough to test a list. The API is documented with published rate limits, and services run in Belgium on Google Cloud.
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What moving off Hunter involves
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Saved leads and lists need exporting first
Hunter keeps saved leads, up to 100,000 on the free plan and millions on paid tiers. Export them to CSV before cancelling, and check whether the new tool accepts the same fields. Verification statuses may not carry over and may need to be re-run.
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Re-verify before the first campaign
Each vendor classes addresses as valid, accept-all or unknown by its own rules. Run a sample of your existing list through the new verifier and compare bounce rates before moving the full list. Sequences built in Hunter's sender also have to be rebuilt by hand.
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Plan the credit switch
Since monthly credits do not roll over, time the cancellation after you spend them. Yearly plans give all credits upfront, so check what remains before the renewal date.
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Questions about replacing Hunter
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How much does Hunter cost?
The pricing page lists a Free plan with 50 credits a month, Starter at 49 euros monthly or 34 euros on yearly billing, Growth at 149 or 104 euros, and Scale at 299 or 209 euros. Enterprise is custom. All plans include unlimited team members.
What does a credit buy at Hunter?
An email found through Email Finder or Domain Search costs one credit, and bulk Domain Search counts one credit per up to ten emails. A verification costs half a credit. Searches that find nothing, and unknown verification results, cost nothing.
Which alternative lets me keep unused credits?
Skrapp says credits roll over and stay after cancelling on paid plans, Evaboot rolls them over while a subscription is active, and Dropcontact carries them over on Growth. Hunter's monthly credits reset and do not roll over.
Is there a European alternative to Hunter?
Dropcontact states that it processes on EU-based servers with its own algorithms, Kaspr's product company is registered in Paris, Surfe is French and Evaboot is Estonian. Hunter lists Google Cloud in Belgium for its services.
Can I find phone numbers with these tools?
Kaspr lists phone credits per month, Lusha charges five credits for a phone number, LeadIQ ten, Surfe offers mobile credits and Wiza has a plan with phone. Evaboot states it includes no phone numbers.
Can Hunter send cold email too?
Yes. Plans list email accounts and recipients per sequence, from 1 account and 500 recipients on Free up to 20 accounts and 15,000 recipients on Scale. Snov.io and Apollo.io also combine sending with finding.
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Checked and edited by Sebastiaan Smits, last on 3 November 2026. The editorial process explains the method.
