Hunter vs Kaspr
Hunter and Kaspr both surface contact details, yet each rations a different resource. Hunter draws on one pool of credits, spending a full credit to find an email and half a credit to verify one, with unlimited team members on every plan. Kaspr gives paid plans unlimited B2B email credits and instead limits phone numbers, direct emails and exports, priced per user. Hunter starts from a company domain and a filtered database, whereas Kaspr works through a Chrome extension on LinkedIn profiles. Hunter Web Services is an American company with a Delaware address. Kaspr is a French simplified joint-stock company registered in Paris that sits inside the Cognism Group. Choose by your starting point and by what you want to count.
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Choose Hunter ifyou begin from company domains, want to verify addresses in the same tool and dislike per-seat arithmetic. You accept that credits are spent on every find and, at half a credit, on every check. You are fine with a contracting party in the United States.
Choose Kaspr ifyou build lists from LinkedIn profiles you are already viewing and want unlimited B2B email lookups on paid plans. You are willing to buy phone numbers within capped allowances and add-on packs. You would rather contract with a company registered in France.
Hunter and Kaspr side by side
| Hunter | Kaspr | |
|---|---|---|
| Our lead generation software rank | #1 of 15 | #8 of 15 |
| Established in | United States | France (product HQ); part of Cognism Group, UK |
| List price, 8 November 2026 | 50 credits a month at no charge; Starter 2,000, Growth 10,000, Scale 25,000 credits monthly; 30% off on annual billing | per user per month: Free, Starter, Business, Enterprise custom; no amounts on the pages read |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Self-hostable | — | — |
Both are reviewed in full in our lead generation software ranking: Hunter and Kaspr.
Where they differ
Hunter 3 · Kaspr 2 · open 1- 01
Spending one credit and half a credit
Hunter charges one credit for each email it finds and half a credit for each it verifies, both drawn from a single pool. The free plan carries 50 credits monthly, and paid tiers carry 2,000, 10,000 or 25,000. Unused credits vanish at each monthly reset, although a yearly plan releases the whole year's allowance at the outset. That makes volume simple to model on paper. Cleaning a long list will eat into the pool meant for new prospects, so leave headroom for checks, or the verification round could consume half your month. Then compare that margin with your list size.
Edge: Hunter
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Rationing at Kaspr starts with phone numbers
On Kaspr's free plan you get 15 B2B email credits, 5 phone credits and 5 direct email credits per month. Once you pay, B2B email credits become unlimited, so the allowance that matters is the one for phone numbers and direct emails, which add-on packs can top up. Hunter describes its credits only for finding and verifying emails and names no phone credit. Anyone chasing mobile numbers should count this round for Kaspr, remembering that add-on packs are a further cost beyond the plan. Hunter's free plan, by contrast, offers 50 credits and Kaspr's free plan offers 15, 5 and 5 across three kinds.
Edge: Kaspr
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Headcount and the price of one more seller
Hunter permits unlimited team members on every plan, so a new salesperson adds no seat fee. Kaspr bills per user each month, and the paid tiers show no amounts in what we read. Growing a team is therefore easier to forecast at Hunter and open-ended at Kaspr. Hunter has a catch for cold emailers: its Sequences feature needs extra email accounts, an add-on billed per account on top of the plan. A team that only prospects keeps the saving, while one that sends sequences gives part of it back. Check how many mailboxes your sequences would need before you count the saving.
Edge: Hunter
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Starting from a profile or from a domain
Kaspr's Chrome extension reveals contact data on LinkedIn profiles, and it extends to Sales Navigator on Starter and to LinkedIn Recruiter Lite on Business. Hunter couples its email finder with Discover, a B2B database with filters, and its plans include a CSV export row. A team whose day begins with people it is already viewing on LinkedIn will find Kaspr matches the habit. A team that begins from target companies and their domains will find Hunter does. Neither removes the duty to check consent rules before outreach. Hunter's Discover filters suit narrowing a database, while Kaspr's extension suits browsing individual profiles.
Depends on the buyer
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Yearly export caps against monthly resets
Kaspr's Starter plan allows up to 12,000 exports a year with a limited API on request, and Business allows up to 30,000 exports a year, with credit packs available for more. Hunter's plans carry a CSV export row, and its Data Platform sells credit packs for API use alone. The two limits are not directly comparable, because Kaspr counts exports per year and Hunter counts credits per month. A heavy exporter will notice Kaspr's yearly ceiling sooner, while Hunter's monthly resets suit steady work, so Hunter takes this round narrowly. Kaspr's credit packs for exports stretch its cap, at a price the pages do not give.
Edge: Hunter
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The legal entities behind each product
Hunter is Hunter Web Services, Inc., with a mailing address in Wilmington, Delaware, and terms governed by Delaware law. Kaspr's terms name KASPR, a simplified joint-stock company with its registered office in Paris under RCS number 843 898 396, and our data places it within the Cognism Group in the United Kingdom. Kaspr answers directly if you want a French contracting entity. Hunter is American, which will matter if a contract or data policy requires a counterparty inside the EU, so confirm that requirement before you shortlist. Both entities are named in the vendors' own terms, so each can be checked against a register.
Edge: Kaspr
When neither fits
If you need to clean a very large marketing list in one pass or want a wider contact database, neither is the obvious fit. Skrapp and Lusha are two further tools in our lead generation ranking to compare next. Both are worth checking against your list size.
Hunter or Kaspr: questions
3 answersCan Kaspr's unlimited business email credits really have no catch?
On paid plans the pricing page lists unlimited B2B email credits. The limits sit on phone credits, direct email credits and exports, sold as allowances and add-on packs.
The free plan is different, with 15 B2B email credits a month. Confirm that on the plan card before you rely on it.
How many addresses can the Hunter free plan check?
One credit finds one email and half a credit verifies one. The 50 free credits each month therefore cover 50 finds or 100 verifications. They reset monthly and do not roll over on monthly plans. Plan around that ratio when sizing a list.
Does adding a colleague change my invoice at either tool?
At Hunter it does not, because every plan allows unlimited team members. Kaspr prices per user per month, and our reading shows no paid-tier amounts.
At Hunter, extra email accounts for Sequences are billed per account on top of the plan. Count those mailboxes before you add up a team's cost.
Sources
Checked 8 November 2026- Hunter pricing page: credit allowances per tier, half-credit verification, unlimited members, 30 percent annual discount and the Sequences email account add-on.
- Hunter terms of service: Hunter Web Services, Inc., its Wilmington mailing address and Delaware governing law.
- Kaspr pricing page: free plan credit counts, unlimited B2B email on paid plans, 12,000 and 30,000 yearly exports, Sales Navigator and Recruiter Lite.
- Kaspr terms: simplified joint-stock company status, Paris registered office and RCS 843 898 396.