About Hunter

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Hunter is an all-in-one cold outreach platform designed to simplify prospecting by helping professionals discover new companies, find professional, verified email addresses, enrich leads, and automate personalized email campaigns, all while fully complying with privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.

Originally founded in 2015 as an email finder tool using publicly available web data, Hunter has evolved significantly, becoming a comprehensive outreach solution used worldwide.

Why choose Hunter?

Hunter makes your cold outreach workflow efficient, transparent, and compliant. It brings every step of the process together in one platform.

Simple and user-friendly: An intuitive interface that makes prospecting and outreach easy to manage.
Accurate and privacy-compliant: Uses only publicly available data from the web — never third-party datasets — and fully complies with GDPR and CCPA.
All-in-one outreach platform: Manage the entire outreach process, from finding prospects to sending campaigns, in one place.
Identify target companies: Easily find companies that match your ideal customer profile.
Find and verify email addresses: Quickly locate accurate, verified professional email addresses.
Enrich and manage prospect data: Enrich your leads and companies and organize them efficiently, free of charge.
Automatic lead verification: Always work with up-to-date, verified contact data.
Integrate with existing tools: Connect Hunter with your favourite apps and workflows or use our API.
Automate personalized campaigns: Create and schedule tailored email sequences with ease.
Ensure compliance and transparency: Maintain full transparency and ethical data practices throughout your outreach.
Free monthly plan: Test and use Hunter for free for an unlimited time - includes 50 credits each month.

Who uses Hunter?

Hunter serves over 5M professionals worldwide, adapting effortlessly to various outreach needs. A few examples of customer profile may include:

Sales Representatives: Easily discover new companies and verified email addresses to grow sales pipelines.
Marketing Teams: Enrich and verify lead lists by integrating Hunter with CRMs for cleaner, actionable data.
Freelancers: Launch targeted, personalized email campaigns to connect with potential clients.
Data Resellers: Integrate Hunter’s robust data directly into applications through our comprehensive API.

Explore how businesses successfully use Hunter in our Customer Stories or read reviews on G2, Capterra, and Trustpilot.

What features does Hunter offer?

Hunter provides specialized tools for each step in your outreach workflow:

Discover new companies

Use Hunter Discover to identify companies that match your ideal customer profile using filters such as location, industry, keywords, technologies, and more.

You can view detailed company descriptions, find similar companies, save and export your selections, and find email addresses associated with them.

Find professional emails

Hunter provides two main tools for finding emails — both available for individual or bulk use:

Domain Search: Find email addresses by entering a company name or domain.
Email Finder: Get specific contact emails using the individual's full name and company domain.
Verify emails

Email Verifier allows you to check the validity of email addresses, either one at a time or in bulk. It ensures that your emails are deliverable and protects your sender's reputation by reducing bounces.

On a paid plan, any lead you verify will trigger automatic monthly re-verification for all previously verified leads—at no additional cost. This means your contact list remains accurate and up to date, ensuring you always work with the highest-quality data.

Manage and enrich leads

Hunter Leads is the core of our platform, a lightweight CRM where you can manage all your imported data or leads found through Hunter. You can:

Organize and segment lead data (both people and companies).
Enrich leads and companies at no extra cost.
Keep your leads verified and valid, thanks also to a monthly automatic lead verification.
Centralize all your outreach data in one intuitive place.

Automate email campaigns

With Hunter Campaigns, you can easily create and launch personalized email campaigns with automated follow-ups (up to 5 sequences). Track campaign performance metrics to optimize future outreach.

Campaigns also includes an AI Writing Assistant that helps you craft professional, targeted cold emails. Designed to improve your outreach, boost your chances of success and save you time.

Get notified about company updates with Signals

Hunter Signals allows you to receive updates for specific companies based on your chosen Signal and filter criteria. You can create three different types of Signals:

Fundings and acquisitions: to identify fast-growing companies.
Job openings: to get updates about job openings at certain companies.
Company: to follow companies and get updates on any changes.

Integrations

Hunter seamlessly integrates with popular CRMs, email marketing tools, and other apps to streamline your workflow and enhance productivity. Explore integrations here.

Powerful API

Hunter provides a robust API, enabling easy integration of its data and functionalities into your own applications and workflows at scale.

Extensions and Add-ons

Boost your productivity with Hunter's browser extensions and add-ons, available for:

Google Chrome
Google Sheets

📺 Here’s a quick video demo that walks you through the whole platform!

How Hunter stands out from other data providers

The simple answer to what makes Hunter stand out: we care about data quality, compliance, and making sure your emails actually land. Everything we build is designed to help you find the right contacts and reach them confidently.

Here’s what really makes the difference:

Use credits for valid emails only: every email is verified before you see it — no guessing and no wasted credits.
Automatic re-verification of saved leads keeps your database fresh over time. This is completely free and included in all paid plans.
Data accuracy: if we can’t find or verify an email, you’re not charged.
Data transparency: all data comes from public sources, and you can always check exactly where it came from.
Quality over quantity: we focus on accurate, fresh data rather than inflating numbers. Many tools claim to have the largest database, but often it’s outdated and unreliable.
Data compliance: fully GDPR-compliant and built for legitimate B2B use.
Deliverability-first tools: our outreach features help your emails reach inboxes — not spam folders.
All-in-one workflow: everything connects smoothly so you can search, enrich, and contact leads from the same platform.
Integrates with your existing tools: you can integrate Hunter with CRMs, email sending tools, and much more (we support over 2000 integrations).

And beyond that, Hunter is more than just an email finder:

You can discover new companies and contacts, find people from names, company names, or domains, and verify emails in bulk or via API.
You can store leads and collaborate with your team at no extra cost — thanks to unlimited team members on all plans. We don’t charge per seat.
Plans are flexible with no long-term contracts, so you can adapt usage to your needs without being locked in.

How to automate your cold outreach workflow with Hunter?

Hunter is a comprehensive cold outreach platform that supports every step of your workflow.

Start with Discover: identify your target companies:
Start with Hunter Discover to find companies that match your ideal customer profile (ICP). Save and organize your lists efficiently.
Manage your companies: segment and filter your lists
Segment your saved companies for targeted outreach by creating your company list. Apply additional filters if needed to refine your results, ensuring you’re targeting the most relevant leads.
Find and verify email addresses:
Directly find and verify emails for your leads from the Leads section.
Launch personalized email campaigns:
Add your verified leads to a campaign and start crafting your message. With Hunter Campaigns, you can personalize your emails in bulk using custom attributes for each recipient and create automated follow-ups.
Analyze and optimize your cold email results
Review opens, clicks, and reply rates in the Reporting section to continuously improve your outreach strategy. You’ll be able to monitor opens, clicks, and replies to understand how your emails are performing and optimize future outreach efforts.

Is Hunter available for free and suitable for teams?

Yes! Hunter offers a free plan designed for individuals as well as teams of any size. It includes 50 Credits each month, which you can use across tools like Discover, Finder, and Verifier as needed. All plans can be shared at no additional cost, making Hunter a great fit for collaborative outreach and team management.

Is Hunter legal, GDPR, and CCPA compliant?

Yes. Hunter prioritizes privacy compliance by:

Sourcing data exclusively from publicly available web pages.
Providing transparency by showing the exact source for each email found in the Domain Search. More info here.
Allowing professionals to claim removal of their email addresses easily here.

We never access or process private or non-consensual data. Our commitment to transparency in data collection and usage reinforces our compliance not only with GDPR, but also with global regulations surrounding cold emailing and data privacy.

For a detailed explanation of our compliance approach, see our dedicated GDPR, CCPA and DPA pages.

If you’d like to learn more, we’ve prepared a comprehensive breakdown of how cold emailing and data usage align with legal standards:

👉 hunter.io/blog/cold-email-legal-regulations

If you’re still unsure about your compliance, we recommend consulting with your legal team or advisor.