What are credits?
All of our plans include Search and Verification Credits:
🔎 Search Credits: used to find emails.
✅ Verification Credits: used to verify emails.
How do credits work?
Credits are calculated differently depending on the tools you use in Hunter. Here's a quick overview:
Feature | Functionality | Credits cost | Includes Verification |
Find emails from a company name or domain | 1 Search credit for up to 10 emails per domain | Doesn't include email verification ❌ | |
Find emails from a full name and company name/domain | 1 Search credit for each email | Includes email verification ✅ | |
Verify an email address to make sure it is deliverable | 1 Verification credit per each email verified | Includes email verification ✅ | |
Identify companies that match your ICP | No credits are used to find companies | Doesn't include email verification ❌
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(For more details, refer to the single functionalities shared below)
No credits are counted if Hunter cannot provide at least one email or verify an email address.
Duplicate requests are not counted: Repeated searches via Domain Search, Email Finder, or Email Verifier won’t use additional credits if done within the same billing period—monthly plan or calendar month for yearly plans. This doesn't apply to Bulk uploads. More info here.
How are credits calculated?
🏢 Hunter Discover
Discover allows you to identify companies that match your target customers by using filters and later find emails for them.
No credits are counted for finding or saving companies.
Credits are counted only for finding emails—1 Search credit is counted for every 1 to 10 email addresses found per domain.
🔎 Domain Search
Which includes the Domain Search, the Bulk Domain Search and finding emails from lists of emails from company lists in Leads:
1 Search credit is counted from 1 to 10 email addresses found per domain.
✉️ Email Finder
This includes the Email Finder, the Bulk Email Finder or finding single emails in Leads:
1 Search credit is counted for every email found; verification is included at no extra cost.
✅ Email Verifier
Which includes the Email Verifier, the Bulk Email Verifier and verifying leads from within the Leads section:
1 Verification credit is counted for each email verified.
🔧 Hunter API
When Integrating Hunter's service through the API, the same credit logic applies:
Domain Search API Endpoint: 1 Search credit for 1 to 10 email addresses per domain returned
Email Finder API Endpoint: 1 Search credit per call. Returns a verified email.
Email Verifier Endpoint: 1 Verification credit per call.
Enrichment API: 1 Search credit for each enrichment.