GetProspect vs Hunter
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The short answer
Editorial assessmentGetProspect compared with Hunter
Hunter costs more, at 49 euros for 2,000 credits, and buys per-result public source citations, a documented API with published rate limits, unlimited seats, twelve-month credit validity, and a bundled cold email sender. GetProspect is cheaper per verified address at most volumes and gives you a larger searchable people database and a Sheets add-on. Choose Hunter when provenance, API documentation, or sending matters; choose GetProspect when verified addresses per dollar is the metric.
Choose GetProspect if
Small businesses and solo operators who want a complete email-finding toolkit rather than a feature-gated starter plan, who expect their volume to grow through the middle of a price ladder, and who need work email addresses rather than phone numbers.
Choose Hunter if
Small teams and solo founders who need reliable work email addresses for named people at named companies, want to see where each address came from, and would rather pay a flat monthly fee with unlimited seats than a per-seat contact database subscription.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | GetProspect | Hunter |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Data | Data |
| Starting price | $0 (Free, 50 valid emails), then $34 per month on annual billing (Starter, $49 month-to-month) | 0 euros (Free, 50 credits per month), then 49 euros per month (Starter) |
| Pricing model | Freemium subscription priced by the number of valid verified email addresses per month, with full feature access on every tier and roughly 30 percent off for annual billing. | Freemium monthly or annual subscription priced in euros by credit allowance, with unlimited team members on every plan and a separately quoted Data Platform for API-heavy buyers. |
| Free plan | 50 valid email addresses per month with complete access to the database, the LinkedIn extension, the CRM, the bulk finder, the Google Sheets add-on, integrations, and the API. | 50 credits per month, one connected email account, 100,000 saved leads, 10 AI searches and 15 AI suggestions, and full access to Domain Search, Email Finder, and Email Verifier. |
| Free trial | No time-limited trial; the permanent free tier carries the full feature set | No time-limited trial; the permanent free tier is the evaluation path |
| Best for | Small businesses and solo operators who want a complete email-finding toolkit rather than a feature-gated starter plan, who expect their volume to grow through the middle of a price ladder, and who need work email addresses rather than phone numbers. | Small teams and solo founders who need reliable work email addresses for named people at named companies, want to see where each address came from, and would rather pay a flat monthly fee with unlimited seats than a per-seat contact database subscription. |
| Setup time | Under ten minutes. Sign up, run a database search or install the extension, and results are immediate. CRM connection adds fifteen minutes of field mapping. | Under ten minutes for the lookup product: create an account, run a domain search, install the extension. Campaigns takes another twenty to thirty minutes because you have to connect and authenticate a sending mailbox and set up tracking and unsubscribe handling. |
| Learning curve | Low. Because there is no feature gating, there is also no confusion about what your plan includes: you have everything, and the only variable is how many valid addresses you can pull this month. | Very low. Domain Search and Email Finder are self-explanatory, and the only concept that needs learning is the difference between a valid result, an accept-all result, and a pattern-inferred guess. Teams that ignore the confidence score and treat every result as verified are the ones who complain about bounces. |
| Platforms | Web application, Chrome extension, Google Sheets add-on, REST API | Web application, Chrome extension, Firefox extension, Google Sheets add-on, REST API v2 |
| Compliance | GDPR referenced in the vendor's policies, CCPA referenced in the vendor's policies | GDPR with a data processing agreement, CCPA, Published individual claim and removal process |
| Founded | 2016 | 2015 |
| Headquarters | Kyiv, Ukraine | Wilmington, Delaware, United States (fully remote team across Europe, America, and Asia) |
| Ownership | Privately held and independent | Bootstrapped and independent |
Strengths and limitations
GetProspect
Strengths
- Every feature, including the API, the extension, the CRM, and the integrations, is available on every plan including free, so the free tier is a genuine evaluation rather than a stripped demo.
- Credits are consumed only for valid, verified addresses, making the advertised price close to a true cost per usable contact.
- A properly graded price ladder at 1,000, 5,000, 20,000, and 50,000 valid emails a month, with no cliff for a growing team.
- Both a searchable database and a LinkedIn extension, so losing LinkedIn access does not take the product with it.
Limitations
- No meaningful phone data: five numbers a month on paid plans is a rounding error, and even the phone add-on does not make GetProspect a calling tool.
- No buying signals, intent data, technographics, or org charts, so account research has to happen somewhere else.
- No published API rate limits, which makes building against it a matter of empirical testing rather than reading documentation.
- Credit rollover is capped at one month's allowance, so a quiet quarter cannot bank more than a month of finds.
Hunter
Strengths
- Credits are only consumed on results, so the advertised price is close to the real cost per found email rather than a ceiling you never reach.
- Per-result public source citations are close to unique in this category and are the strongest available answer to a provenance or GDPR question.
- Unlimited team members on every plan, including Free, removes the per-seat tax that makes comparable tools expensive for small teams.
- The API is properly documented with published per-second and per-minute limits, free management endpoints, and stable behaviour, which is why Hunter appears as a provider inside so many waterfall tools.
Limitations
- No phone numbers at all, in any tier, which rules Hunter out entirely for teams that cold call.
- Coverage is a function of what companies publish on the open web, so it is strong for tech, agencies, media, and education and noticeably weaker for manufacturing, trades, healthcare, and privately held mid-market firms.
- It is not a prospecting database: Discover finds companies, but you cannot filter a hundred million people by title and seniority the way you can in Apollo or UpLead.
- Confidence scores and pattern inference mean some returned addresses are educated guesses; the pattern is usually right but the individual result can be wrong, and a wrong result still consumed a credit.
Pricing compared
GetProspect
Freemium subscription priced by the number of valid verified email addresses per month, with full feature access on every tier and roughly 30 percent off for annual billing.
- Free$0
- Starter$34
- Growth 5K$69
- Growth 20K$139
- Growth 50K$279
At 1,000 verified emails a month, Starter at 34 dollars on annual billing is about 0.034 dollars each, which is more expensive per unit than Skrapp or Icypeas but comes with the whole product rather than a trimmed one. At 5,000, the 69 dollar tier is roughly 0.014 dollars each and is the sweet spot of the ladder. At 10,000 you buy the 20,000-email tier at 199 dollars and pay about 0.02 dollars per address at your real volume, which is competitive with Hunter's Growth plan. The valid-only billing rule means all of these figures are close to true costs per usable contact rather than per attempt. Set against that, there are no phone numbers and no enrichment depth, so GetProspect is cheap for exactly one deliverable and useless for the others.
Hunter
Freemium monthly or annual subscription priced in euros by credit allowance, with unlimited team members on every plan and a separately quoted Data Platform for API-heavy buyers.
- Free0 euros
- Starter49 euros
- Growth149 euros
- Scale299 euros
- EnterpriseCustom
At Growth, 10,000 credits for 149 euros works out at roughly 0.015 euros per found email, and because failed searches are free that number holds in practice rather than in theory. At Starter, 2,000 credits for 49 euros is about 0.025 euros each. Both are competitive with Anymail Finder and cheaper than credit-metered platforms once you account for unlimited seats and the bundled sending tool, which alone would cost 30 to 50 dollars a month elsewhere. The catch is scope: there are no phone numbers, so a team that needs to call as well as email is buying a second tool regardless, and at that point the bundled Campaigns feature is less of a saving than it looks.
Editorial verdict on each
GetProspect
GetProspect is the most sensibly structured product in this part of the category, and the reason is a decision most vendors will not make: it sells volume rather than features. Everything, including the extension, the CRM, the Sheets add-on, and the integrations, is on the free plan, so evaluation is honest and upgrading is a single simple choice. Add a properly graded ladder from 1,000 to 50,000 valid emails a month and a billing rule that charges only for addresses its verifier will stand behind, and a small business gets something it can actually grow on rather than something it outgrows. The limits are real and worth stating plainly. There are no phone numbers, no intent data, no enrichment depth, no published API rate limits, no SSO, and thin public documentation on sourcing and legal basis. Buy it as a well-priced, well-structured email finder for a team that will send rather than call, and do not expect it to answer any question larger than what this person's work address is.
Read the full GetProspect profileHunter
Hunter is the safest choice in this category for a small business that needs work email addresses and nothing else. Credits are charged only on results, seats are unlimited, credits last a year, the API is properly documented, and every address comes with the public URLs it was found at, which is the best answer anyone in this market gives to the provenance question. A decade of bootstrapped independence means the terms are unlikely to change underneath you. Buy it if your workflow starts with a list of companies and ends with a sent email. Do not buy it if you need phone numbers, because there are none at any price, or if you need to discover who to contact rather than how to reach them, because that is Apollo's job and not Hunter's.
Read the full Hunter profileGetProspect profile last reviewed 2026-09-27; Hunter last reviewed 2026-09-26. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.
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Frequently asked questions
6 questionsWhat is the difference between GetProspect and Hunter?
Hunter costs more, at 49 euros for 2,000 credits, and buys per-result public source citations, a documented API with published rate limits, unlimited seats, twelve-month credit validity, and a bundled cold email sender. GetProspect is cheaper per verified address at most volumes and gives you a larger searchable people database and a Sheets add-on. Choose Hunter when provenance, API documentation, or sending matters; choose GetProspect when verified addresses per dollar is the metric.
Is GetProspect or Hunter cheaper?
GetProspect starts at $0 (Free, 50 valid emails), then $34 per month on annual billing (Starter, $49 month-to-month). Hunter starts at 0 euros (Free, 50 credits per month), then 49 euros per month (Starter). The billing models differ, so the entry price is rarely the whole cost. GetProspect pricing model: Freemium subscription priced by the number of valid verified email addresses per month, with full feature access on every tier and roughly 30 percent off for annual billing. Hunter pricing model: Freemium monthly or annual subscription priced in euros by credit allowance, with unlimited team members on every plan and a separately quoted Data Platform for API-heavy buyers.
Does GetProspect or Hunter have a free plan?
GetProspect has a free plan. 50 valid email addresses per month with complete access to the database, the LinkedIn extension, the CRM, the bulk finder, the Google Sheets add-on, integrations, and the API. Trial terms: No time-limited trial; the permanent free tier carries the full feature set. Hunter has a free plan. 50 credits per month, one connected email account, 100,000 saved leads, 10 AI searches and 15 AI suggestions, and full access to Domain Search, Email Finder, and Email Verifier. Trial terms: No time-limited trial; the permanent free tier is the evaluation path.
Who should choose GetProspect?
Small businesses and solo operators who want a complete email-finding toolkit rather than a feature-gated starter plan, who expect their volume to grow through the middle of a price ladder, and who need work email addresses rather than phone numbers.
Who should choose Hunter?
Small teams and solo founders who need reliable work email addresses for named people at named companies, want to see where each address came from, and would rather pay a flat monthly fee with unlimited seats than a per-seat contact database subscription.
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