Hunter Campaigns vs Mailmeteor
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Both sides assessedHunter Campaigns compared with Mailmeteor
Mailmeteor is a $5.99 to $35.99 Gmail merge tool with warm-up and a custom tracking domain but no data at all. Hunter is a data platform with a sequencer attached, priced from 34 euros with unlimited seats. Teams that already have a spreadsheet of prospects should take Mailmeteor and save the money; teams starting from nothing should take Hunter.
Mailmeteor compared with Hunter Campaigns
Hunter sells data with sequencing attached; Mailmeteor sells sending with no data at all. If you cannot find the addresses, Hunter's database and verifier are worth its higher price. If you already have a spreadsheet of people, Mailmeteor sends to them for a fraction of the cost with warm-up and follow-ups included.
Choose Hunter Campaigns if
Small B2B teams whose hardest problem is finding and verifying the right contacts, who want prospecting, verification, and a modest sequencer in one bill, and who send a few thousand carefully targeted emails a month from one to twenty real mailboxes.
Choose Mailmeteor if
Small businesses, schools, nonprofits, and lean teams that need personalized bulk email from their own Gmail account, want a free or single-digit-dollar option, and value a clean privacy-conscious tool over a maximalist outbound platform.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Hunter Campaigns | Mailmeteor |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Cold Email | Cold Email |
| Starting price | 0 euros free, then 34 euros per month (Starter) (free plan available) | $0 free, then $5.99 per user per month (Starter) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Credit-based subscription quoted in euros, where one credit equals one email address found; connected mailboxes and recipients per sequence are capped by tier, and team members are unlimited on paid plans. | Per-user subscription with a real free tier; plans meter emails per day and per month rather than contacts or mailboxes, with feature gating on follow-ups, warm-up, tracking domains, and inbox rotation. |
| Free plan | 50 credits a month, one connected email account, 500 recipients per sequence, and basic Discover filters. Enough to test the full workflow end to end. | Hobby: 500 emails a month and 50 a day, with templates, open and click tracking, scheduling, attachments, and Gmail, Sheets, and Excel integration. Outgoing mail carries Mailmeteor branding. |
| Free trial | No time-limited trial; the free tier with 50 monthly credits is the evaluation path | No separate trial; the Hobby free plan is the evaluation path and does not expire |
| Best for | Small B2B teams whose hardest problem is finding and verifying the right contacts, who want prospecting, verification, and a modest sequencer in one bill, and who send a few thousand carefully targeted emails a month from one to twenty real mailboxes. | Small businesses, schools, nonprofits, and lean teams that need personalized bulk email from their own Gmail account, want a free or single-digit-dollar option, and value a clean privacy-conscious tool over a maximalist outbound platform. |
| Setup time | Under thirty minutes to a first sequence: sign up, connect a mailbox over OAuth, run a Domain Search, verify the list, and build three steps. No DNS work is required unless you are setting up a new sending domain, which you should be. | Under fifteen minutes. Install the Workspace add-on, open a Google Sheet, map columns, preview a row, and send. Custom tracking domain setup on Premium adds one DNS record. |
| Learning curve | Low. The prospecting tools are the part with depth, and the sequence builder is deliberately simple. The habit worth teaching is verifying before every send, which Hunter makes easy enough that people actually do it. | The lowest in this category. If someone can use Google Sheets they can run a Mailmeteor campaign, and the per-row preview means mistakes are visible before they are expensive. |
| Platforms | Web app, Chrome extension, Google Sheets add-on, Public REST API | Google Workspace add-on for Gmail and Google Sheets, Web app, Excel support, Chrome extension |
| Compliance | GDPR-aligned processing from an EU-founded vendor, with a documented process for data subject requests against the email database, CAN-SPAM tooling including unsubscribe insertion and opt-out suppression, OAuth-based mailbox connection for Gmail, Google Workspace, and Outlook | GDPR-aligned processing from an EU-headquartered vendor, CAN-SPAM tooling including unsubscribe links and opt-out suppression, Google Workspace Marketplace OAuth review for Gmail and Sheets scopes |
| Founded | 2015 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | Remote-first, founded in France | Paris, France |
| Ownership | Bootstrapped, founder-owned | Bootstrapped, founder-owned |
Strengths and limitations
Hunter Campaigns
Strengths
- Prospecting, verification, and sending in one tool with no CSV round trip, which removes the most common friction point in small-team outbound.
- Unlimited team members on every paid plan, which makes Hunter dramatically cheaper than per-seat competitors for any team above two people.
- Sends through your own Gmail, Workspace, or Outlook mailbox rather than a shared relay, so reputation belongs to your domain.
- Verification is built into the workflow rather than sold as an upsell, and it is genuinely good, which is why Hunter's bounce rates tend to be low.
Limitations
- Hard mailbox ceiling of twenty connected accounts on the top self-serve plan, which rules out any real inbox-rotation program.
- No email warm-up at all, so new sending domains need a separate vendor and a separate bill.
- No unified inbox with owners and statuses; replies land in your mailbox and are managed there.
- No spintax, no ESP matching, and a thinner deliverability toolkit than dedicated cold email platforms offer.
Mailmeteor
Strengths
- The cheapest credible paid tier in the category at $5.99, and a free plan that is actually usable rather than a teaser.
- Warm-up and a custom tracking domain are bundled from $17.99, which is a lower price for those two things than most standalone warm-up tools charge on their own.
- Per-recipient preview before sending is the best guard against merge-field disasters that any tool here offers.
- Spreadsheet-native workflow means non-technical staff can run campaigns without learning a new application.
Limitations
- Volume ceilings are low: 60,000 a month per user on the top tier, which no high-volume outbound program can live inside.
- Inbox rotation only arrives at $35.99 Professional, and extra sending capacity generally means extra seats rather than free connected accounts.
- No unified team inbox; replies are handled in Gmail with labels, so there is no shared queue, no assignment, and no pipeline view.
- No lead database or email finder, so list building is entirely a separate purchase and a separate workflow.
Pricing compared
Hunter Campaigns
Credit-based subscription quoted in euros, where one credit equals one email address found; connected mailboxes and recipients per sequence are capped by tier, and team members are unlimited on paid plans.
- Free0 euros
- Starter34 euros
- Growth104 euros
- Scale209 euros
- EnterpriseCustom
Hunter is priced as a data tool, so model it that way. At 10,000 emails a month, Growth at 104 euros gives you 10,000 credits, ten mailboxes, and unlimited seats, which is competitive if you are finding most of those addresses yourself and poor value if you already have a list, since a pure sequencer like Emelia or Saleshandy would cost a third of that. At 100,000 emails a month Hunter simply does not fit: twenty mailboxes and 15,000 recipients per sequence cap you long before the credits do. The right way to read Hunter is that the sequencer is bundled with a good database rather than the other way round, and the unlimited-seats policy is the quiet feature that makes it good value for teams.
Mailmeteor
Per-user subscription with a real free tier; plans meter emails per day and per month rather than contacts or mailboxes, with feature gating on follow-ups, warm-up, tracking domains, and inbox rotation.
- Hobby$0
- Starter$5.99
- Premium$17.99
- Professional$35.99
At 10,000 emails a month Mailmeteor is the cheapest serious option in the category: one Premium seat at $17.99 covers it with warm-up, a custom tracking domain, follow-ups, and an AI assistant included, against $30 to $80 for comparable platform tiers. At 100,000 a month the model stops working; you would need two Professional seats at $35.99 just to reach 120,000 across two users, and the per-mailbox daily caps mean you are managing seats rather than mailboxes. That is the honest boundary: superb value up to roughly 30,000 sends a month, structurally wrong above 60,000.
Editorial verdict on each
Hunter Campaigns
Hunter is the right first purchase for a small B2B team that does not yet have a list, and the wrong purchase for one that does. The database, the finder, and the verifier are the product; Campaigns is a competent, deliberately simple sequencer that lets you act on what you found without exporting a CSV. Unlimited team members on every paid plan makes it cheaper than nearly any per-seat rival once more than two people are involved, and a bootstrapped decade-old vendor is worth real money in a category this volatile. The two things to be clear-eyed about are the twenty-mailbox ceiling and the total absence of warm-up. Neither matters at a few thousand carefully targeted emails a month, and both are disqualifying above that. Buy Hunter as your prospecting engine that also sends, not as your sending engine that also prospects.
Read the full Hunter Campaigns profileMailmeteor
Mailmeteor is the best cheap tool in this category and one of the few that is honest about its ceiling. For a small business sending up to about 30,000 personalized emails a month from one or two Gmail mailboxes, $17.99 a seat buying warm-up, a custom tracking domain, follow-ups, verification, and an AI writer is unbeatable value, and the spreadsheet-native workflow means anyone on your team can run it. The free tier is real, the privacy stance from a bootstrapped Paris company is credible, and the per-row preview prevents the mistake everyone else makes. Buy it if the spreadsheet is your source of truth and your volume is modest. Do not buy it if you plan to run ten mailboxes, need a shared reply inbox, or run on Microsoft 365; those are structural mismatches, not gaps that a higher tier fixes.
Read the full Mailmeteor profileHunter Campaigns profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Mailmeteor last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.