Hunter vs Skrapp.io
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
Editorial assessmentSkrapp.io compared with Hunter
Hunter costs more, at 49 euros for 2,000 credits against Skrapp's 29 dollars, and buys you three things Skrapp does not have: per-result public source citations that answer a provenance question with evidence, a properly documented API with published rate limits, and unlimited seats on every plan. Skrapp gives you a bigger searchable contact database and a stronger LinkedIn extension. Choose Hunter when you have to defend where the data came from; choose Skrapp when price per deliverable address is the metric.
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.
Choose Skrapp.io if
Small sales teams, recruiters, and founders running email-only outreach who want a searchable database and a LinkedIn extension in one cheap subscription, and who value being charged only for addresses judged deliverable.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Hunter | Skrapp.io |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Data | Data |
| Starting price | 0 euros (Free, 50 credits per month), then 49 euros per month (Starter) (free plan available) | $0 (Free, 50 credits), then $29 per month on annual billing (Professional) (free plan available) |
| 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. | Freemium subscription priced by monthly credit allowance with included seats, billed monthly or annually, with credit rollover on paid plans and daily search limits applied separately. |
| 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. | 50 credits and one user, with access to the finder, the database search, and the browser extension. |
| Free trial | No time-limited trial; the permanent free tier is the evaluation path | No time-limited trial; the permanent free tier is the evaluation path |
| Best for | 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. | Small sales teams, recruiters, and founders running email-only outreach who want a searchable database and a LinkedIn extension in one cheap subscription, and who value being charged only for addresses judged deliverable. |
| Setup time | 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. | Ten minutes. Create an account, install the extension, and run a search. Connecting Salesforce or HubSpot adds fifteen to twenty minutes of field mapping. |
| Learning curve | 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. | Low. The one concept users have to absorb is that daily search limits and credit balances are two separate ceilings, and that hitting the search limit on Professional at 20 people searches a day is normal rather than a fault. |
| Platforms | Web application, Chrome extension, Firefox extension, Google Sheets add-on, REST API v2 | Web application, Chrome extension, Firefox extension, REST API |
| Compliance | GDPR with a data processing agreement, CCPA, Published individual claim and removal process | GDPR referenced in the vendor's policies, CCPA referenced in the vendor's policies |
| Founded | 2015 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Wilmington, Delaware, United States (fully remote team across Europe, America, and Asia) | Singapore |
| Ownership | Bootstrapped and independent | Privately held, operating as Skrapp Private Limited |
Strengths and limitations
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.
Skrapp.io
Strengths
- Credits are consumed only for deliverable emails, so the advertised price is close to the true cost per usable address rather than a cost per attempt.
- A searchable 200 million contact database plus a LinkedIn extension in the same subscription, which pure extraction tools such as SalesQL and Kaspr do not offer.
- Professional at 29 dollars for 2,000 credits and two seats is one of the cheapest credible entry points in the category.
- Credits roll over on paid plans rather than expiring monthly.
Limitations
- No phone numbers at all, on any tier, at any price, which removes Skrapp from consideration for any team that calls.
- The gap between 2,000 and 50,000 credits a month is unserved, so a team needing 8,000 credits either overbuys nine times the price or negotiates privately.
- Daily search limits are restrictive on Professional at 20 people searches a day, and they bind long before your credit balance does.
- The 97 percent accuracy and 92 percent success claims are marketing figures with no written guarantee behind them, unlike Anymail Finder's contractual delivery commitment.
Pricing compared
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.
Skrapp.io
Freemium subscription priced by monthly credit allowance with included seats, billed monthly or annually, with credit rollover on paid plans and daily search limits applied separately.
- Free$0
- Professional$29
- Enterprise$262
At 1,000 lookups a month Skrapp is among the cheapest credible options anywhere: Professional's 2,000 credits for 29 dollars annual works out at about 0.0145 dollars per deliverable email, roughly comparable to Icypeas and cheaper than Hunter's Starter at 49 euros for 2,000. Because failed lookups are free, that figure holds in practice. At 10,000 lookups a month the picture inverts and Skrapp becomes awkward: Professional is far too small and Enterprise sells you 50,000 credits you will not use for 262 dollars, an effective 0.026 dollars per credit at your actual volume, worse than Hunter's Growth tier at 149 euros for 10,000 and much worse than Tomba's flat 8.90 dollars per thousand. The value is real at the bottom of the ladder and evaporates in the middle, and there is no honest way to describe the 2,000-to-50,000 gap as anything other than a pricing failure.
Editorial verdict on each
Hunter
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 profileSkrapp.io
Skrapp is the cheapest sensible way for a small team to buy a couple of thousand verified work email addresses a month, and the billing rule that makes that true, charging only for deliverable results, is the rule that matters most in this category. Two included seats, rolling credits, a searchable database, and a competent LinkedIn extension for 29 dollars is a genuinely good deal at that volume. Two things stop it being a broader recommendation. There are no phone numbers at any price, so if you call at all you are buying a second tool. And the price ladder has a hole in the middle so large that a growing team goes from 2,000 credits to a nine-fold price increase with nothing in between, which means Skrapp is often something you outgrow rather than something you scale on. Buy it as a cheap, focused, email-only starting point, and expect to reassess the moment your volume passes a few thousand a month.
Read the full Skrapp.io profileHunter profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Skrapp.io last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.