Hunter Campaigns

1. 1

   You build a list inside Hunter: Discover finds companies matching an ideal customer profile, Domain Search returns the email addresses associated with a company domain, and Email Finder resolves a specific person by name. Each found address costs a credit and arrives with a confidence score and verification status.

2. 2

   You save prospects into leads with attributes attached, which become the merge fields for personalization. The Email Verifier runs over the list so obviously invalid addresses are removed before they can bounce against your mailbox.

3. 3

   You connect a sending mailbox over OAuth: Gmail, Google Workspace, or Outlook, or an SMTP account. Hunter sends from that mailbox rather than through its own relay, which is why deliverability depends on your own domain reputation rather than a shared pool.

4. 4

   You build a sequence of steps: an initial email plus timed follow-ups, with an AI writing assistant available from Starter, personalization tokens drawn from lead attributes, and per-step scheduling. Follow-ups stop automatically when a recipient replies.

5. 5

   Results report back as opens, clicks, replies, and bounces per step and per sequence. Leads and outcomes sync outward to CRMs including HubSpot, Pipedrive, and Salesforce, to Google Sheets, and through Zapier to thousands of other destinations, and the whole thing is available through Hunter's API.

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.

Value assessment: 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.

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.

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.

Onboarding

Fully self-serve through Scale at 209 euros a month, with an account manager included at that tier. Only Enterprise requires a conversation. No implementation fee anywhere.

Migration notes

Leads import from CSV or Google Sheets and export the same way, so nothing is trapped. Sequences are short enough to rebuild by hand. Because sending runs through your own mailbox, moving to another tool means reconnecting the same mailbox elsewhere rather than rebuilding infrastructure. Historical campaign statistics do not carry into another vendor.

Platforms

Web appChrome extensionGoogle Sheets add-onPublic REST API

API

Well-documented public REST API covering Domain Search, Email Finder, Email Verifier, leads, and campaign data, drawing on the same credit pool; a separate Data Platform tier exists for large-scale programmatic use.

Compliance

GDPR-aligned processing from an EU-founded vendor, with a documented process for data subject requests against the email databaseCAN-SPAM tooling including unsubscribe insertion and opt-out suppressionOAuth-based mailbox connection for Gmail, Google Workspace, and Outlook

Data residency

Not published as a selectable option; confirm the current data processing agreement if regional storage is a hard requirement.

SSO

Google and Microsoft sign-in; SAML SSO is not advertised on self-serve tiers.

Security notes

Mailboxes connect over OAuth rather than stored passwords where the provider supports it, and mail sends through your own provider rather than a Hunter relay. Hunter publishes how its email database is sourced from public web data and provides a removal path for individuals, which is a more careful posture than most vendors in this category take.

Channels

Email supportIn-app helpDedicated account manager on ScaleDedicated support on Enterprise

Documentation

Detailed help center and API documentation covering finding, verification, sequences, integrations, and deliverability basics.

Community

Large user base of over seven million accounts and a long-running blog on cold email practice; no official forum.

Founded

2015

Headquarters

Remote-first, founded in France

Ownership

Bootstrapped, founder-owned

Founders

Antoine Finkelstein, Francois Grante

Employees

Roughly two dozen listed publicly

Funding

No outside funding disclosed. The company has grown on revenue since 2015 and reports over seven million user accounts.

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.

Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.