01 · Product name
Hunter
Find professional emails for a domain, and check whether they look deliverable.
Published by Hunter.
In short
Hunter finds professional email addresses that appear with a domain on the public web, and it can check whether an address looks deliverable. It is a hosted product at hunter.io with a free monthly allowance and paid plans for more searches and API access. It is not a breach archive. An address it returns still has to be confirmed before you treat it as a person.
Product pricing strategy
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Free and paid
Hunter is free to start and paid when you need more. The free tier is the on-ramp. Volume, locked filters, private scans, or an API are what paid plans usually add. Confirm the current split on the vendor site. This listing does not invent a dollar amount.
There is a free monthly allowance. Larger searches, more verifications, and API use are paid. See hunter.io for current limits.
Utility and features
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Hunter is the web product people open when the question is “who at this company has a public email?” Domain search returns addresses and the pages they were seen on. Verification estimates whether the mailbox is likely to accept mail. Both are useful, and neither is proof of employment or of identity.
- Domain search. Given a domain, Hunter lists professional addresses it has seen in public pages, with the source when it has one.
- Verification. A deliverability check is a signal about the mailbox, not a confirmation that a named person still works there.
- Not a breach tool. Hunter does not replace Have I Been Pwned. One finds public professional addresses. The other says whether an address appeared in a known breach.
The free plan is a real allowance, not a demo that hides every result, but volume runs out quickly. Paid plans and the API are how teams use it daily. It does not tell you that an address was in a breach — that is Have I Been Pwned or Intelligence X. theHarvester can collect email-shaped strings from public sources without a Hunter account, with more noise. Do not send mail to an address just to see who answers. Cite the source page Hunter shows, and re-check it.
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Search a domain you are allowed to research and read the source page behind any address you might use.
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Verify sparingly. The check spends quota and can be wrong.
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Cross-check a name against the company site or another public page before you put it in a report.
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Move to the API only after the web result is the one you meant to collect.
Caveats
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Hunter is a freemium email-finding product. It shows addresses it has found and a guessed pattern. Both can be wrong, outdated, or a role account that is not a person.
Using the pattern to create addresses and then to send mail is a different activity, with its own legal and policy limits. This page does not describe that. The free tier is an on-ramp. Volume is paid. theHarvester is the open-source comparison, and it is also not a directory of employees.
Screenshots
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Potential use cases
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- You need a public role address for a company, such as press or security, and you are allowed to look. Search the domain in Hunter. The output is addresses and sources Hunter shows, plus a pattern if the domain has one. Open the source page Hunter cites before you use the address. Pivot to theHarvester if you want what public web pages show without this vendor. A pattern is not a license to generate and mail a hundred people.
- You already have an address and you want Hunter’s deliverability opinion. Run that check. The output is their assessment, which can be wrong. Do not treat ‘accept all’ or a low confidence score as a fact about a person. The company’s own site is the better citation for a published address.
- Compare Hunter and theHarvester on one domain you are assessing. The overlap is the interesting part. Addresses only Hunter has should be opened via Hunter’s cited source. Addresses only theHarvester has are search snippets until you find the page. Paid Hunter plans change the volume. Confirm the current split on the vendor’s pricing page. This listing does not invent it.
Hard cases
The case where the first result is easy to over-read.
The pattern becomes a target list
Hunter says the domain uses first.last. Someone wants every executive’s inbox. Stop at the addresses you can tie to a public page. Generating the rest and testing them against a mail server is not ‘OSINT’ this listing will walk through. If the job is a published press address, cite that page. If the job is a breach question, use Have I Been Pwned on addresses you already have.
Questions
Is Hunter free?
There is a free monthly allowance. Larger searches, more verifications, and API use are paid. See hunter.io for current limits.
Does Hunter show breached passwords?
No. Hunter looks for professional addresses on the public web and can estimate deliverability. Breach exposure is a different tool.
Citations
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Titled sources. These public pages are what the quotes on this listing come from.
Product
Hunter product page
https://hunter.io/Pricing
Hunter pricing
https://hunter.io/pricingDocumentation
Hunter API
https://hunter.io/api