Hunter Alternative
Hunter is primarily an email-finding and outreach platform — Email Finder, Domain Search, a B2B contact database, cold-email sequences — with verification bundled in as a secondary feature priced at half a credit per check.
Good for
- Sales and growth teams doing outbound prospecting who need to find contacts and run outreach sequences
- Teams that want verification bundled with discovery in one shared credit pool
- Users who want a free tier to start (50 credits/month)
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Free | £0/month | 50 credits/month |
| Starter | £28/month | 2,000 credits/month |
| Growth | £87/month | 10,000 credits/month |
| Scale | £175/month | 25,000 credits/month |
| Data Platform (API, pay-as-you-go) | Example: $6,500 | 1,000 search credits + 200,000 verification credits |
Strengths
- Genuinely capable email discovery — finds addresses from a name and domain, which no verification-only product does
- Bundled outreach sequences and a B2B contact database in the same platform
- Publicly documented core verification checks: syntax, MX, disposable, catch-all, SMTP
Limitations
- Verification is a secondary feature, not the core product — its scoring methodology isn't publicly documented in the detail a dedicated risk API provides
- No publicly documented context-aware scoring per use case
- No publicly documented per-signal explainability with severity and point impact
Where Email Risk Radar differs
No address discovery, by design
Email Risk Radar never finds addresses — it only evaluates ones you already have. If you need discovery, you'd need Hunter (or something like it) regardless of which risk scorer you pick.
Full score explainability
Every point of an Email Risk Radar score traces to a named signal with a severity, an impact value, and a plain-language description.
Context-aware weighting
Scoring adapts based on a context parameter (signup, B2B lead, marketplace, payment) rather than a single fixed evaluation.
FAQ
Yes — 50 credits per month at no cost, as of the last check (18 August 2026).
Yes — Email Finder and Domain Search locate addresses from a name and domain, plus a B2B contact database and outreach sequences. Verification is bundled in as a secondary feature at half a credit per check.
Email Risk Radar never finds addresses — it only evaluates ones you already have, and needs Hunter (or similar) if discovery is required. In return, it offers full per-signal explainability and context-aware scoring that Hunter's verification feature doesn't publicly document.