CRM & ventes

Overview

Hunter.io, founded in 2015 by two French engineers (Antoine Finkelstein and François Grante), is an email search and verification tool used by over 7 million people. Its flagship function, Domain Search, finds email addresses linked to a domain with a confidence score; Email Finder targets a specific person in a company; Email Verifier reduces campaign bounce rate. Hunter also offers integrated cold email sequences. The Free plan offers 50 credits/month; Starter (€34/month billed annually) covers a freelancer or small team's needs; Growth (€104/month) and Scale (€209/month) scale volume for more active sales teams.

Despite French founders, Hunter's interface and support remain English-only, with average response time of 4 to 8 hours. The tool remains one of the simplest and most accessible on the market for SMEs wanting to start email prospecting without complexity, with a handy Chrome extension and pricing well below most enterprise competitors.

Our verdict

Recommended for freelancers and small French-speaking organizations who want a simple, affordable tool to find and verify professional email addresses before a prospecting campaign. Not suitable if you need French support or interface daily, or a much larger B2B contact database like Apollo.io.

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