Hunter.io vs Kaspr
 Hunter.io |  Kaspr | |
|---|---|---|
| Sentiment | ||
| Score | 46/100 | 39/100 |
| Rank in category | #2 | #7 |
| Rated comments | 19 | 14 |
| Best for | Finding the work email of a specific, already-identified person; Checking a company's email pattern and verifying addresses before sending; Low-volume, hand-built prospect lists | LinkedIn-based lookups of European prospects, one profile at a time; A secondary source for emails and mobile numbers behind a larger database |
| Skip it if | Bulk enrichment of large uploaded lists; Small startups and contacts that are not published anywhere on the web | Building large lists with advanced search filters; Calling campaigns that need reliably connected mobile numbers |
| Starting price | $34/mo | $49/user/mo |
| Pricing (vendor-stated) | Free plan with 50 credits a month. Starter from $34/mo billed yearly ($49 monthly) for 2,000 credits a month; Growth $104/mo yearly ($149 monthly) for 10,000; Scale $209/mo yearly ($299 monthly) for 25,000; Enterprise is custom. One credit pool covers finding (1 credit) and verifying (0.5 credit), with unlimited users on every plan. An API-only Data Platform sells search and verification credits separately. Figures are USD list prices; UK visitors are shown GBP (Starter £28/mo billed yearly). | Free plan with 15 B2B email, 5 phone and 5 direct email credits a month. Paid plans are per user per month: Starter shown at $49 or $65 and Business at $79 or $99 (the page does not label which is annual and which is monthly), Enterprise and Organization on request. Unused paid credits roll over; extra phone credits are sold separately. |
Independent users mostly treat Hunter as a narrow, cheap tool: punch in a name and domain, get the work email or the company's email pattern, and run its verifier before sending. About 19 non-promotional comments carry an opinion, most of them brief; the detailed ones put accuracy around 70 to 80 percent, better at large companies than small startups, and two buyers who tried bulk list enrichment report poor yields and refused refunds. A large share of Reddit mentions are promotional, including several 2026 comments from different accounts pushing Hunter's own MailTracker extension, repeated plugs for unrelated tools that name Hunter in passing, and a reply from a Hunter employee.
Users like
- Reliable for the classic use: take a name from LinkedIn and get the person's work email or the company's email pattern[1][2][3][4]
- Its built-in verifier is used to check addresses before sending; a two-year user says it saved them from many bounces[1][2][3]
- Holds up for low-volume, targeted outreach and for domain lookups at known organisations, such as company or school domains[1][2][3][4]
Users complain about
- Accuracy is decent but not dependable: a two-year user estimates 70 to 80 percent of emails work and says it does better at big companies than startups, and another calls its pattern guesses fairly but not entirely accurate[1][2][3]
- Weak on bulk lists: one buyer says only about 7% of an uploaded list came back usable after hours of manual cleanup, and another found too few verified addresses in its database and the interface clunky[1][2]
- Two dissatisfied buyers say refund requests were refused; one was offered credits instead and filed a chargeback[1][2]
- Relies on published web data and email patterns, so critics say it misses contacts that are not public and returns generic addresses for small businesses[1][2]
Independent discussion is modest: about 14 first-hand, non-promotional comments. Users mostly like it as a quick LinkedIn extension for pulling emails and mobiles one profile at a time, especially for European and French prospects, and as a cheaper alternative or backup to bigger databases; the trade-offs are a narrower database and weaker search than Apollo and phone numbers that are sometimes wrong or disconnected. A large share of the remaining mentions were promotional, mostly accounts steering Kaspr users to Datagma, FullEnrich or other tools, and the complaints about Kaspr's pricing at volume appeared only inside those pitches, so they are not counted here.
Users like
- Rated well for European contacts, including the French market; one user calls it their favourite for the EU while admitting they have no view on US quality[1][2][3][4]
- The Chrome extension pulls an email or mobile straight from a LinkedIn or Sales Navigator profile, which suits prospecting one person at a time[1][2][3]
- Works as a backup source for emails and phones behind a broader database such as Apollo[1][2][3]
- Seen as more affordable than ZoomInfo or Cognism for EU contact data[1][2]
Users complain about
- Smaller database and weaker list-building filters than Apollo; a solo founder switched to Apollo after two months[1][2][3]
- Phone numbers can be wrong: one tester found it returned more mobiles than Prospeo but half were disconnected[1][2]
- One user prospecting in Europe ranks it behind Lusha and SalesPort for phone data quality[1]
- Requires installing its LinkedIn browser extension; a privacy-minded tester called the extension shady and found his never-published personal mobile in Kaspr's data[1]