A verifier inside a prospecting tool
Hunter is best known for finding people's work email addresses. Its plans bundle that with a B2B database, an AI assistant, email sequences and verification. A verification costs half a credit. The free plan has 50 credits a month, which is up to 100 verifications if you spend them on nothing else. Starter costs $49 a month ($34 billed yearly) for 2,000 credits, which is 4,000 verifications.
If you are finding new contacts, that bundle makes sense. If the addresses already exist (people who signed up, your newsletter list, a CRM export), you're paying for the finding and outreach and using the checking. Emailfortify only checks: 5,000 verifications for $9 a month, or 25,000 for $29.
Where Hunter's data helps
Hunter has one real advantage on the hardest addresses. On a catch-all domain, the mail server says yes to everything, so a mailbox check alone can't tell a real address from a made-up one. Hunter adds a confidence score built from where it found the address, how well it matches the domain's email pattern and its latest check, and its help centre says it filters out made-up name variants on those domains. It recommends sending to scores above 85%.
Emailfortify has no outside data. We spot catch-all domains by testing a random address, then mark their addresses risky with a score of 55. On a catch-all-heavy B2B list, Hunter will tell you more.
What you get back from us
Every address comes back with a verdict, a reason in plain words and a score, plus flags for role accounts (info@, sales@), free webmail and likely typos, with a suggested fix:
{
"verdict": "risky",
"reason": "possible_typo",
"reasonText": "The domain looks like a typo of a common provider.",
"suggestion": "[email protected]",
"score": 20
}
The same results come from the website, a CSV upload of up to 50,000 rows, or the API.
At a glance
From Hunter's own pricing and help pages, checked October 19, 2026.
Where Hunter is the better choice
- Finding addresses. Emailfortify can't find anyone's email.
- Catch-all B2B domains. Its confidence score uses data we don't have.
- Outreach in the same tool. Sequences, a B2B database and unlimited team members.
ZeroBounce alternative: verification without the deliverability suite
NeverBounce alternative: the same checks for a fraction of the price per address