A Hunter alternative for the checking, not the finding

Two different shapes of price

Hunter sells no one-off packs. Its plans carry monthly credit quotas — 2,000 on the €34 Starter, 10,000 on the €104 Growth, 25,000 on the €209 Scale, less 30% billed yearly — and a verification costs half a credit, so each quota buys twice its number in verifications. The rows below place a one-off cleaning job inside that shape, using only Hunter's published quotas.

That is not Hunter being expensive at its own game — it is a different game. A subscription quota suits work that arrives every month; a list cleaned before a send, a few times a year, is exactly what it does not suit, because the quota is paid for in the months the list sits still. ListCheckup credits are bought once and never expire.

The free tiers, honestly

Here Hunter deserves a plain concession: its free plan gives 50 credits a month, and at half a credit per verification that is 100 free verifications a month — the same hundred ListCheckup gives. If a monthly hundred is all you will ever need, either free tier does the job; Hunter's also finds a few addresses, ours also comes with the PDF report and the API.

When Hunter is the better choice

When you are hunting. Hunter is an email-finding and cold-outreach platform used by millions — the credits search domains, find contacts and write sequences, and verification rides along at half a credit. If your job is building a prospect list, that is their product and not ours: ListCheckup checks addresses you already have, from people who already know you, and our acceptable use policy keeps it that way.