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Hunter.io

B2B discovery, enrichment and email outreach platform, not recruitment-native. Every plan carries the Discover database, with basic filters free and advanced filters from Starter. Free gives 50 credits a month; Starter EUR 34, Growth EUR 104 and Scale EUR 209 per month on annual billing, with 24,000 to 300,000 credits a year. One credit finds an email, half a credit verifies one, and team members are unlimited on every plan.

Snov.io

Email finding, verification, mailbox warm-up and outreach sequencing, built for sales prospecting. A renewable trial plan gives 50 credits and 100 recipients; paid plans run from USD 351 a year (about USD 29 a month) with 1,000 credits and 5,000 recipients, up to USD 6,642 a year with 100,000 credits. Team seats are unlimited on every plan and warm-ups become unlimited from the second tier. LinkedIn automation, extra mailboxes, sending domains and enrichment tokens are priced separately.

Hunter.io vs Snov.io

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Choose Hunter.io if email accuracy and simple domain-based search are your top priorities. Choose Snov.io if you want a more complete outreach toolkit combining email finding with automated drip campaigns and LinkedIn prospecting.

Summary

Hunter.io and Snov.io are both email discovery and outreach platforms used by recruiters for candidate engagement. Hunter.io specializes in finding professional email addresses through domain search, individual email verification, and campaign management. Snov.io offers similar email finding and verification capabilities plus a more extensive outreach suite with automated drip campaigns and a Chrome extension for LinkedIn prospecting. Hunter.io is known for data accuracy and simplicity, while Snov.io provides a more complete outreach automation toolkit.

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Decision factor	Hunter.io	Snov.io
Pricing	Freemium (from Free, then from EUR 34/month billed annually)	Freemium (from Free trial plan, then from USD 29/month billed annually)
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Free trial	No	No
Key features	Discover B2B database with an AI assistant: basic filters free, advanced filters from Starter Email Finder, Domain Search and Email Verifier, metered in credits Lead enrichment and auto-verification, from the Starter plan Campaign sending from connected Gmail or Outlook accounts, with an AI writing assistant from Starter API access, plus a separate API-only Data Platform line Unlimited team members on every plan, including the free one	Email finder and email verifier, metered in credits Mailbox warm-up, unlimited from the Pro S tier Multi-step email campaigns with a recipient allowance per plan Unlimited team seats on every plan Data enrichment tokens and API access LinkedIn automation as a paid add-on, per slot
Best for	Recruiters whose gap is contactability rather than a hiring process Finding companies and the people in them, then verifying the addresses Small teams, since seats are not what you pay for	Outbound recruiters whose bottleneck is deliverability rather than finding people Small teams, since seats are unlimited and volume is what you pay for Desks running nurture sequences, where recipients matter more than credits
Pros	None listed	None listed
Trade-offs	Discover is organised around companies and roles, not around candidate skills or availability, and there is no pipeline Email only, with no phone numbers Monthly billing costs roughly 30 percent more than an annual commitment Connected mailboxes are capped at 1, 3, 10 or 20 by plan even though team members are not Whether unused credits roll over is not published Vendor compliance material does not answer your own lawful basis for contacting candidates	Headline prices are annual-equivalent; the monthly price is not shown beside the plan The Pro L and Ultra prices on show are a first-year promotion; the standard annual discount is 25 percent and the renewal price is not published LinkedIn automation is a separate USD 69-per-slot add-on and carries LinkedIn platform risk Extra mailboxes, sending domains and enrichment tokens are all billed outside the plan Rollover credits appear only on the quoted Custom Ultra tier No candidate record, no pipeline and no ATS integration story

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