6 categories · RankedHunter
Hunter is an email outreach platform for finding and verifying business email addresses and turning decision makers into leads · hunter.io ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Apollo.io is first at 81%.
Apollo.io is first at 63%.
ZoomInfo is first at 57%.
Why models recommend it
“Generally better-reviewed; focuses on pattern-matched business emails rather than scraped personal data”Kimi K2 · Negative question · first choice
“Hunter.io is one of the best data enrichment tools for small-scale usage as a free data enrichment tool”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Pricing starts with a free plan (25 searches/month), with paid plans beginning at $49/month.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Low-cost plans and a free tier, but fewer broader enrichment features.”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Avoid for high-volume campaigns to prevent deliverability issues.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Hunter, over the 108 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | 55 | View → | |
| 63 | 3 | View → | |
| 55 | 11 | View → | |
| 55 | 2 | View → | |
| 48 | 3 | View → | |
| 40 | 5 | View → | |
| 30 | 3 | View → | |
| 26 | 1 | View → | |
| 22 | 1 | View → | |
| 21 | 2 | View → |
What the models named instead of Hunter →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Hunter's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- founders, marketers, sales teams, and product owners
- Price stated
- Pay as you go
- Starting price
- 0.00
- Free plan or trial
- 50 free leads/month No credit card No trial
- Integrations
- 5000 · 5 (its own pages disagree)
- Customers named
- Canva, Acquire.com, 95 Projects, Modgility, Planhat CRM, Lattice, REsimpli
- Headquarters
- United States
- Founded
- 2015
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 79 of the 108 answers that named Hunter and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
153 of the 153 domain citations in answers naming Hunter came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template or tool | 547 | undated | |||
| Blog | 209 | 12 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Case study | 46 | 5 | 2026-07-17 | ||
| Podcast or video | 16 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 13 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 8 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 8 | 1 | 2026-09-08 | ||
| Report or ebook | 4 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | 0 | 2025-05-12 | ||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Data provenance for ai agents blog
- 2026-09-24Email infrastructure blog
- 2026-09-16Should you email more than one person per company blog
- 2026-09-0811891855 static vs dynamic lists in hunter leads comparison
- 2026-09-01Llms get email data wrong blog
- 2026-08-2515 ways to find similar leads blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page hunter.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.