Email verification · RankedHunter Email Verifier
Hunter Email Verifier, from Hunter (hunter.io), is an email verification tool that checks whether email addresses are valid · 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.
ZeroBounce is first at 30%.
ZeroBounce is first at 47%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
ZeroBounce is first at 69%.
Why models recommend it
“For marketing agencies or users needing both lead discovery and verification, Hunter provides an integrated approach.”MiniMax M2.5 · Comparative question · alternative
“Opt for highly rated options from 2024 tests: Snov.io, Bouncer, Kickbox, ZeroBounce, or Hunter.io”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · alternative
“Choose Hunter.io if you are a B2B sales outreach team building and verifying prospect lists in a single tool.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Best if you also need email finding/prospecting (combined workflow). Verification is solid but secondary”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Not a dedicated verification service; better for lead generation”Kimi K2 · Comparative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Hunter Email Verifier, over the 57 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 25 | View → | |
| 40 | 1 | View → | |
| 30 | 2 | View → | |
| 28 | 6 | View → | |
| 23 | 2 | View → | |
| 16 | 2 | View → | |
| 14 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Hunter Email Verifier →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Hunter Email Verifier's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- sales teams, marketers, recruiters, founders, PR professionals, event organizers/community managers
- Price stated
- free
- Starting price
- 0.00
- Free plan or trial
- no signup needed; Free plan lets you verify up to 100 email addresses per month
- Customers named
- Clazar, Canva, Planhat CRM, Lattice, Acquire.com
- 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 46 of the 57 answers that named Hunter Email Verifier and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
115 of the 152 domain citations in answers naming Hunter Email Verifier came from a third party's page. Ten were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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.