ContactOut vs Hunter
A side-by-side comparison of ContactOut and Hunter — two options for lead & contact data. Pricing, features, and honest pros and cons.
Category
Lead & Contact Data
Lead & Contact Data
Rating
4.2 / 5
4.4 / 5
Pricing
From $79/mo
Free / From $34/mo
Best for
Reaching owner-operators via personal emails
Verified business emails on a budget
Key features
- Chrome extension over LinkedIn profiles
- Personal and work email coverage
- Phone number lookup
- Search portal independent of LinkedIn
- Email campaigns and CRM export
- Domain search for all emails at a company
- Email finder (name + domain)
- Email verification with deliverability scoring
- Campaigns: built-in cold email sending
- Chrome extension, API and Google Sheets add-on
Pros
- Best-in-class personal email coverage
- Works directly inside LinkedIn workflows
- Triple-verified data claims hold up well in reviews
- High accuracy on business emails, transparent sources
- Honest, published pricing with a real free tier
- Clean API loved by technical users
Cons
- Fair-use caps undercut the 'unlimited' marketing
- Overkill pricing for purely work-email use cases
- No phone numbers at all
- Weak on personal emails for owner-operators