Comparison · 2026
Leadvixo
vs
Hunter.io

Leadvixo vs Hunter:
beyond email finding — what else you actually need.

Hunter.io is the go-to for domain-based email finding — simple, reliable, and trusted by millions. But it doesn't give you direct phones, company search, tech stack targeting, or individual contact profiles. If those gaps matter to your workflow, here's the full picture for 2026.

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Quick verdict
Leadvixo wins for full contact enrichment and outbound prospecting. Hunter wins if you need fast, reliable email pattern guessing for a specific domain — at a price point that's hard to beat for that narrow use case.
200M+
Individual contacts
📞
Direct phones (Hunter: none)
94%+
Email deliverability
500+
Tech stack filters
€0
To get started
At a glance

Two tools solving
very different problems.

Hunter finds email addresses for a domain. Leadvixo finds verified individuals — with emails, phones, company context, and full CRM export — from a search of 200M+ contacts.

Best for: full outbound prospecting
Individual contact search — 200M+ people by title, industry, seniority
Direct phone & mobile numbers per contact
Real-time SMTP email verification — 94%+ deliverability
Company search — 32M+ with tech stack + firmographic filters
Native CRM push to HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive
Flat team pricing — €99/mo for the whole team
⚠️No domain-level email pattern guessing (Hunter's core use case)
vs
Best for: domain email lookup
Fast domain-based email pattern detection
Email verification (SMTP-based)
Affordable — free plan available
Bulk email finder and verifier
Simple, reliable API for developers
⚠️No direct phone numbers at all
⚠️No individual contact database to search
⚠️No tech stack or firmographic filters
⚠️No CRM native push
Full comparison

Feature by feature.
No cherry-picking.

Every criterion that matters for B2B prospecting — assessed without spin.

Criteria Leadvixo Hunter.io
Data & discovery
Individual contact search (by title, role…)✓ 200M+
Domain-based email pattern finderPartial✓ Core feature
Real-time email verification (SMTP)
Email deliverability rate94%+~88–92%
Direct phone & mobile numbers
Tech stack / technographic filtering✓ 500+
Company firmographic search✓ 32M+
LinkedIn Chrome extensionLimited
Workflow & export
Bulk email finder
Bulk email verifier
Unlimited CSV export on paid plansCapped by requests
Native CRM push (HubSpot, Salesforce)Basic HubSpot only
Lemlist / outreach tool integrationVia Zapier
Zapier integration
API accessScale plan✓ All plans
Team & pricing
Free plan available✓ 100 credits✓ 25 req/mo
Flat team pricingPer seat on higher tiers
Direct phone numbers included✗ Never
Setup time<5 minutes<5 minutes
Paid plan from €49/mo $34/mo (Starter)
Based on publicly available information as of avril 2026. Subject to change.
Pricing

Similar price point.
Very different capabilities.

Hunter is genuinely affordable. The question is whether email-only finding covers your full outbound workflow — or whether you're supplementing it with other tools.

Leadvixo Emails + phones + company search
Free
100 credits · no card required
€0
Pro
5,000 credits · 1 user · unlimited export
€49/mo
Scale
15,000 credits · whole team flat
€99/mo
Includes direct phones, company search, tech stack filtering, CRM push, and unlimited CSV export. Everything in one platform.
Hunter.io Email-only tool
Free
25 requests/mo · limited verifications
$0
Starter
500 requests/mo
$34/mo
Growth
5,000 requests/mo
$104/mo
Hunter covers email finding and verification only. No phone numbers, ever. No individual contact database, no tech stack filters. To cover those gaps you'd need additional tools.
The real cost question: Hunter Starter ($34/mo) + a phone data tool (~$50–100/mo) + a company search tool (~$50/mo) adds up to $134–184/mo — and you still have three tools to manage. Leadvixo Pro covers all three workflows for €49/mo in a single platform.
Honest recommendation

When to choose
Leadvixo vs Hunter.

Choose Leadvixo if…
  • You need direct phone numbers — Hunter doesn't offer them at all. If calling is any part of your outbound sequence, Leadvixo is the only option between the two.
  • You want to search for individuals, not just guess emails by domain — Leadvixo lets you filter 200M+ contacts by title, company, seniority, location, and tech stack.
  • You want to prospect account-first — building a company list by industry, headcount, or tech stack, then pulling contacts from those accounts in one workflow.
  • You're paying for multiple tools to supplement Hunter — consolidating email finding, phone data, and company search into one platform at €49/mo is almost certainly cheaper.
  • You need CRM push — Leadvixo syncs directly to HubSpot, Salesforce, and Pipedrive. Hunter's CRM integration is basic and limited to HubSpot on paid plans.
Choose Hunter if…
  • Your primary use case is finding the email pattern for a specific company — "what format does Acme Corp use?" — Hunter is faster and cheaper for this exact workflow.
  • You're a developer who needs a clean, well-documented email API — Hunter's API is available on all plans and is widely regarded as one of the best in class for this use case.
  • You already know exactly who you want to contact and just need to verify or find their email format — not discover new prospects from scratch.
Honest note: This comparison is written by the Leadvixo team. Hunter is a genuinely good tool for what it does — email finding by domain is its singular focus and it does it well. The question is whether email finding alone covers your full prospecting workflow in 2026.
Real scenario

A freelance consultant
consolidating their stack.

Scenario — freelance B2B consultant doing 15–20 targeted outreaches per week
✗ Before: Hunter + extras

$34–134/mo · 3-tool fragmentation

Hunter Starter $34/mo — emails by domain only
Separate tool for phone numbers — +$50–80/mo
LinkedIn + manual research to find individual names
No company search — target accounts found manually
CRM import done manually — 3-step CSV process
Total: $84–114/mo across 2–3 tools
✓ After: Leadvixo Pro

€49/mo · one platform

€49/mo — all-in, no extras needed
Direct phones included — no separate tool
Individual search — find people by title + tech stack directly
Company search — build account lists in minutes
One-click HubSpot push — no manual CSV import
Bounce rate: ~4% vs ~10% on domain-guessed emails
FAQ

Questions about
Leadvixo vs Hunter.

Hunter's core strength is domain-based email pattern detection — you enter a company domain and it finds all known email addresses at that company, infers the email pattern (e.g. firstname.lastname@company.com), and lets you guess emails for people you know by name. Leadvixo doesn't have this domain lookup feature. Hunter also has a very clean, well-documented API available on all plans that developers use to integrate email finding into their own tools and workflows. If either of those workflows is central to what you do, Hunter is the better fit.
Hunter was built as an email-finding tool from the start and has stayed focused on that use case. Phone number data requires a different data sourcing and enrichment pipeline that Hunter hasn't added. This is a meaningful gap for any outbound motion that includes cold calling — Leadvixo sources direct landlines and mobile numbers for contacts where available, with phone type labeling so you know what you're dialing before you call.
Both tools use SMTP-based verification. Hunter's verification is solid and generally well-regarded — for domain-guessed emails, it's one of the better verifiers available. The main difference is context: Hunter verifies emails you've found or guessed. Leadvixo verifies at the point of revealing an individual contact from its database — every reveal triggers a live SMTP check before the credit is spent. In terms of raw verification quality, both are comparable; Hunter's deliverability runs ~88–92%, Leadvixo's is 94%+, which likely reflects the additional layer of database curation on top of verification.
Yes, and the workflows don't overlap much. Some teams use Leadvixo for prospecting new contacts from its database, and Hunter for verifying emails when they know a contact's name and company but don't have their email — or when they need to find all email addresses at a specific company. The combined cost is reasonable (Hunter Free or Starter + Leadvixo Free) for low volumes. At higher volumes, the consolidation math usually favours Leadvixo Pro alone.
Yes, but with a difference: Leadvixo's REST API is available on the Scale plan (€99/mo for the team), whereas Hunter's API is available from all paid plans — including the $34/mo Starter. If you need API access for a lightweight integration or developer project, Hunter is more accessible at lower price points. Leadvixo's API is oriented toward higher-volume team use cases where the flat Scale plan pricing makes sense alongside it.
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