Hunter is a prospecting platform first, and verification is bundled inside a monthly subscription. If you just want accurate verification on credits that never expire, this is built for that.
Get 100 Free Credits See pricing No credit card required · credits never expire · cancel nothing, there's no subscription.Hunter.io is excellent at finding emails, with verification offered as part of a monthly subscription (each verification uses half a credit). If verification is the actual job, Email Verifier API gives you a dedicated 16-point real-time API on pay-as-you-go credits that never expire, with 100 free to start.
The differences that actually change your bill and your code.
Buy verification directly, with no monthly prospecting subscription required.
Credits never expire instead of resetting every month.
A dedicated 16-point verification API with 6-language SDKs.
100 free credits to evaluate accuracy before you pay anything.
Compared on the things buyers and developers ask about most.
| Feature | Email Verifier API | Hunter |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Pay-as-you-go credits | Monthly or annual subscription |
| Credits expire? | Never | Reset monthly (no rollover on Free) |
| Standalone verification | Yes, that is the product | Bundled in prospecting plans (0.5 credit each) |
| Real-time API | Yes, 16-point engine | Yes (within the suite) |
| Free tier | 100 credits, one-time, no card | 50 credits per month |
| Best for | Verification at any scale | Sales teams finding and verifying leads |
Hunter is subscription-only, and its verifier lives inside plans built for finding prospects. If you do not need Domain Search and campaigns, that is overhead. We sell verification on its own, as credits, with nothing to subscribe to.
On a subscription, unused monthly verification capacity simply disappears at renewal. Our credits never expire, so your balance is yours until you spend it.
Drop our 16-point endpoint into any stack with ready-made examples for PHP, Python, Node.js, Go, Ruby and C#. You get a clean status response designed to drive signup, CRM and list-hygiene logic.
Switching from Hunter, answered.
Yes. Email Verifier API offers real-time, 16-point email verification at 98% accuracy on pay-as-you-go credits that never expire, with no subscription and 100 free credits to start, a simpler, developer-first alternative to Hunter.
No. Credits never expire. You buy them once and use them whenever you need to, there is no subscription and no monthly reset.
Every new account includes 100 free verification credits with no credit card required, so you can run the same list through both tools and compare results before paying anything.
Yes. The 16-point engine is available as a real-time REST API with copy-paste SDKs for PHP, Python, Node.js, Go, Ruby and C#, returning a clear passed, failed, unknown or transient status.
The engine targets 98% accuracy using a 16-point check, including a live SMTP handshake that confirms mailbox existence without ever sending a message.
Run your own list through our 16-point engine and compare the results yourself. 100 free credits, no credit card, credits never expire.
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