Innerfetch API vs Hunter
Hunter.io compared with Innerfetch API: company enrichment from $4.90 per 1,000, e-mail finding, customers and competitors, and which one fits your job.
Hunter.io is an e-mail finder. It finds the e-mail addresses at a domain, finds one person’s address, and checks if an address is real. It also has a company enrichment call, and that call is very cheap.
Innerfetch API is a company data API. It also has a work e-mail lookup, but its main job is the company: the profile, the executives and open roles, and the company’s customers, competitors and vendors, each with the public page that shows it.
Prices
Hunter’s Starter plan costs $49 a month for 2,000 credits, or $34 a month billed yearly. Its docs say a company enrichment uses 0.2 credits, and only when the name, description, location and size are all found. So 1,000 company enrichments cost about $4.90, or $3.40 billed yearly. The free plan has 50 credits a month.
That is less than our company profile, and we say so. Our profile carries more fields, and our customer, competitor and vendor lists are not in Hunter. On Innerfetch API, every call has a fixed price in credits. The table below shows the cost of 1,000 company profiles.
Two jobs, two tools
Hunter answers “what is this person’s e-mail?”. Innerfetch API answers “what is this company, and who are its customers, competitors and vendors?”.
Innerfetch API vs Hunter, row by row
| What you get | Innerfetch API | Hunter |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 company profiles cost | $11.98 on the Scale plan; $29 pay as you go | About $4.90 on Starter ($49 a month) |
| Pay as you go | Yes. Credit packs from $29, valid for 12 months | No; monthly or yearly plans |
| Free trial | 200 credits for 30 days with a work e-mail, no credit card | Free plan with 50 credits a month |
| Commitment | None. Monthly plans, cancel at any time | Monthly plan; yearly saves about 30% |
| How fresh | Stored data that refreshes in the background; add fresh=true to refresh a company now | Stored e-mail and company index |
| Company details | Industry, headquarters, headcount range, founded year, tech stack, e-mail pattern, open roles, executives | Name, description, location, size, technologies |
| Customers of a company | Yes, each with the public page that names it | No |
| Competitors of a company | Yes, each with the reason it is there | Not published |
| Vendors a company uses | Yes, each with the public page that names it | Not published |
| People at a company | People of the company found on the public web | E-mails found at a domain |
| Work e-mail | Lookup with a verified, likely or unknown status | Yes, its core strength, with verification |
| Phone numbers | No | Company phone; no person phones |
| Funding and revenue | No | Fields exist, often empty |
| When nothing is found | 1 credit for a domain that is not a company; free in a batch | Free; billed only on a full match |
| AI agents | MCP server with the same API key | Official MCP server |
| Pay per call without an account | Yes, agents pay each call in USDC | No |
| Rate limit | 300 requests a minute per key on every paid plan | 15 requests a second, 500 a minute |
Facts about Hunter come from its own public pages, verified in October 2026. Prices change, so check the sources below before you buy. "Not published" means we could not find the fact on a public page.
Where Innerfetch API wins
- Customers, competitors and vendors of a company, each with the public page that shows it
- A deeper profile, with industry, business model, executives and open roles
- Credit packs with no subscription
- AI agents can pay per call without an account
Where Hunter wins
- A much lower price for a basic company profile
- E-mail finding, domain search and e-mail verification at scale
- Cold e-mail sequences and CRM integrations in the same plan
- Billed only when the main company fields are all found
Choose Innerfetch API if
- You need to know who a company sells to, competes with or buys from
- You want executives and open roles found on the public web
- You do not want a monthly plan
Choose Hunter if
- Your main job is finding and verifying e-mail addresses
- You need only basic company fields at the lowest price
- You want outreach in the same tool
Innerfetch API vs Hunter, answered
How much does Hunter's company enrichment cost?
Hunter's docs say it uses 0.2 credits, and only when the main fields are all found. On the Starter plan ($49 for 2,000 credits) that is about $4.90 for 1,000 companies.
Is Hunter cheaper than Innerfetch API?
For a basic company profile, yes. Hunter costs less. Innerfetch API returns more about each company and adds customer, competitor and vendor lists that Hunter does not have.
Does Innerfetch API find e-mails?
Yes. The work e-mail lookup takes a name and a domain and answers with a status. You pay only when it finds a valid or likely address.
Should I use both?
Yes, if e-mail is your main job. Use Hunter for e-mail at scale and Innerfetch API for company relationships.
Sources
Checked in October 2026. Our own prices come from our pricing page.
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