Prospeo vs Hunter: $49 a seat or 49 euros a team

Hunter costs less once two people share it: its 49 euro Starter plan has unlimited users, while Prospeo charges $49 for each one. Prospeo is the pick when your list comes from LinkedIn profiles or needs mobile numbers, because Hunter's help center says it cannot find emails from LinkedIn profiles.

Dollars and euros are shown the way each vendor bills them, before exchange rate.

Where does Prospeo sit in our own stack?

We have run Prospeo since 2024 on client accounts, as one of four sources in our find-people chain, next to Icypeas, the Airscale database and basile.cc. Across that whole chain, 8,948 French decision-makers in August 2026 returned 1,798 mobiles, which is 20 percent; that rate belongs to the chain, not to Prospeo alone. We have no record of running Hunter, so its side comes from Hunter's own pricing and help pages.

What does each tool let you search from?

The input is the first thing that separates them. Prospeo's API accepts a public LinkedIn URL, or a name plus a company name, website or company LinkedIn URL, and returns the email and, on request, the mobile. Hunter's Email Finder starts from a full name and the domain the company sends email from. Its FAQ answers "Can I find emails from social media profiles?" with no, naming LinkedIn.

Prospeo's own comparison page concedes built-in sequences to Hunter, and it says Hunter "doesn't offer" phone numbers. Hunter's help center is more precise: it finds phone numbers "sometimes", only when they are public next to a contact's email, only for personal addresses, and calls itself not a dedicated phone data product. For a call-first workflow that is a bonus, not a source. On Prospeo a mobile is a priced, requested field: Prospeo's own docs put it at 10 credits per mobile found, with the email free, and nothing charged when no result comes back.

What does one found contact cost?

Hunter and Prospeo both bill a found email at one credit and a miss at zero. At the entry plan the numbers line up: 1,000 found emails cost $24.5 on Prospeo and 24.5 euros on Hunter. Yearly billing lowers both, to $18.5 on Prospeo ($37 a month per user) and 17 euros on Hunter (34 euros a month, 408 euros billed yearly).

Prospeo's comparison page claims about one cent per verified email and about $0.037 for Hunter, because Hunter charges 0.5 credit to verify. Both figures need context. One cent only matches Prospeo's add-on rate, from $10 per 1,000 credits, since the entry plan works out to $24.5 per 1,000 emails. And Hunter's help center says the Email Finder already includes verification in its single credit; the extra 0.5 applies to the standalone Verifier and to verifying an email revealed in Domain Search, which brings that path to 1.5 credits, or 36.75 euros per 1,000 verified contacts. So the 0.037 is real, but only on that route.

A thousand mobiles, each with its email, cost $245 on Prospeo at the entry plan, monthly billing. Hunter prices no mobile unit.

Extra credits run in opposite directions. Hunter sells one-time packs, valid for 3 months; on the Starter plan 1,000 credits cost $70. Prospeo's add-on starts at $10 per 1,000 credits, shared across the team, but it is a recurring subscription that expires at each renewal.

What does a year cost for one user and for five?

Prospeo credits are added per seat and pooled across the team; Hunter's price does not change with the number of users. That decides most teams.

Two users on Prospeo Starter cost $98 a month against 49 euros for the same 2,000 credits on Hunter. If only two of the five people need a login, two Prospeo Growth seats give the same 10,000 pooled credits for $198 a month. Hunter's Growth plan also carries 10 connected sending accounts and sequences of 5,000 recipients, which Prospeo's plans do not include.

Who should pick which?

If you are weighing Prospeo against other finders rather than Hunter, Prospeo alternatives covers the wider field, Prospeo vs Apollo takes one rival head to head, and the Prospeo review covers what a mobile really costs.

How do you test both before paying?

Export 50 contacts from a past campaign whose addresses you already know. Prospeo's free plan gives 100 credits a month, enough for those 50 emails; Hunter's free plan gives 50 credits, exactly 50 Email Finder lookups. Run the same rows through each, feeding Prospeo the LinkedIn URL and Hunter the name plus domain, then count how many addresses each returns and how many match the ones you know. If you call, spend a further 100 Prospeo credits on 10 mobiles. Send to the addresses that came back and count bounces for one week.

If the two return within a few rows of each other and you do not need mobiles, choose by team size.

What breaks?

• Prospeo's cost climbs with people: five Starter seats are $245 a month for 10,000 pooled credits, against 49 euros for Hunter's 2,000.
• Hunter has no LinkedIn-URL lookup, so a list exported from LinkedIn needs names and company domains cleaned up first.
• Hunter's cheapest verified route is the Email Finder. Revealing in Domain Search and verifying afterwards costs 1.5 credits per contact.
• Neither plan carries credits over: Prospeo's expire at each billing cycle, Hunter's reset monthly, and both give a yearly plan's credits upfront.

How were the figures checked?

Credit rules and plan features come from each vendor's own help and pricing pages, opened on 14 November 2026. Prospeo's plan prices come from our catalogue record of its pricing page, dated 19 October 2026, because that page needs a browser to render.

Prospeo carries an affiliate link on this site and the catalogue records no negotiated perk; Hunter is not in the catalogue, and we earn nothing from it.