The Hunter.io alternative that runs campaigns

Hunter.io finds and verifies email addresses well, then hands you a light Campaigns tool for basic email sequences. Reply.io keeps the finding and verifying, then adds LinkedIn, calls, SMS, a 1B+ contact database, a full deliverability suite, and an AI SDR, so prospecting and outreach live in one platform.

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Find and verify emails, then reach out across email, LinkedIn, calls, and SMS

1B+ verified contacts and 60M+ accounts with buying-intent signals

Deliverability suite: warm-up, inbox rotation, health checks, tracking domains

Jason AI SDR sources, writes, and books meetings on autopilot or copilot

Reply.io vs Hunter.io: finding, sending, and data side by side

Pricing
- Entry Price
  
  From $49/user/mo (Email); $89/user/mo (Multichannel)
  
  Free plan $0; paid from $49/mo ($34/mo billed yearly)
- Users
  
  Per user (any team size)
  
  Unlimited team members
- Mailboxes
  
  Unlimited
  
  1 (Free) to 20 (Scale); custom on Enterprise
- Free Trial
  
  Yes (14 days)
  
  Yes (free plan, 50 credits/mo)
Ways to Engage
- Multichannel Outreach
  
  Yes
  
  No (email only)
- LinkedIn Automation
- AI SDR
- Calls
- SMS
- WhatsApp
B2B Data
- B2B Database
  
  Yes (1B+ contacts)
  
  No (Discover finds leads, no large contact database)
- Intent Data
- Data Enrichment
  
  Yes
  
  Yes (lead enrichment)
- Email Finder
- Chrome Extension
- Sales Navigator Integration
- Website Visitors Intent
Deliverability
- Email Warm-Up
- Email Health Check
- Custom Tracking Domains
- Inbox Rotation
- Liquid Syntax
- ESP Matching
AI Features
- AI SDR
- AI Prospect Research
- AI Personalization
  
  Yes
  
  Basic (AI Writing Assistant)
- AI Variables
- AI Copywriting Cloning
- Multiple Offers
- AI Response Handling
- Company Knowledgebase
- Autopilot or Copilot Modes
  
  Yes (both)
  
  No
- Multilingual AI SDR
  
  Yes (50+)
  
  No
Automations
- API
- Centralized Inbox
- Workflow automation
- Advanced CRM Integrations
  
  Yes
  
  Yes (HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zapier)
- Conditional Sequences
Reporting
- Team Performance Dashboards
  
  Yes
  
  Yes (campaign analytics)
- Deliverability Reporting
- White-Label Option (Agency Use)

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Why Reply.io

Keep the email finding, add everything after it

Hunter.io is a strong email finder and verifier with a simple Campaigns add-on for basic email sends. That is where it stops. Reply.io covers the same finding and verifying, then carries the prospect all the way through LinkedIn, calls, SMS, an AI SDR, and a deliverability suite, so you are not stitching a warm-up tool, a data vendor, and a multichannel sequencer around it.

Sending is not an afterthought

Reply.io runs email, LinkedIn, calls, and SMS in one conditional sequence, while Hunter.io Campaigns is email only, with no follow-up channels.

Data comes built in

A database of 1B+ contacts and 60M+ accounts with intent signals lives inside Reply.io, whereas Hunter.io has no comparable contact database to prospect from.

Deliverability ships with the platform

Automated warm-up, inbox rotation, health checks, and tracking domains protect your sender score, tools Hunter.io leaves you to buy elsewhere.

An AI SDR does the heavy lifting

Jason researches, writes, sends, and handles replies on autopilot or copilot, going well beyond Hunter’s AI writing assistant.

Where Reply.io goes beyond finding emails

Multichannel outreach in one sequence

Hunter.io Campaigns sends cold email and follow-ups, and nothing else. Reply.io lets a single sequence branch across email, LinkedIn, calls, SMS, and WhatsApp, so a non-responder is reached the way they are most likely to answer.

Email sequences

Automated, personalized email steps with conditional branching on opens, clicks, and replies, well past a simple follow-up chain.

LinkedIn automation

Connection requests, messages, InMail, profile views, and AI voice notes run as native sequence steps.

Calls and VoIP

Dial, log, and record calls inside the platform, with playback for coaching, something Hunter.io does not offer.

SMS and WhatsApp

Reach prospects on mobile as a real sequence step rather than a separate manual task.

Conditional branching

Route each contact down the right path automatically based on their behavior across channels.

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A built-in B2B database

Hunter.io finds emails one lookup or domain at a time and its Discover tool surfaces companies, but there is no large contact database to build lists from. Reply.io includes 1B+ verified contacts and 60M+ accounts with filters, enrichment, and intent.

1B+ contacts, 60M+ accounts

Source net-new prospects from a global, continually refreshed database included in the platform.

Advanced targeting filters

Narrow lists by title, industry, headcount, technology, and more before you reach out.

Buying-intent signals

Prioritize accounts showing hiring, technographic, and other intent signals that Hunter.io does not track.

Contact enrichment

Append verified phone numbers and LinkedIn URLs so no channel is blocked by missing data.

Website visitor identification

See which companies visit your site and turn that traffic into outreach, a capability Hunter.io lacks.

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Email finding and verification you already expect

To be fair, Hunter.io is very good at finding and verifying emails, and Reply.io covers the same ground. Findy and Name2Email extensions pull verified contacts from LinkedIn and Gmail, and every address and number is validated before send.

Email finder

Turn a name and company into a verified business email, the core job Hunter.io is known for.

Email verification

Validate addresses before sending to protect bounce rate and sender reputation.

Chrome extensions

Findy and Name2Email surface verified contacts straight from LinkedIn and Gmail while you browse.

Sales Navigator import

Pull lists straight from Sales Navigator into a sequence, which Hunter.io does not support.

Phone validation

Numbers are checked alongside emails so calls and SMS reach real, reachable prospects.

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A real deliverability suite

Hunter.io Campaigns has no warm-up, health check, inbox rotation, or ESP matching, so you bring your own warmed mailboxes and third-party tools. Reply.io builds all of it in to protect inbox placement at scale.

Automated warm-up

Every mailbox is warmed automatically to build and hold a strong sender reputation.

Email Health Checker

Continuous checks flag SPF, DKIM, and DMARC issues before they hurt placement.

Inbox rotation

Sends spread across mailboxes to keep volume safe and natural, with no manual juggling.

Custom tracking domains

Use your own domains for links so tracking does not drag down deliverability.

ESP matching

Sender and recipient email providers are matched to improve landing rates.

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An AI SDR beyond a writing assistant

Hunter.io offers an AI Writing Assistant and a handful of AI searches. Reply.io ships Jason, an AI SDR that researches, writes, sends, and handles replies in 50+ languages, on copilot or full autopilot.

Copilot and autopilot modes

Approve every message while you build trust, then let Jason run hands-free once it proves out.

AI prospect research

Jason studies each lead and drafts messages from your company knowledge base.

AI reply handling

Responses are read and answered in context, keeping threads moving without a rep on every one.

Copy cloning and multiple offers

Feed Jason your best emails to reproduce, and test several value propositions in one campaign.

50+ languages

Write and reply in the prospect’s language, far past a single AI writing helper.

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Turn found emails into booked meetings

Keep the email finding you like about Hunter.io, then send across every channel with data and deliverability included. Start your 14-day free trial.

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Grow faster with Reply

Email Volume Send high-volume outreach emails without limits on users or mailboxes. Starts from

$ 49 59 69 89 159 259 459 899 Contact sales Contact sales Contact sales

per user /month per user/month per user/month per user /month ∞ users /month ∞ users /month ∞ users /month ∞ users /month /month /month /month Billed annually

1,000 2,000 3,000 5,000 10,000 25,000 50,000 100,000 200,000 300,000 500,000

active contacts/month

Channels

Email Automation ∞ mailboxes Subject to our Fair Usage Policy
LinkedIn Automation Increase your daily email sending capacity by adding extra mailboxes to your account. $69 /mo/acct
Calls & SMS Automation $29 /mo/acct

Features

Email warmup Included with every mailbox
Unlimited emails Send as many emails to active contacts as you need
50 Live data credits/month Find your next customer with live data from 1 billion B2B contacts, in real time.
Up to 200 Website visitors reveals /mo
Anti-spam & deliverability suite A set of features to ensure your emails reach the primary inbox, not the spam folder.

Best value for teams

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Channels

Email Automation Automate outreach with email sequences. 10 mailboxes
LinkedIn Automation Only available with a paid subscription
Calls & SMS Automation Only available with a paid subscription
WhatsApp (Semi-Automation)
Any Channel via Zapier Step

Features

Unlimited active contacts
Email warmup Included with every mailbox
Unlimited emails Send as many emails to active contacts as you need
50 Live data credits/month Find your next customer with live data from 1 billion B2B contacts, in real time.
Up to 200 Website visitors reveals /mo
Anti-spam & deliverability suite A set of features to ensure your emails reach the primary inbox, not the spam folder.
Onboarding with the CSM
Team Performance Report
Channel Efficiency Report
Export CSV stats

… or join the AI Side

24/7 Operations
Realtime contacts search
Intent signals
AI personalization
AI-generated responses

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Email Volume Send high-volume outreach emails without limits on users or mailboxes. Starts from

$ 59 69 79 99 179 299 499 999 Contact sales Contact sales Contact sales

per user /month per user/month per user/month per user /month ∞ users /month ∞ users /month ∞ users /month ∞ users /per month per month per month per month

1000 2,000 3,000 5,000 10,000 25,000 50,000 100,000 200,000 300,000 500,000

active contacts/month

Channels

Email Automation ∞ mailboxes Subject to our Fair Usage Policy
LinkedIn Automation $69 /mo/acct
Calls & SMS Automation $29 /mo/acct

Features

Email warm-up Included with every mailbox
Unlimited emails
50 Live data credits/month Find your next customer with live data from 1 billion B2B contacts, in real time.
Up to 200 Website visitors reveals /mo
Anti-spam & deliverability suite A set of features to ensure your emails reach the primary inbox, not the spam folder.

Best value for teams

Start 14-day trial

Channels

Email Automation Automate outreach with email sequences. 5 mailboxes
LinkedIn Automation Only available with a paid subscription
Calls & SMS Automation Only available with a paid subscription
WhatsApp (Semi-Automation)
Any Channel via Zapier Step

Features

Email warm-up Included with every mailbox
Unlimited emails Send unlimited emails and scale faster.
50 Live data credits/month Find your next customer with live data from 1 billion B2B contacts, in real time.
Up to 200 Website visitors reveals /mo
Anti-spam & deliverability suite A set of features to ensure your emails reach the primary inbox, not the spam folder.
Team performance report
Channel efficiency report
Export CSV stats

… or join the AI Side

24/7 Operations
Realtime contacts search
Intent signals
AI personalization
AI-generated responses

Hire Jason AI

AI SDR Starter Perfect for small teams getting started Starts from

$ 500 800 1000

/month /month /month Billed annually

Hire Jason AI

{x} real-time B2B contacts
{acc} LinkedIn accounts included

Unlimited users
High-accuracy emails
AI personalization
Intent signals
Autopilot & copilot modes
Multichannel automation
Unlimited mailboxes & warm-ups
Unlimited lead-level Website visitor reveals
All features unlocked
Done for you deliverability
CSM onboarding

Explore Our Add-ons

Channel Add-ons
Al & Live Data
Email Validation

Channel Add-ons

Go beyond email with LinkedIn automation and built-in calling. Send connection requests, messages, and make calls, all from the same platform.

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Automate LinkedIn outreach—send requests, messages, and more to engage prospects.

$ 69

per account

Send connection requests
Send messages and InMails
Send attachments & voice messages
Like posts, follow profiles and endorse skills

Calls & SMS

Integrate calls and SMS—send texts, make calls, and track analytics.

$ 29

per account

Build-in dialer
Send automated SMS at scale
Call resolution and transcripts
Leave AI-generated, personalized voice messages

Al & Live Data

Use AI to personalize outreach at scale and power it with live data. Always reach the right people with the right message.

Start Your Free Trial

Al and Live Data Credits

2500 credits

200 500 1000 2500 6000 10000

$ per month

Email Validation

Validate emails before you send so your messages land in the inbox, not the spam folder.

Start Your Free Trial

Email Validation

100,000 validations

5,000 25,000 50,000 100,000 300,000

$ per month

Reply Reviews

Sjors Mahler

Sales & Growth Lead at pr.co

Reply offered us a platform where we’re sure that the right emails go out at the right time. It helped us get reply rates of over 65% and scale operations.

Yannis Moati

CEO and Founder at HotelsByDay

We saved 7 hrs/week for each salesperson, 50% of deals closed are now following a Reply campaign.

Sat Sindhar

Managing Director at People

With Reply we were able to generate an extra $15,000 of revenue during the first 3 months.

Arjun Saksena

Founder at Productif

Reply, as an outbound sales automation platform, makes the outreach easy for me, so it’s one less thing I have to worry about

Dmitry Chervonyi

ex-CMO at Belkins

We use Reply as our main automation tool for targeted outreach and it helps us grow 20-30% every single month.

Francis Kinder

Head of Performance Sales at TrafficPartner

My favorite feature of Reply has to be the support. Anytime I had a problem, it was solved quickly.

Markus Leming

Head of Commercial Operations at TNW

Our inbound campaigns have on average 74% open rates and 34% click-through rates.

Michael Greenberg

Owner of Business Radio X

With Reply I have about a 60% hit rate with heavily customized AI emails.

Dayana Mayfield

Founder

We get higher deliverability, the UX is great and it’s just super easy to set up your campaigns with this software.

Daniel Wallock

Founder

Reply helped us get over $1,000,000 in sales opportunities.

Alessandro Bogliari

Co-Founder & CEO of The Influencer Marketing Factory

I have been able to supercharge my team’s sales… by 10 fold with thousands of multi-touch points and several automation sequences that enabled my team to meet our sales and marketing goals. So in other words its a great sales enablement platform!

David Gregoire

Founder of Mister eCommerce

We’ve had incredible results with open rates as high as 92% and reply rates as high as 64%.

Reply.io vs Hunter.io: frequently asked questions

Is Reply.io a good Hunter.io alternative?

Yes. Reply.io finds and verifies emails like Hunter.io, then adds multichannel outreach across LinkedIn, calls, and SMS, a 1B+ contact database, a full deliverability suite, and an AI SDR. Hunter.io is excellent at finding emails and offers a light Campaigns tool, but it stops at basic email sending.

What makes Reply.io different from Hunter.io?

Hunter.io is built around email finding and verification with a simple email-only Campaigns feature. Reply.io is an all-in-one sales engagement platform: it keeps the finding and verifying, then handles LinkedIn, calls, SMS, WhatsApp, warm-up and deliverability, a built-in database, and Jason, an autonomous AI SDR.

Which is easier to use, Reply.io or Hunter.io?

Both are approachable. Hunter.io is lighter because it does less, which suits solo senders doing small volumes. Reply.io covers more channels and steps in one place, so teams avoid stitching together a warm-up tool, a data vendor, and a separate sequencer, and can start on a 14-day free trial.

Is Reply.io more affordable than Hunter.io?

They serve different needs. Hunter.io has a free plan and paid tiers from $49 a month ($34 billed yearly) focused on credits and email. Reply.io starts at $49 per user for email and $89 for multichannel, but includes the database, deliverability, and channels that Hunter.io users would otherwise buy separately.

Does Reply.io have the same features as Hunter.io?

Reply.io matches Hunter.io on email finding, verification, enrichment, a Chrome extension, CRM integrations, and API access, then adds LinkedIn, calls, SMS, intent data, warm-up, inbox rotation, conditional sequences, and an AI SDR that Hunter.io does not offer.

Does Hunter.io include a lead database?

Not a large contact database. Hunter.io finds emails per lookup or by domain and its Discover tool surfaces companies matching a profile, but there is no sizable prospect database to build lists from. Reply.io includes 1B+ contacts and 60M+ accounts with enrichment and intent.

Does Hunter.io integrate with CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot?

Yes. Hunter.io offers native CRM integrations including Salesforce, HubSpot, and Pipedrive, plus Zapier and an API. Reply.io also integrates with Salesforce and HubSpot, along with Zapier and its own API, and syncs activity across its channels.

Can Hunter.io find and verify email addresses?

Yes, and it does this well. Email finding and verification are Hunter.io’s core strengths, backed by domain search and its Chrome extension. Reply.io provides the same finding and verification through Findy and Name2Email, then validates phone numbers too before outreach.

Does Hunter.io support intent data or buying signals?

No. Hunter.io does not offer buying-intent signals or website-visitor identification. Reply.io uses intent data plus hiring and technographic signals to prioritize accounts, and reveals which companies visit your website.

Does Hunter.io include email warm-up and deliverability tools?

No. Hunter.io Campaigns has no warm-up, health check, inbox rotation, or ESP matching, so you bring your own warmed mailboxes or a separate warm-up service. Reply.io includes all of these plus custom tracking domains as standard.

Does Hunter.io have a Chrome extension for prospecting on LinkedIn?

Hunter.io has a well-rated Chrome extension for finding emails on company websites, but it is not built for prospecting on LinkedIn. Reply.io ships Findy and Name2Email extensions that pull verified contacts straight from LinkedIn and Gmail.

Reply.io: the Hunter.io alternative that finds, verifies, and actually sends

Most teams reach for Hunter.io because it is genuinely good at one job: finding a business email and confirming it is real. The email finder, domain search, and verifier are fast and accurate, the Chrome extension is well rated, and the free plan lets anyone try it. That strength is worth stating plainly. The question is what happens after you have the address.

Hunter.io answers that with Campaigns, a simple email sender that rounds out finding, verifying, and sending in one subscription. It handles basic sequences, scheduling, and open and reply tracking. What it leaves out matters more as you scale: no warm-up engine, no health checker, no inbox rotation, and no ESP matching, so you bring your own warmed mailboxes or pay a separate service. There is no A/B testing, no conditional logic, and no channel beyond email, so a prospect who ignores your emails is simply lost. For solo founders or small teams sending a few hundred emails a month on a healthy mailbox, that is often enough.

Reply.io is built for the step after that. It keeps the parts people like about Hunter.io, email finding through Findy and Name2Email, verification, enrichment, a Chrome extension, CRM integrations, and an API, then wraps them in a full sales engagement platform. A single sequence can branch across email, LinkedIn, calls, SMS, and WhatsApp, so follow-up happens on the channel a prospect is most likely to answer. Behind that sits a database of over 1 billion verified contacts and 60 million accounts, with filters, buying-intent signals, and website-visitor identification, none of which Hunter.io provides.

Deliverability is the other dividing line. Reply.io includes automated warm-up, an Email Health Checker, inbox rotation, custom tracking domains, and ESP matching, the exact infrastructure Hunter.io users assemble elsewhere to keep cold email landing at volume. Then there is the AI layer. Hunter.io offers an AI Writing Assistant and a limited number of AI searches. Reply.io ships Jason, an AI SDR that researches each lead, writes from your company knowledge base, sends, and handles replies in 50 or more languages, on copilot or hands-free autopilot.

On price, the two are not really competing for the same buyer. Hunter.io has a free tier and paid plans from $49 a month, priced around credits and email accounts. Reply.io starts at $49 per user for email and $89 for multichannel, with the database, deliverability, and extra channels included rather than sourced from three vendors. When teams weigh Hunter.io pricing against a stack of a data provider, a warm-up tool, and a sequencer, the all-in-one math usually favors consolidation.

None of this makes Hunter.io a poor tool. If all you need is to find and verify emails and send a light campaign, it fits. If you want prospecting and multichannel sending, with data, deliverability, and AI in one place, Reply.io is the stronger Hunter.io alternative. Start a 14-day free trial and run it against your own list to see the difference before you commit.