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pingutil vs Hunter: email verification compared
B2B email finder and outreach suite with a built-in email verifier and API. Here is how Hunter compares with pingutil on price, catch-all handling, API design and integrations.
Competitor details come from each vendor’s own pricing page and documentation, checked October 2026. Prices change; follow the source links before you decide. Accuracy percentages are the vendors’ own claims.
| pingutil | Hunter | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Cost-effective usage-based plans | Monthly or annual subscription with credits; a verification costs 0.5 credit on the standard plans. Starter $49/mo (2,000 credits), Growth $149/mo (10,000), Scale $299/mo (25,000); lower when billed annually. |
| Price per 1k at 10k | Usage-based | about $7.45 (Growth, monthly) |
| Real-time API | Yes, POST /v1/verify | Yes |
| Batch API | Yes, up to 50 addresses per call | Not documented |
| List upload | Yes, CSV upload in the dashboard (50 rows per upload) | Yes |
| Callbacks / webhooks | No (synchronous API) | Not documented |
| Catch-all handling | Probes a random address on the same domain. Catch-all domains come back risky / accept_all, never valid. | Returns an accept_all status and flag; Hunter says it resolves some accept-all addresses at major providers. |
| Result statuses | valid, invalid, risky, unknown, each with a reason code and a 0–100 score | valid, invalid, accept_all, webmail, disposable, unknown, plus a score |
| Integrations | REST API with an OpenAPI spec and step-by-step guides for HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zapier, Mailchimp, signup flows, Node.js and Python | HubSpot, Pipedrive, Google Sheets, Zapier |
| Developer experience | OpenAPI 3 spec, interactive API explorer, copy-paste examples | Clear REST docs. Long checks return 202 and you poll. |
| Accuracy claim | Definitive answers only; catch-all and unresponsive servers are reported as risky or unknown, never guessed. | Valid results usually bounce under 1% (vendor claim). |
| Beyond verification | Typo suggestions (gmial.com → gmail.com). Disposable-domain detection (about 9,900 domains, synced weekly). Role and randomized-address detection. Company profile and domain intelligence on the same API key. | Sales and outreach teams who also want to find addresses. |
When Hunter is the better fit
You want one tool to find prospects’ addresses and verify them, inside a sales suite.
Worth knowing
- Verification credits are shared with the email-finder and outreach features.
- Bulk checks are charged even for addresses verified earlier that month.
When pingutil is the better fit
You want cost-effective verification whose results you can act on without second-guessing, wired into your CRM, outbound sequences, onboarding flow or email platform with a few lines of code. Every answer carries a status, a reason code and a score, and the same key gives you company and domain data for lead routing.