Hunter vs Mailmeteor

Hunter is an email outreach platform for people in marketing, sales, recruiting, and other work that involves contacting people by email. Domain Search, Email Finder, and Email Verifier help find and check professional email addresses. Hunter Discover provides a B2B lead database with market-segmentation filters, while Sequences automates cold emails and tracks opens. Its Chrome extension can find email addresses, names, and social profiles associated with a website, and API access is available. Listed integrations include Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, Outlook, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, Clay, and Snowflake. Hunter says its database uses public web sources; Domain Search results show where and when contact details were found. People can claim an address to edit related fields or request removal. Hunter says its services are hosted on Google Cloud Platform in Belgium, where customer data is encrypted. The Free plan is free and includes 50 monthly credits, basic Discover filters, one connected email account, and 500 recipients per sequence. CSV exports are limited to 10 emails per domain.

Mailmeteor runs personalized email campaigns and helps manage replies from Gmail, Outlook, and other tools. Mail merges can start from Gmail, Outlook, Excel, Google Sheets, or Google Docs. Campaign features include tracking, scheduling, templates, attachments, audience segmentation, unsubscribe management, and conditional follow-ups. Its AI assistant sorts emails, drafts replies in the user’s tone, and rewrites, improves, or shortens messages, but the assistant is currently available only for Gmail. Mailmeteor connects with Zapier and Google Sheets automations, and sent messages can be logged in Salesforce or HubSpot through a CRM BCC address. The free Hobby plan includes 500 emails per month. Paid plans start at $5.99 per user per month, with listed daily and monthly limits by tier. Mailmeteor says it requests only essential sending permissions and keeps customer data in the Google Spreadsheet by design.