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75 Ratings
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Attribute Ratings
- Hunter is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
Clearout
89%
2 Ratings
9.7
Hunter
97%
22 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Clearout
Clearout is the best and easiest email verification tool there is. It is a great tool for any company that does email outreach or needs to validate email lists on a regular basis. It is very easy to use, it's pretty much self explanatory. Clearout can validate both large and small email lists so it is appropriate for any size company that uses email marketing.
Founder & CEO
3Bug MediaMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Hunter
The scenario we most commonly use Hunter for is to quickly find and retrieve contact email information. Phone numbers are an added bonus, but they tend to only be available for contacts in the US. SDRs have the extension in order to confirm or to help them "guess" as to what a contact's email address might be. This speeds up our prospecting time considerably. Where Hunter falls short is not being flexible where companies have more than one email format.
Sales Team Leader
WorkableComputer Software, 201-500 employees
Pros
Clearout
- Confirmation/checks before deletion
- Bulk filtering
- Easy UI
- Inexpensive cost

Verified User
Employee in Professional Services
Management Consulting Company, 1001-5000 employeesHunter
- Hunter provides a quick and easy way to look up the email format for any company using the free Google Chrome extension.
- Hunter allows you to upload a bulk list of emails and verify them easily.
- Hunter shows where verified emails were found on web pages and PDF documents. This shows that the emails were published by trusted sources.
Account-Based Marketing Specialist
Spire DigitalMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
Cons
Clearout
- More integrations would be nice, not a fan of Zapier
- Validating large lists can sometimes take a long time to complete
Founder & CEO
3Bug MediaMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Hunter
- Hunter is only as valuable as the information it is able to scrape from the internet. If a company has not listed any email addresses online, then Hunter is not going to be able to find it.
- Sometimes Hunter is only able to identify non-personal-specific email addresses (ex: info @, support@, etc.). This makes it difficult to identify personnel emails
- Sometimes companies will have different email domains that Hunter is not able to correlate. For example, when searching for an email address at Lead.com, Hunter is not able to point to ParentCompany.com email addresses that would be more useful.

Verified User
Executive in Sales
Marketing and Advertising Company, 501-1000 employeesPricing Details
Clearout
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Clearout Editions & Modules
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Additional Pricing Details
—Hunter
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
Starting Price
$0 per month
Hunter Editions & Modules
Edition
Free | $0.001 |
---|---|
Starter | $491 |
Growth | $991 |
Pro | $1991 |
Enterprise | $3991 |
- per month
Additional Pricing Details
—Alternatives Considered
Clearout
We also use TrueMail to verify our email lists but we find the user interface is a little better with Clearout. Clearout is also more accurate in my experience when validating large email lists and completes the validation process faster than TrueMail. Both tools are good and both have a nice user interface.
Founder & CEO
3Bug MediaMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Hunter
We have been trying to get lead information on SalesTools and PLENTY, however, these two tools are mostly oriented to create follow-up campaigns and the setup is pretty complicated. If you are looking to create just a list of semi-qualified leads, you may try Hunter, but SalesTools has already an inner feature to build prospects in a better way.
Founder & CEO
TIMEHUNTERInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Return on Investment
Clearout
- Better client communication
- More sales
- Streamlined business goals

Verified User
Employee in Professional Services
Management Consulting Company, 1001-5000 employeesHunter
- Positive to be sure. I don't always get the results I want, but I use the free version and I'm satisfied to go there first when I need an email
- It's a fast quality product. It was better before when it resided on my LinkedIn account, but that's another matter...
Small Business Consultant - Financial Services
TriNetHuman Resources, 1001-5000 employees