Hunter.io alternatives in 2026

Accounts by a trait no filter lists

Your best accounts share a trait no filter lists. Describe it, and every account that has it reaches your CRM with its buying committee and a link to where the trait shows.

The trait can be the tools a company runs, the roles it hires for or the markets it entered. SpecStream reads the request back as parts you can edit before anything runs, then checks each account against each condition on the live web. An account that fails one is not delivered and not billed.

The committee and its contacts come on the row

Hunter's credits pay for emails found and verified. A SpecStream request finds the accounts as well: 1,000 accounts with the buying committee cost $150, plus 5¢ for each email and 15¢ for each phone.

Each email says whether a page printed it, and a likely one is labeled. Source URL and read time on every value.

The price is set before the run

Every request gets a quote of the most it can cost, good for 30 minutes. Nothing runs until you approve it, the charge never goes past that amount, and whatever the run does not use goes back to your balance. Hunter's terms say upgrade fees are non-refundable.

Signals that say who to call this week

SpecStream reads public databases every morning. In the week of November 2, 2026, 494 operating companies filed a Form D reporting $29.51 billion sold, and each one is a row on specstream.ai/data/form-d. Funding rounds, new executives and layoffs are at specstream.ai/signals. Ask for your own cut of any of them.

The same account runs the Search API, the most accurate web search API in the world: 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions (978 correct), and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. The scores and method are on benchmarks.

The accounts stay up to date in your CRM

Save the request and it reruns hourly to yearly. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching, a changed or new row costs half its rate and an unchanged row costs 1¢. New matches and changes land in HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Sheets, Slack or Teams with no code, or in your agent through the MCP server. Rows you already own are never charged again.

SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. One request in plain words returns the accounts that meet every condition, with the buying committee, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone, under a maximum you approve before the run. The Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches and the Extract API $0.80 per 1,000 pages.

Snov.io

A prospecting and outreach tool that starts at $39 a month, or $29.25 a month billed yearly on Starter. Each prospect and each email verification costs 1 credit. On SpecStream a row costs the same on every plan, and a top-up never expires.

Apollo

A sales platform billed in credits. One click exports up to 10,000 leads, and credits reset at the start of each billing cycle with no rollover. A SpecStream top-up never expires, and a row costs the same on every plan.

Lusha

A contact database sold in credits. The Free plan gives 40 credits a month, an email takes 1 credit and a phone number takes 5. On SpecStream an email adds 5¢ to a row and a phone adds 15¢, on every plan.

RocketReach

Sold as pre-paid lookups that expire at the end of the term. SalesIntel reports Essentials at $329 a year for email only and Pro at $829 a year with phone numbers. On SpecStream a phone adds 15¢ to a row, on every plan.