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The difference between Anymail finder and email hunter
The difference between Anymail finder and email hunter

We get a lot of requests from Email Hunter customers looking for an alternative and asking for a list of differences. Here they are.

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Written by Pardeep Kullar
Updated over a week ago

The zero arguments policy 

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Rapid summary

Anymail Finder's key advantage are:

1. If we can't 100% verify it, you get it for free. 

2. See how many real emails are in your file for free

3. We give you unlimited pattern matched emails for free.

4. Our credits roll over so you don't lose any.

5. We get back to you—quickly.

1. If we can't verify it, you get it for free.

Nobody wants bounces. You don't, we don't, no-one does.

We charge a single credit for finding AND verifying an email and if we can't verify it, even if it's real which it often is, we'll give it to you for free. 

This means that 10,000 Anymail finder credits are worth at least 50% more than 10,000 Hunter credits and that's why we have loyal customers.

Our main method of finding emails is different and minimises bounces because it's direct verification

Our additional 'found on web' and pattern guessed emails that can't be verified, are free.

We don't want to hear back from customers that their emails bounced and they were banned by their email delivery service. We don't like that, neither do they.

Hunter

Charges you 1 credit for a 'found on web' or pattern guessed email and then asks you to spend 1 more credit in order to verify that email really exists.

This costs you double the number of credits and typically, a 'found on web' email will bounce 25% of the time. Pattern guessed emails will bounce more than 50% of the time.

Sending emails that bounce has got people blocked by their email delivery service.

2. See how many real emails are in your file for free

Anymail finder

You can upload a file, see how many verified emails we find and then choose to buy and download them. 

Better still? See 20 of those verified emails for free first.

Hunter

You pay for the file and then download it. You won't know how many will bounce until you send them.

3. We give you unlimited pattern matched emails free

Anymail finder

As long as you have credits, you can get 'found on web' or pattern guessed emails that can't be directly verified (some servers block verification) which might be perfectly deliverable but can't be 100% verified for free. 

1000 credits can then easily get you 2,000+ results and you only pay for 1,000. Why can't you verify some? See this.

Hunter

Does not provide this, they'll charge you for emails even if they're not real.

4. Our credits roll over so you don't lose any

Anymail finder

We allow your credits to roll over, so if you don't use all of them this month, the spare ones are still yours next month. See more here.

Example: If you only used 400 out of 1,000 this month, next month you would have 1,600.

Hunter

Does not provide this. You'll need to make sure you use all your credits within the same month, or they are lost forever!

5. We get back to you—quickly

Anymail finder

On average, we reply in 3 minutes—including weekends and nights! The only time we don't is when we sleep. During office hours, we reply in seconds. 

Although we are a small team, we spend a great amount of time making sure our customers are happy. This means that if you get in touch with us during office hours you can expect us to be with you within a couple of minutes.

These are our median first response time stats for the last 30 days.

Hunter

We get it—they are a larger company and don't need customers as much as we do, but the most common complaint we hear from people that contact us is that Email Hunter never gets back to them.


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