The best Hunter.io alternative
Dropcontact is the only enrichment solution based on algorithms only, without any database to enrich professional data.
The alternative to Hunter.io for enriching B2B emails
Dropcontact
Dropcontact is the only enrichment solution based on algorithms only, without any database to enrich professional data.
Contact data is provided in real-time and guaranteed to be up-to-date.
The obsolescence of your contacts is a distant memory.
100% GDPR compliant
Real-time search algorithms
Qualified and verified business email address
Why Dropcontact is the best alternative to Hunter.io
Dropcontact has developed its algorithms to search for personal email addresses in real-time. It is the only real-time enrichment solution that does not rely on any database to enrich business contact information.
B2B email finder
and enrichment
🔎 About 33% of your lead base becomes obsolete every year. This is even more true today. People are changing companies more and more frequently, more often, faster.
That's why Dropcontact has developed its own B2B email address search algorithms: no more obsolescence, only fresh and up-to-date data 🤩.
The professional data of the contact and his company are enriched, normalized, verified at the very moment of your search.
👉🏻 Discover Dropcontact email finder and enrichment feature.
Hunter.io has collected over 102 million business and personal email addresses in the past few years. For each search, Hunter.io looks for the information in its constituted database.
This does not ensure that the data is fresh and up to date over the long term.
A 100% GDPR compliant tool
Dropcontact does not use any personal information database purchase or recovery. No personal data is stored and used to provide a verified professional email address.
It is the only solution that uses its algorithms to generate, test, and verify a business email address or other personal data.
Hunter.io, on the other hand, uses a database and resells business or personal information stored in a database.
However, according to the GDPR, each person must give explicit consent to authorize the use and resale of his data to third parties. In addition, each partner must be known by the contact.
Are you sure that these millions of people have given their consent to the use and resale of their contact da
B2B emails verification
With Dropcontact, there is no need to use a complimentary email verification solution.
Dropcontact exclusively provides email addresses that are verified in real-time by its test servers.
The validity rate of the provided addresses is 98% (85% for email addresses whose domain is configured as catch-all).
👉🏻 Find out more about Dropcontact pro email verification.
Hunter.io side, to verify an email address provided by the service, you have to pay... again!
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Contacts and companies duplicate merging
Dropcontact cleans up the prospect and customer databases directly in the CRM by merging all duplicate data.
After detecting the duplicate contacts, they are merged without any loss of information.
Merging duplicate contacts is essential for efficient prospecting: no duplicate messages sent, no confusion in the Sales and Marketing teams...
👉🏻 Discover Dropcontact duplicate detection and merging feature
Hunter.io does not detect duplicates in your CRM and therefore does not merge duplicate records.
CRM integration
Dropcontact CRM integration is available on Pipedrive, Salesforce, and Hubspot.
It allows you to update in real-time all your leads, contacts, and organizations directly in your CRM.
The data in the file is automatically enriched, verified, and corrected, and duplicate files are merged so that there is no loss of information within the sales team.
👉🏻 Dropcontact CRM integration
Hunter.io integrates with the leading CRMs on the market, but only to synchronize leads obtained from Hunter.io with the CRM records.
Duplicate detection and merging are not handled by Hunter.io.
Hunter.io vs Dropcontact pricing
Hunter.io pricing
- Hunter.io starter offer is 49€/month to find 500 email addresses per month, and verify 100 email addresses.
- With the free plan, you get 25 credits for adding emails, 50 for verification. The free plan does not allow you to benefit from all the features.
Dropcontact pricing
- Dropcontact plan starts at 24€/month for 500 full contact data enrichment credits and verified email address.
- Dropcontact free plan allows you to benefit from 25 credits per month and enjoy ALL the features.
- Upon account opening, you get 50 free credits 🎁 for your first test file.
Dropcontact provides the qualified and verified business email by name and all the information needed to prospect: LinkedIn profile, company legal information, industry, company LinkedIn page... All for a single credit. 💪 Top value for money
Hunter.io vs Dropcontact features
Email Finder and B2B data enrichment
Dropcontact algorithms provide verified email addresses via the contact's first name, last name, company website or via a simple LinkedIn URL.
Hunter.io searches its database of over 102 million business and personal email addresses.
B2B email qualification
Dropcontact email addresses are qualified to adapt its prospecting strategy: @pro, @perso, nominative@, generic@, catchall@.
Hunter.io does not give any information about the type of email address provided.
B2B email checking, verification and correction
The provided email addresses ALL pass the verification test before being provided.
Errors are detected and the business email address is automatically corrected.
Supplied emails do not pass verification testing. Hunter.io does not have a B2B email correction feature.
🙍🏻♀️People
Add the civility
For each contact, civility (Mr., Ms.) is added to personalize emails without resorting to inclusive writing.
Hunter.io does not add the civility of the person (Mr, Mrs).
First name + last name correction and normalization
Dropcontact restores capitalization, cedilla, accents... and corrects the first name / last name inversions.
Hunter.io does not normalize the format of the first/last name.
Duplicate contacts detection and merging
No more duplicate contacts with the Dropcontact automatic detection and merging feature.
Hunter.io does not have a duplicate merging feature.
Add the contact's LinkedIn profile
Dropcontact finds the LinkedIn profile from the contact's first name, last name, and company: ideal for multi-channel prospecting.
Hunter.io does not find the URL of the contact's LinkedIn profile if this data is not in the database.
Add the contact's nominative phone number
In Europe, the GDPR prohibits the resale of personal data to third parties without the consent of the person. That's why Dropcontact does not provide any personal phone number (only business and public).
Hunter.io does not provide mobile numbers.
🏢 Company
Add the contact's company and its website
Dropcontact enriches the contact's company name as well as all administrative data*: last published turnover, activity sector, salary size, SIRET, SIREN, postal address, NAF code...
Dropcontact also identifies the website of the contact's company.
Hunter.io adds the company name and provides the company website.
Add the company LinkedIn page
Dropcontact enriches the company's LinkedIn page for each contact.
Hunter.io does not add the company's LinkedIn page.
🗂 Database file
Email enrichment via a contact list
Simply drop your contact file on the application to enrich, verify and normalize the contact data, and add the email address.
Hunter.io import function allows you to fetch the information contained in the contact database in mass.
🔌 API and integration
API and Zapier integration available
Automate the enrichment of your contact and organization data in all your prospecting workflows with the Dropcontact API.
The integration in Zapier allows you to connect Dropcontact to +2,500 tools.
Via the Hunter.io API, you can find business and personal email addresses automatically.
Zapier integration connects Hunter.io to over 2,500 tools.
CRM integration to enrich, update
and merge B2B contacts
Dropcontact CRM integration to enrich all contact and organization data, verify and normalize each record, and merge all duplicates (available on Pipedrive, Salesforce, Hubspot).
Hunter.io CRM integration allows you to sync leads searched in Hunter.io with CRM.
⚖️ Fresh data
Real-time Email Finder tool and GDPR compliant
Dropcontact is the only solution that doesn't use databases but search algorithms to enrich your lead data. It's 100% pro and GDPR compliant. Thanks to this algorithm, your datas are always up to date.
Hunter.io highlights its database of over 102 million stored email addresses, some of these data may be obsolete. And have these millions of people given their consent to the storage, use, and resale of their data?
Hunter.io vs Dropcontact benefits
Hunter.io benefits
Hunter.io has a large database of 102 million email addresses, collected and stored over the past few years. Beyond being well known on the market of email address enrichment, Hunter.io has developed a tool for sending email campaigns on its platform.
Hunter.io Chrome extension allows you to find the email directly on the company's website (without entering the domain on hunter.io).
The Dropcontact benefits
Data obsolescence is no longer a problem thanks to Dropcontact real-time email search algorithms. The business information provided is always up to date and verified by our test servers.
Dropcontact does not resort to data purchase/resale, which makes it the only 100% GDPR compliant enrichment solution on the market.
CRM integration allows for the automatic merging of any duplicate contacts and organizations directly into the CRM.
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