Key takeaways
- Hunter offers Domain Search, Email Finder and Email Verifier, plus sequences, Discover and an API.
- Hunter has a free plan. Pebbles Ai has no free plan; Pro and Team start with a 1-month free trial.
- Pebbles Ai returns a work email with a confidence score and a catch-all flag, inside a CRM.
- Pebbles Ai writes outreach from your Company Intel and handles replies in Smartbox.
What is each product built for
Hunter is built to find and verify email addresses, and Pebbles Ai is built to run the wider go-to-market work those addresses feed. Hunter's pricing page lists Domain Search, Email Finder and Email Verifier, plus sequences, a company discovery tool called Discover and an API, on Free, Starter, Growth, Scale and Enterprise plans.
Pebbles Ai is one workspace where the assistants find people at named companies, keep them in a CRM labelled Beta, write outreach from your Company Intel and help you reply across Gmail and Outlook in Smartbox.
Where Hunter is stronger
Hunter is stronger at email finding and verification as a task of its own. If you have a list and want each address checked, its dedicated verifier does that job, while Pebbles Ai only scores the emails it finds itself.
Its free plan and public API also make it easy to try and to wire into other tools. Pebbles Ai has no free plan; Pro and Team start with a 1-month free trial. It offers API keys on Team and above, but has no published API documentation.
- Dedicated email verification.
- A free plan and a public API.
Where Pebbles Ai differs
Pebbles Ai differs by finding people by role rather than by address, and keeping them in a CRM. Find fresh leads searches 1 to 10 named companies by role and location, up to 100 leads a run, and each lead lands as a CRM contact with a work email where one is found, a confidence score and a catch-all flag.
The CRM, labelled Beta, holds custom fields, deals, Kanban boards, saved views, ICPs, tasks and notes. Company Intel holds your business knowledge and brand voice for the assistants to write from, and Smartbox brings Gmail and Outlook together with Write with AI replies.
Which should your team pick
Pick Hunter if you need email addresses and checks to use elsewhere, and Pebbles Ai if you want the people, the records and the first drafts in one place.
As an illustration, a recruiter who needs one hiring manager's address today is well served by a quick lookup in Hunter. A small sales team working through twenty target accounts each month, who need the right roles found, contacts kept with deals and first emails drafted in their voice, will use more of Pebbles Ai.
What to check before switching
Check whether you depend on bulk verification of lists you already hold, because Pebbles Ai does not offer a separate verifier. Contacts move from Hunter into the Pebbles Ai CRM by CSV.
- Whether you start from domains and names, or from target companies and roles.
- Whether any of your tools call Hunter's API.
- Whether a free plan matters for how you trial tools. Pebbles Ai has no free plan; Pro and Team start with a 1-month free trial.
Pebbles Ai and Hunter side by side
How the two compare on finding emails and what follows.
| Pebbles Ai | Hunter | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | A workspace of AI assistants for research, leads, outreach drafting, CRM and inboxes. | An email finding and verification tool. |
| Free plan | No; Pro and Team start with a 1-month free trial. | Yes. |
| Pricing model | Per seat, with monthly AI credits and leads included. | Free, Starter, Growth, Scale and Enterprise; yearly billing at a discount. |
| Finding prospects | Describe your ideal customer to find companies, then find people by role and location at 1 to 10 named companies. | Domain Search, Email Finder and Discover for companies. |
| Email checks | A confidence score and a catch-all flag on each work email found. | A dedicated Email Verifier. |
| Outreach | Writes email and LinkedIn outreach up to seven touches and saves emails as drafts in your Gmail or Outlook; no automated sequences or warm-up. | Sequences. |
| API | API keys on Team and above; no published API documentation. | A public API. |
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About Hunter
Email finder and verifier
An email finding and verification tool with domain search, an email finder, a verifier, simple sequences, company discovery and an API, with a free plan.
Best for: Anyone who needs to find and verify professional email addresses quickly, with a free start.
What its own pages say
- Domain Search, Email Finder and Email Verifier. Source: Hunter
- Sequences, Discover and an API. Source: Hunter
- Free, Starter, Growth, Scale and Enterprise; yearly billing at a discount. Source: Hunter
Where Hunter is stronger
- Dedicated email verification.
- A free plan and a public API.
Where Pebbles Ai differs
- Finds fresh leads inside 1 to 10 named target companies by role and location, 1 to 100 per run, landing as CRM contacts with a work email where one is found, a confidence score and a catch-all flag.
- A built-in CRM (labelled Beta) with custom fields, deals with stage, amount and probability, Kanban, saved views, ICPs, tasks and notes, and import from Google, Microsoft or a CSV.
- Company Intel holds business knowledge and brand voice built from your website, files and pasted text, and the assistants write from it.
- Smartbox works across Gmail and Outlook, with more than one inbox per provider, and Write with AI in Fast, Balanced and Comprehensive modes that use the thread and your brand voice.
Before you switch
- CSV export into the Pebbles Ai CRM.
We make Pebbles Ai. Facts about other products come from their own public pages, checked on .
Where Pebbles Ai fits
- CapabilityProspecting & customer recordsFind fresh leads lands each lead as a CRM contact with a work email where one is found, a confidence score and a catch-all flag.
- FoundationCompany IntelCompany Intel holds your business knowledge and brand voice, so drafts sound like your company.
- CapabilitySmartboxSmartbox brings Gmail and Outlook into one place, with Write with AI replies drawn from the thread.
Common questions
Does Pebbles Ai verify email addresses like Hunter does?
Pebbles Ai returns a work email where one is found, with a confidence score and a catch-all flag. It does not offer a separate tool for verifying a list you bring, which Hunter's Email Verifier does.
Do Hunter and Pebbles Ai have free plans?
Hunter has a free plan. Pebbles Ai has no free plan; Pro and Team start with a 1-month free trial.
Can I use Hunter and Pebbles Ai together?
Yes, as separate tools. Contacts found or checked in Hunter and saved as a CSV file can be imported into the Pebbles Ai CRM.
About this page. Written by the Pebbles Ai team for people who run sales, marketing and growth. Last updated .
