Hunter vs Snov.io

Hunter

Headline numbers exist (650M+ public sources of data, 1.2B+ leads contacted), but there is no country-level or DACH coverage statement and no re-verification cadence; the nearest freshness fact is that profiles are removed within three months of leaving their source pages. Generated emails carry confidence scores and deliverability validation, yet we found no public information on accuracy methodology, register-sourced company data, or credit-back terms for inaccurate records.

Snov.io

The page gives customer counts — 400,000+ users and 300,000 companies in 180+ countries — which describe the user base, not the lead database, and we found no public information on record counts, DACH or EU coverage, or a re-verification cadence. The only accuracy evidence is a stated 98% verification accuracy with graylisting bypass named as the method, which is nowhere near enough for me to trust a single import into the CRM.

Hunter

Sources are described concretely — emails collected from pages where they were published plus pattern-generated addresses from public sources, with the robot respecting robots.txt and skipping private consumer data — and a Legitimate Interest Assessment and DPIA are described, with summaries available on request. People in the database get a self-service claim-and-delete route and profiles drop within three months of leaving their sources. What is missing for a higher score: we found no public information on notifying individuals when they are added, nor per-record source and collection date traceability.

Snov.io

Nothing on the captured page says where contact data comes from or on what legal basis it is processed, and we found no public information on a privacy notice for the people in the database or any opt-out route. Features that pull emails straight from LinkedIn profiles and save leads as you browse make that silence the first thing a DPO will ask about.

Hunter

We found no public information on website visitor identification, company-level or otherwise, on intent data, or on any tracking script and its consent position. The pricing table carries a line called Signals with plan limits, but the captured pages include no description of what it does.

Snov.io

The product set on the page — Email Finder, Email Verifier, campaigns, LinkedIn automation, a built-in Sales CRM and a deliverability toolkit — contains no visitor identification or intent product, and we found no public information on website visitor de-anonymisation, intent signals or any consent position for a tracking script. There is nothing here to review, either as capability or as risk.

Hunter

Search filters, saved leads and built-in cold sequences are all there, and the vendor says it will "help you comply with data protection regulations", but the terms make the buyer an independent controller and that is where the compliance support appears to end. We found no public information on a global suppression or do-not-contact list, country-aware flagging of German or EU contacts, checks against do-not-call registers, or guidance on cold outreach rules in the main EU markets.

Snov.io

ICP search, LinkedIn lead search and connection requests, likes and follow-ups running on autopilot is a lot of outreach machinery, with nothing on the page about what the buyer may lawfully do with the contacts. We found no public information on a global suppression or do-not-contact list, or on guidance for cold outreach rules in the main EU markets.

Hunter

There is native sync to HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho and Pipedrive plus CSV export, a public API and an MCP server — more than a one-way push to a single CRM. But we found no public information on field mapping, deduplication, or whether re-enrichment updates records rather than duplicating them; and the terms reserve the right to discontinue API access with or without notice, while we found no statement on what data a customer may keep after cancellation.

Snov.io

The page claims integration with thousands of tools, lists an API and Integrations under Developers, and markets its own built-in Sales CRM with Google Calendar sync — but we found no public information on native sync with the major CRMs, field mapping, deduplication, or re-enrichment that updates existing records instead of duplicating them. Nothing states what the customer may keep and for how long after cancellation, which is the first thing I read in any tool contract.

Hunter

Servers are stated to be in Belgium, transfers out of the EEA are acknowledged with Standard Contractual Clauses and the International Data Transfer Agreement, and a subprocessor list is published at a stated address — real transparency. But the contracting entity is a Delaware company under Delaware law with only an Irish representative, and the AI features route content through OpenAI with retention of up to 30 days, so the chain is partly transparent without being European end to end.

Snov.io

We found no public information on hosting location, the contracting entity's location, a subprocessor or data-partner list, or any transfer basis for EU residents' contact data. For a product whose whole stock-in-trade is personal data about people who never chose the vendor, that silence is the answer.

Hunter

Credit allowances per plan, what credits are spent on, unlimited users on all plans, add-on prices from 10€/month for additional email accounts and from 5.22€/mo for custom domains, VAT-excluded pricing and a 30% yearly discount are public. But we found no public information on the paid plans' monthly or yearly prices, and the captured pricing page gives different figures for the free plan's monthly credit allowance (50 versus 600). With credit expiry, rollover and overage rates also unstated, the real annual invoice is not computable from what was captured.

Snov.io

The only pricing statement captured is a free start with no credit card; we found no public information on tier prices, credit allowances or expiry, per-seat costs, or API pricing. A buyer cannot compute even the first month's invoice from what is public.