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HarvestAPI vs Hunter.io

No suite in this run measured both HarvestAPI and Hunter.io; each block below shows one of them alone.

HarvestAPI live

Pay-as-you-go LinkedIn scraping API: live profiles, companies, jobs, posts and lead search without cookies, with optional email search on a profile. Also sold as Apify actors.

No public reviews

Access: API

Hunter.io

Email finding, verification and domain search, extended to leads and companies; bulk CSV and official MCP.

★ 4.5 · 1,382 reviewsB

Access: MCP · API · CSV · Webhooks · Integrations

Email Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · not measured	Hunter.io · #9 of 29
Match rate	-	75.0%
Valid email rate	-	62.2%
Latency p50	-	2,252ms
Cost / valid email	-	$0.024
Invalid rate	-	13.3%
Catch-all share	-	24.4%
Business email	-	100.0%
Right-person rate	-	100.0%
Decoy hit rate	-	10.0%
Catch-all detection	-	100.0%
Confidence-score quality	-	+100.0 pts
Geographic coverage	-	10

People Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · not measured	Hunter.io · #15 of 24
Profile match rate	-	44.9%
Identity accuracy	-	100.0%
Latency p50	-	1,223ms
Price / matched profile	-	$0.0030
Current employer accuracy	-	90.9%
Move detection	-	25.0%
Decoy hit rate	-	0.0%
Job title accuracy	-	81.8%
Seniority label accuracy	-	-
Location accuracy	-	100.0%
Work history completeness	-	-
Education completeness	-	0.0%
Skills present	-	0.0%
Social / profile URLs	-	100.0%
Coverage by geo / function / seniority	-	14.3%

Company Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · not measured	Hunter.io · #5 of 23
Domain-to-company match rate	-	100.0%
Company name accuracy	-	96.0%
Latency p50	-	1,043ms
Price / matched company	-	$0.0030
Industry accuracy	-	38.0%
Employee count ±20%	-	25.7%
HQ / location accuracy	-	83.0%
Description present	-	97.0%
Founding year accuracy	-	52.0%
Domains / social profiles	-	0.0%
Coverage by country / size	-	100.0%

Live Profile Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-26

Metric	HarvestAPI · #2 of 5	Hunter.io · not in suite
Current-job accuracy	93.1%	-
Fetch success	99.0%	-
Latency p50	3,350ms	-
Cost / profile	$0.0037	-
Move detection	94.2%	-
Still at previous employer	2.4%	-
Control accuracy	91.8%	-
Work history completeness	9.1	-
Education completeness	99.0%	-

Jobs Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · #3 of 6	Hunter.io · not in suite
Employer coverage	95.0%	-
Postings recall	59.3%	-
Latency p50	4,579ms	-
Cost / job	$0.0001	-
Closed or unknown postings	10.6%	-
Duplicate postings	33.8%	-
Location accuracy	96.3%	-
Posted-date accuracy	32.8%	-
Description present	0.0%	-
Coverage by country	91.7%	-

Technographic Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	HarvestAPI · not in suite	Hunter.io · #3 of 10
Coverage	-	95.0%
Detection accuracy	-	66.3%
Latency p50	-	1,043ms
Cost / lookup	-	$0.0032
Live stack recall	-	25.4%
Technologies per domain	-	13
Dated results	-	0.0%
Coverage by geo / size	-	90.0%

Questions about HarvestAPI vs Hunter.io

Which is better, HarvestAPI or Hunter.io?

No benchmark in this run measured both, so they have no metric in common. HarvestAPI is ranked on Live Profile Data and Jobs Data; Hunter.io is ranked on Email Data, People Data, Company Data and Technographic Data.

How do HarvestAPI and Hunter.io compare in user reviews?

HarvestAPI has no public reviews on G2, Capterra, TrustRadius or Trustpilot; Hunter.io holds 4.5 / 5 across 1,382 reviews on G2, Capterra and Product Hunt. Ratings belong to their platforms and play no part in the benchmark grades.