How Cuvy compares with other email finders
Cuvy is billed per person, works off the search page you already opened, and does not sell a database to browse or a sequencer to send with. Most alternatives price a seat, an attempt or a domain instead. Which comes out cheaper depends on how many of your lookups fail, and on whether you also need the tool to send the email.
- What Cuvy sells
- A person, once
- A lookup that misses
- Free
- What the unit is
- A person, not an attempt
- Sequencer or database
- Neither
50 addresses free every month · no card
Four things a contact tool can sell you
Almost every vendor in this category is one of these four. The price per unit is the argument they make; the unit is the argument that matters.
- A seat
- Platform pricing. You pay for somebody who logs in, every month, whether or not they ran a search this week. Adding a colleague who needs twenty addresses a month costs the same as adding one who needs two thousand.
- An attempt
- Lookup pricing. The meter moves when the tool tries, so the people it comes back empty on have already been paid for. The distance between what you bought and what you can send to is your miss rate.
- A domain
- Company pricing. You buy what one organisation has published, and the unit is the organisation rather than the human. It is the right unit when you have an account list and no names yet.
- A person
- What Cuvy sells. One credit when an address is handed over, once per person ever, however many addresses came back with them. A person nobody can find never becomes a line item.
The unit only matters as much as your miss rate
On a list where nothing is missed, an attempt and a result are the same thing and the two models cost the same. Everything else is the gap between them.
A list of software companies with public domains and complete profiles comes back nearly whole. On that list, paying for attempts and paying for results are close enough that the difference is not worth switching for, and any page that tells you otherwise is selling something.
The gap opens on the other kind of list: small businesses, regions where nobody publishes an address, profiles naming a company that has since been absorbed into another one. The attempts there still cost what attempts cost. The results are fewer. That is the whole of the per-person argument, and it is a claim about your search rather than about the software.
Which is why the figure to carry between vendors is not the price of a credit. It is what you paid last month divided by the number of rows you could actually send to.
Where each one is the better answer
Each page says plainly when the other tool is the right buy. A comparison that concedes nothing is an advert with a table in it.
Cuvy vs Apollo
Apollo sells a database and a sequencer on a seat; Cuvy sells the addresses off the search you ran. When each is the right answer.
Pick Apollo if you want one platform that holds the database, writes the sequence and sends the email.
Cuvy vs Hunter
Hunter starts from a domain, Cuvy starts from the people on a search page. What that changes about coverage and cost.
Pick Hunter if your work begins with a list of companies rather than a list of people, or if you want the address pattern itself.
Cuvy vs Lusha
Both are browser extensions. The difference is what a failed lookup costs and what happens when the plan runs out.
Pick Lusha if phone data is the main thing you buy, or your team is already standardised on it.
Cuvy vs RocketReach
Lookup-based pricing against person-based pricing, on the same thousand people.
Pick RocketReach for scattered one-off lookups across many kinds of contact rather than whole-search runs.
Six questions that decide the real price
They work on any vendor in this category, including this one. The right-hand column is where the answer usually lives on their site.
| Row | Cuvy | Where theirs lives |
|---|---|---|
| What a lookup that finds nothing costs | Nothing, and it is not on the invoice | Their help centre, under credits |
| What one unit of purchase buys | One person, once, for as long as the workspace exists | Their definition of a credit, which is not standard |
| What happens at the plan ceiling | The run pauses and asks | Their terms, under overage or auto top-up |
| What happens to unused allowance | Rolls over to twice the monthly allowance | Their billing FAQ, under rollover or expiry |
| Where an address came from | Shown on the row, with the sighting behind it | Whether an exported row carries a source column |
| What the tool is primarily for | Turning a search you ran into addresses | The first line of their homepage |
What a comparison here is allowed to say
These four pages were written on 23 August 2026 and describe product shape that each vendor documents publicly: what the tool is for, what a unit of purchase is, how a plan behaves at its edges. None of them prints a competitor's price, credit allowance or hit rate, because we cannot verify those and they move.
None of them says another product is bad, either. Four serious tools exist in this category because four different jobs exist, and the useful page is the one that tells you which job you have. Where the answer is not Cuvy, the page says so in a section of its own.
If something here describes a product wrongly, write to support@cuvy.io and it will be corrected — including when the correction is not in our favour.
Apollo, Hunter, Lusha and RocketReach are trademarks of their respective owners. Cuvy is not affiliated with, authorised by or endorsed by any of them; their names are used only to identify the products compared.
What people ask before switching
Why do these pages not list a competitor's prices?
Because we cannot verify them and they change. A plan renamed or an allowance adjusted turns a helpful table into a false one, and the reader has no way of knowing which. So these pages describe the shape of each product and the shape of its billing, and send you to the vendor for the numbers.
Which email finder is the cheapest?
Nobody can answer that in the abstract, including us. The cost of a per-attempt tool depends on how many of your attempts fail, which is a property of your list rather than of the software. The comparison that settles it is your own last invoice divided by the number of rows you could actually send to.
Can I keep the tool I already pay for and use Cuvy as well?
Yes, and nothing in the pricing punishes it. Cuvy only charges when it hands over an address, so running it on the searches your current tool comes back thin on costs whatever those people cost and nothing else. There is no seat to buy for a second tool that gets used twice a week.
What do all of these tools have in common?
None of them can invent an address that does not exist anywhere. Every one is reading things other people published and drawing conclusions from them, so the differences between them are mostly differences of shape and of billing — and the billing is the one you can read for yourself before you buy.
Do you have a comparison with a tool that is not on this list?
Not yet — there are four here and they are the four people ask about. If you are weighing Cuvy against something else, the six questions in the table on this page work on any vendor, and you are welcome to send the answers to support@cuvy.io and we will tell you honestly which way the arithmetic goes.
How often are these comparison pages updated?
Each one carries the date it was written — 23 August 2026 for this set — and is revised when we notice the other product has changed shape. If you find something described wrongly here, tell us and we will correct it, including when the correction does not flatter us.
Can I test Cuvy against what we use now without a card?
Yes. The free plan is 50 addresses a month with no card, which is enough to run the same search through both and compare the two exports row by row. That is a better test than any table on this site.
Run the same search through both tools and compare the two exports. It settles more than a table can.