Cuvy vs Hunter: a domain, or a person
Hunter starts from a company domain: give it a website and it returns the addresses it has seen there and the pattern behind them. Cuvy starts from people — the ones on a LinkedIn or Sales Navigator search — and returns a work email for each, one credit per person handed an evidenced address. Pick Hunter if your list is companies rather than people.
- Hunter starts from
- A company domain
- Cuvy starts from
- People on a search
- Cuvy charges
- 1 credit per person handed an evidenced address
- What Hunter returns
- A domain pattern
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One asks who works here. The other asks how to reach this person.
Everything else about the two tools follows from which of those two questions your day starts with.
A domain search is the right shape when the company is the thing you have decided about. You know you want to sell to this firm; what you do not know is who is inside it. It gives you the addresses published against that domain and the format they follow, and you then work out which of those humans is worth writing to.
A person-first tool assumes the opposite: that you have already made the human decision. Head of Operations, fifty to two hundred staff, in these two countries, in post more than a year — that is a filter about people, and the companies fall out of it rather than into it. Cuvy takes the page those filters produced and finds an address for each row.
Neither order is better. They are different halves of the same job, and which half is expensive for you depends on whether your bottleneck is picking accounts or picking people.
What each one is holding when it starts
Rows about shape and billing model. No price, allowance or hit rate for the other column appears here.
| Row | Cuvy | Hunter |
|---|---|---|
| What you start with | People on a search page, or a CSV of names and companies | A company domain |
| What comes back | A work email per person, with the sighting behind it | Addresses seen at that domain, and the format they follow |
| The unit you are charged for | One person handed an evidenced address, once, ever | Published on their pricing page |
| A lookup that finds nothing | Free, and not on the invoice | Governed by their credit rules |
| At the plan ceiling | The run pauses and asks; there is no overage line | Stated in their plan terms |
| Unused allowance at month end | Rolls over to twice the monthly allowance | Stated in their billing terms |
| Where the data comes from | Sightings of that address, shown on the row | Public sources for the domain, plus the format inferred from them |
| Primarily for | Turning a people search into a sendable list | Finding who is at a company and how its addresses are built |
Three lists that want a domain search
If one of these describes what is on your screen, Cuvy is not the tool and no billing model changes that.
Your list is accounts, not people
Target account lists, a partner directory, the exhibitor list from a trade show. When what you hold is company names and websites, a domain search is the tool that has something to work with.
You want the pattern itself
Knowing that a company writes addresses as first.last is a durable fact you can keep and apply to names you find later. Cuvy will not hand you that; it deals in addresses somebody has actually seen.
You are starting from a website
A supplier found through a procurement portal, a firm named in a job advert, a company with no meaningful presence on LinkedIn. There is no search page behind those, so there is nothing for Cuvy to read.
Getting from an account list to a people list
If your companies are already chosen, this is how they become rows Cuvy can work on.
- Your filters, not ours
Put the accounts into the search, not into a finder
Paste your company list into the current-company filter in LinkedIn, or the account filter in Sales Navigator. You now have a people search rather than a list of websites.
- Where the shortlist happens
Add the human part of the ICP
Title, seniority, tenure, location — the conditions that decide whether a person is worth writing to. This is the step a domain-first tool cannot do for you, because it does not know which of the people at a company you meant.
- Priced before it starts
Run Cuvy down the results page
It counts the people, shows what the run would cost before spending anything, and works through them in the background. Addresses come out in their own file, each carrying its confidence and the sighting behind it.
There is a shorter route if the names are already written down: upload a spreadsheet of people and companies and the empty email column is filled in place, with the doubtful rows marked rather than quietly included.
And there is the case where neither route works. A column of websites with no human names against them is a list Cuvy cannot start on, and saying so is more useful than a workaround that ends in guessed addresses. That list is what a domain search exists for.
What people ask when their list is companies
I have a list of domains and no names. Can Cuvy do anything with it?
Not on its own, and this is the case where a domain search is simply the right tool. Cuvy needs people: a search page with profiles on it, or a spreadsheet with names and companies in it. Give it either and it works; give it a column of websites and it has nobody to look for.
Will Cuvy tell me a company's email format?
No. There is no pattern lookup and no pattern export. What every row carries instead is where its address was seen, so the thing you are judging is a sighting rather than a formula. If the format is the deliverable you want, that is an argument for a domain search.
If Cuvy cannot find someone, will it guess from the pattern?
No. A person nobody has published an address for comes back in the not-found file, free, rather than as an address assembled from a rule. That is a limit we accept rather than a judgement about pattern tools, which publish their own confidence on what they return — we would simply rather show you a sighting than a formula.
Can I check a single address without installing anything?
Not on this site — there is no lookup box on it yet, because the site is static and has nothing to post a form to. What the email finder and email verifier pages do is explain how a result is arrived at and what each state means, which is the part worth reading before you trust any tool. For an actual lookup, the free plan runs in the web app with no card and no extension.
How long does a full page of search results take?
About 3.8s of processing for 400 people, and the run continues after you close the tab. Because it works from the results page rather than one company at a time, a search spanning three hundred different employers is one run rather than three hundred.
What happens on a catch-all domain, where every address appears to accept mail?
A catch-all accepts anything, so reaching the mailbox does not by itself establish that the address is real, and Cuvy will not label it confirmed on that basis. It resolves what it can from independent sightings and labels the rest single-source with the sighting attached, rather than confirmed.
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