Hunter vs Salesforge (2026)
Choose whether the team wants to own contact research and campaign preparation or delegate more of outbound to an agent. Hunter covers discovery, verification and Sequences, with public sources and dates behind found addresses. Salesforge offers a sending platform with Primebox and sells Agent Frank separately for a more delegated workflow. The purchase boundary is important: the core Salesforge subscription, the agent and related infrastructure are different commitments. Hunter instead meters data credits and mailbox capacity within its outreach plans. Hunter also retains saved leads on Free after a paid downgrade. Neither offers one migration package that recreates all active campaign decisions and conversation handling elsewhere. People who want to inspect contacts and review copy before launch are better served by Hunter. Teams choosing between human run campaigns and a separate agent service, and attentive enough to account ownership to manage the surrounding infrastructure subscriptions, have both options in Salesforge.
- People will inspect contact sources and review campaigns.
- Discovery and verification should feed the same outreach tool.
- Saved leads should survive a paid downgrade.
- Primebox will organize email and LinkedIn conversations.
- A separately purchased agent is part of the plan.
- The team will manage platform and infrastructure subscriptions.
This comparison is published by GTM Tech Index, an independent research platform that compares go to market software vendors objectively. Hunter and Salesforge are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials, under the GTM Tech Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| Hunter | Salesforge | |
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| Primary category | Data & Enrichment | Sales Engagement & Outreach |
| Founded | 2015 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | Not published | Tallinn, Estonia |
| Website | hunter.io | www.salesforge.ai |
Side by Side
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The short version of each
Hunter
Hunter keeps contact research and campaign preparation with the team's own people, whereas Salesforge can pass outbound work to a separately purchased agent. Discover finds companies and people from filters or a plain language request, and every saved lead can be verified and added to a sequence with its source trail intact. The AI writing assistant prepares copy and personalized previews that a person confirms before launch. Data credits and mailbox capacity are metered inside each outreach plan rather than sold as separate products. In this GTM Tech Index comparison, Hunter is the inspect first product. A separate Data Platform supplies Hunter data through an API for teams building their own tools.
Source: GTM Tech Index, 2026
Salesforge
Salesforge is a sending platform that can hand conversations to Agent Frank, working autonomously or with approval, a level of delegation Hunter does not offer. The core product personalizes email and LinkedIn outreach and gathers responses from both in Primebox, and a customer knowledge base supplies what the agent says. Platform, agent and related sending infrastructure are separate subscriptions, so a team assembles the operation piece by piece. Developer and automation connections link the account to other workflows. On the GTM Tech Index, Salesforge is the delegation option of this pair, and it asks its buyer to manage account ownership across those subscriptions.
Source: GTM Tech Index, 2026
Common questions
Does a Salesforge platform plan include Agent Frank?
Agent Frank has a separate purchase path. The core platform supports campaign work and Primebox; the agent changes the scope of delegation and the commercial arrangement. Graded by GTM Tech Index against seventeen capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified October 12, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How does Hunter explain where an address came from?
Found contacts include public source pages and dates. Addresses inferred from a company's email pattern are distinguished from those found on a source page. Graded by GTM Tech Index against seventeen capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified October 12, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Does Hunter's plan cover what Salesforge sells in parts?
Hunter's outreach plans, $49, $149 and $299 a month, include data credits and connected mailboxes with unlimited teammates. Salesforge sells its core platform, Agent Frank and related sending infrastructure separately, so its total grows with each piece added. Graded by GTM Tech Index against seventeen capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified October 12, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
What remains with the team after canceling Hunter or Salesforge?
Hunter moves a canceled account to Free with saved data in place, and leads and suppression records export as CSV. Salesforge's subscriptions end one by one, and stopping the platform does not settle what happens to assets bought under the infrastructure subscription. Graded by GTM Tech Index against seventeen capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified October 12, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Related comparisons
Other published head to head assessments involving these vendors or their closest peers. The full set for this category is on the Sales Engagement & Outreach page.
Hunter's sourcing detail is not recipient consent. Salesforge's email and LinkedIn operations depend on the customer's account rights and the rules of those services.