Hunter vs Saleshandy (2026)
Choose between making contact provenance part of outreach and maximizing the flexibility of an email campaign operation. Hunter puts discovery, verification and Sequences in one workflow, with source pages and dates attached to found contacts. Saleshandy covers prospecting, email campaigns, sender management and conditional subsequences, with manual tasks available inside the sequence. Their portability strengths differ in useful ways: Hunter preserves saved data on Free after a paid downgrade, while Saleshandy offers CSV, API and command line extraction routes. The latter gives a technical team more ways to pull data without defining how long it survives cancellation. Neither offers a complete transfer of active sequence state and every reply rule into another sender. Evaluating the origin and validity of each address is Hunter's strength. Controlling branching campaigns, and the machinery that sends them to an audience already known, is Saleshandy's.
- Source pages and dates inform list selection.
- Verification and outreach should use the same contact pool.
- Saved leads should survive a paid downgrade.
- Conditional subsequences drive follow up logic.
- Manual sales tasks need a place inside campaigns.
- CSV and developer tools will support extraction.
This comparison is published by GTM Tech Index, an independent research platform that compares go to market software vendors objectively. Hunter and Saleshandy 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 | Saleshandy | |
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| Primary category | Data & Enrichment | Sales Engagement & Outreach |
| Founded | 2015 | Not published |
| Headquarters | Not published | India |
| Website | hunter.io | www.saleshandy.com |
Side by Side
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The short version of each
Hunter
Hunter makes each address's origin part of the outreach decision, where Saleshandy concentrates on the machinery that sends to an audience it already knows. Sourced contacts show the pages and dates they came from, inferred ones are marked, and confidence information helps decide what to keep. The Chrome extension looks up companies during ordinary browsing. Sequences then sends from connected Gmail, Outlook or SMTP accounts, and individual message edits override later template changes. On the GTM Tech Index, Hunter's case against Saleshandy rests on that evidence trail. Removal requests and profile claims let individuals take their records out of Hunter's database.
Source: GTM Tech Index, 2026
Saleshandy
Saleshandy gives more control over how a known audience moves through a campaign, while Hunter's focus is establishing who belongs in it. Conditional subsequences switch a prospect onto a new path after a configured response, and manual tasks place a representative inside the run when a human step is needed. Lead finding and verification are included, but the product's weight is in sender management across many mailboxes and multichannel sequences. Active prospects and monthly sends set the plan, not mailbox count. Within this GTM Tech Index pair, Saleshandy is the campaign machinery. A technical team can pull data out through CSV, the API or a command line interface.
Source: GTM Tech Index, 2026
Common questions
Which product gives a technical team more extraction options?
Saleshandy has CSV, API and command line routes. Hunter exports leads and suppression records and also offers programmatic access to its prospecting tools. 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 campaign branching mean an AI agent runs the sequence?
Saleshandy's subsequences follow conditions the customer configures. A manual task can insert a person into that flow; branching alone does not delegate judgment to an agent. 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 do Hunter's credit plans compare with Saleshandy's prospect limits?
Hunter charges $49, $149 or $299 a month for 2,000, 10,000 or 25,000 data credits with 3, 10 or 20 connected mailboxes and unlimited teammates. Saleshandy sizes plans by active prospects and monthly sends rather than mailboxes, and sells contact data and managed sending infrastructure separately. 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.
Which keeps saved records after a downgrade?
Hunter: canceling a paid plan leaves the account on Free with saved leads still there, and the suppression list exports as CSV. Saleshandy's CSV, API and command line routes let a team pull data before leaving, but it does not say how long records survive cancellation. 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.
Both products support sender rotation. Contact verification checks address quality, while permission and mailbox provider rules still govern how those accounts may be used.