Hunter is a well-built email finder and verifier: give it a name and a domain and it returns a likely address and a confidence score, one credit per action. Lakewave starts one step earlier, finding the people in a role at a company without a name, and charges only when a verified person is delivered.
| Capability | Lakewave | Hunter |
|---|---|---|
| Find by title at a company, no name needed | Yes | Name required for Email Finder |
| Mailbox verification included on every result | Yes, before it is shown | Separate verifier, 1 credit each |
| Accept-all domains resolved, not just flagged | Yes | Flagged as accept-all |
| Charged when nothing is found | No | Credit per action |
| AI-written outreach and sending from your own inbox | Yes | Campaigns included, AI writing on paid plans |
| Government (SLED) procurement signals | Yes | No |
| Browser extension | None | Yes, on company websites |
| Free tier | 15 verified contacts, no card | 50 credits a month |
| Published pricing | From $29 for 400 credits | From $49 for 2,000 credits |
Hunter is excellent when you already know who you want. Lakewave is for when you know the role and the account, and need the people, verified, and reached.
Hunter answers the question 'what is this person's email'. Lakewave answers 'who are the IT directors at these 40 companies', then verifies each one. The second question is the one a rep actually has on Monday morning.
A Hunter credit is spent per action whether or not the result is usable. A Lakewave credit is spent when a verified person is delivered. The cost of a fortress domain is Lakewave's problem.
Lakewave drafts and sends from your own Gmail or Outlook, warms the mailbox, verifies again at send time and classifies engagement. Hunter hands you a CSV, or a simpler campaign tool.
Per lookup, yes: Hunter's Starter plan is $49 for 2,000 credits, about 2.5 cents an action. Lakewave's Starter is $29 for 400 credits and a verified person costs 4 credits, about 29 cents. The difference is what you get: Hunter charges per action including ones that return nothing usable, Lakewave charges per verified person and does the searching, verification and accept-all resolution on its own account. For a rep who already has names, Hunter is the cheaper verifier; for a rep who has a territory and titles, Lakewave is the one that produces a list.
Yes, Hunter has a verifier that returns a confidence score, and it costs a credit per address on top of the finder credit. Lakewave verifies every result before it is shown, at no extra charge, and resolves accept-all domains rather than flagging them.
No. Lakewave finds and verifies contacts through its own agents and has no extension that reads LinkedIn or your browsing. Some buyers see that as a gap; many IT teams see it as the point.
Yes. Many teams keep Hunter for one-off lookups and use Lakewave for building verified lists by title and for the outreach itself. List Clean will re-verify any export before you sequence it.
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