Best Free Email Finder Tools in 2026: 9 Free Plans Compared

There's no email finder that's both free and unlimited. What you get in October 2026 is a small monthly allowance or a one-off trial: Hunter gives 50 credits a month, Snov.io 50 credits a month, Lusha 40 credits a month, Kaspr 15 email credits a month, Apollo a free plan with a limited credit allowance, and Skrapp, Voila Norbert and Anymail Finder a one-time batch of free credits. For a few lookups a week, combining two free plans is enough. For real prospecting volume, the entry-level paid plans in this comparison cost between €26 and $69 a month.

We checked each tool's pricing page in October 2026. Below: the comparison table, what each free plan is good for, and how to get the most out of free credits without hurting your deliverability.

Free email finder plans compared (October 2026)

Prices are as displayed on each vendor's pricing page in October 2026; some show euros or dollars depending on where you browse from, and most are cheaper on annual billing.

1. Hunter: best for finding a company's email format

Hunter's free plan includes 50 credits a month. Finding an email costs 1 credit and verifying one costs half a credit. Credits reset monthly and don't roll over.

Its standout feature is Domain Search: enter a company domain and Hunter lists the addresses it has found there plus the pattern the company uses (first.last@, first@…) once it has enough examples. Even on the free plan, that alone lets you build and verify addresses yourself. The Email Finder works from a name and a domain, and the browser extension works on company websites.

Paid plans start with Starter at €49/month billed monthly (€34 billed annually) for 2,000 credits.

2. Snov.io: best free plan if you also want to send

Snov.io's free Trial plan renews monthly with 50 credits, 100 email recipients, 25 enrichment tokens and one warm-up slot. It covers an email finder, a verifier and a basic sequence builder, so you can test the whole flow from finding to sending.

The Starter plan costs $39/month for 1,000 credits and 5,000 recipients. If Snov.io doesn't fit, we compared 8 alternatives to Snov.io.

3. Apollo: best free B2B database

Apollo's free plan gives you access to its contact database (it advertises 240M contacts and 30M companies) with a limited monthly credit allowance. Revealing an email typically costs 1 credit, mobile numbers cost more, and unused credits expire at the end of each billing cycle. Email campaigns are included, but free accounts can only connect Gmail mailboxes.

Paid plans start at $49 per user/month billed annually (Basic), then $79 (Professional). More in our Apollo review.

4. Skrapp: best for paying only for deliverable emails

Skrapp gives 50 free credits and, on every plan, only charges for emails marked Valid or Catch-all, so you don't burn credits on invalid results. The free plan includes the email finder, the verifier, LinkedIn and Sales Navigator integrations and a limited lead search.

Professional costs $39/month billed monthly ($29 billed annually) for 2,000 credits a month.

5. Lusha: best for the occasional phone number

Lusha's free plan includes 40 credits a month. A verified email costs 1 credit and a phone number 5, so you can mix both: 40 emails, or 8 phone numbers, or something in between. That makes it handy when you sometimes need to call rather than email.

Paid plans start at $49.90/month billed monthly for 400 credits (Starter).

6. Kaspr: best for LinkedIn-based prospecting

Kaspr works mainly as a browser extension on LinkedIn profiles. The free plan gives 15 B2B email credits, 5 phone credits and 5 direct email credits per month, with up to 100 exported leads. Paid plans include unlimited B2B email credits, which is what makes Kaspr popular with European sales teams.

Starter costs $65/month billed monthly or $49/month billed annually, with 100 phone credits a month.

7. Voila Norbert: simplest one-off free credits

Voila Norbert gives you 50 free credits once, when you create an account. You enter a first name, last name and company domain, and it returns the email if it can verify it. It also sells verification on a pay-as-you-go basis.

The Valet plan costs $49/month for up to 1,000 leads ($39/month billed annually).

8. Anymail Finder: biggest free test batch

Anymail Finder offers 100 free credits to test the tool. A card verification is required at sign-up but you aren't charged. The larger batch is useful if you want to measure the find rate on a real sample of your own prospects before choosing a tool.

Monthly plans start at €26 for 400 credits.

9. FindThatLead: a trial, not a free plan

FindThatLead now offers a 7-day trial with 50 email credits and 2 mobile credits rather than a permanent free plan. Starter costs $49/month billed monthly ($37 billed annually) for 2,000 email credits.

Where useArtemis fits

useArtemis doesn't have a free plan or a free trial, so it isn't a way to find emails for free. It's built for people who prospect every week: the email finder finds and verifies professional emails from a name and company or a LinkedIn profile, and you can then contact the same leads through LinkedIn and email steps in one sequence, with an AI-written message for each prospect and a unified inbox for replies.

The Starter plan costs $69/month and includes 500 verified emails, 2,500 leads from the Discover database and 2 LinkedIn accounts; unused credits roll over to the next month (pricing).

How to get the most out of free credits

• Find the pattern before spending credits. One known address at a company (from a press release, a job ad or Hunter's Domain Search) tells you the format for everyone there. Build the address and verify it, which costs less than a full search.
• Always verify before sending. Bounces hurt your sender reputation and every later campaign pays for it. If you send cold email regularly, warm up your mailbox too.
• Be careful with catch-all domains. They accept every address, so a "valid" result proves nothing. Look for a published example of the format first.
• Stack two or three free plans for occasional needs. Hunter for patterns, Lusha or Kaspr when you need a phone number, Skrapp or Anymail Finder for a batch.
• Check how a browser extension gets its data. LinkedIn's User Agreement prohibits extensions that scrape its site, so be cautious about running them on the account you depend on.
• Don't buy email lists instead. They're cheap for a reason; see what to check before buying an email list.

When should you move to a paid plan?

Free plans make sense up to roughly a dozen lookups a week. Beyond that, juggling accounts costs more time than a subscription costs money. Pay when you need bulk lookups (CSV uploads or whole lists), when you send campaigns from the same tool, or when you can't afford bounces on important accounts. For one-off executive lookups, our guide on finding a CEO's email shows how far you can get without any tool.

FAQ

Is there a completely free, unlimited email finder?

No. Every legitimate email finder pays for data and verification, so free access is capped, typically between 15 and 50 lookups a month or a one-time batch of 50 to 100 credits. Tools that promise unlimited free emails often scrape addresses without verifying them, which leads to bounces.

Which free email finder is the most accurate?

It depends on your market: a tool that's strong on US tech companies can be weak on French SMEs. The only reliable test is your own: take 20 contacts whose email you already know, run them through two or three free plans, and compare how many each finds and gets right.

What's the best free email finder Chrome extension?

Hunter, Snov.io, Skrapp, Lusha and Kaspr all have browser extensions with free credits. Hunter's works best on company websites, while Kaspr, Lusha and Skrapp focus on LinkedIn profiles. Keep in mind that LinkedIn's terms prohibit extensions that scrape its site.

Can I find an email address with just a name?

Rarely. You need the company or its domain too, because the same name exists at thousands of companies. With a name and company, an email finder can test the company's format and verify the result; with a LinkedIn profile URL, some tools work out the company for you.

Do free email finders verify emails?

Most do, but not always for free. Hunter charges half a credit per verification, Skrapp only charges for valid or catch-all results, and Lusha only reveals verified emails. Whatever the tool, check the status before sending, and treat "risky" or "catch-all" results with caution.