The short answer
- Moving from Clay Launch to Hunter saves $1,582 in the first year, after setup and upkeep time (Stackcut's model: modeled, not measured).
- Hunter's official migration guide moves 1 kind of data in full and 2 partly; 3 things stay behind. What moves
- 2 comparison pages checked, each labeled with who wrote it. What they claim
- Switching help: Hunter's Leads import supports CSV/TXT files up to 100,000 rows per file; on paid plans it also enriches, finds, and verifies emails during the same import -- the enrichment itself is free, while finding (1 credit) and verifying (0.5 credit) draw on normal per-email credits. help.hunter.io
What Clay and Hunter cost
List prices from each vendor's pricing page, as stored in the Stackcut catalog. Each price links its source.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly (per month) | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Launch | $185/mo | $167/mo | Starts at 2,500 data credits/mo + 15,000 actions/mo (monthly: $125 + $60); annual 30K credits/yr + 180K actions/yr ($113 + $54) |
| Clay Growth | $495/mo | $446/mo | Starts at 6,000 data credits/mo + 40,000 actions/mo (monthly: $290 + $205); CRM auto-sync, HTTP API; marked Recommended |
| Hunter Starter | $49/mo | $34/mo | 2,000 credits/mo |
| Hunter Growth | $149/mo | $104/mo | 10,000 credits/mo |
| Hunter Scale | $299/mo | $209/mo | 25,000 credits/mo |
What comparison pages say
Each claim as the page makes it, and who it favors. Vendor pages are labeled; weigh them accordingly.
2 pages compared, 2 of them written by one of the two vendors. Claims are the pages' own, paraphrased; prices in them may be older than the catalog prices above.
| About | The page says | Favors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Performance | Hunter scored a 97.58% confidence rate on SMB contacts and 96% on enterprise contacts in Clay's own accuracy test. | Hunter | Clay vendor page |
| Features | Clay positions itself as running a waterfall data enrichment feature that calls multiple finders, including Hunter, rather than competing as a single standalone email finder. | Clay | Clay vendor page |
| Price | Hunter's cost is cited starting at $34/month for 12,000 yearly verifications, without a computed per-email figure like several other tools in the same test. | Unclear | Clay vendor page |
| Price | Hunter's cost is cited as starting around $0.098 per email, the highest per-email rate among the 8 providers tested in this roundup. | Clay | Clay vendor page |
| Features | Hunter includes a domain scraper that can pull emails from a company's own website, useful when a contact isn't reachable via social data. | Hunter | Clay vendor page |
| Other | The article again frames Clay as integrating providers like Hunter rather than competing head-to-head with any single one. | Clay | Clay vendor page |
Moving from Clay to Hunter
What Hunter's importer carries over, what it leaves behind, and any help it offers switchers.
To Hunter
Official guide help.hunter.io · Tools: Hunter Leads import, Clay table export (Google Sheets/CRM/webhook)
Moves: Contacts with a known email address (full); Contacts with only name + company (no email yet) (partial); Custom fields/attributes (partial). help.hunter.io
Doesn't move: Clay's waterfall enrichment logic and its non-email data provider results (phone, company firmographics, social/job signals); Clay tables, automations and AI agent (Claygent) workflows; Clay's CRM sync and outbound sequence automations (Hunter's own Sequences would need separate setup). help.hunter.io
Watch out for:
- Hunter's importer needs an email or a name+company pair per row; Clay's richer fields (job signals, firmographics, social profiles) have no matching Hunter field to import into. help.hunter.io
- Hunter also ships a native "Integrate Hunter with Clay" connector for using Hunter as one provider inside Clay, which is the opposite direction from replacing Clay with Hunter help.hunter.io
Switching help: Hunter's Leads import supports CSV/TXT files up to 100,000 rows per file; on paid plans it also enriches, finds, and verifies emails during the same import -- the enrichment itself is free, while finding (1 credit) and verifying (0.5 credit) draw on normal per-email credits. help.hunter.io
From each destination's own migration docs and switching pages, plus community write-ups where no official guide exists, each checked against its page. Confirm terms on the linked page before you rely on an offer.
FAQ
Is Hunter cheaper than Clay?
Modeled, not measured: moving from Clay Launch to Hunter saves $1,582 in the first year, after setup and upkeep time at $50/hour. It depends on your plan, seats and usage. the math
Can I move my Clay data to Hunter?
Hunter's official guide moves: Contacts with a known email address; Contacts with only name + company (no email yet); Custom fields/attributes. It doesn't move: Clay's waterfall enrichment logic and its non-email data provider results (phone, company firmographics, social/job signals); Clay tables, automations and AI agent (Claygent) workflows; Clay's CRM sync and outbound sequence automations (Hunter's own Sequences would need separate setup). help.hunter.io
Does Hunter help people switch from Clay?
Hunter's Leads import supports CSV/TXT files up to 100,000 rows per file; on paid plans it also enriches, finds, and verifies emails during the same import -- the enrichment itself is free, while finding (1 credit) and verifying (0.5 credit) draw on normal per-email credits. help.hunter.io
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