you have a list of websites and you need the contact emails. here's what six tools charge for that, how each one actually finds the addresses, and when a competitor is the better pick — with sources.
the method column matters as much as the price: "published only" means fewer results that bounce less; database and pattern tools return more, including people a website never lists.
| tool | pricing model | 1,000 websites | what you get | how it finds emails | free |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Website Email Extractor (data-runner.dev) | pay per website where emails are found — $0.006; sites with no email are free | $6.00 at most — only the sites where emails are found are charged | emails, phones and social links, one row per site with emails | fetches each site over HTTP, with a real browser when the page needs JavaScript — homepage + up to 3 more pages; follows Linktree and similar bio-link pages. published addresses only, never guessed | $5 Apify signup credit ≈ 830 sites with emails |
| Outscraper — Emails & Contacts Scraper | pay per domain, tiered | $3 per 1,000 after the free 500 (so ~$1.50 for your first 1,000 in a month); $1 per 1,000 past 100,000 | emails, phones and social profile links | scans the pages of each domain where contacts usually are, plus search-engine results and third-party sources; their docs also mention pinging common addresses | first 500 domains |
| Hunter — Domain Search | monthly credits — 1 credit per email found; bulk domain search uses 1 credit per up to 10 emails | fits the Starter plan: $49/month (2,000 credits), assuming bulk search and ≤10 emails per domain | people-level emails with names, departments, confidence scores and the public sources | index of emails found on public web sources, plus the company’s email pattern; verification built in | 50 credits a month |
| Snov.io — Domain Search | monthly credits — 1 credit per domain search result | depends on results per domain — see their pricing page (Starter: $39/month, 1,000 credits) | emails of people at the company, plus a prospect database and outreach tools | prospect database and domain search; verification uses credits too | trial: 50 credits |
| PhantomBuster — Email Extractor | subscription by monthly execution time — from $56/month billed annually (20h) | not per-URL priced — depends on how much execution time the run takes; see their pricing page | email addresses into a CSV | reads the page at each URL you give it; their docs say it only finds emails published on that page, not deeper pages | 14-day trial, 2h execution time |
| Mailmeteor — Free Email Extractor | free | free, but one website at a time | email addresses found on the site | crawls the site you paste and follows internal links | 100% free, no sign-up |
competitor prices are the public list prices on 2026-09-28, monthly billing unless stated. where a cost for 1,000 websites depends on how many emails each site has, we say so instead of inventing a number.
you already have the URLs, you run lists regularly, and you want what each site publishes — emails, phones and socials — without a subscription. it renders JavaScript and follows bio-link pages. it will not find people a site doesn't list.
you need named people at each company — the head of marketing, not info@ — with a confidence score and verification built in. their databases find addresses a crawler never can. you pay monthly, and outreach tools come bundled.
you want the cheapest per-domain price at scale and are fine with extra discovery methods (search engines, third-party sources) alongside the website itself. the free 500 domains a month is generous for testing.
you have a handful of sites, not a list. Mailmeteor and our free extractor do one site at a time for free; PhantomBuster fits if you already pay for it for LinkedIn automations.
For small, one-off lists, Outscraper's free 500 domains a month or a free single-site tool are hard to beat. For regular lists of a few thousand sites, pay-per-result pricing without a subscription is usually cheapest: the Website Email Extractor costs at most $6.00 per 1,000 URLs — it charges only for the sites where it finds an email — and Outscraper $3 per 1,000 domains after its free tier. Subscription tools like Hunter or Snov.io make more sense if you also use their database and outreach features.
Because they use different methods. A crawler like the Website Email Extractor only returns addresses the site publishes. Database tools like Hunter return addresses they have seen anywhere on the public web, plus pattern-based guesses scored by confidence. Some tools also check search engines or ping common addresses like info@. More results is not always better: guessed addresses bounce more often.
Database tools — Hunter and Snov.io — are built for that: they return named people at a company with their role. A website crawler only finds the people a site chooses to list, which for small businesses is often a generic inbox.
Published addresses bounce far less than guessed ones, but inboxes get abandoned. If you are sending at volume, verify first. Hunter and Snov.io include verification; the Email Verifier & Enricher Actor does it in bulk, and there is a free single-address check at data-runner.dev/free-email-verifier/.
Each competitor price was read from the vendor's own pricing or product page on 2026-09-28. Prices change — follow the source links at the bottom of this page before you decide. Our own price is read live from Apify when this site is built.
prices and features checked on 2026-09-28 on each vendor's own site:
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$0.006 per website where emails are found — sites with no email are free. new Apify accounts get $5 free — about 830 sites with emails.