{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "hunter", "name": "Hunter API + MCP", "vendor": "Hunter", "vendorUrl": "https://hunter.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "lead-data", "summary": "Email finder, email verifier, domain search, company discovery and person and company enrichment over a REST API, plus a hosted MCP server that also drives Hunter's leads, lists and cold-email sequences.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hunter", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hunter.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hunter.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hunter.json", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.hunter.io/v2", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "REST takes the key in the `X-API-Key` header (the `?api_key=` query form still works but puts the key in logs). Hosted MCP at mcp.hunter.io uses OAuth for Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, or the same `X-API-Key` header for other clients. A `test-api-key` returns dummy responses on Domain Search, Email Finder and Email Verifier.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 50 credits a month and API access. Starter $49 a month ($34 billed yearly, 2,000 credits), Growth $149 ($104 yearly, 10,000 credits), Scale $299 ($209 yearly, 25,000 credits), Enterprise custom. One credit per email found by Email Finder or Domain Search (Bulk Domain Search is 1 credit per 10 emails), 0.5 per verification, nothing when no result comes back, and repeat lookups count once per billing period. Discover (company search) and Email Count are free. An API-only Data Platform sells search and verification credits in bulk, valid 12 months (https://hunter.io/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$49 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 mention in the API docs, MCP docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 107, "popularity": { "githubStars": 9, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://hunter.io/api-documentation/v2", "llmsTxt": "https://hunter.io/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://hunter.io/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "email.finder", "email.verification", "lead.search", "lead.enrichment", "data.company", "data.person" ], "tags": [ "lead-search", "enrichment", "email-verification", "hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "webhooks", "closed-source" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 56.5, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 569, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 54, "maintenance": 63, "payments": 40, "reliability": 50, "schema": 90, "security": 33, "transparency": 78 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Returns 451 for people who asked not to be processed. Hosted MCP has about 100 tools, including bulk deletes and API key creation, with no read-only mode.", "bestFor": "Finding and verifying work emails from a domain or a name, where GDPR handling of the people looked up matters.", "strengths": [ "Returns 451 for people who asked not to be processed", "Privacy policy names its sources, cites a legitimate interest assessment and DPIA, and hosts in Belgium", "Free plan with API and MCP access, no card", "Charges only when an email is found or a verification completes, and repeats in a billing period are free", "OpenAPI JSON, llms.txt, llms-full.txt and a test key with dummy responses" ], "weaknesses": [ "Hosted MCP has about 100 tools, including bulk deletes and API key creation, with no read-only mode", "API key accepted in the `api_key` query string", "Rate limits answer 403 and quota exhaustion answers 429", "No security page, security.txt, bug bounty or certification found", "Status page renders client-side and its history couldn't be read" ], "agentNotes": [ "Treat 451 as final. The person opted out and retrying won't help", "Back off on 403 with a rate-limit message. 429 means the plan's credits are gone", "Send the key in `X-API-Key`, never as `?api_key=`", "Use `test-api-key` to check request shapes without spending credits", "Use the hosted MCP at mcp.hunter.io/mcp, not the deprecated local npm package" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 56.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 54, "maintenance": 63, "payments": 40, "reliability": 50, "schema": 90, "security": 33, "transparency": 71 }, "provenanceScore": 84 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://api.hunter.io/v2/domain-search?domain=stripe.com\u0026limit=5\" -H \"X-API-Key: $HUNTER_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http hunter https://mcp.hunter.io/mcp" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/email.finder", "tool": "https://letme.dev/hunter" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Starter plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "2,000 credits. $34 a month billed yearly" }, { "item": "Growth plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 149, "note": "10,000 credits. $104 a month billed yearly" }, { "item": "Scale plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 299, "note": "25,000 credits. $209 a month billed yearly" }, { "item": "Email found or verified", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.0245, "note": "Starter monthly, $49 for 2,000 credits. One email found is 1 credit, one verification 0.5" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Hunter Web Services, Inc.", "domain": "hunter.io", "domainRegistered": "2012-08-24", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://hunter.io/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://hunter.io/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.hunter.io", "changelog": "https://hunter.io/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "hunter.io served the pricing page in euros from our location. USD figures match the same numbers and third-party reports" ], "score": 84 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hunter.json", "live": { "slug": "hunter", "probe": { "target": "https://api.hunter.io/v2", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:30.878263521Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 115, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 98, "p95ms24h": 154, "samples24h": 259, "samples30d": 2311, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 125, "ok": 125 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.hunter.io", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T07:58:03.90460605Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://hunter.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:39:08.451696981Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://hunter.io/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:31.703292033Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "hunter.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:34.738925095Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://hunter.io/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:54.682281696Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:54.682281696Z", "fingerprint": "646788a7e0c7" }, { "url": "https://hunter.io/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:56.84730454Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:56.84730454Z", "fingerprint": "3d32f5685e97" }, { "url": "https://hunter.io/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:58.809513027Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:58.809513027Z", "fingerprint": "c2ea1ffda353" }, { "url": "https://hunter.io/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:21:00.870589486Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:21:00.870589486Z", "fingerprint": "8093d765728f" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:30.878263521Z" } }, "answer": "People Data Labs scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Hunter API + MCP's 56.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Hunter API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "people-data-labs", "name": "People Data Labs", "vendor": "People Data Labs, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.peopledatalabs.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "lead-data", "summary": "People Data Labs sells person, company and job posting data through a REST API. Agents enrich a known person or company, resolve an identity, or search the datasets with Elasticsearch or SQL queries, using an API key.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/people-data-labs", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/people-data-labs.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/people-data-labs.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/people-data-labs.json", "repo": "https://github.com/peopledatalabs/peopledatalabs-python", "license": "Proprietary service under the Services Subscription Agreement. The Python and JavaScript SDKs are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "peopledatalabs" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "peopledatalabs" }, { "registry": "go", "name": "github.com/peopledatalabs/peopledatalabs-go" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve API key from the dashboard after a free signup, sent in the `X-Api-Key` header or as an `api_key` query parameter. Keys have no scopes. A Free account holds 1 active key, Pro 3 and Enterprise 5. Webhooks and data licence deliveries are arranged through sales.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with up to 100 records a month and emails, phone numbers and addresses obfuscated. Pro starts at $98 a month for 350 person records or $100 for 1,000 company records, with 20 per cent off on annual terms. Enterprise is priced by sales. One credit per match or per search record returned, and requests without a match are not charged. The sandbox is free. Higher volume steps and field-bundle prices are shown in the dashboard only (https://www.peopledatalabs.com/pricing, https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/create-an-account, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$98 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the pricing page or the Services Subscription Agreement (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 40, "npmWeekly": 132937, "pypiWeekly": 29514, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.peopledatalabs.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "lead.search", "lead.enrichment", "data.company", "data.person" ], "tags": [ "lead-search", "enrichment", "hosted", "api-key", "free-tier", "sandbox", "llms-txt", "python", "javascript", "go", "ruby", "rust", "status-page", "soc2", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 326, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 77, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 35, "reliability": 78, "schema": 70, "security": 43, "transparency": 67 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Monthly dated release notes, a free sandbox with synthetic data, response headers that report credits and rate limits, and a free plan of 100 records a month make the API easy to start with. No OpenAPI file was found, keys carry no scopes and may travel in the URL, and the agreement allows changes without notice.", "bestFor": "Products and pipelines that enrich or search person and company records at volume and can write Elasticsearch or SQL queries.", "strengths": [ "Credits are charged only on a match (a `200`), and each response reports credits spent and remaining in headers", "Seven sandbox endpoints at `sandbox.api.peopledatalabs.com` return synthetic records at no charge on every plan", "Release notes are dated monthly, the latest on 15 September 2026 (dataset v35.2), with schema changes labelled", "`data_include`, `size` and `scroll_token` let a caller limit fields and page through search results", "The published DPA commits to deletion within 90 days of termination and breach notice within 72 hours" ], "weaknesses": [ "No OpenAPI file was found. The machine-readable material is a Postman collection and Elasticsearch mappings", "API keys have no scopes, and the docs show the key passed as `api_key` in the URL query string", "The Services Subscription Agreement says data and services may be modified without prior notice", "Free-plan records have emails, phone numbers and addresses obfuscated, and person search defaults to 10 requests a minute", "No SLA, security.txt, bug bounty or disclosure policy was found in the reviewed pages" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the key in the `X-Api-Key` header. The `api_key` query parameter puts the secret in URLs and logs", "Build and test queries against `https://sandbox.api.peopledatalabs.com/v5/...` first. It costs no credits and allows five calls a minute", "Set `size` deliberately on search. Every record returned costs one credit, and responses over 1 MB fail", "Treat `404` on enrichment as no match, not an error, and `402` as credits exhausted. Neither is worth a retry", "On `429`, wait until the `x-ratelimit-reset` time. Limits are fixed-window per key and per endpoint" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 77, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 35, "reliability": 78, "schema": 70, "security": 43, "transparency": 53 }, "provenanceScore": 80 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install peopledatalabs", "http": "curl -X GET -G 'https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5/person/enrich' -H 'X-Api-Key: YOUR API KEY' --data-urlencode 'profile=linkedin.com/in/seanthorne'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/lead.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/people-data-labs" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Pro plan, person data", "unit": "month", "usd": 98, "note": "350 person records a month, entry step" }, { "item": "Pro plan, company data", "unit": "month", "usd": 100, "note": "1,000 company records a month, entry step" }, { "item": "Person record", "unit": "record", "usd": 0.28, "note": "Derived from $98 for 350 records at the Pro entry step" }, { "item": "Company record", "unit": "record", "usd": 0.1, "note": "Derived from $100 for 1,000 records at the Pro entry step" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "People Data Labs, Inc.", "domain": "peopledatalabs.com", "domainRegistered": "2017-07-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://privacy.peopledatalabs.com/policies?name=services-subscription-agreement", "privacy": "https://privacy.peopledatalabs.com/policies?name=privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.peopledatalabs.com", "changelog": "https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/links/release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Services Subscription Agreement names People Data Labs, Inc., 455 Market St Ste 1940, PMB 25778, San Francisco, CA 94105, and is governed by California law. It applies to accounts opened on peopledatalabs.com as well as order forms.", "The legal pages on privacy.peopledatalabs.com are drawn by script. We read their text from the data file the page itself loads, `/static/privacy.peopledatalabs.com/privacyCenterMessages-en.json`. A plain HTML reader sees only the page title.", "The API answers at api.peopledatalabs.com and the sandbox at sandbox.api.peopledatalabs.com.", "www.peopledatalabs.com/.well-known/security.txt and the same path on the docs host return 404.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2017-07-16 for peopledatalabs.com.", "The privacy policy says PDL is registered as a data broker in Texas and has certified to the EU-U.S., UK and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Frameworks." ], "score": 80 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/people-data-labs.json", "live": { "slug": "people-data-labs", "probe": { "target": "https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:36.909299896Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 590, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 591, "p95ms24h": 643, "samples24h": 44, "samples30d": 44, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 44, "ok": 44 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.peopledatalabs.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T11:40:16.332808148Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:36.909299896Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Hunter", "b": "People Data Labs, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.hunter.io/v2", "b": "https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary service under the Services Subscription Agreement. The Python and JavaScript SDKs are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "107", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2026-09-16", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "9 stars", "b": "40 stars, 133k npm/wk, 30k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "People Data Labs scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Hunter API + MCP's 56.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Hunter API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Hunter API + MCP or People Data Labs?" }, { "answer": "Hunter API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. People Data Labs needs an API key.", "question": "Do Hunter API + MCP and People Data Labs need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Hunter API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.hunter.io/v2 and People Data Labs at https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5.", "question": "Can an agent call Hunter API + MCP and People Data Labs without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 70", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 78 against 67" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Finding and verifying work emails from a domain or a name, where GDPR handling of the people looked up matters.", "slug": "hunter", "watchFor": "Hosted MCP has about 100 tools, including bulk deletes and API key creation, with no read-only mode" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 78 against 50", "Agent ergonomics, 77 against 54", "Security \u0026 auth, 43 against 33", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 63" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Products and pipelines that enrich or search person and company records at volume and can write Elasticsearch or SQL queries.", "slug": "people-data-labs", "watchFor": "No OpenAPI file was found. The machine-readable material is a Postman collection and Elasticsearch mappings" } ], "job": { "capability": "lead.search", "name": "Lead search" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apollo-vs-hunter.json", "title": "Apollo API + MCP vs Hunter API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apollo-vs-hunter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apollo-vs-people-data-labs.json", "title": "Apollo API + MCP vs People Data Labs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apollo-vs-people-data-labs" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coresignal-vs-hunter.json", "title": "Coresignal API + MCP vs Hunter API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coresignal-vs-hunter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coresignal-vs-people-data-labs.json", "title": "Coresignal API + MCP vs People Data Labs", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coresignal-vs-people-data-labs" }, { "json": 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No OpenAPI file was found, keys carry no scopes and may travel in the URL, and the agreement allows changes without notice." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hunter-vs-people-data-labs", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hunter-vs-people-data-labs.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hunter-vs-people-data-labs.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hunter-vs-people-data-labs.min.md" }, "markdown": "People Data Labs scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Hunter API + MCP's 56.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Hunter API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do lead search.\n\n- Hunter API + MCP: grade C, 56.5/100, rank #569 of 842. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/people-data-labs.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/people-data-labs.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Hunter API + MCP (C)\n\nGood for: Finding and verifying work emails from a domain or a name, where GDPR handling of the people looked up matters.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 70\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 78 against 67\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: Hosted MCP has about 100 tools, including bulk deletes and API key creation, with no read-only mode\n\n### People Data Labs (B)\n\nGood for: Products and pipelines that enrich or search person and company records at volume and can write Elasticsearch or SQL queries.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 78 against 50\n- Agent ergonomics, 77 against 54\n- Security \u0026 auth, 43 against 33\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 63\n\nWatch for: No OpenAPI file was found. The machine-readable material is a Postman collection and Elasticsearch mappings\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Hunter API + MCP | People Data Labs | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 78 | People Data Labs +28 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 70 | Hunter API + MCP +20 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 77 | People Data Labs +23 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 33 | 43 | People Data Labs +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 35 | Hunter API + MCP +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 79 | People Data Labs +16 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 67 | Hunter API + MCP +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **56.5 · C** | **64.2 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Hunter API + MCP | People Data Labs |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Hunter | People Data Labs, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.hunter.io/v2` | `https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service under the Services Subscription Agreement. The Python and JavaScript SDKs are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 107 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | none | 2026-09-16 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 9 stars | 40 stars, 133k npm/wk, 30k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Hunter API + MCP.** Returns 451 for people who asked not to be processed. Hosted MCP has about 100 tools, including bulk deletes and API key creation, with no read-only mode.\n\n**People Data Labs.** Monthly dated release notes, a free sandbox with synthetic data, response headers that report credits and rate limits, and a free plan of 100 records a month make the API easy to start with. No OpenAPI file was found, keys carry no scopes and may travel in the URL, and the agreement allows changes without notice.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Hunter API + MCP\n\n1. Treat 451 as final. The person opted out and retrying won't help\n2. Back off on 403 with a rate-limit message. 429 means the plan's credits are gone\n3. Send the key in `X-API-Key`, never as `?api_key=`\n4. Use `test-api-key` to check request shapes without spending credits\n5. Use the hosted MCP at mcp.hunter.io/mcp, not the deprecated local npm package\n\n### People Data Labs\n\n1. Send the key in the `X-Api-Key` header. The `api_key` query parameter puts the secret in URLs and logs\n2. Build and test queries against `https://sandbox.api.peopledatalabs.com/v5/...` first. It costs no credits and allows five calls a minute\n3. Set `size` deliberately on search. Every record returned costs one credit, and responses over 1 MB fail\n4. Treat `404` on enrichment as no match, not an error, and `402` as credits exhausted. Neither is worth a retry\n5. On `429`, wait until the `x-ratelimit-reset` time. Limits are fixed-window per key and per endpoint\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Hunter API + MCP or People Data Labs?\n\nPeople Data Labs scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Hunter API + MCP's 56.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Hunter API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Hunter API + MCP and People Data Labs need an API key?\n\nHunter API + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. People Data Labs needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Hunter API + MCP and People Data Labs without installing anything?\n\nYes. Hunter API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.hunter.io/v2 and People Data Labs at https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hunter-vs-people-data-labs.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hunter-vs-people-data-labs.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"hunter\", \"b\": \"people-data-labs\"}`. 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