NewcoHunter vs CompaniesIQ

CompaniesIQ is the closest like-for-like service to NewcoHunter. It is built on the same Companies House register, it positions itself around new-company intelligence, it is free to search with no card, and its free plan includes weekly new-company email alerts. If you landed here comparing the two, you are probably not wrong to look at both.

The first difference is timing. NewcoHunter's free plan sends one saved search as a daily email of the top 5 new matches, where CompaniesIQ's free alerts are weekly. On a Pro plan, NewcoHunter delivers every match, up to 625 new companies a week, with alert timing set to instant, daily or weekly. Instant here means hourly delivery of the daily Companies House data, not real time.

The second difference is what you get per company. For new companies, NewcoHunter gives you a registered address (around 99.98%) and a named director (around 99%), filters out formation-agent addresses and likely shell companies, and offers a reachable-by-post filter. That makes a new-company list usable for letters as well as email. CompaniesIQ's paid Analyst plan, from £39 per user per month (published pricing, October 2026), puts its weight elsewhere: verified contact discovery for 250 companies a month, with contacts drawn only from the company's own website.

That is a fair strength, and it is honest about the limit: a company a week old seldom has a website to draw contacts from. We take the same line, showing a contact email or website only where verified and not claiming emails or phone numbers for new companies. If your target is established companies with a web presence, CompaniesIQ's contact lookups may be the more relevant feature. If your target is a company registered in the last few weeks, the director and address are the fields that exist.

Beyond alerts, NewcoHunter offers a few things a subscription-only service does not. One-off lists cost 10p per company + VAT with a £10 minimum and no subscription. Business at £99 per month + VAT adds native CRM sync for HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho, Capsule and Dynamics 365 and an API, and Pro includes CSV and Excel export, Zapier, webhooks, Slack and Teams. Established-company prospecting, covering growing, shrinking and at-risk companies, net assets and size, is part of Pro.

Both have free plans, so the sensible test costs nothing: save the same sector and region on each and see which email you would rather open on Monday morning.