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Cognism

Europe's most trusted B2B data for growing pipeline

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Cognism is a B2B sales intelligence platform selling phone-verified contact and company data, buying-intent and hiring/funding signals, CRM enrichment, and a Data-as-a-Service offering for programmatic access, positioned around compliance (GDPR, CCPA, DNC/TPS screening).

Vendor's own claim
data/enrichment

Core capabilities

Vendor's own claim
  • Contact and company search with phone-verified data and buying/hiring/funding signals
  • CRM Enrichment: automated database maintenance and record completion
  • Data-as-a-Service (DaaS): programmatic access to verified B2B data
  • Native integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive and other platforms
  • Compliance tooling: GDPR/CCPA alignment, DNC and TPS screening, ISO 27001/27701 and SOC 2 Type II certification

API & agent surface

From official docs
Machine-readable spec
No OpenAPI link

Pricing

From official docs
PlanPriceIncludedNotable
StandardContact sales (not published)5 seats; credit-based contact reveals (1 credit = 1 contact)
5
Contact and company data, Firmographic and technographic filters, AI research tools
ProContact sales (not published)5 seats; credit-based contact reveals (1 credit = 1 contact)
5
Everything in Standard, Premium mobile data, On-demand verification

Checked 2026-07-31 against their pricing page. Vendors change pricing without notice.

What is Cognism

Vendor's own claim

Cognism is a sales-intelligence data vendor: a searchable database of B2B contacts and companies with phone-verified numbers and intent/hiring/funding signals, sold as a seat-based prospecting product (Standard/Pro), plus separate CRM Enrichment and Data-as-a-Service add-ons for teams that want the data delivered into their own systems rather than used through Cognism's UI.

Ideal customer profile

Vendor's own claim

B2B sales, marketing and revenue-operations teams that need compliant, phone-verified contact data for outbound prospecting, segmented by Cognism itself into SMB (fast list-building), mid-market (scaling predictable pipeline), and enterprise (complex buying groups).

Who should look elsewhere

Our read

The official pricing material checked did not show a price for the Standard, Pro, CRM Enrichment, or DaaS offers and instead directed buyers to book a demo or contact sales. The core prospecting plans are credit-based, with premium mobile and intent data assigned to the higher Pro tier in the retained material. Teams wanting self-serve API access may find the public developer material retrieved in this pass limited.

Cognism alternatives

Our read

Providers that resolve a person or company to verified contact data — email, phone, firmographics — through an API or a bulk upload.

Category: Contact and company enrichment. Membership is decided by 3 stated tests, not by category tags — see them and the full comparison.

Cognism FAQ

Does Cognism publish pricing?

No. Neither the Standard nor Pro prospecting plan, nor the CRM Enrichment or Data-as-a-Service add-ons, show a published price; every option on the pricing page routes to a demo/sales conversation.

From official docs
Is there a machine-readable OpenAPI/Swagger spec?

None could be confirmed.

Our read
How does the credit model work?

Cognism's own pricing page states '1 credit = 1 revealed contact,' with additional credits available for purchase beyond a plan's included allotment.

From official docs
What compliance certifications does Cognism hold?

Cognism's security page states ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certification and SOC 2 Type II compliance, alongside GDPR/CCPA alignment and DNC/TPS do-not-call screening.

Vendor's own claim
Is there a self-serve signup?

No self-serve signup or free trial was found; both prospecting plans and both add-on products require booking a demo or contacting sales.

Our read
What CRMs does Cognism integrate with?

Cognism's site names native connectors to Salesforce, HubSpot, and Pipedrive, among other platforms.

Vendor's own claim

Verify before you buy

  • No published pricing figures for Standard, Pro, CRM Enrichment, or Data-as-a-Service - all require a sales conversation
  • No official Cognism video could be confirmed by title from the YouTube channel (page did not render a video listing), so officialVideo was omitted
  • No changelog page found
  • A machine-readable OpenAPI specification was not included in the reviewed source set.

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