Cognism alternatives: six options with printed prices or quotes, seats and phone numbers

Cognism alternatives: the six options

Cognism sells Standard and Pro packages with 5 seats each and prints no price. The six options here either print a plan price or, like ZoomInfo, sell by quote, and the table sets seats and phone-number rules beside each. UpLead Essentials is a one-user plan at $99 a month, billed monthly.

• Lusha for a free plan, and Pro with 2 seats.
• Apollo.io for per-seat billing with a free plan.
• UpLead for one user who wants email and mobile direct dial in one credit.

What Cognism offers, and why a small team looks elsewhere

Cognism says its pricing is tailored to the product, the team setup and how you use the platform. Its pricing page gives no price, contract length or credits per seat. Cognism says its Pro package includes intent data and on-demand mobile verification.

One Cognism credit is one revealed contact. There is no charge for viewing a contact already revealed, and a credit is used again only if that contact changes jobs. Cognism lists a free data sample, not a free plan. Cognism says its director-level and above data is refreshed on a 30 day basis.

UpLead and Lusha: published plans for one or two users

UpLead's pricing page lists the trial, Essentials and Plus as single-user accounts, with Professional as the team account on annual billing and a price on request. Essentials is $99 a month, billed monthly, or $74 a month, billed annually. On monthly billing it holds 170 credits a month.

Lusha Starter includes 1 seat and Pro includes 2. Starter is $49.90 a month, billed monthly, for 400 credits a month. Pro is $69.90 a month, billed monthly, for 600 credits a month. Lusha charges 5 credits for a phone number, and its Free plan gives 40 credits a month with no credit card. UpLead vs Lusha compares the two plan by plan.

Apollo.io, Snov.io and Hunter: seats for a whole team

Apollo.io bills per seat, and all seats on an account share one plan. Its Free plan gives 75 credits per seat a month, and Basic is $65 per seat a month, billed monthly. Organization is $149 per seat a month, billed monthly, with a minimum of 3 seats.

Snov.io's paid plans include unlimited team seats, and Starter is $39 a month, billed monthly, with 1,000 credits. Hunter lists unlimited users on every plan, charges 1 credit for each email found, and gives 50 credits a month on its Free plan. Its price is on Hunter's own pricing page. Best B2B data providers adds the larger platforms.

ZoomInfo: the other quoted platform

ZoomInfo, like Cognism, sells by quote. Its pricing page says packaging follows the number of licenses and the level of data access, and names ZoomInfo Professional, Copilot Advanced and Copilot Enterprise. One credit is one export of a profile. ZoomInfo alternatives for small business has the six-way table.

Cognism's way in is the data sample. UpLead's is a 7-day trial with 5 credits that asks for payment details at sign-up, and its help center says an account not canceled by day 7 is billed $890 annually for the Essentials Plan.