B2B contact data
Primary sources checkedCognism
B2B contact and company data platform sold in seat bundles with a credit allowance, where one credit reveals a full contact including mobile numbers.
The short answer
- Best for
- Teams of about five who call people and need European mobile numbers
- Not ideal for
- Solo recruiters and small desks — both packages include five seats
- Price
- Quote only. Two packages, neither with a published price
- Closest alternative
- LushaA browser extension for one or two recruiters rather than a five-seat package
At a glance
- Recruitment fitWeak
- Ease of useUnknown
- ImplementationUnknown
- Price transparencyWeak
- Value for moneyUnknown
- ScalabilityFair
Why these assessments
- Recruitment fitWeak
- A B2B contact and company database built for sales prospecting, with no candidate or vacancy concept in it.
- Ease of useUnknown
- We have not used it, and we found no independent account of the platform in daily use.
- ImplementationUnknown
- Neither package can be bought without a sales call, and nothing is published about onboarding.
- Price transparencyWeak
- No published price at all, and enrichment and API access are separately priced add-ons whose cost is also unstated.
- Value for moneyUnknown
- One credit for a whole contact including the mobile number is a better unit than most, but without a price the unit means little.
- ScalabilityFair
- Five seats is the entry point, so a team is assumed from the start, and credits work the same across the platform.
Our reading of the evidence on this page. No score, no formula.
Where it sits
- Discover
- Contact
- Outreach
The SourcrLab bottom line
The credit model is the reason to look here: one credit for one revealed contact, mobile included, and the same credits across the platform, enrichment and API. Set against that, the entry point is a five-seat bundle with no published price, which is a different kind of buyer than a single recruiter with a browser extension.
Best fit
Outreach that runs on the phone, in European markets, for a team of about five people, which is the size both packages are built around.
Think twice if
Solo recruiters and small desks, since both packages include five seats, and anyone who needs a price before a sales call, since neither package has one.
SourcrLab assessment
Everything on this page comes from the vendor's own pages, checked on the dates below. SourcrLab has not used this product in real recruitment work, so you will not find a first-hand opinion here.
Why choose Cognism?
One credit, one contact
A revealed contact costs a single credit whether you take the email or the mobile, and viewing it again later costs nothing. Where a competitor charges per data point, phone-heavy work gets expensive quickly.
Mobile data is the paid-for difference
The Pro package is sold on higher-quality mobile data, a premium mobile filter and verification on demand. The vendor is charging for exactly the thing that is hardest to get right in Europe, which at least tells you where the effort went.
The same credits everywhere
Credits work across the prospecting platform, CRM enrichment and the API without a surcharge, so moving from manual lookups to automated enrichment does not mean renegotiating the unit you buy.
Main trade-offs
No published price, at all
Standard and Pro both end in Talk to sales. You cannot work out a cost per revealed contact, which is the one number that would let you compare this against any competitor.
Five seats is the entry point
Both packages state five seats included. A two-person recruitment desk is buying three seats it does not need, or is not the customer this pricing was designed for.
Enrichment and API are add-ons
CRM Enrichment and Data-as-a-Service sit outside both packages. The credits carry over, but the access does not: budget for the add-on if the plan is to enrich your ATS automatically.
Compliance claims are not something we verified
The vendor describes its data as verified and compliance-first and maintains a trust centre. Those are the vendor's words, and for personal data on European candidates you should read the trust centre and the contract yourself rather than take ours or theirs.
Pricing and buying reality
Quote only, no public pricing
- Two prospecting packages: Standard and Pro, each stating 5 seats included
- Credit model: 1 credit reveals 1 contact, with no charge for viewing a contact you already revealed
- Each seat includes an allocation of credits; more credits can be bought at any point
- CRM Enrichment and Data-as-a-Service are separately priced add-ons
What we do not know
- The price of either package
- How many credits a seat actually includes
- The cost of extra credits and of the add-ons
- Match rates for your own target market, which only a test will tell you
Checked August 2026. We do not list a price we have not verified ourselves. Cognism pricing page
How it fits your stack
Works with
- Your CRM or ATS, through the CRM Enrichment add-on
- Your own systems, through the API or bulk delivery add-on
Likely replaces
- Manual hunting for mobile numbers in European markets
- A second contact data subscription bought for phone coverage
May overlap with
- Lusha, ContactOut and other contact data providers
- Enrichment credits bundled into recruitment systems
Check before buying
- Cost per revealed contact, worked out from the quote and the credit allowance. That single number is the comparison
- Mobile match rate on a sample of your real target profiles
- What the trust centre says about data origin and opt-outs, in writing
Cognism vs alternatives
Products a buyer would genuinely put next to this one, with the reason you would pick each instead.
Choose Lusha if you want a browser extension for one or two recruiters rather than a five-seat bundle, and you mostly need email addresses.
Consider ContactOut if your sourcing happens inside LinkedIn and personal email is the channel that works for you.
Consider Apollo if you want contact data and outreach sequencing in the same product and can accept a sales-first design.
Consider RocketReach for occasional lookups without a team subscription.
Used Cognism?
Tell other recruiters what worked, what did not, and who it suits. Positive, mixed or critical — all useful.
Evidence
- Package structure and seat count — checked against a primary source: Cognism pricing page
- Credit model: 1 credit reveals 1 contact — checked against a primary source: Cognism pricing page
- Add-ons for CRM enrichment and API — checked against a primary source: Cognism pricing page
- Mobile data quality and verification on demand — vendor claim, not independently verified: Cognism pricing page
- Compliance posture — vendor claim, not independently verified: Cognism pricing page
- Price of either package — not enough evidence
- Match rates in the Benelux — not enough evidence
Last reviewed: August 2026. How SourcrLab verifies information
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