About Cognism
Cognism is a commercial sales intelligence platform that supplies B2B contact and company data to go-to-market teams. It emphasizes data quality and compliance, with a particular focus on European data for global growth.
Products include the Sales Intelligence platform, an MCP and API for connecting Cognism data to custom workflows and AI assistants, CRM enrichment that keeps records updated automatically, and integrations that sync data to the rest of the tech stack. Teams in sales, marketing and RevOps are targeted, across enterprise, mid-market and small business customers.
Cognism publishes comparison pages against ZoomInfo, Lusha and Apollo, along with an ROI calculator, a trust centre and pricing information. It is hosted software sold through plans and demos.
Key features
- B2B contact and company data
- Phone-verified mobile numbers
- GDPR-compliant data practices
- CRM enrichment and record maintenance
- MCP and API access to Cognism data
- Integrations with sales tech stacks
Good fit for
- →Building European B2B prospect lists
- →Keeping CRM contact data accurate
- →Powering AI assistants with contact data
- Tags
- sales-intelligence
- b2b-data
- contact-data
- gdpr
- crm-enrichment
- prospecting
- saas
Cognism: questions and answers
- What is Cognism used for?
- Cognism is a sales intelligence platform with GDPR-compliant B2B contact data and phone-verified numbers for sales, marketing and RevOps teams. It is a good fit for building European B2B prospect lists, keeping CRM contact data accurate and powering AI assistants with contact data.
- How much does Cognism cost?
- Cognism doesn't publish fixed prices; pricing is quoted on request. No prices are published. Standard and Pro prospecting packages (5 seats included) and CRM Enrichment are quoted after talking to sales.
- Is Cognism open source?
- No. Cognism is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. In the CRM category, open-source options include Wukong CRM 15, Twenty and Monica.
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