Cognism pricing plans: what Pro adds to Standard
The page quotes one sentence on price: “Cognism pricing is tailored based on the product you need, your team setup and how you plan to use the platform.” Both prospecting plans lead to a sales call and show no amount, no currency and no contract length; CRM Enrichment, sold on its own page, is the exception. Estimates published by third parties differ widely from one another, and none of them comes from Cognism.
Standard
On quote
5 seats included
- Contact and company data: emails, mobiles, job titles, work history, revenue, headcount, technologies
- Signals: hiring, funding and M&A, job changes
- AI research, AI persona builder and AI search
- MCP and API access, CSV enrichment, single sign-on
- Live chat support, an account manager, 1 free Workspace Manager
Pro
On quote
5 seats included
- Everything in Standard
- Premium mobile filter
- Mobile verification on demand, in under 48 hours
- Intent data from Bombora: 12 topics chosen from 11,000+
- Adoption dashboards, 3 free Workspace Managers
CRM Enrichment
From $12,000a year
Add-on or standalone product
- Enrichment inside Salesforce and HubSpot
- Credits included, used for new records
- Ongoing maintenance of existing records included
- Credit cost previewed before new contacts are added
Extra seats can be added to either plan. Two of Cognism’s comparison pages present API access as part of Pro, where the pricing table ticks it on both plans. Workspace Managers configure the account without using a paid seat; they are listed in Cognism’s changelog and help centre rather than in the pricing table.
Platinum, Diamond, Grow, Elevate, Standard and Pro: how Cognism’s plans changed
The Wayback Machine keeps past versions of Cognism’s pricing page. In January 2025 it sold Platinum and Diamond: a flat platform access fee plus licences. By March 2025 the plans were Grow and Elevate, and the page promised “no hidden platform fees: you only pay for licenses and add-ons”. Since April 2026 they are Standard and Pro, described as a per-user subscription with credits.
The details kept moving after that: “5 seats included” and the one-credit-per-contact rule are there by May 2026; CRM Enrichment, an add-on from April 2026, carries a beta label in May 2026, opens to every Salesforce customer in July 2026 and to HubSpot in October 2026, and its own page has shown “from $12,000 /year” since July 2026; the MCP and API row is there by October 2, 2026, by which date the Data-as-a-Service tab, still shown on September 3, 2026, has gone. The old names Grow and Elevate still show on some of Cognism’s pages, and price estimates found elsewhere often refer to them, or to a platform fee Cognism no longer mentions.
How Cognism counts credits, and how many come with a contract
Cognism’s rule is printed on the pricing page: 1 credit = 1 revealed contact, with no charge for viewing a contact already revealed. One credit unlocks the whole record, work emails and mobile numbers together.
A contact is paid once per account, however many colleagues open, export or enrich it afterwards; a new credit is used only if that person changes jobs. Revealing a contact in the platform or in the extension, adding an unrevealed contact to a list, exporting from search results, and enriching a CSV file or a CRM all draw on the same pot, which the API and the MCP server share too. Searching through the API and previewing enrichment cost nothing; the credit goes when a contact is redeemed.
How many credits come with a contract is less clear. The English pricing page says each seat includes an allocation; the French and German versions and the help centre describe one pool for the whole account, which an admin can cap per user. Two comparison pages give a figure, 10,000 credits per seat a year on Standard and 12,000 on Pro; one of Cognism’s French pages says the opposite, that access to mobiles and emails is not limited by credits. Extra credits can be bought at any time, at a price that is not published, and nothing says whether unused credits roll over. Since April 2026, a dashboard shows usage by account, team and user.
Automatic renewal, 60 days’ notice, no refunds: the October 2026 terms
Cognism publishes its General Terms and Conditions (version of October 2026). The length of the first subscription is set in each order form, which is not public; what happens next is in the general terms.
- Renewal: the subscription renews automatically for the length of the initial term or 1 year, whichever is longer, unless you give notice 60 days before the end of the period.
- Refunds: payment obligations cannot be cancelled and fees are not refundable, except when Cognism itself is at fault or the service fails persistently, in which case the unused prepaid part is returned.
- Price at renewal: an increase is capped at 10%. Late payments carry 1.5% interest a month.
- Switching provider: 60 days’ notice and no switching charge, but the rest of the subscription stays due.
- Seats: one per named user, logins not shared.
- After the end: contacts already exported stay usable, at your own risk.
No free plan and no self-serve trial: a 25-lead sample and pilots under an order form
Cognism’s own comparison with Kaspr says it does not offer a free plan, and its site has no sign-up form: every button leads to a demo or a quote. What you can get without a contract is an interactive product tour and a free data sample of 25 leads, which Cognism aims to send within 72 hours.
Beyond that, Cognism runs proofs of concept under separate terms (version of April 2026): a trial licence tied to an order form, for a length set in that order, with the data to be deleted at the end. Emelia gives 7 days without a card and 20 credits when you sign up with a work email.
A quote for 5 seats, or Emelia’s monthly credit subscription
Both sell contact details by the credit, so this table compares how each one charges. Emelia’s side is its credit subscription alone, which needs no plan: Cognism publishes no amount for its prospecting plans, so no total can be set against it.
How you pay
Published prices
What you buy
Commitment
Unused credits
Trying first
Paying for a contact
A work email
A mobile number
Nothing found
After the data
Sending the campaign
Extracting a Sales Navigator search
On volume, a rough order of magnitude, without a winner since Cognism’s price is unknown: if the 10,000 credits per seat are right, 5 Standard seats reveal 50,000 contacts a year, about 4,167 a month, emails and mobiles together. At Emelia, that many emails a month fit in the 5,000-credit pack ($49); that many phone numbers would take 208,350 credits a month, more than the largest monthly pack (100,000 credits, 2,000 numbers).
Cognism pricing: other questions
For prospecting, there is no public figure. The pricing page shows two plans, Standard and Pro, each with 5 seats included, and asks you to talk to sales for a quote based on the product, your team and your use. Credits come with the seats, CRM Enrichment costs extra (from $12,000 a year on its own page), and the price can rise by up to 10% at renewal.
Both plans read “5 seats included”, and extra seats can be added. Cognism’s pages never say whether a team can buy fewer than 5; its home page adds that teams of at least 5 salespeople often see the most value.
Cognism does not publish it: neither the pricing page nor the general terms say what happens to unused credits at the end of a period. Extra credits can be bought at any time. Emelia’s credits stay valid for 12 months after purchase, even if you cancel.
No. CRM Enrichment is a paid option on Standard and Pro, or a product on its own, for Salesforce and HubSpot, listed from $12,000 a year. Its credits are part of that subscription and are used for new records; keeping existing records up to date is included.
Cognism publishes no monthly price. Its general terms renew each subscription for the length of the initial term or 1 year, whichever is longer, so a commitment of at least a year is the norm once renewed. Emelia’s credit packs are monthly, and its plans can be paid by the month or by the year.
Emelia features: Email finder · Emelia pricing
Emelia is a Cognism competitor. We have tried to stay fair: every figure about Cognism comes from its own website or public review sites.
