Pick RocketReach to start self-serve: a free account with 3 lookups, then plans from $33 a month billed annually, each with API and MCP access. Pick Cognism if phone-verified mobiles, Do Not Call screening and Bombora intent matter, with deep European coverage; it sells through sales only, with no public prices, and API and MCP come on its Standard and Pro packages.
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| What | Cognism | RocketReach |
|---|---|---|
| B2B database with phone-verified mobilesA B2B sales-intelligence database with phone-verified mobiles, Do Not Call screening, Bombora intent and company events, reached through an OAuth REST API and a remote MCP server. | Contact database API with lookupsA contact database API for people and company search, email and phone lookup, bulk lookup with webhooks and email verification, plus a hosted MCP server. | |
| Not published; sold through salesNo public price. Standard (5 seats included) is sold through sales; the pricing page shows no figures. Verified 2026-10-25. | Essentials $69/mo monthly, $33 annualEssentials (email only): $33 a month billed annually ($399 a year, 1,200 exports a year), or $69 billed monthly (100 lookups and 100 exports a month). US list price. Verified 2026-10-25. | |
| Package subscription, credits per seatSubscription by package, sold through sales. Each seat includes credits; 1 credit reveals 1 contact, and the same credits work in the platform, Enrich and the API. The API also spends search tokens, 1 per record returned. Extra credits can be bought at any time. | Plan subscription; lookups use exportsPlan subscription, monthly or annual. Annual plans give unlimited lookups (fair use capped at 10,000 a month) but cap exports per year; API lookups use exports. Prices are set by location: an Indian session sees lower INR prices. | |
| 1 credit per contact, email and phones1 credit per revealed contact, which returns the email and phone numbers together. Re-viewing a revealed contact is free. The price of a credit is not published. | 1 export per lookup with dataOn self-serve plans, 1 export per lookup that returns data. Essentials covers email only; Pro and Ultimate add mobile and direct phones. On custom plans with Universal Credits: professional email 2 credits, personal email 3, phone 6. | |
| Empty pages free; credit on revealSearch tokens are charged per record returned, so an empty page is free. A contact credit is spent only when you reveal a contact. | Refunded when nothing is foundA lookup is used only when an email or phone is found and verified; otherwise it is refunded. An email verification that came back unknown was refunded to 0 on our account. | |
| None; sales-led data sample onlyNone. No self-serve signup, trial or pay as you go; the free-trial URL returns a 404 and the only free offer is a sales-led data sample. | Free account, 3 lookups, no cardFree account with no card: 3 person lookups. Our account also showed 3 company exports, 10 email verifications and a search cap of 50 a month. | |
| Standard and Pro packages onlyOnly on the new Standard and Pro packages. Customers on older packages upgrade through their account team. | Essentials, Pro and UltimateMCP and API access on Essentials, Pro and Ultimate. Universal Credit endpoints are for custom plans only; the Free account can call the standard API. | |
| OAuth client credentials, 20-minute tokensOAuth client credentials: generate a client id and secret under Settings > M2M Connect, then exchange them for a Bearer token that lasts 20 minutes. | Api-Key headerApi-Key header. The key is under Account > API Usage & Settings, where you can also generate a new one. | |
| 500 requests/min per call typePer account and operation class: 500 a minute each for search, count and dictionary calls. Higher limits go through the account team. | 10 requests/sec overall, plus plan caps10 requests a second overall, plus caps per plan. Person lookup: 15 a minute and 500 a day on Essentials, 50 and 1,500 on Pro, 100 and 3,000 on Ultimate. Free: 5 lookups and 50 searches a month. | |
| No bulk endpoint; 100 per pageNo bulk or async endpoint. Up to 100 records per page and 100,000 per paging run. | 100 lookups per batch, webhookBulk lookup takes up to 100 lookups per batch and delivers results to a webhook. Self-serve plans allow 100 bulk jobs a day. Person lookups are async, so poll or use a webhook. | |
| YesOfficial, at mcp.cognism.com/mcp. OAuth sign-in as your Cognism user. Tools for company and people search, counts and dictionaries. Data from the MCP may not be used to train AI models. | YesOfficial, at mcp.rocketreach.co/mcp, OAuth 2.1 with PKCE. Search tools use no credits; person lookup, company lookup and email verify use credits. | |
| Phone-verified mobiles, intent, eventsEmails, direct dials and mobiles, some phone-verified by its research team (Diamond Data). Firmographics, technologies, funding, acquisition, IPO and hiring events, and Bombora intent (up to 12 topics from 11,000+). It states deep European coverage. | 700M+ professionals, 60M+ companies700M+ professionals and 60M+ companies. Graded professional emails, personal emails, mobile and direct phones, job history, technographics, and US healthcare data such as NPI numbers on Ultimate. | |
| Beta webhooks for changes and eventsWebhooks in beta: job and contact-detail changes for people you revealed in the last 12 months, and funding, acquisition, IPO and hiring events for up to 1,000 tracked companies. The payload names what changed, so you re-query for new values. | Lookup result webhooks, optional signatureWebhooks deliver lookup and bulk results, with an optional HMAC signature. Job change, company news and job posting signals are search filters. | |
| Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Bullhorn, DynamicsSalesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Bullhorn, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesloft, Outreach and Zapier. | Salesforce, Outreach, HubSpot, Salesloft, BullhornSalesforce, Outreach, HubSpot, Salesloft and Bullhorn on Pro and Ultimate, plus Zapier and a Chrome extension. The app also sends sequences, up to 500 emails a day. | |
| ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2 Type 2ISO 27001, ISO 27701 and SOC 2 Type 2. Follows GDPR and CCPA, and screens phone data against Do Not Call lists in the UK, US and other countries; numbers in your DNC countries come back masked. | SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, per its security page. |
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US dollars as each vendor's page showed them on 25 Oct 2026. One panel per tool; switch each between monthly and annual billing (an annual price is the monthly rate when you pay for the year up front).
5 seats included, each with a credit allocation (amount not published).
MCP and API access, list building with firmographic, technographic and signal filters, AI account research, CSV export and enrichment.
Everything in Standard plus a premium mobile filter, mobile verification on demand and intent data.
5 seats included.
Credits to enrich and maintain CRM records; credits are used again only when key details change.
Price on request.
$0
Free
3 free lookups, no credit card.
Our account also had 3 company exports and 10 email verifications.
$69/mo
billed monthly
$33/mo
billed annually
Monthly: 100 lookups and 100 exports a month.
Annual: $399 a year, unlimited verified emails (fair use) and 1,200 exports a year. 500 emails a day sending. MCP and API access. US list price.
$119/mo
billed monthly
$75/mo
billed annually
Monthly: 250 lookups and 250 exports a month.
Annual: $899 a year, unlimited verified emails and phones (fair use) and 3,600 exports a year. Technographics, news, org charts, CRM integrations. MCP and API access. US list price.
$209/mo
billed monthly
$142/mo
billed annually
Monthly: 1,000 lookups and 1,000 exports a month.
Annual: $1,699 a year, unlimited verified emails and phones (fair use) and 20,000 exports a year. Intent and healthcare data, Salesforce custom mapping. MCP and API access. US list price.
Custom quote
From $6,000 a year.
Pooled credits, company exports, custom exports, higher API limits.
If neither fits: If you only need a verified work email per person, an email finder that charges only on a found address may cost less. The email finder guide compares them.
How to find a person's work email addressChoosing between Cognism and RocketReach, or moving from one to the other? Tell us your setup. We will show you how we would run it, and what we would check first.
Cognism publishes no prices: Standard and Pro each include 5 seats and are quoted by sales. RocketReach lists US prices: Essentials $33, Pro $75 and Ultimate $142 a month billed annually ($399, $899 and $1,699 a year), or $69, $119 and $209 billed monthly. Custom team plans start at $6,000 a year.
RocketReach has a free account with no card and 3 lookups, and the API works on it. Cognism has no self-serve trial: its free-trial page returns a 404, and the free offer is a data sample requested through sales.
RocketReach refunds a lookup when it does not find and verify an email or phone. Cognism spends a contact credit only when you reveal a contact, but its API charges 1 search token for each record a search returns, so keep the page size to what you need.
Yes. Both run official remote MCP servers with OAuth sign-in: mcp.cognism.com/mcp and mcp.rocketreach.co/mcp. Cognism's tools search and count companies and people; data pulled through it may not be used to train AI models. RocketReach's search tools use no credits, while lookups and email verification do.
Yes. Cognism says it screens its phone data against Do Not Call registries in the UK (TPS and CTPS), the US, Australia, Germany, France and other countries. Through the API, phones in the countries set on your account come back masked; the compliance settings endpoint lists them.
Read from cognism.com/pricing, rocketreach.co/pricing and each tool's API docs. Verified 25 Oct 2026.
