--- title: "Cognism vs RocketReach: API, Pricing, Limits and MCP" description: "Cognism vs RocketReach for contact data: public vs sales-led pricing, credits, free access, API limits, bulk, webhooks, MCP. Verified 25 Oct 2026." canonical: https://www.onegtmlab.dev/tool-directory/compare/cognism-vs-rocketreach --- # Cognism vs RocketReach: API, Pricing, Limits and MCP [](/) [ Book a call ](/book) Comparison # Cognism vs RocketReach 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. Verified 25 Oct 2026 ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCuvO.webp)Pick Cognism if - You sell into the UK and Europe and want mobiles, some phone-verified by a research team - Your calling program needs Do Not Call screening, with numbers in your DNC countries masked by the API ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_1CxbFg.webp)Pick RocketReach if - You want to sign up yourself and test the API on a free account first - You want a public price: from $33 a month billed annually for email, or $75 for email and phone [![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_Z28mrQG.webp)](/tool-directory/sourcing/cognism) Cognism Sourcing, Enrichment vs [![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_2tmjb7.webp)](/tool-directory/sourcing/rocketreach) RocketReach Sourcing, Enrichment [Cognism review →](/tool-directory/sourcing/cognism)[RocketReach review →](/tool-directory/sourcing/rocketreach) 01 ## At a glance ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_Z28rKu0.webp)Cognism From **Not published; sold through sales** Free plan **No**None; sales-led data sample only Cost per unit **1 credit per contact, email and phones** MCP server **Official** ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_Z2gCPob.webp)RocketReach From **$69/mo**Essentials monthly, $33 annual Free plan **Yes**Free account, 3 lookups, no card Cost per unit **1 export per lookup with data** MCP server **Official** 02 ## Where they differ 15 points side by side. Open a value for the full detail. What ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_Z28rNSN.webp)[Cognism](/tool-directory/sourcing/cognism) ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_Z4xsXC.webp)[RocketReach](/tool-directory/sourcing/rocketreach) ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)CognismB2B 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. ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_VvLGr.webp)RocketReachContact 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. ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)CognismNot published; sold through salesNo public price. Standard (5 seats included) is sold through sales; the pricing page shows no figures. Verified 2026-10-25. ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_VvLGr.webp)RocketReachEssentials $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. ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)CognismPackage 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. ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_VvLGr.webp)RocketReachPlan 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. ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)Cognism1 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. ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_VvLGr.webp)RocketReach1 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. ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)CognismEmpty 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. ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_VvLGr.webp)RocketReachRefunded 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. ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)CognismNone; 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. ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_VvLGr.webp)RocketReachFree 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. ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)CognismStandard and Pro packages onlyOnly on the new Standard and Pro packages. Customers on older packages upgrade through their account team. ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_VvLGr.webp)RocketReachEssentials, 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. ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)CognismOAuth 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. ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_VvLGr.webp)RocketReachApi-Key headerApi-Key header. The key is under Account > API Usage & Settings, where you can also generate a new one. ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)Cognism500 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. ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_VvLGr.webp)RocketReach10 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. ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)CognismNo bulk endpoint; 100 per pageNo bulk or async endpoint. Up to 100 records per page and 100,000 per paging run. ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_VvLGr.webp)RocketReach100 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. ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)CognismYesOfficial, 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. ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_VvLGr.webp)RocketReachYesOfficial, at mcp.rocketreach.co/mcp, OAuth 2.1 with PKCE. Search tools use no credits; person lookup, company lookup and email verify use credits. ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)CognismPhone-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. ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_VvLGr.webp)RocketReach700M+ 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. ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)CognismBeta 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. ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_VvLGr.webp)RocketReachLookup 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. ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)CognismSalesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Bullhorn, DynamicsSalesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Bullhorn, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesloft, Outreach and Zapier. ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_VvLGr.webp)RocketReachSalesforce, 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. ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)CognismISO 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. ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_VvLGr.webp)RocketReachSOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, per its security page. 03 ## Pricing, plan by plan 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). ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oE7j7.webp) ### Cognism 3 plans · [API review](/tool-directory/sourcing/cognism) ### Standard (Sales prospecting) [Price not verified](https://www.cognism.com/pricing) 5 seats included, each with a credit allocation (amount not published). API includedPlan details MCP and API access, list building with firmographic, technographic and signal filters, AI account research, CSV export and enrichment. ### Pro (Sales prospecting) [Price not verified](https://www.cognism.com/pricing) Everything in Standard plus a premium mobile filter, mobile verification on demand and intent data. API includedPlan details 5 seats included. ### CRM Enrichment (add-on or standalone) [Price not verified](https://www.cognism.com/pricing) Credits to enrich and maintain CRM records; credits are used again only when key details change. Price on request. ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_Z15BIDG.webp) ### RocketReach 5 plans · [API review](/tool-directory/sourcing/rocketreach) ### Free $0 Free 3 free lookups, no credit card. API includedPlan details Our account also had 3 company exports and 10 email verifications. ### Essentials (email only) $69/mo billed monthly $33/mo billed annually Monthly: 100 lookups and 100 exports a month. API includedPlan details 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. ### Pro (email and phone) $119/mo billed monthly $75/mo billed annually Monthly: 250 lookups and 250 exports a month. API includedPlan details 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. ### Ultimate (email and phone) $209/mo billed monthly $142/mo billed annually Monthly: 1,000 lookups and 1,000 exports a month. API includedPlan details 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. Show all 5 plansShow fewer plans ### Custom team plan Custom quote From $6,000 a year. API includedPlan details Pooled credits, company exports, custom exports, higher API limits. 04 ## Which one to pick ### ![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_Z28rDFo.webp)Choose Cognism if - You sell into the UK and Europe and want mobiles, some phone-verified by a research team. - Your calling program needs Do Not Call screening, with numbers in your DNC countries masked by the API. - You want Bombora intent and funding, acquisition, IPO and hiring events in the same data source. - You want webhooks when revealed contacts change jobs or tracked companies raise money or hire. - You are ready to buy a package through sales, with 5 seats included. ### ![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_Z1zBqpm.webp)Choose RocketReach if - You want to sign up yourself and test the API on a free account first. - You want a public price: from $33 a month billed annually for email, or $75 for email and phone. - You need bulk lookups of up to 100 people per batch delivered to a webhook. - You want personal emails or US healthcare data such as NPI numbers. - You want search tools in an MCP client that use no credits. **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 address →](/tool-directory/how-to/find-work-email) ## Want us to build it for you? Choosing 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. [ Book a call ](/book)[ See case studies ](/case-studies) 05 ## Questions people ask How much does Cognism cost compared with RocketReach? 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. Can I try Cognism or RocketReach for free? 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. Do I pay when no email or phone is found? 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. Do Cognism and RocketReach work with Claude through MCP? 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. Does Cognism check phone numbers against Do Not Call lists? 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. ## Related [![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)Cognism API review](/tool-directory/sourcing/cognism)[![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_VvLGr.webp)RocketReach API review](/tool-directory/sourcing/rocketreach)[![](/_astro/apollo.DNg6-7d3.svg)![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)Apollo vs Cognism](/tool-directory/compare/apollo-vs-cognism)[![](/_astro/apollo.DNg6-7d3.svg)![](/_astro/rocketreach.rwx2rnfO_VvLGr.webp)Apollo vs RocketReach](/tool-directory/compare/apollo-vs-rocketreach)[![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)![](/_astro/lusha.BjP45Jap_Z13XyIr.webp)Cognism vs Lusha](/tool-directory/compare/cognism-vs-lusha)[![](/_astro/cognism.BVFvKHsp_oCnHd.webp)![](/_astro/uplead.Cip5k3MJ_Z16KHvf.webp)Cognism vs UpLead](/tool-directory/compare/cognism-vs-uplead) Read from [cognism.com/pricing](https://www.cognism.com/pricing), [rocketreach.co/pricing](https://rocketreach.co/pricing?currency=usd&country=US) and each tool's API docs. 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