# Cognism, contact us, Pro: Company discovery API

> Search companies — filter by industry, location, headcount, revenue, founding year, technologies in use, SIC/NAICS/ISIC codes, funding, acquisition, IPO and hiring events, and buying-intent signals.

Cognism's company discovery API on its Pro plan.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/cognism/contact-us-pro
- Get it: https://www.cognism.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.cognism.com/reference/searchcompanies
- Sold by: Cognism (https://www.cognism.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-18

## Price

- Billing: contact

## Charges

- Per: result
- Most per search: 100,000

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search companies — filter by industry, location, headcount, revenue, founding year, technologies in use, SIC/NAICS/ISIC codes, funding, acquisition, IPO and hiring events, and buying-intent signals.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit, after the subscription too, deleted without undue delay when the person is on Cognism's Opt-Out List, checked at least every 30 days, unless you have another lawful basis
- Use data: Customer may use the Services solely for its internal business purposes. Customer is not permitted to sublicense, resell, transfer, offer for sale, disclose, distribute or make available any of the Profile Data or any part of the Services to any third party without Cognism's prior written consent. [...] Customer shall not, and shall ensure that its End Users shall not: [...] (b) reproduce, modify, create, or prepare derivative works of any of the Services or related Documentation, (c) work around technical limitations in a Service or restrictions in the related Documentation, [...] (f) disclose the results of any of the Cognism Technology or program benchmark tests to any third parties without Cognism's prior written consent, (g) access or extract data from the Services by any automated means (including bots, scrapers, scripts or AI agents) other than through Integrations or interfaces provided by Cognism for that purpose, or make the Services or any Profile Data available for crawling, (h) use data made available through the Service or a Non-Cognism Application, including Profile Data, to train, fine-tune, or improve any third-party artificial intelligence or large-language model, including the models underlying any AI application or assistant through which an End User accesses the Platform, (i) use the Services in any manner that violates applicable laws or regulations, or (j) sublicense, resell, transfer, offer for sale, disclose, distribute or make available the Profile Data or the Services whether in part or in whole to any third party without Cognism's prior written consent.

## Rate limit

- Per second: 8.33

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: company, options, limit, cursor, offset, view (locations, industries, technologies, relevant_technologies, funding_events, acquisition_events, ipo_events, hiring_events)
- Method: POST
- Path: /companies/filter

## About the plan

- Plan: Pro
- Who can get it: a business: the entity named as Customer on its Order, on the package for teams that need advanced prospecting workflows (5 seats included)

## The 80 fields in the plan's answer

total results, page size, next cursor, has more, offset, company ID, name, normalized name, aliases, description, headcount, revenue, exact revenue, founded year, type, website, LinkedIn URL, registry code type, registry code, child registry code type, child registry code, location country, location street, location country code, location type, location zip, location state, location city, location phone, location phone DNC country, location phone DNC type, industry name, industry level, industry is primary, industry NACE codes, industry NAICS codes, industry SIC UK codes, industry SIC US codes, industry ISIC codes, technologies, technology category, technology score, technology first seen, technology last seen, relevant technology name, relevant technology intensity score, relevant technology intensity label, relevant technology days since adapted, relevant technology adapted relative, funding event ID, funding event date, funding announced date, funding type, funding series, funding raised USD, acquisition event ID, acquisition event date, acquired on, acquisition type, acquirer name, acquiree name, IPO event ID, IPO event date, went public on, hiring event ID, hiring event date, hiring job title, hiring department, hiring country, hiring state, hiring city, intent event ID, intent topic ID, intent topic name, intent topic category, intent score, intent score change, intent last updated, intent country, intent is surging

## Cognism's plans (2)

- [Cognism, contact us, Pro](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/cognism/contact-us-pro/llms.txt): stored
- [Cognism, contact us, Standard](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/cognism/contact-us/llms.txt): stored

## Cognism's calls (1)

- `POST /companies/filter`: [Cognism, contact us, Pro](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/cognism/contact-us-pro/llms.txt)

## Similar plans of other providers

- [DataForSEO, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/dataforseo/contact-us/llms.txt): stored
- [Exa, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/exa/contact-us/llms.txt): stored
- [GetProspect, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/getprospect/contact-us/llms.txt): stored
- [LeadMagic, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/leadmagic/contact-us/llms.txt): stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-18.

- https://docs.cognism.com/docs/credits-and-search-tokens
- https://docs.cognism.com/docs/endpoints
- https://docs.cognism.com/docs/getting-started
- https://docs.cognism.com/docs/pagination
- https://docs.cognism.com/docs/rate-limits
- https://docs.cognism.com/reference/searchcompanies
- https://www.cognism.com/customer-terms/gtc
- https://www.cognism.com/mcp-api
- https://www.cognism.com/our-data
- https://www.cognism.com/pricing