# Cognism, contact us: Company discovery API

> Search companies

Cognism's company discovery API on its Standard plan.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/cognism/contact-us
- Get it: https://www.cognism.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.cognism.com/reference/searchcompanies
- Sold by: Cognism (https://www.cognism.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-17

## Price

- Billing: contact

## Charges

- Most per search: 100,000

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search companies

## Data

- 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: only your internal business purposes, not sublicensed, resold, transferred, disclosed or made available to third parties without Cognism's written consent, not to train, fine-tune or improve a third-party AI model or LLM, no bots, scrapers, scripts or AI agents but Cognism's own integrations and interfaces

## Rate limit

- Per second: 8.33

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: a filter body (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: Standard
- Who can get it: a business: the entity named as Customer on its Order

## The 71 fields in the plan's answer

total results, page size, next cursor, has more, offset, company ID, company 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, technology name, technology categories, 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

## Cognism's plans (1)

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

## Cognism's calls (1)

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

## Similar plans of other providers

- [Adapt.io, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/adapt-io/contact-us/llms.txt)
- [Apollo, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/apollo/contact-us/llms.txt)
- [BetterContact, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/bettercontact/contact-us/llms.txt)
- [CompanyEnrich, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/companyenrich/contact-us/llms.txt)

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-17.

- 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/pricing