Cognism pricing and alternatives: cached phone finder API

Cognism's site llms.txt Best phone finder API in 2026

82% complete: 9 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields

Plan: Pro one of Cognism's 2 plans

Call: POST /persons/filter Cognism's only call

POST /persons/filterContact us, Pro

About this item

Stored. You get phones from Cognism's database. Cognism doesn't say how old its phones are.
9 of the 11 key fields we check. Number, Verification, Do not call, Name, Job, Links, Place, Company, Email.
No public price. You ask Cognism for one.
One call. You call POST /persons/filter. Every input is optional.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Cognism: cached phone finder API alternatives

We list other providers' plans with no public price. These plans come closest to this plan in number of key fields. Each plan in the table gives stored data, not live data, like this plan.

	This planCognism, contact us, Pro	Adapt.io, contact us	Amplemarket, contact us, Growth, GET /people/find	AeroLeads, contact us	Enrich.so, contact us, Enterprise, POST /reverse-lookup/phones/bulk
Completeness	82%	73%	64%	55%	27%
Billing	contact	contact	contact	contact	contact
Enough for	not published	not published	20,000 calls a year	not published	not published
Freshness	stored	stored	stored	stored	stored
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)	anyone with a work email	anyone with a business email	anyone with a work email	anyone 18 or over, on request through Talk to sales, for an organization, someone with authority to bind it

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.

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

Number
Line type, not in the answer
Verification
Do not call
Country, not in the answer
Name
Job
Links
Place
Company
Email

Price
Billing	contact

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Per	result
Also pays for	Dictionaries · from the same budget: Search companies · Count persons · Count companies · Prospecting platform · Enrich

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Cognism's phone-verified mobiles are premium records which go through additional layers of verification checks. Each contact is verified using manual and automated processes to ensure accuracy. This significantly increases the likelihood of connecting with the intended decision-maker.

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
Batch	100

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	nothing required. Optional: person.contact.linkedInUrl.include (LinkedIn profile URLs, matched exactly), person.contact.email.include, person.fullName, company.domain, company.name, the other person and company filters, options, view (demographics, contacts, education, pastCompanies, skills, job_join_events, job_leave_events, job_transition_events, email_change_events, phone_change_events, location_change_events), limit, cursor, offset
Method	POST
Path	/persons/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 67 fields the plan's answer can hold

total results, page size, next cursor, has more, offset, redeem ID, person ID, company name, full name, first name, last name, job title, LinkedIn URL, country, state, city, seniority ID, seniority, departments, is CXO, skills, education school, education degree, education start date, education end date, past job company name, past job company LinkedIn URL, past job title, past job start date, past job end date, job join date, job join title, job leave date, job leave title, job transition date, job transition title from, job transition title to, email change date, email change from, email change score from, email change to, email change score to, email change type, phone change date, phone change from, phone change score from, phone change to, phone change score to, phone change type, location change date, location change type, location change country from, location change country to, email, email SHA256, email score, direct phone, direct phone score, direct phone DNC type, direct phone DNC country, direct phone verified at, mobile phone rank, mobile phone, mobile phone score, mobile phone DNC type, mobile phone DNC country, mobile phone verified at