Cognism vs Lusha: Data Enrichment Tool Comparison
Compare Cognism and Lusha side by side. See pricing, features, and integrations to choose the right data enrichment tool for your needs.
Lusha publishes a full credit table and is currently on sale, showing Starter at $37.45 a month against $49.90 with 4,800 credits granted upfront for the year. Cognism publishes no price, sells Standard and Pro with 5 seats included, and states that a credit reveals a contact permanently.
Key takeaways
- Lusha credit table prices a verified email at 1 credit and a phone number at 5, so Starter 4,800 credits is 4,800 emails or 960 mobiles.
- Lusha grants credits upfront for the year and bills yearly, with 2 free seats on Pro and 5 on Premium.
- Cognism credit reveals a contact permanently, with a second credit spent only when that contact changes jobs.
- Cognism publishes no price at all and directs every route on its pricing page to a personalised quote.
Reviewed and updated August 28, 2026
Cognism vs Lusha: Data Enrichment Tool Comparison
Lusha's pricing page prices a phone number at 5 credits and an email at 1, and grants the year's credits upfront. Cognism's page prices a credit as a permanent reveal: pay once, keep the contact, pay again only if they change jobs. Both call it a credit and neither means the same thing by it.
Once you hold those two definitions side by side, most of the usual coverage argument between these two becomes secondary.
The Short Answer
Lusha publishes everything, currently on sale: Starter at $37.45 a month against a $49.90 list price, Pro at $48.95 against $69.90, Premium at $259.95 against $399.90, all billed yearly with credits granted upfront. Cognism does not publish a price on the page fetched here, and sells Standard and Pro packages with 5 seats included.
Lusha is the faster, cheaper and more predictable purchase. Cognism is the one that answers a compliance question and holds up on European mobile numbers.
What Each Tool Actually Is
Cognism is a compliance-first B2B data platform sold by quote, with phone-verified Diamond Data, Bombora intent and 5 seats included in each package.
Lusha is a contact database with a LinkedIn browser extension and bulk reveal, billed yearly with the year's credits granted upfront.
Lusha's credit table is unusually specific and worth reading before comparing anything. One credit reveals one verified email; a phone number costs 5 credits; an export to CSV or CRM of up to 25 results is 1 credit; an intent topic is 1; a de-anonymised IP address is 2. So Starter's 4,800 credits a year is 4,800 emails or 960 phone numbers, and those are very different products.
Cognism's credit is the opposite kind of unit. Its page states that one credit reveals one contact, that viewing a previously revealed contact is free, and that a credit is only used again if that contact changes jobs. A team that returns to the same accounts year after year is building an asset rather than renewing a rental.
Pricing Comparison
Standard, 5 seats included
Starter, billed yearly, $49.90 list
Cognism Pricing
| Package | Price | Seats | What it adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | Quoted | 5 seats included | Core prospecting, list building, CSV enrichment |
| Pro | Quoted | 5 seats included | Higher-quality mobile data, on-demand verification, intent |
| CRM Enrichment | Quoted | Add-on or standalone | Ongoing CRM record maintenance |
| Data-as-a-Service | Quoted | Add-on or standalone | API and bulk delivery |
The Cognism pricing page fetched for this comparison publishes no prices, and its own FAQ says why: "Cognism pricing is tailored based on the product you need, your team setup and how you plan to use the platform." The same page states that "Sales Prospecting is offered in Standard and Pro packages", each with 5 seats included, and closes on an invitation to "Get a personalised quote for your team".
What the page does publish is the credit rule, and it is unusual enough to matter. "1 credit = 1 revealed contact", there is "No charge for viewing previously revealed contacts", and a credit is only spent again if that contact changes jobs. So a Cognism credit is closer to a permanent record than to a monthly lookup, which makes a straight credits-per-dollar comparison against a metered tool misleading in Cognism's favour and hard to hold against it.
Source: Cognism Pricing
Lusha Pricing
| Plan | List price | Current price | Credits | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 40 credits per month | 1 seat |
| Starter | $49.90/mo | $37.45/mo | 4,800 credits per year, granted upfront | 1 seat |
| Pro | $69.90/mo | $48.95/mo | 7,200 credits per year, granted upfront | 2 free seats |
| Premium | $399.90/mo | $259.95/mo | 40,800 credits per year, granted upfront | 5 free seats |
| Scale | Custom | Custom | Custom credits per year | Custom |
Lusha's pricing page is running a sale, and the discounted column is the one it displays: Starter at 25 percent off, Pro at 30 percent, Premium at 35 percent, putting $49.90, $69.90 and $399.90 at $37.45, $48.95 and $259.95. Every paid tier on that view is billed yearly with the credits granted upfront, so the monthly figure is an annual commitment expressed monthly.
Lusha's own credit table then prices the units, and a phone number is not a contact. The page charges 1 credit for a verified email address and 5 credits for a phone number, 1 credit for a CSV or CRM export of up to 25 results, 1 credit per intent topic and 2 for a de-anonymised IP address. Starter's 4,800 credits a year is 4,800 emails or 960 phone numbers, and those are very different plans.
Source: Lusha Pricing
What 2,000 emails and 400 mobiles a year costs on Lusha
Only Lusha can be priced here. The example is invented and uses its published credit table.
Two thousand verified emails at 1 credit and 400 mobile numbers at 5 credits is 2,000 plus 2,000, or 4,000 credits for the year. That fits inside Starter's 4,800-credit annual grant with room to spare, at $37.45 a month on the page's current sale, billed yearly and granted upfront.
Double the mobiles to 800 and the same job is 6,000 credits, which pushes it onto Pro and its 7,200-credit year at $48.95. The phone multiplier is doing all the work, which is exactly why the credit table matters more than the headline rate.
Cognism has no published equivalent. The questions that make its quote comparable are the credit allowance for the term, the cost of seats beyond the included five, whether CRM Enrichment sits inside the number, and how a re-reveal is counted. Get all four in writing and only then compare against a Lusha annual total.
Who Should Pick Which
Pick Lusha if you want to know the price today, if usage arrives in bursts that suit an upfront credit grant, or if you need several people to have access cheaply. Pro includes 2 free seats and Premium 5, which is a real saving against per-seat pricing.
Pick Cognism if procurement asks about GDPR before it asks about coverage, or if connect rate on European mobile numbers is the metric your team is judged on. On-demand mobile verification and Diamond Data are the specific things Lusha does not attempt at any tier.
- Yes: Procurement will ask about GDPR compliance
- No: You want a published price today
- Yes: European mobile connect rate is a tracked metric
- No: Usage arrives in bursts rather than evenly
- Yes: You return to the same accounts year after year
- Depends: Intent topics need to be selectable at scale
Feature Breakdown
- Diamond Data phone-verified contacts
- GDPR and CCPA compliant data
- Intent data powered by Bombora
- Technographic data
- Job change and funding alerts
- Browser extension for LinkedIn
- Browser extension for LinkedIn
- CSV enrichment
- Bulk contact reveal
- Intent signal alerts
- Technology stack data
- Custom API
Cognism Key Features
- Diamond Data phone-verified contacts
- GDPR and CCPA compliant data
- Intent data powered by Bombora
- Technographic data
- Job change and funding alerts
- Browser extension for LinkedIn
- CSV enrichment
- On-demand mobile verification
- Target market analysis lists
- Unlimited admin access
Lusha Key Features
- Browser extension for LinkedIn
- CSV enrichment
- Bulk contact reveal
- Intent signal alerts
- Technology stack data
- Custom API
- Team management
- CRM enrichment (Scale)
- SSO (Scale)
Lusha's list is about revealing at scale: bulk reveal, CSV enrichment, intent alerts, technology stack data. Two of its entries carry a tier qualifier, CRM enrichment and SSO on Scale, which is worth checking against your own requirements before comparing entry prices. Cognism's list is about the data being right: verification on demand, compliance, Diamond Data.
Integration Ecosystem
Cognism connects with: Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, SalesLoft, Pipedrive, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Bullhorn, Zapier.
Lusha connects with: Gmail, Outlook, Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Pipedrive, SalesLoft, Zoho CRM, Zapier, Make, n8n.
Lusha's twelve integrations include Make and n8n alongside the CRMs, which suits a team wiring enrichment into its own automations. Cognism's eight include Bullhorn and Microsoft Dynamics 365, which is an enterprise and staffing footprint. Both reach Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach and SalesLoft.
Where Each One Sits In A Cold Outbound Stack
Cognism is the compliance-first enterprise data layer, bought on an annual contract and fed into a sending tool you already own. Lusha is a browser-extension and bulk-reveal layer for teams that already know which accounts they want.
Lusha sits closest to the list: reveal in bulk, export, hand over. Cognism sits at the top of an outbound stack as the source of record, feeding a sequencer somebody else owns.
Neither sends. Because we send one message per campaign and never bump a thread, every address gets one attempt, and a wrong mobile number is a lost conversation rather than a retry. That is the argument for paying more per contact rather than buying more of them, and it is the argument Cognism is built on.
Switching Between Them
Lusha to Cognism is a procurement exercise rather than a technical one, and the thing to time is the credit grant. Lusha's credits are granted upfront for the year, so moving mid-term forfeits whatever is unspent.
Cognism to Lusha means giving up the permanent-reveal model, and the surprise is usually the re-reveal cost on accounts you had treated as already paid for. Export your revealed contacts before the contract ends, because that history does not travel.
Getting Started
- Work out your annual split between emails and mobile numbers, then apply Lusha's 1 and 5 credit rates to it.
- Check whether the Lusha sale price applies to the tier you actually need.
- Ask Cognism the four quote questions above in writing before comparing anything.
- Test 100 mobile numbers from each in your main geography.
- Count seats: Lusha includes 2 free on Pro and 5 on Premium, Cognism includes 5 in each package.
Final Thoughts
Lusha is the better buy when the price has to be known today and the volume is predictable. Cognism is the better buy when accuracy on mobile numbers and a compliance story are what the business is actually buying.
Start from the credit tables. Lusha publishes one and Cognism publishes a rule, and between them they explain most of the price difference.
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- B2B Intent Data: What It Actually Predicts and Which Providers Are Worth Paying For
- Cold Email Bounce Rate Benchmarks: 2026 Performance Data
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Pricing and features are taken from the vendors' own pages. Verify current terms with the vendor before relying on them.
Frequently asked questions.
Frequently asked questions- How does the Lusha credit table work?
- It prices each action separately. One credit reveals a verified email, a phone number costs 5, an export of up to 25 results costs 1, an intent topic costs 1 and a de-anonymised IP address costs 2. So an annual grant of 4,800 credits means very different things depending on your channel mix.
- Why can Cognism not be priced here?
- Because it does not publish prices, by design. Its FAQ states that pricing is tailored to the product you need, your team setup and how you plan to use the platform. What the page does publish is the package structure and the credit rule, which is enough to size a requirement before the call.
- Which is better for European mobile numbers?
- Cognism is the usual answer, since phone-verified Diamond Data and on-demand mobile verification are what the product is built around, alongside GDPR and CCPA compliant sourcing. Test 100 numbers in your own geography before deciding, because coverage varies enough by market to matter.
- Is the Lusha discount worth planning around?
- Check it applies to your tier before you do. The page shows Starter, Pro and Premium at 25, 30 and 35 percent off, putting $49.90, $69.90 and $399.90 at $37.45, $48.95 and $259.95, all billed yearly with credits granted upfront. Discounts on that page move, so verify before budgeting.
About the author.
Tim Carden is CMO / CTO at RevenueFlow, which builds and operates outbound revenue engines for B2B companies. Studied at McGill University.
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