For a small team, Freelvy, Lusha, Apollo, Kaspr, UpLead and RocketReach keep mobile numbers within reach on monthly plans, without Cognism's annual contract.
Key takeaways
- Cognism publishes no prices. Its two prospecting packages each include 5 seats, per its pricing page read on September 23, 2026.
- Cognism sells on quotes only, so a small team cannot size the cost before it talks to sales.
- Every package carries 5 seats, so a team of two pays for seats it does not use or negotiates.
- As of September 27, 2026, the cheapest monthly plans that include mobile numbers start at $49.90 on Lusha and $65 on Apollo, per their pricing pages.
- Kaspr, owned by Cognism since April 2022, sells 100 phone credits a month for $65 per user on monthly billing, according to Emelia's and Overloop's 2026 analyses, as of October 4, 2026.
What is the main complaint about Cognism?
The main complaint is the commercial model, not the data. Cognism sells through quotes only, on prepaid annual contracts, and each package starts with 5 seats. A team of two cannot buy a small first step.
Cognism's pricing page, read on September 23, 2026, shows two prospecting packages, Standard and Pro, each with 5 seats included and no amounts. The price comes on a quote, so a team cannot compare it with the monthly plans below before it signs a prepaid annual contract.
What does Cognism cost a team of two or three?
Cognism publishes no price, so no reliable figure exists without a quote. What is public is the structure. There are two packages, Standard and Pro, each sold with 5 seats included and no amounts, per Cognism's pricing page read on September 23, 2026.
A team of two would therefore pay for five seats and use two. For sales leaders running a small team, the package is sized for a floor of callers, so the right question is how many people will dial every day. Our Cognism pricing analysis works through the quoted model at 10 and 25 seats.
Which Cognism alternatives fit a small team?
Eight tools cover the small-team case, and they split by the pain you want fixed. Freelvy, Lusha, Apollo, Kaspr, UpLead and RocketReach publish monthly prices and include mobile numbers. Seamless.AI and ZoomInfo keep an annual model but cover gaps Cognism leaves. Cognism sits in the first row as the reference.
The chart compares the cheapest plan that includes mobile numbers, billed monthly, for one user. Cognism, Seamless.AI and ZoomInfo publish no price, so they are left out.
| Option | Price |
|---|---|
| Freelvy Starter | €49/month |
| Lusha Starter | $49.90/month |
| Apollo Basic | $65/month |
| Kaspr Starter | $65/month |
| RocketReach Pro | $79/month |
| UpLead Essentials | $99/month |
What do 100 mobile numbers cost on each tool?
On entry plans billed monthly, 100 mobile numbers cost from about $21 on Apollo to $65 on Kaspr, by our arithmetic. Freelvy's Starter plan holds exactly 100 verified phones a month. Cognism publishes no price, so it has no row here.
The last two columns are our division, assuming every credit goes to phones. Lusha is left out because its page does not state a credit cost per phone. Freelvy's row restates its credit rule, where a failed row is not billed.
Freelvy, verified mobiles and the outreach in one monthly plan
Freelvy fixes the seat problem directly. Every plan includes unlimited team members and bills usage, so two reps or ten pay for the contacts they pull, monthly, with no lock-in.
Freelvy is our product. It is an AI sales platform you use the way you use ChatGPT or Claude. You describe the customer you want in one prompt. Freelvy searches 40+ live sources at query time, including maps, official company registries, job boards, storefronts and ad libraries, instead of filtering a stored database.
Best for sales and revenue leaders who want every rep prospecting, with verified mobiles, without buying a seat for each one.
Strengths. Every row is enriched through waterfalls of 23 email providers and 13 phone providers. The waterfalls find and verify more than 92% of emails and find more than 90% of phone numbers. A row that fails verification is never delivered and never billed. A verified email costs 3 credits and a verified phone 15. Search, enrichment and sequencing sit in one thread. The sequencer is unlimited and sends from your own Google or Microsoft mailbox, so sending is not billed per email. Buying signals such as hiring, funding, reviews and ads, and scheduled briefs, come with it. See how contact data is verified.
Price. €49 a month for 1,500 credits on Starter, €179 for 6,000 on Pro and €499 for 18,000 on Max. Plans are monthly with no lock-in.
Free 7-day trial, no credit card, at freelvy.com.
Freelvy isn't for teams that would rather pay one tool for the data, another for enrichment and a third for sending.
If the annual contract is the pain, which tools bill monthly?
Lusha, Apollo and Kaspr all sell mobile numbers on plans you can stop at the end of a month. Each one bills per user, so they suit a team of one to four. Kaspr is the closest to Cognism, because Cognism owns it and announced in 2022 that it would merge Kaspr's data into its products.
1. Lusha, if you look up one contact at a time
Best for a rep or founder who needs a number while already looking at a profile.
Strengths. A free plan gives 40 credits a month. Starter costs $49.90 a month for one seat and 400 credits, and Pro $69.90 with two seats, per Lusha's pricing page on September 27, 2026. The browser extension fits an existing workflow. Our Lusha pricing breakdown works out a phone-heavy month on each plan.
Limits. Credits are metered per lookup, so a calling-heavy month uses the balance faster. Teams above five users go through sales. Starter's credits do not carry into the next month.
Price. $49.90, $69.90 or $399.90 a month on monthly billing, or $37.45, $52.45 and $299.95 billed annually.
2. Apollo, if you want the cheapest mobile on an entry plan
Best for a small team that wants a database and a sequencer under one license.
Strengths. Basic costs $65 per seat on monthly billing, with 2,500 credits a month, per Apollo's pricing page on September 27, 2026. At 8 credits a phone, that is about 312 mobiles a month, the lowest unit cost here. Sequences and a dialer are included, and a free plan lets you test first.
Limits. Accuracy outside North America is the recurring complaint in 2026 reviews, and Cognism's strength is exactly where Apollo is weaker. Credits expire at the end of each billing cycle. Every user needs a seat.
Price. $65 or $99 per seat a month on monthly billing, or $49, $79 and $119 billed annually. Organization is annual only, with a three-seat minimum.
3. Kaspr, if you want Cognism's data on a per-user plan
Best for a rep who prospects from social profiles and calls the numbers he finds.
Strengths. Cognism acquired Kaspr in April 2022, according to Tracxn and ZoomInfo's comparison page, and announced that year that it would merge Kaspr's data into its products. Kaspr sells by the user and the month, with no seat minimum. Starter includes 100 phone credits a month and unlimited B2B emails, per Emelia's and Overloop's 2026 analyses.
Limits. The phone allowance is small, at 100 credits on Starter and 200 on Business. That puts a mobile at about $0.65 on Starter, the highest unit cost in this list. The workflow centres on a browser extension rather than a full database search.
Price. Starter costs $65 per user a month on monthly billing or $49 billed annually, and Business $99 or $79, according to the same analyses. Kaspr's own pricing page is the reference to check.
If the cost per mobile is the pain, which tools are cheapest per number?
UpLead and RocketReach price the contact itself rather than a seat with a large allowance. UpLead bundles email and mobile into one credit. RocketReach refunds a lookup that finds nothing verified. Both suit a small team that calls from a short, chosen list.
4. UpLead, if you want email and mobile in one credit
Best for a founder or rep who calls as much as he emails, from a small list.
Strengths. One credit returns a contact with both the email and the mobile, so a calling list costs the same as an email list. Essentials costs $99 a month for 170 credits, per UpLead's pricing page on September 27, 2026. Monthly plans carry no long-term commitment, and a 7-day trial includes 5 credits.
Limits. Allowances are small, at 170 credits on Essentials and 400 on Plus. Both are single-user plans. Professional is billed annually only.
Price. $99 or $199 a month on monthly billing, or $74 and $149 billed annually.
5. RocketReach, if you need occasional lookups with refunds
Best for a small team that prospects in bursts and wants to stop paying the month it stops.
Strengths. A lookup that finds no verified email or phone is refunded, per its pricing page FAQ. Pro adds phone numbers and CRM integrations at $79 per user a month on monthly billing. RocketReach's help center says you can cancel anytime, with no minimum term.
Limits. Essentials covers emails only, so mobiles start on Pro. Monthly plans cap lookups at 100, 250 and 1,000 a month. Every user pays a seat.
Price. $39, $79 or $169 per user a month on monthly billing, or $19, $52 and $115 billed annually, per its pricing page on September 27, 2026.
If you still need depth, which annual tools are worth a look?
Seamless.AI and ZoomInfo do not fix the contract. They answer a different pain. Seamless.AI bundles calling and email with its contact search, and ZoomInfo covers large North American accounts where Cognism is thinner. Both expect a year of commitment.
6. Seamless.AI, if you want search, dialing and email together
Best for a team of five or more that wants contact search, calls and email under one agreement.
Strengths. Seamless.AI researches contacts in real time, and a credit is spent each time it finds emails and phone numbers. Its Connect workspace covers email, calls and tasks.
Limits. No paid plan has a public price, so a small team cannot size the cost before it talks to sales. It trades one annual commitment for another.
Price. Not published by the vendor.
7. ZoomInfo, if your accounts are large and North American
Best for teams selling to enterprise accounts in North America, with a budget already set for annual data.
Strengths. ZoomInfo ranked first in 142 G2 Spring 2026 reports, according to its own announcement. Its depth on large accounts, org charts and intent data is the reference. It covers the segment where 2026 reviews describe Cognism as thinner.
Limits. Entry is an annual commitment. Cleanlist's 2026 guide reports annual billing only and a three-seat minimum on every tier.
Price. Not published by the vendor. Our ZoomInfo alternatives comparison covers the tools that replace it.
Who should stay on Cognism?
Stay if you run five or more people who dial every day into Europe, and a wrong mobile costs more than a credit. Cognism's Diamond Data page, read on September 23, 2026, claims over 10 million phone-verified contacts and a connect rate three times higher than standard mobiles. No tool here matches that on its home ground.
The 5 seats included in each package stop being a cost when five people use them.
Leave if you are one to four people and cannot prove the volume before signing. The same goes if most of your buyers sit outside Europe. Ask for Cognism's free data sample on your own target accounts first. It shows whether the mobiles justify a year.
Which Cognism alternative should a small team pick?
Pick by the pain that sent you looking. Seats point to Freelvy and unit cost points to Apollo. Kaspr, owned by Cognism and sold per user, fits a rep who prospects from social profiles. Annual tools only make sense when the pain is depth.
- Seats and a whole thread: Freelvy, with unlimited team members, verified contacts and sequences from one prompt.
- Cheapest mobile per credit: Apollo Basic, at about $0.21 a phone.
- A Cognism-owned tool without the contract: Kaspr, at $65 per user a month.
- Email and mobile in one credit: UpLead.
- Occasional lookups with refunds: RocketReach Pro.
- One contact at a time from a profile: Lusha.
- Calling built in, on an annual agreement: Seamless.AI.
- Large North American accounts: ZoomInfo.
How we verified this
We read Cognism's pricing and Diamond Data pages on September 23, 2026. Lusha, Apollo, UpLead and RocketReach prices are those on their pricing pages on September 27, 2026. On October 4, 2026, we read 2026 analyses from Emelia, Overloop and Cleanlist. Costs per mobile are our arithmetic.
FAQ
Is there a cheaper alternative to Cognism for a small team?
Yes. Lusha, Apollo, Kaspr, UpLead and RocketReach all sell mobile numbers on monthly plans from $49.90 to $99 per user, per their 2026 prices. Freelvy starts at €49 a month with unlimited team members. Cognism publishes no price and sells on quote.
Can you buy Cognism for one or two users?
Not as a small package. Cognism's pricing page, read on September 23, 2026, shows Standard and Pro each with 5 seats included. Prices come by quote on prepaid annual contracts, according to 2026 analyses. A team of two pays for a five-seat package or negotiates, which is why small teams look elsewhere.
Is Kaspr the same as Cognism?
Kaspr belongs to Cognism, which acquired it in April 2022, and announced in 2022 that it would merge Kaspr's data into its products. They are separate products. Kaspr sells per user per month, with 100 phone credits on Starter at $65 a month, according to 2026 analyses. Cognism sells five-seat annual packages by quote.
Which Cognism alternative has the cheapest mobile numbers?
On entry plans billed monthly, Apollo Basic works out at about $0.21 per phone, at 8 credits each from 2,500 monthly credits. RocketReach Pro comes to about $0.32 per lookup and UpLead to about $0.58 per full contact. These are our own divisions, assuming every credit goes to phones.
Does Cognism offer monthly billing?
No. Third-party 2026 analyses describe prepaid annual contracts with no monthly option. Renewal terms are set in the quote, so check the notice period before signing.
Which alternative is best for European mobile numbers?
Cognism remains the strongest for phone-verified European mobiles. Kaspr, which Cognism owns, sells per user on a monthly plan. For teams that would rather describe a customer than buy a region, Freelvy searches 40+ live sources and runs 13 phone providers in cascade from one prompt.
Sources and methodology
Cognism's pages were read on September 23, 2026, and vendor pricing pages on September 27, 2026. Third-party analyses were read on October 4, 2026. Every cost per mobile is our own arithmetic on those figures.
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- cognism.com, diamond data
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- cleanlist.ai, blog 2026 03 19 zoominfo pricing guide
- ir.zoominfo.com, zoominfo ranks no 1 142 g2 spring 2026 reports
Related: Cognism pricing in 2026, ZoomInfo alternatives and Lusha pricing in 2026.