Head-to-head
Cognism vs Crustdata
Cognism: Sales-intelligence provider known for phone-verified mobile numbers. Crustdata: Real-time B2B data API covering 200M+ companies and 800M+ people profiles, with live LinkedIn-style screening endpoints.
Overlapping capabilities: People search, Email finding, Phone enrichment.
Benchmark: people search
Cognism has no completed benchmark run yet — this comparison fills in as suites run. Reviews below are live.
Reviews across the web
Cognism scores well with buyers (4.5 on G2 across ~1,200 reviews, 4.7 on Capterra) and is the community's default recommendation for GDPR-compliant European data and verified mobile numbers. The consistent knocks are expensive, opaque pricing that shuts out small teams, weaker US coverage, and the gap between the headline accuracy claim and the full database. Data-subject privacy complaints drive a much lower Trustpilot score.
Full roundup →Crustdata has a sparse but genuinely positive review footprint: a 4.4-star rating from 13 Product Hunt reviews and essentially no G2 or Capterra corpus, reflecting how early-stage the product is. Users who have adopted it praise the developer experience and its real-time webhook alerts as a real differentiator, while the open question in reviews is whether data quality and latency hold up at production scale. Buyers should weight their own bake-off results heavily given the small sample of public reviews.
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