A contract,
or a balance.
Cognism is an annual enterprise agreement with seats and export caps written into it. Kavex is a balance you top up when you feel like it and stop using when you do not. Almost everything in the table below follows from that one difference.
There is not a single invented Cognism number on this page. We compare structure, which anyone can check. Where we cannot verify something from the outside, the cell says so and sends you to their pricing page.
THIS IS THE LINE KAVEX ENDS EVERY RUN WITH · WHAT IT FOUND, HOW LONG IT TOOK, WHAT IT COST
Structure, not adjectives.
Seven things that decide which of the two fits the way you work. Read the right column with their pricing page open.
Forty-five scrapers open the live page the second you press Run. Nothing is served from an old copy, because there is no stored copy.
An enterprise database with its own collection and consent process behind it. Check their documentation for how a record is sourced and refreshed.
Delivered results. A Google Maps lead is 2 credits, so $2 per thousand, and 1 credit is $0.001. What a run did not find comes straight back to your balance.
An annual contract, agreed up front, usually with seats and an export cap inside it. Check with their sales team for the current figure.
Forty-five, and they are different in kind: Google Maps places, LinkedIn people, Trustpilot reviews, Booking properties, Indeed jobs, Amazon products, Reddit threads.
One set, built around B2B people and the companies they work for. For places, listings, reviews or job posts, check whether their coverage reaches that far.
They never expire. Top up in March, use the rest in December, nobody resets anything at midnight.
Allowances run for the contract year. Check the contract for what happens to the ones you did not use.
CSV with no row cap, every column the run produced. The same rows over the API, on the same credits.
Export is capped by the agreement. Check the terms for the annual limit before you count on a big list.
One pot of credits, five people, one invoice. Nobody is charged for the month they did not run anything.
Seats are named in the contract. Check with their sales team for what five of them cost together.
Your first 500 Google Maps leads free, no card, no contract, no call.
Not self-serve. Expect a call and a proposal before you can export anything.
When to take Cognism.
Three cases where we are the wrong tool. If one of them is you, buy theirs.
Procurement needs a contract on paper.
Enterprise review wants a named account team, a signed agreement and a compliance pack. That is a real requirement and it is exactly what they sell.
You need consent records, not a lawful basis argument.
Their database carries its own consent trail. Ours is public data that you become the controller of the moment it lands in your export.
You want onboarding done for you.
Kavex is self-serve and stays that way. If you want somebody to sit with your team for a week, buy theirs.
No seats. Just a balance.
Top up whatever you want, whenever you want. A bigger top-up buys more credits for the same dollar, and every scraper has one published rate underneath.
CREDITS NEVER EXPIRE · NO SUBSCRIPTION, NO SEATS, NO CONTRACT · SAME PRICES OVER THE API