Cognism

aid: cognism
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cognism/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Cognism
kind: company
description: 'Cognism is a B2B sales intelligence platform selling verified emails, mobile numbers, direct dials, firmographic
  and technographic data, buying-intent signals and contact enrichment to sales, marketing and RevOps teams, with a compliance-first
  posture built around GDPR and CCPA. Its API is a three-service REST contract published as a Postman collection at developers.cognism.com
  — a Search API for finding contacts and companies by filter, an Enrich API for matching records you already hold, and a
  Redeem API for exchanging the resulting redeem ID for the full profile. Search and Enrich return preview records and cost
  nothing; credits are consumed only when a contact is redeemed for the first time. A Compliance API exposes the opt-out suppression
  list, and an Entitlement API reports which fields the account is licensed to receive. API access is sales-gated: it must
  be enabled on the subscription, field-level entitlements provisioned by Cognism, and a six-month bearer token generated
  in the application.'
accessModel:
  pricing: sales-led
  onboarding: sales-gated
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  docs_public: true
  label: Sales-gated
  confidence: high
  source:
  - https://www.cognism.com/pricing
  - https://help.cognism.com/hc/en-gb/articles/37383359556498-API-Requirements-Entitlements
  - https://developers.cognism.com/
  note: Documentation is fully public — the developer portal, the complete API reference and the help centre are all readable
    without an account. Access is not. API use requires the subscription to include API access (the Data-as-a-Service product,
    which itself requires a prospecting seat), field-level Entitlements provisioned by the Cognism team after Account Manager
    approval, and a token minted in the app. No prices, no free tier, no trial and no self-serve signup are published.
  generated: '2026-08-13'
  method: searched
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cognism.png
tags:
- Sales Intelligence
- B2B
- Enrichment
- Contact Data
- GDPR
- Intent Data
- Lead Generation
- Firmographics
- Technographics
- Company Data
- Prospecting
- Data as a Service
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-08-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: cognism:enrichment
  name: Cognism Enrichment API
  description: The Cognism API — Search, Enrich, Redeem, Entitlement, Filter and Compliance endpoints for B2B contact and
    company data. Search finds records by filter and Enrich matches records you already hold; both return previews with a
    redeem ID and cost nothing. Redeem exchanges that ID for the full profile and consumes a credit on a contact's first redemption.
    Fourteen Filter endpoints publish the controlled vocabularies the search filters accept, and the Compliance endpoints
    expose the GDPR/CCPA opt-out suppression list.
  humanURL: https://developers.cognism.com/
  baseURL: https://app.cognism.com
  tags:
  - Enrichment
  - Contacts
  - Companies
  - Search
  - Compliance
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cognism-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: https://developers.cognism.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.cognism.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.cognism.com/hc/en-gb/articles/37382868352914-Cognism-API-Overview
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://help.cognism.com/hc/en-gb/articles/34195245226258-How-to-Generate-an-API-Token
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://help.cognism.com/hc/en-gb/articles/37383428888978-API-Authentication-Credits
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cognism-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/cognism-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/cognism-data-model.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/_index.yml
  - type: ContactSales
    url: https://www.cognism.com/contact
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/cognism-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cognism-authentication.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/cognism-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/cognism-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cognism-domain-security.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.cognism.com/security
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.cognism.com/compliance
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cognism-conformance.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/cognism-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/cognism-lifecycle.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/cognism-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cognism-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Cognism
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognism
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cognism.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developers.cognism.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://help.cognism.com/hc/en-gb
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.cognism.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.cognism.com/demo
- type: Login
  url: https://app.cognism.com/auth/sign-in
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.cognism.com/terms-of-website-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cognism.com/privacy-policy
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cognism-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cognism-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/cognism-finops.yml
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.cognism.com/integrations
- url: https://www.cognism.com/blog/rss.xml
  type: Blog
integrations:
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- name: arrow
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- name: OutreachLogo-Horizontal-PassionBlueWhite
- name: hs-white
- name: bullhorn-white
- name: Salesloft-white
- name: ms-dynamics
- name: salesforce-2
- name: HubSpot-Logo
- name: Pipedrive-2
- name: bh-logo
- name: Dynamics-365-logo-1536x864
- name: Salesloft-logo-removebg-preview
- name: OutreachLogo-Horizontal-PassionBlueGrey
- name: Cognism_Infographic 5 (Dark)
- name: Simpleshow---company-logo-white-rectangle-1
- name: Simpleshow-1
- name: lead forensics-3
- name: Lead Forensics
- name: Coralogix---company-logo-white-rectangle
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- name: Televerde-logo-transparent-colour-1
- name: cognism-logo-white
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 16
  artifacts_updated: 6
  pass: local-v1
  headline: Found the real first-party contract. Cognism publishes its API as a Postman collection at developers.cognism.com
    (25 operations, published Production environment naming https://app.cognism.com as the base). Saved verbatim, converted
    to OpenAPI 3.1, and used to ground 16 artifacts. Also corrected the baseURL, replaced a dead developer-portal link, and
    removed a fabricated "conceptual" GraphQL schema that credited Cognism with an API it has never shipped.
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: null
  detail: Contract discovery beat the JS-rendered docs host. developers.cognism.com is a Postman Documenter publication, not
    a spec site — the real, first-party, machine-readable Cognism API collection (25 operations, published Production environment)
    was pulled from documenter.gw.postman.com/api/collections/14862827/UVJhBu4C and converted to OpenAPI 3.1.
  evidence:
  - url: https://developers.cognism.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://documenter.gw.postman.com/api/collections/14862827/UVJhBu4C
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.cognism.com/api
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-08-13'