AlphaSense vs Apollo.io vs Cognism vs Crunchbase
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
AlphaSense
AI-powered market intelligence platform
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Apollo.io
Sales platform with AI-powered prospecting
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Cognism
Phone-verified B2B mobile data, strongest in EMEA
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Crunchbase
Company data platform with AI features
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.6 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Enterprise | Freemium | Paid | Subscription |
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| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
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| Founded | 2008 | 2015 | — | 2007 |
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| Verdict | AlphaSense is a leading AI market-intelligence and financial-research platform that searches across SEC filings, earnings transcripts, broker research, news, and expert-call libraries, with strong semantic search and gen... |
Apollo.io is an all-in-one B2B sales platform pairing a large contact and company database (270M+ contacts) with AI-assisted prospecting, enrichment, sequencing, and outreach. Its value is strong relative to stitching to... |
Cognism's reputation rests on one thing done well: mobile phone accuracy. Its "Diamond Data" numbers are human-verified, operators literally call to confirm, and users report connect rates two to three times higher than... |
Crunchbase is a widely used source of company, funding, investor and acquisition data, increasingly layered with AI — predictive growth signals, natural-language search and AI-generated company insights. For investors, s... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.