Frequently asked questions
What teams ask us about pricing, data quality, integrations and compliance, in one place. If your question is missing, email contact@pipecorn.com and we reply within 24 hours.
Getting started
What is Pipecorn?
Pipecorn is a B2B go-to-market data platform. It searches 45.2 million companies and 553.6 million professional profiles, then finds a verified work email and mobile number for each contact through more than 100 data providers.
We're a small sales team. Is Pipecorn worth it?
Yes. Pipecorn saves one SDR 3β5 hours a week the moment your ICP is defined. You get verified pipeline on day one no analyst, no agency, no workflow building.
How long does setup take?
Under 30 minutes. Connect your CRM. Define your ICP. Your first list is ready before standup.
Pricing and credits
How much does Pipecorn cost?
There is a free plan with 500 exported leads and 150 credits a month, and no credit card is needed. Paid plans start from $41/mo for Build, from $124/mo for Grow and from $583/mo for Scale. An email costs 3 credits and a mobile costs 30.
What's the catch with the Free plan?
No catch 500 leads exported / month, 150 credits to test our enrichment quality, full Chrome extension, AI lead cleaning, waterfall enrichment across 100+ providers. No credit card required. It's a real plan, not a 14-day trial.
What's a credit, and how do emails and phone numbers consume them?
Credits are how we meter enrichment. One verified email = 3 credits, one mobile phone number = 30 credits. A lead enriched with both costs 33 credits. You only spend credits on contacts we actually find never on bounces or wrong numbers.
What's the difference between leads exported and credits?
A lead is a company contact you add to a list (export to your CRM or sequence). A credit is what you spend to reveal that contact's email or phone. Each plan has a lead-export cap (Free 500, Build 5K, Grow 25K, Scale unlimited) and a separate monthly credit budget that you size with the dropdown.
Am I charged when Pipecorn does not find a contact?
No. Credits are only spent on emails and mobiles that come back verified. Unused credits roll over for as long as your subscription is active.
Do unused credits roll over?
Yes credits roll over forever as long as your subscription is active. If you don't use everything in a month, it stays in your wallet for the next one.
What happens if I run out of credits mid-month?
You can top up at the same per-credit rate as your plan, or upgrade to a higher tier and we'll prorate the difference. Lead exports keep working you just can't reveal new emails or phones until you refill.
Do I have to sign an annual contract?
No. Monthly plans are month-to-month and you can cancel before the next billing date. Yearly plans are optional and cost less per month.
Can I change plans or cancel anytime?
Yes. Monthly plans are month-to-month cancel any time before the next billing date. Yearly plans run for 12 months at the discounted rate; you can still upgrade mid-cycle and we'll prorate. Downgrades take effect at the renewal date.
Do I pay per user, or are seats included?
Seats are free on Build, Grow and Scale. Invite your whole sales team, ops team, and managers at no extra cost you only pay for the workspace's credit and export volume.
Which plans include API and MCP access?
All of them. Free gets API and MCP access to try it, Build a low rate limit (for light automation), Grow a medium one, and Scale runs at high throughput. Every plan uses the same REST endpoints and MCP tools, you only scale the call budget. Webhooks come with the paid plans.
Data quality and coverage
Where does the contact data come from?
The profile layer is our own index. The email and the mobile come from a waterfall across 100+ providers, queried in sequence and routed by the lead's country, because coverage differs by market. It stops at the first verified match, so you are billed for the provider that delivered and never for the ones that missed.
How good is the contact data?
Every contact runs through a waterfall across 100+ providers and is verified before it reaches you, which gives 93% enrichment coverage. Bonx went from 40% to 80% phone coverage compared with Zeliq.
Do we pay for bad data?
Never. You only pay for verified contacts. Bounces, invalid phones, dead emails they're on us.
How do I know a contact is reachable before I pay for it?
Two ways, both free. Previewing a segment returns its exact total and the first 25 profiles without spending a credit or touching your plan limits. And for a single profile, /contacts/check_data_availability answers whether we hold a work email, a personal email and a mobile before you enrich it. A per-record answer beats a marketing average.
Lead database
How many people are in the lead database?
553.6 million profiles, counted live on the people index in July 2026. That number on its own is worth less than it looks, though: Sales Navigator displays more profiles than we do on most job titles, and exports no email and no phone at all. The figure to compare is how many of those people you can actually reach. Across matched contacts, 71β81% come back with a verified work email and 73β86% with a verified mobile.
What can I actually filter on?
Job titles and excluded job titles, past titles, 26 LinkedIn functions, 10 seniority levels, location, industry, current company and past company, company size, company type and company headquarters, years of experience, years at the company and years in the current role, plus your own saved account and lead lists and a free-text keyword. Filters combine, and every one of them is available in the app, over the API and over MCP.
Can I search on people who just changed jobs?
Yes, on the database, over a fixed 90-day window. Job-change tracking then watches the profiles you already care about and re-checks them monthly, and new-hire tracking runs the other way: a persona plus a company filter, checked weekly. The other LinkedIn signal flags β posted recently, viewed your profile, follows your company β need a synced Sales Navigator account, and the API says so rather than returning a silently empty result: βThese filters require live mode (live: true) and are not supported with live: falseβ.
How is this priced?
On a flat subscription, with the prices published so you never have to ask for a quote. Filtering, previewing a segment count and resolving locations or industries are free. Pulling leads into your workspace runs against your plan's limits, not against credits. Credits are only spent on enrichment: 3 for a work email, 30 for a mobile, and only when something comes back.
Can I search for the people inside a specific account list?
Yes, and it is the main reason teams run both halves here. Build the account list in the company database, save it, then feed it back in as a filter and apply a persona across it. You can also ask a single company how many people match a persona before you pull any of them, which is how most ABM programmes decide where to spend.
Company database
How many companies are in the database?
45.2 million as of October 2026. That is what an unfiltered search returns, and you can run it yourself to check. Some databases advertise a bigger number, but much of that count is duplicates, dead registrations and shells with no working domain. We index fewer of those, and we carry real headcount, growth, funding and stack data on the rest.
How fresh is the data, and how do I check?
Every enriched record returns a last_updated timestamp, so you can read how old it is instead of taking our word for it. Records are re-crawled continuously, and re-enriching an account forces a refresh whenever you want one. Headcount, hiring and traffic move the most, so those fields carry growth rates as well as a current value.
What can I actually filter on?
Eight firmographic facets: company name, industry, company type, location, company size, department headcount, annual revenue and year founded. Then four signal facets: headcount growth, hiring, technology and lookalikes. Filters combine, and keyword search accepts boolean queries with AND, OR, NOT and parentheses, so you can express an ICP that does not fit a dropdown.
Do you have contact data for the people inside these companies?
Yes, and it is the main reason teams run their company research here instead of on a pure data API. Once a segment is built, you can apply your persona across those accounts and enrich the people it matches with verified work emails and mobile numbers, through our waterfall across 100+ providers. Most company-data vendors stop at the firmographic record and leave the contact problem with you.
Is it available over an API and over MCP?
Both, on the same data. There are REST endpoints for company search, enrichment, headcount, funding, tech stack and lookalikes, and an MCP server that exposes the same capabilities to Claude and other agents so they can build and qualify segments from a plain-language brief. The app, the API and MCP all read the same index. There is no separate, thinner dataset behind the integrations.
How is this priced?
On a flat subscription, with the prices published so you never have to ask for a quote. Company search and import run against your plan's monthly limits. Enrichment credits are only spent when you enrich: 3 for an email, 30 for a mobile. Filtering, previewing a segment count and resolving industries or technologies are all free, so you can size a market before you buy any of it.
Can I monitor a segment instead of exporting it once?
Yes. Save a search and it can be re-run so new matching companies surface as they appear, and job-change tracking watches the people you already care about. That turns a one-off list into a queue: companies that just crossed your growth threshold, and champions who just moved somewhere you can sell.
Mapping your TAM
What is a TAM, and what does mapping it mean?
Your TAM (total addressable market) is every company that could buy what you sell. Mapping it means turning that idea into a list you can count and split by size or location. In Pipecorn you build it with filters on 45.2M companies, and you see the count before you import anything.
Does it cost credits to count my market?
No. Filtering and counting are free. Importing companies uses your plan's monthly limit, and you only spend credits when you reveal contact details, 3 for an email and 30 for a mobile.
Which filters can I use to define my TAM?
Company name, industry, company type, location, company size, department headcount, annual revenue and year founded. You also get four signal filters, for headcount growth, hiring, technology and lookalikes. If your market doesn't fit a category, search by keyword with AND, OR, NOT and parentheses.
How accurate is the count?
It's what the search returns on the day you run it, and it changes as companies are re-crawled. Industry and size come from each company's own profile, so a few records land in the wrong bucket. Check the sample rows before you plan territories on a number.
Can I split my TAM into territories?
Yes. Run the search once per state, size or vertical and save each result as its own list. You can then export each list or push it to your CRM.
How do I find the people inside my accounts?
Pick the roles you sell to, by function, seniority, title or location. Pipecorn finds the people who match, and you only pay for the contacts you reveal. In the example on this page, 40,977 directors, VPs and C-levels match before you spend a single credit.
Can I keep my TAM up to date?
Yes. Save your search and re-run it to see new companies that match. Job-change tracking tells you when the people you follow move to a new company.
Can I map my TAM with Claude?
Yes, with the Pipecorn MCP server or the REST API. Both use the same data, filters and counts as the app. Claude can look up industries and locations, preview a count, then import the accounts in batches of up to 1,000.
Lookalike companies
What is a lookalike company search?
It is a search that starts from companies instead of filters. You give Pipecorn one or more companies you already like a customer, a domain, or a whole list and it returns other companies that resemble them, ranked by how close the match is.
How is this different from just using filters?
Filters make you guess your own ICP up front, then hand-tune industry, size and geography until the list looks right. A lookalike search infers that profile from companies you have already won, so you start from evidence instead of a hypothesis. You can still layer filters on top of the results.
What does Pipecorn match on?
Industry and business model, headcount and growth, geography, tech stack, hiring activity, and funding or maturity. You can weight the search toward the signals that matter most for your product.
How many companies can it search across?
The Pipecorn company database covers 45.2M companies, kept live with growth and hiring signals.
Can I get contacts at the companies it finds?
Yes. Lookalike results land in a Pipecorn list, so you can find the right people at each account and enrich them with verified emails and mobile numbers through the waterfall, then push everything to your CRM or sequencer.
Waterfall enrichment
Which providers does Pipecorn search?
Over 100 data providers, selected per lookup rather than run as one fixed chain. Coverage differs by market, so Pipecorn detects the leadβs country and routes to the sources with the best find rate there across more than 50 countries. You do not configure or maintain the chain.
Do I pay twice for the same contact?
No. The waterfall stops at the first verified match, so you are billed for the provider that delivered it and never for the sources that missed. Tools charging a credit per provider per lookup get expensive on exactly the hard-to-find contacts you built the waterfall for.
What happens when a contact is not found?
You are not charged for it. Billing is per verified result, so misses cost nothing, and an address that fails deliverability verification counts as a miss rather than a result. That is deliberate: an unverified address costs you a send and part of your sending reputation.
Can I re-enrich contacts already in my CRM?
Yes, and that is where the waterfall earns most of its margin. Because identity is re-fetched at query time instead of read from a stored snapshot, a re-run catches the job and company changes that accumulated since the record was first captured, rather than handing back the same dead address.
Does it work in bulk and through an API?
Both. Upload a list for a bulk run, or call the enrichment endpoints directly to run it inside your own workflows and keep your CRM current without manual exports.
Job changes
How does tracking job changes impact pipeline?
Tracking your customers, users and prospects' job changes unlocks leads that are 3x more likely to buy. You re-engage warm relationships at exactly the right moment when they have new budget, new priorities, and a fresh chance to choose Pipecorn.
Who should we track for job changes?
We recommend tracking contacts inside your customer accounts, active and deactivated product users, contacts from closed-lost and open opportunities, contacts from churned accounts, and any priority prospect list. The more touchpoints, the more pipeline.
How many leads should I expect?
20% to 31% of your contacts have already changed jobs. In the first month, most teams see an immediate pipeline boost. The trend then continues at 2% to 5% job changes every month segmented and routed to match your ICP.
Is tracking job changes really worth it?
You've already paid to acquire these leads through outbound, ads and sales time. They know your brand. When they change jobs, they're more likely to buy your product again your CAC drops and their new company is more receptive.
Chrome extension
What can I reveal with the extension?
The work email and the direct mobile of the person whose profile you're reading, plus their company record: name, domain, industry, size. Everything is enriched live at the moment you click, never served from a stale cached list.
Which browser do I need?
Chrome. Add it from the Chrome Web Store, sign in with your Pipecorn account, and it wakes up the next time you open a profile or a Sales Navigator tab, with no configuration and no API key to paste.
Is the extension included in my plan?
Yes. It's the same subscription as the web app: unlimited enrichment, no credits, no per-contact pricing. What you reveal in the extension counts exactly like what you enrich in the Workspace: not at all.
Where do the email and the mobile come from?
The same waterfall the web app runs: 100+ data providers queried one after another until one returns a match. Emails go through three distinct verifiers before they're shown, and every mobile is checked by real users in our community, so you only dial numbers that ring.
Can I export a whole search instead of one profile?
Yes. Run your search, open the extension, and export the results to Pipecorn in one click. The list lands cleaned and deduplicated, ready for bulk email and phone enrichment, with no page-by-page copy-pasting.
Does it write to my CRM?
The panel checks HubSpot or Salesforce for the contact before you do anything. If it's not there, one click creates it, enriched, cleaned and attached to the right company. If it is, you know before you waste a touch.
Is it compliant with SOC 2, GDPR and CCPA?
All three, and the extension inherits every one of them: SOC 2 Type II (audited, not self-declared), CCPA for your US prospects, and GDPR with EU data processing and DPAs on request. Only GDPR-legitimate providers ever enter the waterfall. The live reports are in our Trust Center at compliance.pipecorn.com.
Workspace and team
What do I need to upload to get started?
Just company names β a CSV, a Google Sheet, or a paste from your CRM. Pipecorn matches each company live and enriches the missing pieces (domain, industry, size, location, tech stack) automatically. No formatting, no column-mapping marathon.
How does the persona builder handle other languages?
From a single seed title like βMarketing Directorβ, the AI generates the full variation tree across languages β CMO, VP Marketing, Directeur Marketing, Responsable Marketing β plus the auto-exclusions (intern, junior, stagiaire). One seed, 100% coverage.
Can I set spending limits for each user?
Yes. Admins set a monthly credit cap per member β give your power users room to run and keep new reps on a budget. When someone hits their limit, exports pause for them, not for the team. You always keep control of the burn.
How many people can I invite?
As many as you want. Seats are unlimited on every plan β SDRs, AEs, RevOps, marketing, founders. You pay for the data you use, never for the number of people in the workspace.
What counts as a qualified lead?
A contact that matches your persona on every axis you defined: role, seniority, company size, industry, region. Anything that fails a check is dropped before export β your reps never see it.
Which destinations can I export to?
CSV, HubSpot and Salesforce out of the box. Leads land enriched, qualified and AI-cleaned β ready to be enrolled in a sequence the same morning.
Do I have to clean my data before importing?
No. Pipecorn's AI normalizes first names, job titles and company names on the fly β no more βTOM πβ, βj. smithβ or βGOOGLE LLCβ in your sequences. Zero cleaning work for your ops team.
API, MCP and integrations
Does Pipecorn work with Clay?
Yes. Yousign calls Pipecorn's API inside Clay, which replaced Evaboot and BetterContact and lifted email and phone enrichment from 55% to 85%. Bonx kept Clay for its workflows and added Pipecorn for the sourcing and phones Clay couldn't find.
Can we automate it from our own stack?
Yes. The API and the MCP server let you search and enrich from n8n, Make, Zapier or Claude. Hyperline went from half a day to one hour per enriched list after moving to the API.
How do contacts reach our CRM?
Pipecorn syncs to HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive and matches on email, so it doesn't create duplicates. You can also push lists into a sequencer such as lemlist, or automate the flow with n8n, Make, Zapier or the API.
How do I get an API key?
Every paid plan ships with API access grab your key from Settings β API in the dashboard. Keys are scoped per workspace, and you can rotate them anytime without downtime. Free plan users can generate a test-mode key to explore the endpoints.
What can an AI agent actually do through the MCP server?
The @pipecorn/mcp server exposes the core engine as tools: search_leads (find companies and people by ICP filters), enrich_contact (waterfall email + mobile enrichment), verify_email (real-time verification), and push_to_crm (sync to HubSpot or Salesforce). Your agent in Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client calls them like any other tool.
What are the rate limits?
Rate limits scale with your plan: Build runs at a low limit for light automation, Grow at a medium limit for production workflows, and Scale at high throughput for bulk pipelines. Same endpoints everywhere only the call budget changes. Limits are returned in X-RateLimit-* headers on every response.
Do API and MCP calls use the same credits as the app?
Yes one wallet across app, API, and MCP. A verified email costs 3 credits, a mobile number 30. You're only charged for contacts we actually verify: bounces, dead numbers, and misses cost nothing, whichever channel you call from.
Are there webhooks?
Yes. Subscribe to enrichment.completed, list.ready, and crm.synced and we'll POST signed payloads to your endpoint no polling. Webhooks are available on all paid plans, with automatic retries and HMAC signatures for verification.
Is there a sandbox or an SDK?
Test-mode keys (pc_test_β¦) return realistic fake data without spending credits perfect for CI. The API is plain REST with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec you can drop into any generator, plus the @pipecorn/mcp package for agents. No SDK lock-in required.
Sales, marketing and RevOps teams
Will the mobile numbers actually connect?
Every number runs through a waterfall across 100+ providers and is verified before it reaches a rep. Comeen went from 35% to 80% US mobile coverage compared with Lusha alone, and Uber's mobile match rate in France went from 41% to 78%.
Can reps build their own call lists?
Yes. Reps filter accounts and personas themselves, and the Chrome extension pulls a mobile and email off any LinkedIn profile in one click. At Hyperline, sales scope their own segments and a call list goes from idea to CRM in one hour instead of half a day.
How do we know who to call this week?
Pipecorn tracks job changes and new hires in your accounts and sends them every week. Qobra gets a new hire on the phone with a rep within 5 days, and 15% of Uber's new pipeline last quarter came from new hires.
What does it do for rep productivity?
Reps spend their time calling instead of building lists. At WeYou Group every SDR went from 10 to 15 meetings a week, and Uber saves 20+ hours per SDR per week on list-building.
Can we build audiences for our ad campaigns?
Yes. Map your market, pull the personas you target and export the segment. Vibe maps its whole TAM on Pipecorn's live data and pulls 10,000 fresh leads every day straight into its ad audiences.
Can we target companies showing intent?
Yes. Pipecorn tracks buying signals such as hiring, job changes and tech stack. each One targets companies hiring for the exact roles it trains, and its conversion rate went up 20% in two months.
How fast can we launch a new campaign?
Define the ICP and Pipecorn returns a verified list, ready for sequencing. Urbyn went from a week of data prep per campaign to a 5-minute setup, and FoodCheri now ships a tailored campaign every week.
Outbound agencies
Can I run multiple clients in one Pipecorn account?
Yes. Each client gets its own workspace with saved ICP searches, its own exclusion lists and its own signal alerts. Upload a client's customer base once and every search in that workspace excludes it. Youno runs five buying-signal motions in parallel across clients on a single account.
Does the price scale with my number of clients?
No. One subscription covers unlimited leads, so your data cost stays flat as you add clients. Recom, one of Europe's largest cold-calling agencies, went from β¬2,600 to β¬1,200 a month by replacing five tools with Pipecorn.
Can I deliver data into each client's stack?
Yes. Export finished lists as CSV, sync directly to the client's CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive), or push via API into the tools that run their sequences, such as Clay or lemlist. You choose the delivery format per client.
How good is the contact data I'll ship to clients?
Every contact runs through a waterfall across 100+ providers and is verified before delivery, which gives 93% enrichment coverage. Scalefast reaches about 96% verified mobiles on its new-hire alerts.
Is the data compliant enough for client campaigns?
Pipecorn is GDPR and CCPA compliant, so you can prospect EU and US markets on behalf of clients without adding compliance risk for them or for you.
Security and compliance
Is Pipecorn GDPR compliant?
Yes. Pipecorn is GDPR and CCPA compliant and SOC 2 Type II audited, and the reports are on compliance.pipecorn.com. Any customer can sign our Data Processing Agreement, and anyone can ask us to remove their data.
Is the data GDPR-compliant?
Yes. GDPR-compliant by default, with EU data processing and a DPA available on request. Personal data is limited to business-context professional information with a legitimate basis for processing, and mobile numbers are screened against do-not-call registries before they reach you.
Comparing Pipecorn
How is Pipecorn different from Cognism, Apollo or ZoomInfo?
Those tools sell access to one database. Pipecorn queries more than 100 providers per lookup and keeps the first verified match, so coverage holds up in markets where any single vendor is thin. Cognism also sells annual contracts on quote, while Pipecorn publishes its prices and bills monthly.
We already use Apollo or Lusha. Why switch?
Apollo and Lusha are single sources. Pipecorn aggregates 100+ data providers and waterfalls between them in real time, reaching ~30% more of your market with cleaner data.
Source: Comeen: US mobile coverage 35% β 80% against Lusha alone
How does Pipecorn compare to Clay?
Clay is a workflow builder: you design each step. Pipecorn ships the engine already built. Define your ICP once and the leads land in your sequences. No tables to wire up.
Who ran the phone test?
Hyperline did, on its own contacts, to choose its own provider. Quentin Kozyra, Head of Growth, put six providers on the same 290 contacts across the US, the UK and France, with no waterfall, and had the sales team call the numbers. He shared the method and the takeaways on LinkedIn. Hyperline is a Pipecorn customer today. We did not run the test or grade the calls. The US and UK figures come from his analysis, France from the results he shared with us, and All combines the markets weighted by contacts.
Is one test enough to decide?
It is enough to see a pattern and not enough to settle it. Pipecorn's phone coverage was 8 points higher than FullEnrich's, and the two were level on precision. Treat it as a reason to test both on your own list, the way Hyperline did.
Pipecorn vs Apollo
How accurate is Apollo's phone data?
In Hyperline's call test, Apollo found the right mobile for 62% of the contacts a rep confirmed across the US, the UK and France, and 52% of the numbers a rep could grade on the phone reached the right person. The US was its weakest market, at 53% coverage. Pipecorn found the right number for 83% of the same contacts, with 61% precision. One test is a pattern, not a verdict, so run your own list through both.
Which Apollo alternative has the best mobile numbers in Europe?
On European contacts the gap was widest in France, where Pipecorn found the right mobile for 93% of contacts and Apollo for 67%, at 72% precision against 52%. In the UK the two were closer. Pipecorn covered 71% of contacts and Apollo 65%, and Apollo's numbers were a little more precise, 55% against 48%. Both are SOC 2, GDPR and CCPA compliant.
Apollo's credits look cheaper. Why pay more?
On Basic, Apollo gives 2,500 credits a seat a month for $49, and a phone number costs 8 of them. If one rep needs a few hundred mobiles a month, that is hard to beat. The bill changes with the team: Apollo charges every seat and its credits expire at the end of each cycle, while Pipecorn charges the data, with unlimited seats and credits that roll over. In Hyperline's test Pipecorn also found the right number on more contacts, 83% against 62% across the three markets.
Can I keep Apollo for sequences?
Yes, and many teams do. Apollo sends sequences and dials; Pipecorn finds and verifies the contact data and syncs it to HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive, where your sequencer picks it up. Qevlar AI still uses Apollo's API for one qualification step and Pipecorn for the mobiles behind every call.
Can I test both on my own list?
Yes. Pipecorn's free plan gives 150 credits a month with no card, and Apollo's free plan gives 900 credits a seat a year. Run the same contacts through both, have your reps dial, and count the numbers that reach the right person.
Pipecorn vs ZoomInfo
How accurate is ZoomInfo's phone data?
In Hyperline's call test on 290 contacts across the US, the UK and France, ZoomInfo found the right mobile for 57% of the contacts a rep confirmed, and 45% of the numbers a rep could grade on the phone reached the right person. It was strongest in the US, with 65% coverage and 57% precision, against 82% and 58% for Pipecorn. It was weaker in the UK, at 53% coverage, and in France, at 55% against 93% for Pipecorn. On the US and UK contacts it returned no number at all for 18%, against 5% for Pipecorn.
How much does ZoomInfo cost?
ZoomInfo does not publish its prices. Its pricing page asks you to request a quote and says the price depends on features, the number of licences and credit usage, with one credit spent on every profile exported. Tropic, a procurement firm, lists its entry plan, Professional+, at $14,995 a year for 3 licences and 5,000 credits, Advanced+ at $29,995 and Elite+ at $35,995, with $2,500 for each extra licence. Vendr's data on 1,576 purchases puts the median contract at $33,500 a year. Pipecorn's prices are public, from $49 a month, with unlimited seats.
Is there a free version of ZoomInfo?
Yes. ZoomInfo Lite is a permanent free plan with a monthly allowance of credits that do not roll over, for people who are not current or past ZoomInfo subscribers. Pipecorn's free plan gives 150 credits a month with no card.
Can I keep ZoomInfo and add Pipecorn?
Yes. ZoomInfo covers intent, website visitors and outreach workflows; Pipecorn finds and verifies the mobiles and emails and syncs them to HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive. Run the contacts ZoomInfo returns no number for through Pipecorn first, then compare the two on the calls.
Can I test both on my own list?
Yes. Pipecorn's free plan gives 150 credits a month and ZoomInfo Lite gives a free monthly allowance. Run the same contacts through both, have your reps dial, and count the numbers that reach the right person.
Pipecorn vs Cognism
How accurate is Cognism's phone data?
In Hyperline's call test on 290 contacts across the US, the UK and France, Cognism found the right mobile for 65% of the contacts a rep confirmed, and 55% of the numbers a rep could grade on the phone reached the right person. In the UK its numbers were the most precise of the six providers, 73% against 48% for Pipecorn. It also returned no number at all for 31% of the UK contacts. It was weaker in the US, at 53% coverage against 82%, and in France, at 73% against 93%.
How much does Cognism cost?
Cognism does not publish its prices. Its pricing page lists two plans, Standard and Pro, each with 5 seats included and credits where one credit reveals one contact, and asks you to talk to sales. Vendr's buyer guide lists Grow, which includes Cognism's phone-verified Diamond Data, at $22,513 a year for 5 users and Elevate at $37,498, and put the median contract at $32,750 a year across 90 purchases. Pipecorn's prices are public, from $49 a month, with unlimited seats.
Can I keep Cognism and add Pipecorn?
Yes. Cognism covers intent data on its Pro plan, do-not-call screening and its phone-verified mobiles. Pipecorn finds and verifies mobiles and emails and syncs them to HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive. Run the contacts Cognism returns no number for through Pipecorn first, then compare the two on the calls.
Can I test both on my own list?
Yes. Pipecorn's free plan gives 150 credits a month with no card. Cognism lists no free plan on its pricing page, so a test of it goes through its sales team. Run the same contacts through both, have your reps dial, and count the numbers that reach the right person.
Is there a Cognism alternative with public pricing?
Yes. Pipecorn publishes every tier, credit pack and unit rate: $49/mo at the entry tier, a free plan with 500 exported leads a month, and per-unit rates from $0.049 per verified email and $0.49 per verified mobile down to $0.030 and $0.25 at the largest published volumes. You can size a plan and start without a sales call.
Is Cognism's phone data better?
On the records it holds, Cognism's Diamond Data is genuinely strong: human-dialled numbers, 10m+ of them, a published 45% correct-person pickup rate against 18% for standard mobile data, and screening against 15 global do-not-call lists. The difference is breadth. Pipecorn cascades 100+ providers, verifies against outcomes its users report from actually dialling, and debounces before delivery β which is why it lands a verified mobile on 73β86% of a list against an estimated 42β55%. If your outbound is phone-led into EMEA, benchmark both on your own list.
At what volume does Cognism become the cheaper option?
Nowhere across the volumes we plot. The reason is the shape of the two models, not the size of the discount. A Cognism year is a $15,000 platform fee plus a credit pool, and a phone-verified Diamond reveal costs 2 credits against 1 for a standard contact β so at the reported $0.50 a credit, every verified mobile costs about $1.00 in credits alone. Spreading the platform fee over more volume pulls the average down toward that $1.00, but never through it: $2.80 a mobile at 5,000 a year, $1.40 at 10,000, $0.30 at 200,000. Pipecorn is metered, and its published rate steps down with volume instead: $0.39 a mobile at 5,000 a year and $0.25 at 200,000 β $1,940 against $14,000 for the year at the low end. Two caveats in Cognism's favour: these are the low end of every reported figure, and the fee buys seats, intent data and DNC screening as well as records.
Can I run Pipecorn inside Clay, or from an AI agent?
Both. Pipecorn ships a native Clay integration, so it can sit in a Clay table as an enrichment step alongside Make, n8n and Zapier. For agents, @pipecorn/mcp exposes the engine as MCP tools β search_leads, enrich_contact, verify_email, push_to_crm β callable from Claude, Cursor or any MCP client, on the same credit wallet as the app. Cognism is available as a provider inside Clay, but documents no MCP server.
Can I move off Cognism mid-contract?
Not usually β Cognism sells annual contracts, so the practical moment is renewal. Teams commonly run a free Pipecorn plan alongside the last months of a Cognism contract, benchmark both on the same list, and decide with their own numbers rather than either vendor's.
Pipecorn vs FullEnrich
FullEnrich is a waterfall too. What is the difference?
Both query several providers in sequence. FullEnrich lists 25+ sources and Pipecorn routes across 100+. Pipecorn also builds the list before the enrichment, with company import, lookalikes, hiring and tech signals and job-change alerts, so you are not paying a second tool to source the contacts.
How do the credits compare?
A FullEnrich mobile costs 10 credits and a work email 1. A Pipecorn mobile costs 30 credits and an email 3. The ratio is the same, so compare dollars per mobile instead. At the entry tiers, billed monthly, that is $0.49 on Pipecorn and $0.55 on FullEnrich.
Can I test both on my own list?
Yes. Pipecorn's free plan gives 150 credits a month with no card, and FullEnrich's trial gives 50. Run the same contacts through both, have your reps dial, and count the numbers that reach the right person.
About the company
Where is Pipecorn based?
Pipecorn is built by Pronto SAS, registered at 60 rue FranΓ§ois 1er, 75008 Paris, France. The company was founded in 2025 and is part of the Station F Future 40 cohort.
Was Pipecorn previously called ProntoHQ?
Yes. The company renamed from ProntoHQ to Pipecorn in 2026. Every prontohq.com URL redirects to its Pipecorn equivalent.
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