# Can I replace Cognism with an AI agent?

A B2B contact database sold with a focus on phone numbers and compliance checks. Partly. looot covers some of the jobs and not others.

## What Cognism does and what looot covers

- Search people by title: covered. Providers: people-data-labs, coresignal, ai-ark.
- Find work emails: covered. Providers: hunter, findymail, tomba, icypeas.
- Find mobile numbers: partial. Providers: tomba, ai-ark, leadmagic, findymail. Phone coverage varies by provider and country, so check each result.
- Do-not-call list checks: not covered. looot does not screen numbers against do-not-call lists.
- Sales intent signals: not covered. looot has no ready-made intent feed.

## Agent prompt to replace Cognism

Use looot to find people with a given title at the companies I list, then find work emails and mobile numbers and flag the numbers each provider could not return. If you have not yet, set up https://looot.ai/skill.md first. Then search the looot catalog for each step, check the price of each endpoint before you call it, run the cheapest one that fits, and show me the results as a table.

## Can an AI agent replace Cognism?

Partly. An agent running looot can do some of what Cognism does through catalog endpoints, and the page marks the jobs it cannot do.

## Is there a free Cognism alternative?

looot has no monthly seat. You pay per call to the provider you pick, and the catalog shows each endpoint's price before you run it. Whether that comes out cheaper than Cognism depends on your volume.

## What does Cognism cost?

List prices change, so check Cognism's own pricing page. This page does not repeat them. The looot side is read live from the catalog on the web version of this page.

## What is a good Cognism alternative for an AI agent?

An agent with a looot connection can call the providers behind Cognism's data jobs directly. The providers used here are people-data-labs, coresignal, ai-ark, hunter, findymail, tomba, icypeas, leadmagic.

## Which Cognism features does looot not cover?

Not covered: do-not-call list checks, sales intent signals. Keep Cognism for those, or use another tool beside looot.

## How do I replace Cognism with looot?

Paste the agent prompt on this page into your coding agent. It sets up looot, finds the endpoints for each job and runs them. You can edit the prompt to match your own inputs.

## Do I need a Cognism account to use looot?

No. looot calls its own providers and does not connect to your Cognism account. Your existing Cognism data stays where it is.

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## Last reviewed

2026-10-02. Live prices are on the web page, read from the catalog.