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0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

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The panel's verdict

Snov.io, from Snov Labs Ltd, scores as an outbound tooling suite, not a documented lead-data product. Its strongest criterion is CRM sync and export, scoring 2 to 3, resting on a stated integration with thousands of tools, an API and Integrations listed under Developers, and a built-in Sales CRM with Google Calendar sync. Data provenance and visitor identification sit at the bottom, 0 to 0: we found no public information on where contact data comes from or on what legal basis, and no visitor-identification or intent product appears in the captured material. Prospecting compliance scores 1 to 2: the outreach workflow is evidenced, but we found no public information on suppression lists or EU outreach rules. The widest spread is data coverage, 0 to 2: some judges credited the stated 98% verification accuracy with graylisting bypass; others held that the published figures — 400,000+ users, 300,000 companies in 180+ countries — describe the vendor's customers, not its database. Sovereignty attributes: none on record. On pricing, only a free start with no credit card necessary is published.

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Speaks for it

  • Multichannel email plus LinkedIn campaigns with automated follow-ups and reply tracking are evidenced on the vendor page
  • The page states integration with thousands of tools, no coding necessary, with an API and Integrations listed under Developers
  • A built-in Sales CRM with Google Calendar sync, automated deals and deal loss analytics is published
  • The Email Verifier publishes a 98% accuracy rate with graylisting bypass and an email verifier API
  • A deliverability toolkit with health checks, spam risk monitoring and domain diagnostics is published

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Held against it

  • Data provenance scores 0 to 0, with no public information on data sources, legal basis, or an opt-out route for listed people
  • Visitor identification scores 0 to 0; we found no public information on identifying companies behind website visits or on intent signals
  • The published figures — 400,000+ users, 300,000 companies in 180+ countries — describe the vendor's customers, not the lead database
  • LinkedIn automation runs profile views, connection requests and follow-ups on autopilot with no public information on suppression lists or EU outreach guidance
  • No sovereignty attributes are on record: we found no public information on hosting location, contracting-entity jurisdiction, subprocessors or transfer basis

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Best for

  • You run outbound over email and LinkedIn and want finder, verifier, campaigns, warm-up and a basic CRM in one tool
  • You rely on automated multichannel follow-ups with reply and sentiment tracking
  • You want an API and a broad integration claim alongside a built-in Sales CRM with Google Calendar sync

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Avoid if

  • You must clear a data protection review first — data provenance scored 0 to 0 and sovereignty 0 to 1, and we found no public information on data sources, legal basis, hosting or subprocessors
  • You need website visitor identification or buying-intent signals on which target accounts are in market
  • You need database size, DACH coverage or refresh cadence in writing before judging connect rates; we found no public information on these
  • You need compliance guardrails — suppression or do-not-contact handling, EU cold-outreach guidance — built in rather than carried by your team

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The scores

Coverage, accuracy & freshness

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How much of the target market the database actually covers — judged on DACH and EU coverage as much as North American — and what the vendor documents about verification and refresh, because accuracy claims cannot be checked from outside.

0 — No stated coverage, no refresh cadence, no verification method; accuracy asserted as a percentage with nothing behind it.

3 — Headline record counts for the whole database, thin or unstated European coverage, and no description of how often records are re-verified.

5 — Coverage stated per country or region including DACH, email verification described, a stated refresh cadence, and firmographics beyond name and domain.

8 — Coverage broken down by country, industry and data type (email, direct dial, mobile), verification method and refresh cadence documented, company data drawn from official registers where available, and a bounce or credit-back guarantee with stated terms.

10 — The vendor is accountable for its data: per-country coverage and accuracy methodology published, every field carrying a last-verified date visible to the user, register-sourced company data, and credit-back terms that make inaccuracy the vendor's cost rather than the buyer's.

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The SDR Team Lead

The pages give me a 98% accuracy claim on the email verifier and 'pre-verified leads' copy, but no database size, no DACH or EU country figures, and no refresh or re-verification cadence, so I cannot judge connect rate before buying. We found no public information on phone, direct-dial, or mobile coverage at all. 1

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The RevOps Manager

The page gives customer counts — 400,000+ users and 300,000 companies in 180+ countries — which describe the user base, not the lead database, and we found no public information on record counts, DACH or EU coverage, or a re-verification cadence. The only accuracy evidence is a stated 98% verification accuracy with graylisting bypass named as the method, which is nowhere near enough for me to trust a single import into the CRM. 1

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The Data Protection Officer

The one accuracy figure on the page — a quoted 98% verification accuracy rate — is asserted as a bare percentage with nothing behind it, and the other numbers describe the vendor's own users, not the database. I found no public information on database size, coverage by country or region including DACH, a refresh cadence, or how records are verified. A lead-data vendor that documents none of this leaves accuracy entirely to the buyer's faith. 1

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The ABM Marketer

The captured page quotes a "98% accuracy rate" for the verifier and "pre-verified leads" for the finder, and we found no public information on database size, country coverage including DACH, refresh cadence, or verification method. An accuracy percentage with nothing behind it is exactly what I cannot evaluate for a target-account list. 1

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The DACH Sales Director

The published figures describe the vendor's own customers (400,000+ users, 300,000 companies in 180+ countries), not its database, and I found no public information on coverage for Germany, Austria or Switzerland, on refresh cadence, or on verification method behind the quoted 98% accuracy rate. For a Mittelstand pipeline that is an unusable basis for a purchase. 1

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The Skeptic

The capture gives exactly one number behind the data — a 98 percent accuracy rate for email verification — with no verification method, no refresh cadence, and no record counts or per-country coverage; DACH and EU coverage is not addressed at all. Even a headline database size is missing, and the user figures quoted (400,000-plus users, 300,000 companies) are about the vendor's customers, not the data. That is an accuracy percentage asserted with nothing behind it. 1

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Data sources & lawful basis

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Where the personal data in the database comes from and on what legal basis it is processed — as evidenced on the vendor's own pages. Covers Art. 6(1)(f) legitimate interest, the Art. 14 notice to the people in the database, and whether they can find, object to and remove their record.

0 — No statement of where contact data comes from or on what legal basis; "GDPR-compliant" asserted without explanation, and no way for a listed person to object.

3 — Sources described in general terms ("public sources", "partners"), legitimate interest named without any balancing, and an opt-out request form as the only route for data subjects.

5 — Source categories named (registers, company websites, contributory networks, licensed partners), legitimate interest stated as the basis for EU records, a dedicated privacy notice for the people in the database, and a self-service opt-out or removal process.

8 — The above plus an Art. 14 notification practice described (people informed when added), contributory or browser-extension collection disclosed as such, a legitimate-interest assessment summarised publicly, and EU records handled differently from US records where the law differs.

10 — Provenance is traceable per record: the source and collection date available for each contact, Art. 14 notices sent and documented, the balancing test published, objections honoured across the whole dataset and suppressed permanently, and no data sourced by scraping behind logins or from contributors' address books without their contacts' knowledge.

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The SDR Team Lead

Nothing on the captured page says where contact data comes from, what legal basis covers EU records, or how a listed person objects to their record. We found no public information on source categories, legitimate interest, a privacy notice for listed people, or a removal process. 1

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The RevOps Manager

Nothing on the captured page says where contact data comes from or on what legal basis it is processed, and we found no public information on a privacy notice for the people in the database or any opt-out route. Features that pull emails straight from LinkedIn profiles and save leads as you browse make that silence the first thing a DPO will ask about. 1

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The Data Protection Officer

I found no public information on where the contact data comes from, the legal basis for processing EU records, any notice to the people whose details are collected, or any opt-out and removal route for listed people. The only visible collection surface is the LinkedIn prospect finder that harvests emails directly from profiles and search results, which makes the silence on the Art. 14 position and the balancing test the decisive gap. Without a stated basis or a route for data subjects, the legality of the whole database rests on the buyer. 1

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The ABM Marketer

The page speaks only of finding, enriching and verifying leads, and we found no public information on where the contact data comes from or on what legal basis it is processed. There is also no evidence of a notice for the people in the database or any route for them to object or be removed. 1

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The DACH Sales Director

Provenance is recorded as unknown: the captured pages give no statement of where contact data comes from or on what legal basis, no legitimate-interest position, no privacy notice for the people in the database, and no route I could find for a listed person to object. I would not put a vendor's unexplained contact data in front of a German data protection officer. 1

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The Skeptic

We found no public information on where the contact data comes from or on what legal basis it is processed — no source categories, no legitimate-interest statement, no privacy notice for the people in the database, and no route for a listed person to object or be removed. The LinkedIn collection is marketed as a feature (finding emails directly from profiles and search results) with nothing said about how the people found are informed. 1

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Visitor identification & intent signals

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Identifying companies behind website visits and surfacing buying intent — scored on what is identified (company or person), how the tracking works, and whether the vendor states that its script needs consent under §25 TDDDG and how it behaves without it.

0 — No visitor identification or intent data, or person-level identification of EU visitors with no statement of legal basis.

3 — Reverse-IP company identification with a cookie-setting script, no statement about consent, and match rates claimed without method.

5 — Company-level identification with filters, visit history per company, a stated position that the script requires consent where it sets cookies, and a consent-mode or cookieless option.

8 — Company-level only for EU traffic by design, cookieless operation documented, integration with common consent management platforms, intent topics or page-level signals with the source of third-party intent data named, and alerts routed to owners.

10 — Identification that survives a DPO review: no personal data of visitors stored, the TDDDG and GDPR position published and specific, third-party intent data sourced from a named co-op or panel with its consent basis stated, and scoring on intent that the user can trace back to the underlying visits.

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The SDR Team Lead

We found no public information on website visitor identification or buying-intent signals; the page describes email, LinkedIn, and verification workflows only. Nothing in the capture identifies companies behind website traffic or states a consent position for a tracking script. 1

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The RevOps Manager

The product set on the page — Email Finder, Email Verifier, campaigns, LinkedIn automation, a built-in Sales CRM and a deliverability toolkit — contains no visitor identification or intent product, and we found no public information on website visitor de-anonymisation, intent signals or any consent position for a tracking script. There is nothing here to review, either as capability or as risk. 1

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The Data Protection Officer

I found no public information on website visitor identification, company-level reverse-IP matching, or buying-intent signals; the evidenced product set is email finding, verification, LinkedIn automation, campaigns and a CRM. There is likewise no published position on a tracking script, consent before it fires, or cookieless operation, so this capability scores as not evidenced. 1

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The ABM Marketer

This is my core need — knowing which of my three hundred target accounts are in market — and we found no public information on website visitor identification or intent signals of any kind. The product list runs from Email Finder through LinkedIn Automation and warm-up, with nothing on company-level visit tracking, how a script behaves, or consent under German tracking rules. 1

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The DACH Sales Director

The offering is email finding, verification, LinkedIn automation and campaigns; no visitor identification or intent product appears in the captured material. There is therefore nothing to assess on company-level tracking or on consent under the TDDDG, and by the published anchors that silence scores at the bottom. 1

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The Skeptic

The product list on the capture runs Email Finder, Lead Finder, enrichment, verification and outreach, with no website visitor identification or buying-intent product anywhere in it. We found no public information on identifying companies behind visits, on intent signals, or on any consent position for a tracking script. 1

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Prospecting workflow & outreach rules

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Search, list building and outreach — and whether the product helps the buyer stay within UWG §7 and the GDPR once the list exists, rather than leaving the legal risk entirely with the customer.

0 — A search box and an export button; nothing on the pages about what the buyer may lawfully do with the contacts.

3 — Filters on firmographics and job title, saved lists, and a terms clause making the customer solely responsible for compliance.

5 — Advanced filters including technographics and triggers, company-level lists and alerts, a global suppression or do-not-contact list, and guidance on cold outreach rules in the main EU markets.

8 — The above plus country-aware handling (for example flagging German contacts where cold calls and emails require consent), phone numbers checked against national do-not-call registers where they exist, and opt-outs from outreach synced back to the database.

10 — Compliance is part of the workflow: outreach channels restricted or flagged per country and contact type by default, suppression shared across the whole account and every export, the Art. 14 notice supported at first contact, and a documented record of how each contact entered the buyer's pipeline.

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The SDR Team Lead

There is a real workflow on the page — Lead Finder with ICP and AI search, LinkedIn automation, multichannel campaigns with follow-ups — but nothing about what my team may lawfully send to a German or other EU contact. We found no public information on suppression or do-not-contact lists, per-country outreach rules, or terms covering who owns compliance. 1

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The RevOps Manager

ICP search, LinkedIn lead search and connection requests, likes and follow-ups running on autopilot is a lot of outreach machinery, with nothing on the page about what the buyer may lawfully do with the contacts. We found no public information on a global suppression or do-not-contact list, or on guidance for cold outreach rules in the main EU markets. 1

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The Data Protection Officer

Search and outreach automation are well evidenced — AI and ideal-customer-profile search, email plus LinkedIn campaigns, connection requests run on autopilot with follow-ups — but I found no public information on suppression or do-not-contact handling, guidance on consent for cold outreach in EU markets, or country-aware flagging of German contacts. Automated connection requests with no compliance framing anywhere on the page push the entire UWG and GDPR risk onto the customer. 1

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The ABM Marketer

There is a real outreach workflow here — ICP-based search, LinkedIn automation running connection requests and follow-ups on autopilot, multichannel campaigns — which raises the cold-outreach stakes in Germany. We found no public information on a suppression or do-not-contact list, country-aware flags for German contacts, or guidance on lawful cold outreach. 1

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The DACH Sales Director

Search by ideal customer profile and outreach automation, including connection requests run on autopilot, are described, but I found no public information on suppression or do-not-contact lists, on any compliance guidance for EU markets, or on what a buyer may lawfully send under UWG §7. Automation on autopilot with the legal risk left entirely to the customer is exactly what my team cannot use. 1

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The Skeptic

The pages describe search by ideal customer profile and outreach run on autopilot — automated profile views, connection requests and follow-ups — with nothing on what the buyer may lawfully do with the contacts. We found no public information on do-not-contact lists, guidance on cold outreach rules in EU markets, or how opt-outs are handled. 1

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CRM sync, enrichment & export

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Getting the data into the systems where sales works — CRM sync, enrichment of existing records, API — and what happens to exported data, and to the buyer's access to it, when the subscription ends.

0 — Manual CSV export only; no CRM integration and no API.

3 — A one-way push to one CRM, CSV export, and no statement on whether exported data may be kept after cancellation.

5 — Native sync with the major CRMs including field mapping and deduplication, enrichment of existing CRM records, and a documented API with stated limits.

8 — Bidirectional sync with scheduled re-enrichment, update and deletion propagated when a record changes or a person objects, webhook or API access with credit costs per call published, and data retention rights after cancellation stated plainly.

10 — The vendor treats the buyer's CRM as the system of record: objections and corrections propagated into synced records automatically, full change history per field, a versioned API with a deprecation policy, and exit terms that say exactly which data the customer may keep and for how long.

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The SDR Team Lead

The vendor claims integrations with thousands of tools with no coding, an email verifier API, and its own small CRM with Google Calendar sync, which is more than a bare export. But we found no public information on native CRM sync with field mapping, enrichment of existing CRM records, API limits, or what happens to exported data when a subscription ends. 1

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The RevOps Manager

The page claims integration with thousands of tools, lists an API and Integrations under Developers, and markets its own built-in Sales CRM with Google Calendar sync — but we found no public information on native sync with the major CRMs, field mapping, deduplication, or re-enrichment that updates existing records instead of duplicating them. Nothing states what the customer may keep and for how long after cancellation, which is the first thing I read in any tool contract. 1

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The Data Protection Officer

The page claims integration with thousands of tools with no coding necessary and lists an API, including an email-verifier API, so data movement goes beyond manual CSV export. I found no public information on CRM field mapping or deduplication, propagation of updates and objections, API limits, or what the buyer may keep after cancellation — and since the buyer becomes controller the moment a list leaves this system, that last silence is the one I weigh most. 1

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The ABM Marketer

The vendor claims integration with thousands of tools and lists an API under Developers, but we found no public information on which CRMs are covered, field mapping, deduplication, or API limits. Nothing addresses what happens to exported contacts or the buyer's access once the subscription ends. 1

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The DACH Sales Director

The vendor claims integrations with thousands of tools and lists an API under Developers, which is a broad claim I cannot check; I found no public information naming a CRM, describing sync direction, field mapping or deduplication, stating API limits, or saying what happens to exported data after cancellation. 1

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The Skeptic

The capture claims integration with thousands of tools and lists an API under its developers section, but names no CRM, describes no sync direction, field mapping or deduplication, and states no API limits. We found no public information on enrichment of existing CRM records or on whether exported data may be kept after cancellation. 1

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European sovereignty panel opinion

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Where a database of EU residents' personal data is held, who the contracting entity and controller are, and which subprocessors see it. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; weighted heavily here, because the product itself is personal data about people who never chose the vendor.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated, subprocessors unnamed, and EU residents' contact data processed outside the EU with no stated transfer basis.

3 — Non-EU contracting entity with an EU representative under Art. 27, or EU hosting offered while enrichment, support or AI processing stay non-EU.

5 — EU contracting entity and EU hosting as standard, but parts of the chain — data partners, enrichment sources, tracking infrastructure — are non-EU without an explained safeguard.

8 — EU contracting entity and controller, EU hosting on named infrastructure, subprocessor and data-partner list published, and any non-EU transfer named with its legal basis.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: vendor, controller, hosting, data partners and every subprocessor European, certification published, and a DPA covering both the customer's data and the database records the customer exports.

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The SDR Team Lead

The sovereignty record is empty: contracting entity location, hosting, subprocessors, and any transfer basis are all unstated for a product that sells personal data on EU people. We found no public information on any of these, so I cannot put it in front of a DPO. 1

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The RevOps Manager

We found no public information on hosting location, the contracting entity's location, a subprocessor or data-partner list, or any transfer basis for EU residents' contact data. For a product whose whole stock-in-trade is personal data about people who never chose the vendor, that silence is the answer. 1

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The Data Protection Officer

No sovereignty attributes are on record for this vendor, and the captured page is silent on contracting-entity domicile, hosting location, subprocessors, data partners, and any transfer basis for EU residents' contact data. For a product whose entire stock-in-trade is personal data about people who never chose the vendor, I found no public information on any part of the chain. 1

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The ABM Marketer

No sovereignty attributes are on record for this vendor: we found no public information on hosting location, the contracting entity and controller, or subprocessors. For a product that is essentially personal data about EU residents who never chose the vendor, that silence decides the score. 1

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The DACH Sales Director

No sovereignty attributes are on record: I found no public information on the contracting entity's jurisdiction, on where EU residents' contact data is hosted, or on which subprocessors see it. A database of people who never chose the vendor, with an entirely unevidenced processing chain, is not sellable into the German Mittelstand. 1

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The Skeptic

The capture says nothing about where Snov Labs Ltd sits, where EU residents' contact data is hosted, or which subprocessors and data partners see it, and no transfer basis is named. For a product whose entire output is personal data about people who never chose the vendor, we found no public information on any of it. 1

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

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Whether a buyer can compute the real annual cost from public pages alone — including credits per email, phone number and mobile, credit expiry, seat pricing, visitor-identification tiers and the API — in a category where the unit of billing is often invented by the vendor.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A monthly headline exists, but what a credit buys, whether credits expire, or the cost of an additional seat is unstated — the invoice is unknowable.

5 — Tier prices public with credit allowances given, but at least one commonly needed piece (mobile numbers, extra seats, API access, CRM sync) is unpriced or behind a sales call.

8 — Every tier priced publicly with credits per data type, credit expiry and rollover, per-seat costs, overage rates, minimum term and VAT treatment stated.

10 — Complete price computability: the annual invoice derivable for a given number of seats, exported contacts by data type, identified companies and API calls, with every credit cost and the refund rule for inaccurate data published.

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The SDR Team Lead

The only pricing signal is a free start with no credit card required. We found no public information on tier prices, what a credit buys by data type, credit expiry, extra seat costs, or API pricing — the annual invoice is not computable from public pages. 1

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The RevOps Manager

The only pricing statement captured is a free start with no credit card; we found no public information on tier prices, credit allowances or expiry, per-seat costs, or API pricing. A buyer cannot compute even the first month's invoice from what is public. 1

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The Data Protection Officer

The only pricing information visible is that one can start absolutely for free with no credit card required. I found no public information on paid tier prices, what a credit buys, credit expiry, per-seat costs, or API pricing, so a buyer cannot begin to compute an annual invoice from this page. 1

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The ABM Marketer

The only pricing statement on the page is "Get started absolutely for free and upgrade whenever you want. No credit card necessary." We found no public information on tier prices, what a credit buys, credit expiry, seat costs, or API charges, so the annual invoice is not computable from public pages. 1

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The DACH Sales Director

Only a free start with no credit card is stated; I found no public information on tier prices, on what a credit buys, on credit expiry, seat costs or API pricing, so a buyer cannot compute the annual invoice from public pages. 1

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The Skeptic

The only price on the capture is the entry point — get started absolutely for free, no credit card necessary. We found no public information on tier prices, what a credit buys, whether credits expire, per-seat costs, or API pricing, so the annual invoice cannot be computed from public pages. 1

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

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Sources (6)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor page snov.io Checked 29 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Privacy policy — found from the homepage snov.io Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Data sources & lawful basis — found from sitemap snov.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Visitor identification & intent signals — found from sitemap snov.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 CRM sync, enrichment & export — found from sitemap snov.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 CRM sync, enrichment & export — found from sitemap snov.io Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →