generated: '2026-08-14'
method: searched
source: https://www.cbinsights.com/pricing
docs:
- https://www.cbinsights.com/pricing
- https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/portal/signup
- https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/docs/reference/credit_model/
- https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/portal/api-terms-of-use
summary: >-
  CB Insights publishes no price for anything. The pricing page names three commercial offerings —
  Browser Analyst, Strategy Terminal and Data Solutions — and each one carries a "Request pricing"
  button rather than a rate, a currency, a billing period or a seat count. There is no self-serve
  checkout, no published rate card and no per-credit price anywhere on the public surface. What IS
  published, and is the only quantified entitlement in the estate, is the API trial allowance on the
  developer-portal sign-up form: 25 companies, 5 scouting reports and 5 ChatCBI messages. Because no
  offering has a published price, plan_count is 0 by the definition this artifact uses — the named
  offerings are recorded below as offerings, not as plans, so a reader is not misled into thinking a
  rate exists.
plan_count: 0
pricing_model: contact-sales
currency: null
billing_period: null
self_serve_checkout: false
public_rate_card: false
named_offerings:
- name: Browser Analyst
  price: null
  price_published: false
  cta: Request pricing
  delivery: browser extension
  included_published:
  - Unlimited scouting reports and company profile data, with SWOT analysis
  - Contact information for key executives
  - Unlimited actionable intelligence on news articles, LinkedIn profiles, and legal or technical documents
  api_access_stated: false
  source: https://www.cbinsights.com/pricing
- name: Strategy Terminal
  price: null
  price_published: false
  cta: Request pricing
  delivery: web application, mobile app, browser extension, email alerts
  included_published:
  - Unlimited access to the predictive model of the world's companies and markets
  - AI search and analysis across 1,600+ markets and 12 million companies
  - Proprietary scoring — Mosaic Score, Commercial Maturity, Exit Probability
  - AI Agents, from scouting reports to account briefs
  - Turnkey integrations with tools like Microsoft Copilot, Salesforce and more
  api_access_stated: false
  note: >-
    The connector/integration surface (Microsoft Copilot, Salesforce) is named here, but the page does
    not state whether the hosted MCP server at mcp.cbinsights.com is included in this offering or is a
    separate line item.
  source: https://www.cbinsights.com/pricing
- name: Data Solutions
  price: null
  price_published: false
  cta: Request pricing
  delivery: consumption-based data feeds; also purchasable via Snowflake Marketplace
  included_published:
  - Business models, key people, headcount profiles
  - Financial transactions and funding data
  - Business relationships and scouting reports
  - Proprietary data science metrics
  - ChatCBI responses with citations
  api_access_stated: false
  note: >-
    This is the offering whose described contents match the v2 REST API datasets one-for-one
    (Firmographics, Financial Transactions, Business Relationships, Management and Board, Outlook,
    Scouting Reports, ChatCBI), and it is the only one described as consumption-based — consistent
    with the credit ledger the API meters against. The page never names "API" explicitly.
  source: https://www.cbinsights.com/pricing
trials:
- name: API trial
  price: 0
  price_published: true
  entitlements:
    companies: 25
    scouting_reports: 5
    chatcbi_messages: 5
  duration: not stated
  credential: trial clientId/clientSecret issued after email validation on the developer-portal sign-up form
  commitment: none stated ("no commitment required")
  source: https://api-docs.cbinsights.com/portal/signup
- name: Platform free trial
  price: 0
  price_published: true
  duration: 10 days
  applies_to: not stated — the pricing page promotes a "Start free trial" control without naming a tier
  source: https://www.cbinsights.com/pricing
metering:
  model: credit ledger
  detail: >-
    API usage is metered in credits, not in requests. Each data call debits the account balance by an
    amount that varies by endpoint and datapack, reported per response in the
    x-cbinsights-credits-call-consumed header; a call with no credits left fails with 424. Credit
    allotments are contractual and are not published, and no per-credit price appears anywhere on the
    public surface — so the effective cost of any given API call cannot be determined before signing.
  free_operation: POST /v2/organizations (organization lookup) is documented as never charging credits
  ledger_endpoint: GET /v1/credits
  see: rate-limits/cb-insights-rate-limits.yml
third_party_price_reporting:
  note: >-
    Procurement aggregators and comparison sites publish estimated CB Insights contract values in the
    $30k–$265k/year range. Those are third-party estimates, not a CB Insights publication, so no figure
    is recorded as a price in this artifact.
gaps:
- No price, currency or billing period is published for any offering.
- No published per-credit rate, so the cost of an API call is unknowable before contracting.
- The pricing page never names the API or the MCP server as a purchasable line item, so a developer
  cannot tell from it which offering grants programmatic access.
- No usage calculator, no overage rate, and no published quota per tier.
cross_links:
  rate_limits: rate-limits/cb-insights-rate-limits.yml
  authentication: authentication/cb-insights-authentication.yml
  lifecycle: lifecycle/cb-insights-lifecycle.yml