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Comparison summary
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| Dimension | ContactsPlus | Sansan |
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Free includes one connected account, 1,000 contacts, and daily synchronization. Premium is $13.99 per user with monthly billing or $9.99 per user per month as the annual-billing monthly equivalent. Teams is $17.99 per user with monthly billing or $12.99 per user per month as the annual-billing monthly equivalent. Annual states are billed annually, and paid fees are non-refundable except where law requires otherwise. Full profile |
Sansan publishes no numeric price. Buyers request a tailored quote; the official pricing page identifies initial digitization, license, option, and scanner-set components. Sansan states a standard one-year term and at least 10 users, but public sources do not establish payment timing, renewal terms, or cancellation terms. Full profile |
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| Source check | 95/100 | 94/100 |
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| Administrator installation requirement | Not publicly stated | required_for_selected_features |
| Contact sync direction | two_way | one_way |
| Contact sync frequency | real_time | scheduled |
| Deletion sync behavior | Not publicly stated | Not publicly stated |
| Sync conflict resolution | Not publicly stated | source_wins |
| Cross-domain contact sharing | Not publicly stated | Not publicly stated |
| Duplicate contact handling | automatic_and_manual | automatic_and_manual |
| Email data access | configurable | message_content |
| Customer data used for AI training | Not publicly stated | Not publicly stated |
| AI disable control | Not publicly stated | Not publicly stated |
| AI usage or credit model | Not publicly stated | Not publicly stated |
| Contact export formats | CSV, vCard | CSV |
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| Category buying score | 80Higher category-fit score | 79 |
| Rank | #2 | #4 |
| Context | Sales & CRM / Contact Management Software | Sales & CRM / Contact Management Software |
| Contact organization quality | 85ContactsPlus supports unified contact records with relationship fields, custom fields, notes, and tags, which gives buyers a structured place to organize contact data across accounts. | 87A company-wide business-card and contact database with organization trees and relationship visibility supports shared structural views of accounts, while AI-assisted and human-verified digitization improves card-to-record quality at intake. |
| Interaction history and context | 74The product includes notes, reminders, tasks, calendar push, digest emails, and activity reporting, which supports contact history and follow-up context, although the facts do not establish a full sales activity timeline or pipeline context. | 80Contacts can carry email, call, meeting, and sales-history context, Contact Inbox can extract signature and sender details under Gmail or Exchange Online integration where the feature is regionally available, and optional Salesforce opportunity information can appear on company pages. |
| Contact data hygiene | 88Automatic duplicate detection with suggested merges, optional auto-merge for high-confidence matches, and enrichment from publicly available data support contact cleanup and record upkeep. | 86Automatic and manual duplicate combination plus AI-assisted and human-verified business-card digitization support cleaner shared records as cards and imports accumulate. |
| Follow-up reliability | 79Follow-up support is present through reminders, tasks, calendar push, digest emails, and activity reporting, but the supplied facts do not establish delivery guarantees or automation coverage beyond those features. | 72Targeted contact lists and engagement tracking let teams group people and monitor engagement activity so follow-up prioritization can run from the shared database rather than scattered personal lists. |
| Search and segmentation | 72Tags, custom fields, and enriched contact records support segmentation and list building, but the supplied facts do not establish advanced search operators or deeper audience-filtering controls. | 71Organization trees, relationship visibility, and targeted contact lists support locating people by company structure and building outreach or engagement segments inside the shared database. |
| Sharing and permissions | 80Teams includes a shared address book, roles, shared notes, team tasks, and team contact ownership, which supports controlled sharing for small groups, while the published 50-member limit bounds larger deployments. | 76The product is built as a governed company-wide shared contact database with two-factor authentication included and SAML 2.0 available as a paid contract option for external authentication. |
| Import, export, and sync quality | 80ContactsPlus supports CSV and vCard import and export, two-way sync with Google, iCloud, and Microsoft accounts, and real-time sync on paid plans, while Free is limited to one connected account and daily synchronization. | 58Sansan supports CSV export, optional Outlook contact synchronization, and optional Salesforce Opportunity Integration, but Outlook sync is one-way and scheduled every 30 minutes, so the integration score is reduced by the limited directionality and by the fact that other sync behaviors are not fully established. |
| Full profile | Full profile | Full profile |
Comparison summary
These are the stored dimension rationales returned with each score. They explain the buyer conditions behind the gap without speculating about hidden model reasoning.
Research basis
This page uses stored product facts, official evidence, and category scoring rationales. It is not an account-based hands-on test, and third-party user ratings are not folded into the category buying score.
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