HG Insights pricing in 2026: an $86,263 average contract with no public rate card
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HG Insights pricing starts with a number the vendor printed once and never put on its pricing page. The 6 October 2026 launch release says HG Copilot modules "start at $22,000." Buyers tracked by Vendr pay an average of $86,263 a year.
That gap is the subject of this report. It walks through the three plans HG Insights offers, the credit meter behind them, the contract rules HG Insights publishes, the spread Vendr records, and how HG Insights pricing compares with ZoomInfo, 6sense, Demandbase and Bombora on the same contract data.
It's written for RevOps, marketing ops and procurement leads who need a number before the first sales call, and for analysts comparing market intelligence vendors on total cost across a two-year term. The figures matter because HG's default term is two years, so a quote accepted at the Vendr average commits a buyer to about $172,500.
Every price below comes from HG Insights' own pages or Vendr's header figures, checked 5 November 2026.
The numbers HG Insights pricing, checked 5 November 2026
A buyer intent data point costs 30 times the credits of a firmographic entity.
The average tracked buyer pays 3.9 times HG Insights' own $22,000 module floor.
The top tracked contract is 5.25 times the bottom one, so the quote you get depends more on scope than on a plan name.
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How much HG Insights costs in 2026
HG Insights doesn't publish dollar prices on its pricing guide. The page, checked 5 November 2026, opens by promising "transparent, rightsized pricing," names three plans, prices data in credits, and carries zero dollar figures in its text or its FAQ schema. The vendor's answers page says "HG Insights pricing is based on data consumption" and is customized based on company size, data scope and solution configuration.
Two numbers fill the gap. HG Insights' own launch release puts the HG Copilot entry point at $22,000. Vendr's marketplace page records what buyers signed: an average contract of $86,263, a low of $32,897 and a high of $172,713. Divide the average by twelve and an HG Insights subscription runs about $7,189 a month, billed as an annual or two-year commitment.
The structure behind the quote is published in more detail than the price, and the devil's in the details of that contract structure: credits, seats and term length decide where in the $32,897 to $172,713 band a quote lands. Buyers who want transparent pricing get a meter with no rate attached.
HG Insights pricing tiers: Starter, Growth and Enterprise
HG Insights offers three pricing tiers, Starter, Growth and Enterprise, which the packaging page says are "structured around seats licensed, credits consumed and leads processed." None carries a dollar figure.
Starter
The Starter tier starts at an unpublished price. Two public numbers bracket it: the $22,000 HG Copilot module floor from the launch release, which HG Insights doesn't map to a plan, and the $32,897 low across Vendr's 48 tracked purchases.
Growth
Growth carries more credits, more seats, higher lead volumes and access to premium intent signals than Starter, per the pricing guide. It's also the only plan allowed to buy the 50-seat bundle. For a team whose sales workflows depend on buyer intent signals or buying signals tied to a specific purchase, Growth is the floor; Starter buyers get no premium intent signals at all.
Enterprise
Enterprise plans get a name on the pricing guide and no description. Vendr's $172,713 high is the best public marker of what a large configuration costs.
Plans and modules, as HG Insights publishes them:
| Item | What HG Insights publishes | Price published |
|---|---|---|
| Starter plan | Entry plan, fewer credits and seats than Growth | None; module floor $22,000 |
| Growth plan | More credits, seats and lead volume; premium intent signals; 50-seat bundle | None |
| Enterprise plan | Named only | None |
| Market Analyzer | ICP design, TAM/SAM/SOM, whitespace, competitive analysis | Sold individually, quote only |
| Data Studio | Account targeting, CRM enrichment, inbound qualification, account scoring | Sold individually, quote only |
| Sales Copilot | Signal-based account prioritization, AI sales plays | Sold individually, quote only |
| Intelligence credits | 0.1 per firmographic entity, 3 per buyer intent data point | Unit price falls as the plan scales |
| Seat bundles | 5, 10, 25 or 50 seats; single seats at a premium | Quote only |
The one dollar figure here, the $22,000 module floor, is HG Insights’ own number from its 6 October 2026 launch release; every other cell is quote only.
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Open the emailWhat the three HG Copilot modules cover
HG Insights sells its contextual intelligence platform as modules, and buyers can pick one. The pricing guide says the modules "utilise the same underlying data" and show it in one view, so adding a second module later doesn't mean a second data contract.
- Market Analyzer: ICP design, market sizing across TAM, SAM and SOM, whitespace analysis and competitive analysis. Strategy teams buy this one.
- Data Studio: the data enrichment module, covering account targeting, CRM enrichment, inbound qualification and account scoring, with predictive models built in a no-code environment, per the packaging page.
- Sales Copilot: signal-based prioritization of target accounts and AI-drafted sales plays for the sales team.
Each module adds seats to the order, and each export those seats run consumes credits at the rates below.
How intelligence credits work in HG Insights pricing
Credits are the meter. HG Insights offers two kinds of credit, and the pricing guide prices each data point in credits:
- Firmographics and account hierarchies: 0.1 credits per entity.
- Buyer intent data: 3 credits per data point, 30 times the firmographic rate.
- Intelligence credits are "allocated annually but distributed monthly."
- Up to 20% of unused monthly credits roll over to the next month.
- Extra credits can be bought at any time at a discounted bundle rate.
AI action credits are the second meter. They pay for the compute behind Copilot actions such as generating research briefs or enriching a CRM row. HG Insights publishes no credit count for them.
Refresh frequency feeds the same meter. HG refreshes its data on a rolling basis, per its answers page, and each export of a data point consumes credits, so pulling updated records more often raises the bill.
A team that runs a quarterly enrichment job loses everything above the 20% rollover in the two quiet months, so credits consumed in one burst cost more than the same credits spread across the year.
Track credits consumed per month from the first week; it's easier said than done once three teams share one pool. One TrustRadius reviewer, a manager at a 51 to 200 employee firm, asked for a fix to the same problem on 13 August 2025:
"A way to gauge how many hits you will get off an intent topic before selecting them so you don't feel like one is going to waste could be useful."
Manager, 51 to 200 employees, TrustRadius, 13 August 2025
Seats, contract term and payment terms
The contract structure is the most specific part of what HG Insights publishes. Its pricing guide sets a two-year standard contract term, a one-year option "at a higher price," and quarterly billing "at an additional premium." HG Insights offers no pilot and no free trial plan on any tier.
Seats come in bundles of 5, 10, 25 and 50 for Sales Copilot and Market Analyzer. Single seats cost a premium over bundle seats, and only Growth customers can buy the 50-pack.
HG Fabric, the API and the HG MCP Server in the Contextual Intelligence Platform
The October 2026 release named the Contextual Intelligence Platform and split the product into five parts: Fabric, HG Copilots, HG Agents, the HG MCP Server and Customer Voice. The platform unifies technology, spend and intent data in Fabric, the data layer under everything else.
- HG Fabric can be licensed on its own and delivered by API or Direct Feed. It adds funding and M&A data, automatic hierarchy updates and contacts matched to buying centers.
- HG MCP Server gives a customer's own AI agents direct access to HG data, combined with TrustRadius reviews, SEC filings and federal contract data. It's sold through AWS Marketplace.
- HG Agents are HG's own AI agents. Run by an orchestrator called HGSuperagent, they automate tasks such as account research, signal monitoring and enrichment from Slack, Teams or the HG interface.
- Customer Voice is TrustRadius, which HG Insights now owns; its pricing page carries a free vendor profile and no plan prices.
The release says the whole platform "is priced on a consumption-based model built around Intelligence Credits." API access to HG Fabric therefore costs by volume: every record pulled through the API for custom integrations draws on the same credit rates as the app, and usage past the monthly allocation is bought as top-up credits at the bundle rate.
Teams that feed HG Fabric into their own advanced analytics or AI agents should budget credits for every pull. A team building AI agents on HG data can license Fabric alone, per the release, and skip Copilot seats entirely.
Hidden costs in an HG Insights contract
HG Insights lists five surcharges on its own pages. None comes with a dollar figure, which is why they turn into hidden fees at signature:
- One-year term: priced above the two-year rate.
- Quarterly billing: an extra premium on top.
- Single seats: priced above bundle seats.
- Premium intent signals: gated to Growth and above.
- Credits above plan: bought at a bundle rate, with only 20% of the credits distributed monthly carried forward when unused.
A sixth cost is implementation. HG's pricing guide lists no implementation or onboarding fee, and its answers page says Salesforce and HubSpot customers "typically see initial data flowing within days of contract close." Custom integrations through the API sit outside that promise, so ask for any professional services to be quoted as a separate line.
These hidden costs are where quotes drift. Ask for every one of these to be priced in writing. A one-year premium of a few percent looks like a drop in the bucket next to an $86,263 contract, until it compounds on a renewal.
What buyers pay for HG Insights in practice
Vendr's HG Insights marketplace page is the only public record of signed contracts. Its header shows an average contract value of $86,263 and 33 deals handled, with average savings of 21.62%. Its tracked range runs from $32,897 to $172,713 across 48 purchases.
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Email a briefA 21.62% saving on the $86,263 average is about $18,650 a year. On a two-year term, that's roughly $37,300 left on the table by a buyer who accepts the first quote.
What users say about HG Insights cost and data
Reviews below come from TrustRadius and G2. TrustRadius is now HG Customer Voice, owned by HG Insights, per HG's Customer Voice page, so read its reviews as coming from a vendor-owned site.
A sales strategist at a 501 to 1,000 employee company titled a TrustRadius review on 13 August 2025 "Recommend but be weary of the incremental contract costs for upgrades," and listed "Cost can be high vs competition" as a con.
A Google ISV specialist, Regan Dworaczyk, wrote on TrustRadius on 13 August 2025:
"high cost (it's free for me through work but I have heard this from others)"
Regan Dworaczyk, ISV Specialist at Google, TrustRadius, 13 August 2025
On G2's HG Insights pros and cons page, accessed 5 November 2026, a mid-market reviewer, Sanex O., wrote that "the pricing is quite high for an individua/user and a small business." Another mid-market reviewer, Heather S., titled a review "Great information...but pricey".
Data quality draws the other complaints. A strategist at a 5,001 to 10,000 employee company wrote on TrustRadius on 13 August 2025:
"Really strong platform for understanding software installs. Also good for fairly granular tech spend cuts. Not quite as powerful if you operate in niche markets."
Strategist, 5,001 to 10,000 employees, TrustRadius, 13 August 2025
Ari Rice, a GTM systems analyst at Jama Software, put the fit question plainly on TrustRadius on 13 August 2025:
"I think the HG Insights Platform is a useful tool for revenue teams with a SaaS product but unlikely to be as useful to non-software companies."
Ari Rice, GTM Systems Analyst at Jama Software, TrustRadius, 13 August 2025
A Google account manager added on TrustRadius that the platform "works when you know who is your ideal customer." Buyers who can't cut to the chase on their ICP pay for credits they don't use.
How to negotiate HG Insights pricing within budget constraints
Vendr's page advises that engaging "60–90 days before a decision deadline allows time for multiple rounds of negotiation." Five moves follow from HG Insights' own published rules:
- Show budget constraints in writing. HG's pricing guide sells modules individually so "budget constraints don't get in the way," and Vendr's 21.62% average saving is the benchmark for the discount a negotiated deal reaches.
- Negotiate the multi-year term for a better price. HG Insights already charges more for one year, so the second year is your concession, and it should buy a lower annual rate.
- Bundle modules and credits in one order. The pricing guide says credit unit cost falls as the plan scales, and top-ups come at a bundle rate; ask for those volume discounts as a written table.
- Size seats into one bundle at signature. Single seats added mid-term carry a premium.
- Cap annual price increases at renewal in the order form, with a clause that holds if market conditions change. HG's pricing guide sets no renewal price terms, so the ball is in your court.
Get the ball rolling on competing quotes before the first HG call. HG's answers page says it is "frequently deployed together" with Bombora and "frequently used together" with ZoomInfo, which tells you the sales team expects to be one line in a stack.
How HG Insights compares with ZoomInfo, 6sense, Demandbase and Bombora on cost
On Vendr's header figures, the HG Insights cost is the highest of the five vendors below, and the total cost gap widens over a two-year term. HG Insights runs 2.6 times ZoomInfo and 3.5 times Bombora. Against 6sense, the HG Insights average contract is $24,044 a year higher, a total cost gap of $48,088 over a two-year term.
| Vendor | Vendr average contract value | Tracked low | Tracked high | Purchases |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HG Insights | $86,263* | $32,897* | $172,713* | 48 |
| Demandbase | $68,591* | $24,000* | $164,037* | 187 |
| 6sense | $62,219* | $11,191* | $175,915* | 388 |
| ZoomInfo | $33,500* | $7,260* | $156,011* | 1,580 |
| Bombora | $25,000* | $13,000* | $80,450* | 35 |
* Vendr figures: average annual contract value, tracked low and tracked high from each vendor’s Vendr marketplace header, checked 5 November 2026. Purchases is Vendr’s tracked purchase count.
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Here is how HG Insights stacks up on product, since the five overlap less than the prices suggest. ZoomInfo leads on contact data, and HG's answers page describes it as strong at contact-level prospecting; our ZoomInfo pricing report breaks down its $33,500 median. 6sense and Demandbase are account based marketing platforms with their own intent models, covered in the 6sense pricing report and the Demandbase pricing report.
Bombora sells third-party intent data from a cooperative, per HG's answers page, and the intent data pricing report lines it up against 14 other providers.
HG Insights' own answers page describes the 6sense and Demandbase intent scores as "a closed model" and says HG can take either score in as a signal. HG Insights grounds its pitch in technology intelligence, IT spend data and cloud spend, the three data sets its answers page leads with. Its Cloud Dynamics product monitors 10 million cloud companies, per the answers page, and that technology intelligence layer is what HG Insights offers at its price.
For the full technology intelligence field, see our technographic data providers ranking, where HG Insights sits at number one. BuiltWith is the low-cost end of that list; our BuiltWith review covers what a published rate card buys. Teams evaluating HG Insights for account based marketing should also read the ABM platforms ranking and the account-based marketing pricing report.
Who HG Insights pricing fits, and the data enrichment alternatives
HG Insights data covers 13.2 million company URLs across 236 countries, 70,000 technology products and 600 million verified installs, per its answers page. That technology intelligence depth is what an $86,263 contract buys, and it pays off for one buyer profile: a software vendor selling into enterprise IT that needs to know which technologies companies run, what they spend, and which technologies companies are about to replace.
HG Insights' answers page counts 13.2 million company URLs across 236 countries, 70,000 technology products and 600 million verified installs.
Verified technology installs in HG Insights' data
Source: HG Insights answers pagee.g. install counts for the software category you sell into
Source: linked, checked, datedMid market organizations face a harder choice, and both G2 cost complaints quoted above came from mid-market reviewers.
A mid market SaaS company with $40,000 to spend can buy the HG Insights floor configuration or a broader market intelligence tool at a lower price. Our data enrichment tools ranking and Clay pricing report cover the cheaper route for CRM enrichment, and the intent data providers ranking covers buyer intent at lower entry prices.
Mid market buyers outside software should cut their losses early, before a two-year contract locks in a market intelligence tool built for another kind of seller. HG Insights' catalog of contextual intelligence is built around technology installs, and Ari Rice's review on TrustRadius says as much in the user's own words.
What to budget for HG Insights
Plan on the Vendr numbers. A realistic HG Insights cost estimate, built from published figures only, runs in four steps:
- Floor: $22,000 a year, HG Insights' printed module starting price.
- Low tracked contract: $32,897 a year.
- Typical: $86,263 a year, or about $172,500 over the standard two-year contract term.
- Top tracked: $172,713 a year.
Add a line for credit top-ups if your data requirements spike in some months, especially if analysts will run advanced analytics on exported HG data inside a warehouse, and a line for any one-year or quarterly billing premium. Ask if dedicated support, onboarding and custom integrations sit inside the platform fee; HG Insights' pricing pages don't say.
Our HG Insights review covers the product side, and the ZoomInfo alternatives comparison shows where HG sits among sales intelligence vendors.
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Frequently asked questions
How accurate is HG Insights data?
HG's answers page claims a 90% accuracy rate on technographic data, refreshed on a rolling basis. TrustRadius's own summary of 41 verified reviews published in the last 18 months says nearly a third of reviewers noted data accuracy problems, mostly outdated installs and gaps on niche software.
Is HG Insights a good company?
HG Insights is a private company headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, owned by Riverwood Capital, with offices in London and Pune. Its platform scores 9.2 out of 10 across 61 reviews and ratings on TrustRadius, a review site HG owns.
What is HG Insights used for?
Revenue teams use it as market intelligence and technology intelligence: to find accounts by the technology they run, size markets, score target accounts and prioritize sales outreach. The data point a sales team acts on is a company's installed technology stack, its IT spend, or buyer intent signals tied to an intent topic.
HG Insights' boilerplate in its October 2026 release says it "helps companies prioritize, engage, win, and expand the right accounts to accelerate pipeline and revenue at scale."
What is HG Insights' estimated annual revenue?
HG Insights is privately held and files no public revenue figures. Its October 2026 release says it "grounds the GTM decisions that drive over $1.5 trillion in revenue across Fortune 500 Technology companies," which describes its customers' revenue.
Is there an HG Insights free trial?
No. HG Insights' pricing guide says "Currently, there is no pilot or free trial plan available." HG Insights free access is limited to a technographic discovery tool at discovery.hginsights.com, per the answers page.
What is the standard HG Insights contract length?
Two years. A one-year term and quarterly billing both cost extra, per the pricing guide.
Bottom line
HG Insights pricing runs on a meter the buyer can read and a price list the buyer can't, which makes evaluating HG Insights a contract exercise before it's a product one. Credits, seat bundles and the two-year term are all published. The dollars attached to them aren't, so Vendr's $86,263 average and $32,897 to $172,713 range are the working numbers.
For an enterprise software seller that needs install and spend data, those numbers buy the contextual intelligence HG's answers page lists, from 600 million installs to cloud spend. For everyone else, the 2.6 times premium over ZoomInfo is hard to defend. Get the quote in writing, price every surcharge, and negotiate from the 21.62% Vendr average saving.
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Where each HG Insights figure was read, and the dollar amounts HG keeps off its own pages
The contract average, tracked low and high, purchase count, deals handled and average saving are the header block on vendr.com/marketplace/hg-insights, checked 5 November 2026. The Demandbase, 6sense, ZoomInfo and Bombora rows come from the same header block on each vendor’s Vendr page, read the same day.
Plans, credit rates, rollover, seat bundles, contract term and billing premiums come from hginsights.com/product/pricing-guide/ and hginsights.com/product/packaging/.
Data coverage, the accuracy claim and the competitor notes come from hginsights.com/hg-insights-answers/, and the Customer Voice terms from hginsights.com/product/customer-voice-pricing/. The $22,000 module price and the platform structure come from HG Insights’ 6 October 2026 release on prnewswire.com. All HG pages were read 5 November 2026.
Reviewer quotes come from trustradius.com, posted 13 August 2025, and from g2.com, accessed 5 November 2026.
HG Insights prints no dollar amount for any plan, seat bundle, credit pack, AI action credit, one-year premium or quarterly billing premium, so each of those appears on this page as a rule with the price left blank.