Blinq vs Sansan (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Blinq if

• Fits if you want one free card that people open from a QR code or a wallet pass
• Works for event teams that scan badges and send the leads to a CRM they already use

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you capture a lot of leads: each one captured and enriched on Business costs $9.99 on top, and bulk packs are sold through sales
• Tight if you're a team of two or three, since Business bills five cards at least, about $24.95 a month on yearly billing
• Not for you if you want CRM sync for yourself alone, as Premium covers one person and sync, templates and lead capture need Business
• Watch out: the scanner and contact export are Premium, and enforced SSO and SCIM need Enterprise
• Skip it if you'd rather set up your card on a computer, because cards are made in the phone app

Pick Sansan if

• Fits if a sales team wants every employee's cards in one company-wide database
• Works for firms with offices in several countries, as cards in 11 languages are read

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you are an individual, as it is sold to companies with a minimum of 10 users
• Watch out: no prices are published and the standard contract term is 1 year
• Skip it if you want a free plan or a trial, as none is listed
• Tight if you are outside Japan and want signature capture, which is Japan only
• Watch out: scans include a human data-entry step, so it is not fully automatic

Blinq

• Business is billed per team card with a five-card minimum, so a team starts at about $24.95 a month on annual billing.
• Leads captured and enriched on Business cost $9.99 each, billed monthly on top of the per-user price; bulk and unlimited packages are sold through sales.
• Premium covers one person only; native CRM sync, templates and lead capture need Business, and enforced SSO and SCIM need Enterprise.
• Cards are set up in the iOS or Android app; the browser dashboard is where Business admins manage team cards.

Sansan

• No prices are published: every plan is quoted after a consultation, and the standard contract term is 1 year.
• The FAQ states a minimum of 10 users.
• Scanning uses a human data-entry step, since the vendor says AI alone is not yet accurate enough.
• The Contact Inbox feature that pulls contacts from email signatures is, per the features page, available only in Japan.

Blinq

Cards and sharing

Two cards free and five on Premium, shared by QR code, link, email, SMS, NFC, Apple or Google Wallet, phone widgets or Apple Watch. Recipients need no app.

Universal contact scanner

From Premium, scan event badges, paper cards, QR codes and LinkedIn profiles, offline too, and save them straight to your contacts.

AI enrichment and notetaker

Enrichment fills in a contact's photo, title, phone, verified email and LinkedIn from 25+ sources. AI Notetaker records and summarizes the conversation. Both start on Premium.

Team cards and signatures

Business admins build templates with locked fields, create cards for the team in a browser dashboard and manage branded email signatures and virtual backgrounds.

Event lead capture

Business tags leads to an event campaign, adds custom qualifier forms and reports cost per lead and attribution, with leads synced to the CRM as they are captured.

CRM sync and MCP

Native sync with HubSpot, Salesforce, Dynamics 365, Zoho CRM and others, Zapier, and an MCP server that lets Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot search your contacts.

Sansan

Card scanning with human checking

Paper cards are scanned with a dedicated scanner or photographed on a phone. Sansan says AI reads each card and a person then checks it, giving 99.9% accuracy across 11 languages.

Shared contact database

Every employee's contacts go into one company database that anyone can search, so staff can see who in the company already knows a given person.

Organization charts and activity history

An organization tree is built for each customer company, and emails, calls and meetings can be attached to a company or a person.

Virtual Cards

Online business card exchange is part of the standard contract, and contacts added this way are managed like ones met in person.

Email to contact lists

Contacts can be turned into lists by business type, department or position, used to send bulk emails, and tracked for opens and clicks.

Integrations and security controls

The features page lists Salesforce integration, an API, two-factor authentication, SAML, IP address restrictions and usage log downloads.

Blinq

• Free$0

  Two cards with unlimited sharing and contacts, wallet passes, a personal email signature and virtual backgrounds.

• Premium$7.33

  per month, billed annually ($9.99 billed monthly)

  One person: up to five cards, the contact scanner, AI notetaker, AI enrichment, a branded QR code, custom colors and contact export.

• Business$4.99

  per user / month, billed annually ($6.99 billed monthly)

  Billed per team card, five cards minimum. Adds templates, admin email signatures, lead capture, native CRM sync, analytics and MCP.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Recommended above 100 people: enforced SSO, SCIM provisioning, subteam admins, invoice billing, volume pricing and a dedicated CSM.

• NFC Classic card$24.99

  one-time, per card

  A tap-to-share card linked to your Blinq profile, no subscription needed. Phone sticker $19.99, metal $49.99, custom printed from $59.99.

Sansan

Pricing could not be confirmed. See sansan.com.

Blinq

• Annual discount

  Save about 27% to 29% with annual billing

  Blinq's pricing page shows Premium at $7.33 a month billed annually against $9.99 monthly, and Business at $4.99 against $6.99 per user.

• Other savings

  Up to 25% off NFC cards ordered in bulk

  Blinq's NFC shop takes 10% off orders of 20 to 49 cards, 15% off 50 to 99, 20% off 100 to 199 and 25% off 200 or more, applied in the cart.

Sansan

No public discounts listed.