# Sansan review (2026): is it worth it? > Shared company contact database built from scanned business cards Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Sansan turns the business cards a company's staff collect into one shared contact database. Cards are scanned with a dedicated scanner or a phone photo, read by AI and checked by people, then searched and used by the whole company. It is sold to organizations on a contract, not to individuals. - **Category:** Digital Business Cards - **Made by:** Sansan, Inc. (since 2007) - **Website:** https://www.sansan.com/en/ - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you are an individual, as it is sold to companies with a minimum of 10 users. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing Sansan's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **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. ## Good for - Companies that want every employee's business cards in one searchable customer database - Sales teams that already use a CRM or sales-support system and want card data fed into it - Organizations with offices in several countries, since cards in 11 languages can be read ## Worth knowing - 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Sansan turns the business cards a whole company collects into one shared, searchable contact database, with a person checking each scan. But no price is published, there is a 10-user minimum and a 1-year term, and the email-signature feature is Japan only. If you are one person, look elsewhere. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published; every plan is quoted after a consultation, so it sits in the middle by default, with a 1-year term and a 10-user minimum. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free is on record: no free plan and no trial on the pages read. - **Features: C.** Scanning, a shared database, org charts, Virtual Cards and email lists. The listing names a gap: Contact Inbox, which pulls contacts from signatures, is Japan only. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and it is a company roll-out with scanners, accounts and a CRM feed to set up. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with Salesforce, an API and SAML. No desktop app is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Sansan's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among digital business cards - Sansan's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 0 of the 15 other digital business cards we grade, and level with 1. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 3 of 15) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/business-cards ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Sansan you would be making newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 14 of the 15 other digital business cards grade higher. - You could make: Digital business card: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Salesforce **Tags:** Digital business card, Email campaigns ## Alternatives - [CamCard](https://toolgpa.com/tools/camcard): Business card scanner and digital business card with CRM sync. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/camcard-vs-sansan) - [ScanBizCards](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scanbizcards): Business card and conference badge scanner that exports leads to CRMs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/sansan-vs-scanbizcards) - [Haystack](https://toolgpa.com/tools/haystack): Digital-only business cards with directory sync for large companies. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/haystack-vs-sansan) - [HiHello](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hihello): Digital business cards, email signatures and lead capture for teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hihello-vs-sansan) - [Blinq](https://toolgpa.com/tools/blinq): Digital business cards with contact scanning and event lead capture. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/blinq-vs-sansan) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.sansan.com/en/ - https://www.sansan.com/en/price/ - https://www.sansan.com/en/faq/ - https://www.sansan.com/en/features/ - https://www.sansan.com/en/about/ - https://www.corp-sansan.com/company/info/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/sansan Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).