Volza Review (2026)$1,500 Covers 182 Countries, Not 200+
By Daan Haket · Researched and written with an AI assistant · who does what
The entry plan is narrower than the marketing implies: $1,500 a year covers 182 countries and two users, while the 200-country coverage and ten seats start at $4,500. The tool we compare it with at each step below is ImportGenius.
- Best for Importers and exporters looking for real buyers and suppliers
From $1,500 · a year (182 countries, 6,000 searches, 2 users) · read 2026-11-09
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Is Volza right for you?
Your pain“Directory listings don't tell me who really ships goods, so finding real buyers and suppliers is guesswork.”
Does Volza solve it?YesBuyer reports (Capterra, SourceForge, SoftwareWorld and Slashdot, August 2026): actual shipment records across 209 countries, so you find real buyers and suppliers.
Your planStartup, $1,500 a year (182 countries, 6,000 searches, 2 users, 360,000 download credits)
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Your pain“Two seats and a shorter country list leave part of our team and market out.”
Does Volza solve it?YesPricing page, re-verified 9 November 2026: SME is $4,500 a year for 200+ countries, 10 users and 1,040,000 download credits, which works out at $450 per user.
Your planSME, $4,500 a year (10 users, unlimited searches under fair use); 2-Year Value Plan $7,650
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Your pain“I have one sourcing question, and a year-long contract is too much for it.”
Does Volza solve it?PartlyPricing page, read 9 November 2026: there is no monthly price, the smallest paid commitment is $1,500 for a year, and the free trial runs 3 months with no credit card.
Your planFree trial, 3 months, no credit card; smallest paid plan is Startup at $1,500 a year
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- you only need US shipment data with fast daily updates (ImportGenius refreshes daily), or you're not doing import/export: this is a niche intelligence tool.
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Which Volza plan do you need?
3 plans, 3 questions, no signup.
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Your plan
Startup
$1,500 a year
182 countries, 6,000 searches, 2 users, 360,000 download credits
Your plan
SME
$4,500 a year; 2-Year Value Plan $7,650
200+ countries, unlimited searches under fair use, 10 users
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Corporate
$9,600 a year; 2-Year Value Plan $16,320
200+ countries, unlimited searches under fair use, 15 users
Prices as we read them on 2026-11-09; check the checkout before you pay. The plan button is an affiliate link: we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you.
What Volza costs at your size
What each plan costs a month on annual billing (monthly billing below it), per user from Volza’s own pricing page. The cheapest plan at each size is marked. On annual billing the cheapest plan changes from Startup to SME between 2 and 3 users. Startup stops at 2 users; SME stops at 10 users; Corporate stops at 15 users.
| Users | Startup | SME | Corporate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 user | $125Best value at this size | $375 | $800 |
| 3 users | not available | $375Best value at this size | $800 |
| 5 users | not available | $375Best value at this size | $800 |
| 10 users | not available | $375Best value at this size | $800 |
| 25 users | not available | not available | not available |
| 50 users | not available | not available | not available |
Prices read 2026-11-11; tax excluded unless the vendor says otherwise. Calculated by our cost engine; the same numbers are in our open data.
See current prices on Volza →Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 9 Nov 2026
Three paid plans, billed annually or as a 2-Year Value Plan, and a free trial; the page shows no monthly price. Startup is $1,500 a year: 182 countries (44 export and 50 import detailed databases, plus mirror and one-side databases; the 23 September reading listed 160 export and 158 import mirror and 7 and 7 one-side, premium countries excluded), data from 2014 onward, 6,000 searches, full shipment view, 360,000 full-shipment download credits and 2 users.
SME is $4,500 a year: the card now says 200+ countries (it said 200 on 23 September), adds the statistical databases (46 export, 48 import), unlimited searches under fair use, 1,040,000 download credits and 10 users. Corporate is $9,600 a year: the same 200+ country coverage, unlimited searches under fair use, 2,400,000 download credits and 15 users. The free trial now runs 3 months with no credit card (it was 7 days on 23 September), is advertised as "50$ On sign up + Unlimited Volza credits", and shows the last three years in full view with the latest six months as a preview; on 23 September it carried no full-shipment download credits and allowed 10 users, rows we did not re-check on 9 November.
Full pricing notes (2 more paragraphs)
The 2-Year Value Plan is paid for two years at once and advertised as 15% saving plus 15% bonus credits: Startup $2,550, SME $7,650, Corporate $16,320, which is exactly two annual terms less 15%. On 23 September the 2-year cards showed 13,800 searches, 828,000 download credits and 5 users for Startup, 2,392,000 credits for SME and 5,520,000 for Corporate. The comparison table caps workspaces at 75, 300 and 600 (Startup, SME, Corporate; 'as per credits' on the trial) and shipments per workspace at 300,000 on the trial and Startup, 500,000 on SME and 750,000 on Corporate; on 23 September it also capped workspace deletions at 20, 75 and 100 a month.
The page also states a refund promise: if you find no profitable opportunity, Volza will help you find one or refund in full.
Plans change, so check the live price on their site before you buy.
Category context: Growth & Revenue. Across the 85 tools in this category that we researched with a public US-dollar price, the median entry price is about $30 a month (lowest paid plan as listed, per seat where the vendor prices per seat). Compare pricing conditions in the Software Cost Atlas →
The honest knock
Downloads run on a credit allowance (360,000 a year on Startup) and an earlier reading of the catalogue put the cost per record at one credit for US or India shipments and up to ten in thinner markets; that per-country rate is not stated on the current pricing page and we could not re-verify it on 1 September 2026, so treat it as a question for sales rather than a fact.
And the update cycle is slow, with some datasets taking up to two months to refresh, which suits structural questions far better than reactive ones. There is a learning curve too; it rewards analysts, not casual users. There is no monthly plan. Between the 'Annually' and '2-Year Value Plan' toggles, the smallest paid commitment is $1,500 for a year, so a buyer with one short sourcing question should get the answer out of the trial rather than out of a subscription.
And the 2-year discount is real but modest in cash terms: $450 off on Startup, $1,350 on SME and $2,880 on Corporate, against two annual terms that you pay up front and cannot spread.
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What Volza does
Export-import trade intelligence: search customs-level shipment records to find verified buyers and suppliers. Downloads run on a published credit allowance, from 360,000 full-shipment credits a year.
What buyers report about Volza
Hands-on: not tested by usReported by buyers: Capterra, SourceForge, SoftwareWorld and Slashdot, read August 2026
Themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We have not run Volza ourselves, so this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.
- • Actual shipment records across 209 countries: you find real buyers and suppliers rather than a directory listing. India data refreshes weekly, US daily.
- • 30 pre-set dashboards and pivot tables mean you are analysing rather than building reports, and support is described as responsive.
- • Pricing is points-based on an annual subscription from around $1,500 a year, and reviewers warn the points burn faster than expected. Model your real search volume before committing.
- • One reviewer specifically values downloading to Excel without point deduction, which tells you how much the point economy shapes daily use.
- • It is an annual commitment; there is no light monthly option to test at low volume.
The $1,500 plan is not the 200-country plan
The headline and the coverage do not belong to the same plan. Startup is $1,500 a year and it buys 182 countries: the detailed and mirror databases, with the premium countries carved out. The 200-country figure that sells this whole category starts one rung up, at SME, $4,500 a year. So the honest entry price depends entirely on whether the markets you actually trade in sit inside the cheaper set, and that is the question to settle before you compare this with anything else.
Seats are the second trip-wire and they are unusually tight at the bottom. Startup covers two users; SME covers ten. Trade data is normally read by more people than it is searched by, so a two-seat plan tends to become one person exporting on behalf of colleagues, which spends the download allowance faster than the plan assumes, and hides who the tool is really for. Those allowances are published, and they are the number to plan against rather than the price: 360,000 full-shipment download credits a year on Startup, 1,040,000 on SME, 2,400,000 on Corporate.
Searches are capped at 6,000 on Startup and run unlimited under fair use above it. Per seat the ladder runs the other way from what the prices suggest. Startup works out at $750 per user a year, SME at $450 and Corporate at $640 (9 November 2026 prices). A team of three or more is already cheaper per head on SME than two people on Startup, before counting the extra countries.
Questions we are still checking
Facts about Volza that would change a buying decision, and where we stand on each. An unanswered question does not mean the feature is missing; it means we have not confirmed it yet.
- Exactly how many countries do SME and Corporate cover, and which are the premium countries Startup leaves out? Still checking
Applies to: on 9 November 2026 the Startup card says 182 countries and the SME card '200+ Countries'; on 23 September it said 200; the premium list sits behind a 'Click to View' toggle.
Why it matters: a buyer whose main lane is a premium country pays $4,500 instead of $1,500.
Checked: Volza pricing (2026-11-09) - What are the conditions of the 100% refund promise? Still checking
Applies to: the pricing page promises help finding 'at least one profitable opportunity' or a full refund, without a time limit or definition.
Why it matters: the promise is the main risk reducer on a $1,500 to $16,320 up-front payment.
Checked: Volza pricing (2026-11-09) - What does the asterisk on 'Starting From 2014 Onward *' qualify? Still checking
Applies to: the data-history row carries an asterisk; the footnote was not part of the text we read.
Why it matters: history depth per country decides whether multi-year trend work is possible.
Checked: Volza pricing (2026-11-09) - How many download credits does one shipment record cost per country? Still checking
Applies to: an earlier reading put it at one credit for US or India and up to ten in thinner markets; the current pricing page does not state it.
Why it matters: the credit allowance can last ten times longer or shorter depending on your lanes.
Checked: Volza pricing (2026-11-09)
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How to actually use Volza
Ask two questions before you sign, because the headline price does not answer either. How many points does the plan include a year, and what does a shipment record cost in points for the specific countries you trade with? US and India are one point; thinner markets run up to ten, so the effective cost of your data varies tenfold depending on your lanes rather than on your plan. Then decide whether the refresh cycle fits your question.
Some datasets take up to two months to update. For structural work (mapping the top suppliers in a category, sizing a country's share of an HS code) that is fine. For watching a competitor switch supplier this quarter, it is not, and no plan fixes it. Name the person who will actually use it before you buy. This rewards analysts and has a genuine learning curve, so a subscription bought for the team in general tends to become a login nobody opens.
Give one person the first month and a specific question to answer with it. The trial is now long enough to test the slow part. On 9 November 2026 the free trial ran 3 months with no credit card, up from 7 days on 23 September. That outlasts the up-to-two-months refresh mentioned above, so note the latest shipment date for two or three of your HS codes in week one and check whether it has moved by week ten.
The trial shows the last three years in full and the latest six months only as a preview, so judge depth on the older data and freshness on the dates, not on the preview rows.
Sources for this review
- Volza pricing (read in a browser; HTTP 403 to plain fetches) · read 9 Nov 2026: Startup $1,500, SME $4,500, Corporate $9,600 a year; 2-year $2,550/$7,650/$16,320 with 15% saving and 15% bonus credits; 3-month trial without a card; 182 vs 200+ countries; workspace and shipment limits; refund promise
- Volza pricing, earlier reading · read 23 Sep 2026: 7-day trial, 10 trial users, no trial download credits, 2-year allowances and seats, workspace deletions
Full research notes and reading history (115 words)
volza.com/pricing, read in the browser pane 23 September 2026 (a plain fetch returns HTTP 403; previously read 1 September 2026): the four plan cards on both the Annually and the 2-Year Value Plan toggle, and the Detailed Feature Comparison table (users, workspaces, workspace deletions, workspace shipment limit), plus the refund promise on the same page. Re-read on 9 November 2026 in a browser (curl still gets HTTP 403 from Cloudflare on every volza.com path, including the terms of use, FAQ and llms.txt): the plan cards on both toggles, the trial card, the workspace rows of the comparison table and the refund promise. Prices were unchanged; the trial had grown from 7 days to 3 months.
The natural comparison is ImportGenius or Panjiva: the US-focused faster-updating one and the pricey enterprise incumbent. Weigh it against ImportGenius on the job you actually need done.
Frequently asked questions
Is Volza's 2-year plan worth it over paying annually?
Read 23 September 2026, the 2-Year Value Plan costs $2,550 for Startup, $7,650 for SME and $16,320 for Corporate, against $1,500, $4,500 and $9,600 a year on annual billing - so 15% off two annual terms, paid up front. It also adds 15% to the allowances: Startup gets 13,800 searches and 828,000 download credits over the two years instead of 12,000 and 720,000. The detail that matters most on the entry plan is seats: the Startup card shows 5 users on the 2-year plan against 2 on annual, while SME and Corporate stay at 10 and 15. So if two seats is what makes Startup awkward, the 2-year term fixes that for $1,050 less than moving to SME for a year - but it commits you for 24 months to the 182-country set, which still leaves out the premium countries.
Does the $1,500 Volza plan cover all 200 countries?
No. Read 23 September 2026, the Startup card says 182 countries, 'except premium countries', and lists the detailed, mirror and one-side databases it includes. SME at $4,500 a year is the first plan the page describes as 200 countries, and it adds the statistical databases (46 export, 48 import). The page does not name the premium countries on the card itself; it hides them behind a 'Click to View' toggle, so open that list and check it against the markets you actually trade before you compare Startup with anything. If one of your core lanes is on it, the real entry price is $4,500, not $1,500.
What does the Volza free trial actually let you do?
Read 9 November 2026, the trial runs 3 months with no credit card; on 23 September it was 7 days. The card advertises '50$ On sign up + Unlimited Volza credits' and shows the last three years in full view with the latest six months as a preview. On 23 September the trial allowed 10 users and its download row said 'No': you could search and browse shipments but not export records to a spreadsheet. We did not re-check those two rows on 9 November, so confirm them at sign-up. Three months is enough to answer the coverage question (are your countries and HS codes there) and the freshness question (do the latest dates move within a refresh cycle) before you commit $1,500.
Is there a monthly Volza plan?
Not on the pricing page. Read 9 November 2026, the page offers two billing toggles, 'Annually' and the '2-Year Value Plan', and no monthly price on any of the three paid plans. The smallest paid commitment is therefore Startup at $1,500 for a year, and the 2-year option asks for $2,550 up front. If you need a month or two of data for one sourcing project, the free trial is the only short option the page shows; whether sales will write a shorter contract is not stated, so ask before you assume it.
Which Volza plan is cheapest per user?
SME, on the published numbers. Read 9 November 2026: Startup is $1,500 a year for 2 users, which is $750 per user; SME is $4,500 for 10 users, $450 per user; Corporate is $9,600 for 15 users, $640 per user. Going from Startup to SME costs $3,000 more a year and adds 8 seats, about $375 per extra seat, and it brings the wider country set and unlimited searches under fair use with it. Per download credit the three plans are close: our arithmetic gives 240 credits per dollar on Startup (360,000 for $1,500), about 231 on SME (1,040,000 for $4,500) and 250 on Corporate (2,400,000 for $9,600). So the choice between plans is about seats and coverage, not about the price of a record.
What does Volza's refund promise actually cover?
The pricing page, read 9 November 2026, says: "We guarantee you'll find at least one profitable opportunity. If you don't, we'll help you find one, or give you a 100% refund." That is the whole statement on the page. It does not say how long you have to claim, who decides what counts as a profitable opportunity, or whether 'help you find one' comes first and the refund only after that. We could not read the terms of use to check, because volza.com returns HTTP 403 to plain requests. Get the conditions in writing before you pay for a year, and keep a record of the searches you ran.
Is this a hands-on review of Volza?
This is a researched assessment, not a hands-on test. Where we've used a tool ourselves, we say so explicitly. We name what each tool is good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.
- Buyer reviews on Capterra, SourceForge, SoftwareWorld and Slashdot, read August 2026.
- Price re-verified 2026-11-09 on volza.com/pricing in a browser, because the page returns HTTP 403 to plain fetches; earlier reads 2026-09-01 and 2026-09-23.
Bottom line
Best for: importers and exporters looking for real buyers and suppliers.
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