6sense vs. Clay

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
6sense
Score 8.7 out of 10
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The 6sense Account Engagement Platform helps B2B organizations achieve predictable revenue growth by putting the power of AI, big data, and machine learning behind every member of the revenue team. 6sense uncovers anonymous buying behavior, prioritizes accounts for sales and marketing, and enables them to engage resistant buying teams with personalized, multi-channel, multi-touch campaigns. 6sense helps revenue teams know everything they need to know about their buyers so they can…N/A
Clay
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Clay is a GTM enrichment product that combines access to 100+ data sources and AI agents with automated workflows to build any growth use case. Companies use it for tasks like recurring CRM enrichment to targeted outreach.
$149
per month 2000 credits per month
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Starter
$149
per month 2000 credits per month
Explorer
$349
per month 10,000 credits per month
Pro
$800
per month 50,000 credits per month
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
6senseClay
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
6sense
Chose 6sense
We selected 6sense because it was the had all of the capabilities that we were looking for, plus a little more. We took our time with the decision and met with the vendor multiple times, in the end 6sense was the leader in the categories that we cared about the most, segments, …
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I doesnt stack upto any platform I used before. It's the worst tool i ever used
Chose 6sense
6sense has a greater ability to match users versus Metadata.io which on par has matched 65% of users, versus 85% with 6sense.

6sense also has much higher lead quality, compared to Metadata.io. We're seeing much greater influence, and trajectory.
Chose 6sense
We chose 6sense because:
6sense offers deeper/better, more actionable AI-driven insights into buyer intent
For its comprehensive view across the entire funnel
Chose 6sense
I previously used Bombora and it was very vague, however when 6sense acquired Bombora that was very helpful and took 6sense to another level providing even more insight when combining the services and technology. My understanding of this is that there is strength in numbers …
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6sense is more built for enterprise businesses like ours.
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We selected 6sense due to the Sales Intelligence features and orchestration capabilities, over its competitors.
Chose 6sense
Overall, 6sense made more sense to our company when comparing it to the others in the market. the integrations with our tools was a breeze and the sales enablement side of 6sense was easy to follow and in a place that makes sense for them.
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Did not see the same overall benefits of 6sense after exploring other solutions.
Chose 6sense
Much better data and ease of use. We are able to really get deep into which accounts are viewing our ads or visiting our website.
Chose 6sense
We've used a couple other ABM softwares. We've done ZoomInfo, we've worked and partnered with RollWorks as well and there are some other quasi ABM tools and features and some other marketing automation platforms that align but not necessarily have the full breadth of experience …
Chose 6sense
There's something to be said for just a very seamless user experience. I think that's paramount, especially when you're trying to align sales and marketing. You're never going to get a salesperson to say, "oh, I want to sit here and learn this tool." You need to make it super …
Chose 6sense
I think 6sense has a much more robust intent data. I don't remember that Terminus really had much into the sales intelligence. The custom model and all of that, that 6sense has did not have at Terminus.
Chose 6sense
6sense sales team spent a lot more time with me building out a use case and example to take back to my team. I appreciated the support and felt confident in getting the help I needed to implement the tech.
Chose 6sense
To be honest, we didn't look very deeply at the product as we are satisfied with 6sense.
Chose 6sense
6sense intent signals are more rich and impact-full that anything with Zoominfo. 6sense provides intent signals that are much more attractive for our sellers as it not only provides the intent but identifies where a company might be in their buying journey. That information can …
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We are too early in the implementation to confirm the quality comparison of data.
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Demandbase Advertising, Terminus ABM Platform and ZoomInfo Marketing
Chose 6sense
6sense had multiple predictive models which was a no brainer for us.
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Bombora and 6sense have pretty similar capabilities e.g. providing surging account lists.
Chose 6sense
The data we get from SI is worlds ahead of Seamess.ai and we are much happier with this data being GDPR ready etc.
Clay
Chose Clay
Clay is phenomenal middle mad, and is better than 6sense. However, data points are not as good as zoominfo. Looking forward to using the sequencer but having ability to have an activity dashboard in salesloft makes it better suited for our needs
Chose Clay
I have not figured out any other product in this space. There is no direct competitor of Clay and that's what makes it different and unique.
Chose Clay
Other products that we're looking at would be DataBar, Persona, and Freckle. Clay is significantly better versus any other products in market due to significantly better data coverage. And due to the flexibility of the UI.
Chose Clay
So I won't say the names, but I said that we've tried some Clay competitors and what we saw is that the data is not as reliable and the enrichment is not that rich than in Clay, for example.
Chose Clay
Honestly, not really any alternatives. I would find it really difficult to think of an alternative because if you have the right pick, basically the cost of switching for me is just too much to look further. So I'm really happy with what I'm getting for my money basically. I …
Chose Clay
Clay offers a user friendly consumption based platform that is easy to experiment and scale.
Chose Clay
Apollo.io, Amplemarket, Google Sheets and La Growth Machine
Chose Clay
Clay is much easier to use compared to n8n but n8n beats clay in terms of pricing and data privacy.

Clay is fast and easy to iterate and experiment.
Chose Clay
(I wrote iCustomer but it only recognized HiCustomer - iCustomer is an early stage competitor to Clay) I like Clay because it's easy to get started - the templates give you so many ideas and he community is incredibly strong. no one else has that going for them the way Clay …
Chose Clay
It's just different, honestly. I think it's a good 'out of the box' solution. It's got almost everything out could need in one place. But it's a little too powerful and far too expensive for the true scrappy startup compared to airtable + integrations. And it's too narrow in …
Chose Clay
CargoAi Marketplace, Persana AI, Apollo.io and Amplemarket
Chose Clay
Clay is able to integrate many of these tools’ data in a waterfall and capabilities into its workflow.
Chose Clay
It’s so much better jeeva was terrible to use in almost every way
Features
6senseClay
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
6sense
7.8
Ratings
4% below category average
Clay
-
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Automated routing and prioritization7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction histories8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Syndicated content7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Personalization7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Engagement data tracking8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad Campaigns
Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Product A and Product B
6sense
7.9
Ratings
1% above category average
Clay
-
Ratings
Ad campaign creation8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Display advertising7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Contextual advertising8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Social advertising7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad reporting and analytics7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience Segmentation & Targeting
Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Product A and Product B
6sense
8.4
Ratings
3% above category average
Clay
-
Ratings
Standard visitor segmentation8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Behavioral visitor segmentation8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
ABM sales intelligence8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Intent Data
Comparison of Intent Data features of Product A and Product B
6sense
8.4
Ratings
7% above category average
Clay
-
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3rd party intent signals8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Downstream intent signals8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Account identification8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
ABM Integrations
Comparison of ABM Integrations features of Product A and Product B
6sense
7.8
Ratings
7% below category average
Clay
-
Ratings
Automated workflow & orchestration7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
6senseClay
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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Usability
10.0
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Availability
10.0
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Performance
10.0
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Support Rating
10.0
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Online Training
1.0
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Implementation Rating
10.0
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Configurability
10.0
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Ease of integration
10.0
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Product Scalability
10.0
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Vendor post-sale
10.0
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Vendor pre-sale
10.0
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User Testimonials
6senseClay
Likelihood to Recommend
6sense is great when used for sales insight, especially in scenarios where sales teams need to prioritize accounts based on buying intent. When we want to identify which accounts are actively researching a product category or specific keywords, 6sense provides visibility into anonymous website visits and intent signals. 6sense can do better in terms data enrichment—such as updating or verifying contact details before import to CRM. While 6sense offers some enrichment features, tools like ZoomInfo is generally more robust to maintaining accurate contact-level data.
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Sales automation is the most suited use case of Clay. You could generate GTM motions that are auto triggered by the signals, so you could actually create workflows that are triggered on specific signals. For example, a company gets new funding, you can reach out to the company within in a matter of minutes and you can track a lot of news that's happening on Google or using RSS feeds. You can patch that news into Clay and then manipulate that and get insights out of it. The second best use case is the data enrichment or data cleanup. Usually companies have CRMs with messy data. You can import that. Clay has native integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Marketo, and you can import those lists into Clay and then clean the data, enrich the data, and then push that forward, update the data in the CRMs. That's the second best use case that I use it for and would recommend it for.
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Pros
  • 6sense has really detailed intent data. It's very dynamic and they're always releasing new features and new products that provide even more levels of detail. They also create a custom model for you that's based on your close won sales. You can look at intent data that's super personalized to you in your business case. The integrations allow you to use the data that 6sense provides throughout your marketing stack. You can put it into your map, you can put it into your CRM, you can put it into outside advertising platforms, which allows you to really have really strong omni-channel campaigns.
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  • Pros, I think there are a lot of pros, so I mentioned a couple of them already, so being able to use different data providers. I think being able to massage the data, I call it a data orchestration where I can get different points of inputs of data. I can throw everything in Clay and then I can make all the changes before I use them for campaigns, for email, for LinkedIn, for whatever reason I'm going to use my data, but it's really easy to enrich, it's really easy to do research. It's really easy to build agents that tie to each row in your dataset, like there are a lot of things that you could use it for that are huge pros.
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Cons
  • Having better in tool usage reporting.
  • Not having to publish segments to SF to see in the dashboards.
  • Better in tool profiles (ability to add region & team under profiles) and then being able to filter reports to a person or sales manager would make things more agile.
  • Ability to have smaller display campaign audiences (1-1 abm style could use improvement).
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  • A max column limit. I run into the column limit all the time and kind of have to figure out using multiple tables. Just bugs really. I mean if you start getting too crazy on it, I feel like takes a long time. You can't really identify that it's working or if it's not. So that kind of slows things down a little bit.
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Likelihood to Renew
6Sense is a powerful tool, and I’m hopeful that, despite some limitations tied to our sales process, we can make it work effectively for our organization. The customer support is great, and they have listened to my feedback and provided recommendations to improve. The insight we can see is still unmatched and it is easy to digest
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Usability
The platform is pretty straightforward as far as creating new segments and what's available to do so. The launch of digital advertising has greatly improved in recent months which has been great for our digital team. Adding or removing users and updating integration points is pretty easy as well. Reporting has also been recently updated which makes reporting on usage and ROI much easier too.
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I think it's actually before the launches today, I would say eight, but after they launch, what's the name of the product? I dunno if it was the web intent or the sculpture. 10, because I think that the sculpture was the missing part of plates till now.
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Reliability and Availability
I've never noticed it being down but I rarely log into the web interface
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Performance
Most of the time pages load quickly and the UX is great there are moments like every platform where it is laggy though
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Support Rating
We hardly needed any support but in the initial days we got some had to contact support for the product understanding, the suppor t was prompt and they were very quick to resolve any issues. The support team is very helpful and gives a lot of importance to unresolved issues.
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Online Training
It was too fast, too complex, no one could follow along. If you miss a step, you're lost for the rest of the time and there is SO MUCH to learn and keep up with.
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Implementation Rating
dont implement it
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Alternatives Considered
We've used a couple other ABM softwares. We've done ZoomInfo, we've worked and partnered with RollWorks as well and there are some other quasi ABM tools and features and some other marketing automation platforms that align but not necessarily have the full breadth of experience and capabilities that 6sense sets.
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Honestly, not really any alternatives. I would find it really difficult to think of an alternative because if you have the right pick, basically the cost of switching for me is just too much to look further. So I'm really happy with what I'm getting for my money basically. I haven't really tried any alternatives. I wouldn't even know any alternatives to be honest.
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Scalability
Has been used by a few teams cross functionally and the scalability of this product is great as we continue to grow
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Return on Investment
  • Opportunity conversion, definitely increased opportunity, conversion rates and very high deal size. The size of the deal that is touched by marketing and engaged in 6sense paid media campaigns is proportionately increased versus if they were just an inbound or if they were just work by sales.
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  • Clay software enables us to find the best connect to build more qualified leads and ensure personalised outreach.
  • Use of the software in our organisation has promoted email marketing and content monetization.
  • The product has enhanced lead management enabling a full pipeline visibility from first contact to conversion.
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