6sense vs. Owler

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
6sense
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
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
Owler
Score 9.6 out of 10
N/A
Owler is a sales intelligence app developed by the company of the same name San Mateo and acquired by Meltwater June 2021, providing competitive insights, company information, and other sales relevant information.
$99
per year
Pricing
6senseOwler
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Plus (personal use)
$99
per year
Pro
$420
per year
Teams
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
6senseOwler
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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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, …
Chose 6sense
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 …
Chose 6sense
6sense is more built for enterprise businesses like ours.
Chose 6sense
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.
Owler
Chose Owler
Apollo is more of a complete system for things like sequences, tracking sales, meetings, recording meetings. It has a very strong search capability for individual contacts that can be broken down in many ways. Like job status, titles, geogrpahy. It also gives insights into …
Chose Owler
Both Owler & Pitchbook are both sales and Business Intelligence application providing latest update and information regards to specifically company and products. Owler provide less details information compared with Pitchbook as the latter provide more insights and details. …
Chose Owler
I believe Lead411 and Owler go hand in hand, rather than one over the other. I believe Lead411's contact generation is far stronger based on the cost, but Owler allows you to broaden your horizon for prospecting whereas Lead411 is more of a user-driven search rather than an …
Chose Owler
Even though Owler is a great tool but when it comes to pay and use it may not be able to deliver more than its competitors in the market. Owler is used a lot to gather company information but along with other tools as its shortcomings are also known to people. Owler needs to …
Chose Owler
Buzzfile, Manta. Buzzfile, while not perfect, is 10 times more accurate and resourceful.
Chose Owler
Owler is comparable to both Crunchbase and PitchBook when looking to gather information on companies. Owler, however, is superior in areas of providing top competitors and insight into very small companies. I use S&P Capital IQ in tandem with Owler as it augments Owler well and …
Chose Owler
If Owler seems lacking in background info, I have to Google search company information on a general level. Contact info can be obtained through ZoomInfo, but revenue info is not. Owler is the site I go to first.
Chose Owler
Over the last few months and products updates, I've noticed that Owler, Crunchbase, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and many other platforms are starting to be more and more competitive with each other. I have yet to find a real major differentiation between them. I guess I trust the …
Chose Owler
We opted to use both ZoomInfo and Owler together instead of DiscoverOrg.

The reason Owler was chosen was: it's easy of use, streamlined information display, accurate and up to date articles.
Chose Owler
Other platforms like ZoomInfo are fantastic, but they are much pricier than Owler. From a budget standpoint, Owler offers a pretty good bang for your buck.
Chose Owler
The only service somewhat similar to Owler that I have used is Sales Navigator. I like Owler better because it provides more information about prospective partners. The two tools are different but have some similarities, so I typically use them both. I think the notifications …
Chose Owler
Owler is free and this is its major strength. Other tools I mentioned have much more capabilities and more accurate and powerful data, but as a small business company, we do not need much data at this point. From Owler, we do not get a lot of data, but we get just enough data …
Chose Owler
Both Insightly and DIscoverOrg are not like direct alternatives to Owler. We use Owler as it provides lots of information for free and we have been using it for a while and I do not know any other products that provide the same information, so I do not know real direct Owler …
Chose Owler
For prospecting, I tend to use Owler and Sales Navigator. Sales Navigator is better on an individual basiI'mbut i'm more focused on getting company wide initiatives and bringing that down to the individual level.
Chose Owler

Owler is a free service so its primary direct competitors would be Google Alerts (it has much higher precision and a unified daily alert), and the freemium InsideView which supports three alerts.

I view it as a complement to fully featured subscription sales intelligence …

Features
6senseOwler
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
6sense
7.8
Ratings
4% below category average
Owler
-
Ratings
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
Owler
-
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
Owler
-
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
Owler
-
Ratings
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
Owler
-
Ratings
Automated workflow & orchestration7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
6sense
-
Ratings
Owler
7.1
Ratings
8% below category average
Advanced search00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Identification of new leads00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
List quality00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
List upload/download00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Load time/data access00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
6sense
-
Ratings
Owler
7.8
Ratings
1% above category average
Contact information00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Company information00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Industry information00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
6sense
-
Ratings
Owler
6.2
Ratings
18% below category average
Lead qualification process00 Ratings5.30 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Salesforce integration00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Company/business profiles00 Ratings5.30 Ratings
Alerts and reminders00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Data hygiene00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Automatic data refresh00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Tags00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
6sense
-
Ratings
Owler
7.9
Ratings
6% above category average
Sales email templates00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Append emails to records00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
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User Ratings
6senseOwler
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
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9.7
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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Usability
10.0
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9.0
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Availability
10.0
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7.0
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Performance
10.0
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8.0
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Support Rating
10.0
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9.0
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Online Training
1.0
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-
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Implementation Rating
10.0
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8.0
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Configurability
10.0
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4.0
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Ease of integration
10.0
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1.0
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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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9.0
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User Testimonials
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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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Owler is best used as a supplemental asset, as it allows you to get very granular on specific prospects. I believe its limitations lie in the fact that while you can see the competitive companies, it's difficult to get any prospecting information out of them ie., contacts, without going for the highest level plan.
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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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  • Great industry info.
  • Really good industry- or company-specific rss feed.
  • Love the funding/merger/acquisition alerts that we get on companies and portfolios that we follow. Often even more timely than Crunchbase since it's based on press releases rather than Crunchbase's data team reaching out to VCs to get their portfolio updates.
  • Pretty good firmographic data on companies (# of employees, ann. revenue, website, c-suite members, etc.).
  • We get all these great benefits for free!
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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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  • The information provided is useful but at times the variation with other websites and tools is substantial which makes it difficult to rely solely on owler
  • Information only about bigger companies is available not for smaller and research on smaller ones are important as there are not many tools that do that
  • There are few companies that appear as defunct or do not exist but in the actual market there is a lot going on with them and being in market intelligence industry owler needs to capture that
  • It would be great if they provide revenue or growth of the in the past three years or so. As it would save our time and efforts to some extent
  • They need to maintain the database in aperiodic manner with precise information
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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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Not really an applicable question as this is a free service, but if they charged $100 / year (GageIn's price) I would still license the service.
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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 well designed but always room for improvement. Maybe more customization in layout or information presented. Maybe even a layout that allows comparison and ranking of companies in a similar industry or vertical, or company size, and geography
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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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I have yet to see the platform down or running slowly, but there have been multiple instances recently (Q2 2015) when the user links to a news story and Owler gives an Oops message. Users simply click on the story a second time and the story is displayed. This is a nuisance bug. I also have a sense that the system is not processing alerts as quickly as before, but I haven't tracked this closely, so I could be wrong about it.
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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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The news precision, which is the most important feature for me, is very accurate. They have editors review the news to ensure it is properly tagged by company and event type.
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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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Problems have been closed quickly and professionally.
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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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Focus on setting up companies that have limited news coverage first. Public companies are well covered and it is easy to track them. Furthermore, the surfeit of news around public companies can crowd out smaller companies with less news. It is smaller companies where you are most likely to see a benefit in their tracking of news, blogs, press releases, and videos.
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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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Apollo is more of a complete system for things like sequences, tracking sales, meetings, recording meetings. It has a very strong search capability for individual contacts that can be broken down in many ways. Like job status, titles, geogrpahy. It also gives insights into technology in use and intent
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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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  • Owler has enabled those in my organization to demonstrate their knowledge on companies to clients without spending too much time working to procure information from various sources.
  • Owler contributes to a more comprehensive analysis of companies when making investment decisions.
  • Owler can be frustrating to use and inefficient as a result of a lack of robust data quality measures.
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