Clay vs. InsideView (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Clay
Score 8.1 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
InsideView (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
InsideView was a sales intelligence solution acquired by Demandbase in 2021. Capabilities of the product are now a part of the Demandbase One platform.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
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
Clay
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
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
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
InsideView (discontinued)

No answer on this topic

Features
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Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Clay
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Ratings
InsideView (discontinued)
8.2
Ratings
6% above category average
Advanced search00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Identification of new leads00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
List quality00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
List upload/download00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting00 Ratings8.20 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
Clay
-
Ratings
InsideView (discontinued)
8.7
Ratings
11% above category average
Contact information00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Company information00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Industry information00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
Clay
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Ratings
InsideView (discontinued)
8.2
Ratings
10% above category average
Lead qualification process00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Salesforce integration00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Company/business profiles00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Alerts and reminders00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Data hygiene00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Automatic data refresh00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Tags00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Filters and segmentation00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
Clay
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Ratings
InsideView (discontinued)
9.5
Ratings
24% above category average
Sales email templates00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Append emails to records00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
Lead411
Lead411
Score 9.1 out of 10
Lead411
Lead411
Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Lead411
Lead411
Score 9.1 out of 10
Lead411
Lead411
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
TechTarget Priority Engine
TechTarget Priority Engine
Score 9.8 out of 10
TechTarget Priority Engine
TechTarget Priority Engine
Score 9.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
-
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8.9
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
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Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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
  • 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
  • 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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Usability
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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Alternatives Considered
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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Return on Investment
  • 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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