Clay vs. LeadFuze

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
LeadFuze
Score 8.7 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Find any business professional's contact information. Search entire market segments, or for specific individuals or accounts. Used by salespeople, recruiters, and marketers to help them build their ideal list of leads and candidates. LeadFuze aggregates the world’s professional data to continue to deliver fresh leads. It's prospecting, automated!N/A
Pricing
ClayLeadFuze
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
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.The LeadFuze team offers to write your cold email copy for you on our Professional and Rainmaker subscriptions for no additional cost. We have sent over 2 million cold emails and know what works and you can take advantage of this expertise with this offer.
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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
LeadFuze
Chose LeadFuze
MUCH more economical solution compared to Zoominfo. The platform is always being updated and made better and better. This is a perfect solution for businesses of any size.
Chose LeadFuze
Lead Fuze focuses on the data from LinkedIn users. It is much easier to set up a campaign in Lead Fuze and then connect it to automation. With LI Sales Navigator, you have to do more work and I'm not convinced that it provides the best data, though I can't prove that. LI Sales …
Chose LeadFuze
While we still use Autoklose for automated email outreach, we switched to using LeadFuze for list curation for our lead generation programs. While both tools are good we found LeadFuze to offer a much larger database as well as more filter options to build the exact curation …
Chose LeadFuze
Pearlfinders is up to date and comprehensive with its reports and refreshes its data every qtr. They provide much easier targeted data and also on specific projects that are hot. It's more about deeper rich content that just lead gen. It provides a reason to call, not just a …
Chose LeadFuze
LeadFuze has more filters than other software I've been using such as FindThatLead and Snovio and that gives me the chance to drill down even further into specific niches. Also, the system is really more user friendly and simple to use even more than other software I used in …
Chose LeadFuze
Hunter is really friendly, but it lacks data in some cases, and [doesn't find] the right positions for each email which is a shame. This is where LeadFuze does a much better job. At the end of the day, I am counting more on LeadFuze than Hunter in terms of accuracy.
Chose LeadFuze
I found LeadFuze a few years ago and have always looked to them first given the great product and customer service. I go in and out of active membership depending on what my consulting projects demand. Great value given the price point.
Chose LeadFuze
I don't even want to compare. We have a great plan with LeadFuze and we are really happy!
Chose LeadFuze
We have mostly worked with independent and overseas contractors in the past before trying a service such as this one, and even though we may not have other companies to compare it to we also don’t have any reason to try others. I foresee us utilizing the service for a very long …
Chose LeadFuze
Leadfuze has unlimited data, which simply makes it a no-brainer, especially for SaaS companies, looking to target various verticals through email campaigns. Propsect.io is simply a Chrome extension and doesn't have the extensive filters like Leadfuze.

Salesforce is simply damn …
Chose LeadFuze
LeadFuze is just the best, plus the customer service is second to none. Whenever I have a need or question I can get their staff on the phone to help answer my questions and queries. That's important in helping us move quickly and not waste time sitting around waiting for …
Chose LeadFuze
I've looked into GetProspect for mining validated emails, but it didn't have two of the features that ultimately lead me to LeadFuse - the Technology Used filter and the Google AdWords Spend filter... As a marketing agency, these are great for prospecting my own client leads, …
Chose LeadFuze
Leadfuze makes it easy to automate the processing of prospects in volume, and is much less expensive than Navigator, which won't allow for email follow-ups, as well as building more sophisticated outreach campaigns using automation.
Chose LeadFuze
I was using a cobbled up, barely legal way of getting leads. LeadFuze is more cost effective, quicker and legal!!!
Chose LeadFuze
I tried Aeroleads, Seamless.AI, and LeadIQ before this.

Those platforms can be good, but the problem is it requires you to manually click through Sales Navigator at some level. They also either have limits or require a lot more clicking.
Chose LeadFuze
We selected LeadFuze because it's a huge time-saver. To get the same quality of leads (ie, those that match our search criteria) would take us much more time and effort using other platforms.

We prefer not to name the other platforms out there, but we have tried many of the …
Chose LeadFuze
We have not used another system like LeadFuze because it has provided exactly what we need at a price that we can justify.
Chose LeadFuze
I've used a few manual scraping solutions but LeadFuze simplifies the entire process and is a great all-in-one solution
Chose LeadFuze
LeadFuze is the first tool of this nature we have used.
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User Ratings
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Usability
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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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LeadFuze is great for B2B companies that need an all-in-one lead generation outreach program. This software allows even novices to curate targeted lists and run outreach programs at scale. It is well suited for small or large teams and both the marketing and sales team can benefit from the program. It is also a useful tool for HR, where you can curate lists of qualified candidates and reach out to them proactively.
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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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  • LeadFuze is easy to use. Like any software it takes a little getting used to.....but the product works and it is providing leads to help grow our business.
  • Support is quick and helpful. I even had the owner on chat with me a few times. You are going to get stuck once in a while. The LeadFuze support team with get you out of trouble and back making money.
  • There are a lot of good leads available. And more are added on a regular basis. Can't ask for more than that.
  • Cost is reasonable, especially when compared to PPC.
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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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  • We were doing simple text emails that were coming out of sales peoples inboxes so this functionality wasn't totally needed on our end at the moment, but we imagine that we would have wanted to do more with customizing emails in general.
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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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LeadFuze is super easy to get going and start to work with. There are videos to walk you through it but all you have to do is fill out the form that tells the system what kind of leads you're looking for and you're good to go - it does the rest of the work for you!
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Support Rating
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Very poor again. I booked 3 demonstrations with them, the first failed to support due to tech issues, the second one failed to arrive for the meeting, as did the third meeting arranged. I had difficulty trying to find anywhere to engage online with them, so the customer experience is very low down in my opinion.
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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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Lead Fuze focuses on the data from LinkedIn users. It is much easier to set up a campaign in Lead Fuze and then connect it to automation. With LI Sales Navigator, you have to do more work and I'm not convinced that it provides the best data, though I can't prove that. LI Sales Navigator only lets you run one search at a time. With Lead Fuze, you can run as many as you want (I think)
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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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  • The amount of time I spend on prospecting for clients is so minimal that it barely registers on my calendar, and time is money.
  • I can offer the same lead generation efforts for my clients at a large profit margin, since I can have unlimited lead lists and automate the service for them as well... They feel my team is spending hours mining LinkedIn for laser-targeted leads, but we simply have it running in the background.
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Screenshot of Search for new potential customers by industry, role, location, size, technologies used (or not used), Adwords budget, company news and signals, if a company is hiring for different roles, and more!Screenshot of Find ideal potential leads by industry, size, Adwords budget, latest news and signals, technologies currently used (or not used), if companies are hiring for certain roles, and more.Screenshot of Search entire market segments using personal criterial like their role, skills, education, time in role, and even estimated salary.Screenshot of Add a list of companies or domains you want to target, select your ideal role you're targeting and viola - you have a list of the ideal potential targets you're after.  You can look up individuals using just the first, last, and company fields and you can even find anyone that has ever worked for a company.Screenshot of Grab contact information and social profiles, as well as see additional information about the lead and the company they work for. You'll see all recent company news, job postings, technologies used, and more.Screenshot of Find additional employees at the company, and easily get their contact information as well.