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Clay

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Clay is a GTM data and automation platform that combines 100+ data providers with AI research agents ("Claygents") in a spreadsheet-like table interface, letting revenue teams find, enrich, score, and route accounts and contacts, then push the output into CRMs, ad platforms, or outbound sequences.

Vendor's own claim
activation/deliverydata/enrichmentsignals/intentorchestration/agent runtime

Core capabilities

Vendor's own claim
  • Claygents: AI research agents that browse the web and reason over sources to answer prospecting questions inside a table cell
  • Waterfall enrichment: automatically queries multiple data providers in sequence and returns the first successful match
  • Signals & intent: tracks job changes, hiring, funding, and other trigger events
  • Data marketplace: access to 100+ third-party data providers from a single interface
  • Ads sync: pushes built audiences to LinkedIn, Meta, and Google Ads
  • Sequencer: native outbound messaging/sending built into the table workflow
  • HTTP API and webhooks (Growth plan and up) for programmatic access
  • Agent Plugin / CLI: lets coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) call Clay's search and enrichment primitives directly

API & agent surface

From official docs
Authentication
Not documented on publicly accessible pages we could retrieve
Notable endpoints
  • HTTP API and webhooks are advertised as a Growth-plan feature, but the reference docs for them were not reachable in this pass
Machine-readable spec
No OpenAPI link

Official skills & repos

From official docs

Published by the vendor themselves — not community forks.

  • clay-run/agent-plugins91 stars

    Official plugin marketplace giving coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) skills and a CLI to call Clay's search, enrichment, and table-query primitives.

From the vendor's channel

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Pricing

From official docs
PlanPriceIncludedNotable
Free$0/mo500 actions/mo, 100 data credits/mo, max 200 rows
Unlimited seats
Unlimited tables, Multi-provider waterfall enrichment, Claygent AI
Launch$167 - $540/mo (billed annually, tiered by volume)15,000 - 200,000 actions/mo, 3,000 - 50,000 data credits/mo, max 50,000 rowsPhone enrichment, Job/signal triggers, Email integrations
Growth$446 - $850/mo (billed annually, tiered by volume)40,000 - 200,000 actions/mo, 6,000 - 50,000 data credits/moCRM auto-sync, HTTP API, Webhooks
EnterpriseContact salesCustom actions/creditsUnlimited ad audiences, SSO, Role-based access control

Checked 2026-07-30 against their pricing page. Vendors change pricing without notice.

What is Clay

Vendor's own claim

Clay is best understood as a programmable spreadsheet for go-to-market work: each row is a company or person, each column is a data source, enrichment step, or AI agent call, and the table itself becomes the workflow. It is not a single-source data vendor - its core pitch is orchestrating many providers and an AI research layer behind one interface, then activating the resulting list into a CRM, ad audience, or sequence.

Ideal customer profile

Vendor's own claim

GTM, sales operations, RevOps, and marketing teams who need to build and enrich prospect/account lists at scale; vendor claims 500,000+ users "from startups to the largest enterprises" and lists customers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, Figma, HubSpot, and ElevenLabs.

Who should look elsewhere

Our read

Teams that need a single always-on record of truth rather than a workflow tool should note that Clay is built around table runs and credit-metered actions rather than a persistent CRM record. Solo founders or small teams with light volume should model the Launch and Growth credit allowances against expected enrichment usage. Clay also requires someone to build and maintain table logic rather than providing one fixed data source.

Clay alternatives

Our read

Tools that let a revenue team compose several data providers into one workflow, run it conditionally across a list of accounts or people, and push the result into a CRM or sequencer. The unit of work is a table or a pipeline, not a single lookup.

Category: GTM data orchestration. Membership is decided by 4 stated tests, not by category tags — see them and the full comparison.

Clay FAQ

What does Clay actually do?

Clay is a spreadsheet-style workspace where each row is a company or person and each column pulls from a data provider, an enrichment step, or an AI "Claygent" that researches the web - the resulting table can then sync to a CRM, ad platform, or outbound sequencer.

Vendor's own claim
Is there a free tier?

Yes - a permanent Free plan with 500 actions and 100 data credits per month, capped at 200 rows per table, with unlimited seats and tables.

From official docs
Is there an MCP server?

Clay's GitHub org publishes an "agent-plugins" repo giving coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) skills/CLI access to Clay primitives, but we could not find a dedicated MCP documentation page confirming a standalone MCP server or its exact tool names.

From official docs
How is pricing structured?

Plans are metered on two resources - "actions" (workflow/API operations) and "data credits" (paid enrichment lookups) - with tiered monthly ranges from Free through Launch and Growth, plus custom Enterprise pricing; annual billing saves about 10%.

From official docs
What company sizes use Clay?

The vendor claims 500,000+ users "from startups to the largest enterprises," with named logos spanning early-stage AI startups (ElevenLabs, Mistral AI) to large public companies (Stripe, HubSpot, Uber).

Vendor's own claim
Can Clay sync to ad platforms?

Yes - Clay can push built audiences to LinkedIn, Meta, and Google Ads; the Growth plan includes one ad audience, Enterprise includes unlimited.

Vendor's own claim
Does Clay offer a trial?

Yes, a 14-day free trial of paid plans, in addition to the permanent free tier.

From official docs
Is there SSO / enterprise access control?

SSO and role-based access control are listed as Enterprise-plan features.

Vendor's own claim
How steep is the learning curve?

Clay runs its own "Clay University" with structured courses and cohort programs to teach the table/enrichment model, which suggests real onboarding investment beyond building a first simple table.

Our read

Verify before you buy

  • A dedicated API reference/OpenAPI spec page for the HTTP API mentioned on the Growth plan
  • A dedicated MCP documentation page with exact MCP tool names
  • Auth scheme, base URL, and rate limits for the HTTP API
  • A machine-readable OpenAPI specification was not included in the reviewed source set.

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