Salesgear vs Clay

Clay is a workbench. Salesgear is the finished engine.

Clay can do a lot, but it is a workbench: you hire a GTM engineer to wire the tables, the enrichment waterfalls, and the prompts before your first send. Salesgear ships the engine already assembled, with owned data, deep research, copy, and dialing working out of the box, so you are productive in minutes.

Empowering 1,000+ sales leadersand representatives to build a stronger sales pipeline.

Minutes
to your first researched, written, ready-to-review sequence
95%
mobile direct-dial accuracy across 800M+ owned contacts
$99
per seat, all in, no GTM engineer and no stacked credits
Build it yourself vs sell today

A workbench you assemble. An engine that ships finished.

Clay is a table you build: formula columns, stacked enrichment providers, credit meters, and a GTM engineer to keep it running. Salesgear is one screen that researches, writes, and sends, live in minutes.

Clay workbenchNeeds a GTM engineer
Column
Formula
Provider
Credits
Find email
=enrich()
Provider A
2 cr
Find mobile
=waterfall()
Provider B
3 cr
Research
=claygpt()
+ LLM
5 cr
Personalize
=prompt()
+ LLM
4 cr

Every column is a provider you rent and a credit you meter. Nothing sends until you finish the build.

Salesgear engine
Research across 100+ sources, written for you
Email and call copy drafted in your voice
Sequences send across email and the phone
Live in minutes

One screen, owned data underneath, no formula columns, no provider waterfall, no builder to keep it alive.

Clay, time to first send
A build project
Wire tables, waterfalls, and prompts before anyone goes out.
Salesgear, time to first send
Minutes
Signup to a researched, written, ready-to-review sequence.
Head to head

Salesgear vs Clay, capability by capability

Salesgear
Clay
01Setup
Already assembled, productive in minutes, no build phase
A build project: tables, enrichment waterfalls, prompts, and integrations wired by hand
02Who runs it
Reps run one workflow, no GTM engineer required
Needs a GTM engineer to build and maintain it, motion breaks when they leave
03Data
800M+ owned contacts at 95% mobile direct-dial accuracy, re-verified live
Orchestrates other providers' data through waterfalls, you rent every source
04Research
Account and contact deep research across 100+ sources, built in
You wire the prompts and providers yourself, row by row
05Sending
Email, calls, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, SMS in one platform
Not offered
06Dialer
Two carriers, local numbers across regions, recording, transcript and AI notes included
Not offered
07Deliverability
Built-in warming, plus SPF, DKIM and MX domain health checks
Not offered
08Billing
$99 per seat, all in, no metered credits to manage
Credit-based across Data Credits and Actions, plus the providers you stack on top
Owned vs routed

You own the data instead of routing other people's

Clay is a brilliant orchestrator: it routes other providers' secondary data through enrichment waterfalls. You rent every source and stitch them together row by row. Salesgear owns the data layer outright, so there is no waterfall to assemble.

SalesgearOwned data
ClayRouted, stacked
800M+
owned contacts, not rented from providers
95%
mobile direct-dial accuracy, re-verified live
Priya Raman
VP Sales, Lumen Labs
Verified just now
Mobile +1 (415) 555-0173 mobile
Email p.raman@lumenlabs.com
Source Owned, re-verified on request
Through a waterfall the same row is stitched from a provider you rent, metered per credit, and only as fresh as the source that answered.
One bill vs stacked credits

One price, not a meter for every provider you add

Clay charges across Data Credits and Actions, then the providers you route through it meter on top, each with its own variable cost. The bill moves with every row you run. Salesgear is one seat price with the data, research, dialer, and email already inside.

  • No per-row credit math. Accounts are auto-enriched with no per-enrichment credits to budget or watch drain.
  • No provider stack to own. The data is Salesgear's, so you are not paying four vendors to fill one contact.
  • One predictable line. $99 per seat, all in, instead of a base plan plus credits plus a sender plus a dialer.
Clay, stacked variable credits
Clay Data Creditsper row
Clay Actionsper run
Provider A enrichmentvariable
Provider B enrichmentvariable
Separate senderper seat
Separate dialerper seat
Salesgear, one bill$99 / seat
The real bill

Credit-based tiers vs one all-in seat

Clay's paid plans are credit-metered across Data Credits and Actions, before the providers and tools you stack around it. Salesgear is one seat price with research, dialer, and email already inside.

Clay, credit-based
Launch plan$185 / mo
Growth plan$495 / mo
Data Credits and Actionsmetered, per row
Providers, sender, dialerstacked on top
Plus a GTM engineerto build it

Credit-metered plans, plus the data providers and sending tools you assemble around the workbench.

Salesgear, all in
Owned data and deep researchincluded
Dialer and multichannel sendingincluded
Accounts auto-enrichedno per-enrichment credits
GTM engineer to run itnot required
One seat price$99 / mo

One platform, productive in minutes, instead of a credit-metered workbench plus a stack to assemble.

CRM sync

Your CRM stays the source of truth

A workbench exports rows you then have to route somewhere else. Salesgear syncs both ways with the CRMs you already run, so every email, call, and reply lands on the right record automatically.

Salesforce HubSpot Pipedrive Zoho
Two-way sync. Contacts, fields, and activity flow both directions.
Every touch logged. Emails, calls, and replies post to the record.
Questions

Salesgear vs Clay, answered

Is Salesgear a good Clay alternative?

Yes, if you want a finished engine instead of a workbench to build. Clay can do a lot, but you wire the tables, enrichment waterfalls, prompts, and integrations yourself before your first send. Salesgear ships research, copy, owned data, email, and dialing already assembled, so you are productive in minutes.

Do I need a GTM engineer to run Salesgear?

No. Clay setups live in the head of the person who built them, so the motion breaks when they leave. Salesgear runs the same whether or not you have a GTM engineer on staff. Your reps operate one workflow that does not need maintenance.

How is Salesgear's data different from Clay's?

Clay orchestrates other providers' data through enrichment waterfalls, so you rent and stitch every source. Salesgear owns 800M+ contacts at 95% mobile direct-dial accuracy, re-verified the moment you pull them, with no waterfall of third-party credits to manage.

How does pricing compare to Clay?

Clay is credit-based. Its paid plans start at $185 per month for the Launch tier and $495 per month for Growth, and both meter Data Credits and Actions, on top of the providers and tools you stack around it. Salesgear is $99 per seat, all in, with data, research, dialer, and email included.

How fast can I send my first sequence?

Clay is a build project, so time-to-first-send is slow: you assemble the workbench before anyone goes out. Salesgear is the finished engine, so you go from signup to a researched, written, ready-to-review sequence in minutes.

Which CRMs does Salesgear sync with?

Salesgear syncs two ways with Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, and Zoho, so every email, call, and reply lands on the right record automatically.

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