BuiltWith vs Clay

BuiltWith profiles websites to help users research technology adoption, ecommerce activity, web usage trends, and potential sales leads. The platform says it tracks 127,671 web technologies and provides usage lists covering more than 370 million active domains, with over 18 years of usage history available through its plans. Users can find ecommerce websites and products, filter reports by category, region, or technology, and export results. Uploaded website lists can be analyzed, with report metadata and technology-use matrices exportable to Excel or CSV. Future Customers uses technology overlap to recommend potential leads. BuiltWith offers API access with XML and JSON feeds, browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, and CRM integrations including Salesforce, HubSpot, Pardot, Zoho CRM, Close.io, and Microsoft Dynamics 365. Individual website lookups are free; the Free plan permits 10 detailed lookups per day. Advanced costs $144 a year. Monthly plans have a one-month minimum and yearly plans a one-year minimum, and plans can be canceled at any time. The maker was founded in 2007 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

Clay is a spreadsheet-style platform for connecting information and automating work, aimed at salespeople, growth teams, and small agencies finding and reaching customers. It enriches data through more than 150 providers and can combine sources in multi-provider waterfalls. Claygent, its AI agent, can research the web and generate custom data points. Depending on the plan, users can track signals such as job changes, promotions, new hires, company news, social activity, and web intent. Integrations include Salesforce, HubSpot, Snowflake, and Google BigQuery. Clay can centralize audience data and sync ad audiences to LinkedIn, Meta, and Google. Its Salesforce integration can manage data, create or update records, and access reports and views. The Free plan allows up to 200 rows per table and excludes phone number enrichment. Actions measure platform usage; Data Credits cover data and AI from marketplace vendors. Clay says customer data is not used to train its AI models or those of its AI providers.