Clay vs Factors.ai

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.

Factors.ai is an AI account-based marketing platform that brings ABM data together and uses AI agents to identify accounts, launch ad campaigns, and attribute wins. Teams can segment accounts with firmographic and behavioral filters, score them, and track buyer engagement. Its attribution combines first-touch, last-touch, and influenced views. The Lite plan identifies companies visiting a website and analyzes website traffic. It includes up to 5,000 monthly tracked users, up to 1,500 companies identified per month, and three seats, at $199 a month, billed $199/mo after a 14-day trial. Basic allows up to 10,000 tracked users, 3,000 companies identified per month, and five seats; Growth allows up to 50,000 tracked users, 8,000 identified companies per month, and ten seats. Enterprise includes dynamic audience syncing to Google and LinkedIn Ads and enhanced conversions for Google Ads, with up to 100,000 tracked users and 25 seats; its display says $30K Onwards per year and directs customers to contact sales. Factors.ai lists integrations with major CRM, ad, messaging, analytics, and automation services, and says Scout agents can be accessed through ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other AI tools using Factors MCP. It is available on the web and through an API.