Polinode vs The Swarm

Polinode is a browser-based tool for organizational network analysis and visualization. It can work with network data imported from Excel, GEXF, or JSON, gathered through relationship surveys, or accessed through passive data queries. Surveys can collect relationship information along with demographic, engagement, culture, and open-text responses. Its visualizations support networks of up to 50,000 nodes and 250,000 edges, with more than 30 metrics. An AI network chat can answer questions about network data, calculate metrics, interpret results, and find shortest paths. Passive integrations cover metadata from Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, and Slack. Polinode says these integrations do not read or store message content, refresh every 24 hours, and require an organization account. Free accounts have no private networks; Lite allows five and costs $40 a month, while Professional allows 50 and costs $80 a month. Polinode says it is SOC 2 certified and encrypts stored data with AES-256 and transmitted data with SSL/TLS.

The Swarm is a Go-To-Network platform for companies and investors using relationship data for sales, recruiting and fundraising. Its web app lets teams search a shared network, review connection strength and request email introductions. Users can import LinkedIn connections, Google contacts and Google Calendar connections, and add former colleagues identified from work history. The platform describes a database of 580M+ people, daily-refreshed job data and real-time job-change monitoring across 100M+ profiles. Company information covers 100M+ companies, including funding rounds, investor networks, valuation tracking, team-size changes, locations and industries. Teams can organize prospects with collaborative pipelines, lists, tags and role-based access controls. Integrations include HubSpot and Clay; API and MCP access connect a Swarm network to tools and LLM workflows. The site says its MCP integration provides AI tools such as ChatGPT or Claude access to live relationship and company data. The free plan includes 10 connectors but no API access. Premium costs $99/mo per company and includes 50 connectors and 12,000 API credits; extra credits cost $0.10 each.