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B2B Signals vs Clay

A workbench you assemble versus a thing that runs without you.

What Clay is

Clay is a spreadsheet with a hundred data providers behind it. You build the enrichment pipeline yourself, cell by cell, and it will do very nearly anything you can describe.

Where Clay is the better choice

Flexibility, and it is not a small gap. If your process is unusual — a waterfall across six providers, a scoring rule nobody else has, a shape of data specific to your business — Clay will do it and we will not. It is the better tool for people who want to build the machine themselves.

Where we are

Not having to. Clay gives you the parts; someone on your team owns the assembly, the credits and the debugging. We decided the pipeline in advance and run it — the cost is that you cannot rearrange it, and the benefit is that nobody has to.

 B2B SignalsClay
SetupPaste your website, correct the draftBuild the table yourself
FlexibilityFixed pipelineAlmost anything
Who operates itNobody, after setupSomeone on your team
Signal detectionBuilt in, running dailyYou wire it up
Cost modelFlat per workspaceCredits per enrichment
CeilingWhat we detectWhatever you can describe

Our figures come from production on 21 August 2026: 161,072 companies evaluated, 8,689 that passed, 72% of those reached the same day their signal appeared. Figures for Clay are from their public pricing and documentation and may have changed since.

Decide with your own data

Paste a post one of their customers published this week. You will get the people who engaged with it, scored against your profile, without signing up for anything.

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