A layer,
or the source.
Clay chains providers together and charges a platform fee for the wiring. Kavex is the source behind a good number of those fields, on one balance with no monthly floor. Almost everything in the table below follows from that one difference.
There is not a single invented Clay number on this page. We compare structure, which anyone can check. Where we cannot verify something from the outside, the cell says so and sends you to their pricing page.
THIS IS THE LINE KAVEX ENDS EVERY RUN WITH · WHAT IT FOUND, HOW LONG IT TOOK, WHAT IT COST
Structure, not adjectives.
Seven things that decide which of the two fits the way you work. Read the right column with their pricing page open.
Forty-five scrapers open the live page the second you press Run. Nothing is served from an old copy, because there is no stored copy.
An orchestration layer. The rows arrive from the providers you chain behind it, so freshness belongs to them. Check each provider for its own refresh policy.
Delivered results. A Google Maps lead is 2 credits, so $2 per thousand, and 1 credit is $0.001. What a run did not find comes straight back to your balance.
A monthly platform fee, and on top of that the cost of every provider call your chain makes. Check their current plan for the fee and for the credits a step costs.
Forty-five, and they are different in kind: Google Maps places, LinkedIn people, Trustpilot reviews, Booking properties, Indeed jobs, Amazon products, Reddit threads.
Not a source of its own for most fields. It reaches sources through provider integrations, and that list is long. Check which providers cover what you need.
They never expire. Top up in March, use the rest in December, nobody resets anything at midnight.
Platform credits run per month and per plan. Check their current plan for what happens to the ones you did not use.
CSV with no row cap, every column the run produced. The same rows over the API, on the same credits.
Export comes out of the table you built. Check their current plan for the row limits on it.
One pot of credits, five people, one invoice. Nobody is charged for the month they did not run anything.
Seats are part of the plan. Check their current plan for what five people cost together.
Your first 500 Google Maps leads free, no card, no contract, no call.
Check their current plan page for the free tier and for what it lets you run.
When to take Clay.
Three cases where we are the wrong tool. If one of them is you, buy theirs.
Your enrichment is twenty steps with conditions.
Their workflow builder chains providers with branching logic. Kavex runs one job and hands you a file, which is not the same thing and does not pretend to be.
You need the long-tail providers behind it.
Intent data, technology graphs, niche registers. Those reach Clay through integrations we do not have and are not building.
Your operators want a spreadsheet.
A table you edit in place suits people who would rather not think about jobs, runs and exports at all.
No seats. Just a balance.
Top up whatever you want, whenever you want. A bigger top-up buys more credits for the same dollar, and every scraper has one published rate underneath.
CREDITS NEVER EXPIRE · NO SUBSCRIPTION, NO SEATS, NO CONTRACT · SAME PRICES OVER THE API