Clay vs. HG Insights Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Clay
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
Clay is a GTM enrichment product that combines access to 100+ data sources and AI agents with automated workflows to build any growth use case. Companies use it for tasks like recurring CRM enrichment to targeted outreach.
$149
per month 2000 credits per month
HG Insights Platform
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
The HG Insights platform provides a view into global industries, markets, and companies allowing users to identify the most valuable opportunities and build strategies to maximize revenue and accelerate growth.N/A
Pricing
ClayHG Insights Platform
Editions & Modules
Starter
$149
per month 2000 credits per month
Explorer
$349
per month 10,000 credits per month
Pro
$800
per month 50,000 credits per month
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ClayHG Insights Platform
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
ClayHG Insights Platform
Considered Both Products
Clay
Chose Clay
Clay offers a user friendly consumption based platform that is easy to experiment and scale.
HG Insights Platform

No answer on this topic

Features
ClayHG Insights Platform
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Clay
8.2
95 Ratings
5% above category average
HG Insights Platform
-
Ratings
Advanced search8.393 Ratings00 Ratings
Identification of new leads8.287 Ratings00 Ratings
List quality7.986 Ratings00 Ratings
List upload/download9.083 Ratings00 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Load time/data access7.688 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
Clay
8.3
86 Ratings
6% above category average
HG Insights Platform
9.1
36 Ratings
5% below category average
Contact information8.186 Ratings00 Ratings
Company information8.685 Ratings8.336 Ratings
Industry information8.284 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
Clay
8.0
84 Ratings
7% above category average
HG Insights Platform
-
Ratings
Lead qualification process8.578 Ratings00 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Salesforce integration8.266 Ratings00 Ratings
Company/business profiles8.382 Ratings00 Ratings
Data hygiene8.180 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic data refresh7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
Clay
7.9
64 Ratings
6% above category average
HG Insights Platform
-
Ratings
Sales email templates7.964 Ratings00 Ratings
Financial Research
Comparison of Financial Research features of Product A and Product B
Clay
-
Ratings
HG Insights Platform
8.3
34 Ratings
0% below category average
Industry-Specific Information00 Ratings8.529 Ratings
Search Tools00 Ratings8.230 Ratings
Market Research
Comparison of Market Research features of Product A and Product B
Clay
-
Ratings
HG Insights Platform
8.1
36 Ratings
0% below category average
Competitor Research00 Ratings7.933 Ratings
Market Insights and Reports00 Ratings8.334 Ratings
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User Ratings
ClayHG Insights Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(100 ratings)
9.1
(38 ratings)
Usability
7.8
(100 ratings)
8.5
(36 ratings)
User Testimonials
ClayHG Insights Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
Clay Labs Inc. (dba Clay)
Sales automation is the most suited use case of Clay. You could generate GTM motions that are auto triggered by the signals, so you could actually create workflows that are triggered on specific signals. For example, a company gets new funding, you can reach out to the company within in a matter of minutes and you can track a lot of news that's happening on Google or using RSS feeds. You can patch that news into Clay and then manipulate that and get insights out of it. The second best use case is the data enrichment or data cleanup. Usually companies have CRMs with messy data. You can import that. Clay has native integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Marketo, and you can import those lists into Clay and then clean the data, enrich the data, and then push that forward, update the data in the CRMs. That's the second best use case that I use it for and would recommend it for.
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HG Insights
For someone working in B2B IT Marketing, the HG Insights Platform has a wide range of data available that is suited for both a data level employee as well as an ISR. The one draw back is the integration with SFDC isn't as great as we'd like, meaning it is more manual for us to run propensity models using more than one source of data.
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Pros
Clay Labs Inc. (dba Clay)
  • Pros, I think there are a lot of pros, so I mentioned a couple of them already, so being able to use different data providers. I think being able to massage the data, I call it a data orchestration where I can get different points of inputs of data. I can throw everything in Clay and then I can make all the changes before I use them for campaigns, for email, for LinkedIn, for whatever reason I'm going to use my data, but it's really easy to enrich, it's really easy to do research. It's really easy to build agents that tie to each row in your dataset, like there are a lot of things that you could use it for that are huge pros.
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HG Insights
  • It works great for seeing if the site or app for a company is hosted on AWS.
  • Intricately uses a different approach (vs the other tools we use) - which helps confirm from another angle.
  • It has a great google chrome plug-in.
  • UI/UX is modern and clean.
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Cons
Clay Labs Inc. (dba Clay)
  • A max column limit. I run into the column limit all the time and kind of have to figure out using multiple tables. Just bugs really. I mean if you start getting too crazy on it, I feel like takes a long time. You can't really identify that it's working or if it's not. So that kind of slows things down a little bit.
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HG Insights
  • integration with SFDC could be better
  • Sometime provides back an incorrect/no match when a better is available from an uploaded file, though this is getting slightly better
  • A way to gauge how many hits you will get off an intent topic before selecting them so you don't feel like one is going to waste could be useful.
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Likelihood to Renew
Clay Labs Inc. (dba Clay)
The software is well suited in lead scoring and workflows management. Product reliability in customer outreach management and segmentation. The product is worth it from pricing to quality ecommerce services and automation of processes.
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HG Insights
No answers on this topic
Usability
Clay Labs Inc. (dba Clay)
I think it's actually before the launches today, I would say eight, but after they launch, what's the name of the product? I dunno if it was the web intent or the sculpture. 10, because I think that the sculpture was the missing part of plates till now.
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HG Insights
It’s very easy to use, and the team is very responsive and friendly to work with. The information is unique and usable and can complement some of the data we get from call recordings. The integration with Salesforce is easy to implement and offers good insights into our database.
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Alternatives Considered
Clay Labs Inc. (dba Clay)
Honestly, not really any alternatives. I would find it really difficult to think of an alternative because if you have the right pick, basically the cost of switching for me is just too much to look further. So I'm really happy with what I'm getting for my money basically. I haven't really tried any alternatives. I wouldn't even know any alternatives to be honest.
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HG Insights
- Sales Intel seems to be more of a direct competition. Their human research seems to be something interesting. Also the claim to focus on firmographics - We went with Bombora for intent technology in the past - We did not move forward with 6sense
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Return on Investment
Clay Labs Inc. (dba Clay)
  • When I ran something by accident and I can stop it, it consumes credits
  • Sometimes I think the integrations are running and digging into the table I realized it stopped running without noticing and it delayed my daily send quota
  • Positive: is the first time I can do data research this fast and accurate
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HG Insights
  • I don't massively get involved in financial matters, but the propensity models we use internally to help run our campaigns are certainly a big factor when our sales people approach our clients.
  • Every campaign sold now comes with a flat data fee for us to run and use a propensity model for the activity we complete on behalf of our clients.
  • Whilst the client will never see the raw data behind the model (of which HG does play a part along with our other data sources) they are briefed on the methodology and reasoning behind them.
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ScreenShots

HG Insights Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of the welcome screen.Screenshot of the HG Insights Opportunity Generator.Screenshot of HG Insights' Market Analyzer, used to interactively explore and act on your total addressable market, competitive dynamics, and whitespace with speed and confidence.