Common Room vs. Crunchbase

Common Room

Crunchbase

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Common Room	Score 7.6 out of 10	N/A	Common Room brings community engagement, product usage, and customer data into a single place. It uses intelligence to surface insights from across an entire community and provide tools to act on those insights directly from the app. This allows teams to discover what’s most important, nurture key personas, measure the impact of their programs, and collaborate across their organization.	N/A
Crunchbase	Score 6.4 out of 10	N/A	Crunchbase is a provider of private-company prospecting and research solutions. The vendor boasts that over 60 million users—including salespeople, entrepreneurs, investors, and market researchers—use Crunchbase to prospect for new business opportunities, and that companies all over the world rely on Crunchbase to power their applications, making over 3 billion calls to their API each year.	$0

Pricing

Common Room

Crunchbase

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Basic: $0
Crunchbase Starter: $29
per month, per user
Crunchbase Pro: $49
per month, per user
Crunchbase Enterprise: Custom Billing

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Common Room	Crunchbase
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Common Room	Crunchbase
Considered Both Products	Common Room Verified User Anonymous Chose Common Room Factors was VERY glitchy but worked so much better for tracking account engagement across web and LinkedIn. It was not useful for account identification or intent signals though. I would say Common Room is a cleaner tool. Factors tried to do too much and often fell short as a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Common Room I chose to go with Common Room because of the depth of reporting and data that it gives a seller about their accounts. While it doesn't have some of the out of the box marketing functionality, the goal of these types of customer intelligence platforms is to give sellers a leg … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Common Room We currently use both, just to show that we have the best shot at getting the right contact information for prospects. Zoominfo has a higher quanity of information but it's not always accurate. Common Room has more quality leads and information but the number is smaller. They … Incentivized Helpful?	Crunchbase Verified User Anonymous Chose Crunchbase It has more data and it's for sure more accurate, Crunchbase has a better platform when talking about visual and it's also easier to search. Also, it has better filters which can help companies to dive deeper into researching accordingly to their needs Incentivized Helpful? Christian Brock Director Chose Crunchbase UK based business, good data, great insights. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Crunchbase I like Pitchbook a lot -- but too expensive for a slight difference in our use case. If Crunchbase added valuation "estimates" (kind of like zillow "zestimates"), it would be awesome instead of just very good. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Crunchbase Crunchbase is cheaper and the overall price/value balance is better Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Crunchbase Ptichbook. This platform is more detailed and has a lot more information regarding round details. The platform also has other features to build lists, market maps, landscapes and access reports and raw data about companies by vertical or any other segmentation. Also provides … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Crunchbase Crunchbase is definitely bottom of the barrel in this space. At similar pricing models, all competitors I have tried have significantly bigger and more updated databases. Crunchbase may have been great sometime in the past, but they are not worth engaging now. Incentivized Helpful? Vivian Okere Commercial Account Executive Chose Crunchbase The UI/UX: Crunchbase gives me visibility of everything in one place. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Crunchbase Crunchbase is the best resource for prospecting startups hands down. TechTarget has a lot of useful info, but I found it to be inaccurate where it mattered most. Crunchbase's data seems more accurate, and is also easier to use. Not the most exact comparison, but they offer … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Crunchbase Sales Navigator is better only because it provides you with more direct contacts to reach out to. Crunchbase only tells you really the top dogs in the company like c-level execs, not necessarily contacts that you would be having sales conversations with. Incentivized Helpful? Parker O'Very Marketing Operations Manager Chose Crunchbase Crunchbase has far more company data than LinkedIn Sales Navigator. The thing that it lacks is data on the people at those companies. LinkedIn Sales Navigator also has a better CRM integration, from what I understand. It is more automated. For our strategy, we use both of these … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Crunchbase This question always gets me. In a world with so many database solutions, it becomes quite difficult to compare, its the subtleties. Bigger is usually better...Crunchbase has gone through over 300...300 rounds of funding. In a world where there are so many options, going with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Crunchbase I have found that Crunchbase has more up-to-date information when comparing ZoomInfo and EverString. Incentivized Helpful? ★ Kevin Thomas ★ Small Business Consultant - Financial Services Chose Crunchbase I don't know of other services like Crunchbase, in my mind it stands alone. Of course I could use FormDs, but it's cumbersome and doesn't provide the same level of information, so I rarely use it. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Common Room

Crunchbase

Prospecting

Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
	Common Room - Ratings	Crunchbase 7.3 Ratings 6% below category average
Advanced search	00 Ratings	4.60 Ratings
Identification of new leads	00 Ratings	7.30 Ratings
List quality	00 Ratings	4.60 Ratings
List upload/download	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Load time/data access	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings

Sales Intelligence Data Standards

Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
	Common Room - Ratings	Crunchbase 5.1 Ratings 41% below category average
Contact information	00 Ratings	3.60 Ratings
Company information	00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Industry information	00 Ratings	5.70 Ratings

Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification

Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
	Common Room - Ratings	Crunchbase 5.8 Ratings 25% below category average
Lead qualification process	00 Ratings	5.10 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations	00 Ratings	4.30 Ratings
Salesforce integration	00 Ratings	5.30 Ratings
Company/business profiles	00 Ratings	5.30 Ratings
Alerts and reminders	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Data hygiene	00 Ratings	4.60 Ratings
Automatic data refresh	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Tags	00 Ratings	5.60 Ratings
Filters and segmentation	00 Ratings	4.30 Ratings

Sales Intelligence Email Features

Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
	Common Room - Ratings	Crunchbase 4.3 Ratings 54% below category average
Sales email templates	00 Ratings	4.30 Ratings
Append emails to records	00 Ratings	4.30 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Common Room	Crunchbase
Small Businesses	Lead411 Score 8.3 out of 10	Lead411 Score 8.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	TechTarget Priority Engine Score 10.0 out of 10	TechTarget Priority Engine Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	TechTarget Priority Engine Score 10.0 out of 10	TechTarget Priority Engine Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Common Room	Crunchbase
Likelihood to Recommend	7.3 (0 ratings)	4.7 (0 ratings)
Usability	7.7 (0 ratings)	3.6 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	1.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Common Room	Crunchbase
Likelihood to Recommend	Common Room is a great fit for companies that have high deal velocity. It's also a great fit for companies that are looking to advance their sales processes to take advantage of signals that come from their social platforms, their website, their product, and other sources of signals that can be a source of buying intent Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The data is outdated and has significant gaps. It is mostly a replication of what is easily and publicly available, with little value added. Their predatory subscription model includes no notice of renewal and they are very antagonistic towards their customers. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Web based intent signals job movers is great for tracking high value ICP folks LinkedIn engagements that are not conversions could be tracked Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Account-Based Data. Employee range, website, industry, company description, chief executives, latest news, etc. All for the given company you are researching. Salesforce integration. I have not used it, but the functionality is supposed to be great. You can run data enrichment in your CRM with the Crunchbase data. Funding, mergers, and acquisitions data. Crunchbase has relationships with thousands of VC firms throughout the world and followup with each very regularly to be able to serve up the latest data to their users. Tech integrations. Integrations with tools like Bombora, Builtwith, Siftery, and others are really useful because you can use Crunchbase's company profile-based research method, and see the data from these tools specifically related to the given company. Incentivized Parker O'Very Marketing Operations Manager Read full review
Cons	Could improve out of the box marketing engagement data Integrate with more marketing focused tools Integrate with more sales enablement tools Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Notifications - Something similar to TweetDeck would be nice, so that when news breaks it could be an immediate fact. Honestly dont add too much because you don't want it to become more of a social tool with cluttered info, keep it straight to the point. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Once everything is set up Common Room is very easy to use and see different filters and plays. The usability has never been an issue because there is so much information with prospects, it feels like it will never run dry. Once plays are set up and running, getting the data into Hubspot is very easy. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	In our experience, the customer service is horrible to non existent. If we were a fortune 100 company with a staff of computer people I am sure this would be a valuable service as they would "speak the language" but that is not us. Not being able to reach customer service when we are thinking about upgrading is, in my opinion, a crazy business model. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	They give standard answers. They are not a customer first business. I tried to cancel my subscription after using it for only 1 week as we found the information was outdated and not at all useful. But they would not cancel the year long subscription I mistakenly signed up for Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Factors was VERY glitchy but worked so much better for tracking account engagement across web and LinkedIn. It was not useful for account identification or intent signals though. I would say Common Room is a cleaner tool. Factors tried to do too much and often fell short as a result. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Ptichbook. This platform is more detailed and has a lot more information regarding round details. The platform also has other features to build lists, market maps, landscapes and access reports and raw data about companies by vertical or any other segmentation. Also provides emails on c-suite. Crunchbase however is an easier tool to use so if complicated segmentation is not required, Crunchabse is a great solution. It's also super fast to access and provides a succinct and easy to read profile view. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Has brought in many more outbound booked meetings Didn't really work for tracking the inbound process Tracked to the location and minute where people were viewing your website Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Crunchbase has enabled my company to be more efficient in determining whether or not to conduct further diligence on companies. Tailoring searches for certain criteria has been helpful for aggregating competitors and companies of similar profiles. The software is not only powerful, but also affordable! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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