Lead411 vs. Owler

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Lead411
Score 9.1 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Lead411 is a sales intelligence solution that provides provides news-driven sales leads, IT intelligence and unlimited company contacts within a simple UI. Key differentiators are unlimited downloads, fresh daily leads based on territory, and a no commitment monthly offer.
$900
per year
Owler
Score 6.2 out of 10
N/A
Owler is a sales intelligence app developed by the company of the same name San Mateo and acquired by Meltwater June 2021, providing competitive insights, company information, and other sales relevant information.
$8.25
per month
Pricing
Lead411Owler
Editions & Modules
Basic
$900
per year
Pro
$3,500
per year
Enterprise Unlimited per Year
Contact Us
per year
Plus (personal use)
$99
per year
Pro
$420
per year
Teams
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Lead411Owler
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing reflected may not include certain add-ons like Bombora Intent Data, or Reach Sales Enablement etc, Contact Sales for customization of the service.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Lead411Owler
Considered Both Products
Lead411
Chose Lead411
ZoomInfo certainly is class when it comes to its capabilities. That said, if you're in a heavy outbound role and you just want to get down to the nitty gritty Lead411 is a cost effective measure to get you the information you need to be as successful as you can possibly be.
Owler
Chose Owler
I believe Lead411 and Owler go hand in hand, rather than one over the other. I believe Lead411's contact generation is far stronger based on the cost, but Owler allows you to broaden your horizon for prospecting whereas Lead411 is more of a user-driven search rather than an …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Lead411Owler
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Lead411
9.4
43 Ratings
22% above category average
Owler
6.6
14 Ratings
14% below category average
Advanced search9.742 Ratings5.714 Ratings
Identification of new leads9.737 Ratings6.412 Ratings
List quality8.942 Ratings6.012 Ratings
List upload/download9.339 Ratings6.08 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting9.338 Ratings8.310 Ratings
Load time/data access9.340 Ratings7.011 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
Lead411
9.4
43 Ratings
22% above category average
Owler
6.7
14 Ratings
12% below category average
Contact information9.143 Ratings6.08 Ratings
Company information9.343 Ratings7.014 Ratings
Industry information9.743 Ratings7.113 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
Lead411
9.2
39 Ratings
22% above category average
Owler
8.1
13 Ratings
9% above category average
Lead qualification process8.931 Ratings9.39 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations9.125 Ratings7.28 Ratings
Salesforce integration9.616 Ratings7.05 Ratings
Company/business profiles9.133 Ratings8.012 Ratings
Alerts and reminders9.223 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Data hygiene9.57 Ratings7.911 Ratings
Automatic data refresh8.727 Ratings7.29 Ratings
Tags9.34 Ratings7.07 Ratings
Filters and segmentation9.534 Ratings9.610 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
Lead411
8.5
11 Ratings
12% above category average
Owler
8.8
4 Ratings
15% above category average
Sales email templates8.011 Ratings8.84 Ratings
Append emails to records9.01 Ratings8.84 Ratings
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Score 8.8 out of 10
Lead411
Lead411
Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Crunchbase
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Score 7.9 out of 10
Lead411
Lead411
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
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D&B Hoovers
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
Lead411Owler
Likelihood to Recommend
9.7
(49 ratings)
7.3
(16 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(7 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(3 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
7.3
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(4 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Lead411Owler
Likelihood to Recommend
Lead411
It is well suited for reaching prospects across a vast array of industries; lead generation, planning for meetings (let's me know who might be attending from the client side and allows me to view their LinkedIn account ahead of time. I wouldn't use it for B2C sales or inexperienced sales support people. One still needs to determine which contacts to download.
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Meltwater
This is a free service, so it should be compared to free and low cost alerting (e.g. Google Alerts) and PE/VC funding profile (e.g. Crunchbase) services. Owler is well suited for competitive intelligence professionals, named account reps, and marketing professionals tracking company news (web mined company mentions and press releases) and social media (blogs, Video, YouTube). The alerts are high precision and tag for three key events (M&A, Funding, Exec Changes). It is the alerting and social media tools which are the key strength of the service. The company claims two million profiles, but only has 60,000 with full address information. Content includes competitors, user polls, and funding / M&A data. Owler should be viewed as a free complement to other online company research tools, but it lacks the depth to replace subscription services. Missing content includes long business descriptions; financials and discrete sizing data; family tree linkage, and executive profiles (only the CEO is covered) While they offer list building functionality, it is quite thin and non-downloadable. As such, I would not recommend Owler for sales and marketing prospecting at this point. A unique feature is a set of company polls about the direction of the company and CEO performance. Unfortunately, the response rates are often too low to be statistically meaningful.
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Pros
Lead411
  • Most importantly --- The DATA is accurate and the platform is straight-forward and simple to use. The native connection to our CRM environment "completes the requirement" from our standpoint. A "10 out of 10"...
  • From my experiences and interactions, the culture of the organization is exceptionally focused on customer satisfaction! We've been more than pleased with EVERY SINGLE interaction with Lead411....they go out of their way to be of assistance. A "10 out of 10"...
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Meltwater
  • Owler enables the user to quickly find the data and information that he or she needs.
  • I appreciate the customizable dashboard where you can set alerts and track companies you select.
  • The latest news regarding the funding rounds of startup companies is especially helpful.
  • The top competitors to companies provided by Owler often give me a great point of reference for my competitive analysis.
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Cons
Lead411
  • Ability to search contacts and companies by actual street and physical address is not there yet. This is extremely helpful when trying to strategically work a particular neighborhood where you're trying to build up your own individual name and brand recognition. It's also a way of keeping others in the sales force from stepping on the toes or duplicating efforts of another sales rep.
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Meltwater
  • The information provided is useful but at times the variation with other websites and tools is substantial which makes it difficult to rely solely on owler
  • Information only about bigger companies is available not for smaller and research on smaller ones are important as there are not many tools that do that
  • There are few companies that appear as defunct or do not exist but in the actual market there is a lot going on with them and being in market intelligence industry owler needs to capture that
  • It would be great if they provide revenue or growth of the in the past three years or so. As it would save our time and efforts to some extent
  • They need to maintain the database in aperiodic manner with precise information
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Likelihood to Renew
Lead411
Lead411 is utilized by our team and as they improve their functionality for company look ups in batches, we are interested in testing it
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Meltwater
Not really an applicable question as this is a free service, but if they charged $100 / year (GageIn's price) I would still license the service.
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Usability
Lead411
Very easy to use. It's not as robust as other software, but other software costs thousands. They are right at the target price, maybe a little high for newer businesses or small companies, but they deliver
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Meltwater
Owler's interface and user experience are streamlined and clean. It's easy to pick up on what the data visualizations are showing and other information provided in the dashboard
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Reliability and Availability
Lead411
No answers on this topic
Meltwater
I have yet to see the platform down or running slowly, but there have been multiple instances recently (Q2 2015) when the user links to a news story and Owler gives an Oops message. Users simply click on the story a second time and the story is displayed. This is a nuisance bug. I also have a sense that the system is not processing alerts as quickly as before, but I haven't tracked this closely, so I could be wrong about it.
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Performance
Lead411
No answers on this topic
Meltwater
The news precision, which is the most important feature for me, is very accurate. They have editors review the news to ensure it is properly tagged by company and event type.
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Support Rating
Lead411
They are very good at responding to my questions.
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Meltwater
Problems have been closed quickly and professionally.
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Implementation Rating
Lead411
No answers on this topic
Meltwater
Focus on setting up companies that have limited news coverage first. Public companies are well covered and it is easy to track them. Furthermore, the surfeit of news around public companies can crowd out smaller companies with less news. It is smaller companies where you are most likely to see a benefit in their tracking of news, blogs, press releases, and videos.
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Alternatives Considered
Lead411
ZoomInfo certainly is class when it comes to its capabilities. That said, if you're in a heavy outbound role and you just want to get down to the nitty gritty Lead411 is a cost effective measure to get you the information you need to be as successful as you can possibly be.
Read full review
Meltwater
I believe Lead411 and Owler go hand in hand, rather than one over the other. I believe Lead411's contact generation is far stronger based on the cost, but Owler allows you to broaden your horizon for prospecting whereas Lead411 is more of a user-driven search rather than an platform-driven search.
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Return on Investment
Lead411
  • I've been able to receive some great contact info that has led to me booking new speakers.
  • I've wasted a lot of time and credits on data that says it was verified and is not correct.
  • It is very labor intensive to keep cost down.
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Meltwater
  • The personalisation of emails has definitely helped us to earn a higher reply rate, with the knock-on that this will be helping with future deals.
  • Keeps us very relevant in our conversations with contacts. They are often impressed by the research and knowledge we have on their company and how we have aligned ourselves to help. Again, small differences at the start of calls but this will be helping with the number of opportunities created.
  • Reduces SDR prospecting time. Quick and easy to get updates allowing them to process a great number of accounts on a daily basis.
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ScreenShots

Lead411 Screenshots

Screenshot of Google Chrome Extension available to find prospect data while researching and browsing for prospectsScreenshot of Sales triggers to find prospects, including new hires, promotions, hiring plans, funding, new locations, and executive changesScreenshot of Advanced search and flexible search criteriaScreenshot of Pricing and what is includedScreenshot of Reach Email/SMS Automation Engagement - Adds the ability to reach out to prospects directly from the Lead411 platform. Includes automated email/SMS cadences and respond to prospects that are qualified and interested.