LeadCandy vs. Owler

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
LeadCandy
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
LeadCandy is a lead generation and sales intelligence software - The vendor says it is powered by reliable business data, with 95% email accuracy guarantee. Key capabilities and benefits include: Find your target customers - 25 Million decision makers from 12 Million companies Deep search filters for Industry, Company Size, Revenue, Location, Titles, etc. Get full profile information, including verified email addresses,…
$99
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
LeadCandyOwler
Editions & Modules
Basic
$99
per year
Standard
$399
per year
Plus
$599
per year
Gold
$999
per year
Enterprise
Contact
Plus (personal use)
$99
per year
Pro
$420
per year
Teams
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LeadCandyOwler
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsSign up with 5 free credits today. No credit card required. 1 credit = 1 verified email lookup. Pay only for correct emails.—
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Features
LeadCandyOwler
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
LeadCandy
9.0
1 Ratings
17% above category average
Owler
6.6
14 Ratings
14% below category average
Advanced search9.01 Ratings5.714 Ratings
Identification of new leads9.01 Ratings6.412 Ratings
List quality10.01 Ratings6.012 Ratings
List upload/download10.01 Ratings6.08 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting7.01 Ratings8.310 Ratings
Load time/data access00 Ratings7.011 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
LeadCandy
-
Ratings
Owler
6.7
14 Ratings
12% below category average
Contact information00 Ratings6.08 Ratings
Company information00 Ratings7.014 Ratings
Industry information00 Ratings7.113 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
LeadCandy
-
Ratings
Owler
8.1
13 Ratings
9% above category average
Lead qualification process00 Ratings9.39 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations00 Ratings7.28 Ratings
Salesforce integration00 Ratings7.05 Ratings
Company/business profiles00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
Alerts and reminders00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Data hygiene00 Ratings7.911 Ratings
Automatic data refresh00 Ratings7.29 Ratings
Tags00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
Filters and segmentation00 Ratings9.510 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
LeadCandy
-
Ratings
Owler
8.8
4 Ratings
15% above category average
Sales email templates00 Ratings8.84 Ratings
Append emails to records00 Ratings8.84 Ratings
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Small Businesses
Lead411
Lead411
Score 9.1 out of 10
Lead411
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Lead411
Lead411
Score 9.1 out of 10
Lead411
Lead411
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
D&B Hoovers
D&B Hoovers
Score 8.7 out of 10
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D&B Hoovers
Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
LeadCandyOwler
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(16 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 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
LeadCandyOwler
Likelihood to Recommend
LeadCandy
LeadCandy is well suited in both the front and back of the office, along with the staff that is consistently involved in other activities around our school site. It is not as appropriate when the staff does not need to do a lot of searching for emails.
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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
LeadCandy
  • Speed- the process from start to finish is rather quick.
  • Innovative-there are a lot of features on LeadCandy that are not on other apps!
  • Remarkable- the feedback from the staff has only consisted of "how nice it is we’ve needed a program like this".
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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
LeadCandy
  • Some older staff aren't as receptive to new products and softwares.
  • Had to relearn and teach staff- teaching the staff the new program is time consuming.
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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
LeadCandy
No answers on this topic
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
LeadCandy
No answers on this topic
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
LeadCandy
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
LeadCandy
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
LeadCandy
No answers on this topic
Meltwater
Problems have been closed quickly and professionally.
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Implementation Rating
LeadCandy
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
LeadCandy
They are similar in many ways, LeadBot uses conversations, not forms, so all of the lead qualifications you need to do can happen in real-time while someone is live on your website. LeadCandy instead helps you build and find people which then leads to conversations. I feel like LeadCandy is the complete package, where they help you from start to finish.
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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
LeadCandy
  • Effectiveness- the amount of email lists we received in the database!
  • We've received the database quickly and efficiently.
  • Neatness of website and app- the website was easy to manage.
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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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