Owler vs. ZoomInfo Sales

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
ZoomInfo Sales
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
ZoomInfo SalesOS is a modern go-to-market platform for B2B companies. SalesOS helps find buyers based on an Ideal Customer Profiles (ICP), advanced company attributes, and accurate contact information in B2B. It is used to identify the next customer using data-driven insights and buying signals that reveal companies that are ready to buy.N/A
Pricing
OwlerZoomInfo Sales
Editions & Modules
Plus (personal use)
$99
per year
Pro
$420
per year
Teams
Contact Sales
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
OwlerZoomInfo Sales
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
OwlerZoomInfo Sales
Considered Both Products
Owler
Chose Owler
Even though Owler is a great tool but when it comes to pay and use it may not be able to deliver more than its competitors in the market. Owler is used a lot to gather company information but along with other tools as its shortcomings are also known to people. Owler needs to …
Chose Owler
If Owler seems lacking in background info, I have to Google search company information on a general level. Contact info can be obtained through ZoomInfo, but revenue info is not. Owler is the site I go to first.
Chose Owler
Other platforms like ZoomInfo are fantastic, but they are much pricier than Owler. From a budget standpoint, Owler offers a pretty good bang for your buck.
ZoomInfo Sales
Chose ZoomInfo Sales
ZoomInfo has richer contact data and company information when compared to its competitors. The user interface is better and search results are good. Company hierarchy is not easily available in many of the forums with their contact information but ZoomInfo has given the exact …
Chose ZoomInfo Sales
ZoomInfo is the best I've used.
Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
OwlerZoomInfo Sales
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Owler
6.6
14 Ratings
14% below category average
ZoomInfo Sales
7.6
657 Ratings
0% above category average
Advanced search5.714 Ratings7.8650 Ratings
Identification of new leads6.412 Ratings7.7612 Ratings
List quality6.012 Ratings7.1638 Ratings
List upload/download6.08 Ratings7.9601 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting8.310 Ratings7.6605 Ratings
Load time/data access7.011 Ratings7.9628 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
Owler
6.7
14 Ratings
12% below category average
ZoomInfo Sales
7.5
651 Ratings
0% below category average
Contact information6.08 Ratings7.2650 Ratings
Company information7.014 Ratings7.7646 Ratings
Industry information7.113 Ratings7.7621 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
Owler
8.1
13 Ratings
9% above category average
ZoomInfo Sales
7.4
637 Ratings
0% above category average
Lead qualification process9.39 Ratings8.052 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations7.28 Ratings7.452 Ratings
Salesforce integration7.05 Ratings8.1433 Ratings
Company/business profiles8.012 Ratings7.5605 Ratings
Alerts and reminders10.09 Ratings7.3406 Ratings
Data hygiene7.911 Ratings6.5575 Ratings
Automatic data refresh7.29 Ratings6.7494 Ratings
Tags7.07 Ratings7.3431 Ratings
Filters and segmentation9.510 Ratings7.8584 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
Owler
8.8
4 Ratings
15% above category average
ZoomInfo Sales
6.3
209 Ratings
18% below category average
Sales email templates8.84 Ratings6.6206 Ratings
Append emails to records8.84 Ratings5.925 Ratings
Best Alternatives
OwlerZoomInfo Sales
Small Businesses
Lead411
Lead411
Score 9.1 out of 10
Lead411
Lead411
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 8.6 out of 10
D&B Hoovers
D&B Hoovers
Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
OwlerZoomInfo Sales
Likelihood to Recommend
7.3
(16 ratings)
8.0
(678 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.5
(16 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(3 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
Availability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
4.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
1.0
(1 ratings)
6.9
(46 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
OwlerZoomInfo Sales
Likelihood to Recommend
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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ZoomInfo
ZoomInfo is well-suited for sales and marketing teams. The sales team can use it for research and prospecting, while marketing can use it for nurturing new prospects or previously prospected ones.Overall, ZoomInfo is a tool tailor-crafted for business and sales development teams. It helps them approach new prospects every day, even when contact numbers are not readily available.
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Pros
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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ZoomInfo
  • Zoominfo provides us scoops regarding any new upcoming project or pain points (difficulties) facing by certain companies which helps a lot in our business to contact such companies.
  • Zoominfo gives us the exaction info such as email address, Direct or Cell phone number of particular contact which we want and we don't get anywhere except zoominfo
  • Zoominfo has huge database. Intent is one of the favorite section where we get the exact info about the companies/industries which we want
  • Zoominfo Connects with Hubspot which is another benefit for us to add any specific contact directly to our HubSpot app.
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Cons
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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ZoomInfo
  • For initial users, the system can be a little overwhelming. A ZoomInfor SalesOS Basics guide could be beneficial to keep new users from feeling lost amongst all the options.
  • Clearer instructions on how to set targeted search parameters for inbound information would be beneficial.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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ZoomInfo
With the combined resources of crowdsorced info on both data.com as well as the immediacy of info on LinkedIn, as well as intel on Hoovers, information provided on ZoomInfo is more readily available if you have the time to invest in looking for it. However, at the pace we do business, having a "one stop shop" for information is very convenient. On efficiency alone, ZoomInfo is worth the price of subscription considering our business model.
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Usability
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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ZoomInfo
ZoomInfo is my go to service. This connected with Linkedin Recruiter has been an amazing tool to use in gaining some very useful and strong connections
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Reliability and Availability
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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ZoomInfo
No answers on this topic
Performance
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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ZoomInfo
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Meltwater
Problems have been closed quickly and professionally.
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ZoomInfo
I would give it a higher rating but they keep changing our account managers.
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Implementation Rating
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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ZoomInfo
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
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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ZoomInfo
The size of data base, the bounce rate and accuracy. The extra features that you can have and the customer service. Whenever I have a question or help with something, my account manager is always available to help. And most importantly, the difference was the price. Although Zoominfo is not cheapest, it is the best value for your money.
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Return on Investment
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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ZoomInfo
  • Negative - In my experience, exports error but credits deduct. Trying to get these credits back, good luck getting a customer service rep to assist.
  • Negative - In my experience, information provided for 0-5 employee companies inaccurate
  • Negative - In my opinion, due to not being able to get the information and not honoring their guarantee, no revenue goals were met.
  • Negative - I feel, for this size prospect, there is no time savings. You will still need to manually research the company on other sites or by cold calling to get the missing information.
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