Owler vs. ZoomInfo Sales

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Owler
Score 8.7 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 8.2 out of 10
N/A
ZoomInfo Sales is a modern go-to-market platform for B2B companies. ZoomInfo Sales 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
No answers on this topic
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
More Pricing Information
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.
Features
OwlerZoomInfo Sales
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Owler
7.0
16 Ratings
11% below category average
ZoomInfo Sales
7.9
717 Ratings
1% above category average
Advanced search8.116 Ratings8.6710 Ratings
Identification of new leads6.414 Ratings7.6672 Ratings
List quality6.414 Ratings7.2698 Ratings
List upload/download6.09 Ratings8.0659 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting7.012 Ratings7.6665 Ratings
Load time/data access8.113 Ratings8.3687 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
Owler
7.6
16 Ratings
3% below category average
ZoomInfo Sales
7.9
710 Ratings
1% above category average
Contact information7.610 Ratings7.7709 Ratings
Company information7.616 Ratings8.4705 Ratings
Industry information7.615 Ratings7.7678 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
Owler
6.3
15 Ratings
17% below category average
ZoomInfo Sales
7.6
695 Ratings
1% above category average
Lead qualification process5.911 Ratings7.481 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations5.09 Ratings7.283 Ratings
Salesforce integration5.06 Ratings8.9483 Ratings
Company/business profiles5.914 Ratings8.0660 Ratings
Alerts and reminders7.010 Ratings7.2455 Ratings
Data hygiene7.012 Ratings6.8628 Ratings
Automatic data refresh7.010 Ratings7.3546 Ratings
Tags7.08 Ratings7.4482 Ratings
Filters and segmentation7.011 Ratings8.0640 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
Owler
7.9
5 Ratings
7% above category average
ZoomInfo Sales
6.2
246 Ratings
17% below category average
Sales email templates7.05 Ratings6.5243 Ratings
Append emails to records8.84 Ratings5.925 Ratings
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User Ratings
OwlerZoomInfo Sales
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(18 ratings)
8.1
(731 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.8
(20 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(4 ratings)
8.0
(48 ratings)
Availability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.5
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Configurability
4.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
1.0
(1 ratings)
8.6
(56 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 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
I have found it to work best combined with LinkedIn Sales Nav. I use the filters on the sales navigation search to find people I wish to target, then use the sidebar to export individuals with the correct information into our CRM quickly. That is my bread-and-butter play as a BDR; I'm in there every day. It is also helpful to quickly check a company's revenue and employee count.
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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
I'm not the contact. But I see it is where things are moving and if you don't have the information ZoomInfo gathers and continues to be more honed in on our customer or prospective customers, we will lose any advantages we once had and will be left behind.
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Usability
Meltwater
I think it's well designed but always room for improvement. Maybe more customization in layout or information presented. Maybe even a layout that allows comparison and ranking of companies in a similar industry or vertical, or company size, and geography
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ZoomInfo
Overall super simple to use. You do not need any training to use it, just a couple of minutes as it is very intuitive. I love using it because it has everything in one place except cadence. The filters on accounts and prospects is very easy to use as well.
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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
There would have nice while providing a great platform to use, to have an in person class to show how it would best serve us and to navigate. Nothing was provided to myself outside of having a sign on and the preloaded steps to get through basic processes
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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
There’s a few not listed. All in all, ZoomInfo Sales is an essential tool if you’re hunting hard and often. The AI functionality is superior to anything else I’ve used. However, if you’re a come and go, now and then prospector you can get by with other search engines that are “static” or seeming to be lacking in current data. LI Sales Nav is great, but you’re not going to get ahold of normal mid level people on there, and contact details are protected. The biggest competitive benefit here is you get everything you could possibly want to know, I’m not aware of any other product that can hang.
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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
  • Zoominfo Sales has reduced our company research effort by at least 80%. We now have all the information in one place.
  • TAM (total addressable market) data accuracy is significant.
  • AOP planning is flawless, i.e., allocating budget, sales resources, etc., by territory.
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