# Clay alternatives, by what you use Clay for > Clay alternatives by the job you use Clay for: Outscope for companies hiring for what you sell, TheirStack for job data, Sentrion for sales teams. Canonical: https://outscope.co/vs/clay Last updated: 2026-11-08 Clay is a workspace for building your own enrichment and outreach workflows: free, then Launch at $167 and Growth at $446 a month billed annually. Most people looking for an alternative use it for one job. If that job is finding companies that need what you sell right now, Outscope does it with no table to build, from $99 a month. For job data, TheirStack. For targeting run with your sales team, Sentrion. If you build many workflows, stay on Clay. Published 8 Nov 2026, updated 8 Nov 2026. Prices read from each company's own page. ## The short answer | You want | Pick | Why | | --- | --- | --- | | Companies that need what you sell now, with the reason and who to email | Outscope | Reads new job postings against your signals daily, quotes the line, finds the email | | Job postings and tech stacks to feed your own workflows | TheirStack | Credits from $109 one-time, an API from $49 a month | | Account targeting run with a sales team | Sentrion | Ranked accounts, researched and sourced; a GTM engineer on its higher plan; custom price | | Enrichment waterfalls, CRM sync, any workflow you can draw | Stay on Clay | 150+ data providers, Claygent research and its own sequencer | ## Outscope and Clay | | Outscope | Clay | | --- | --- | --- | | What it is | One job, done for you: companies ranked by their job postings, with the line that shows the need and who to email | A workspace of tables you build: enrichment from 150+ providers, Claygent web research, waterfalls, a sequencer | | Setup | Enter your website. Signals are proposed from what you sell, and you can edit them | You build the table and the workflow | | Hiring signals | The core: every new posting read daily against your signals, the quote kept and checked | Launch adds tracking of job changes, promotions, new hires, company news and social, per its pricing page | | Emails | A verified work email for the roles you choose, 1 credit each; every plan includes credits and a lookup that finds nobody is free | From its providers, paid in data credits, with waterfalls on every plan | | Phone numbers | No, email only | On paid plans; the free plan doesn't include phone enrichment | | Price | $99 a month for 3 campaigns, 5,000 postings read and 100 email credits | Free plan; Launch $167 and Growth $446 a month billed annually ($185 and $495 billed monthly); Enterprise custom | | How you pay | One plan: postings read and email credits a month | Two meters added up: actions for platform work, data credits for vendor data | | Free start | A free preview: up to 100 of today's postings read against your signals, the top three companies in full, no card | A free plan (500 actions and 100 data credits a month) and a 14-day trial | | Seats | Unlimited on every plan | Unlimited on every plan | ## Why look for a Clay alternative Clay is built to do almost anything with company and people data, and you pay for that range twice: in the time it takes to build a table that works, and in a bill that depends on what your workflows run. If you use it for many jobs, that's a fair trade. If you use it for one, a tool made for that job is less work. The bill has two parts. Actions pay for the platform work and data credits pay for data from Clay's providers, and each plan's price is one tier of each added together. [Clay pricing, explained](https://outscope.co/vs/clay-pricing) works through it from Clay's own page. ## The alternatives, one by one ### Outscope - Best for: Founders and small teams who want companies to email this week, with the reason - Price: $99 a month for 3 campaigns, 5,000 postings read and 100 email credits - What it does: Reads new postings on the job boards companies run themselves, scores them against your buying signals, keeps the quoted line, and finds who to email and a first line. CSV or Send to Ballast. - Short of: One job only. No phone numbers, no CRM sync, no public API, and five job-board systems read. - Site: /pricing ### TheirStack - Best for: Job postings and tech-stack data in your own tools - Price: App: from $109 one-time for 1,000 company credits. API: from $49 a month for 1,500 credits - What it does: Job, company, technographics and buying-intent search in an app, an API with webhooks, and bulk datasets. - Short of: You do the reading. Contact details aren't mentioned on its pricing page or homepage. - Site: /vs/theirstack ### Sentrion - Best for: Sales teams who want account targeting run with them - Price: Custom on both plans - What it does: Ranks the accounts you have and finds the ones you're missing from dated job ads and six years of company history, with named stakeholders and verified contact details. - Short of: No price on the page; it starts with a call and a sample of your market. - Site: /vs/sentrion ## Hiring signals: built in Clay, or done for you To get hiring signals in Clay you'd assemble them: a source of job postings, an AI step to read each one against what you sell, a filter on the answer, then an email waterfall for the right people. It works, and every step runs on actions and data credits. Outscope is that workflow, finished. It reads every new posting on the boards it covers each day, keeps the sentence that matched (thrown out if it isn't word for word in the posting), and ranks the companies. You can still take the list into Clay as a CSV if you want to enrich it further. ## When to stay on Clay ### You run many workflows Enrichment, scoring, routing and sequences in one place. Outscope does one job. ### You need phones or CRM sync Clay's paid plans enrich phone numbers, and Growth syncs and enriches your CRM. Outscope is email only, with CSV and Ballast exports. ### You want to pick the data Clay lets you choose among 150+ providers or bring your own keys. Outscope chooses for you. ### Your buyers don't post jobs Small local firms and companies under about ten people rarely publish roles. We'd have little to read. ## How we checked Clay's prices and plans were read from [their own pages](https://www.clay.com/pricing) on 8 Nov 2026. ## Questions ### What is the best Clay alternative? The one made for the job you use Clay for. For companies that need what you sell right now, with the line from their posting and who to email, Outscope (from $99 a month). For job and tech-stack data, TheirStack. For account targeting run with a sales team, Sentrion. For many workflows at once, Clay is still the tool. ### How much does Clay cost? Free plan; Launch $167 and Growth $446 a month billed annually ($185 and $495 billed monthly); Enterprise custom, per its pricing page on 8 Nov 2026. Each paid price is an actions tier plus a data credits tier. ### Does Clay have a free plan? Yes: 500 actions and 100 data credits a month, up to 200 rows per table, and a 14-day trial of the paid plans. ### Does Outscope replace Clay? For one job: finding companies that need what you sell, with the reason and who to email. Not for the rest of what people build in Clay. ### Can I use Outscope and Clay together? Yes. Export Outscope's companies, quotes and people as a CSV and import it into a Clay table. ## Related - [Clay pricing, read from Clay's own page](https://outscope.co/vs/clay-pricing) - [A TheirStack alternative that reads the postings for you](https://outscope.co/vs/theirstack) - [Outscope vs Sentrion: the same idea, with the price on the page](https://outscope.co/vs/sentrion) [Start from your website](https://outscope.co/signup): the first preview reads up to 100 of today's postings for you, free and with no card.