Is there a Clay alternative for AI agents?

It depends on the job. An agent running looot gets a verdict of kinda for Clay: 5 of 7 jobs covered.

Is there a free Clay alternative?

looot is not free. It is pay per call, and each endpoint shows its price before the run, so you can see what a Clay job costs before you start. We do not state what Clay costs.

Clay vs looot, which fits an agent?

Clay is an app you open and use. looot is a catalog of endpoints your own agent calls. Clay vs looot comes down to whether you want an app or an agent doing the jobs, and whether the jobs you need are in the covered list.

Which Clay jobs can an agent do with looot?

find work emails, enrich company data, enrich people data, research a lead on the web and scrape a page into fields. Coverage is checked against the live catalog, so a job drops to not covered when no priced endpoint exists.

Which Clay jobs can an agent not do?

spreadsheet-style table ui and native crm sync. Keep Clay for these, or use another tool beside looot.

How do I replace Clay with an agent?

Set up looot from https://looot.ai/skill.md, then paste the prompt on this page into the agent you already use. Edit it to match your own inputs.

How does looot price a Clay alternative?

looot charges per call. The jobs above show the cheapest live price for each, read from the catalog. When no priced endpoint exists the page says price on request.

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Clay alternatives for AI agents

Looking for a Clay alternative? An AI agent can do some of its jobs by calling looot endpoints. Here is what it covers and what it does not.

Give this to your agent

set up looot - https://looot.ai/skill.md

Alternatives for AI agents

The honest answer

A spreadsheet-style tool that enriches lead lists by chaining data providers and AI steps. For an AI agent running looot, the verdict on Clay is kinda. 5 of the 7 jobs we compared are covered.

71%of jobs

Kinda

5 covered, 0 partly, 2 not covered

See the full Clay coverage page

Covered 5

Find work emails
Enrich company data
Enrich people data
Research a lead on the web
Scrape a page into fields

Not covered 2

Spreadsheet-style table UI
Native CRM sync

For these, keep Clay or use another tool beside looot.

Sales and outreach

Other tools in the same job

Jobs

Or let your agent do the jobs

Kinda5 of 7 jobs covered right now

Find work emails
$0.0089 / lookup
Enrich company data
$0.0019 / lookup
Enrich people data
$0.0012 / lookup
Research a lead on the web
$0.0008 / call
Scrape a page into fields
$0.0002 / call
Spreadsheet-style table UI
looot returns data to your agent, not to a shared grid.
Native CRM sync
Your agent has to write to the CRM through its own tools.

Prompt

Ask your agent

Prompt to replace Clay

Use looot to build an enriched lead list for the companies I give you: find work emails, enrich each company, and add one line of web research per lead. If you have not yet, set up https://looot.ai/skill.md first. Then search the looot catalog for each step, check the price of each endpoint before you call it, run the cheapest one that fits, and show me the results as a table.

Side by side

Clay versus an agent running looot

Compared

ClayAgent running looot

What it isA spreadsheet-style tool that enriches lead lists by chaining data providers and AI steps.Your own agent calling looot endpoints and writing the result where you ask.

Jobs compared7 jobs5 covered

Not coveredspreadsheet-style table ui and native crm sync2 jobs the agent cannot do through looot

How you use itThe Clay appA prompt to the agent you already use

How you paySee Clay for its own termsPay per call, with the price shown before each run

Last reviewed2026-10-02Prices read live from the catalog

Providers behind it

Hunter, Findymail, Tomba, Icypeas, People Data Labs, Coresignal, The Companies API, AI Ark, Exa, Tavily Search and Extract API, Linkup, SearchAPI.io, Diffbot, Jina AI, Firecrawl, Zyte API