Is there a free Clay alternative?

looot has no monthly seat. You pay per call to the provider you pick, and the catalog shows each endpoint's price before you run it. Whether that comes out cheaper than Clay depends on your volume.

List prices change, so check Clay's own pricing page. This page does not repeat them. The looot side is read live from the catalog on the web version of this page.

What is a good Clay alternative for an AI agent?

An agent with a looot connection can call the providers behind Clay's data jobs directly. The providers used here are hunter, findymail, tomba, icypeas, people-data-labs, coresignal, thecompaniesapi, ai-ark, exa, tavily, linkup, searchapi-io, diffbot, jina, firecrawl, zyte-api.

Which Clay features does looot not cover?

Not covered: spreadsheet-style table ui, native crm sync. Keep Clay for those, or use another tool beside looot.

How do I replace Clay with looot?

Paste the agent prompt on this page into your coding agent. It sets up looot, finds the endpoints for each job and runs them. You can edit the prompt to match your own inputs.

Do I need a Clay account to use looot?

No. looot calls its own providers and does not connect to your Clay account. Your existing Clay data stays where it is.

Can an AI agent replace Clay waterfall enrichment?

Mostly. An agent can try one email provider, then the next when the first finds nothing. It does this in code or in a prompt, not in a visual builder.

Can I replace it?

Can I replace Clay?

A spreadsheet-style tool that enriches lead lists by chaining data providers and AI steps.

Kinda

Clay

Sales and outreach

5 of 7

jobs covered

Can I replace it?

Can I replace Clay?

A spreadsheet-style tool that enriches lead lists by chaining data providers and AI steps.

Kinda

Clay

Sales and outreach

5 of 7

jobs covered

Ask your agent

Paste one prompt to replace Clay

Your agent reads the looot setup file once, then runs the jobs below and shows each price first.

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.

Setup

One prompt, one price, one ledger

The same three steps every looot agent follows.

Paste one prompt into your agent

Set up looot

Done, looot is connected.

Copy one prompt from /connect into Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP agent. No SDK, no dashboard click-through first.

Your agent finds the right operation

Hunter$0.0265

Exa$0.0090

Diffbot$0.0032

The agent finds the operation it needs and sees the price first. It calls nothing blind.

You watch what it cost

Hunter$0.0265

Exa$0.0090

Diffbot$0.0032

Total$0.0387

Every call settles for its quoted price and lands in the ledger. You always know what ran and what it cost.

What an agent can do instead

5 of 7 jobs covered.

7
Jobs listed: 5
Jobs covered: 0
Jobs partly covered: 16
Providers

Clay jobs an agent can run

Kinda

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.

Cheapest live price per job

Read from the looot catalog just now. Bars are to scale.

Cheapest call per job

Scrape a page into fields (call)$0.0002
Research a lead on the web (call)$0.0008
Enrich people data (lookup)$0.0012
Enrich company data (lookup)$0.0019
Find work emails (lookup)$0.0089

What Clay does and what looot returns

The providers behind each job, with their real logos.

Clay job by job

JobCoverageWhat looot returns

Find work emailsCovered

Data from Hunter and Findymail

Enrich company dataCovered

Data from People Data Labs and Coresignal

Enrich people dataCovered

Data from People Data Labs and Coresignal

Research a lead on the webCovered

Data from Exa and Tavily Search and Extract API

Scrape a page into fieldsCovered

Data from Diffbot and Jina AI

Spreadsheet-style table UINot coveredlooot returns data to your agent, not to a shared grid.

Native CRM syncNot coveredYour agent has to write to the CRM through its own tools.

Questions about replacing Clay

Partly. An agent running looot can do some of what Clay does through catalog endpoints, and the page marks the jobs it cannot do.

For agents

app: Clay
verdict: kinda
job: Find work emails: covered, providers hunter findymail tomba icypeas
job: Enrich company data: covered, providers people-data-labs coresignal thecompaniesapi
job: Enrich people data: covered, providers people-data-labs coresignal ai-ark
job: Research a lead on the web: covered, providers exa tavily linkup searchapi-io
job: Scrape a page into fields: covered, providers diffbot jina firecrawl zyte-api
job: Spreadsheet-style table UI: missing
job: Native CRM sync: missing
setup: https://looot.ai/skill.md
llms.txt: https://looot.ai/llms.txt
updated: 2026-10-02

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