Clay
Kinda71%
of its listed jobs an agent running looot covers. A partly covered job counts half.
- Covered
- 5
- Partly
- 0
- Not covered
- 2
vs
Sales and outreachNot a ranking
Clay vs Apollo: what an AI agent can replace
Give this to your agent
set up looot - https://looot.ai/skill.mdVerdicts
Clay and Apollo, side by side
Each score is the share of that tool's listed jobs an agent running looot covers. It is not a score of the tool.
Apollo
Kinda67%
of its listed jobs an agent running looot covers. A partly covered job counts half.
- Covered
- 4
- Partly
- 0
- Not covered
- 2
Job by job
Which jobs an agent covers for each
Jobs of the same kind sit in one row. A job with no match on the other side is listed alone.
Job
ClayApolloFind work emails
Clay- Find work emailsCovered
Apollo- Find work emailsCovered
Company data
Clay- Enrich company dataCovered
Apollo- Enrich company dataCovered
Search and enrich people
Clay- Enrich people dataCovered
Apollo- Search people by titleCovered
Research and scrape the web
Clay- Research a lead on the webCovered
- Scrape a page into fieldsCovered
ApolloNo matching job on our list.
Records, workflows and interface
Clay- Spreadsheet-style table UINot covered
- Native CRM syncNot covered
ApolloNo matching job on our list.
Find phone numbers
ClayNo matching job on our list.
Apollo- Find phone numbersCovered
Send and track outreach
ClayNo matching job on our list.
Apollo- Email sequencesNot covered
- Built-in dialerNot covered
Shared jobs
Jobs both do that an agent can take over
Both tools list these jobs and an agent running looot covers at least part of each. The logos are the providers it would call.
Find work emails
Clay: Find work emails. Apollo: Find work emails.
Company data
Clay: Enrich company data. Apollo: Enrich company data.
Search and enrich people
Clay: Enrich people data. Apollo: Search people by title.
What you keep
What you keep each tool for
These are the jobs an agent does not fully cover, with the reason.
looot is not Clay and not Apollo. Each product does things looot does not, and the lists below name them. Use this page to decide which jobs an agent can take over, not which tool to choose.
Keep Clay for
- Spreadsheet-style table UINot covered
looot returns data to your agent, not to a shared grid.
- Native CRM syncNot covered
Your agent has to write to the CRM through its own tools.
Keep Apollo for
- Email sequencesNot covered
looot does not send campaigns or track replies.
- Built-in dialerNot covered
looot has no calling or call recording.
Prompts
Ask your agent to take over the jobs
One prompt for each tool's jobs. Paste it into the agent you already use, after setting up looot.
Clay jobs
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.
Questions about Clay vs Apollo
We list 7 jobs for Clay: 5 covered, 0 partly covered and 2 not covered by an agent running looot. For Apollo we list 6: 4 covered, 0 partly covered and 2 not covered. The verdicts are kinda for Clay and kinda for Apollo.
For agents
- comparison
- Clay vs Apollo
- Clay verdict
- kinda
- Apollo verdict
- kinda
- scope
- coverage of jobs by an agent running looot, not a ranking, price or quality claim
- coverage
- /can-i-replace/clay and /can-i-replace/apollo
- alternatives
- /alternatives/clay and /alternatives/apollo
- setup
- https://looot.ai/skill.md
- llms.txt
- https://looot.ai/llms.txt
- updated
- 2026-10-02
markdown /compare/clay-vs-apollo.md
Hand Clay and Apollo jobs to your agent.
Start your workspace, top up, and paste the prompts into the agent you already use. You pay per call.
