Is there a free Clay alternative?

Yes, ManyPI has a free plan with no card. It includes 10,000 AI credits, 60 crawls and 50 email checks a month, and up to 50 leads found by the agent. Sending campaigns starts at $25 a seat a month.

Does ManyPI do AI research like Claygent?

Yes, in every search. The agent reads company sites and other public sources for each company, to decide whether it fits your brief and to find the angle for your email.

Is there an open source Clay alternative?

ManyPI isn't open source. Open-source enrichment and scraping projects exist, but you host them, connect the data providers yourself, and still need something to send from.

What happens to my data if I leave ManyPI?

It stays yours. Export your leads as a CSV whenever you like, and cancel in settings with no lock-in: you keep access until the end of the billing period.

ManyPI vs Clay

A Clay alternative you don't have to build

Describe the customer in one sentence instead of building a table. A 600M+ lead database and live web research do the rest.

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The short answer

Clay is a data workbench you build and maintain. With ManyPI you describe the customer in one sentence and get verified leads and a campaign back, at a fraction of the price for small teams.

Pick ManyPI if you want

a lead list from one sentence, not a table to maintain
a seat from $21 instead of a plan from $167
sending and a CRM in the same place

Stick with Clay only if you

want to configure every column and data provider yourself
have someone to build and maintain the tables
have a team big enough for unlimited seats to matter

Key differences

The points that usually decide it, not a complete feature list. Competitor facts come from their own public pages, checked 30 September 2026, and are linked at the bottom of this page.

Key differences between ManyPI, Clay
Feature	ManyPI	Clay
How you search	ManyPIDescribe the customer in one sentence; the agent does the searching	ClayBuild a table and configure its enrichments
Lead data	ManyPIYes. A 600M+ lead database, plus live research on company sites, Google Maps, directories, job boards and news	ClayYes. Many third-party data providers, plus Claygent for AI research
Sending	ManyPIYes. From your own Gmail, Outlook or SMTP inboxes	ClayYes. Clay Sequencer
Free plan	ManyPIPartly. Free forever, no card: 10,000 AI credits, 60 crawls and 50 email checks a month. Sending is on paid plans	ClayPartly. 500 actions and 100 data credits a month
Entry paid plan	ManyPI$21 per seat a month, billed annually (Starter)	ClayLaunch, from $167 a month

What it costs

List prices only, like for like. Each scenario says what it's based on and what the totals leave out.

One person

USD per month, the lowest advertised price for each plan, before tax.

ManyPI

Starter, 1 seat, billed annually

Per month$21

Clay

Launch

Per monthfrom $167

Clay Launch includes 15,000 actions and 3,000 data credits a month. ManyPI's allowance is crawls, email checks and outreach emails, so the units differ. Run the same brief on both before deciding.

Is ManyPI cheaper than Clay?

For one person or a small team, by a long way: $21 a seat a month billed annually, against Clay Launch from $167 a month. Clay prices by usage rather than by seat, so for a large team, compare the totals on your own volumes.

How is working in ManyPI different from Clay?

You describe the result instead of building the machine. In Clay you design the table: the columns, the providers and the order they run in. In ManyPI you type the customer you want and get back a table of matching companies and people.

Does ManyPI have a lead database like Clay?

Yes, with more than 600 million leads. On top of it, the agent researches your brief on the live web, so a search also reaches companies no database covers yet and comes back with current buying signals for each lead.

Moving over from Clay

Most of it is an export and an import.

Export from Clay
clay-export.csv
Name
Company
Email
Step 1
Export from Clay
Download your table as a CSV.
In ManyPI
Leads table
Imported
Emails verified
Duplicates merged
Step 2
Import and verify
Drop the file into ManyPI and verify every address.
Sending inboxes
you@company.com
Warming up
sales@company.com
Ready
Step 3
Connect your inboxes
Add your inboxes. Warmup runs on its own.

Other Clay alternatives

Weighing more than two tools? Here's how ManyPI compares with each.

Apollo.ioA contact database with sequences and a dialer.

ManyPI vs Apollo InstantlyCold email sending with an optional lead database.

ManyPI vs Instantly LushaContact lookups with phone numbers, paid per credit.

ManyPI vs Lusha

Questions

About this comparison

Written by ManyPI, which sells a competing product. We compared Clay using their own public pricing and documentation on 30 September 2026, and we recheck every month. ManyPI's figures come from our pricing page.

Plans change and we can get things wrong. If anything here is out of date or incorrect, write to ask@support.manypi.com and we'll fix it within two business days.

Sources, checked 30 September 2026

Clay is a trademark of its owner. ManyPI is not affiliated with or endorsed by them; the names are used only to identify their products.

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