Automate Basics

Copy.ai vs Clay

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 23 September 2026.

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Copy.ai

From $24/mo

Clay

Free plan · from $167/mo

What it isAI platform for sales and marketing teams to automate go-to-market workData enrichment and prospecting tool that pulls from many data providers
Free planNo6,000 actions/year, 1,200 data credits/year, up to 200 rows per table, unlimited seats and tables, no phone number enrichment
Cheapest paid plan$24/mo billed annually (Chat)Copy.ai pricing$167/mo billed annually (Launch)Clay pricing
What it coversIncludes 5 seats and unlimited words in Chat; billed $288/yr on annual billing.Monthly: 15K actions and 2.5K data credits per month; annual: 180K actions and 30K data credits per year. The actions portion alone starts at $60/mo (monthly) or $54/mo (annual); unlimited seats.
Free trialNone stated14-day trial of paid plans
PlatformsWebWeb
Integrations (vendor's figure)2,000+ integrations150+ data providers (pricing page; the About page says 200+)
Open sourceNoNo
Good for
  • Researching target accounts and drafting personalized outreach
  • Turning a content brief into blog, email and social drafts
  • Enriching CRM records and routing inbound leads
  • Building targeted prospect lists with contact details
  • Enriching CRM records with company and contact data
  • Alerting sales reps when a customer contact changes jobs
Watch out for
  • No free plan is listed on the pricing page
  • The Chat plan does not include workflow credits; they start with the Growth plan at $1,000/month
  • Workflow credits are capped each month: 20K on Growth, 45K on Expansion and 75K on Scale
  • Free plan: 1.2K data credits and 6K actions a year, up to 200 rows per table
  • Free plan does not include phone number enrichment
  • CRM auto-sync and web intent signals require Growth
Made byCopyAI, Inc. (acquired by Fullcast)Clay

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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