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Emailchaser is the cheapest of the five best Clay alternatives: 1,000 new leads a month cost $604.80 a year, against $2,220 on Clay.
Clay bills two meters, actions and data credits, and its paid plans start at $185 a month. Most people looking for an alternative want work emails for cold outreach without counting actions and credits. Below are five tools priced for the same job, 1,000 new leads a month for one person, from each tool's own pricing page or dated buyer reports.
Emailchaser includes 1,500 lead credits and the cold email sending from $47 a month.
Starter is $47 a month with 1,500 lead credits, and one credit adds one person with a work email. There is one meter to watch, not two, every plan has unlimited email accounts and team seats, and the same account sends 5,000 emails a month to the people you find. 1,000 new leads a month comes to $604.80 a year with verification, against at least $2,220 on Clay.
Here are the five Clay alternatives, ranked, with what 1,000 new leads a month costs on each.
Each price is a year for one person finding 1,000 new leads a month, on the cheapest plan that covers it. Emailchaser's includes checking every address at the most it can bill.
Emailchaser$604.80
Lusha$1,378.80
RocketReach$2,508
Seamless.AI$4,740
ZoomInfo$18,395
Clay$2,220- 1
Emailchaser Our pickLead Finder with 1,500 to 10,000 lead credits a month, every address checked, and the cold email sending in the same account, month to month.
Best for: Founders, sales teams and agencies who find leads and cold email them from one account.
$604.80a year, Starter $47 a month x 12 + verification $40.80Start my free trial7-day free trial · $0 today · Cancel anytime - 2
LushaEmails and mobile numbers from a browser extension and web app, billed by the credit, from a free plan to $977.40 a month.
Best for: Reps who want mobile numbers from a browser extension, with a free plan to start.
$1,378.80a year, Pro at 1,000 credits, $114.90 a month x 12 - 3
RocketReachEmails, and phone numbers from Pro up, sold by the seat with 100 to 1,000 exports a seat a month.
Best for: One person who needs a few hundred emails or phone numbers a month.
$2,508a year, Ultimate, 1 seat, $209 a month x 12 - 4
Seamless.AIEmails and phone numbers with buyer intent, sold by quote on yearly contracts; Basic reported at $147 a user a month.
Best for: Teams of five or more that want phone numbers and can sign a yearly contract.
$4,740a year, Pro, 5 users at $79 a month x 12 - 5
ZoomInfoContact and company data with direct dials and intent signals, sold as an annual contract from about $14,995 a year (reported).
Best for: Large sales teams that call as much as they email and can budget for an annual contract.
$18,395a year, Professional $14,995 + 7,000 extra credits $3,400 - vs
Clay, for comparisonA workflow builder with 150+ data providers, billed by actions and data credits, from a free plan to $495 a month and up.
Best for: Ops teams that build multi-step enrichment workflows with CRM sync and signals.
$2,220a year, Launch, 15,000 actions and 2,500 credits, $185 a month x 12
Sources: Emailchaser, our own plans. Lusha, lusha.com/pricing, 6 October 2026. RocketReach, rocketreach.co/pricing, 6 October 2026. Seamless.AI, Costbench, 11 July 2026; Hack'celeration, June 2026. ZoomInfo, Tropic, 6 August 2026. Clay, clay.com/pricing, 22 October 2026. Each rival's pricing guide, linked above, shows every plan and how its total is worked out.
These are the reasons people look for a Clay alternative.
- Clay bills two meters, actions and data credits, and Launch starts at $185 a month for 15,000 actions and 2,500 credits.
- Actions cannot be topped up, so a plan with too few means moving to a higher plan, and extra data credits bought mid-month carry a 30% premium.
- A fully enriched record typically costs 6 to 20 data credits, and Clay's own help pages say Launch suits teams enriching under 1,000 records a month.
- Buying managed mailboxes inside Clay needs Growth, from $495 a month.
Move the two sliders to see your yearly bill on each tool.
One Emailchaser lead credit adds one person with a work email, and checking the address costs $0.0017 to $0.0034 more, counted here at the most. Clay is priced from its pricing page on 22 October 2026, monthly billing, at 1 action and 0.5 data credit per email. Emailchaser adds credit top-ups only when a plan's included credits run out: $33 per 1,000 credits, or $20 per 1,000 when you buy 5,000 or more at once. Every plan has unlimited team seats.
That is $0.19 a lead on Clay and 5.0 cents on Emailchaser.
Emailchaser includes 5,000 or more emails a month to send to these leads, and every plan has unlimited email accounts.
These are the questions people ask about Clay alternatives.
What is the cheapest alternative to Clay?
Of the five priced here, Emailchaser: 1,000 new leads a month costs $604.80 a year on Starter, verification included, against at least $2,220 on Clay. It bills month to month and every plan starts with a 7-day free trial.
Is there a free alternative to Clay?
Clay's own free plan gives 100 data credits and 500 actions a month, and ZoomInfo and Lusha have free plans too. Emailchaser's free email finder gives 3 searches a day with no signup, and every paid plan starts with a 7-day free trial.
Which Clay alternative is best for cold email?
Emailchaser, because the leads and the sending live in one account, with 5,000 to 500,000 emails a month on its plans and unlimited email accounts. The other four are data tools first, priced for finding contacts.
Which Clay alternatives include phone numbers?
Lusha, RocketReach (on Pro and Ultimate) and Seamless.AI sell phone numbers as well as emails, and so does Clay on Launch and above. Emailchaser finds work emails and sends the cold email, and does not sell phone numbers.
Can I pay for a Clay alternative monthly?
Emailchaser, Lusha and RocketReach all bill month to month on their monthly plans, and so does Clay. ZoomInfo's paid plans are annual contracts, and Seamless.AI's own terms make every subscription annual, even when it is billed monthly.
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Partner at Emailchaser, and CTO & Head of Growth at Momentum Labs, the B2B SaaS studio behind it.
I also run Prymatica, a done-for-you cold email agency, so most of my weeks are spent inside real outbound campaigns.
Self-taught: I started as a frontend developer in 2012 and have been building B2B SaaS ever since.
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