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Go-to-market workspace vs pay-per-pull API1Lookup lists up to 100 people who engaged with a LinkedIn post for $0.025, where Clay starts at $185 a month and returns up to 50 reactions per run.
Clay is a table-based workspace that enriches leads from 150+ providers and pushes them to a CRM or a built-in sequencer. 1Lookup sells one of its jobs as a plain API call: send a post link, get back the people who reacted or commented.
Clay is a go-to-market data platform: you build tables that enrich leads and accounts from 150+ providers, run AI research, track signals and send results onward. It is billed in two meters, Actions for platform work and Data Credits for data, on plans from a free tier to Launch at $185 a month. 1Lookup sells the LinkedIn post engagers job alone, at 5 credits a pull, about $0.025 on Starter.
The Clay post actions, priced per pull
Clay prints the number of reactions, comments and shares each run returns, but not what a run costs in Data Credits. These are the same jobs as single requests with the price printed.
Professional posts: reactions and comments
LinkedIn Post Engagers API
A public post link in; up to 100 people who reacted, or up to 100 who commented, out, each with a name, a profile link and a headline. Clay's actions return up to 50 reactions or 10 comments per run.
5 credits per list that finds people, free when nobody is found
Email from a LinkedIn profile
LinkedIn Email Finder API
A profile link from the list in; a verified work email out. The next step after the list, as one more API call on the same balance.
30 credits per match, free on a miss
Profile enrichment
LinkedIn Profile Lookup API
The profile behind a name on the list: current role, dated job history, education and skills, from a public LinkedIn URL.
10 credits per profile found, free on a miss
1Lookup vs Clay: the same criteria, side by side
Both products measured on identical criteria, with Clay’s numbers taken from its own published pricing.
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clay.comSocial and creator data- Clay · Starts at
- Launch at $185/month on monthly billing (includes 2,500 Data Credits and 15,000 Actions per month); the card headline is $167/month, which equals the annual-billing tier total (derived). Growth starts at $495/month monthly; its card headline is $446/month (annual-billing tier total, derived).
- 1Lookup: $99/mo for 20,000 credits ($4.95 per 1,000, down to $2.00 on Enterprise)
- Clay · Free trial
- 14-day free trial with 1,000 data credits, with access to webhooks, CRM integrations, email sequencers and HTTP API capabilities; phone number enrichments are not available during the trial. The pricing page also says 'Start for free today. No credit card required.'
- 1Lookup: 7-day free trial on every plan: $5 of credits on Starter, $20 on Growth, Professional, and Enterprise, with no payment today
- Clay · Do credits expire?
- Actions reset each billing cycle and do not roll over. Data Credits roll over: on monthly Launch and Growth plans unused credits accumulate up to 2x the monthly amount; on annual plans up to 15% of annual Data Credits roll over if you renew on the same or a higher tier; Enterprise rolls over up to 15% of the prior year's purchased credits if renewed at an equal or higher commitment. Free has no rollover.
- 1Lookup: Unused monthly credits roll over for 3 months; separately purchased credits last 1 year
| Criteria | 1Lookup | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Monthly plans with universal credits; core phone, email and IP lookups cost 1 credit, enrichment and intelligence products cost more | Subscription with two usage meters. Actions measure platform work (1 Action per record enriched or exported) and are sized by plan tier; Data Credits buy data or AI from Clay's marketplace and vary by data type. Plans: Free; Launch (card headline $167/mo, FAQ and docs say 'starting at $185/mo'); Growth (card headline $446/mo, FAQ and docs say 'starting at $495/mo'); Enterprise (custom pricing with annual commitment). The tier lists on the same page add up to $167 and $446 on annual billing and to $185 and $495 on monthly billing (derived). The pricing page has a Monthly / Annual toggle ('Annual ∙ Save 10%'). Launch and Growth let you pick larger Action and Data Credit tiers ('expand anytime'). Data Credits start at $0.05 each and Actions start at less than $0.01 each. |
| Starting price | $99/mo for 20,000 credits ($4.95 per 1,000, down to $2.00 on Enterprise) | Launch at $185/month on monthly billing (includes 2,500 Data Credits and 15,000 Actions per month); the card headline is $167/month, which equals the annual-billing tier total (derived). Growth starts at $495/month monthly; its card headline is $446/month (annual-billing tier total, derived). |
| Free option | Free single lookups via the online tools at 1lookup.io/tools, no account required | Free plan: 500 actions/mo (6,000/year), 100 data credits/mo (1.2K/year), unlimited seats and tables, multi-provider waterfalls, Claygent enrichment, bring your own API key, up to 200 rows per table. 'Free plan does not include phone number enrichment.' No top-ups and no rollover on Free. |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial on every plan: $5 of credits on Starter, $20 on Growth, Professional, and Enterprise, with no payment today | 14-day free trial with 1,000 data credits, with access to webhooks, CRM integrations, email sequencers and HTTP API capabilities; phone number enrichments are not available during the trial. The pricing page also says 'Start for free today. No credit card required.' |
| Do credits expire? | Unused monthly credits roll over for 3 months; separately purchased credits last 1 year | Actions reset each billing cycle and do not roll over. Data Credits roll over: on monthly Launch and Growth plans unused credits accumulate up to 2x the monthly amount; on annual plans up to 15% of annual Data Credits roll over if you renew on the same or a higher tier; Enterprise rolls over up to 15% of the prior year's purchased credits if renewed at an equal or higher commitment. Free has no rollover. |
Before you sign: Clay and 1Lookup on the operational terms
The terms that decide what a year actually costs, rather than what the first month does. “Not listed” means we could not verify it on either product’s published pages, not that the answer is nothing.
| Term | 1Lookup | Clay |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum commitment | None. Monthly plans with no contract and no minimum volume; cancel any time | Enterprise: custom pricing with annual commitment. Launch and Growth: month-to-month or annual billing (Annual saves 10%); all accounts are on a subscription that renews unless canceled before the renewal date. |
| Cost per extra seat | Not listed | Unlimited seats and tables are listed on the Free plan and 'Tables and users per workspace' is Unlimited on every plan; no per-seat price is printed. Role-based access control, SSO/SAML, SCIM provisioning and user groups are Enterprise only. |
| Going over your quota | Not listed | Actions: not sold as one-time top-ups, you move up an Action tier. Data Credits: one-time or automatic top-ups at a 30% premium (minimum 250 credits, each top-up capped at $1,000 and $5,000 per rolling 7 days, and together up to 4x the monthly Data Credit allocation); automatic top-ups are not available on Free, Trial or Enterprise. Free has no top-ups. |
| API access | Included on every plan and during the free trial; there is no tier that unlocks it | The pages disagree. The pricing FAQ lists 'Clay API access' under Enterprise, and 'HTTP API integrations' (calling other APIs from Clay) from Growth. The Clay API and CLI doc says 'The developer platform is available across all Clay plans, including free and trial plans', that API and CLI calls consume the same credits and actions as in-product work, and that structured table queries (API table sync) are an Enterprise feature. |
| Rate limit | 1,000 requests per minute on standard accounts, with higher limits available on request | No requests-per-second limit is printed. The API and CLI docs print search result limits: Free 50 results per request and 100 per month; Trial 50 per request and 10k per 14 days; paid self-serve plans 500 per request and 1M per year; Enterprise 500 per request and 10M per year. |
| Uptime SLA | Not listed | Terms of Service section 17.2.1 states an uptime target of at least 99.0% measured monthly; if Clay is unavailable as a complete service for more than 6 hours it credits 5% of the applicable fees for each period of 6 hours or more (one credit per day at most), applied to the next payment, capped at one week of fees per calendar month. |
| Compliance | Not listed | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 are named on the pricing page. |
| Support | Starter: Email Support; Growth: Priority Email & Chat Support; Professional: Chat + Live Meeting; Enterprise: Dedicated CSM | Priority support queue on Growth, a dedicated Slack channel and a dedicated growth strategist on Enterprise, a Slack community, and support@clay.run listed in the terms. |
Clay fine print worth reading twice
Published terms that change what Clay costs or what you can do with it. Each one links to the Clay page it was read on, because a claim about somebody else’s contract should be checkable in one click.
Actions cannot be purchased as one-time top-ups; they are fixed platform capacity tied to the plan tier, and unused Actions expire each billing cycle.
Read it on Clay’s siteData Credit top-ups carry a 30% premium and are capped at $1,000 per top-up and $5,000 across any rolling 7 days.
Read it on Clay’s siteUsing your own provider key avoids Data Credits but each run still consumes one Action.
Read it on Clay’s siteThe card headlines ($167/mo Launch, $446/mo Growth) are lower than the 'starting at' figures in the FAQ and docs ($185/mo, $495/mo); the tier lists on the same page reproduce both (annual 54+113=167 and 185+261=446; monthly 60+125=185 and 205+290=495), but the page does not label which headline is annual.
Read it on Clay’s siteThe Data Credit price of the professional-post engagement actions is not printed in the public docs; the docs say Data Credit cost varies by data type.
Read it on Clay’s sitePhone number enrichment is not on the Free plan and not in the 14-day trial.
Read it on Clay’s siteAll fees are non-refundable and renewals happen at Clay's most up-to-date pricing unless the contract says otherwise.
Read it on Clay’s siteCustomers agree not to re-sell any data obtained from Clay.
Read it on Clay’s site
1Lookup
Clay
Where 1Lookup wins
- A price you can read: 5 credits a pull, about $0.025 on Starter, where Clay prints the number of people a run returns and not what the run costs
- Up to 100 reactors or 100 commenters in one pull, where a Clay run returns up to 50 reactions or 10 comments
- One API call per job: no table to build, no row limit to plan around, no second meter for platform work
- Charged only when people come back, and unused monthly credits roll over for 3 months
Where Clay wins
- One workspace combines 150+ data providers, waterfall enrichment, AI research, signals, a CRM sync and a built-in sequencer, so engagement data can feed straight into outreach.
- Unlimited seats and tables are listed on every plan, with no per-seat price printed.
- No Data Credits or Actions are charged when an enrichment returns no result.
- Data Credits roll over (up to 2x the monthly amount on monthly plans, 15% of annual credits on annual plans), and bringing your own provider key removes Data Credit cost.
- Native actions exist for LinkedIn post reactions, comments and shares, and for a profile's recent posts and comments, without a separate scraper.
- SOC 2 Type II is named on the pricing page, and enterprise controls (SSO/SAML, RBAC, SCIM, IP allowlists, credit budgeting) are available.
Clay pricing and product facts verified against clay.com as of October 2026. Prices change; always confirm on the vendor’s site. 1Lookup numbers come from the live rate card.
Who this is for
A quick, honest read on which tool fits your use case.
Choose 1Lookup if: you want the people who engaged with a post as a single priced request, up to 100 per pull, without taking on a workspace subscription and its two credit meters.
Consider Clay instead if: engagement data is meant to feed outreach: Clay combines more than 150 data providers, waterfall enrichment, a CRM sync and a sequencer in one workspace with unlimited seats.
Frequently asked questions
What is Clay used for?
Building lead and account tables that enrich themselves. A table pulls from 150+ data providers in waterfalls, runs AI research with its Claygent, tracks signals such as job changes and professional posts, and sends the results to a CRM, ad platforms or a built-in email sequencer. Sales and marketing teams use it as a workspace, not as a single lookup.
How does Clay pricing work in 2026?
Two meters. Actions measure platform work, one per record enriched or exported, and Data Credits buy data or AI from Clay's marketplace. Free is $0 for 500 Actions and 100 Data Credits a month with 200 rows per table. Launch is $185 a month on monthly billing, or $167 a month on annual billing, with 15,000 Actions and 2,500 Data Credits. Growth is $495 a month ($446 annually) with 40,000 Actions and 6,000 Data Credits. Enterprise is by quote. Data Credits start at $0.05 each, Actions reset every cycle, and top-ups of Data Credits carry a 30% premium.
How much does a LinkedIn post export cost on Clay?
Clay does not print it. Its professional-post actions take a post link and return up to 50 reactions, 10 comments or 10 shares per run, and every enrichment consumes 1 Action plus Data Credits that vary by data type, but the Data Credit price of these actions needs a login to see. Collecting 100 reactors takes at least 2 runs, and no result means no charge.
How much does 1Lookup charge for a LinkedIn post list?
5 credits per list that finds people, free when nobody is found, for up to 100 people per list. On the Starter plan ($99 a month for 20,000 credits) that is about $0.025 a pull and 4,000 pulls a month, or $24.75 per 1,000 pulls. When every list comes back full, 1,000 people cost about $0.25. Reactions and comments are two separate lists.
What is the best Clay alternative?
If you want the workspace, the closest swaps are other enrichment-table tools. If you want one job done by API, the people behind a LinkedIn post, a per-pull API is a simpler purchase: 1Lookup returns up to 100 reactors or commenters from a post link, then turns profile links into work emails at 30 credits a match, with no seats, tables or sequences to set up.
Where does Clay beat 1Lookup?
On the workflow and the data around it. Clay combines 150+ providers in waterfalls, AI research, signal tracking, CRM auto-sync and a built-in sequencer, lists unlimited seats and tables on every plan, charges no Actions or Data Credits when an enrichment returns no result, lets Data Credits roll over up to twice the monthly amount, and names SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001. 1Lookup returns the people and their headlines, and no emails, sequences or CRM sync.
Is Clay worth it in 2026?
For a team that lives in the table, enriching and routing leads every day, yes: the entry plans are priced in the open and the free tier lets you try the table. For one narrow job such as listing the people behind a post, model the minimum first: the cheapest paid plan is $185 a month before any Action or Data Credit beyond its allowance, and a post action returns at most 50 reactions or 10 comments a run.