Agentik vs Clay

What Agentik and Clay publish, feature by feature, read on 10 October 2026. Each sign says Yes, Partly, No or Not published.

	Agentik	Clay
Billing
How you pay	A prepaid balance; each call at the provider’s price. No plan	A plan sized in actions and data credits: Launch from $185 a month, Growth from $495; $167 and $446 billed yearly2
To start free	$5 of credit for eligible new accounts, for 14 days, for low-cost calls	500 actions and 100 data credits a month, up to 200 rows per table; no card2
Fees	0% markup on tool calls. Top-ups carry 5.5%, minimum $0.80, added on top; none on a first top-up of $10 or less	Data credits from $0.05 and actions under $0.01 each; extra credits cost 30% more on Launch and Growth2
Agent pays per call over x402	No. Card only, by design	Not published
What your agent can use
Catalog, as published	2,287 tools that run today, from 52 providers (catalog of 10 October 2026)	Data from 200+ data and AI vendors in its marketplace (150+ providers on its pricing page)12
SEO and search data	Yes. DataForSEO, SEMScraper and Exa	Not published
Web search and page reading	Yes. Firecrawl, Exa and 8 more	Partly. Claygent, Clay’s AI agent with web research, for custom data points2
Social media data	Yes. 980 tools from TikHub, ScrapeCreators and 2 more	Partly. Social listening signals, on Launch and up2
Ad libraries	Yes. Adspy.sh, ScrapeCreators, TikHub and DataForSEO	Not published
People, companies and emails	Yes. Icypeas, Leadsforge and 3 more	Yes. Contacts, emails and phone numbers through multi-provider waterfalls, and Clay’s own people search32
Image, video and audio generation	Yes. 200 models from fal.ai	Not published
Your ad and analytics accounts	Yes. 650 tools on your own ad and analytics accounts, connected once per workspace	Partly. Pushes audiences to LinkedIn and Meta, on Growth and up2
Actions in your own apps (mail, chat, CRM)	No. No mail, chat or CRM actions	Yes. CRM sync and write-back, email sequences and data warehouses (CRM on Growth and up)23
How your agent connects
Remote MCP server	Yes. One server, OAuth or API key	Yes. Clay MCP, which brings its data and workflows into reps’ AI tools3
Setup for Claude and ChatGPT	Yes. Guides for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex	Yes. Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Copilot and Glean3
REST API	Yes. REST API and OpenAPI	Partly. Clay API access on Enterprise; webhooks on Growth and up2
Bring your own provider keys	No. Agentik holds the provider accounts	Yes. Your own API keys for data and AI on every plan, using no data credits2
Open source	No. Hosted service	Not published
Control
Price shown before each call	Yes. Each tool’s price, and the most a call can reserve	Partly. 80% of AI models cost a fixed number of credits; token-priced ones show an estimate per row2
Spending caps	Yes. Hourly, daily, lifetime and per-tool caps per key	Partly. Workbook credit budgets on Enterprise; Ops can control enrichment spend23
A record of every call	Yes. Price, latency and status of every call	Partly. A credit reporting dashboard on every plan2
Team workspace	Yes. Invite teammates	Yes. Unlimited seats on every plan; SSO and roles on Enterprise2

“Not published” means the pages we read say nothing about it, not that Clay lacks it. Agentik’s column comes from its catalog of 10 October 2026 and its pricing.

• Waterfall enrichment across many vendorsClay runs multi-provider waterfalls over data from 200+ vendors, validates emails and phone numbers across them, and charges nothing when an enrichment finds no result.23
• Lists in bulk, synced to your CRMTables enrich lists in bulk and, on Growth and up, sync with your CRM and data warehouse; contacts go to sequences under write rules your Ops team sets. Agentik does not sync to CRMs.23
• Your own API keysYou can bring your own API keys for data and AI on every plan; those runs use actions but no data credits. Agentik takes no keys.2
• Built for go-to-market teamsSignals on job changes, company news and web intent, an email sequencer, ad audiences for LinkedIn and Meta, and unlimited seats on every plan.2

• Contacts per call, inside any agentIcypeas and Leadsforge find people and emails one call at a time, at the provider’s price, from the same balance as SEO, social and ad data, with no plan, actions or data credits. Top-ups carry 5.5%, minimum $0.80.
• Your own ad and analytics accounts650 tools read and change your ad accounts, Google Analytics and Search Console, connected once per workspace. Changes are previewed first and applied only when confirmed.
• Ad research with an analysis of each adAdspy’s 17 tools search Meta and Google ads and analyse each one, from the same balance as every other tool.
• A price before every callYour agent reads each tool’s price and quotes the call before it runs. Most tools reserve a guaranteed maximum; tools billed at actual cost say so.
• Jobs ready to run101 playbooks each combine several providers for one job, with the prompt to paste and the most the example can cost.

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