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Is Clay still around? (2026)

Yes. Clay is live and reachable, price-verified as of Sep 8, 2026.

Status LiveFrom $185/moFree tierVerified Sep 8, 2026Category · AI Cold Outreach & Sales
Vital signs over time
Price · lowest paid plan
$185

Held steady at $185/mo the whole tracked window (51 days).

Reachability · by day

Reachable 100% of 51 tracked days.

First-party daily snapshots. One reading per day, grows over time.

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What Clay is

What sets it apart Waterfall enrichment across a marketplace of 150-plus data providers, querying sources in sequence to raise match and fill rates, combined with Claygent, an AI agent that researches companies and people from the web

Best for Technical go-to-market, RevOps, and sales-operations users who build enrichment and prospecting workflows in a table-and-logic environment, at company sizes from startup to enterprise · Pricing model Credit-based subscription with a free tier (100 data credits and 500 actions per month). Paid tiers on the vendor pricing page: Launch from $167/mo, Growth from $446/mo, and custom Enterprise. Two meters are billed separately: data credits (from $0.05 each) for records sourced from providers, and actions (under $0.01 each) for enrichment, workflow, and AI runs.

Clay is a data-enrichment and outbound platform built around a spreadsheet interface: teams assemble tables of accounts or people, then enrich each row by drawing from a marketplace of 150-plus data providers. Its defining mechanic is the waterfall, which queries providers in sequence until one returns a match and so lifts fill rates beyond what any single source gives. The product also runs an AI research agent, Claygent, to scan websites and summarize findings, and it suits technical GTM and RevOps operators comfortable with conditional logic rather than reps wanting a turnkey tool. Pricing is credit-based, splitting "data credits" for sourced records from "actions" for platform and workflow runs.

Sources Clay pricing page · Clay homepage · Clay blog: Data Enrichment · First Round Review: Clay's Path to Product-Market Fit

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Clay is live and price-verified as of Sep 8, 2026. If it fits, go straight to it. If you are comparing, see the full ranked field in AI Cold Outreach & Sales - only tools our health checks report as alive.

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Straight answers

Is Clay shutting down?
There is no official sunset announcement for Clay as of Sep 8, 2026. It is reachable and price-verified; a "dead" status is set only by an editor, never by an automated check.
How much does Clay cost?
Its lowest paid plan starts at $185/mo (verified Sep 8, 2026). The price links to the vendor's live pricing page as its source, so you can confirm the current figure at any time.
Does Clay have a free tier?
Yes, Clay offers a permanent free plan (not just a trial) as of Sep 8, 2026.