Lead data · replacement recipe

Go from Clay to Clay (free tier)

The job: Lead enrichment (Contact and company enrichment, Waterfall across data providers, Tables and workflows). Pick where you are today and where you want to land; the move below follows your pick.

From · what you pay for now
Clay
Clay Launch · $185/mo
Year one+$2,208modeled
To · your pickBest fit
Clay (free tier)
Free plan · $0 a month
Change where you land

The money

$185/mo today $0/mo

Clay Launch

Year one, net+$2,208
Pays back in0.1 months

Modeled from public list prices, with your time at $50 an hour. Show the math

Does it do the job? 3 of 3 covered

  • Contact and company enrichment
  • Waterfall across data providers
  • Tables and workflows

The work

Setup
About 15 min
Upkeep
None
Watch out
Check first: You only rely on: Contact and company enrichment, Waterfall across data providers, Tables and workflows

Make the move in four steps

  1. Export from Clay

    Download your data and files before you change anything.

  2. Check what Free plan keeps

    100 data credits/mo and 500 actions/mo; unlimited seats and tables

    Details

  3. Switch to Free plan

    Change the plan in Clay's billing settings before your renewal date.

  4. Check the next bill

    Your next Clay invoice should show the lower price. Check that your data and links still work.

Open ClayHow to cancel Clay
Modeled, not measured. Savings use public prices and planning assumptions: the bill you stop paying, minus the new tool, your upkeep time and your setup time at $50/hour, over the first 12 months. Paths marked Tested by Stackcut were run end to end by us on our own products. They're our tests, not customer results. Check the must-haves in each recipe before you switch.

The whole recipe: 3 ways out, best first

What you use

  • Contact and company enrichment
  • Waterfall across data providers
  • Tables and workflows

Not covered

  • AI web research agent
  • CRM sync
  • Email sequencing
  • Signals and intent tracking

Check before switching

  • You only rely on: Contact and company enrichment, Waterfall across data providers, Tables and workflows
  • Export your data from Clay before canceling

Agents: get_recipe("replace-clay") on the Stackcut MCP server.

3 ways out, best first

Cheaper planClay (free tier)Saves $2,208 in year one
$185/mo today → $0/mo · setup 0.25 h · then $2,220/yr · payback 0.1 mo
If your use fits the free tier (100 data credits/mo and 500 actions/mo; unlimited seats and tables).
Covers 100% of the core features
Free plan: 1,200 data credits/yr (100/mo), 500 actions/mo, unlimited seats, and multi-provider waterfalls.
How we got this
You pay now: Clay Launchflat price$185/mo
New cost: Clay (free tier)free plan$0/mo
Difference each month$185 − $0+$185/mo
Over 12 months+$185 × 12+$2,220
Setup, once0.25 h × $50/h−$12
Year one+$2,220 − $12+$2,208
  • Not counting your time (0.25 h in year one): saves $2,220 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Sources: clay.com
Switch vendorHunterSaves $1,582 in year one
$185/mo today → $49/mo · setup 1 h · then $1,632/yr · payback 0.4 mo
Covers 33% of the core features (not: Waterfall across data providers, Tables and workflows)
For just finding and verifying emails, Hunter Starter is $49/mo billed monthly ($34/mo billed yearly).
How we got this
You pay now: Clay Launchflat price$185/mo
New cost: HunterStarter plan$49/mo
Difference each month$185 − $49+$136/mo
Over 12 months+$136 × 12+$1,632
Setup, once1 h × $50/h−$50
Year one+$1,632 − $50+$1,582
  • Not counting your time (1 h in year one): saves $1,632 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Sources: clay.comhunter.io
Agent skillFirecrawl skills (scrape, search, crawl, agent, monitor)Priced by usage
Free to install; needs Firecrawl (Read 2026-09-25: Free 1,000 credits/month; Hobby $16/month billed yearly.)
Web research and structured extraction from company sites for enrichment tables, paid per credit instead of a data-platform seat.
Covers 33% of the core features (not: Waterfall across data providers, Tables and workflows)
Assumes you already pay for an agent that runs skills (an agent that supports Agent Skills (e.g. Claude Code/Cowork, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI); the agent's own subscription is not counted); that agent's cost isn't counted. Needs Firecrawl: priced by usage, so this way isn't priced here. Setup (2 h) and upkeep (0.5 h a month) are Stackcut's estimates; not tested by Stackcut.
License: ISC
Install: npx skills add firecrawl/skills (README; the CLI is npm install -g firecrawl-cli)
Sources: github.comraw.githubusercontent.comclay.com

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