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Comparison · AI Agents · weekly run Nov 3

Clay vs CrewAI

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

CrewAI is the stronger AI pick in AI Agents: it has a visibility score of 17.5 versus 0.7 for Clay, and ranks ahead in 0% of the answers that name both.

Choose Clay if…

  • You need ISO 27001 or GDPR or CCPA coverage
  • You prefer a larger, established vendor (1,001–5,000 employees)
  • Usage-based pricing suits your budget better than flat tiers

Choose CrewAI if…

  • You want the brand AI engines rank higher (17.5 vs 0.7)
  • AI answers describe it more positively (43% vs 33% positive)
  • You need a self-hosted or on-premises option
  • Flat tiers pricing suits your budget better than usage-based

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric Clay CrewAI
Visibility score0.7%17.5%
Change vs last weekNewNew
Rank in AI Agents#65#7
Share of voice0.2%4.9%
Mentions this run130
Positive in AI answers33%43%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

0%25%50%75%100%Nov 3Clay 1%

Clay 0pp · CrewAI 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

CrewAI leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT
0%
15%
AI Mode
2%
27.6%
Perplexity
0%
10%
ClayCrewAI

Head to head in AI answers

1 engine answers name both brands

1Clay ranked higher
0CrewAI ranked higher

Features, pricing & fit

DimensionClayCrewAI
Pricing modelUsage-basedFlat tiers
Entry priceFree; paid from $167 / moContact sales
Free planYesYes
Deployment—CrewAI cloud, customer VPC on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, or fully on-premises (AMP Factory).
Integrations—1000+
ComplianceSOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPASOC 2 Type II
SupportPriority support queue on Growth plan, Dedicated Slack channel on Enterprise plan, Dedicated growth strategist on Enterprise planCommunity forum, Dedicated support with Slack/Teams channel, Support contact, On-site support
Founded2017—
HeadquartersNew York City, NY, United StatesSan Francisco, CA
Employees1,001–5,00011–50
FundingSeries B ExpansionSeries B
Best forGTM engineers and revenue teams that build their own prospecting, enrichment and outbound workflows.Enabling business and technical teams to build agents while giving platform teams the control to govern them.

Plans side by side

Clay

Free$0month
Launch$167month (starting price as shown; monthly from $185 per FAQ)
Growth$446month (starting price as shown; monthly from $495 per FAQ)
EnterpriseCustomcustom, annual commitment
Clay pricing

CrewAI

Basic$0
EnterpriseCustom
CrewAI pricing

Pros and cons

Themes from the AI answers that mention each brand

Clay

Profile in progress.

CrewAI

  • Fastest path to a working multi-agent demo
  • Strong for complex multi-agent and role-based workflows
  • Free open-source Python framework
  • Good for quickly prototyping multi-agent systems
  • Industry standard for pro-code multi-agent orchestration
  • Better suited to developers than nontechnical users

Data collected ·ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode·coverage 100%·next run

Cite as: SlateIndex, “Clay vs CrewAI”, https://slateindex.ai/compare/clay-vs-crewai, data of Nov 3, 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0.