ravnA Clay alternative, or a Clay data source.
Clay is a spreadsheet-style enrichment workflow tool that calls many data providers, so it is less a rival than a place Ravn can plug in. Pick Clay to orchestrate multi-provider workflows in a table; pick Ravn when an AI agent or script should call the tools directly.
Clay and Ravn at a glance
Only facts from public pricing pages. Where a page did not say, the cell says so.
| Clay | Ravn | |
|---|---|---|
| Price entry point | Not verified by us | $24/mo |
| What the entry plan includes | Not verified by us | 10,000 lookups a month across every tool: verification, email finding, website scraping, phone validation, IP to company. Beyond that, $1 per 1,000 ($0.001 each), billed monthly, up to a spending cap you set. People and company lookups run on your own provider key (e.g. People Data Labs); Ravn makes the call and stores nothing. |
| Free tier | Not verified by us | 1,000 lookups total, no card |
| Misses charged? | Not verified by us | No. A not_found result is free |
| MCP server | Not verified by us | Yes, remote, OAuth sign-in or API key |
| CLI | Not verified by us | Yes, npx ravn |
| REST API | Not verified by us | Yes |
| Unused allowance | Not verified by us | No credits to expire. The plan includes 10,000 lookups a month; beyond that it is $1 per 1,000, billed monthly. |
We did not verify Clay’s pricing page on 3 Nov 2026, so the Clay column lists no prices or plan details. Check Clay’s own site. Prices from each company’s public pricing page, checked 3 November 2026. Check their site for current prices. Ravn prices: pricing.
Where Clay is the better choice
Clay is a spreadsheet-style workflow tool that calls many data providers. If you want to chain several providers in one table and build enrichment logic visually, that is what it is for, and Ravn does not try to do it.
Where Ravn fits better
Ravn is a set of 25 tools an agent calls directly, with no table in between: connect Claude in one OAuth step through the MCP server, or call REST from your own code. Ravn is $24 a month with 10,000 lookups included, then $1 per 1,000, and misses are free. Ravn sells the software, not the data: it stores no people data and resells no one’s records, and any people or company lookups run on your own provider key.
If you like the spreadsheet workflow, npx ravn enrich works on a CSV locally: it keeps your columns, adds rw_* results, saves every 25 rows and resumes where it stopped rather than failing.
Switching in 10 minutes
Free accounts get 1,000 lookups with no card, so you can try this before changing anything.
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Connect the MCP server
In Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste
https://api.askravn.com/mcp, sign in with your email code and click Allow. In Claude Code:claude mcp add --transport http ravn https://api.askravn.com/mcp, then/mcp→ Authenticate. See the MCP server guide. - / 02
Sign in from the terminal
Run
npx ravn login, enter the 6-digit code from your email, thennpx ravn toolsto list all 25 tools. The CLI docs cover every flag. - / 03
Use Ravn from Clay, or without it
There is no native Clay app listing. To call Ravn from a Clay table, use Clay’s HTTP request step with
POST https://api.askravn.com/v1/tools/{tool}and your API key. Without Clay, use the CLI or MCP directly. See integrations and the response envelope. - / 04
Test on a small sample
Run
npx ravn enrich leads.csv --tool scrape_website --column Website --limit 25 --dry-run, check the plan, then drop--dry-run. Your columns are kept,rw_*columns are added, and progress saves every 25 rows so a stopped run resumes.
Is there a Ravn integration in Clay?
There is no native Clay app listing. You can call the Ravn REST API from an HTTP step with a bearer key, and every tool returns the same status, results and metadata shape.
Can Ravn enrich a spreadsheet without Clay?
Yes. npx ravn enrich leads.csv --tool <tool> adds result columns to your CSV, saves progress every 25 rows and resumes if interrupted. Add --dry-run first to see what it will do.
Why does the Clay column have no prices?
We only publish competitor numbers we checked on their own pricing page, and we did not verify Clay’s. Check Clay’s site for current plans.
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