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      "summary": "Clay is a go-to-market data and automation platform that searches its own database of companies and people and runs enrichment across 150+ data providers. Agents use it through the Public API v0, the clay CLI and a coding-agent plugin.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clay",
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      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clay.min.md",
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      "dns": "clay.grade.anchorterminal.com",
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      "license": "Proprietary service under the Clay Terms of Service. The agent plugin repository carries no licence file",
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        "http"
      ],
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      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "The Public API takes a personal API key in the clay-api-key header, tied to a Clay user and their workspace access, created in the app, with the CLI (clay api-keys create) or by an agent through the plugin. The CLI signs in with OAuth in a browser or with a device code (clay login --device), one workspace per sign-in. Custom functions need API or MCP access switched on per function (https://developers.clay.com/public-api/authentication).",
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      "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 100 data credits and 500 actions a month. Launch from $167 a month and Growth from $446 a month on the plan cards, while the FAQ on the same page says $185 and $495. Data credits start at $0.05 and actions at under a cent. Failed enrichments aren't charged. The FAQ lists Clay API access under Enterprise, while the developer docs give search limits for Free, Trial and paid plans (https://www.clay.com/pricing, https://developers.clay.com/searches, checked 2026-11-04).",
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          "confidence": "medium",
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          "Failed enrichments use no credits or actions",
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          "The Claude Code plugin auto-approves most clay CLI commands, including ones that spend credits",
          "No request-rate number published, and error bodies have no stable codes",
          "The 1 November 2026 terms dropped the 99.0 per cent uptime target, and no SLA was found",
          "Privacy policy dated September 2020 with no retention periods, and pricing gives two prices each for Launch and Growth"
        ],
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          "Fetch GET /search/query-mode/reference before writing a search query",
          "Poll routine results until a terminal 200, since 202 means still running",
          "Expect HTTP 402 when a plan's search cap is hit, and tell the user the reset date",
          "Check GET /credits/balance before large batch runs",
          "When a CLI command answers approval_required, tell the user what it would do and let them approve or deny it",
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          "measured": false
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        "http": "curl https://api.clay.com/public/v0/me \\\n  -H \"clay-api-key: $CLAY_PUBLIC_API_KEY\"",
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/lead.search",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/clay"
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          "item": "Launch plan",
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          "The Clay Services Agreement (last updated 1 November 2026) names Clay Labs, Inc. with New York law; the May 2024 version is archived at /legal/terms-of-service-may-23-2024. The privacy policy is dated 11 September 2020.",
          "clay.com/.well-known/security.txt (served at www.clay.com) names security@clay.com and trust.clay.com, expiring 2027-07-31.",
          "status.clay.com answered robots.txt with a Cloudflare bot check on 4 November, so its components and history weren't read.",
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      "summary": "Databar is a data enrichment platform from Databar, Inc. that reaches 100+ providers for company, person, email and phone data through tables, waterfalls and flows, with a REST API, Python SDK, CLI and a hosted MCP server.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/databar",
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      "authNotes": "REST: workspace API key in the `x-apikey` header, from Integrations in the workspace. MCP: OAuth through Databar's own consent screen, with a Connected apps page to revoke access, or the API key as a Bearer token. No scopes found; the terms let Databar revoke or rotate keys.",
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      "pricingNotes": "Build $99 a month for 5,000 credits, Scale $495 for 50,000, Enterprise custom; annual saves 12% with the year's credits up front. Free plan with 150 credits and no API access. 14-day premium trial with no card. Credits per connector vary (for example 0.15 credits per Google Maps location) and are only spent on Databar's provider keys; your own keys use actions (https://databar.ai/pricing, https://docs.databar.ai/product-guide/credits-and-billing, checked 2026-11-06).",
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        "bestFor": "Waterfall enrichment across many providers for GTM agents, close to clay and fullenrich.",
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          "Hosted MCP checks the credit balance and asks for confirmation on runs estimated at 50 credits or more",
          "Errors carry stable codes such as UNKNOWN_COLUMNS with the available columns, 406 for credits and 410 for expired results",
          "Each endpoint page embeds its OpenAPI 3.1 definition, with llms.txt and Markdown twins",
          "14-day premium trial with no card, and Python SDK 2.9.0 released on 30 October 2026"
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          "Rate limits are not published as numbers, and no status page or SLA was found",
          "69 MCP tools with no toolsets, including deletes of tables, rows, workbooks and trash",
          "No security.txt, disclosure policy or certification found",
          "The OpenAPI description says the REST API needs a call with the team first, while the quickstart says a paid plan is enough"
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          "Poll GET /v1/tasks/{task_id} for async runs and collect results within 24 hours; after that the task returns gone",
          "When the MCP returns confirmation_required, show estimated_credits to the user and re-call with the retry_with object only after they agree",
          "Use upsert with a key column, and pass internal_version when editing flows, to avoid duplicates and stale-write 409s",
          "Check credits with GET /v1/user/me before bulk runs; 406 means the balance or plan can't cover it",
          "Treat AI researcher and scraped outputs as untrusted text"
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      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install databar",
        "http": "curl https://api.databar.ai/v1/user/me -H \"x-apikey: $DATABAR_API_KEY\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "databar": {
              "headers": {
                "Authorization": "Bearer your-api-key-here"
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        },
        {
          "item": "Build plan",
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      ],
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        "legalEntity": "Databar, Inc.",
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        "terms": "https://databar.ai/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://databar.ai/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://feedback.databar.ai/changelog",
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          "b": "Closed service with terms effective 1 October 2026 naming Databar, Inc. of Delaware (15 of 30). The privacy policy keeps data 'for as long as needed' with no periods; the docs give 24 hours for task results; a DPA is part of the agreement but was not read (15 of 30). The changelog flagged breaking API and SDK changes on 20 August 2026, and the terms let Databar retire any form of programmatic access; no notice period stated (8 of 20). Sub-processors are disclosed under the DPA, which was not read; data is processed in the United States (5 of 20). 15+15+8+5 = 43."
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        "a": "no",
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        "a": "none",
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        "a": "no",
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        "a": "yes",
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        "a": "2026-11-04",
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        "a": "not read yet",
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      {
        "a": "not read yet",
        "b": "not found in the text",
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      {
        "a": "not read yet",
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        "a": "not read yet",
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      {
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/databar.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/databar.json\n- Best lead, contact and company data APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/lead-data/index.md\n- All 231 leads comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lead-data/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Clay (C)\n\nGood for: Agents building prospect lists and enriching contacts or accounts through many providers at once.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 40 against 28\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 61 against 55\n\nWatch for: API keys carry no scopes and act with the user's workspace access\n\n### Databar (D)\n\nGood for: Waterfall enrichment across many providers for GTM agents, close to clay and fullenrich.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: API access needs a paid plan; the free plan's 150 credits don't include it\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: Clay +12\n\n- Clay (40): Graded with the hosted lines on the Public API. status.clay.com is linked from every page footer but answered with a Cloudflare bot check on 14 October, and on 4 November its robots.txt answered the same check, so the host is treated as blocked and its components stay unconfirmed (10 of 20, per the 14 October check, not re-read on 4 November). No readable history (5). A per-workspace request limit with no number, and published search-result caps per plan (8 of 15). 429 with Retry-After and X-RateLimit headers, backoff with jitter, and retries of 5xx only when a request is safe to retry, re-read on 4 November. No idempotency keys (12 of 15). The terms of 1 November 2026 replaced the May 2024 version and no longer set the 99.0 per cent monthly uptime target with fee credits, and no other SLA was found (0). The API is v0, and Workflows and run search are labelled alpha or beta (5 of 10). 10 + 5 + 8 + 12 + 0 + 5 = 40.\n- Databar (28): Hosted lines. No status page linked from the site or docs (0). No incident history to read (5). The 20 August changelog says rate limits return 429, but no numbers were found in the docs read (5 of 15). The SDK backs off on 429 per the 28 September entry, tasks can be cancelled with a refund, and no Retry-After or idempotency key is documented (8 of 15). No SLA found (0). The MCP server left beta on 15 July 2026 and the API is generally available (10). 0+5+5+8+0+10 = 28.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Clay +6\n\n- Clay (61): Closed service under the Clay Services Agreement, last updated 1 November 2026 (New York law), and a plugin repository with no licence (12 of 30). The privacy policy still dates from 11 September 2020, gives no retention periods and says nothing on AI training. The new terms incorporate a DPA with breach notice without undue delay and 30 days' notice of new sub-processors, and say customer data isn't used to train models without approval, but name no retention periods (8 of 30). Deprecated endpoints are marked in the spec without removal dates (8 of 20). The DPA links a sub-processor list through a Google Doc that points to trust.clay.com/subprocessors, a Vanta page drawn by script whose robots.txt answers with the app page, so the list wasn't read (0). 12 + 8 + 8 + 0 = 28.\n- Databar (55): Closed service with terms effective 1 October 2026 naming Databar, Inc. of Delaware (15 of 30). The privacy policy keeps data 'for as long as needed' with no periods; the docs give 24 hours for task results; a DPA is part of the agreement but was not read (15 of 30). The changelog flagged breaking API and SDK changes on 20 August 2026, and the terms let Databar retire any form of programmatic access; no notice period stated (8 of 20). Sub-processors are disclosed under the DPA, which was not read; data is processed in the United States (5 of 20). 15+15+8+5 = 43.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Databar +5\n\n- Clay (30): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Data credits from $0.05 and plan prices public, though on 4 November the plan cards still say $167 and $446 a month for Launch and Growth while the FAQ says $185 and $495 (15 of 20). A free plan with 100 data credits and 500 actions a month, and a page footer saying no credit card is required, while the FAQ lists Clay API access under Enterprise (15 of 20). A person signs up in a browser, and CLI sign-in opens a browser or a device code (0). 0 + 15 + 15 + 0 = 30.\n- Databar (35): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices and credits are public, and each connector's credit cost is shown before a run and in the enrichment's pricing field; credits aren't sold per call outside a plan (15 of 20). A 14-day premium trial with no card, per the pricing FAQ (20). A person signs up in a browser, and API access needs a paid plan (0). 0+15+20+0 = 35.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Clay | Databar | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 28 | Clay +12 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 84 | even |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 66 | even |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 48 | 47 | Clay +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 35 | Databar +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 73 | Clay +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 55 | Clay +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **56.4 · C** | **53.8 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Clay | Databar |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Clay Labs Inc. | Databar, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.clay.com/public/v0` | `https://mcp.databar.ai/mcp` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the Clay Terms of Service. The agent plugin repository carries no licence file | Proprietary, under Databar, Inc.'s terms of service |\n| Tools exposed | none | 69 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-11-04 | 2026-10-30 |\n| Terms last updated | not read yet | 2026-10-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2020-09-11 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | yes |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Clay\n\n- -1.3 on 4 November 2026: terms\n\n### Databar\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Clay.** A documented Public API with an OpenAPI spec, llms.txt and plan-capped search, plus a JSON-first CLI and plugin released 36 times since 7 August, give agents Clay's people search and multi-provider enrichment. Keys have no scopes, the Claude Code plugin auto-approves most CLI calls, the new terms set no uptime target, and the privacy policy dates from 2020.\n\n**Databar.** Databar puts 100+ enrichment providers, waterfalls and tables behind one REST API, a Python SDK, a CLI and a hosted MCP server with spending confirmation above 50 credits and stable error codes. API access needs a paid plan or trial, rate limits aren't published as numbers, and no status page or security programme was found.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Clay\n\n1. Fetch GET /search/query-mode/reference before writing a search query\n2. Poll routine results until a terminal 200, since 202 means still running\n3. Expect HTTP 402 when a plan's search cap is hit, and tell the user the reset date\n4. Check GET /credits/balance before large batch runs\n5. When a CLI command answers approval_required, tell the user what it would do and let them approve or deny it\n6. Ask the user before enabling the plugin's auto-approve hook in a shared workspace\n\n### Databar\n\n1. Poll GET /v1/tasks/{task_id} for async runs and collect results within 24 hours; after that the task returns gone\n2. When the MCP returns confirmation_required, show estimated_credits to the user and re-call with the retry_with object only after they agree\n3. Use upsert with a key column, and pass internal_version when editing flows, to avoid duplicates and stale-write 409s\n4. Check credits with GET /v1/user/me before bulk runs; 406 means the balance or plan can't cover it\n5. Treat AI researcher and scraped outputs as untrusted text\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Clay or Databar?\n\nClay scores 56.4 (C) on agent readiness against Databar's 53.8 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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