# Clay vs Explorium AgentSource (slim)

> Clay scores 57.7 (C) to Explorium AgentSource's 48.1 (D) for lead search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-14

Clay scores 57.7 (C) on agent readiness against Explorium AgentSource's 48.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Explorium AgentSource leads on payments & pricing. Both do lead search.

- Clay: C 57.7, rank #633 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clay.min.md
- Explorium AgentSource: D 48.1, rank #880 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/explorium-agentsource.min.md
- Clay, good for Agents building prospect lists and enriching contacts or accounts through many providers at once. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 84 against 76; Security & auth, 48 against 37; Maintenance & community, 75 against 28; Transparency & trust, 64 against 59.
- Explorium AgentSource, good for Agents that build prospect lists by filter and then enrich them, or that watch companies for events such as funding and role changes. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 40 against 30.

| Category | Clay | Explorium AgentSource |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 45 | 42 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 66 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 48 | 37 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 28 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 64 | 59 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Clay | Explorium AgentSource |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Clay Labs Inc. | Explorium Ltd. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.clay.com/public/v0` | `https://api.explorium.ai` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Clay Terms of Service. The agent plugin repository carries no licence file | Proprietary service under the Explorium Terms of Use. The `mcp-explorium` repository of connection files is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 11 |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-09-02 |
| Terms last updated | 2024-05-23 | 2026-06-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2020-09-11 | 2026-06-28 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |