# Clay vs People Data Labs (slim)

> People Data Labs scores 64.2 (B) to Clay's 57.7 (C) for lead search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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People Data Labs scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Clay's 57.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Clay leads on schema & documentation and security & auth. Both do lead search.

- Clay: C 57.7, rank #633 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clay.min.md
- People Data Labs: B 64.2, rank #386 of 1076 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/people-data-labs.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 70; Security & auth, 48 against 43.
- People Data Labs, good for Products and pipelines that enrich or search person and company records at volume and can write Elasticsearch or SQL queries. Ahead on Reliability, 78 against 45; Agent ergonomics, 77 against 66; Payments & pricing, 35 against 30.

| Category | Clay | People Data Labs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 45 | 78 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 66 | 77 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 48 | 43 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 64 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Clay | People Data Labs |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Clay Labs Inc. | People Data Labs, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.clay.com/public/v0` | `https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5` |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Clay Terms of Service. The agent plugin repository carries no licence file | Proprietary service under the Services Subscription Agreement. The Python and JavaScript SDKs are MIT |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-09-16 |
| Terms last updated | 2024-05-23 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2020-09-11 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | none | 40 stars, 133k npm/wk, 30k PyPI/wk |