Clay - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Clay is a cloud-based personal CRM and relationship management platform available on iOS, Mac, Windows, and Web, with an Android beta underway. It centralizes contacts from Gmail, Outlook, calendar apps, iOS Contacts, LinkedIn, Twitter, WhatsApp, and iMessage into unified profiles automatically enriched with location, work history, and additional context. Over 170 million relationships are managed on the platform, serving individuals ranging from early-career professionals and MBA students to venture capitalists and small business teams.

Core functionality spans automatic contact aggregation, smart lists and groups for network segmentation, a home feed surfacing job changes, birthdays, and news mentions, and a relationship timeline logging full interaction history per contact. The AI navigator, Nexus, accepts natural language queries to surface network insights, such as identifying contacts at a specific company or in a particular city, and supports conversational commands for setting reminders. On-device face recognition privately matches camera roll photos to contacts without sending data externally. A command-line tool (clay-cli) supports terminal-based workflows, and an interactive API with sandbox documentation is available for developers.

Clay connects to external tools through integrations with Notion, Zapier, and Make, and a ChatGPT plugin allows contact context including bio, title, location, and notes to be used within ChatGPT queries and multi-step workflows. A free personal plan provides an entry point, with Pro and Teams tiers available for power users and organizations requiring broader collaboration and network management capabilities.