Clay MCP alternative
Enrich companies and people, find verified work emails and read LinkedIn from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. Waterfall email finding, paid per result, with no Clay plan or table.
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https://mcp.manifoldmcp.com/mcpThe tools your agent gets
People and company tools in the docsSearch companies
Companies matching a name, keywords, location or headcount, as stubs.
leads_search_companiesFrom 10 creditsGet a company profile
The full firmographic record of one company, by domain.
leads_get_companyFrom 10 creditsSearch people
People matching title, seniority and company filters, as stubs.
leads_search_peopleFrom 1 creditGet a person profile
The full record of one person: real name, title, seniority, company, location, LinkedIn and employment history.
leads_get_personFrom 10 creditsFind a person's work email
Find and verify the work email of one named person.
leads_get_emailFrom 6 creditsVerify an email address
Whether an email address the user already has will deliver.
leads_get_email_statusFrom 1 creditGet a LinkedIn profile
One LinkedIn person: their headline, location, followers and connections.
linkedin_get_profileFrom 1 creditGet a company page
One LinkedIn company page: headcount, industry, location and website.
linkedin_get_companyFrom 1 creditGet a domain's email addresses
Email addresses known for a website's domain, with name, role, confidence and where each was seen.
leads_get_domain_emailsFrom 2 credits
Enrichment in your agent, not a table
Clay’s MCP server brings a Clay workspace into Claude or ChatGPT on a paid Clay plan, priced in data credits and actions. Manifold gives your agent the lookups themselves, charged per result, beside every other source.
| Clay’s MCP | One provider’s API | Manifold | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly plan | A paid Clay plan | Per provider | No, pay per call |
| Waterfall email finding | Yes | One source | Yes, verified |
| Tables, formulas and CRM sync | Yes | No | No, your agent does it |
| Social posts and Reddit beside it | Some | No | Yes |
| Works in Cursor and Claude Code | Claude and ChatGPT listed | Your own code | Yes, hosted |
| Free to try | 14-day trial | Varies | Free credits |
Things to ask
Plain questions in any connected client. The agent picks the tools.
- Enrich this list of 100 domains with headcount, industry and location.
- Find the VP of Sales at each of these companies and their work emails.
- Check these 40 emails and tell me which will bounce.
- Read each founder’s LinkedIn and write one line on what they post about.
- Find companies like this one in Germany with 50 to 200 staff. [company.com]
- Who wrote about switching CRMs on LinkedIn this week, and what are their emails?
Pay per call. Start free.
No seats and nothing else to subscribe to. Every workspace starts with 500 free credits, and an answer already in the cache costs 25% of the price or less.
- Search companies
- From 10 credits
- Get a company profile
- From 10 credits
- Search people
- From 1 credit
- The same answer again, from the cache
- 25% or less
On the same server
The same server URL and credit balance reach every source. Switch off what you don’t need.
- Apollo MCP alternativeCompanies, people and verified work emails.
- LinkedIn MCPPosts, profiles and company pages.
- X (Twitter) MCPAccounts, recent posts and replies.
- Reddit MCPThreads, comments and subreddits.
- SEO MCPKeywords, rankings, backlinks and audits.
- AI visibility MCPWhat ChatGPT, Gemini and others say and cite.
- YouTube MCPVideos, channels, comments and transcripts.
- Facebook MCPPages, posts, groups and comments.
Questions about the Clay MCP alternative
How does the email waterfall work?
A work email is looked for in Findymail, then Hunter, then Icypeas, and verified before it is returned. The first verified hit stops the search. People and company tools in the docs
Do I need a Clay account?
No. You spend credits from one Manifold balance. There is no table: your agent does the lookups and gives you the result in the chat, or as a file.
What does it cost?
A found, verified email is 6 credits and a miss is 1 credit. People search is 1 credit a page; a full company or person record costs more. Plans and pricing
Which clients does it work with?
Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Grok, OpenCode and any other client that connects to a remote MCP server. Sign in with OAuth, or use an API key from the dashboard for scripts. Setup guides for every client
Can it push results to our CRM?
No. Every tool is read-only. Your agent hands you the enriched list; your CRM’s own import or connector takes it from there.