Clay is powerful but priced for growth teams with budget. If you're a solo founder or SDR doing your own outbound, Rova gets you company emails, phones, and LinkedIn enrichment for a one-time $49. No subscription. No workflow credits. Runs on your machine.
Who this is for: Solo founders, freelance SDRs, and small teams doing outbound at <500 companies/month who don't need Clay's automation workflows — just clean lead data fast.
What matters when you're doing outbound yourself.
| Tool | Price | Emails | Phones | Runs Locally | No Subscription | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rova | $49 once | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Clay | $134/month | Yes | Via integrations | Yes | No | No |
| Apollo.io | $49-149/month | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| UpLead | $149-199/month | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| ZoomInfo | $250+/month | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Finds the best contact email via Hunter.io domain search. You get 25 free lookups/month with a Hunter free account. $49 plan unlocks 500/month if you need more.
Scrapes main office and support phone numbers from company homepages. Works for companies that publish their phone number publicly.
Finds the company LinkedIn URL from their homepage. Useful for manual research and personalization before reaching out.
Extracts city, state, or full address from homepage and contact pages. Helps with geographic filtering and localization in your outreach.
Pulls a clean description from meta tags and About pages. Feed it into your cold email templates to personalize at scale.
Results in a clean CSV. Drop it directly into your outreach tool, CRM, or spreadsheet. No copy-paste, no reformatting.
No. Clay is a full workflow automation platform with 50+ data source integrations, AI enrichment, and complex sequence building. Rova does one thing: research a list of companies and return emails, phones, LinkedIn, location, and description in a CSV. If you need Clay's workflow capabilities, you need Clay. If you just need the data, Rova is 95% cheaper.
Hunter.io for emails (25 free lookups/month with a free account), direct homepage scraping for phones and LinkedIn, and meta tag extraction for descriptions and locations. No proprietary database - we pull from public sources.
Yes. You pay $49 once for Rova. Hunter.io's free tier covers 25 email lookups/month at no cost. If you need more Hunter lookups, their paid plan is $49/month - still less than Clay's minimum. Rova itself has no subscription, no credits, no renewal.
Python 3.8+ (free, works on Mac/Windows/Linux), a free Hunter.io account, and a text file with company names. Setup takes under 10 minutes. Full README and Windows PowerShell instructions included.
Email RovaAI@proton.me. We'll fix it or refund you. No questions asked.
Get company emails, phones, and LinkedIn enrichment for a one-time payment. No monthly bill.