Clay just hit $5B valuation. The data problem it solves costs $49 to solve yourself.

Clay Alternative
Without the $134/Month Bill

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.

Clay: $134/month ($1,608/year)  Rova: $49 once, forever

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.

Rova vs Clay vs Apollo vs ZoomInfo

What matters when you're doing outbound yourself.

Tool Price Emails Phones LinkedIn 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
$ python rova.py companies.txt
Processing 5 companies...
Hubspot  |  hubspot.com  |  +1 888 482 7768  |  press@hubspot.com  |  Cambridge, MA  |  linkedin.com/company/hubspot
Outreach  |  outreach.io  |  support@outreach.io  |  Seattle, WA  |  linkedin.com/company/outreach
Lemlist  |  lemlist.com  |  hello@lemlist.com  |  Paris, France  |  linkedin.com/company/lemlist
Woodpecker  |  woodpecker.co  |  support@woodpecker.co  |  Wroclaw, Poland
Instantly  |  instantly.ai  |  support@instantly.ai  |  linkedin.com/company/instantly-ai
Done. 5 companies. 21 seconds. Output saved to results.csv

What Rova does without the workflow tax

Contact Emails

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.

Phone Numbers

Scrapes main office and support phone numbers from company homepages. Works for companies that publish their phone number publicly.

LinkedIn Company Pages

Finds the company LinkedIn URL from their homepage. Useful for manual research and personalization before reaching out.

HQ Location

Extracts city, state, or full address from homepage and contact pages. Helps with geographic filtering and localization in your outreach.

Company Description

Pulls a clean description from meta tags and About pages. Feed it into your cold email templates to personalize at scale.

CSV Output

Results in a clean CSV. Drop it directly into your outreach tool, CRM, or spreadsheet. No copy-paste, no reformatting.

When Clay makes sense — and when it doesn't

Clay is worth it if
  • You're enriching 1,000+ contacts/month
  • You have a dedicated SDR team running it
  • You need waterfall enrichment from 10+ sources
  • You're building automated outbound sequences
  • Your company pays for it
Clay is overkill if
  • You're a solo founder doing manual outbound
  • You research <200 companies/month
  • You just need emails + phones + LinkedIn
  • You're paying out of your own pocket
  • You want to own your tools, not rent them

Who uses Rova instead of Clay

Common questions

Does Rova do everything Clay does?

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.

What data sources does Rova use?

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.

Is the $49 really one-time with no recurring costs?

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.

What do I need to run it?

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.

What if Rova doesn't work for me?

Email RovaAI@proton.me. We'll fix it or refund you. No questions asked.

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