The Clay alternative for AI-native sales ops
Clay runs your enrichment on their servers and charges per row. Stekpad runs in your browser on your sessions, ships with a Claude MCP server, and costs €12/month flat.
The short answer
Clay runs your enrichment on their servers and charges per row. Stekpad runs in your browser on your sessions, ships with a Claude MCP server, and costs €12/month flat.
Stekpad vs Clay
| Feature | Stekpad | Clay |
|---|---|---|
| Runs locally in your browser | ||
| Native Claude MCP server | ||
| Point-and-click selector engine | ||
| Enrichment waterfall | ||
| CRM sync | Via Zapier | |
| Flat pricing | €12/month or €99 lifetime | Per credit |
| Scrape authenticated pages | With your session | Limited |
| Free tier | Unlimited extension | Trial only |
Why operators switch from Clay
Clay is a great enrichment platform, but it is a hosted black box. Your cookies, your queries, and your target lists live on their infrastructure. You pay per credit. Your AI agent cannot call Clay directly.
Stekpad flips that. The scraper lives in your Chrome extension. The MCP server lives on your machine. Your Claude session can call a Stekpad recipe and get fresh rows in two seconds — no credits, no latency hop, no vendor lock-in.
If you already pay for Clay and your team runs daily enrichments, Stekpad pays for itself after the first week. If you are still evaluating, skip Clay and start with Stekpad Free.
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Clay Alternative: Scrape Enrichment Data Without Buying Credits
Explains the Clay pricing model (per-credit enrichment) and how teams hit the cost wall fast on high-volume GTM campaigns. Positions Stekpad as a complementary layer: scrape the raw data yourself (LinkedIn, Crunchbase, company websites), feed structured rows into Clay or use them directly in Sheets/Airtable. Covers the 4 most common Clay enrichment use-cases and how to replicate each with a Stekpad recipe. Includes a cost comparison table (1,000 enrichments: Clay credits vs Stekpad free tier).
PhantomBuster Alternative: What to Use Instead
Explains why teams leave PhantomBuster: per-phantom pricing that compounds, cookie exposure on third-party servers, and phantom fragility on DOM changes. Positions Stekpad as the browser-native replacement: runs in your session, one-click schema, no phantom credits. Includes a feature comparison table (pricing model, auth handling, schema flexibility, MCP support). Ends with a migration checklist for the most-used PhantomBuster phantoms (LinkedIn scraper, Google Maps, website data).
Stekpad pricing — start free, upgrade when you need more
Stekpad's free tier runs point-and-click scraping with native Google Sheets export; paid plans add scheduled runs, MCP access, and multi-seat use — with no per-row credits or phantom slot fees.
Bardeen alternative — scraping-first with MCP and live export
Stekpad is built specifically for structured data extraction — not workflow automation with scraping bolted on — so it handles authenticated pages, outputs clean schemas, and ships an MCP server that Bardeen does not offer.
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