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Cut Clay Costs Below $800/Month with Simple Hacks

Today I am pardoning all you turkeys that say Clay is expensive… Here’s how to NEVER PAY more than $800/mo for Clay. First off an enterprise yearly subscription to Clay with CRM integration is under $9k/year and your cost is 1.5 pennies or $0.015 per credit. This means you can enrich 600,000 companies (1 clay credit), profiles (1 clay credit), or use a great AI search model like 4o mini for you guessed it… 1 Clay credit. And they are good all year if you pay yearly, so you don’t lose Clay credits. Not to mention formulas (free and an amazing hack), live domain checker (free), job changer signal that only charges for results not checks (so cheap). Okay, but Jordan, what about those things that cost 20 or 40 or 100 Clay credits… we are spending so much. Well this is called a convenience tax… where your sheer laziness costs you. This last week I paid like $300 for an eye exam when an in-network provider would have been $0… but it’s just because I didn’t want to like go figure out my Byzantine eye insurance. I paid a dumb convenience tax, but I’m not blaming the ophthalmologist, I chose to do this. Enter Clay’s API BYK program and HTTP API integration. The Bring Your Key API program lets you pay clay ZERO EXTRA DOLLARS and just enter in your own API key and Clay EATS THE pass through costs. So scraping a webpage becomes so cheap (less than 1/10th of a penny) with Zenrows. Or use Claygent with your own OpenAI API key and only pay for tokens, Clay gives you the scraping ON THEM. Clay is making money hand over fist NOT because they are trying to rake people over the coals, but because no one wants to take the 1-2 hours to configure their account to save so so so much money. So use Clay credits like points (e.g. job changers is where you get SO MUCH for your buck because you aren’t charged for searches just results) and don’t use Clay for mobile phone enrichment as a direct API key will work best. Stop complaining, there’s no other tool that makes it easy to NOT pay them. You’re just committed to spending as a way to not understand what you’re buying. And, sadly, you’re doing a great job burying your head and opening up your wallet needlessly. Contact me, I’ll teach you how to save money.