The Verdict
## LeadMagic vs Clearbit: Final Verdict for 2024 Choosing between LeadMagic and Clearbit comes down to one foundational question: **Are you a HubSpot-native organization, or are you running a stack-agnostic outbound motion?** **Clearbit** was once the gold standard for B2B data enrichment — a developer-friendly API that sat at the center of marketing and sales stacks across thousands of companies. But since HubSpot's acquisition of Clearbit in late 2023, the product has been progressively integrated into HubSpot's own platform. For HubSpot shops, this is genuinely good news: Clearbit's enrichment capabilities are now bundled into HubSpot's Marketing Hub and Sales Hub tiers, making it a best-in-class choice for teams already paying for HubSpot. You get firmographic enrichment, website visitor identification, and lead scoring baked directly into your CRM without a separate contract. However, if you are **not** a HubSpot customer, the calculus has changed significantly. Clearbit's standalone API pricing has shifted, documentation for non-HubSpot use cases has become less prioritized, and the product roadmap is increasingly oriented around HubSpot's internal needs. Non-HubSpot buyers evaluating Clearbit in 2024 are effectively betting on a product whose future development is tied to a competitor's CRM ecosystem. That is a real strategic risk. **LeadMagic** occupies a different but complementary niche. It is purpose-built for outbound prospecting teams — SDRs, growth hackers, and RevOps professionals — who need real-time contact enrichment, verified email addresses, mobile phone numbers, and B2B profile data at a transparent, pay-as-you-go price. LeadMagic's credit-based model means you only pay for what you actually use, which is a major advantage for teams with variable enrichment volume or those running targeted ABM campaigns rather than bulk database enrichment. **Our segmented recommendations:** - **HubSpot customers:** Choose Clearbit. It's bundled into your existing HubSpot subscription at higher tiers and integrates natively with your CRM workflows, forms, and lead scoring. - **Outbound SDR teams on non-HubSpot stacks:** Choose LeadMagic. Its real-time API, transparent pricing, and purpose-built prospecting focus deliver better ROI for teams running Outreach, Salesloft, Apollo, or custom toolchains. - **Startups on a budget:** Choose LeadMagic. Pay-per-use credits eliminate the overhead of unused enrichment quota, and the onboarding friction is significantly lower. - **Enterprise RevOps with Salesforce + HubSpot:** Evaluate both — Clearbit for inbound enrichment and scoring, LeadMagic for outbound contact discovery and phone number coverage. - **European or compliance-sensitive buyers:** LeadMagic's transparent data sourcing and processing agreements deserve scrutiny, but both tools require GDPR DPA evaluation before deployment. Neither tool is universally superior. Clearbit wins on ecosystem depth for HubSpot users. LeadMagic wins on flexibility, pricing transparency, and outbound-first design for everyone else.
Feature Comparison
Data Enrichment
Prospecting & Lead Discovery
Pricing & Commercial Model
Integrations & Stack Compatibility
Compliance & Data Privacy
Support & Onboarding
Pricing Comparison
Clearbit
HubSpot Free (Clearbit Enrichment Included)
$0/mo- Limited enrichment credits per month
- Basic company and contact enrichment within HubSpot CRM
- HubSpot CRM required
- No standalone API access at free tier
HubSpot Marketing Hub Starter (with Clearbit enrichment)
From $18/mo- Contact enrichment within HubSpot
- Limited Clearbit-powered enrichment credits
- HubSpot forms enrichment
- Basic lead scoring
HubSpot Marketing Hub Professional (with Clearbit enrichment)
From $800/mo- Expanded enrichment credits
- Clearbit Reveal (website visitor identification)
- Advanced lead scoring with firmographic filters
- Workflow-triggered enrichment
- Salesforce integration
HubSpot Marketing Hub Enterprise (with Clearbit enrichment)
From $3,600/mo- Maximum enrichment credits
- Full Clearbit enrichment feature set within HubSpot
- Advanced technographic filtering
- Custom reporting
- Dedicated support
- SSO and advanced permissions
Clearbit Standalone API (Custom / Enterprise)
Custom pricing — contact sales- RESTful enrichment API access
- Prospector database access
- Reveal (IP-to-company) API
- Custom volume-based pricing
- Dedicated account management
- Available for non-HubSpot buyers — pricing opacity is significant post-acquisition
Leadmagic
Starter
$99/mo- 500 credits included per month
- Email enrichment and verification
- Company enrichment
- CSV upload support
- API access
- Basic integrations
Growth
$249/mo- 1,500 credits included per month
- Email + mobile phone enrichment
- Company firmographic enrichment
- Full API access
- CRM integrations (HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive)
- Priority support
- Credit rollover
Pro
$499/mo- 4,000 credits included per month
- Full contact enrichment suite (email, phone, LinkedIn, firmographics)
- Bulk CSV enrichment
- Advanced API access with webhooks
- All CRM and sales engagement integrations
- Dedicated onboarding support
- Custom credit top-ups available
Enterprise
Custom pricing- Volume-based credit packages
- Custom data processing agreements (DPA)
- SLA guarantees
- Dedicated account management
- Custom integrations
- GDPR/CCPA compliance support
- White-glove onboarding
Use Case Recommendations
Outbound SDR team using Outreach or Salesloft on a non-HubSpot stack
A 10-person SDR team running cold outbound on Outreach with Salesforce as their CRM needs a fast, cost-effective way to enrich prospect contact data — particularly verified emails and mobile phone numbers — before loading sequences. LeadMagic is the clear winner here. Its credit-based model means SDRs can enrich only the contacts they intend to work, avoiding waste. The API integrates directly with Salesforce and Outreach, and the emphasis on mobile phone number coverage is directly valuable for call-heavy SDR motions. Clearbit in this scenario would require either a costly standalone enterprise contract with opaque pricing or would be unavailable at a reasonable price point for a team not on HubSpot. LeadMagic's transparent $249–$499/mo Growth and Pro tiers are directly accessible without a sales conversation, enabling fast team-level adoption.
HubSpot Marketing Hub customer running inbound lead enrichment and scoring
A demand generation team using HubSpot Marketing Hub Professional or Enterprise gets Clearbit enrichment capabilities bundled directly into their existing subscription. When a prospect fills out a HubSpot form, Clearbit enriches the contact record in real-time — appending company size, industry, technographics, and job title — without any additional API calls or third-party contracts. This enriched data feeds directly into lead scoring workflows and triggers MQL routing to sales. For this use case, Clearbit is not just better than LeadMagic — it is effectively free as an incremental cost, since the capability is already included. Adding LeadMagic as a secondary tool would create redundancy and data inconsistency. The HubSpot-native Clearbit experience is seamless, well-documented within HubSpot's knowledge base, and supported by HubSpot's enterprise support infrastructure.
Early-stage startup building a targeted ABM list for a product launch
A Series A startup with a $1,500/mo marketing and sales tools budget needs to build a list of 500 highly targeted ICP contacts for an ABM campaign targeting VP-level operations leaders at mid-market logistics companies. LeadMagic's Starter or Growth tier ($99–$249/mo) gives them access to prospecting search, contact enrichment with verified emails, and direct-dial phone numbers — enough to execute the campaign without overcommitting on subscription costs. Clearbit's standalone API would require a custom enterprise quote with no self-serve path, effectively pricing out early-stage teams. LeadMagic's self-serve onboarding means the campaign can be launched within a day rather than waiting through a sales cycle. The credit-based model also aligns spending to campaign volume rather than forcing a flat monthly fee regardless of usage.
RevOps team evaluating tools to enrich a 50,000-record CRM database
A RevOps team at a 200-person B2B SaaS company needs to retroactively enrich 50,000 existing CRM contacts and company records to improve segmentation, lead scoring, and territory planning. They are already on HubSpot Sales Hub Enterprise. In this scenario, Clearbit's bulk enrichment capabilities within HubSpot — including automated re-enrichment of stale records — provide direct value without additional vendor contracts. The breadth of Clearbit's firmographic data (200+ attributes) and technographic coverage is also critical for nuanced segmentation use cases. While LeadMagic can handle bulk CSV enrichment, it lacks the same depth of firmographic attributes and does not offer the same level of HubSpot workflow integration that makes ongoing enrichment maintenance automatic rather than a periodic manual task.
European SaaS company needing GDPR-compliant B2B data enrichment
A Munich-based B2B SaaS company selling into European enterprise accounts needs to enrich contact records while maintaining strict GDPR compliance. Clearbit, operating under HubSpot's legal framework, offers well-documented Data Processing Agreements, Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), and EU-US Data Privacy Framework alignment. HubSpot's enterprise legal team has invested heavily in European compliance infrastructure, which provides the contractual certainty that enterprise procurement and legal teams require. LeadMagic can provide DPAs and claims GDPR compliance, but the depth of legal documentation, data residency options, and audit trail capabilities are currently less mature than what HubSpot/Clearbit can offer. For European buyers with procurement-level compliance requirements, Clearbit's backing by HubSpot's legal infrastructure is a meaningful differentiator — though both tools require individual DPA review before deployment.
Sales team confused about whether they need visitor identification or contact enrichment
Many GTM teams conflate three distinct tool categories: website visitor identification tools (Leadfeeder, Factors.ai, Clearbit Reveal), data enrichment APIs (Clearbit's core product, LeadMagic), and prospecting/outbound tools (LeadMagic, Apollo, ZoomInfo). A sales team saying 'we need to know who's visiting our website and then reach out to them' actually needs visitor identification plus contact enrichment — two separate capabilities. LeadMagic handles the contact enrichment and outreach data layer. If website visitor identification is the primary need, Leadfeeder or Clearbit Reveal should be evaluated first. LeadMagic is the right tool for the second step — enriching identified company visitors with individual contact data for outbound outreach — while Clearbit Reveal handles the first step of IP-to-company resolution. Understanding this distinction prevents costly tool overlap.
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