Clay
APIGTM data platform for finding people and companies and running enrichment
- Price
- Free tier, then paid
- Access
- API key
About
Go-to-market data platform that combines its own people and company database with 150+ data providers, AI research agents and workflows. The Public API keys are in beta, search results per month are capped by plan, and table queries are Enterprise only.
What you can do with it
- Search Clay's database for people or companies with an advanced query
- Run Clay-managed functions to find work emails, phone numbers and company data
- Trigger your own Clay functions and workflows from backend jobs or coding agents
Get started
- Create a Clay workspace
- Create an API key under Settings > Account > API keys
- Send it in the clay-api-key header
Example
curl -X POST https://api.clay.com/public/v0/search/query-mode \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "clay-api-key: $CLAY_PUBLIC_API_KEY" \
-d '{"query": "select from people where experiences.any(is_current = true and job_title is_similar_to (\"VP Sales\", \"Head of Sales\"))"}'
# Then page through results with the returned search_id
curl -X POST "https://api.clay.com/public/v0/search/query-mode/$SEARCH_ID/run" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "clay-api-key: $CLAY_PUBLIC_API_KEY" \
-d '{"limit": 10}'Details
- Hosting
- Hosted service
- Available in
- Worldwide
- MCP server
- Remote