Clay

Official MCP Paid, self-serve Data & Enrichment RESEARCHED Checked 2026-08-24

RESEARCHED Facts from public sources with URLs. No usage claims. Nobody has run this tool. The other tier is BENCH-TESTED, which means Andrew personally ran the tool on a stated date and cannot be bought at any price. Across the whole directory that count is 0.

Vendor: clay.com · entry id 01-clay · source 01-data-enrichment.md line 46

What it does

A spreadsheet-style workflow/orchestration tool that runs lead and company records through "waterfall" lookups across 100-200+ third-party data providers (Apollo, Lusha, Clearbit, etc.) and chains automation steps ("recipes") to build, enrich, and route prospect lists into a CRM or sequencer.

AI features, separated from automation with an AI label on it

"Claygent" is a genuine LLM agent that can browse the web and do open-ended research inside a workflow step (e.g., "find this company's funding stage"), plus an AI formula/code generator for building enrichment logic. This is real AI for the unstructured-research steps; the waterfall/enrichment core is deterministic API-calling across vendors, not AI itself.

RevOps role

Sits between raw data vendors and the CRM/outbound stack as the enrichment-orchestration layer a RevOps team builds once and reps or automations call into

MCP server

Status bucket

Official MCP

Auth

Session cookie - the same token used to log into app.clay.com in-browser, which grants full account access (tables, records, enrichments, CRM integrations, credits), not a scoped API key

Parsed URLs

2 found in the mcp_url field

The vendor ships and maintains the server itself. A wrapper built by Zapier, Composio or a similar third party does not count as official. The status was established on 2026-08-24 and has not been re-fetched since.

mcp_status, verbatim from the file:

official

mcp_url, verbatim from the file:

https://www.clay.com/mcp (docs: https://university.clay.com/docs/mcp-settings)

Access gate

Gate bucket

Paid, self-serve

Can a solo operator reach it

Yes, by paying, no sales call

api_gate, verbatim from the file:

paid

API documentation

No documentation URL recorded.

263 of 293 entries are in the same position. Blank is legal and it is published as blank.

GitHub health

Not measured. github_url, github_stars, github_last_commit and github_archived are null on every entry in this build.

The refresh rail specced in SPEC section 7.2 has not been run. An unstamped star count is a lie, so nothing is shown rather than something stale.

A github.com URL already appears somewhere in this entry, which is a seed for that rail and not a measurement of repo health:

https://github.com/shanefirek/clay-mcp-public

Jobs it can do

A job tag means the vendor says the tool does this. It is not a test result, not proof the capability is reachable through the tool's MCP server, and not proof it is available on the gate this entry records.

Tagged by machine-pass on 2026-08-25 against the closed 55 job vocabulary. 271 of 293 entries carry at least one tag; 827 tags are assigned in total.

Sources

6 source URLs. Raw sources field, verbatim:

https://www.clay.com/mcp, https://university.clay.com/docs/mcp-settings, https://github.com/shanefirek/clay-mcp-public, https://www.landbase.com/blog/clay-pricing, https://www.warmly.ai/p/blog/clay-pricing, https://michaelsaruggia.com/blog/clay-pricing-change-2026

Notes, verbatim from the file

Self-serve plans exist (Free, Launch ~$185/mo, Growth ~$495/mo as of the March 2026 repricing) with a dual Data Credits / Actions system, so a solo operator can get in without sales - but real usage costs scale fast via credit top-ups (50% premium) and this pricing structure changed substantially in March 2026. A separate 73-tool community MCP (github.com/shanefirek/clay-mcp-public) also exists. Caution: "Clay" the personal-CRM app (clay.earth, github.com/mesh/clay-mcp) is an unrelated product with its own MCP - do not confuse it with Clay.com in this directory.

Provenance

Entry id

01-clay

Source file

01-data-enrichment.md

Source line

Tier

RESEARCHED

last_checked

2026-08-24

Data baked

2026-08-25

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