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Clearbit vs CloudSponge: What are the differences?
Developers describe Clearbit as "APIs for determining who's behind an email address". Clearbit builds business intelligence APIs. Retrieve social data from emails and look up company information from domains. On the other hand, CloudSponge is detailed as "Import address books from Linkedin, Facebook, Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN, Gmail, AOL, Outlook and macOS Address Book". CloudSponge imports address books from Linkedin, Facebook, Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN, Gmail, AOL, Outlook and Mac OS X Address Book. Use these addresses to Invite Friends, Find Friends, or whatever application you need. It can easily be plugged into your website in less than 5 minutes using our simple copy/paste HTML widget. For more advanced applications, we also have our Address Book API available.
Clearbit can be classified as a tool in the "Customer Information API" category, while CloudSponge is grouped under "Contact Management".
Some of the features offered by Clearbit are:
- Social lookup
- Company lookup
- Watchlist lookup
On the other hand, CloudSponge provides the following key features:
- Contact importer for all major webmail and desktop address books
- Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Outlook.com, Mac Address Book, Outlook, AOL, Plaxo
- REST API
Pros of Clearbit
- Good usability10
- Reliable3
- Excellent customer support3
- Simple customer validation3
- Great changelogs and onsite notifications2
- Easy integration2
- Free company logo API2
- Prospector API is amazing2
- Beautiful documentation2
- Great UI/dashboard2
- Detailed logs for every API request made2