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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
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    Reliable
  • 3
    Excellent customer support
  • 3
    Simple customer validation
  • 2
    Great changelogs and onsite notifications
  • 2
    Easy integration
  • 2
    Free company logo API
  • 2
    Prospector API is amazing
  • 2
    Beautiful documentation
  • 2
    Great UI/dashboard
  • 2
    Detailed logs for every API request made
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    What is Clearbit?

    Clearbit builds business intelligence APIs. Retrieve social data from emails and look up company information from domains.

    What is CloudSponge?

    CloudSponge is a Contact Picker for all major address books. It allows your users to share their address books without ever needing to remember, type, or upload emails manually

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