AI Ark sells fresh, verified contacts with a lookalike search built in. Ocean uses contextual intelligence to find your next deal, with the reason on every account.
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AI ArkVerified contacts at volume, with lookalike search on every plan. A fit for teams that want cheap data at scale.
AI Ark is a B2B data platform built for agencies and GTM engineers. It claims 400M+ people and 70M+ company profiles, verifies every email in real time at export, and includes lookalike search, semantic search and a full API on every plan.
Learning which companies fit from your own deals, then ranking the market with the reason on each account.
Ocean is contextual intelligence for go-to-market. It reads what every company actually does from its own website, learns what good looks like from your closed-won and closed-lost deals, and ranks your whole market against it, with the reason behind each score. The ranked accounts arrive in your CRM, your rep queue or your AI agents.
What buyers weigh, grouped by the job each part does. A light blue background marks the stronger side.
| Topic | Ocean | AI Ark |
|---|---|---|
| Finding the right accounts | ||
| Lookalikes | Ocean is stronger here. Core of the product. Segments and models learned from your won and lost CRM deals. | Lookalike company and people search from seed companies and filters, on every plan, with a claimed 95%+ ICP match. |
| The reason behind each account | Ocean is stronger here. Segment, score, tier and matched signals on every account and every export. | Lists of matches, with AI insights and a personality analysis on individual people. |
| How it understands a company | Reads what each company does from its own website. | Filters and semantic search over company and profile data, including LinkedIn keyword filters. |
| Exact market count | Ocean is stronger here. Counts every company in your market that fits, exactly and by segment, before you buy a single contact. | Searches and filters build a list. We found no exact market count by learned segment documented. |
| Tiers and exclusions | Ocean is stronger here. Sorts accounts into tiers and excludes by keyword, so reps start with the best fits. | We found no learned account tiers or keyword exclusions documented. |
| Contacts and data | ||
| Contacts | Verified emails and direct phones from a waterfall across 16+ data sources. Charged only when a contact is found, and exports are free. | 400M+ people profiles by its own count, with emails verified at export through BounceBan and charged only when a valid one is found. Independent testing of its accuracy claims is limited. |
| Company data | 85M+ companies, built from the open web. | 70M+ company profiles, refreshed every 30 days, by its own count. |
| Buying committee | Ocean is stronger here. Maps the roles to reach at each ranked account. | Finds people by role and title. We found no buying-committee mapping documented. |
| Workflow and pricing | ||
| CRM sync | Ocean is stronger here. Two-way with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive and Attio. Reads your deals to learn, then writes scores, segments and signals back. | CSV and API into HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive, plus Zapier, Make, n8n and Clay. Native CRM connectors are on its roadmap. |
| AI agents and MCP | MCP server, public API and a chat agent on the same data and lookalike engine. | A REST API on every plan and an MCP server for Cursor, Claude Desktop and Windsurf. |
| Inbound scoring | Ocean is stronger here. Scores inbound leads and website visitors against the same learned fit. | We found no inbound lead or visitor scoring documented. |
| Pricing | Two ways to buy: a flat-rate plan with credits included, or a custom plan built around your deals and credit volume. | Free with 100 credits a month, then $49 a month, with $2 to $4 per 1,000 credits above 30,000. |
AI Ark publishes a free plan and credit plans. Every plan has every feature, and only volume and seats differ.
A person profile is 0.5 credit and a verified email another 0.5, so a typical contact is about 1 credit. A mobile number is 5 credits and a company 0.1. You pay once per contact, and unused credits roll over up to 2x your monthly allowance.
A flat-rate plan with credits included, or a custom plan built around your deals.
Contacts are charged only when one is found. Exports are free.
See Ocean pricingAI Ark supplies the contacts. Ocean decides which companies they should come from.
Choose AI Ark if Use both ifFive steps. Most teams keep AI Ark for cheap verified contacts and add Ocean to pick the companies.
Find your plan, billing cycle and credit balance. Unused credits roll over up to 2x your monthly allowance.
Contacts you’ve exported are yours, so save them. Then run the same companies through Ocean to compare the ranking.
Connect HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive or Attio. Ocean reads your closed-won and closed-lost deals to learn what a good account looks like.
Ocean proposes segments and scores, with the reason on each. Correct anything that doesn’t match how you sell.
Scores, segments and matched signals go back to your CRM, or into Apollo, Instantly or Lemlist sequences.
Expect rules, filters and signals you set, because a model of your own deals is not what it leads with; ask for a test on your accounts.
Expect rules, filters and signals you set, because a model of your own deals is not what it leads with; ask for a test on your accounts.
Expect an accuracy claim, because vendors measure it on their own samples; test find and bounce rates on your own list.
Expect export and no-code connectors first, with two-way sync tied to the plan; confirm what is live on yours.
Expect a trust-center link or a request form, because reports sit behind a sales step; ask for the date and scope.
Ocean is better because it tells it like it is: contextual intelligence to find your next deal, with the reason on every account.
Start using OceanThe right alternative depends on what you use AI Ark for. Here’s what each is built for and where Ocean starts.
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ClayShort answers on what AI Ark costs, how its lookalikes work, how Ocean compares and how they work together.
AI Ark has a free plan with 100 credits a month and a $49 a month plan with 5,000 credits. Above 30,000 credits a month it costs $2 to $4 per 1,000 credits, and annual billing saves 20%. Every plan includes lookalike search and the API.
A person profile costs 0.5 credit, a verified email another 0.5, a mobile number 5 and a company 0.1. You pay once per contact, and re-exporting one you own is free.
Its lookalike search starts from seed companies and filters, and it doesn’t describe a model learned from your CRM deals. Ocean learns the ICP from your won and lost deals and shows the reason on each account.
Yes. AI Ark offers a REST API and an MCP server for Cursor, Claude Desktop and Windsurf. Ocean has an MCP server and a public API on the same data and lookalike engine.
Through CSV import, the API, Zapier, Make, n8n and Clay. Native CRM connectors are on its roadmap. Ocean has native two-way sync with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive and Attio.
Its FAQ describes encryption in transit and at rest and refers questions about SOC 2 and ISO 27001 to its sales team, without stating either. G2 lists six reviews, so reference checks and a security questionnaire matter more than usual.
Ocean reads what each company does from its own website, learns from your closed-won and closed-lost deals, and returns ranked matches with the reason on each one.
Connect your CRM so Ocean reads your won and lost deals, review the segments and scores it proposes, then pull contacts for the top accounts from AI Ark or from Ocean.
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