Common Room ranks the accounts that show activity, and it now belongs to Zoom. Ocean ranks your whole market from your own won and lost deals, and stays independent.
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Common RoomStacking community, product and web signals to prioritize accounts.
Common Room unifies first-party data from your CRM, product and marketing with outside signals such as community, social and web activity, then ranks accounts and people. Zoom announced its acquisition in July 2026, and it’s now sold as Common Room by Zoom.
Ranking your whole market by fit, including accounts that haven’t shown a signal yet.
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 green check marks the stronger side.
| Topic | Ocean.io logo Ocean | Common Room |
|---|---|---|
| Finding the right accounts | ||
| Lookalikes from your closed-won deals | Ocean is stronger here. Core of the product. Segments and models learned from your won and lost CRM deals. | Signal-based prioritization of the accounts showing activity. |
| Accounts that haven’t raised a hand | Ocean is stronger here. Ranks the whole market by fit, including accounts that haven’t shown a signal yet. | Ranks accounts and people once signals show up. |
| The reason behind each account | Ocean is stronger here. Segment, score, tier and matched signals on every account and every export. | The signals behind a score, such as community and product activity. |
| How it understands a company | Ocean is stronger here. Reads what each company does from its own website. | Community, product, web and social signals, plus firmographics. |
| Contacts and data | ||
| Contacts | Ocean is stronger here. Verified emails and direct phones from a waterfall across 16+ data sources. Charged only when a contact is found, and exports are free. | A contact directory with waterfall enrichment, capped by the contacts on your plan. |
| Company data | 85M+ companies, built from the open web. | Built around the accounts and people already active in your product and community. |
| Buying signals | Up-to-date signals built in-house from each company’s own teams, leaders, hiring and website. | Signals from community, product, web and social activity. |
| Workflow and pricing | ||
| Ownership | Ocean is stronger here. Independent, and works with any CRM and stack. | Part of Zoom since July 2026, sold alone or with Zoom Revenue Accelerator. |
| AI agents and MCP | MCP server, public API and a chat agent on the same data and lookalike engine. | RoomieAI agents for research and outreach, and an MCP server on its plans. |
| Pricing | Ocean is stronger here. Two ways to buy: a flat-rate plan with credits included, or a custom plan built around your deals and credit volume. | Essential is $2,500 a month billed annually with 5 seats. Buyers report a median of $27,000 a year. |
Reviewers rate it highly for surfacing the right accounts. The complaints are about price and who it suits.
4.5 out of 5
Common Room’s average on G2
The rating is from G2. The themes come from review write-ups.
Common Room publishes its entry plan and quotes the rest. Buyers report a $27,000 median across 77 purchases.
Median Common Room contract
$27,000 a year
Half of buyers pay less than this and half pay more, across 77 purchases.
Zoom announced it would acquire Common Room on July 2, 2026, and now sells it as Common Room by Zoom, alone or with Zoom Revenue Accelerator. Ask what changes for your contract and roadmap.
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 pricingThey’re built for different jobs, and many teams run both.
Choose Common Room if Ocean.io logo Use both ifFive steps, working back from your renewal date.
Find the renewal date and notice period in your Common Room agreement, and ask what changes now that Zoom owns it. Everything else works back from those dates.
Export your account scores, signal lists and the segments your team uses, so you can compare them with Ocean.
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.
The right alternative depends on what you use Common Room for. Here’s what each is built for and where Ocean starts.
ZoomInfoBuilt for Contact and direct-dial volume, with third-party intent, in one contract.
Where Ocean starts Ocean ranks accounts from your closed-won deals instead of selling a database.
DemandbaseBuilt for Enterprise ABM programs that combine account data, intent and advertising.
Where Ocean starts Ocean ranks accounts from your own wins and sells no intent or advertising.
6senseBuilt for Enterprise teams that predict in-market accounts and run ads, sales alerts and AI email around them.
Where Ocean starts Ocean shows which accounts look like your wins and why, without a multi-year enterprise contract.
KeyplayBuilt for Teams that want ICP scores they can inspect and backtest, now part of Inflection.
Where Ocean starts Ocean learns from your won and lost deals, covers any industry and finds the contacts too.
LeadspaceBuilt for Teams that keep GTM profiles, signals, routing and scoring accurate in one data cloud.
Where Ocean starts Ocean ranks your market from your own won and lost deals, with the reason on each score.
Short answers on Common Room’s cost, the Zoom acquisition, how Ocean compares and what switching takes.
Essential is $2,500 a month billed annually. Buyers report a median of $27,000 a year across 77 purchases Vendr tracked, with contracts ranging from $9,946 to $84,640.
Yes. Zoom announced the acquisition on July 2, 2026, and now sells Common Room as Common Room by Zoom.
Zoom sells it standalone or as an add-on to Zoom Revenue Accelerator. Ask for your contract terms in writing.
Yes, on its plans. Ocean has an MCP server and a public API on the same data and lookalike engine.
Yes. Keep Common Room for the accounts showing activity, and use Ocean to rank the rest of your market by fit.
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.
Ocean uses up-to-date signals built in-house from each company’s own teams, leaders, hiring and website, not a third-party intent feed.
Check your renewal date and what Zoom’s ownership changes, export your scores and signal lists, connect your CRM so Ocean reads your won and lost deals, review the segments and scores Ocean proposes, then send scored accounts to your CRM or sequencer.
