Explorium gives an AI agent B2B data to search. Ocean gives it the answer: which companies look like your best customers, ranked from your own won and lost deals.
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ExploriumGiving AI agents B2B data to build and enrich lists.
Explorium is a B2B data company built around AI agents. Its product, Vibe Prospecting, is a connector that lets Claude, ChatGPT and other agents search company and people data, pull signals and build lists. The same data is sold as an API called AgentSource.
Telling your agent which companies look like your best customers, the same way every run.
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 | Explorium |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | You or your agent write the criteria for each search. |
| The reason behind each account | Ocean is stronger here. Segment, score, tier and matched signals on every account and every export. | A match or no match against the query. |
| How it understands a company | Ocean is stronger here. Reads what each company does from its own website. | Firmographics, technographics, funding and workforce trends. |
| 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. | 800M+ contacts with verified emails and direct dials, by its own count. |
| Company data | 85M+ companies, built from the open web. | Explorium is stronger here. 150M+ companies, by its own count. |
| Buying signals | Up-to-date signals built in-house from each company’s own teams, leaders, hiring and website. | Buying signals across 18 categories, by its own count. |
| Workflow and pricing | ||
| AI assistant distribution | An MCP server and public API that AI assistants can use. | Explorium is stronger here. One-click install in the Claude and ChatGPT connector directories, and a plugin for Claude Code. |
| Same answer every run | Ocean is stronger here. The same inputs give the same ranking. | Results depend on the criteria each agent writes. |
| Pricing | Two ways to buy: a flat-rate plan with credits included, or a custom plan built around your deals and credit volume. | A free trial, then prepaid credit packages from $29.99. |
Explorium publishes its prices: a free trial, then prepaid credit packages.
Explorium is positioning itself as the data layer inside AI assistants, with its connector in the Claude and ChatGPT directories and a plugin in the Claude Code store. Its own comparison page rates Explorium 4.8 and Ocean 3.4 out of 5.
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 pricingBoth can feed an AI agent. They differ in whether you get data to search or an answer to use.
Choose Explorium if Ocean.io logo Already on Explorium?Five steps, working back from your credit balance.
Find your unused credits and when they expire. Explorium credits are prepaid.
Keep the criteria and lists your agents use today, so you can compare them with Ocean on the same accounts.
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 Explorium for. Here’s what each is built for and where Ocean starts.
ClayBuilt for GTM engineers who assemble custom enrichment and research workflows from many data sources.
Where Ocean starts Ocean starts from your closed-won deals and ranks the market, instead of a build.
LandbaseBuilt for Teams that want natural-language audience search and outreach from one AI platform.
Where Ocean starts Ocean learns from your own closed-won deals and leaves outreach to the tools you already use.
ApolloBuilt for Contacts and sequencing in one tool, with published self-serve plans.
Where Ocean starts Ocean starts from which accounts deserve outreach, then pushes contacts to Apollo, Instantly or Lemlist sequences.
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.
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 Explorium’s cost, what Vibe Prospecting is, how Ocean compares and what switching takes.
Explorium has a free trial with 100 credits, then prepaid packages from $29.99 for 500 credits up to $7,499.99 for 500,000. Enterprise is custom.
The trial is free, with 100 credits and no sales call. After that you buy credit packages.
Explorium’s connector for AI agents. It lets Claude, ChatGPT and other agents search company and people data and build lists.
Yes. Ocean offers an MCP server and a public API on the same data and lookalike engine, so an agent can use a ranked, market-wide account model.
It rates Explorium 4.8 and Ocean 3.4 out of 5. Those scores are Explorium’s own, and it sells the product being compared.
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.
Yes. Let Ocean rank which companies fit your best customers, and let your agent enrich from Explorium’s data from there.
Check your credits, save the criteria and lists your agents use, 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 agents.
