treg gives your coding agent thousands of data APIs at provider cost. Ocean tells it which companies to spend those calls on, ranked from your own won and lost deals.
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tregOne token for thousands of third-party data APIs, built for coding agents.
treg is an open-source gateway its makers call OpenRouter for agent tools. An agent such as Claude Code or Codex gets one token and can call data providers like Apollo, Hunter and People Data Labs, billed from a prepaid balance at the provider’s own rate. It relaunched in October 2026 for GTM work.
Telling your agent which companies to spend those calls on, from your own deals.
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 | treg |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | A lookalike-company search from one seed company. The provider behind it isn’t named. |
| Where the ICP comes from | Ocean is stronger here. Learned automatically from your won and lost deals. | You describe the buyer in a prompt. |
| The reason behind each account | Ocean is stronger here. Segment, score, tier and matched signals on every account and every export. | Only what the agent writes. |
| 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. | Resells providers such as Hunter, Apollo and People Data Labs at provider cost. |
| Buying signals | Up-to-date signals built in-house from each company’s own teams, leaders, hiring and website. | Hiring, funding, tech and job-change signals through partners. |
| Data accountability | Ocean is stronger here. One accountable data source and scoring model. | Passes provider responses through unchanged. |
| Workflow and pricing | ||
| Agent distribution | MCP server, public API and a chat agent on the same data and lookalike engine. | treg is stronger here. A plugin, CLI, skills and an MCP server for Claude Code and Codex. |
| Security | Ocean is stronger here. SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliant. | Disclosed a breach on October 23, 2026 and told users to treat stored API keys as exposed. |
| 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. | Pay per call from a prepaid balance, with no subscription. |
treg publishes its prices, and they’re per call. Cost scales with how much your agent explores.
treg relaunched in October 2026 for GTM work, and disclosed a breach on October 23. It said an attacker reached production and that stored API keys should be treated as exposed.
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 pricingYour agent can call thousands of APIs. It still needs to know who to call them on.
Choose treg if Ocean.io logo Use both ifFive steps. Most teams keep treg for data and call Ocean from the same agent.
Find your prepaid balance, and review which provider keys you stored in treg.
Keep the prompts and skills your agent runs, 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 treg for. Here’s what each is built for and where Ocean starts.
ExaBuilt for Developers and GTM engineers who build their own list-building agents on a search API.
Where Ocean starts Ocean gives revenue teams a maintained ICP model and a ranked market, with no engineer.
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.
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.
ExploriumBuilt for Teams and AI agents that need a B2B data foundation for go-to-market.
Where Ocean starts Ocean ships the ranking itself, learned from your deals, instead of a data layer you build on.
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.
Short answers on treg’s cost, what it does, how Ocean compares and what to ask before relying on it.
There’s no subscription. You top up a prepaid balance and each call is billed at the provider’s own rate with no markup. New teams get $1.00 free.
An open-source gateway for agent tools. One token lets an agent such as Claude Code call thousands of third-party data APIs.
treg disclosed a breach on October 23, 2026. It said an attacker reached production and that all stored API keys should be treated as exposed.
No. You describe the buyer in a prompt. Ocean learns the ICP from your won and lost deals.
Yes. Use treg for contact data and signals, and Ocean to decide which accounts the agent spends calls on.
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 let your agent work from the ranked accounts through Ocean’s MCP server or API.
