Published August 2026 · 6 min read · Measured by Vincent Wesley Couey · citations verified 16 August 2026
Last reviewed: August 18, 2026 Next review due: with the next citation capture

Clay in AI answers: 3,985 citations across 15 Lucreya pages

Clay's measured answer-layer presence on Lucreya

Clay is cited through 15 separate Lucreya pages. The table below is the full list, taken from the 16 August 2026 capture, with the change since the 4 August capture twelve days earlier.

PageCitations (90d)Change in 12 days
Best AI sales tools1,737+24.2%
Best AI CRM1,242new in capture
Best AI SDR tools327+25.3%
Best cold email software193new in capture
Clay alternatives174new in capture
Clay vs Apollo vs ZoomInfo59new in capture
Profound pricing58new in capture
Best AI note takers for sales43new in capture
AI GTM stack cost40+135.3%
Best AI lead gen and enrichment tools30new in capture
Clay pricing27new in capture
Apollo vs ZoomInfo27new in capture
Autonomous AI SDR agents15no change
Clay vs Clearbit7new in capture
Clay vs Apollo6new in capture
Total3,985n/a

Clay is cited mostly through roundups, not through its own comparison pages

Clay's five dedicated pages here (alternatives, pricing, vs Apollo, vs Clearbit and the three-way comparison) total 273 citations between them. The single AI sales tools roundup carries 1,737 on its own.

That distribution is worth noting because it is the opposite of what most vendors expect. A page named after the product feels like the page that should be found. In practice an assistant answering "what should I use for enrichment" reaches for a multi-vendor comparison, because a page about one product cannot rank that product against others.

Clay's position against the vendors it is compared with here

Clay is listed at usage-based pricing from $185 per month on our sales tools roundup, read from Clay's own pricing page. The comparisons that mention it most often set it against Apollo and ZoomInfo on data coverage and cost per verified contact, and against Clearbit on enrichment depth.

Those three comparisons are separate pages, and each carries its own citation count in the table above. A vendor's answer-layer presence is the sum of the surfaces that mention it, not the performance of any single page.

How these citations were counted

Citations come from the AI Performance report in Bing Webmaster Tools, which counts occasions when Microsoft Copilot named a page as a source. Microsoft documents the report on the Bing Webmaster blog. Figures are read from the reporting API rather than the on-screen summary, because the summary rounds and the API returns exact integers.

Every figure on this page is page-level, covering the 90 days ending 15 August 2026, captured on 16 August 2026. Page-level counts are not interchangeable with the property-level totals published on our network citation card; property-level figures run structurally higher over the same window and the two should never be compared directly.

This measurement covers Lucreya only. It says nothing about Clay's visibility in AI answers generally, and it is not a ranking of Clay against any vendor outside the pages listed above.

Questions about Clay's answer-layer numbers

How many times was Clay cited in AI answers?
Clay appears on 15 Lucreya pages that were cited 3,985 times by Microsoft Copilot in the 90 days ending 15 August 2026. This counts Lucreya pages only and is not a measure of Clay's visibility in AI answers generally.
Which page cites Clay most?
The Best AI sales tools roundup, at 1,737 citations in the 90 days to 15 August 2026, up 24.2% from the capture twelve days earlier.
How are these citations measured?
From the AI Performance report in Bing Webmaster Tools, read through its reporting API rather than the on-screen summary, because the summary rounds and the API returns exact integers. Figures are page-level and cover a 90-day trailing window.

Corrections

If any detail here is wrong, including Clay's pricing or how the product is described on the pages listed, tell us and we will correct it. That offer stands whether or not there is any commercial relationship, and corrections are made on the merits.

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