eCore vs. Competitors
Not all B2B data is created equal. Discover how eCore delivers superior accuracy, flexibility, and value compared to industry leaders like ZoomInfo, LeadSpace, and Apollo.
Why Choose eCore?
Clean, real-time, human-verified contact data you can trust with proven results
🎯 Pay Only for Valid, Verified Emails
Unlike competitors who charge for invalid data, we absorb the cost of unusable contacts. You only pay for what works. No rollover penalties. No long-term contracts.
eCore vs ZoomInfo
Beyond Big Databases: Quality That Drives Real Results
Everyone in B2B knows ZoomInfo. It's a household name with massive databases and equally massive price tags. But here's what most teams discover: Size doesn't guarantee accuracy, flexibility, or cost-effectiveness.
ZoomInfo offers size and speed, but eCore focuses on something that drives actual results: Clean, real-time, human-verified contact data you can trust.
⚙️ What ZoomInfo Does Well
- Fast
- Popular and widely integrated
- Good for top-of-funnel automation
- Easy to plug into outreach tools
If your goal is to blast thousands of contacts, it gets the job done, sometimes.
💥 Where ZoomInfo Falls Short
Here's what we often hear from teams using ZoomInfo:
"Bounce rates were way higher than we expected."
"We used 500 credits and still had to manually fix the data."
"We hit our view limit halfway through the month."
"Our credits didn't roll over — we lost what we paid for."
"The pricing keeps increasing, but the quality stays the same."
ZoomInfo charges per seat and per contact. And unless you're on one of their larger plans:
- Your monthly views and exports are capped
- Credits expire if you don't use them
- The cost per credit is high, especially when the match rate is low
It feels less like a solution and more like a vending machine with rules.
At eCore, we flipped the model. We don't believe in charging you more for data you can't trust. We believe in giving you clean, current, valid data and options that actually make sense.
🔄 Flexible Options
- Subscription model: Get high-volume access to millions of records at a fraction of the cost per credit, with no per-seat limits, with credit roll over
- Data-as-a-Service: No subscription, no unused credits, just custom data projects delivered for your needs
- No waste: You use what you pay for. No rollover penalties. No lock-ins.
⚙️ Smarter Enrichment Engine
- Real-time, multi-source enrichment (not stale data from months ago)
- Waterfall logic: If one source fails, we try another, and another, until we get the best match
- Human QA layer: Optional human review to check for job changes, errors, and duplicates
📈 Real Results
- 2×–3× higher match rates than ZoomInfo
- Lower bounce rates
- More booked meetings
- Happier SDRs
🧠 Real Example
A client switched from ZoomInfo to eCore after realizing that over 35% of their ZoomInfo contacts were outdated, and they were still being charged for every lookup.
With eCore, they:
- • Doubled their enrichment success rate
- • Got updated contact info within 24 hours
- • Saved 60% on data costs by switching to our subscription model
💬 Final Thought
ZoomInfo may be the loudest name in the room. But eCore was built for teams who want quiet confidence, clean data, smart delivery, and flexible pricing.
Because the goal is to get results.
eCore vs LeadSpace
When Match Rate and Accuracy Matter Most
If you're an enterprise team looking to enrich high volumes of contacts, you've probably looked at LeadSpace. They promise intelligence-driven enrichment and a powerful platform for RevOps. But when you're dealing with large datasets, thousands or even millions of contacts, accuracy and match rate are everything. And that's where LeadSpace simply can't compete with eCore.
Let's start with what we've seen in real-world enrichment projects. LeadSpace delivers an average match rate of around 30%. That means for every 1,000 contacts you run through their enrichment engine, only 300 come back enriched.
If you're running outreach at scale or powering your ABM strategy, that's a huge gap. Even worse? Some of the matches are incorrect, the right company, but the wrong contact. Or an outdated email tied to an old job title.
For enterprise teams, that's not just noise, that's risk. Risk of wasted spend. Risk of bounce rates. Risk of bad signals in your funnel.
At eCore, our clients see a consistent match rate between 70–98%, even on complex or niche datasets. That's not a marketing claim. That's real, verified performance, and so far, we've outperformed every other provider our clients have tested us against.
Why? Because we focus on accuracy first.
Smarter Matching Logic
Our enrichment tool doesn't just plug into a single database. It runs a multi-step, real-time enrichment flow that:
- Uses multiple trusted sources, layered in a waterfall
- Cross-validates between signals (job titles, domains, roles, locations)
- Filters out outdated or low-confidence records
- Applies optional human QA to review edge cases and catch false matches
We don't just return any result, we return the right one.
🛠 Enterprise-Ready, Built for Volume
If you're a large team enriching data at scale, you need:
- High match rates
- Clean, structured fields
- Fast turnaround
- Flexible delivery (via API, CSV, SFTP, etc.)
That's what we do. You can choose:
- A subscription model with high-volume credits at a low per-record cost
- Or a Data-as-a-Service model, where we handle enrichment for you, no tools, no training, just results
No seat limits. No expiring credits. No platform learning curve. Just high-quality data delivered how and when you need it.
The Bottom Line
If you're enriching 10,000+ records a month, you can't afford a tool that only works 30% of the time. You need results you can trust, not just numbers to feed into dashboards.
That's why RevOps, GTM, and enterprise data teams choose eCore.
We're not just another enrichment tool. We're the only one delivering 80–98% match rates with enterprise-level accuracy and flexibility.
eCore vs Clay
Clean, Verified Contact Data Without the Credit Confusion
Clay is known for being a powerful no-code tool. It lets you stack together data sources, validations, enrichment steps, and more, all in one beautiful, flexible interface.
But here's what most people realize after a few weeks: It's not as simple, or as cost-effective, as it looks.
If you're using Clay for email enrichment and validation, you might be paying 10+ credits… just to find out the email is invalid.
Clay charges per step in your flow. That means:
- You pay 1+ credit per data source used
- You pay 1 extra credit for validation (like Zerobounce)
- You pay all of that even if the email turns out to be invalid
So if you run a contact through 8 data providers to get an email and validate it, you're paying:
- 16 credits for enrichment
- 8 credits for validation
- That's 24 credits for one contact, even if you get zero usable email address
Multiply that across 1,000 leads, and it adds up fast. Especially when many of those enrichment tools return invalid or outdated emails.
And here's the kicker: you still have to build and manage the Clay workflow yourself, or hire someone who knows how.
Take a look at actual stats from providers commonly used in Clay flows:
| Provider | Valid Email % | Invalid % | Total Emails Generated |
|---|---|---|---|
| LeadMagic | 78.6% | 8.9% | 112 |
| Find my email | 57.1% | 34.7% | 49 |
| Dropcontact | 4.2% | 38.5% | 143 |
| Prospeo | 33.3% | 58.3% | 12 |
| Hunter | 40.0% | 50.0% | 10 |
| Datagma | 87.5% | 6.3% | 16 |
| Wisa | 7.2% | 79.8% | 307 |
| Total | 25.6% | 52.4% | 649 |
With these numbers, you're paying more and getting less, and still spending valuable time managing the flow.
At eCore, we do things differently:
1. You Only Pay for Valid, Verified Emails
- If we can't verify an email, you don't pay for it
- We absorb the cost of invalid data, not you
- No wasting credits, no guesswork
2. Enrichment Is Done in the Background
- No building flows, no trial-and-error steps
- No engineer required
- You tell us what you need, and we deliver a ready-to-use enriched dataset
- Our real-time waterfall enrichment engine handles everything behind the scenes
3. Match Rate + Accuracy That Blows the Rest Away
- Our enrichment match rate is 80–98%, not 4–30%
- We use multiple sources in a smart waterfall, then apply human QA when needed
- We verify job titles, company, email, phone, and LinkedIn, all in one pass
Final Thought
Clay gives you the tools, but you still have to build the machine. And you pay for every turn of the gears, even when it doesn't work.
eCore gives you the result, clean, accurate, verified contact data, with no extra steps, no wasted budget, and no engineering needed.
If you care about real performance (not just pretty interfaces), choose the data partner that gets it right the first time.
eCore vs Apollo.io
Because Hitting "Send" Doesn't Mean You Reached the Right Person
Apollo is everywhere. It's affordable, it's easy to use, and it claims to have 275M+ contacts. For small sales teams trying to scale outreach fast, it feels like a no-brainer.
But when your emails bounce, your prospects don't match their job title, and your CRM fills up with garbage, cheap starts to feel very expensive.
Here's why eCore is a smarter choice with the same scale, better accuracy, and none of the surprises.
Apollo gives you access to hundreds of millions of records but many are:
- Outdated
- Unverified
- Mismatched on job title or company
- Recycled from old datasets
This means you're:
- Wasting time chasing bad leads
- Getting blocked or marked as spam
- Stuffing your CRM with contacts who no longer work there
And here's the kicker: Apollo charges per seat, and per export. Need more flexibility? You'll need to upgrade (again).
eCore's self-service platform gives you:
- 300M+ contact records
- Verified emails, verified phone numbers, job-level intelligence
- Job-change detection so you're not emailing someone who left in 2021
- Flexible pricing, competitive with Apollo but with more options:
- Subscription: Get high-volume access at a lower cost-per-contact
- Done-for-you: Let us deliver curated, ready-to-use enriched data
- No charges for invalid emails (ever)
You get the scale of Apollo, but with real support, better data, and no bloat.
The Big Difference? We Actually Care If Your Data Works
Apollo gives you a tool. eCore gives you results.
You can:
- Log into our self-serve platform and find what you need
- Or use our Waterfall Enrichment service and have it done for you
- Choose automation, or add human QA for extra precision
We even absorb the cost of invalid emails; you only pay for verified, usable data.
Real Customer Example
A B2B SaaS company moved from Apollo to eCore after seeing a 40% bounce rate with Apollo exports.
After switching:
- • Bounce rate dropped to under 2%
- • Reply rate doubled
- • Lead quality dramatically improved
Their SDR team said:
"We went from mass emailing everyone… to finally emailing the right people."
Final Thought
Apollo may win on marketing. But when your campaigns are on the line, and your brand is at stake, you need data that actually delivers.
eCore = Apollo's scale + ZoomInfo's power
But with verified emails, better targeting, and support that actually answers.
eCore Services vs. Competitors
Complete Feature Comparison
| Feature / Capability | eCore Services | ZoomInfo | LeadSpace | Apollo.io |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contact Database Size | 300M+ contacts (100M+ mobile) | 235M+ contacts | 100M+ contacts | 275M+ contacts |
| Mobile Phone Coverage | 100M+ mobile numbers | Moderate | Limited | Moderate |
| Email Deliverability | 90%+ deliverability | Mixed | 30% match rate | 40–60% |
| Invalid Email Policy | No charge for invalid | Charged | Charged | Charged |
| Pricing Model | Flexible: sub or project | Rigid, expensive | Enterprise-level | Low entry, costly add-ons |
| Cost per Mobile Contact | Lower than others | High | High | Not mobile-focused |
| Data Accuracy | Human + AI verified | 30–60% | 30% | Inconsistent |
| Real-Time Enrichment | Yes (platform + Batch + API) | Mostly batch | Batch + predictive | Limited (in beta) |
| Waterfall Enrichment | Yes + Human QA | No | Somewhat | Yes (in beta) |
| Job-Change Tracking | Yes + Human QA | Limited | Limited | Yes (Refresh) |
| CRM Cleansing / Monitoring | Yes, monthly | None | None | Basic tools |
| Use Case Flexibility | Self-serve + custom | Fixed subscriptions | Enrichment focus | Self-serve |
| Support & Service | High-touch & done-for-you | Minimal | Mid-touch | Limited |
| Match Rate (Enterprise) | 70–98% | 30–60% | 30% | 40–60% |
| Update Frequency | Monthly or custom | Quarterly or less | Not stated | Scheduled |
| Delivery Options | API, SFTP, CSV, CRM, dashboard | API, CSV, CRM | CRM + CSV | CSV, API, CRM |
| One-Stop Solution | Yes (platform + service) | No | No | Self-serve only |
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