Comparison
How Zinta compares, including where it loses
Everyone in this category publishes a comparison page where they win every row. Here is ours, with the rows we lose left in. Prices are the published list prices as of August 2026 and will have moved; check them.
These are four different products
The most useful thing to know before comparing anything is that "prospecting tool" covers four jobs that barely overlap. Picking the wrong category costs more than picking the wrong vendor inside one.
| Category | Entry price | What you get | Best when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact databasesApollo, ZoomInfo | From $49 per user, per month | Millions of contact records, searchable by firmographicsFilters, not events. You get who fits, not who is ready. | Volume outbound where you already know exactly who to target |
| Enrichment platformsClay | From $185 per month; credits from roughly $0.05 each | A row you supply, filled in with data from many sourcesSome. You build the workflow that finds it. | A RevOps team that wants to compose its own pipeline |
| AI SDRsRegie, and others | Typically four to five figures a year | An agent that finds prospects and sends the sequence for youYes, and it acts on it without you reading it first | A sales team with someone to own deliverability and reply handling |
| Zinta Connectthis | From $19 per month | A small number of researched companies, each with a dated reason and a linkIt is the only thing hunted for. No signal, no row. | A founder who will read every one and send the email themselves |
Four questions worth asking any of them
Including us. These are the ones where the answers actually differ, and all four can be checked in an afternoon with a trial.
Can I check the reason it gave me?
Every company carries a source URL fetched during that run, and the page at it contains the fact stated. If it could not be fetched, the company is not in your list.
A reason you cannot check is a claim, and claims from a language model are how this whole category lost people’s trust.
What happens when there is nothing good this week?
You are told, in writing, that nothing cleared the bar and why. You are not given a padded list to make the week look productive.
This is the row nobody else fills in. Every tool paid per record has a reason to return records.
Who sends the email?
You do, from your own mailbox. Zinta writes the opener and stops. It has no ability to send.
Your domain reputation stays yours, you are the sender of record for GDPR and CAN-SPAM, and a draft we got wrong can never reach a stranger without you reading it.
Who pays for the AI?
On Connect, you do — it runs inside the Claude, Cursor or Codex subscription you already have, through MCP. That is why it costs $19 rather than $79.
Most tools bundle model cost into the seat price, so you pay for it whether you use it or not.
When to buy something else
Four cases where Zinta is the wrong purchase. We would rather say so now than take a month of your money and find out together.
You need hundreds of contacts a month
Buy a database. Apollo will give you more records for $49 than Zinta will ever produce, and there is no shame in that being what you need.
Your buyers leave no public trace
Local trades, small independent retail, most owner-run businesses. We have tested this: the hunt returns nothing, honestly, twice in a row. Zinta needs something published to point at, and if your customers do not publish, it cannot work for you.
You want it to send and follow up on its own
That is an AI SDR, and it is a genuinely different product with genuinely different risks. Zinta will never do it.
You sell to consumers
Wrong tool entirely. Zinta only hunts companies.
What we are actually claiming
One thing, and it is narrow: every company Zinta gives you has a dated, published reason to hear from you this month, and a link so you can check it yourself. When there is no such company, you get told that instead of a list.
That is not a better mousetrap, it is a different bet — that a handful of companies you can verify beats a thousand you cannot. If you disagree with the bet, one of the tools above is a better buy, and the table is there to help you make it.