NEWJoin 2M+ software buyers|Get Weekly Insights, Trends & Expert PicksSubscribe free →

Spotsaas logo
Honest comparison · every claim sourced
SpotsaasBuyer Intent
VS
ZoomInfo

You can see the deals you lost. The ones you were never in are harder.

Your pipeline only contains buyers who found you. Every week, companies in your category run head-to-heads and read alternatives lists — and the ones you’re absent from never become deals, never become losses, and never show up anywhere. ZoomInfo tells you who’s in-market. We tell you which rooms you’re not in.

  • Who ran a head-to-head against you — and which competitor they opened next
  • Who’s reading alternatives to a product like yours — the comparisons you never appear in
  • Every page, in order, with the score — and the function that produced it, published further down

See your in-market accounts — free

Tell us your category. We’ll show you which companies are researching it on Spotsaas right now.

No credit card· Nothing to install· GDPR-ready
OR
Prefer to talk? Book a demo
Revenue teams already reading their category
ClickUp logoClickUpNinjaOne logoNinjaOneHivedesk logoHivedeskGlowtouch logoGlowtouch

How much of the story you get

Every vendor here tracks accounts.The difference is how much they tell you.Most stop at “this company is interested.” We go all the way to what it read, and when.

1

A topic is warming somewhere

Somebody, somewhere, is reading about your category. No company attached.

Topic
2

A named account is warming

You know it’s Acme, and you know the number went up. You don’t know what Acme did.

Where ZoomInfo stops
3

Which topics it warmed on

Closer. Still a bag of topics with no order, no sequence, and no competitor named.

Topic + account
4

The account, and every page it read — in order

The head-to-head it ran, which product it opened next, the alternatives list you weren’t on, and the score, with the function attached.

Spotsaas

Three signals, with the sequence attached

ZoomInfo sees comparisons too — that isn’t the difference. The difference is what reaches you: a band, or the order it happened in, with the maths attached.

Signal 01Example

Who ran a head-to-head against you

And which competitor they opened next. It happens on our pages, so we watch it happen.

ZoomInfoVSApollo
Then opened a third vendor’s pricing
You weren’t in this comparison
Signal 02Example

Who’s reading alternatives to a product like yours

The lists buyers read when they’re switching — and whether your name is on them.

“Alternatives to ZoomInfo
1Vendor A2Vendor B3Vendor CYou. Not on the list.
A decision you never entered
Signal 03Example

Every page, in order

The whole trail, sequenced. The score and the function behind it are further down — both published.

Day 1Browsed a category
Day 3Ran a head-to-head
Day 5Read reviews
Day 6Viewed product pricing
Four days. One week. In order.

Keep ZoomInfo. Add the signal it was never built to catch.

At $10k–$30k/yr we are not a rip-and-replace for a platform you already pay for, and we’d be lying if we pitched it that way. Here’s the seam.

ZoomInfo logoKeep ZoomInfo for

The contact database, streaming intent that beats a weekly batch, and the best negotiating leverage on this page. If you want intent and someone to call in one seat, that's ZoomInfo.

+
Add Spotsaas for

What the account looked at, rather than a ranked guess at who to phone. Their contacts are inferred from role and location; our trail is observed.

ZoomInfo gives you who to call. We give you what to say — the comparison they ran and the list you weren't on. Neither replaces the other.

We were burning 30% of our outbound on companies that weren't actually in-market. Spotsaas Buyer Intent changed that in the first week. Our connect rate went up immediately.

Vik ChadhaVik ChadhaFounder, Hivedesk & Glowtouch Technologies

Six questions. We answer all six.

Six questions. Every answer links to where it came from — their documentation, or Vendr’s real contract data. Nothing here is sourced to a comparison blog, including ours.

01

Where the data comes from

Spotsaas
First-party

One property, watched end to end — 2 million buyers research software on Spotsaas every year, across 419 categories.

ZoomInfo logoZoomInfo
Blend of first- and third-party

Their intent engine runs on “a network of 210 million IP to Org Pairings … all sourced monthly from over 90% of accessible devices across the U.S.” Topic coverage is “thousands” — ZoomInfo no longer publishes a count (the last figure they published was 4,000).

02

What you can see

Spotsaas
The named account and every page it read, in order

the head-to-head comparisons, the alternatives lists, the pricing views. 317,000+ comparisons have run on Spotsaas.

ZoomInfo logoZoomInfo
Account-level intent, paired with contacts from ZoomInfo's own database

In their words, “the specific individuals at that company you should actually call” — chosen by rules like seniority and metro-area proximity to the signal, not by observing who researched.

03

Is the scoring published?

Spotsaas
Published in full

Every weight, the decay curve, the thresholds — printed on this page. Recompute any score by hand.

ZoomInfo logoZoomInfo
Partial

Their API docs define Signal Score as “the level of a company's interest in a topic based on how recent content consumption compare to an historical baseline” — the same surge-over-baseline shape as Bombora. No weights, and no published scale.

04

Pixel on your site?

Spotsaas
No installation required on your end

The research happens on our property, and we share the data with you in real time.

ZoomInfo logoZoomInfo
Optional

WebSights, “powered by ZoomInfo's proprietary Visitor Resolution Service,” enabled “by adding the ZoomInfo Script” to your site. Person-level identification (Buyer ID) is a further tier on top of it.

05

Contract

Spotsaas
Annual, and we won't lock you into multi-year to earn a discount.
ZoomInfo logoZoomInfo
1–3 years

Multi-year terms earn lower annual pricing.

Where the data comes from

Every intent vendor says “our data.” Here’s whose it really is.

Spotsaas
One source. Ours.

Buyers comparing software on Spotsaas

Opening your profile. Running a head-to-head against your competitor. Reading the alternatives list. It happens on our property, so we watch it happen. Ours end to end: our data, our source, our published method.

Spotsaas Buyer Intent
ZoomInfo logoZoomInfo
First-party — your own site, via the ZoomInfo scriptTheirs
Third-party intent networkLicensed
210M IP-to-Org pairings (US)Licensed
ZoomInfo

ZoomInfo describes its intent as first-party, third-party “and beyond” — a continuum, not a fixed set of streams. We are not going to draw them a tidier diagram than they draw themselves.

Every intent vendor scores accounts. We’re the only one that shows you the function.

Here is the entire model. The weight on each kind of research, how it fades with time, and the line where warm becomes hot. Decide for yourself whether a pricing view is worth10 times a category browse.

What each action is worth

Ran a head-to-head comparison
30
Watched a product video
20
Viewed product pricing
20
Read reviews
15
Viewed a product listing
5
Browsed a category
2

How it fades

≤ 7 days×1.0
≤ 14 days×0.8
≤ 21 days×0.6
≤ 30 days×0.4
Older×0.2
35Warm
70Hot
100Cap
One week at Acme CorporationExample

Healthcare · 5,000+ employees · US. Four moves in seven days, every one of them about your category. You saw none of it.

Day 1Browsed your category
Day 3Ran a head-to-head — you weren't in it
Day 5Read an alternatives list — you weren't on it
Day 6Opened your competitor's pricing
Four moves in seven days, all of them in your category. ZoomInfo reports this week as one number. You get the week.

What each of us is for

We’d rather you heard this from us than found it out after signing. If the left-hand column is what you need, buy ZoomInfo — we’ll tell you that on the call too.

Where we pick up

The comparison you lost

The head-to-head comparison where a buyer weighed you against a competitor — which one they opened, and which one they opened next.

The lists you're missing from

Every alternatives list a buyer reads in your category, and whether your name is on it. Being absent is a decision someone made without you.

The order, not a number

Browsed, compared, read, priced — sequenced and timestamped. A score says an account is warm. The sequence says what to open with.

A score you can check by hand

Every weight, the decay curve, the thresholds — published on this page. You never take our word for a number.

ZoomInfo is strongest at

The fastest signal in the category

ZoomInfo's own blog put Streaming Intent at “real-time signals every 10 minutes”, against “weekly refresh” for their third-party stream. They have since quietly removed the 10-minute figure — today they only say “within minutes”. Either way it beats a weekly batch, and it is the one axis where ZoomInfo leads outright.

Nobody else has the contact database

Whatever you think of intent, ZoomInfo hands you someone to call the moment an account surges. No pure-play intent vendor — us included — has anything sitting behind the signal like it.

Intent plus contacts in one seat

For a team that wants one tool and one login, that's the pragmatic pick, and pretending otherwise would be silly.

The most negotiable contract here

1,563 purchases in Vendr's dataset with an average 21.81% discount — the biggest on this page. There's real room to negotiate, and the data to do it with.

What we see, and what we don’t

Every vendor here has a scope. Most make you find it out on the call.

We see Spotsaas, and we see it completely

Every comparison, every alternatives list, every pricing view in your category — because it happens on our property. Research on other sites isn't ours to show you.

Corporate networks resolve; phones often don't

We identify the company behind a research session on a corporate network. Someone reading from home or on 5G frequently can't be resolved to their employer.

Quiet doesn't mean absent

An account we never saw may still be evaluating you elsewhere. Our signal tells you who was here — not who wasn't looking.

Accounts, not individuals

We tell you which company was evaluating you and exactly what it read. Nobody in this market hands you the named human who did the research — and anyone who says they do is worth a hard question.

It lands where you already work

A signal you have to log in to read isn’t a signal. Accounts arrive in your CRM, your reps’ queue and your ad audiences.

Into your CRM

Accounts land as records, not a dashboard you have to remember to open.

HubSpot logoHubSpotSalesforce logoSalesforcePipedrive logoPipedrive

Into your reps' day

The account surfaces where they already are, while it's still warm.

Slack logoSlackMS Teams logoMS TeamsEmail

Into your sequences

In-market accounts drop straight into the queue that's already running.

Apollo logoApolloOutreach logoOutreachSalesloft logoSalesloft

Into your ad audiences

Spend on the accounts comparing you this week, not last quarter's list.

LinkedIn Ads logoLinkedIn AdsMeta logoMetaGoogle Ads logoGoogle Ads

The comparison that happened this morning is worth five times what it’ll be worth next month.

That isn’t a sales line — it’s the decay curve we publish above. A signal counts full for seven days and fades from there. The evaluations you miss this week don’t wait for you. They finish.

×1.0≤ 7 days
×0.8≤ 14 days
×0.6≤ 21 days
×0.4≤ 30 days
×0.2Older

What happens after you fill that in

No demo gate, no discovery call before you see anything. You get a real list first and decide afterwards.

01

Tell us your category

One field. Work email, so we know which company to run it for.

02

We run your category

We pull the accounts that researched it on Spotsaas — what they compared, what they read, in order.

03

You get the accounts, free

A real list from your category, not a demo environment. Read it, check the scores, decide if the signal is worth anything to you.

04

Then we talk, or we don't

If it's useful, $10k–$30k/yr and it runs alongside what you already have. If it isn't, you keep the list.

Compliant, and nothing to install

Most intent tools start with a tag on your site. This one doesn’t start with anything.

GDPR compliant

We resolve to accounts, not people. No buyer names, emails or phone numbers enter your systems from us.

CCPA compliant

Same architecture, same answer: organisation-level signals, no personal data changing hands.

Nothing to install

No tag, no pixel, no script on your site. There is no code for your security team to review.

The method is published

Every weight and threshold is on this page. Your team can audit a score without a call or an NDA.

Questions people ask

It gives you contacts at the account, which is more than we offer — we don't hand you contacts at all. What it can't tell you is which of them did the research, or what the account looked at. You get a list and a guess. We give you the trail instead: what the account compared, and where you were missing from the list.

We're not going to say that, because we have no evidence for it and neither does anyone else repeating it — that claim traces back to pages written by companies selling ZoomInfo alternatives. What we can say factually: intent is an add-on module to a database product. Draw your own conclusions about focus.

Carefully, is the answer. ZoomInfo's $33,500 Vendr median is platform-wide across 1,563 purchases — intent is an add-on on top of it. So it isn't directly comparable to our $10k–$30k, and any page that lines those two numbers up side by side is misleading you. Get a quote for the intent module specifically.

Under five minutes, from research to signal. But their streaming intent is fast too, and speed is the one axis where ZoomInfo legitimately beats most of this category. What arrives is what differs: their signal is an account plus a ranked guess at who to call. Ours is an account plus what it did.

See the comparisons you’re missing from

Tell us your category. We’ll send the accounts researching it on Spotsaas — what they compared, what they read, in order. Free, no credit card, nothing to install.

  • Keep ZoomInfo. This sits alongside it.
  • $10k–$30k/yr, published — no quote-gating.
  • Every score checkable by hand.
Spotsaas Buyer Intent

See your in-market accounts — free

Which companies are researching your category on Spotsaas right now.

No credit card· Nothing to install· GDPR-ready
OR
Prefer to talk? Book a demo