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Clearbit Review (2026)

Absorbed twice: into HubSpot in 2023, then into generic credits when the Breeze Intelligence name was retired in 2025.

3.4/ 5
Transparency4.4
Cost honesty3.2
Capability3.3
Independence1.0
Predictability4.4
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Entry price
$20/mo
Model
flat
Free tier
No
Self-serve
Yes
Ownership
HubSpot
Payments
No payment
Owned by HubSpot

Closed 2023-12-01 at $140.4m net of cash acquired, $146.8m total per HubSpot's FY2023 10-K. No longer separately purchasable.

Absorbed twice. Into HubSpot on 2023-12-01, thirty days after the announcement, and then again in June 2025 when Breeze Intelligence credits were converted into generic HubSpot Credits and the product name was retired. As of 2026-08-07 neither Clearbit nor Breeze Intelligence appears anywhere in HubSpot's product catalogue.

Clearbit in Depth

HubSpot bought Clearbit for $140.4 million net of cash acquired, closing on 1 December 2023, thirty days after the announcement. That figure is from HubSpot's own annual report and it is not what the pages ranking for the question say.

Read first-hand from the SEC filing on 2026-08-07. HubSpot's FY2023 Form 10-K, note 7: on 1 December 2023 it acquired all outstanding shares of APIHub, Inc., trading as Clearbit, for a total cash purchase price of $140.4 million net of cash acquired. Total consideration was $146.8 million, of which $127.1 million — 86.6% — was booked as goodwill and $28.9 million as acquired technology, amortised over five years.

Two competitor pages answer the same question with a round $150 million and with a wrong announcement month. Neither cites a filing. The number has been public in a searchable document since February 2024.

The product was absorbed twice

The first absorption is the one everyone recorded: Clearbit became Breeze Intelligence inside HubSpot, sold in credits at one credit per record enriched.

Breeze Intelligence packMonthly pricePer enriched record
100 credits$30$0.30
1,000 credits$150$0.15
10,000 credits$700$0.070

The second absorption is the one nobody seems to have noticed. Between 2 and 15 June 2025 those credits were converted into generic HubSpot Credits, and the product name went with them.

Verified by fetching HubSpot's product and services catalogue on 2026-08-07. In 1.5 megabytes of contractual text, Breeze Intelligence appears zero times and Clearbit appears zero times. HubSpot's own pricing URL for the product now redirects to a billing help article, and the documentation path for it no longer exists.

The conversion ratios were not uniform: 100 credits became 3,000, 1,000 became 15,000, and 10,000 became 125,000 — thirty times, fifteen times and twelve and a half times respectively.

Price them at HubSpot's published rate of a cent a credit and the arithmetic explains itself. The $30 pack converted to exactly $30 of credit and the $150 pack to exactly $150. The $700 pack converted to $1,250, or 1.79 times what it cost. The uneven ratios are what it takes to force three differently-priced packs onto one flat rail.

And then the meter stopped measuring the thing

Here is the part that matters to anyone holding those credits. HubSpot's documentation now states it plainly: data enrichment does not consume HubSpot Credits.

Enrichment is included with a subscription instead, from Starter upward across five hubs, with no published volume cap of any kind. So the marginal cost of an enriched record went from thirty cents to nothing, which is unambiguously good for a HubSpot customer.

It also means a customer who bought Breeze credits specifically to enrich records now holds credits that cannot be spent on enrichment. They buy agents and intent instead: ten credits to monitor a company for a month, fifty for a customer-agent resolution, a hundred for a prospecting-agent lead, a thousand for a piece of generated content.

Computed from published rates, not measured. At a cent a credit, monitoring a company for intent costs ten cents a month. A Data Hub Professional account's 5,000 included credits is 500 company-months of intent — or five pieces of generated content, from the same pool, which would spend the entire month's allowance.

This site cannot give Clearbit a cost per enriched record any more, and that absence is the honest entry. The fixed cost is a seat; the marginal cost is zero; the ceiling is unpublished.

Can you still buy Clearbit? A third kind of no

This site has now seen three ways a product disappears, and Clearbit is none of the first two.

PatternExampleWhat the domain does
Domain sold onAir.aiServes an unrelated company
Redirected into the acquirerDriftLands inside salesloft.com
Brochure with the purchase path removedClearbitStill serves its own brand, and sells nothing

clearbit.com returns 200 and still carries Clearbit's branding. But clearbit.com/pricing redirects to the homepage, and so do the about, press, customers and jobs paths. The logo API host no longer resolves in DNS at all. The API still answers requests with an authentication error telling you to sign up at clearbit.com, where there is no signup.

There is a signup page, and it offers exactly one button: sign up with HubSpot. A company that does not use HubSpot cannot create a Clearbit account. The release notes have had no entry since November 2025.

Clearbit's own announcement promised that it would remain available as a standalone product, and hedged the rest carefully: it hoped to support all customers for as long as was practical for the new combined business. Read against what happened, that sentence did a lot of work. The free platform, the visitor report, the TAM calculator, the Chrome extension and the Slack integration were all sunset on 30 April 2025, and the logo API followed in December — explicitly including users with active subscriptions.

HubSpot's own filings mark the shift in one word. The FY2023 report described a data asset that is expected to provide value to customers. The FY2025 report, same note, says provided.

Why HubSpot is buying this capability twice

Clearbit Reveal identified the company behind an anonymous visitor by matching the IP address. HubSpot's successor to it does the same thing: its intent features meter monitoring per company, filter by the country identified from a visitor's IP, and the only thing HubSpot calls visitor identification is recognising someone who has already sent you a chat message.

None of that is person-level de-anonymisation, and that is the whole point. In June 2026 HubSpot agreed to acquire Warmly, which does identify individuals. It is buying the capability a second time because the first purchase never had it.

That also explains an error this site made and corrected this week: our URL for Vector carried a Clearbit Reveal slug, as though Vector were its successor. Vector resolves people; Reveal resolved companies. They were never the same product.

Who ranks for this

Nine results for the pricing query, and every one has a commercial stake. Two are HubSpot's own. Six of the rest still describe Breeze Intelligence as a purchasable product with credit tiers, more than a year after those tiers were converted away.

One of the nine is Warmly, reviewing the product of the company that has agreed to buy it. There is no independent page on the first result set at all.

Setting Clearbit Up

There is no setup, because there is no separate purchase. Enrichment is a toggle inside HubSpot that a super admin turns on, and it is off by default.

  • Check which hub and edition you are on. Enrichment starts at Starter across five hubs and at Professional on Smart CRM and Revenue Hub.
  • Ask for a volume cap in writing. HubSpot removed the per-record meter and published nothing in its place, so nothing states what heavy use costs or triggers.
  • Ask for a match rate. HubSpot publishes none — no coverage figure, no dataset size, nothing. RB2B publishes 15 to 20% and Vector's help centre says 15 to 30%.
  • Decide about the data contribution. Business contact data from enrichment may be contributed back to the commercial dataset unless you use continuous enrichment only.
  • If you hold migrated Breeze credits, re-plan what they are for, because enrichment no longer consumes them.

Strengths and Weaknesses

What Works
  • Enrichment costs nothing per record now, against $0.07 to $0.30 under the Breeze Intelligence meter it replaced.
  • It is included from Starter across five hubs rather than sold as an add-on.
  • No credit balance to manage for the enrichment use case, and no expiry to plan around.
  • The credit migration was value-neutral at the two smaller tiers and generous at the largest, on the vendor's own published rate.
  • Enrichment is off by default and needs a super admin to enable, which is the right default for a data-writing feature.
What Does Not
  • You cannot create a Clearbit account without a HubSpot account.
  • The standalone free tools were withdrawn in 2025, the logo API explicitly including paying subscribers.
  • No match rate, coverage figure or dataset size is published anywhere for what replaced it.
  • Migrated credits cannot buy the thing they were bought for, since enrichment no longer consumes them.
  • No enrichment volume cap is published, so heavy users cannot establish a ceiling.
  • Six of nine ranking pages still sell it as a product whose name has not existed for over a year.

Clearbit Pricing

Entry price$20/moRead from the vendor's page on 2026-08-07
Billing modelflatPredictable as you grow
How you buySelf-serveBuy it today without talking to anyone
Free tierNoTrial only, or nothing at all

The $20 buys a Data Hub Starter seat, not a record count. HubSpot's documentation states plainly that data enrichment does not consume HubSpot Credits, and publishes no volume cap in its place, so there is no per-record price to compute. Credits are $0.010 each and are spent on agents and intent instead. Source: HubSpot Data Hub pricing page and product catalogue, checked 2026-08-07 (vendor-authored).

The cheapest published route to this data is a Data Hub Starter seat at $20 a month, currently promoted lower, and enrichment is included in it. HubSpot's credits are $0.010 each, or $0.009 on annual billing, and are spent on agents and intent rather than on enrichment.

Two things to know about the credit terms if you use the features that do consume them. Credits reset monthly and do not roll over. And once you have bought a capacity pack, exceeding your limit triggers an automatic upgrade to a higher tier for the remainder of your contract, which can only be cancelled at the end of the committed term.

The comparison this site would normally run cannot be run. Every other data vendor here has a cost per record: Lead411 at 4.1 cents, BookYourData at 39.6, UpLead from 37, Lusha from 53. Clearbit's is zero at the margin and its ceiling is unpublished, which is a better deal and a worse disclosure.

The Verdict

3.4

Bought for $140.4 million, absorbed into HubSpot, then absorbed a second time when the Breeze Intelligence name and its per-record meter were retired in 2025 — leaving enrichment free at the margin for HubSpot customers, unbuyable for everyone else, and unmeasurable by anyone, since no match rate, coverage figure or volume cap is published at all.

Buy it if
  • You already run HubSpot, where enrichment is included from Starter
  • You want enrichment without a credit balance to manage
  • Company-level intent is enough, since person-level identification is not here
  • You can accept a match rate the vendor does not publish
Skip it if
  • You do not use HubSpot, in which case you cannot open an account at all
  • You need person-level visitor identification, which this never did
  • You relied on the standalone API, free tools or logo service, all withdrawn
  • You need a published match rate or coverage figure to justify the purchase

Can it take a payment?

Full tracker
No payment

Books meetings or resolves the call and hands off. Taking money is out of scope for the product as sold.

Questions people actually ask

How much did Clearbit sell for?
$140.4 million in cash, net of cash acquired, per HubSpot's FY2023 Form 10-K. Total consideration was $146.8 million, of which $127.1 million was goodwill and $28.9 million acquired technology. The deal was announced on 1 November 2023 and closed on 1 December 2023. Competitor pages answering this question quote $150 million and the wrong announcement month; the filing has been public since February 2024.
Who owns Clearbit?
HubSpot, since 1 December 2023, when it acquired APIHub, Inc. trading as Clearbit. The brand still has a website but no pricing page and no independent signup — the only way to create an account is with a HubSpot account.
What happened to Breeze Intelligence?
It was retired. Between 2 and 15 June 2025 its credits were converted into generic HubSpot Credits, and the product name was withdrawn: as of 2026-08-07 neither Breeze Intelligence nor Clearbit appears anywhere in HubSpot's product and services catalogue, its pricing URL redirects to a billing help article, and its documentation path no longer exists. Enrichment continues inside HubSpot under no product name at all.
What is the free alternative to Clearbit?
For company-level enrichment, HubSpot's own free CRM tier does not include it, so there is no free path there. RB2B has a genuine free plan at 150 resolutions a month and publishes its match rate. Unify has a free-forever tier. Both do things Clearbit did; neither is a drop-in replacement for the API, which no longer accepts new customers.
Does Clearbit still have an API?
It still answers requests from existing key holders, returning an authentication error to everyone else that directs them to sign up at a page with no signup on it. No sunset date has been announced, and the release notes have had no entry since November 2025. HubSpot's original commitment was to support customers for as long as was practical, which is not a date.
How accurate is HubSpot's data enrichment?
HubSpot does not say. There is no published match rate, no coverage percentage and no dataset size, in the catalogue, the pricing pages or the knowledge base. Clearbit used to publish 89 million company records, 462 million contact records and a 30-day refresh cycle; those figures survive only on a site that no longer sells anything.

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