Bardeen vs Floqer
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentBardeen compared with Floqer
Both sit in the build-your-own GTM automation space and both expect configuration work rather than shipping a finished motion. Bardeen's distinctive asset is browser-based scraping of arbitrary sites, which is where its lists come from. The choice comes down to whether your lead sources are web pages that need extracting or structured data that needs orchestrating.
Choose Bardeen if
Sales, revenue operations, and growth people whose prospects are identifiable on public web pages rather than in contact databases, and who are willing to build sourcing and qualification workflows themselves in exchange for a very low price.
Choose Floqer if
Small go-to-market teams with someone technical enough to enjoy building workflows, who want enrichment, research agents, and signal-triggered automation without per-seat pricing and without committing to a packaged AI SDR's opinion about how outbound should work.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Bardeen | Floqer |
|---|---|---|
| Category | AI SDR | AI SDR |
| Starting price | $0 with 100 free credits a month, then $10 per month (Basic) (free plan available) | $0 (Free), then $49 per month for 2,000 credits (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Credit-metered monthly subscription with a recurring free allowance; credits are consumed by automation and enrichment activity. | Credit-metered subscription with unlimited seats on every plan. Free and self-serve tiers are self-serve; Enterprise is quoted. |
| Free plan | 100 credits per month, recurring rather than one-off, which supports genuinely light ongoing use at no cost. | 100 credits with core platform access and unlimited team members, enough to build and run a first workflow. |
| Free trial | No fixed trial period; the recurring free credit allowance serves as the evaluation path | The free plan is the trial: 100 credits, no card, no commitment |
| Best for | Sales, revenue operations, and growth people whose prospects are identifiable on public web pages rather than in contact databases, and who are willing to build sourcing and qualification workflows themselves in exchange for a very low price. | Small go-to-market teams with someone technical enough to enjoy building workflows, who want enrichment, research agents, and signal-triggered automation without per-seat pricing and without committing to a packaged AI SDR's opinion about how outbound should work. |
| Setup time | An hour for a prebuilt scraper, a day or more for a custom source with enrichment and qualification wired in. The variable is how unusual your lead source is, not the platform. | A day to a first useful workflow if someone technical is driving; considerably longer if not. There is no sending setup or warmup because the platform does not send, which removes the usual two-week ramp. |
| Learning curve | Moderate. The scraper builder is no-code but not effortless, and identifying fields on a messy page takes practice. AI qualification is the easy part. Expect a week before the workflows are producing lists you trust without checking. | The steepest in this batch, by design. Tables, enrichment waterfalls, agent prompts, signal conditions, and workflow branches are all concepts you have to hold at once. The reward is that the resulting motion is yours rather than the vendor's opinion of outbound. |
| Platforms | Web application, Browser-based extraction | Web application, Chrome extension, APIs, Slack notifications |
| Compliance | Enterprise adds VPC deployment, SCIM and SAML, and audit logs, No SOC 2 status prominently published on the pricing page | SOC 2 Type 2 on Enterprise, GDPR on Enterprise, SSO, SAML, and RBAC on Enterprise |
| Founded | 2020 | 2024 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | Canada, with roots in Halifax and Toronto |
| Ownership | Venture-backed | Venture-backed |
Strengths and limitations
Bardeen
Strengths
- Scraping arbitrary websites gives access to lead sources that database-reselling competitors structurally cannot reach, which is a more durable advantage than better AI copy.
- The free tier with 100 recurring monthly credits is genuinely usable and permanent rather than a time-limited trial.
- At $10 to $50 a month it is the lowest-cost entry point in this category by a wide margin.
- AI qualification from a plain-language ideal customer description is the right level of AI for this job, applied to triage rather than to prose.
Limitations
- It does not send. No email, no sequences, no warmup, no deliverability, no reply handling, so it is at most half an AI SDR.
- Scrapers are maintenance: target sites change layout and extraction breaks, which is a recurring small obligation rather than a one-time setup.
- Nothing works until you build it, so teams without someone who enjoys configuring automations will get very little from any tier.
- Basic at $10 carries no more credits than the free tier, which makes the pricing ladder confusing at the bottom.
Floqer
Strengths
- Unlimited seats on every plan including free, which inverts the per-seat pricing that makes most GTM tooling expensive for small teams.
- Credits roll over for twelve months instead of expiring at each reset, so lumpy or seasonal usage is not penalized.
- Every action shows its exact credit cost before running, which is the most transparent metering design among the tools reviewed here.
- AI web research agents genuinely answer questions no contact database can, including repository analysis, event list building, and extraction from filings.
Limitations
- It is assembly required: there is no packaged agent, so buying it without someone who enjoys building workflows means paying for unused credits.
- No sending infrastructure, no warmup, and no mailbox provisioning, so an outbound motion still needs a separate campaign platform.
- Published positioning targets enterprise and mid-market revenue teams, so small-business needs are not the design center even though the pricing suits them.
- The free plan's 100 credits are one-time, which is enough to test mechanics and not enough to test outcomes.
Pricing compared
Bardeen
Credit-metered monthly subscription with a recurring free allowance; credits are consumed by automation and enrichment activity.
- Free$0
- Basic$10
- Premium$50
- EnterpriseCustom
Bardeen is the cheapest useful thing in this category and it earns that position honestly by doing less. Fifty dollars a month for scraping, AI qualification, and validated enrichment is far below what an equivalent Clay configuration costs, and the free tier is generous enough to prove a lead source before spending anything. The value depends entirely on one question: do your prospects appear on public web pages? If yes, Bardeen reaches lists nobody else has and the price is excellent. If no, you are paying for a scraper against sources that do not contain your buyers, and a conventional contact database is both cheaper and more reliable.
Floqer
Credit-metered subscription with unlimited seats on every plan. Free and self-serve tiers are self-serve; Enterprise is quoted.
- Free$0
- Self-serve$49 to $999
- EnterpriseCustom
Floqer is the best credit-per-dollar story in this batch for a team willing to build, largely because of two structural choices: unlimited seats and twelve-month credit rollover. A five-person team on the $49 plan pays less than one seat costs at most competitors, and unused capacity is not confiscated at month end. The value evaporates if nobody builds anything, which is the honest risk with any assembly-required platform, and the total cost of an actual outbound motion still includes a sending tool Floqer does not sell. Judge it as infrastructure priced generously, not as a packaged agent priced cheaply.
Editorial verdict on each
Bardeen
Bardeen is the cheapest genuinely useful tool in this category, and it gets there by being clear about doing only half the job. Scraping arbitrary websites is a real structural advantage over the many tools that resell the same contact databases, because a list nobody else has beats a better-written opener every time. The free tier with 100 recurring credits lets you prove a lead source before spending anything, and $50 a month for scraping, AI qualification, and validated enrichment is well under what an equivalent Clay setup would cost. The conditions are strict. Your prospects have to appear on public web pages, you have to be willing to build and occasionally repair scrapers, and you have to accept that scraping third-party sites is a legal question you own. And nothing sends: budget a sequencer, domains, and mailboxes on top. Within those conditions it is excellent value; outside them it is a scraper aimed at pages your buyers do not appear on.
Read the full Bardeen profileFloqer
Floqer is the anti-AI-SDR in an AI SDR category: no digital rep persona, no autonomy claims, no sending engine, just the enrichment, research agents, signals, and workflows that a competent team can assemble into whatever motion its product actually needs. Two pricing decisions make it exceptional for small businesses. Seats are unlimited on every plan, including free, so team size never inflates the bill, and credits roll over for twelve months instead of being confiscated at each reset. The AI web research agents are the real technical differentiator, answering questions that no contact database holds. The risk is equally clear. This is assembly required, sold to enterprise and mid-market teams, from a company incorporated in late 2024 with eight people, and it will not send a single email for you. Buy it if someone on your team will enjoy building with it. If nobody will, buy something finished instead.
Read the full Floqer profileBardeen profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Floqer last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.