Cornersight vs Unify
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
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The short answer
Both sides assessedCornersight compared with Unify
Unify detects company-level signals, researches accounts and sends sequences in one platform, starting free and at $20 per seat, with its strongest triggers on sales-quoted tiers. Cornersight does one thing, LinkedIn engagement, and hands the leads to the sequencer you already use. Choose Unify for the whole motion from one vendor; choose Cornersight when the signal you want is who is engaging on LinkedIn and you already have a sending tool.
Unify compared with Cornersight
Cornersight goes deep on one signal, LinkedIn engagement, re-syncing tracked sources daily and exposing leads through webhooks, an API, an MCP server and a native HeyReach push from $99 a month, but it stops at delivery and expects you to bring a sequencer. Unify detects, researches, and sends in one system, starting free and at $20 per seat. Pick Unify if you want the whole motion from one vendor and your signals are firmographic events; pick Cornersight if your buyers are active on LinkedIn and you want the engagers in your own stack.
Choose Cornersight if
Outbound teams and GTM agencies selling into markets where buyers are active on LinkedIn, who want a steady list of people engaging with competitors, industry voices or relevant topics delivered into their own sequencer or CRM, and technical operators who want those leads available to scripts or AI agents through an API or MCP.
Choose Unify if
Fast-growing technology companies with a real outbound motion who want signal detection, AI research, and sending from one vendor instead of three, and small teams who want to start free or at $20 a seat on job-change-triggered outbound before committing to the full signal platform.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Cornersight | Unify |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Signals | Signals |
| Starting price | $99 per month (Starter, 15,000 credits) (free trial) | $0 (Free), then $20 per seat per month (Base) |
| Pricing model | Self-serve monthly plans metered in credits, where one credit is one unique person per monitor, with a free trial on every plan and spend caps per source, per search, per team and for the Engagement Agent. | Per-seat subscription with a monthly credit allowance per seat, plus a custom-priced annual Business tier that holds the intent and automation features. |
| Free plan | No | Free includes limited credits, AI outbound, the full 1.1 billion people and 65 million company data layer, multichannel sequencing, standard language models, and up to 3 seats. |
| Free trial | Free trial on every plan; length not published. Trial teams get up to 2 keyword searches of 250 leads each and 1,000 Agent checks | 14 days of full access on Pro, no credit card required |
| Best for | Outbound teams and GTM agencies selling into markets where buyers are active on LinkedIn, who want a steady list of people engaging with competitors, industry voices or relevant topics delivered into their own sequencer or CRM, and technical operators who want those leads available to scripts or AI agents through an API or MCP. | Fast-growing technology companies with a real outbound motion who want signal detection, AI research, and sending from one vendor instead of three, and small teams who want to start free or at $20 a seat on job-change-triggered outbound before committing to the full signal platform. |
| Setup time | Minutes to the first source: sign in with Google, paste a LinkedIn profile, company page or post URL, or enter keywords, and leads appear progressively during the first sync. Tuning ICP filters and caps takes a few days of watching what comes in. | A day to be sending on the self-serve tiers: create an account, connect a mailbox, import or build a list, and launch a sequence. Business deployments take longer because the website tag, product event feed, and read-write CRM mapping all have to be configured and validated. |
| Learning curve | Low. Most of the value comes from choosing sources whose audience matches your ICP, and the Engagement Agent can set those up from a list of topics. | Moderate. Sequences are familiar to anyone who has used an outbound tool, but Plays require thinking in triggers rather than lists, and teams coming from static list building tend to build Plays that fire far too broadly at first. |
| Platforms | Web application, REST API, MCP server, Command line interface | Web application, Email sending infrastructure, Managed mailboxes on Business, Dialer in beta on Business |
| Compliance | GDPR obligations apply to enriched personal data, No publicly advertised SOC 2 attestation | GDPR obligations apply to enriched contact data and outbound sending, Enterprise security documentation available through the Business sales process |
| Founded | 2026 | 2023 |
| Headquarters | Not published | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Ownership | Bootstrapped | Venture-backed |
Strengths and limitations
Cornersight
Strengths
- Engagement-based lists reach people who are active on LinkedIn right now, which a filter on recent posters misses because most users react far more than they post.
- No LinkedIn account connection, so there is no session to hand over and no restriction risk on the buyer's own profile.
- A credit model tied to unique people per source, with free fetching and free failed lookups, keeps the bill tied to prospects rather than activity.
- Daily re-syncs capture engagement that arrives days after a post goes live, not just a snapshot at the moment of tracking.
Limitations
- LinkedIn only; buyers who are quiet there, or active elsewhere, produce no signal.
- No job-change, funding, hiring or website-visitor signals, so it covers one slice of the intent landscape.
- Launched in January 2026 and rebuilt in May, so the track record is months long and the product is still changing quickly.
- No published SOC 2, SSO or data-residency options, which rules it out for formal enterprise procurement.
Unify
Strengths
- Signal, research, and send in one system, so the context that triggered the play is still attached when the message goes out instead of being lost across three vendors.
- The free plan includes the full 1.1 billion people and 65 million company data layer, which is far more generous than the usual gated trial.
- Job change signals at $20 per seat per month undercut the dedicated job-change vendors by roughly two orders of magnitude.
- Research agents that browse the live web produce first touches grounded in something specific, which is the difference between triggered outbound and templated outbound.
Limitations
- The headline capabilities, website intent, product signals, and automatic signal triggering, are all on the sales-quoted annual Business tier, which undercuts the self-serve story.
- CRM sync is read-only until Business, so a self-serve buyer cannot make Unify write back to Salesforce or HubSpot.
- Self-serve tiers use standard language models rather than the advanced tier, so trial output quality is not the output quality a Business customer sees.
- Per-seat pricing plus per-seat credits means the bill scales with headcount even when signal volume does not.
Pricing compared
Cornersight
Self-serve monthly plans metered in credits, where one credit is one unique person per monitor, with a free trial on every plan and spend caps per source, per search, per team and for the Engagement Agent.
- Starter$99
- Growth$169
- Pro$329
- Scale$599
Cornersight is good value for a team whose buyers live on LinkedIn. $99 a month buys 15,000 unique, enriched engagers, with every delivery route included on every plan, and the per-person credit definition means heavy repeat engagement does not inflate the bill. Against a manual workflow of exporting post engagers and enriching them separately, it pays for itself in hours saved within the first week. The limits are scope and maturity rather than price: one network, no company-level events, and a product less than a year old.
Unify
Per-seat subscription with a monthly credit allowance per seat, plus a custom-priced annual Business tier that holds the intent and automation features.
- Free$0
- Base$20
- Pro$60
- BusinessCustom
Judged on the self-serve tiers alone, Unify is good value and honest about it: $20 a seat for job change signals, waterfall enrichment, AI copywriting, and multichannel sequencing undercuts buying a signal tool and a sequencer separately, and the free plan hands you the full data layer rather than a crippled demo. Judged against the marketing, it is a trap for the unwary, because the website intent and automatic signal triggering that make Unify look like a signal platform are annual Business features with no published price. The right way to buy it is to treat Base or Pro as a complete product for triggered outbound off job changes and funding, and to treat Business as a separate decision you make after that motion has produced pipeline.
Editorial verdict on each
Cornersight
Best ValueCornersight is the tool to buy if your buyers are active on LinkedIn and you want the people engaging with your competitors, your category voices or your own content as enriched leads every morning. It does one signal thoroughly, re-syncs daily so late engagement is not lost, charges per unique person rather than per interaction, never touches your LinkedIn account, and delivers into HeyReach, a CRM or an AI agent on every plan from $99 a month. Its limits are clear: one network, no company-level events, and a product less than a year old with no compliance paperwork. With Trigify closing, it is the most direct replacement in this category for a LinkedIn engagement motion, and the free trial makes testing it on a handful of competitor profiles a low-risk afternoon.
Read the full Cornersight profileUnify
MomentumUnify is the most complete answer in this category to the question of what happens after the signal fires, and for once the answer is not a dashboard. Plays run detection, enrichment, agent research, qualification, and sending in one system, and the free plan hands you the full data layer rather than a crippled sample. Buy Base at $20 a seat if you want a cheap, honest job-change motion with AI-written first touches, and treat that as a complete product. The caution is the tier boundary: website intent, product usage signals, automatic signal triggering, read-write CRM sync, and the better language models all sit behind an annual Business contract with no published price, which means the product most people think they are evaluating is not the one on the self-serve card. Evaluate what you can buy, prove the motion, then have the Business conversation from a position of evidence.
Read the full Unify profileCornersight profile last reviewed 2026-10-11; Unify last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.
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Frequently asked questions
6 questionsWhat is the difference between Cornersight and Unify?
Unify detects company-level signals, researches accounts and sends sequences in one platform, starting free and at $20 per seat, with its strongest triggers on sales-quoted tiers. Cornersight does one thing, LinkedIn engagement, and hands the leads to the sequencer you already use. Choose Unify for the whole motion from one vendor; choose Cornersight when the signal you want is who is engaging on LinkedIn and you already have a sending tool.
Is Cornersight or Unify cheaper?
Cornersight starts at $99 per month (Starter, 15,000 credits) (free trial). Unify starts at $0 (Free), then $20 per seat per month (Base). The billing models differ, so the entry price is rarely the whole cost. Cornersight pricing model: Self-serve monthly plans metered in credits, where one credit is one unique person per monitor, with a free trial on every plan and spend caps per source, per search, per team and for the Engagement Agent. Unify pricing model: Per-seat subscription with a monthly credit allowance per seat, plus a custom-priced annual Business tier that holds the intent and automation features.
Does Cornersight or Unify have a free plan?
Cornersight has no free plan. Trial terms: Free trial on every plan; length not published. Trial teams get up to 2 keyword searches of 250 leads each and 1,000 Agent checks. Unify has a free plan. Free includes limited credits, AI outbound, the full 1.1 billion people and 65 million company data layer, multichannel sequencing, standard language models, and up to 3 seats. Trial terms: 14 days of full access on Pro, no credit card required.
Who should choose Cornersight?
Outbound teams and GTM agencies selling into markets where buyers are active on LinkedIn, who want a steady list of people engaging with competitors, industry voices or relevant topics delivered into their own sequencer or CRM, and technical operators who want those leads available to scripts or AI agents through an API or MCP.
Who should choose Unify?
Fast-growing technology companies with a real outbound motion who want signal detection, AI research, and sending from one vendor instead of three, and small teams who want to start free or at $20 a seat on job-change-triggered outbound before committing to the full signal platform.
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