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Clari alternatives: when the answer is needed this week

Clari is a revenue platform for sales and revenue operations teams, best known for sales forecasting and pipeline inspection. It suits sales and revenue leaders who run a weekly forecast call and want one agreed number. If the question on your desk is why a number moved, and your data arrives as exports, there is a lighter way to answer it.

What Clari is built for

Clari is a revenue platform for sales and revenue operations teams, best known for sales forecasting and pipeline inspection. It captures activity signals such as email, calendar and calls alongside CRM data, then uses AI to project the forecast, flag deals at risk and track changes week on week. Clari merged with Salesloft in December 2025, and its products now sit alongside Salesloft's sales engagement tools.

  • Sales and revenue leaders who run a weekly forecast call and want one agreed number
  • B2B companies with a CRM-based sales process and a revenue operations team
  • Organisations wanting deal-risk signals from rep activity without extra manual CRM entry

Where it is strong

  • Purpose-built forecasting workflow, with forecasts customisable by bookings, renewals, region or segment
  • Automatic capture of email, calendar and call activity reduces reliance on reps updating the CRM by hand
  • AI Forecast Agent grounds projections in historical deal data and live activity and flags at-risk deals

In figures

  • Clari was founded in January 2013 by Andy Byrne and Venkat Rangan and is based in Sunnyvale, California. 1
  • Clari raised $225 million in Series F funding in January 2022 at a $2.6 billion valuation. 1
  • Clari captures revenue signals from email, calendar and calls to reduce manual CRM data entry. 1
  • Clari and Salesloft completed their merger on 3 December 2025, with Steve Cox as chief executive of the combined company. 2
  • At completion the combined company said it served more than 4,000 organisations. 2
  • Clari Forecast's AI Forecast Agent analyses historical deal data and live rep activity to flag at-risk deals. 3

Why some teams look for an alternative

None of these is a fault in Clari. They are situations where a team needs something narrower, sooner or lighter than what it is built to do.

The situationHow Covirage approaches it
It is specialised for sales forecasting and pipelineCovirage explains invoiced revenue and cost: price, volume, mix, new and lost, from the ledger
Value depends on a well-maintained CRM and activity captureCovirage reads the ledger and sales exports that already exist, and the CRM export if you have one
Pricing is quoted, with contracts in the tens of thousands a yearThree tiers on one sheet, with set up included
Buyers may want the post-merger roadmap to settleCovirage does one job and exports everything, so there is little to unwind

Clari and Covirage at a glance

ClariCovirage
Built forSales and revenue leaders who run a weekly forecast call and want one agreed number; B2B companies with a CRM-based sales process and a revenue operations teamThe person waiting for the answer: one desk, then the next
How it gets dataConnects to the CRM and ingests activity signals (email, calendar, calls) into its own data hub, rather than querying a general-purpose data warehouse. It is scoped to revenue and pipeline data rather than to arbitrary business data.Files and sheets now; scheduled delivery by API, S3, Azure, SFTP or email on Business; connections built with your team on Enterprise
Needs before the first answerA CRM holding opportunities and pipeline data; Connection of email, calendar and call systems for activity capture; Revenue operations or CRM administrators to configure forecast hierarchies and roll-outThe exports your systems already produce. No warehouse, no modelling language, no data team
Typical setupNot publishedMinutes on a file you already export; set up for you within a week
AIClari Forecast includes an AI Forecast Agent that analyses historical deal data and live rep activity to project outcomes, validate commit numbers, flag at-risk deals and suggest next actions. The platform also covers conversation intelligence and, since the merger, Salesloft's engagement workflows; it works on revenue data it has captured rather than answering open-ended questions across a company's wider data.The AI model chooses a measure and writes the explanation; our tools do the arithmetic and check every total
Published pricingList pricing is not published; clari.com pricing links now go to a Salesloft 'talk to sales' page. Clari sells stackable modules on custom quotes. Vendr's buyer data (291 purchases, updated February 2026) shows a median of $76,000 a year, with a range from $19,065 to $415,001.Three tiers on one sheet, shared in a conversation
Getting data outClari's Export API lets customers export forecast submissions into a data warehouse such as Snowflake or a BI tool; an API token is enabled through a support request for a named person in the organisation. Underlying opportunity data remains in the customer's CRM.Export every table as a workbook or JSON at any time

Where Clari fits best

  • Sales and revenue leaders who run a weekly forecast call and want one agreed number
  • B2B companies with a CRM-based sales process and a revenue operations team
  • Organisations wanting deal-risk signals from rep activity without extra manual CRM entry

Where Covirage fits best

  • The question is where invoiced revenue came from, not whether the pipeline will close
  • Finance and sales need the same reconciled number
  • Your CRM is not complete enough to forecast from
  • You want every figure computed by code and reconciled to the ledger

Many teams use both: Clari for what it is built for, and Covirage for the recurring question a desk would otherwise hand to an analyst.

Questions about Clari alternatives

Does Covirage forecast the pipeline like Clari?

No. Clari forecasts from the CRM and rep activity. Covirage explains revenue that has already been invoiced, splitting the change into price, volume, mix, new and lost, and checks it against the ledger. Many teams use a pipeline tool and a revenue bridge together.

Is Covirage a replacement for Clari?

Sometimes, and often not. Clari is built for sales and revenue leaders who run a weekly forecast call and want one agreed number. Covirage answers one desk's questions from the files that desk already exports, set up for you in a week. Many teams keep Clari for what it is built for and use Covirage for the question it would otherwise leave to an analyst.

Does Covirage connect to the same systems?

It starts with the exports those systems already produce: files and sheets now, scheduled delivery by API, S3, Azure, SFTP or email on Business, and connections built with your team on Enterprise. We never hold credentials to your systems.

Does the AI in Covirage calculate the figures?

No. The AI model chooses which measure answers the question and writes the explanation. Our tools do the arithmetic, and every total is checked before it is shown. If a question needs a measure we do not have, the assistant says so.

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Sources

Facts about other products on this page were checked on 24 September 2026 from the pages below. Product names are trademarks of their owners, used here only to identify them. Covirage is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.

  1. Clari: Business Breakdown & Founding Story - Contrary Research
  2. Clari and Salesloft Complete Merger, Appoint Steve Cox as CEO - Salesloft newsroom
  3. Sales forecasting software (Clari Forecast) - Salesloft
  4. Clari pricing - Vendr Marketplace
  5. Clari API: All You Need To Know - Salesloft Community (formerly Clari Community)
  6. See it live - Salesloft (redirect target of clari.com/pricing)
  7. Salesloft - Wikipedia