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Aligned vs Common Room

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Aligned

Sales Enablement

Digital sales rooms with a free tier and a genuinely usable 29 USD per seat plan

From
Free
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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Common Room

Sales Enablement

Customer and community intelligence that stitches scattered person identities into one go-to-market signal feed

From
$2500/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Only Aligned has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
  • Each has a real cost: Aligned bidirectional CRM sync is restricted to the unpublished Enterprise tier, so the single capability that makes room engagement useful to forecasting cannot be bought at a published price and requires a sales negotiation.; Common Room the entry plan is 2,500 US dollars a month billed annually, a floor of 30,000 a year, which excludes exactly the early-stage community-led companies whose signal is strongest.
  • They diverge on capability: Aligned covers Digital sales rooms, Common Room covers Person360 identity resolution.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Aligned and Common Room actually diverge.

Attributes where Aligned and Common Room differ
AttributeAlignedCommon Room
Starting priceFree$2500/month
Pricing modelPer user per monthPer month by contact volume
Free tierYesNo
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, Chrome extension

Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated), category (Sales Enablement).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Aligned

  • Digital sales rooms
  • Mutual action plans
  • Room analytics
  • Content management
  • Room templates
  • AI Deal Builder and Content Generator
  • AI Client Assist
  • Secured room sharing

Only in Common Room

  • Person360 identity resolution
  • Community source ingestion
  • Signal alerts
  • Account and contact scoring
  • Website deanonymisation
  • RoomieAI research
  • Prospector
  • Intent data

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Aligned

  • A two-person founding sales team that wants shared deal rooms and engagement visibility without an annual contract or implementation projectnot Common Room
  • An enterprise seller running a nine-stakeholder evaluation who needs one link that holds the security review, pricing and mutual action plannot Common Room
  • A sales manager trying to identify silent deals by seeing which buying committees have stopped opening contentnot Common Room
  • A customer-facing team standardising handover from sales to onboarding by reusing the same room after the deal closesnot Common Room

Common Room

  • A developer tools company whose GitHub stars and Slack community contain buyers nobody has ever contacted because the handles do not match any CRM recordnot Aligned
  • A sales team that wants to be alerted when a former champion changes job to a target account, with the previous relationship attachednot Aligned
  • A marketing function trying to prove that community participation precedes pipeline, which requires joining community identity to opportunity datanot Aligned
  • A product-led business wanting to route free users who match the enterprise buyer profile to sellers based on both product usage and public activitynot Aligned

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Aligned

  • Bidirectional CRM sync is restricted to the unpublished Enterprise tier, so the single capability that makes room engagement useful to forecasting cannot be bought at a published price and requires a sales negotiation.
  • Digital sales rooms only work if buyers use them, and in conservative industries where procurement insists on email and attachments the room becomes an extra place the seller has to maintain rather than a replacement for anything.
  • The free Starter tier is capped at four rooms per seat, which a working account executive exhausts within a month, so it functions as an evaluation mechanism rather than a usable free plan.
  • SSO, multiple team workspaces and custom domain all sit on Enterprise, meaning any organisation with a standard security review will be pushed off the published pricing regardless of team size.
  • The category is crowded and partly being absorbed into adjacent products, with proposal tools, CRMs and content platforms all adding room-style buyer portals, so a standalone tool carries real risk of becoming a feature you already pay for elsewhere.

Common Room

  • The entry plan is 2,500 US dollars a month billed annually, a floor of 30,000 a year, which excludes exactly the early-stage community-led companies whose signal is strongest.
  • RoomieAI and Prospector run on credit allocations rather than unlimited use, so heavy research months exhaust the budget and the workflow stops until the next cycle or an upgrade.
  • Contact ceilings of 100,000 on Essential are consumed quickly by any sizeable public community, and the overage conversation is an upgrade to a quoted tier rather than an incremental charge.
  • Identity resolution is probabilistic, so wrong merges happen, and a seller who contacts the wrong person with context from someone else does more damage than no alert at all.
  • Signal volume overwhelms teams without a defined qualification rule; most implementations that fail do so because everything became an alert and sellers stopped reading them within a month.

Pricing, plan by plan

Aligned

Free
  • StarterFree
    • 4 rooms per seat
    • Room analytics
    • Personal domain
  • Basic$29/month
    • Unlimited rooms and templates
    • Task manager
    • 1TB content storage
  • Pro$49/month
    • Everything in Basic
    • AI Client Assist
    • AI Content Generator

Common Room

$2500/month
  • Essential$2500/month
    • 5 seats
    • 100,000 contacts
    • Person360 enrichment and identity resolution
  • Advanced$undefined/year
    • 15 seats
    • 250,000 contacts
    • RoomieAI research, 7,500 credits
  • Enterprise$undefined/year
    • 30 seats
    • 750,000 contacts
    • RoomieAI research, 10,000 credits

Which should you pick?

Choose Aligned if

  • You need digital sales rooms.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on Web, API.
  • You also want mutual action plans.
Aligned review

Choose Common Room if

  • You need person360 identity resolution.
  • You work on Web, Chrome extension.
  • You also want community source ingestion.
Common Room review

Questions people ask

Is Aligned or Common Room better?
Neither clearly leads. Aligned starts at Free and Common Room at $2500/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Aligned or Common Room?
Aligned has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Aligned and $2500/month for Common Room.
Does Aligned or Common Room run on more platforms?
Aligned runs on Web, API. Common Room runs on Web, Chrome extension.
Can I use Aligned for free?
Yes. Aligned has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Common Room starts at $2500/month.
What is Aligned best used for?
Aligned is most often used for a two-person founding sales team that wants shared deal rooms and engagement visibility without an annual contract or implementation project, an enterprise seller running a nine-stakeholder evaluation who needs one link that holds the security review, pricing and mutual action plan, a sales manager trying to identify silent deals by seeing which buying committees have stopped opening content, a customer-facing team standardising handover from sales to onboarding by reusing the same room after the deal closes. Of those, a two-person founding sales team that wants shared deal rooms and engagement visibility without an annual contract or implementation project and an enterprise seller running a nine-stakeholder evaluation who needs one link that holds the security review, pricing and mutual action plan are not what Common Room is typically brought in for.
What can Aligned do that Common Room cannot?
Aligned covers Digital sales rooms, Mutual action plans, Room analytics, Content management. Common Room covers Person360 identity resolution, Community source ingestion, Signal alerts, Account and contact scoring.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Aligned: Is there really a free plan?

Yes, Starter is free with four rooms per seat and room analytics, though the room cap makes it an evaluation tier rather than a long-term option for a working seller.

Common Room: What does the entry plan actually cost?

2,500 US dollars per month billed annually, for 5 seats and 100,000 contacts. Higher tiers are quoted.

Aligned: What does the paid version cost?

Basic is 29 USD per seat per month billed annually or 35 monthly; Pro is 49 annually or 60 monthly. Enterprise is quoted.

Common Room: Is this only for developer tools companies?

It is strongest where there is a public community to observe. Companies with no community signal get a narrower version of the product and should compare it against ordinary intent data vendors.

Aligned: Can I sync room activity into Salesforce?

Bidirectional CRM sync is an Enterprise-only feature, so it is not available on any published tier.

Common Room: Does it replace ZoomInfo?

No. It is signal and identity resolution rather than a contact database, though Prospector covers some contact discovery within accounts.

Aligned: Is there a discount for small companies?

Aligned lists a startup plan for companies with fewer than thirty employees, though the price for it is not published.

Common Room: How are AI features metered?

By credits per tier, from 5,000 RoomieAI credits on Essential up to 10,000 on Enterprise, with Prospector credits counted separately.

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