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Common Room vs Surfe

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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
Surfe logo

Surfe

Sales Enablement

B2B prospecting, enrichment and CRM sync from the browser

From
Free
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Only Surfe has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
  • Each has a real cost: 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.; Surfe three native CRMs only: Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive. Anything else needs the API or Google Sheets.
  • They diverge on capability: Common Room covers Person360 identity resolution, Surfe covers Waterfall enrichment.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 17 September 2026.

Where they differ

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

Attributes where Common Room and Surfe differ
AttributeCommon RoomSurfe
Starting price$2500/monthFree
Pricing modelPer month by contact volumefreemium
Free tierNoYes
PlatformsWeb, Chrome extensionChrome, Web, API

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 Common Room

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

Only in Surfe

  • Waterfall enrichment
  • Chrome extension
  • Buying signals
  • CRM sync and automation
  • API and MCP server
  • Company and people search
  • Prospect list builder

What people use each for

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

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 Surfe
  • A sales team that wants to be alerted when a former champion changes job to a target account, with the previous relationship attachednot Surfe
  • A marketing function trying to prove that community participation precedes pipeline, which requires joining community identity to opportunity datanot Surfe
  • 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 Surfe

Surfe

  • Enriching LinkedIn prospects with verified email and phone datanot Common Room
  • Keeping CRM contact records current as people change rolesnot Common Room
  • Timing outreach against funding, hiring or job-change signalsnot Common Room
  • Feeding B2B contact data into an AI agent through MCPnot Common Room
  • Building target account lists from lookalikesnot Common Room

Where each one falls short

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

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.

Surfe

  • Three native CRMs only: Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive. Anything else needs the API or Google Sheets.
  • API access is an Enterprise feature, so the lower tiers cannot automate beyond the supported connectors even though an API exists.
  • The free tier caps CRM sync at one contact a day, which makes it a demonstration rather than a workable free plan.
  • Mobile number credits are far scarcer than email credits on every tier, 100 a month against 1,000 on Pro, and phone data is usually the reason teams buy a tool like this.
  • Match rates are not published. Enrichment across fifteen providers is a description of method, not a measured outcome, and the figure that decides whether the cost is justified is not on the pricing page.

Pricing, plan by plan

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

Surfe

Free
  • FreeFree
    • 20 email find credits a month
    • 5 mobile find credits a month
    • Company and people search, 1,000 results a week
  • Essential$49/month
    • 150 email find credits a month
    • 50 mobile find credits a month
    • Full CRM connector
  • Pro$89/month
    • 1,000 email find credits a month
    • 100 mobile find credits a month
    • Search 10,000 results a day
  • Enterprise$undefined/month
    • Custom credit allowances
    • Unlimited company and people search
    • SSO and SCIM

Which should you pick?

Choose Common Room if

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

Choose Surfe if

  • You need waterfall enrichment.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on Chrome, Web, API.
  • You also want chrome extension.
Surfe review

Questions people ask

Is Common Room or Surfe better?
Neither clearly leads. Common Room starts at $2500/month and Surfe at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Common Room or Surfe?
Surfe has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at $2500/month for Common Room and Free for Surfe.
Does Common Room or Surfe run on more platforms?
Common Room runs on Web, Chrome extension. Surfe runs on Chrome, Web, API.
Can I use Surfe for free?
Yes. Surfe has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Common Room starts at $2500/month.
What is Common Room best used for?
Common Room is most often used for a developer tools company whose github stars and slack community contain buyers nobody has ever contacted because the handles do not match any crm record, a sales team that wants to be alerted when a former champion changes job to a target account, with the previous relationship attached, a marketing function trying to prove that community participation precedes pipeline, which requires joining community identity to opportunity data, a product-led business wanting to route free users who match the enterprise buyer profile to sellers based on both product usage and public activity. Of those, a developer tools company whose github stars and slack community contain buyers nobody has ever contacted because the handles do not match any crm record and a sales team that wants to be alerted when a former champion changes job to a target account, with the previous relationship attached are not what Surfe is typically brought in for.
What can Common Room do that Surfe cannot?
Common Room covers Person360 identity resolution, Community source ingestion, Signal alerts, Account and contact scoring. Surfe covers Waterfall enrichment, Chrome extension, Buying signals, CRM sync and automation.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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.

Surfe: What does Surfe cost?

Free gives 20 email and 5 mobile credits a month. Essential is $49 a user monthly or $39 billed annually, Pro is $89 or $79 annually, and Enterprise is custom priced with SSO, SCIM and API access.

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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.

Surfe: Which CRMs does Surfe integrate with?

Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive natively. Surfe is the official Pipedrive data enrichment provider and powers HubSpot's native prospecting agent. Salesloft, Outreach and Lemlist connectors are available from the Pro tier.

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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.

Surfe: What is waterfall enrichment?

Looking a contact up across more than fifteen data providers in sequence rather than relying on a single source, so a miss at one provider is retried at the next. It is what drives match rates on contacts a single database would not find.

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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.

Surfe: Can Surfe be used with AI agents?

Yes. Surfe publishes an API and an MCP server, which makes the data reachable from Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity. API access sits on the Enterprise tier.

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Surfe: Is the Surfe free plan usable?

For evaluation rather than for work. It includes 20 email and 5 mobile find credits a month and limits CRM sync to one contact a day, which is enough to judge data quality and not enough to prospect with.

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