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Attio vs Village

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. Attio starts at $39, Village at $79. Both have a free tier. Both ship a public API.

AttioCRM with AI search, call recording and natural-language workflow building baked into the data model.VillageMaps your team's combined network and finds the shortest warm-intro path to a person or company

Side by side

FactAttioVillage
CategoryCRM PlatformsSales Intelligence & Enrichment
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$39 seat_month$79 month
Public APIYesYes
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, Chrome Ext, API
CompanyAttio Ltd.Village AI, Inc.
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Attio

Attio is the CRM to look at when your sales motion does not fit HubSpot's shape — the object model bends, and the AI features read from that model rather than being bolted on. Call Intelligence and unlimited seats only arrive at the Pro tier, which is where the price starts to bite. The MCP server is the genuinely differentiating piece if your team already works through Claude or ChatGPT.

Pros

  • Free tier covers three seats with contact syncing and enrichment
  • Call Intelligence records, transcribes and logs calls natively on Pro
  • Workflows can be described in natural language instead of hand-built
  • Official MCP integration exposes CRM data to Claude and ChatGPT

Cons

  • Call Intelligence, sequences and permission controls are Pro-only
  • Plus caps at 10 seats, forcing a jump to Pro as the team grows
  • Per-seat pricing at the Pro tier is expensive for wide rollouts
  • Enterprise is annual-billed and custom-quoted

Village

Village answers a question cold-outreach tools cannot: who already knows this person well enough to introduce me. Pooling a whole team's contacts and scoring relationship strength is the difference between a real intro and an awkward LinkedIn ping. The cost model is credits, so heavy enrichment burns through a tier faster than the monthly headline suggests.

Pros

  • Free tier is a standing plan with API and extension access, not a trial
  • Paths span first, second and third-degree connections rather than direct contacts only
  • Enrichment adds coworker, investor, classmate and funding context to each link
  • Browser extension shows connection paths while you browse a profile

Cons

  • Credit metering means cost tracks usage, not just seat count
  • Graph quality depends on how much of your team connects their accounts
  • The white-glove VIP tier is priced far above the self-serve plans

Which one fits

Choose Attio if you need

  • startups whose pipeline does not fit a stock CRM schema
  • teams that want call recording inside the CRM rather than a separate tool
  • orgs running agents against customer data over MCP

Choose Village if you need

  • Sales teams that would rather get introduced than cold email
  • Founders working an investor list through mutual connections
  • Recruiters sourcing through second-degree contacts

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