Two of the better-known personal CRMs, compared on the things you can actually check: plans, prices, platforms and limits. Neither of them is our product.
Disclosure, up front. This page is published by Weft, which makes a small iOS app in the same broad category. That is a conflict of interest, so this comparison sticks to facts taken from each vendor's own pricing page on 26 August 2026, and the recommendation at the end is Dex or Mesh — not Weft. There is a short note about where Weft fits at the bottom, clearly marked, and you can skip it.
If you started this search looking for Clay, you were not imagining it. The product formerly at clay.earth was acquired by Automattic and rebranded to Mesh, at me.sh. The footer of its site now reads "© 2026 Automattic Inc." Everything below refers to Mesh under its current name. Comparisons still titled "Dex vs Clay" — including the one Dex publishes itself — are describing the same product.
Dex sells depth on LinkedIn. Its plans are tiered by how many LinkedIn connections it will sync — 2,500 on Premium, 9,000 on Professional — and the rest of the product is built to keep you following up across that roster.
Mesh sells a rolodex that maintains itself. It pulls people in from email, calendar, X, LinkedIn, Facebook and iMessage, then surfaces job changes, location changes and news mentions so the record stays current without you editing it.
They overlap, but they optimise for different things: Dex for outbound discipline, Mesh for an always-accurate picture of everyone you have met.
Taken from getdex.com/pricing and me.sh/pricing on 26 August 2026. Both pages have a monthly/annual toggle and both advertise a discount on annual billing (Dex: 40% off annual, 20% off quarterly; Mesh: a 50% badge on Pro). Neither card states an explicit annual total, so we have not calculated one — check the toggle yourself before buying.
If your relationships arrive through LinkedIn and your problem is follow-through, Dex is built exactly for that. The published connection caps are unusual and useful: you can tell before you pay whether the plan will hold your network. Two-way contact sync, WhatsApp and messaging sync, and a browser extension mean the capture happens where you already are, and API and Zapier access on Professional let you wire it into whatever else you run.
It also has an Android app, which Mesh's pricing page does not list. If you are not on Apple hardware, that alone may decide it.
Mesh's free Personal plan holds up to 1,000 contacts, which is more than most people will ever need, and Dex publishes no free plan at all. If you want to keep a large rolodex accurate without paying anything, that is a real difference rather than a marketing one — though note that Mesh requires a credit card even on the free tier, which some people will find disqualifying.
The other genuine strength is enrichment as an ongoing service rather than a one-time import: job changes, location changes and news mentions arrive without you asking. If your complaint about every CRM you have tried is that it went stale, Mesh is aimed at you.
If you are choosing between them for professional networking, those four lines are most of the decision. Both are mature products with real teams behind them, and either will do the job.
Skip this if you are here to pick between Dex and Mesh; they are the right answers to the question you asked.
There is a smaller group of people for whom both are the wrong shape: you do not have a thousand contacts, you have about ten, and the thing you want is not an accurate database but a private place to write down that someone's mother is having surgery on Tuesday. Dex and Mesh both assume breadth, and both keep your notes on their servers because their features require it.
Weft is built for that narrower case — a small circle, notes in an on-device database, no cloud LLM, iOS only, $18.99/year or $39.99 once. It costs you the breadth: there is no LinkedIn import, no enrichment, no web app and no Android. If breadth is what you came for, the two products above are better than ours, and we would rather say so than sell you the wrong thing.
Prices and limits change. Everything above was read from each vendor's own pricing page on 26 August 2026; if you are reading this much later, check the source pages before deciding.