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Factors.ai vs LeadJourney: account intelligence for ABM teams against attribution for every named lead

Factors identifies the companies on your site, scores them and steers LinkedIn Ads at them. LeadJourney follows every named lead to the closed deal.

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LeadJourney vs Factors.ai

Account intelligence and lead attribution, row by row

Factors starts from the anonymous company and works towards pipeline; LeadJourney starts from the click and works towards the closed deal. The rows are the features our pricing page lists, so the table shows which product fits which team.

Factors.ai compared with LeadJourney, row by row
Built forFactors.aiB2B demand gen, ABM and sales teams, from early stage on the Lite plan to enterprise ABM programmes, with LinkedIn Ads as the centre of gravity.LeadJourneyLead generation first, B2B and B2C: forms, calls, CRM stages and closed deals are the conversion model, plus e-commerce through the Shopify integration or a manually connected shop, for advertisers, agencies and affiliates.
Collects dataFactors.aiYes. A website SDK on every plan, cookieless by default, with IP-to-company identification of anonymous visitors and a user identification add-on.LeadJourneyYes. First-party tracking on your own domain, server-side, 95%+ of conversions captured, plus static and dynamic call tracking numbers as an add-on.
SourcesFactors.aiLinkedIn, Google, Bing and Meta Ads from Basic, HubSpot, Salesforce and Zoho, Google Search Console, G2 and LinkedIn intent, Bombora topics as an add-on, Segment on Enterprise.LeadJourneyMeta, Google, LinkedIn and Microsoft Ads, the organic and AI sources, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Close, Attio, GoHighLevel, ActiveCampaign and Odoo, and custom channels by webhook. Fewer, joined per lead.
Attribution modelsFactors.aiFirst touch, last touch, non-direct variants, linear, U-shaped, time decay and an influence model, at account level; marketing touchpoints are a Growth feature.LeadJourneyEvery rule-based model on every plan, on the click stream and the CRM, switchable without re-tracking; custom models on Enterprise.
CRM and pipelineFactors.aiHubSpot and Salesforce companies and deals from Basic, the full integration from Growth, Zoho; account scores and engagement written back into the CRM, stage velocity from MQL to closed won.LeadJourneyStages, deal values and closed revenue joined to the journey per lead, with attribution written back into the CRM.
Revenue back to the ad platformsFactors.aiLinkedIn CAPI on every plan; Google CAPI, Google Ads enhanced conversions and audience syncs to Google and LinkedIn on Enterprise; Meta and Bing are sources for spend, not documented as conversion destinations.LeadJourneyConversions API sync to Meta, Google, LinkedIn and Microsoft on every plan, from €129; stage changes and closed deals arrive as offline conversions.
Organic and AI search sourcesFactors.aiOrganic search through Search Console and SEO analysis from Growth; LLM-traffic analysis from Growth, the engines it separates are not listed on the pricing page.LeadJourneyGoogle, Bing, YouTube, LinkedIn and the AI engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Perplexity, Grok and DeepSeek) as distinct sources, out of the box.
Lead-level viewFactors.aiAccount first: a buyer journey timeline per company on every plan, Account 360 from Growth; the person appears once identified or through the user identification add-on.LeadJourneyThe full journey of every named lead, from the first click to the closed deal, with the CRM stage on it.
ReportsFactors.aiBasic dashboards on Lite, advanced from Basic, up to 50 saved reports on Basic; funnel, event, ad performance, content and segment analysis from Growth; custom KPIs from Growth.LeadJourneyChannel, campaign, landing page and conversion path reports built in, a custom report builder, saved dashboards; the warehouse export is on the roadmap.
AI analystFactors.aiScout, the AI coworker for account research, scoring and outreach drafts, and Scout agents for scheduled checks and alerts, both as add-ons to any plan.LeadJourneyAtlas answers questions in plain language; Atlas agents watch the data and send scheduled reports to email, Slack or WhatsApp.
MCP, API and exportFactors.aiFactors MCP for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Cursor as an add-on from Basic; a Customer Journey API on every plan; webhooks from Basic; warehouse export is not on the pricing page.LeadJourneyMCP connection for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, API and Zapier app; the data warehouse export to BigQuery and Snowflake is on the roadmap.
Data hosting and complianceFactors.aiGoogle Cloud in the United States (us-west-1b), EU transfers on the Standard Contractual Clauses; SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR.LeadJourneyFrankfurt, Germany. First-party tracking on your domain, Art. 28 GDPR DPA on request, two-factor authentication.
SetupFactors.aiSelf-serve on Lite ("2-minute setup"); a demo first for Basic and above, one onboarding session on Basic, regular onboarding on Growth and white-glove on Enterprise.LeadJourneySelf-serve, live in 21 minutes with the reports filled; onboarding call with a tracking expert from Starter.
PricingFactors.aiPublic: Lite $199 a month after a trial, Basic $6,000, Growth $20,000 and Enterprise from $30,000 a year, by monthly tracked users, usually on annual contracts; attribution from Growth, MCP and Scout as add-ons.LeadJourneyPublic tiers by marketing spend: from €129 a month, monthly or yearly, attribution and the Conversions API sync included, after a 14-day free trial.

Credit where it is due

Factors does the account side of B2B thoroughly: it names the companies behind anonymous visits, scores them on intent, and controls LinkedIn Ads at account level. An ABM team running LinkedIn at target accounts should look at it seriously. The table is about where the journey ends: the form, the call, the CRM deal and the closed value sent back to all four ad platforms.

Pricing

Both price lists are public. Here they are side by side.

Factors prices by monthly tracked users on annual contracts, LeadJourney by marketing spend, monthly or yearly. Both ladders below are the published tiers.

Factors.ai

Priced by monthly tracked users, billed annually

Lite, up to 5,000 tracked users
$199 / mo
Basic, up to 10,000 tracked users
$6,000 / yr
Growth, up to 50,000 tracked users
$20,000 / yr
Enterprise, up to 100,000 tracked users
from $30,000 / yr

US dollars as published on factors.ai. Lite is $199 a month after a free trial; Basic, Growth and Enterprise are annual contracts booked through a demo, quarterly on request for early-stage startups. Attribution (marketing touchpoints) starts on Growth, Google CAPI and the audience syncs on Enterprise; Scout, MCP and intent topics are add-ons.

LeadJourney

Priced by marketing spend per month

Up to €5,000
€129 / mo
€5,001 to €15,000
€249 / mo
€15,001 to €50,000
€499 / mo
€50,001 to €100,000
€799 / mo
Over €100,000
from €999 / mo

Advertiser plans in euros, monthly billing; yearly billing saves 20%. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial, no credit card. Agencies and affiliates have plans of their own.

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What the axis means for a lead gen business

Tracked users price the traffic; marketing spend prices what is at stake. A team spending €20,000 a month with 30,000 visitors sits on LeadJourney's €499 Growth plan, everything included, monthly if it wants. On Factors the same traffic needs the Growth tier at $20,000 a year.

Why teams switch

Why marketing teams choose LeadJourney over account intelligence

Three arguments come up in almost every evaluation. Each one is a set of concrete capabilities, not a slogan.

The named lead, from the click to the deal

  • Forms, calls and CRM stages as conversions

    Every conversion type a lead gen business has, tracked out of the box, with the CRM stage as the signal that matters rather than a checkout event.

  • The full journey of every lead

    Every touchpoint from the first click to the closed deal on one timeline, with the CRM stage on it, for any single lead your sales team asks about.

  • CRM revenue attribution

    Closed revenue from your CRM matched to the campaign, ad and keyword that created it, so return on ad spend is measured on deals, not on lead counts.

  • Lead quality by channel

    See which channels bring leads that qualify and close, not just the ones that fill the form.

  • CRM enrichment

    Attribution written back into the CRM, so every lead carries its real source, campaign and keyword where sales works.

Every plan sends revenue to all four platforms

  • Conversions API sync on every plan

    Real conversions and revenue go back to Meta, Google, LinkedIn and Microsoft server-side, so their algorithms optimise on deals that actually closed.

  • Offline conversion tracking

    Calls, meetings and signed contracts connected back to the exact ad that generated them, and sent to the ad platforms as the conversion they should optimise on.

  • Server-side tracking, 95%+ accuracy

    Conversions are recorded on your own domain and sent server to server, so ad blockers, iOS and declined consent lose far less of them. 95%+ of conversions captured.

  • Multi-touch attribution, every model

    First click, last click, linear, position based and the rest on every plan, switchable without re-tracking anything; custom models on Enterprise.

  • Organic and AI search as sources of their own

    Google, Bing, YouTube, LinkedIn, email, referrals and the AI engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Perplexity, Grok and DeepSeek) attributed next to your ads at no extra cost.

Priced by spend, hosted in Frankfurt, live in minutes

  • Public pricing by spend

    Public tiers from €129 per month, set by your marketing spend and visible before you talk to anyone, with a 14-day free trial and no credit card.

  • Frankfurt EU hosting

    Frankfurt, Germany, with full EU data residency. GDPR compliant by design, with no transfer mechanism to document.

  • GDPR-native architecture

    First-party tracking on your own domain, hashed identifiers and no third-party cookies, with an Art. 28 DPA on request. Compliant by default, not by configuration.

  • 21 minute setup

    From signup to live tracking in under 21 minutes, self-serve; an onboarding call with a tracking expert from Starter, and 14 days of setup support.

  • Ask Atlas, the AI marketing analyst

    Atlas reads your campaign, lead and CRM data and answers questions in plain language; Atlas agents watch the data and send daily or weekly reports to email, Slack or WhatsApp.

Case studies

What changes once the attribution is right

One measured result per customer, with the person, the role and the company behind it.

  • Portrait of Karsten Guhr

    Tax and accounting

    54% better lead quality after using LeadJourney for marketing

    Karsten Guhr

    Managing Director

    Read the story
  • Portrait of Nikita Yatsun

    SEO agency

    95% clarity about marketing KPIs and a foundation to scale

    Nikita Yatsun

    Managing Director

    Read the story
  • Portrait of Florian Buck

    Klickkraft GmbH

    Business coaching

    €10-20k in monthly Meta spend, tied to qualified leads and revenue per ad

    Florian Buck

    Managing Director

    Read the story
  • Portrait of Marc Richard

    LinkedIn growth agency

    2x customer retention, once every LinkedIn touchpoint was tracked to revenue

    Marc Richard

    CEO

    Read the story
  • Portrait of Andreas Malkow

    Digital publishing

    Which article produced the lead and the revenue, across AI and organic search

    Andreas Malkow

    CEO & Head of PR

    Read the story
  • Portrait of Philipp Nessmann

    SEO and GEO agency

    Proven ROI on every retainer, from organic and AI search leads through to revenue

    Philipp Nessmann

    Managing Director

    Read the story
  • Getreach

    Backlinks marketplace (SaaS)

    0 to 100k in revenue from paid ads alone, inside the first month

    Getreach

    getreach.com

    Read the story

Switching

From Factors to LeadJourney in 21 minutes

Nothing to export by hand. Add the script, connect the accounts, and run both tools for a week or two until the numbers agree.

  1. 1About 5 minutes

    Add the LeadJourney script

    Paste one snippet into your site or your GTM container, alongside the Factors SDK. It starts recording sessions, click IDs and form fills immediately, and nothing about your current setup changes.

  2. 2About 10 minutes

    Connect your ad accounts and CRM

    Sign in to Meta, Google, LinkedIn and Microsoft Ads over OAuth, then connect the CRM where your deals live. Historic campaign data and spend are imported for you.

  3. 3About 6 minutes

    Map your CRM stages to conversions

    Choose which stages count as a qualified lead and which count as revenue. From then on every stage change flows back to the ad platforms, and you can switch Factors off once both tools agree.

Original reviews

What our customers wrote, word for word

4.9 out of 5 across 11 public reviews. Quoted as they were left, shortened only by dropping whole sentences.

  • 5 out of 5 starsGoogle

    Before LeadJourney, we had no reliable tracking concept for our five-figure ad spend. We were manually building spreadsheet and CRM reports, inaccurate and time-consuming. Within two days, everything was set up. For the first time, I know exactly what I pay per lead and which campaigns actually bring in the best-qualified prospects.

    Florian BuckCEO, Klickkraft GmbH
  • With LeadJourney we are able to track all our leads and connect them with sales and attribution data to make better decisions. In the first month of using it we scaled from 0 to 100k revenue from paid ads only.

    GetreachBacklinks Marketplace (SaaS)
  • 5 out of 5 starsG2

    LeadJourney finally fixed my Marketing Analytics. It goes way beyond basic Ad Tracking Software. The Customer Journey Report saves hours of digging, and capturing everything from Offline Conversions to AI Search Tracking makes it the Best B2B Attribution Platform available.

    Sascha LenzMarketing Manager
  • 5 out of 5 starsTrustpilot

    Connected LeadJourney for 2 clients, setup took literally 20 minutes each. The data became more accurate, the reports actually make sense. Now clients look at the dashboard and the 'why don't the numbers match?' questions are gone.

    Alexander SamarPerformance Marketing Agency
  • 5 out of 5 starsGoogle

    With LeadJourney, we have finally found a tool that provides us with the data we need to scale our performance marketing campaigns. The most important KPI is no longer lead price but cost per qualified lead.

    Steffen SiesingCEO, Bilanzmanufaktur GmbH
  • 5 out of 5 starsG2

    The ability to track both online and offline conversions in one unified dashboard has given us insights we never had before. Our ROI has improved dramatically since we started integrating LeadJourney with our CRM. We're finally able to see the full customer journey, and it's been a game changer for our strategy.

    Andre WitzelFounder, Trading.de
  • 5 out of 5 starsTrustpilot

    The ability to seamlessly integrate data from multiple channels and see real-time insights has significantly improved our campaign results. We now focus on metrics that truly matter, like ROI and qualified leads.

    Nikita YatsunCEO, RLV Media GmbH

FAQ

Factors.ai vs LeadJourney, your questions answered

The questions teams ask before choosing between account intelligence and lead-level attribution, answered the way we answer them on calls.

What is the actual difference between Factors.ai and LeadJourney?

Where the journey starts. Factors starts from the anonymous company: it identifies the accounts visiting your site, scores them on engagement and intent, alerts sales, syncs audiences and controls LinkedIn Ads at those accounts, with attribution as one section of a larger product from the Growth tier. LeadJourney starts from the click: it tracks on your own domain server-side, follows the named lead through the form, the call (static or dynamic tracking numbers as an add-on), the booking and the CRM stages to the closed deal, attributes the revenue with every model on every plan, treats the AI engines as sources, sends the outcome to Meta, Google, LinkedIn and Microsoft, and reports on it with Atlas. Factors is an ABM tool; LeadJourney is the all-in-one attribution platform, lead generation first, B2B and B2C, with e-commerce beside it through the Shopify integration or a manually connected shop.

How does the pricing compare?

Both publish their prices, on different axes. Factors prices by monthly tracked users: Lite $199 a month after a trial, Basic $6,000, Growth $20,000 and Enterprise from $30,000 a year, usually on annual contracts, with attribution from Growth and Scout, MCP and intent topics as add-ons. LeadJourney prices by marketing spend: €129 a month up to €5,000 of spend, €249 up to €15,000, €499 up to €50,000, €799 up to €100,000 and from €999 above that, monthly or yearly, with tracking, attribution and the Conversions API sync included, after a 14-day trial without a card.

We already use Factors. Can the two run side by side?

Yes, and most teams do for a week or two. The LeadJourney script sits next to the Factors SDK and records the same sessions and click IDs; the ad accounts and the CRM connect over OAuth, and historic campaign data and spend are imported, so the reports are not empty on day one. Then you compare the closed revenue each tool attributes to each campaign. Setup takes about 21 minutes, and nothing about the Factors setup changes while both run.

Factors identifies the companies visiting our site. Does LeadJourney?

No, and that is the clearest line between the two. Factors resolves anonymous visits to companies, and states that its paid plans unmask over 75% of them, then scores and routes those accounts, which is what an ABM programme runs on. LeadJourney starts at the identified lead: the form fill, the call, the booked meeting, the CRM record, the order in the shop. From there it holds the whole journey per person, from the first click to the closed deal, and sends the outcome back to the ad platforms. If the anonymous account is what you need to see, Factors is the tool; if the named lead is, LeadJourney is.

Factors has LinkedIn CAPI and Google CAPI. What does LeadJourney add?

Coverage and the plan it sits on. Factors sends conversions to LinkedIn on every plan and to Google Ads on Enterprise, from $30,000 a year, with audience syncs to both there as well; Meta and Bing are sources for spend. LeadJourney sends the Conversions API events to all four platforms, Meta, Google, LinkedIn and Microsoft, on every plan from €129, and the events are the CRM stage changes and closed deals of named leads, so a €5,000 a month Google and Meta budget is optimised on revenue from the first month.

Where is the data hosted, and does it matter for an EU company?

Factors hosts on Google Cloud in the United States, in the us-west-1b zone, covers EU transfers with the Standard Contractual Clauses and supplementary measures, and holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, which a security reviewer will want to know. LeadJourney hosts in Frankfurt with full EU data residency, tracks first-party on your own domain, and provides an Art. 28 GDPR DPA on request, so there is no transfer mechanism to document. For a DACH or EU procurement review that removes a step; for a reviewer who needs the ISO or SOC attestation, Factors has it and LeadJourney does not yet.

Factors.ai alternative

The Factors.ai alternative for marketing teams

Attribution per named lead, revenue back to all four ad platforms on every plan, AI search as a source, Frankfurt hosting, public tiers by spend and live in 21 minutes. Book a demo and see the difference on your own funnel.

LeadJourney dashboard showing lead sources, campaign performance and attributed revenue side by side