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Recepto vs 6sense
An enterprise intent and ABM platform on a custom quote, set next to public buying moments at a published quarterly price.
Competitor figures checked 4 November 2026.
01 / The short answer
Which one to pick
6sense is an enterprise go-to-market platform. Its site describes its own publisher network, partner intent (including Bombora), your CRM and website, predictive buying stages, advertising, and contact data. It does not publish a dollar price.
Recepto is narrower: public buying moments, matched to your ICP, with named decision makers, from $1,199 per quarter. There is no free trial. There is a 7-day refund. Pick 6sense when you need advertising, buying-stage models, and account identification on your own site. Pick Recepto when you need meetings from public signals without standing up that platform.
02 / Side by side
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What you are shown
- 6sense
- Which accounts look in market, where they are in a buying stage, and why the model ranked them. Sales Intelligence adds recommended contacts.
- Recepto
- Which accounts matched a play this week, the 0–100 intent score, the source link, and the decision makers to contact.
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Where the signal comes from
- 6sense
- 6sense says it has a network of 2 million-plus B2B publishers covering 650 million-plus pages, plus signals from Bombora, G2, Gartner, TrustRadius, and PeerSpot, and first-party activity from your CRM, marketing automation, website, and product. It says intent refreshes daily and resolves at the account level.
- Recepto
- The public web: LinkedIn, job boards, news, funding databases, Slack communities, and Reddit. Sixty-plus plays. First-party website, product, and CRM signals are available on request.
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Prediction and website visitors
- 6sense
- 6sense describes predictive models trained on a decade of purchase data, patented web deanonymization, and identifying accounts on your website when nobody fills in a form. It says its Signalverse processes more than a trillion buyer signals a day.
- Recepto
- Scoring is the 0–100 intent score on the lead, with the source attached. Visitor identification is not how the product is sold. First-party signals are available on request.
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Price
- 6sense
- No dollar price on the pricing page. 6sense says the team builds a quote. New customers get a test environment during onboarding. A self-serve trial is not listed.
- Recepto
- Growth is $1,199 per quarter. There is no free trial. Every plan includes a 7-day refund. WatchList is priced on request, from 30 named accounts.
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Activation
- 6sense
- Advertising that follows buying stage, an email agent, intelligent workflows, and the same intelligence inside your own tools through APIs and MCP.
- Recepto
- Email and LinkedIn sequences in the product (WhatsApp on Enterprise). Slack and HubSpot are named on the homepage. Select CRMs on the pricing page. Recepto does not sell advertising.
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Compliance, as each company states it
- 6sense
- 6sense says its program includes SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001, and GDPR and CCPA privacy validations.
- Recepto
- GDPR and SOC 2 compliance in progress
03 / Who should pick which
A fair split, by the job
Pick 6sense if
- You are running account-based advertising and want spend pointed at accounts the model calls in market.
- You want one vendor for intent, a contact database, website deanonymization, and buying-stage predictions.
- Your security review requires the certifications 6sense lists, and a custom annual agreement is how you buy software.
Pick Recepto if
- The motion is outbound from public moments, and you want the source and the person on the same lead.
- You want to start on a published quarterly price, with three plays on Growth, and see scored leads within 24 hours of activating a play.
- You do not need an advertising platform or a predictive buying-stage model to run the motion.
04 / Where they fit
Where 6sense is the stronger fit
6sense is the broader system. On its own site it combines a large publisher network, several named intent partners, your first-party systems, and models it says were trained on a decade of purchases. That is data breadth Recepto does not claim. Daily, account-level intent plus a buying stage is built for a revenue team coordinating marketing and sales, not for one rep working a play.
Website identification is part of the product 6sense describes: accounts on your site, even with no form fill, via what it calls patented deanonymization. Advertising, workflow orchestration, and a contact database sit in the same platform. The pricing page also describes enterprise onboarding, a dedicated domain, APIs, and an MCP server. A team that wants that operating system will not get it from Recepto.
The trade is price transparency and scope. 6sense does not publish a dollar price. The implementation it describes (CRM, marketing automation, administrators, professional services) is a project. Recepto’s published compliance line is “GDPR and SOC 2 compliance in progress.” 6sense states SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001, and GDPR and CCPA validations. For a security review that requires those attestations today, 6sense is the one that claims them.
05 / Questions
What buyers ask
Is Recepto an alternative to 6sense?
For “which accounts look in market,” the two overlap. 6sense is an enterprise platform that combines its own publisher network, partner intent, your CRM and website, predictive buying stages, advertising, and contact data, sold on a custom quote. Recepto watches public buying moments, matches them to your ICP, and names decision makers, from $1,199 per quarter. Advertising, buying-stage models, and website identification are 6sense capabilities Recepto does not sell as its product.
How much does 6sense cost?
6sense does not publish a dollar price. Its pricing page says the team builds a quote around where you are, and that new customers get a test environment during onboarding. A self-serve free trial is not listed. Recepto’s Growth plan is $1,199 per quarter. There is no free trial. Every plan includes a 7-day refund.
Does 6sense name the person who is researching?
6sense says its intent data resolves at the account level and refreshes daily. Sales Intelligence, on the same site, includes company and contact data and recommended contacts, so a seller gets people on the account alongside the research signal. Recepto attaches named decision makers, with verified email and LinkedIn, to the specific public signal that fired.
What does 6sense offer that Recepto does not?
On its own pages, 6sense describes a publisher network of 2 million-plus B2B sites, partner intent from Bombora, G2, Gartner, TrustRadius, and PeerSpot, patented website deanonymization, predictive models trained on a decade of purchases, and advertising that follows buying stage. It also states SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001, and GDPR and CCPA privacy validations. Recepto’s published compliance status is “GDPR and SOC 2 compliance in progress.”
When is Recepto the better fit?
When you want public moments (a hire, a funding round, a community thread) turned into a short list with a source link, at a published quarterly price, and you are not standing up an ABM and advertising platform. First scored leads are described as landing within 24 hours of activating a play. WatchList covers a named set of at least 30 accounts, priced on request.
06 / Sources
Competitor figures are from the pages below, checked 4 November 2026. Recepto figures are from the pricing page and the homepage.
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- Recepto vs Bombora
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- Recepto vs Common Room
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- Recepto vs Warmly
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