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InfoSum vs LiveRamp Clean Room
InfoSum keeps each partner's data in its own environment and matches on mathematical representations; LiveRamp centers multi-cloud collaboration on RampID.
Side by side
| InfoSum | LiveRamp Clean Room | |
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| Vendor | InfoSum Ltd. | LiveRamp Holdings, Inc. |
| Pricing model | Quote only | Quote only |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud |
| Open source | No | No |
| Best for | Advertisers and publishers who want audience matching and measurement without centralizing either party's raw data. | Brands and publishers running multi-cloud, multi-party data collaboration tied to a shared identity layer. |
| Pricing | Enterprise pricing quoted per engagement; no public price list. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. | Enterprise pricing quoted per engagement; no public price list found. Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site. |
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Verdict
Both InfoSum and LiveRamp Clean Room serve the advertising and media use case — audience overlap, campaign measurement — but their underlying architecture differs. InfoSum is built as a decentralized model: each participant's data stays in its own "bunker" permanently, and matching happens by comparing mathematical representations of records rather than moving or pooling raw data anywhere, even inside a shared clean room. LiveRamp's clean room (built on the acquired Habu technology) works across multiple collaborators' cloud data platforms — Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery — and leans on LiveRamp's own RampID identity graph to match people across datasets that use different identifiers natively.
Choose InfoSum if
- You want the strongest architectural guarantee that raw data never leaves either party's own environment, even during matching.
- Your collaboration is primarily bilateral (its "Private Path" product is built for two specific organizations working directly together).
- You're not already invested in LiveRamp's identity infrastructure and don't need it.
Choose LiveRamp Clean Room if
- You need multi-cloud, multi-party collaboration — more than two organizations, potentially on different data platforms — not just a bilateral match.
- You already use, or want to use, LiveRamp's RampID for person-level identity resolution across your partner ecosystem.
- Configurable aggregation thresholds and query review on top of an established identity graph matter more than a fully decentralized architecture.
What they share
Both are quote-only with no public price list, both are aimed squarely at advertising and media use cases rather than general-purpose data collaboration, and both position themselves as lower-exposure alternatives to a model where one party simply hosts the combined dataset. Neither is a fit for non-advertising use cases (healthcare data collaboration, cross-institution fraud analysis) — for those, a confidential-computing clean room such as Decentriq or a cloud-native option is the more relevant comparison.
Last reviewed September 22, 2026