Catalist alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of Catalist, shown against it.

Catalist NGP VAN TargetSmart L2
Vendor Catalist, LLC NGP VAN, Inc. TargetSmart Communications, LLC L2, LLC
Pricing model Quote only Quote only Quote only Quote only
Free tier No No No No
Deployment Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud
Open source No No No No
Best for Progressive campaigns and allied organizations needing large-scale voter modeling and post-program effectiveness analysis. Democratic and progressive campaigns, unions, and advocacy groups that need an integrated fundraising, compliance, and voter-contact platform. Democratic and progressive campaigns that want data, modeling, and paid-media execution from a single vendor. Campaigns, consultants, and researchers across the political spectrum who need broadly available, politically neutral voter data infrastructure.
Pricing

No published pricing; access and data licensing are arranged through direct contact with Catalist.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Pricing is arranged through sales/demo requests; the only published fee is a 3.25% processing rate on fundraising transactions.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

No published pricing; engagements are custom and arranged by contacting TargetSmart directly.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Sold via a single fixed-price data-access model with variable costs for onboarding add-ons; figures are not published and require contacting sales.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Features
  • National voter database (260M+ individuals)
  • Turnout and persuadability modeling
  • Target list building for campaigns and organizations
  • Post-election program effectiveness analysis
  • Consumer and demographic data appends
  • Client-facing analytics and reporting tools
  • Shared voter file (VAN) across canvassing, phones, and organizing
  • Online fundraising and donation processing
  • FEC and state campaign-finance compliance reporting
  • Volunteer and canvass management
  • Email and digital advocacy tools
  • Targeted voter list building and turnout modeling
  • Mobile canvassing apps
  • Voter data management and predictive modeling
  • Digital media buying (CTV, audio, display, video)
  • Polling and analytics services
  • Voter persuasion and turnout targeting
  • Client-facing dashboards and reporting
  • 600+ demographic, consumer, and modeled behavioral voter fields
  • Nationwide voter file coverage
  • Canvassing and walking-list generation
  • Web-based mapping and geographic targeting
  • List export and API access
  • Data refresh cycles for registration and election-history updates

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