Dex vs Nimble

Dex

• Individuals who want to stay in touch with a large personal network
• Founders, investors and job seekers who network heavily on LinkedIn
• Students: there is a 50% discount with a school email

Nimble

• Solo professionals and small teams that work from Gmail or Outlook
• People who prospect on LinkedIn and want contact details filled in automatically
• Buyers who want one plan with email marketing and web forms included

Dex

• No free plan is listed on the pricing page, and the 7-day trial requires a credit card.
• Dex has no deals or pipelines; its makers say it is not a sales CRM.
• Outlook integration, mail merge, multiple email accounts and API or Zapier access need Professional.
• LinkedIn sync stops at 2,500 connections on Premium and 9,000 on Professional and Enterprise.

Nimble

• There is no free plan; an expired trial account is locked, then deleted 60 days after the trial ends.
• An account is limited to 25,000 contacts and 2 GB of storage per seat; each extra 10,000 contacts or 10 GB costs $10 a month.
• Email sync needs Google, Microsoft 365 or IMAP; POP3 and hosted Exchange accounts are not supported.
• Nimble does not give refunds, and an annual plan can be switched to monthly only in its final month.

Dex

LinkedIn sync and job-change alerts

The browser extension syncs your LinkedIn connections in the background and tells you when a contact changes title. Plans cap the number of synced connections.

Keep-in-touch reminders

Dex reminds you to keep in touch with people, notifies you of upcoming birthdays and important dates, and shows where the last conversation left off.

Email, calendar and messaging sync

Connects Gmail, Google Calendar, WhatsApp, Instagram and iMessage so recent interactions and meeting attendees appear on each contact. Outlook needs Professional.

Notes and custom fields

Store how you met, work and education history, important dates, family details and gift ideas on each person, with custom fields for anything else.

Dex Research

Builds a briefing on a contact covering background, current role and what has changed since you last spoke, using monthly credits: 10 on Premium, 20 on Professional.

MCP server for AI assistants

An MCP server lets assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini read your contacts, notes and follow-ups from your Dex account.

Nimble

Contact management and enrichment

Contacts are organized into lists and automatically enriched with social profiles and company data, with email and calendar history kept on each record.

Prospector browser extension

Prospector shows contact profiles and communication history on LinkedIn, in the inbox or elsewhere on the web, and can generate outreach messages with AI.

Deals and workflow boards

Deals move through customizable pipelines with sales forecasting reports, and workflow templates track other processes on Kanban boards or lists.

Sequences and email marketing

Tracked group emails, automated email sequences, templates and marketing campaigns are sent from your own business email, with open and click tracking.

Web forms and web chat

Web forms create CRM contacts on submission and can trigger a nurture sequence, and web chat lets a team talk to website visitors in real time.

Works in Gmail, Outlook and on mobile

Nimble can be used inside Gmail, Outlook and Microsoft Teams, and has mobile apps for iOS and Android.

Dex

• Premium$12

  per month, billed annually ($16 quarterly, $20 monthly)

  Web, desktop, mobile and extension access, LinkedIn sync for up to 2,500 connections, 10 research credits a month, and email and calendar integrations.

• Professional$20

  per month, billed annually ($27 quarterly, $34 monthly)

  LinkedIn sync for up to 9,000 connections, 20 research credits a month, mail merge, voice mode, Outlook integration, and API and Zapier access.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Adds 50 research credits a month, CRM and notetaker integrations, SAML SSO, a SOC 2 report, and team billing on one invoice.

Nimble

• Nimble Business$24.90

  per license / month, billed annually ($29.90 month-to-month)

  The only plan: contacts, deals, workflows, sequences, email marketing, web forms and Prospector, with 25,000 contacts and 2 GB of storage per seat.

Dex

• Annual discount

  Up to 40% off with annual billing

  Premium is $12 a month billed annually against $20 billed monthly, and Professional is $20 against $34. Quarterly billing is about 20% off, at $16 and $27.

• Education

  50% off for students for one year

  Students with a .edu email can claim a code for 50% off for one year. The pricing FAQ says MBA students get 50% off for two years.

• Nonprofit

  Non-profit discounts on request

  The pricing FAQ says non-profit discounts are available by contacting Dex support. No percentage is published.

Nimble

• Annual discount

  About 17% less with annual billing

  Nimble's help center lists the Business plan at $24.90 per license a month when purchased annually against $29.90 billed month-to-month.