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| Dimension | Dex | SharedContacts.com |
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| Category buying score | 73Higher category-fit score | 56 |
| Rank | #8 | #10 |
| Context | Sales & CRM / Contact Management Software | Sales & CRM / Contact Management Software |
| Pricing and trial | Dex has two paid individual plans: Premium at $12 per month and Professional at $20 per month. The pricing page presents monthly, quarterly, and annual selectors, but the publicly captured content does not bind the displayed amounts to a specific selector state. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current term… | SharedContacts.com has one all-features per-user subscription. The annual state is USD 2 per user/month equivalent, billed at USD 24 per user/year with full annual prepayment; the monthly state is USD 3 per user/month billed monthly. Every person who can access shared contacts needs a license, prices exclude tax, and… |
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| Source check | 84/100 | 96/100 |
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| Administrator installation requirement | Not publicly stated | required_for_selected_features |
| Contact sync direction | two_way | two_way |
| Contact sync frequency | real_time | scheduled |
| Deletion sync behavior | Not publicly stated | Not publicly stated |
| Sync conflict resolution | Not publicly stated | Not publicly stated |
| Cross-domain contact sharing | Not publicly stated | Yes |
| Duplicate contact handling | Not publicly stated | manual |
| Email data access | metadata_only | none |
| Customer data used for AI training | Not publicly stated | Not publicly stated |
| AI disable control | Not publicly stated | Not publicly stated |
| AI usage or credit model | Not publicly stated | Not publicly stated |
| Contact export formats | Not publicly stated | Not publicly stated |
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| Contact organization quality | 83Relationship-focused profiles consolidate personal notes and history into a single contact record across mobile, web, desktop, and extension surfaces, giving individuals a coherent personal directory while remaining outside team CRM structures. | 78Organizations can structure contacts using Google contact labels and sync directories via LDAP, though directory contacts remain view-only for shared users. |
| Interaction history and context | 82Email and calendar relationship context, LinkedIn updates, and stored notes supply prior-interaction background for follow-up conversations, with Outlook metadata and thread context available only on Professional. | 32The product centers on shared labels and Google Contacts presence rather than capturing interaction history, activity timelines, or conversation context against each contact. |
| Contact data hygiene | 73LinkedIn job-title updates, two-way device-contact sync, CSV import, and full export or account-deletion controls help refresh and retire records, though broader automated deduplication or enrichment controls are not established. | 42Duplicate cleanup depends on each affected user performing Google Contacts’ manual merge workflow, which limits centralized hygiene control across a shared population. |
| Follow-up reliability | 83Features dedicated keep-in-touch reminders and structured follow-up workflows across mobile, web, browser extension, and desktop interfaces to help individuals manage communication intervals. | 32No native follow-up tasks, reminders, or sequenced outreach controls are established, so teams cannot rely on the product itself to drive contact follow-through. |
| Search and segmentation | 59Contact profiles with notes and history support locating relationship context for personal use, while dedicated segmentation sets, advanced filters, or list-building controls are not established as distinct product capabilities. | 59Segmentation is achieved through shared Google contact labels, but the platform does not specify any advanced search tools. |
| Sharing and permissions | 22Designed exclusively for individual users and lacks collaborative capabilities such as shared contact ownership, permission hierarchies, or team workflows. | 92User-level and group-level permissions on contact labels, internal domain sharing, external domain and Gmail sharing, and ownership transfer give precise access control for collaborative contact lists. |
| Import, export, and sync quality | 83Includes instant two-way device sync, CSV importing, and complete data export, but limits LinkedIn capacity based on plan level and reserves Outlook, multiple email accounts, and API/Zapier access for the Professional plan. | 85The system monitors changes in both directions with Google Contacts on an hourly or manual trigger, although continuous instant sync is not supported. |
| Full profile | Full profile | Full profile |
Research basis
This page uses stored product facts, official evidence, and category scoring rationales. It is not an account-based hands-on test, and third-party user ratings are not folded into the category buying score.
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