LeadGrade vs Common Room

What its own page publishes	LeadGrade	Common Room
The price on its own pricing page	$9/month flat.	$2,500/mo billed annually for Essential; Advanced and Enterprise are Custom behind Request demo.
What the price is per	Per business, flat.	Per workspace.
How you get the number	It is on the page.	It is on the page for Essential only.
What the page says about why a lead scored the way it did	Every score carries the 12 rules that produced it and the value each one read.	Not stated on its pricing page.
Write-back safety	Deferred 60 seconds, and refused on any field a rep already filled.	Not applicable. It is the signal platform itself.

Every tool in this category can put a number on a lead. The question a founder-led team should ask is narrower: can you see why it scored where it did, and can you check the price before you talk to anyone?

What Common Room is

A signal platform: it pulls activity from community, social, product and web sources, resolves it to people and accounts, and surfaces the ones worth a conversation.

$2,500/mo, billed annually, for Essential. Advanced and Enterprise are both "Custom" behind "Request demo". Read from Common Room — Pricing on 2026-09-22.

What LeadGrade is

LeadGrade is a $9/month agent that does one thing, and shows its working.

It ranks last night's inbound, HubSpot contacts and your own form submissions, into one queue, highest first.
Every score carries the 12 rules that produced it, each with the value it read and what that value was worth. You can disagree with a specific line rather than with a model.
Enrichment resolves the company record HubSpot already holds against the domain: no bought data set, and no invented company size. A lead it could not resolve says so on its own card.
The write-back is deferred by 60 seconds and keeps the value it replaced, and a field a rep already filled is refused outright.

Choose Common Room if

Your buyers are visible somewhere other than your own forms and CRM.
You have someone whose job includes owning the signal model.
You need identity resolution across community, social and product data.

Choose LeadGrade if

Your inbound already arrives; it just arrives unranked.
Nobody on the team has time to own a scoring platform.
You want the reasons on the row, so the ranking survives its first disagreement.

Moving off Common Room

Common Room pulls signal from community, social, product and web sources into one person record, so leaving it means losing that identity resolution, not just the scoring. LeadGrade reads only your HubSpot contacts and your own forms, so switching to it does not recreate anything Common Room aggregated from those other sources; it starts a narrower job from what is already in your CRM.

Questions

What does Common Room cost? Its published entry plan is $2,500/mo, billed annually, for Essential. Advanced and Enterprise are both Custom behind Request demo.

Is LeadGrade a Common Room alternative? For one job, yes: ranking the inbound you already have. Common Room is a much wider signal platform: social, community, product and web signals unified into one person record. If what you need is a queue of this morning's form fills, ranked with reasons, that width is a cost rather than a feature.