Is Village a good Affinity alternative?

Yes, especially if you need to reach people beyond your team's existing network. Affinity is a strong relationship CRM for the contacts you've already captured, but it has no pre-built global graph, no automated intro workflow, and no free plan. Village covers all three and still maps and scores your team's own network.

Village vs Affinity: how does pricing compare?

Village is free to start, then $79/mo (Pro) and $149/mo (Business), plus a usage-based public API. Affinity is quote-based and seat-priced (published from ~$2,000/user/year, billed annually) with no free plan.

Does Affinity have a warm-intro API like Village?

Affinity offers a REST API over your own captured data on higher tiers. Village's public API queries a pre-built global relationship graph and comes with an MCP server, so it returns warm paths to people your team has never met rather than reading your own CRM back to you.

Village vs Affinity

Comparison · Updated June 2026

The short version

Affinity is the most established CRM for the relationships a firm has already captured. Email and calendar sync in on their own, and the whole deal team works off one scored network. It stops at the edge of that network. Village searches a pre-built global graph, so a warm path can exist even when nobody at your firm has met the target, and it runs the intro once it finds one. There's a public API and a free plan too.

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Village vs Affinity, side by side

Both tools graded against the capability checklist we apply to every warm-intro tool.

Capability	Village	Affinity
Relationship intelligence
Searchable 700M+ graph
Auto-captures email & calendar
Manual import via AI (any CSV or source)
Hidden ties (past coworkers, investors, alumni)
3rd-degree team network mapping
Warm-path scoring (signal vs noise)
Whole-team pooled network
Plain-English AI search
Workflows
Projects (end-to-end agentic pipeline)
AI intro sequences
AI lead screening
Browser extension
API & integrations
Public data API + SDK
MCP server
Integrations out of the box	500+	30+
Pricing & trust
Free plan
Starting price	$79/mo	$2k/user/yr
VIP / done-for-you service	$2k/mo	None
SOC 2 Type II

Yes Partial NoUnknown Not public

Why teams pick Village over Affinity

Village searches a pre-built graph of 4.77B relationships across 775M people. Affinity maps the contacts your team has already emailed or met, and stops there.
Affinity surfaces the path and hands it back to you. Village screens the person with Autopilot and sends the intro sequence.
Village has a free plan and a public relationship-graph API with an MCP server. Affinity is seat-based from ~$2,000/user/yr, billed annually, with no free tier.

When Affinity is the better pick

Choose Affinity if you're a VC or PE firm that wants the deepest deal-flow CRM for managing your own captured relationships and pipeline.

Where Affinity is strong

Automatic email/calendar capture means little manual data entry.
Deep deal-flow + relationship CRM trusted across VC and PE.
Enterprise-grade: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR & CCPA.
REST API + MCP server on higher tiers; Chrome extension.

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How Village does each of these

The product pages below show Village's real UI for each part of the warm-intro workflow, including the capabilities Affinity covers only partially or not at all.

AI searchFind anyone in plain English across a pre-built global graph.Autopilot screeningAI scores and shortlists the right people for you.Intro sequencesDraft, send and follow up on warm intros automatically.Browser extensionSurface warm paths anywhere you browse.

Village vs Affinity: FAQ

Comparison based on each vendor's public materials as of June 2026. Capability scores and prices change, so confirm with each vendor. Village figures are as reported by Village. See the full comparison of all 11 warm-intro tools.