Exporb vs BoothIQ — which fits your trade show team?
BoothIQ (getboothiq.com) is the closest competitor to Exporb on paper — badge scanning, voice memos, AI transcription, and a free tier. The gap shows up underneath: verifiable, quote-linked insights and a documented AI ranking model versus manual team favoriting, and per-seat pricing versus a $499/month flat rate. Here is the honest head-to-head.
What is the difference between Exporb and BoothIQ?
BoothIQ scans any badge, business card, or handwritten note, records voice memos with AI transcription, and generates AI summaries and action items — it works fully offline and even plugs into Claude and ChatGPT via native MCP support. That makes it the nearest match to Exporb of any competitor on this site. The difference is what a rep can trust after the show: Exporb links every AI insight back to the exact quote in the transcript and scores each lead against fixed thresholds (Hot, Warm, Fresh). BoothIQ's ranking is a manual team-favoriting workflow, not a documented AI score.
Pricing works differently too. BoothIQ charges $0 for solo use (no CRM sync) and a flat $499/month for unlimited seats and events on its Teams plan. Exporb charges per seat — $59/month for 5 seats, $99/month for 10 — which is cheaper for most teams until headcount climbs into the dozens. If your team is small and wants verifiable, quote-linked AI insights, Exporb is the sharper fit. If you're running a large distributed team across many events on one flat bill and already live inside Claude or ChatGPT, BoothIQ's model has real appeal.
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Feature comparison
Side-by-side on the capabilities that matter for trade show lead capture.
| Capability | Exporb | BoothIQ |
|---|---|---|
| Scan badges, business cards & handwritten notes | ||
| Record the booth conversation with voice memos | ||
| Auto-transcribe what was said | ||
| AI summary + suggested action items | ||
| Show the exact quote behind each AI insight | unclear | |
| Read buying intent (urgency, budget, competitor mentions) | unclear | |
| AI-scored lead ranking with clear thresholds (Hot/Warm/Fresh) | ||
| Works for buyers / sourcing teams too, not just sellers | ||
| Native MCP integration with Claude & ChatGPT desktop | ||
| Works fully offline at the booth | ||
| Push leads straight to Salesforce | ||
| Push leads straight to HubSpot | ||
| Free tier with no time limit | ||
| Per-seat pricing (cost scales down for small teams) | ||
| Pre-conference prospecting & meeting booking | ||
| SOC 2 certification today |
BoothIQ data sourced from getboothiq.com public-facing pages as of July 2026.
Which one should your team use?
Exporb is best for
Small-to-mid sales teams that want a documented, verifiable AI score and pricing that scales down with headcount.
- Every AI insight links back to the exact quote in the transcript — no black box
- Fixed scoring thresholds (Hot ≥ 70, Warm 40-69, Fresh below 40) instead of manual favoriting
- Per-seat pricing — cheaper than BoothIQ's flat $499/mo for teams under ~50 people
- Works for sourcing teams too — supplier terms, sample availability, MOQs
BoothIQ is best for
Large distributed teams on one flat bill who already work inside Claude or ChatGPT.
- Flat $499/month covers unlimited seats and unlimited events — no per-seat math
- Native MCP integration puts event data directly inside Claude and ChatGPT
- Pre-conference prospecting and meeting booking baked into the workflow
- Scans badges, handwritten notes, and on-screen LinkedIn profiles
BoothIQ vs Exporb FAQ
More on the main FAQ page.
Both tools scan badges and business cards, record voice memos, transcribe them, and generate AI summaries — BoothIQ (getboothiq.com) is a closer match to Exporb than most badge-scanner competitors. The real differences are underneath: Exporb shows the exact quote and timestamp behind every AI insight and scores leads against fixed thresholds (Hot ≥ 70, Warm 40-69, Fresh below 40). BoothIQ lets teams manually favorite and rank leads, but does not publish an AI scoring model or per-insight source links. BoothIQ also ships native MCP integration so Claude and ChatGPT can query your event data directly — Exporb does not have that today.
Yes. BoothIQ has voice memos with AI transcription, AI-generated summaries, and AI action items — the closest feature match to Exporb's core loop of any competitor reviewed. Where it's unclear is verifiability: BoothIQ's marketing does not show whether a flagged insight links back to the specific line in the transcript. Exporb builds that traceability in by design, so a rep can check the AI's claim against what was actually said before calling a lead "hot."
It depends entirely on team size. BoothIQ Teams is a flat $499/month for unlimited users and unlimited events — no per-seat math. Exporb Scale is $99/month for 10 seats (about $9.90/seat), and Growth is $59/month for 5 seats. For any team under roughly 50 people, Exporb's per-seat pricing comes out well below BoothIQ's flat rate. BoothIQ only wins on price once a company has dozens of reps attending events year-round on one shared plan — at that point the flat rate can beat per-seat billing anywhere.
Not published. BoothIQ lets a team "favorite & rank leads as a team," which reads as a manual workflow rather than an AI-generated score with fixed thresholds. Exporb assigns every lead a numeric score the moment the conversation is processed, buckets it into Hot, Warm, or Fresh, and shows the buying signals that drove the score. If a documented, automatic ranking model matters to your team, that's an Exporb strength BoothIQ does not clearly match today.
Yes for both. BoothIQ states it "works 100% offline" — capture on the floor, sync when back online. Exporb is offline-first the same way: capture works with zero connectivity, and AI analysis queues server-side until the device reconnects. Neither tool depends on convention WiFi actually working.
No, not today. BoothIQ ships native MCP (Model Context Protocol) support so Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and ChatGPT can query event data directly, plus a Slack bot ("Blake"). That's a genuine BoothIQ strength for teams already living inside those AI tools. Exporb's AI runs inside its own app and dashboard rather than exposing an MCP endpoint.
Neither has a published third-party certification today. BoothIQ lists SSO and encryption at rest/in transit but no SOC 2, ISO 27001, or other compliance badge on its site. Exporb runs on Supabase and Vercel (both SOC 2 Type 2 today) with Row-Level Security on every table and PII-sanitized logs, and is scoping its own SOC 2 audit for late 2026. For procurement teams that need a vendor-held certification today, neither tool currently has one — ask both directly before a large deal.
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