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Legion field intelligence · 2026-07 — 2026-08

Battle cards

Competitor rows are transcriptions or narrow summaries of vendor pages captured on 3 August 2026. Deepline was selected as the third comparison because its own homepage names Hermes agents as a supported runtime, which places it directly against Legion's agent fabric.

Legion's position

Legion is LeadGrow's community-based GTM platform. It runs cold email at scale for real clients on owned sending infrastructure, with agency operations and an agent fabric on top.

These are Legion's internal claims. They are not vendor-verified and carry no third-party citation. Do not present them to a prospect as independently sourced.

Oxygen Agent

Agent-native GTM workspace priced entirely in credits, now reselling the full managed sending chain.

https://oxygen-agent.com/Coordination layer plus cost-plus resale of sending inputs.

What they publish

Starter $99/mo for 99,000 credits, Pro $249/mo for 249,000, Team $749/mo for 749,000, Enterprise custom. 1,000 credits = $1.

Oxygen Agent pricing page · Captured 2026-08-03

Managed email inbox about $3.00/mo with warmup included; managed domain at registrar cost x1.25, about $13.05/yr; optional dedicated egress IP about $15.00/mo.

Oxygen Agent pricing page · Captured 2026-08-03

Email and WhatsApp sending cost 0 credits. The buyer pays for inboxes and connected accounts, never per message.

Oxygen Agent pricing page · Captured 2026-08-03

Enrichment and AI bill at a flat 5x provider cost. Oxygen asserts Clay marks the same data up 15-30x.

Oxygen Agent pricing page · Captured 2026-08-03

Where they win

  • Published, self-serve price with no implementation conversation.
  • One bill across enrichment, AI, sending, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and workflows.
  • Zero marginal cost per message, which reads very well on a spreadsheet.

Where Legion wins

  • Legion owns and operates its sending infrastructure through Bison rather than reselling it at a markup, so deliverability is an accountable service rather than a passed-through line item.
  • Legion runs multi-client agency operations. Oxygen's published model is a single workspace a team drives itself.
  • Legion delivers campaigns as an outcome. Oxygen sells the toolchain and leaves execution with the buyer.

Objection handling

Oxygen is $99 a month and you cost far more than that.

That $99 buys 99,000 credits and an empty workspace. Their own calculator puts a working motion at about $249/mo on Pro before anyone writes a sequence or answers a reply. The comparison is a tool budget against a delivered outcome, and the labour is still yours.

They do managed inboxes with warmup now, so why do we need owned infrastructure?

They resell it. Managed domain is registrar cost x1.25 and the egress IP is a monthly add-on. When a domain burns, a reseller passes through what the upstream provider tells them. We operate the pool, so remediation is ours to perform, not to relay.

Sending is free on Oxygen.

Per message, yes. You still pay per inbox, per domain, per LinkedIn account and per WhatsApp number. Free sending is a pricing shape, not a deliverability outcome. Nothing in their published pricing addresses what happens to reply rates at volume.

Watchpoints

ColdIQ

Unified GTM data API aimed squarely at Claude Code and terminal-driven agents.

https://coldiq.com/Data aggregation and provider routing. No sending infrastructure surfaced publicly.

What they publish

Positions as one API for all GTM data with 40+ data providers and 700+ endpoints, marketed as built for Claude Code and AI agents.

ColdIQ homepage · Captured 2026-08-03

Ships an MCP server for Claude Code, 100+ published skills, and a REST API with a full OpenAPI spec.

ColdIQ homepage · Captured 2026-08-03

Offers 300 free credits with no credit card required, and describes the unified API as in beta.

ColdIQ homepage · Captured 2026-08-03

Describes an agent that selects providers on fit, cost and accuracy rather than the user picking them.

ColdIQ homepage · Captured 2026-08-03

Where they win

  • Genuinely broad provider coverage behind a single key and a single bill.
  • Strong agent-native distribution through MCP and a large published skill library.
  • Free entry point with no card, which lowers evaluation friction to near zero.

Where Legion wins

  • ColdIQ stops at data. It does not surface domains, mailboxes, warmup or sending, so it cannot run a campaign end to end.
  • Legion pairs data with owned delivery and human campaign operations rather than handing back a structured payload.
  • A dedicated pricing page returned HTTP 404 on 3 August, so commercial terms are not publicly established.

Objection handling

ColdIQ gives us 40+ providers for one key. Why pay for your enrichment?

Agreed on the data layer, and it is a good one. It ends where the work starts. ColdIQ returns verified records; it does not own a domain, warm an inbox, send a sequence, or handle a reply. You would still need everything we do.

It's free to start.

300 credits is an evaluation, not a motion, and their pricing page was not live when we last checked. Budget for a data layer whose commercial terms are not yet published carries its own risk.

Watchpoints

Deepline

One API and one bill across 2,000+ GTM operations, explicitly targeting Hermes agents as a runtime.

https://deepline.com/Provider aggregation with a customer-owned Postgres store and a BYOK-free commercial model.

What they publish

Markets one API and one bill across 2,000+ GTM tools, and names Claude Code, Codex and Hermes agents as supported runtimes.

Deepline homepage · Captured 2026-08-03

States that enrichment, validation, scoring, waterfalls and CRM writes store every result in a Postgres database the customer owns.

Deepline homepage · Captured 2026-08-03

Bring your own keys carries no Deepline platform fee for provider access. A Growth tier is listed at $395/month for Postgres, workflows and data-point history. Managed credits convert at 10 credits = $1.

Deepline pricing page · Captured 2026-08-03

Lists 82+ integration coverage and 2,071 callable data operations, and claims managed pricing is often 50-80% lower than Clay credit-equivalent pricing.

Deepline pricing page · Captured 2026-08-03

Where they win

  • A zero-platform-fee BYOK tier is a genuinely aggressive commercial position.
  • Customer-owned Postgres removes the data-lock objection that most aggregators carry.
  • Naming Hermes agents on the homepage means they are courting exactly the buyer Legion's agent fabric serves.

Where Legion wins

  • Deepline is infrastructure for people who will build the motion themselves. Legion runs the motion.
  • No owned sending, deliverability operations, or campaign management appears on their public pages.
  • Legion's community and agency operations layer has no counterpart in Deepline's published offer.

Objection handling

Deepline is free on BYOK and already supports Hermes. Isn't that our stack for nothing?

It is the data plumbing for our stack, not the stack. BYOK free means you supply and pay every provider key yourself and operate the waterfall. Real use lands on Growth at $395/mo, and none of it sends an email or answers a reply.

They store everything in a Postgres we own. That's better than your black box.

Fair point on data ownership and worth matching. It is also a database, not a result. Owning rows does not warm a domain or recover a burned sender.

Watchpoints

Weekly monitoring loop

Each week, an analyst compares Oxygen’s public product, pricing, integration, and positioning pages with the last dated record. A meaningful difference is captured with its source URL and observation date, then written as vendor evidence; inference remains labelled as LeadGrow assessment.

01 · Detect

Compare public signals

Review the same first-party pages and flag changed copy, offers, integrations, pricing, or positioning.

02 · Record

Preserve the evidence

Save the exact claim beside its URL, capture date, publisher, and caveats so readers can retrace it.

03 · Escalate

Route material changes

Escalate changes that alter commercial positioning, buyer access, pricing, or product scope for Legion review; retain lower-signal changes in the next weekly record.