DemandSense vs. Terminus: Which is Better for ABM?

In this guide, I have compared DemandSense vs. Terminus on features, pricing and ABM fit so your marketing and sales teams can quickly see which platform aligns with their ABM motion.

I have also discussed how ZenABM can work as a lean LinkedIn-first alternative or serve as a complementary layer due to its unique features.

DemandSense vs. Terminus: Quick Summary

In case you want a quick comparison:

A third option: ZenABM gives account-level LinkedIn ad engagement, pipeline dashboards, account scoring, ABM stages, CRM sync, first-party qualitative intent, automated BDR assignment, custom webhooks, an AI chatbot Zena that gives deep LinkedIn ABM analytics in natural language, and job title analytics starting at $59 per month.

DemandSense Overview: Key Features, Pricing, and Reviews

DemandSense presents itself as a LinkedIn-centric account-based marketing and demand gen platform for B2B marketers and agencies.

It combines LinkedIn ad optimization, intent data, and prospecting so you can unmask visitors, capture buying intent, and adjust budgets, schedules, and targeting.

Key Features of DemandSense

DemandSense blends several capabilities into one growth platform.

Intent Signal Ingestion

DemandSense aims to unmask anonymous website visitors and identify companies showing buying interest.

Its Visitor ID or IntentID uses LinkedIn data and site tracking scripts to match ad clicks and visits back to firms, then pushes that data into audiences and your CRM.

A G2 user says they can see which companies visit before forms are filled and use that as a clear engagement signal.

Note: Website visitor deanonymization still leans on IP matching and cookies, which are fragile. Remote work, private networks, unregistered IPs, and ageing databases hurt accuracy. Cookies are also being phased out. A Syft study puts IP-based identification at about 42 percent accuracy.

So, instead of relying on IP trackers, you can use ZenABM – it lists out all the companies that have viewed, engaged with, or clicked your ads.

Best part?

All this data is pulled from LinkedIn’s official ads API.

Account-Level Audience Building & Segmentation

Once signals are in, you can group accounts by intent and engagement and build firmographic or behavioral audiences.

DemandSense supports custom lists for LinkedIn retargeting (and other channels), lets you exclude weak segments, and caps impressions per account so large accounts do not get spammed.

LinkedIn-Centric Campaign Management

DemandSense sits on top of Campaign Manager to provide stronger ad controls without heavy complexity.

It auto-tunes LinkedIn campaigns with features like:

• Advanced scheduling: Hourly performance analysis with automatic pauses during low engagement hours.

  

• Smart budgeting: Budget caps and thresholds at the account or campaign level, with spend shifted into high-performing segments and alerts when caps are hit.
• Frequency capping: Per company view or click caps to limit fatigue.

  

• Audience tuning: Beyond LinkedIn’s native breakdowns, DemandSense shows which industries, departments, or accounts convert and lets you exclude underperformers or scale winners with one click.

  

Multi-Channel Activation

LinkedIn remains the core channel, but DemandSense can extend to Facebook and display or CTV networks by reusing the same account lists as custom audiences.

The idea is a connected journey: someone clicks a LinkedIn ad, visits your site, and later sees a follow-up elsewhere, all tracked inside DemandSense.

CRM/Data Integration & Engagement Insights

DemandSense is not only about ads. It tries to tie everything back to revenue.

It pushes engagement into your CRM and syncs with HubSpot and Salesforce so company records show LinkedIn impressions, clicks, and scores.

This gives sales signals such as “Acme viewed your pricing page after a LinkedIn click” and lets you attribute ad spend to the pipeline.

ZenABM likewise pushes account scores and engagement into CRM company records as properties, starting at $59 per month.

Hourly Reporting

DemandSense breaks down ad engagement, spend, and performance by hour:

DemandSense Pricing: How Much Does It Cost?

DemandSense pricing reflects how deeply you want intent baked into LinkedIn and cross-channel GTM.

The Basic plan at $99 per month gives marketers and sales a self-serve entry.

It includes audience tuning so users can see which companies interact with LinkedIn ads, plus ad scheduling, frequency capping, and richer reporting.

For companies that want intent data flowing directly from their website into sales, DemandSense Plus starts at $149 per month.

It adds everything in Basic plus 250 monthly data credits to identify anonymous website visitors or uncover leads from target accounts and unlocks the Website Visitor ID module.

Together, the tiers position DemandSense as an accessible LinkedIn intent tool with room to scale, provided you are comfortable with the credit model.

User Impressions and Reviews

Public reviews for DemandSense are still sparse.

On G2, DemandSense currently has a single 5-star review from an agency user.

The reviewer praises the LinkedIn integration and ROI but warns that “there is a lot in the platform” and that you need time and possibly vendor help to set it up well.

Terminus Overview: Key Features, Pricing, and Reviews

Terminus is widely described as an end-to-end ABM platform.

It is popular with B2B marketers who want a unified ABM “Engagement Hub” that spans ads, web activity and sales touchpoints.

Here are the key pieces.

Multi-Channel Ad Support

Terminus lets you plan and manage ads across multiple channels inside one platform.

This includes traditional display ads via an account-based DSP, retargeting, LinkedIn Ads and newer formats like connected TV and audio.

By centralizing media, Terminus helps you hit target accounts across web, social and other inventory from one place, while automatically balancing impressions so a few accounts do not eat all the budget.

For teams that need centralized multi-channel orchestration, Terminus can simplify how you run ABM campaigns.

Account & Persona Targeting

You can upload or sync target account lists from your CRM and refine audiences by persona attributes such as department, seniority or function.

ZenABM also helps you track the personas/job-titles of your LinkedIn ad viewers:

Account-Level Engagement Tracking

The platform tracks impressions as well as clicks at the account level.

In ABM, simply knowing that a target account repeatedly saw your ads is useful. Account Hub surfaces impressions, clicks, site visits and other engagement per account so you can see how your programs land and support account-based attribution.

ZenABM also gives company-level engagement data for each LinkedIn ad campaign and campaign group.

You get:

• ad spend
• impressions
• clicks
• engagements
• engagement score
• ABM stage
• deal value (pulled from your CRM)

Website Visitor Identification

Terminus includes Visitor ID to de-anonymise website traffic.

It uses reverse IP lookup, cookies and CRM matching to figure out which companies (and sometimes which known contacts) are on your site.

If an anonymous visitor later fills a form, Terminus can connect that history back to the account. It also maps CRM leads to sessions by email domain, so you know, for example, when a director from Acme Corp visited the pricing page.

Intent Data

Terminus integrates intent data from providers such as Bombora to highlight in-market accounts so you can prioritize spend on companies that show strong research behavior.

Pro Tip: Favor first-party intent over third-party keyword spikes.

ZenABM captures qualitative intent by tracking which LinkedIn ads a company actually engages with, so signals are clearer and more actionable.

Teams like Userpilot have built ABM playbooks around this idea by tagging campaigns to pain points and increasing BOFU spend on the themes accounts interact with.

Their campaign blueprint:

ABM Analytics and Attribution

Measurement Studio in Terminus (supported by the BrightFunnel acquisition) handles multi touch attribution at the account level.

It lets marketers see how ads, emails, website sessions, events and other touches influence pipeline and revenue using first touch, last touch and custom models.

All of this rolls into an account journey view so you can see how an opportunity moved from early engagement to closed won.

Terminus also provides ready-made ABM dashboards that show revenue, opportunities, pipeline influence, top engaged accounts and similar metrics, plus topic-based views for discovering new opportunities.

Similarly, ZenABM gives deep plug-and-play LinkedIn ABM analytics.

From campaign performance data to revenue metrics, you get it all in a unified analytics dashboard:

Moreover, its AI agent (Zena) answers all attribution or performance-related questions in natural language, so you don’t even have to analyze these dashboards:

Integrations

Terminus plugs into a wide range of B2B tools.

There are built-in connectors for major CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics), marketing automation platforms (Marketo, Pardot, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Eloqua), ad channels (LinkedIn Ads, Google Ads), sales tools (Outreach, Salesloft and others), analytics (Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, PathFactory), data providers (Bombora, G2 intent, Clearbit or DemandScience) and more.

You can dig through the full list in the Terminus docs.

ZenABM provides built-in integrations with CRMs like HubSpot and Salesforce.

• It pushes the company-level LinkedIn ad engagement data as company properties into your CRM.

  

• It matches ad-engaged companies with the deals in your CRM and pulls their deal value for ROI attribution.

  

Terminus Pricing

Terminus pricing is premium and custom-quoted.

There is no public price card; you have to speak with sales.

Most research suggests deals land in the mid five figures per year and can climb into six figures for large enterprises.

Vendr puts the median Terminus price at about $23,000 per year, with some large customers paying $100K to $250K or more annually.

CMO.com suggests starting costs around $57,500 per year, with contracts up to $266,000, and G2 reviews point to a broad range between $18,000 and $87,000. Overall, pricing is not friendly to very small teams with tight budgets.

ZenABM, on the contrary, starts at just $59/mo.

Terminus Reviews

On sites like Trustradius, Infotech.com and Software Finder, users praise Terminus for a solid UX and broad ABM coverage.

Common complaints include cost, limits on accounts per campaign, some reporting gaps and occasional integration friction with HubSpot.

DemandSense vs. Terminus: Key Differences

DemandSense vs. Terminus differences are summarized here.

 

ZenABM as a LinkedIn-First, First-Party Lean Alternative to DemandSense and Terminus for ABM

After we have discussed DemandSense vs. Terminus for ABM, let’s visit the third option: ZenABM.

ZenABM is built for teams that rely on LinkedIn as the primary ABM channel and want first-party accuracy, automation, and revenue visibility without the price or complexity of multi-channel suites.

Let’s look at its core features:

Account-Level LinkedIn Ad Engagement Tracking

ZenABM connects to the official LinkedIn Ads API and captures account-level data for all campaigns so you can see which companies see, click, and engage with your ads.

Because this is first-party data from LinkedIn’s environment, it is more reliable than IP or cookie-based visitor ID.

A Syft study puts IP-based identification at around 42 percent accuracy.

ZenABM treats LinkedIn ad engagement itself as first-party intent. When several people in one company keep engaging with your ads, that is a strong buying signal without rented intent feeds.

Real-Time Engagement Scoring + Full Touchpoint Timeline

ZenABM updates engagement scores as accounts interact with your ads across campaigns, so you can see who is heating up over short or long windows and let marketing and sales prioritize accounts that show real intent.

ZenABM also shows the full touchpoint timeline for each company:

ABM Stage Tracking

ZenABM lets you define stages such as Identified, Aware, Engaged, Interested, and Opportunity and automatically places accounts in the right stage using scores and CRM data.

You control thresholds, and ZenABM tracks movement over time.

This gives you funnel visibility similar to larger suites, but powered by LinkedIn data.

CRM Integration and Workflows

ZenABM integrates bi-directionally with CRMs like HubSpot and adds Salesforce sync on higher tiers.

LinkedIn engagement data flows into the CRM as company-level properties:

Once an account crosses your score threshold, ZenABM updates the stage to Interested and automatically assigns a BDR.

Intent Tagging from Ad Engagement

ZenABM lets you derive intent topics from LinkedIn campaigns by tagging campaigns by feature, use case, or offer.

ZenABM then shows which accounts engage with which themes.

This is clean, first-party intent from owned interactions.

You can push these topics into your CRM, so sales and marketing can tailor outreach to what each company has actually explored.

Built-in Dashboards and ABM Analytics

ZenABM ships with dashboards that connect LinkedIn ads to account engagement, stage movement, and revenue.

• You can monitor performance from high-level ABM campaigns down to LinkedIn campaign groups and individual ads:
• Because ZenABM stores deal value and ad spend per company and per campaign, it can calculate ROAS, pipeline per dollar, and other revenue metrics and show pipeline contribution.

Job-Title Analytics

ZenABM shows which job titles engage with your creatives and gives dwell time and video funnel analytics.

AI Chatbot to Analyze Your LinkedIn and ABM Data

ZenABM provides its AI chatbot called Zena that basically answers all you want from ZenABM in natural language.

You can ask Zena open-ended questions like you would a smart analyst and get company-level answers about:

• who is seeing and clicking your ads,
• how campaigns and ABM initiatives are performing,
• how accounts are moving through stages,
• which job titles are engaging,
• and where the budget is being wasted.

Under the hood, Zena combines OpenAI with a library of carefully designed prompts and endpoints to join ad engagement, spend and CRM deals so it can explain which campaigns drove pipeline, which accounts turned into opportunities, which formats perform best and which companies are high intent but untouched by sales.

Instead of exporting spreadsheets and stitching pivot tables, you get plain language insights, ready to drop into strategy reviews, weekly sales standups or executive updates.

Custom Webhooks

ZenABM’s custom webhooks let you push events into your stack, for example, Slack alerts, enrichment flows, or other ops automations.

ABM Campaign Objects for True Multi-Campaign Attribution

Most tools treat each LinkedIn campaign separately. ZenABM lets you group several into one ABM campaign object so you can see performance across regions, personas, or creative clusters.

Instead of juggling fragmented reports in Campaign Manager, you see spend, pipeline, account movement, and ROAS for the entire initiative.

Multi Client Workspace for Agencies

For agencies, ZenABM offers a multi-client workspace.

You can manage multiple ad accounts and clients in one environment, each with its own ABM strategy, dashboards, and reporting, instead of constantly switching accounts in Campaign Manager.

ZenABM Pricing

ZenABM pricing details:

• Plans start at $59 per month for Starter, $159 for Growth, $399 for Pro (with AI), and $479 for Agency.
• Even the agency plan stays under $6,000 per year.
• All tiers include core LinkedIn ABM features. Higher tiers mostly increase limits and add Salesforce sync.
• Plans are available monthly or annually, and every plan includes a 37-day free trial.

DemandSense vs. Terminus or ZenABM: Which Tool is Best for Your ABM Strategy?

Choose Terminus if you are running a mature, enterprise-scale ABM program and need to orchestrate ads, website personalization, intent data, and sales touchpoints across multiple channels.

It makes sense when ABM is already a core GTM motion, and you have the budget and ops capacity to support it.

Choose DemandSense if LinkedIn is your primary ABM channel and your goal is better control over scheduling, audience tuning, frequency capping, and campaign efficiency without rolling out a full enterprise ABM stack.

Choose ZenABM if you want LinkedIn-first ABM with clean company-level engagement, real intent from ad interactions, CRM-centered workflows, and clear pipeline and revenue visibility at a predictable cost.

ZenABM, in fact, sits between DemandSense and Terminus by doing what neither does cleanly:

• Company-level LinkedIn ad engagement pulled from the official LinkedIn Ads API
• First-party qualitative intent based on actual ad interactions, not keyword guesses
• Real-time engagement scoring and ABM stage tracking
• Pipeline, revenue, and ROAS dashboards tied directly to LinkedIn spend
• Bi-directional CRM sync with HubSpot and Salesforce
• Automatic BDR routing when accounts heat up
• AI-powered analysis through its chatbot, Zena
• Instead of guessing intent from IPs or rented data, ZenABM treats LinkedIn ad engagement itself as first-party intent, which is often more accurate and far more actionable.

It can replace DemandSense for teams that want deeper ABM workflows, or sit alongside Terminus to give you clean LinkedIn attribution without inflating an already expensive enterprise contract.

Try ZenABM now for free or book a demo to know more!