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Google Analytics vs Tomba email finder
The Google Analytics 4 Data API (`analyticsdata.googleapis.com/v1beta`) lets applications pull custom reports of metrics, dimensions, and audience segments out of a GA4 property, complementing a separate Admin API used to manage properties, streams, and access. It requires a Google OAuth 2.0 bearer token, confirmed live via a `WWW-Authenticate: Bearer realm="https://accounts.google.com/"` challenge on an unauthenticated `runReport` call, and the same request repeated with an Origin header echoed `access-control-allow-origin` back, resolving CORS support from unknown to yes. The core Data API is free to call within Google's standard quotas, with Google Analytics 360 offered as a paid enterprise tier for higher limits and additional features.
Tomba's Email Finder API discovers and verifies professional email addresses from a company domain or a person's name, and doubles as a B2B prospecting and lead-enrichment tool via linked domain-search and phone-finder endpoints. It authenticates with a paired `X-Tomba-Key`/`X-Tomba-Secret` header set rather than a single token, and a live Origin-header probe confirms it explicitly supports browser CORS, echoing the request Origin with credentials enabled on both a GET and an OPTIONS preflight.
| Google Analytics | Tomba email finder | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | OAuth | API Key |
| Pricing | freemium | freemium |
| Formats | JSON | JSON |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |