Apollo.io

AI sales intelligence and engagement platform

SF8.9
Build prospect lists at scaleemail sequencesai sales intelligence
Build prospect lists at scaleemail sequences

Best for

SDR teams, founders, growth stage sales

Pricing

From $49/mo

Free plan

Available

SoftFinders Score

8.9 / 10

Overview

What is Apollo.io?

Apollo.io is a go-to-market platform that combines B2B sales intelligence, data enrichment, outbound engagement, and AI-assisted prospecting in one system. Revenue teams can search for people and companies, build targeted prospect lists, enrich CRM records, run email and multichannel sequences, and manage prospecting workflows without stitching together separate data and engagement products.


  1. Prospecting and enrichment: Apollo helps users identify companies and decision-makers, build targeted lists, and enrich contact and account records with demographic, firmographic, technographic, intent, and other business data. Enrichment can be applied to CRM records, CSV files, or other systems through Apollo’s API.
  2. Sales engagement: teams can build sequences that combine automated emails with calls, LinkedIn tasks, and other follow-up activities. This allows prospect discovery and outbound execution to remain connected instead of moving leads between separate intelligence and sales-engagement tools.
  3. Apollo AI Assistant: Apollo’s current AI Assistant goes beyond generating copy. Users can give it natural-language instructions to find and qualify prospects, research people and companies, build or enrich lists, create personalized sequences, improve messaging, and assist with campaign optimization. Apollo also provides AI Research for generating reusable research fields about people and companies.
  4. CRM and revenue workflows: Apollo can enrich and synchronize data with supported CRM environments, including Salesforce and HubSpot, while its APIs enable organizations to connect prospecting, enrichment, sequences, tasks, and other Apollo data with their broader sales technology stack.


Apollo.io is particularly relevant to sales, business development, RevOps, and go-to-market teams that want prospect data, enrichment, outreach execution, and increasingly agentic AI workflows within the same platform. Its suitability depends on required data coverage, outreach channels, CRM architecture, and how much of the outbound process a team wants to operate inside Apollo.

KEY FEATURES

What you get out of the box

B2B Database

Verified contacts across 270M+ B2B database

Email Sequences

Run multichannel email sequences across SDR teams

Built In Dialer

Built in dialer across paid Apollo plans

Free Tier

Free starting plan available across new accounts

CRM Sync

Sync prospect data across major CRM platforms

AI Features

AI assistance across prospecting and engagement workflow

USE CASES

Where teams put it to work

Build prospect lists at scale
Run cold email sequences today
Enrich CRM contact records today
Run multichannel outbound program today
Start free with Apollo today
Test platform across SDR teams

Editorial Take

What we like, and what to verify

What we like
  • Massive contact database with affordable per seat plans
  • Free starting tier across new sales teams today
  • Combines prospecting and engagement across single platform
What to verify
  • Public reviews note data accuracy varies by segment
  • Credit limits can pinch heavy outbound prospecting users
  • AI features are layered, not deeply AI native

FAQ

Quick answers

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