Unified sales intelligence and engagement platform for B2B teams
A restricted trial to test Apollo's B2B database accuracy in your niche.
Forever free
The ideal tier for solo founders executing email-first outbound sales.
For solo founders who specifically need a built-in auto-dialer and A/B testing.
Built for large enterprise sales teams with mandatory minimum seat counts.
Apollo heavily restricts cold-calling data. Revealing a single mobile phone number costs 8 mobile credits [1.1.2]. On the $49 Basic plan, you get an allowance of 75 mobile credits per month. Do the math: 75 divided by 8 means you can only reveal 9 mobile numbers per month before your account runs dry. If you are a call-heavy founder, Apollo becomes a massive cost trap via expensive credit overages.
Apollo uses a confusing 'triple-pool' system. Your Data Credits (for revealing contact details) are completely separate from your Email Sending Limits. You can easily have thousands of data credits left to find leads, but have your sequences completely frozen because you hit your separate daily email sending cap. You must manage both limits independently.
If you buy an annual plan, Apollo grants your entire yearly data credit allowance upfront (e.g., 30,000 credits). However, these credits strictly do not roll over at the end of your billing anniversary. If you have uneven prospecting rhythms (heavy in Q1, taking a break in Q2), you will forfeit all unused data credits when your year resets.
This equates to 1 billable hour. If Apollo's automated sequencing and scraping saves you from manually finding emails and copy-pasting follow-ups for 4 hours a week, it is an instant and massive ROI for a solo operator.
This equates to about 1.5 billable hours. You are paying a $30 premium over Basic primarily for the dialer and A/B testing. However, the dialer quality is widely reported as sub-standard compared to dedicated VoIP tools. Evaluate carefully.
Do not buy this. Due to the strict 3-seat minimum, the actual entry price is $357/month billed annually ($4,284/year), or $447/month if billed monthly. A solo founder has zero use for the enterprise features gating this tier.
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$0.00/yearly | Enterprise GTM platform combining B2B data with AI automation | Read Review |
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$50.00/monthly | High-accuracy B2B sales intelligence and contact enrichment platform. | Read Review |
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$34.00/monthly | Professional email discovery and verification platform for B2B outreach. | Read Review |
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$99.00/monthly | A B2B prospecting tool with a 95% data accuracy guarantee and real-time email verification. | Read Review |
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$49.00/monthly | B2B sales intelligence and data enrichment platform with an extensive professional contact database. | Read Review |
No. Apollo enforces a strict 3-seat minimum on the Organization tier. Even if you are a solo founder, the lowest possible price to access this tier is $357/month on an annual contract.
Yes, but there are hidden fees. Apollo charges $0.20 per overage mobile credit, but enforces a minimum overage purchase of $50 (250 credits). You cannot just buy 'a few' extra credits to finish out the month.
Generally, no. According to reviews, Apollo's platform is an intelligence tool first and a telephony stack second. Many users report the dialer lags behind dedicated VoIP industry standards. It is often better to use the Basic plan for emails and buy a separate dialing tool.
