Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Affinity CRM
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Affinity is a relationship intelligence platform enabling teams to leverage their network to close deals. Affinity manages relationships by auto-populating a connected CRM pipeline and unlocking introductions to decision makers.
$2,000
per year per user
Apollo.io
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Apollo is a sales platform that helps revenue teams find and engage leads, automate outreach, manage deals, and enrich data.
$59
per month per user
UpLead
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
UpLead is a B2B data provider and technology company based in Southern California providing access to verified B2B contacts with direct email addresses. Search by industry, location, sales volume, number of employees, public vs private, contact title, job function, management level, technologies used and more to find customers. API and CRM integrations available.
$99
per month
Pricing
Affinity CRMApollo.ioUpLead
Editions & Modules
Essential
$2000
per year per user
Scale
$2300
per year per user
Advanced
$2700
per year per user
Enterprise
Contact
Basic
$59
per month per user
Professional
$99
per month per user
Organization
$1,188
per year per user
Basic
$99.00
per month
Plus
$199.00
per month
Professional
$399.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Affinity CRMApollo.ioUpLead
Free Trial
NoYesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details20% discount for annual billing on the Basic and Professional plans.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Affinity CRMApollo.ioUpLead
Considered Multiple Products
Affinity CRM

No answer on this topic

Apollo.io
Chose Apollo.io
I am still using those, some platform have better features than others, but overall if I had to use only one product for the business - it would be Apollo, because it seems to have the golden middle and the best quality of the information. Maybe for the investor research PitchBo…
UpLead
Chose UpLead
Winmo is great but is very expensive. Apollo.io is not as user friendly and didn't provide the content in an easy manner. Also didn't have as many mobile numbers.
Chose UpLead
Multiple factors - data quality and price plans were key factors.
Chose UpLead
UpLead costs a bit more, but I found the data on UpLead to be well worth it in comparison and it was easier to transfer to our CRM (HubSpot). I like how they also provide useful API integration into UpLead and I hope they begin to offer more automation in the future.
Chose UpLead
I prefer UpLead over both Apollo and Zoominfo based on user-friendly and quality leads.
Chose UpLead
UpLead is beginner-friendly and much easy and comfortable for me to use and navigate all the icons.
Features
Affinity CRMApollo.ioUpLead
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Affinity CRM
-
Ratings
Apollo.io
8.2
172 Ratings
6% above category average
UpLead
9.4
42 Ratings
19% above category average
Advanced search00 Ratings8.4168 Ratings9.642 Ratings
Identification of new leads00 Ratings8.3168 Ratings8.741 Ratings
List quality00 Ratings7.8170 Ratings9.542 Ratings
List upload/download00 Ratings8.5159 Ratings9.842 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting00 Ratings8.0166 Ratings9.342 Ratings
Load time/data access00 Ratings8.2168 Ratings9.242 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
Affinity CRM
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Ratings
Apollo.io
8.1
170 Ratings
4% above category average
UpLead
9.4
41 Ratings
19% above category average
Contact information00 Ratings8.1170 Ratings9.341 Ratings
Company information00 Ratings8.2170 Ratings9.441 Ratings
Industry information00 Ratings8.0168 Ratings9.541 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
Affinity CRM
-
Ratings
Apollo.io
7.8
168 Ratings
5% above category average
UpLead
8.8
40 Ratings
17% above category average
Lead qualification process00 Ratings7.7157 Ratings8.637 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations00 Ratings7.6155 Ratings8.134 Ratings
Salesforce integration00 Ratings8.299 Ratings8.530 Ratings
Company/business profiles00 Ratings8.1162 Ratings9.038 Ratings
Alerts and reminders00 Ratings7.7143 Ratings8.232 Ratings
Data hygiene00 Ratings7.5161 Ratings9.137 Ratings
Automatic data refresh00 Ratings7.5155 Ratings8.736 Ratings
Tags00 Ratings7.7132 Ratings9.236 Ratings
Filters and segmentation00 Ratings8.2158 Ratings9.439 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
Affinity CRM
-
Ratings
Apollo.io
7.7
151 Ratings
3% above category average
UpLead
8.1
30 Ratings
8% above category average
Sales email templates00 Ratings7.7150 Ratings8.329 Ratings
Append emails to records00 Ratings7.8139 Ratings7.929 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(4 ratings)
8.7
(162 ratings)
9.7
(41 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(134 ratings)
9.6
(15 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(6 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
5.5
(1 ratings)
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(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
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(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Affinity CRMApollo.ioUpLead
Likelihood to Recommend
Affinity (Project Affinity, Inc.)
Nudge.ai is well suited for individual contributors without enough time or resource to do proper research on clients/prospects. It may work as well for larger teams, but I don't have experience using Nudge.ai in that environment. Nudge.ai is easy to use, so the onboarding and ramp-up time is quick.
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Apollo.io
Apollo.io played big role for us in saving $$$ by bringing data mining, AI Email Writing and acting as CRM altogether...for small to medium organization they can surely rely on Apollo.io...and it is doing things mostly right with some room for improvement for sure. Sales and Marketing team saves time in getting their emails drafted based on prompts, list of contacts they can fetch in minutes of time, earlier we used to have seperate tool just to mine data, then we used to upload the CSV file to email marketing tool, then we used to draft email...for all these process we were using three different tools - Apollo.io brought everything under one umbrella.
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UpLead
UpLead is well suited for environments where there is a lot of accurate contact information to research mainly generating sales for a business. On the other hand, businesses that don't require searching up a huge amount of contact data and that doesn't add up to the sales of a business do not need to use this software.
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Pros
Affinity (Project Affinity, Inc.)
  • Organization
  • Data Housing
  • Exporting Data
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Apollo.io
  • Firstly, finding the details of the potential customers that is there name, designation email and phone number since these are the most important cases most of the times I can get this data in Apollo.io
  • I can pull the bulk data of the targeted organization, or I can pull the emails based on the location and job titles
  • Apart from the email capture, the thing which helpful is that the email sequence can find emails and send emails in Apollo.io itself and also the report and the dashboard are so clean
  • Friendly UI and UX Apollo.io was the first tool which I used. Since then I'm still using Apollo.io for easy understanding
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UpLead
  • UpLead is one of the best B2B platforms available in the market which deals in offering the highest quality contacts and different companies’ data.
  • It has the best and updated real-time email verification, having contacts worldwide, technology tracking, account-based marketing, and robust API.
  • The integration of UpLead with other platforms is up to the mark. It allows users to integrate UpLead with other renowned software to have the best possible workspace to work on.
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Cons
Affinity (Project Affinity, Inc.)
  • More prompts to update and sort new connections
  • More visual appeal on each listing on a list
  • An Outlook desktop app plugin
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Apollo.io
  • There are certain features about prospecting that require updates. For example, if people switch organisations, it should be automatically requesting the new email or new contact data for a particular contact in order to be updated in the system
  • The lead databases that are created if their new addition should automatically be updated in the list that I created with Apollo.io
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UpLead
  • More data on small and start-up companies, but this situation is understandable.
  • Collecting a long list of contacts, especially of overseas companies, can sometimes take a while as UpLead is verifying the data. But the wait is typically understandable and worth it.
  • Sometimes I struggle with translating job functions in a foreign language, but this is easy to overcome.
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Likelihood to Renew
Affinity (Project Affinity, Inc.)
We will definitely be renewing. The value for the price we are paying is solid, and we are interested in growing our use to see if we can expand on the value we are getting from Nudge.ai.
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Apollo.io
at this moment Apollo.io seems to be the perfect tool that has mastered all aspects of outbound marketing and CRM to handle and manage sales cycle.
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UpLead
No answers on this topic
Usability
Affinity (Project Affinity, Inc.)
No answers on this topic
Apollo.io
Apollo.io does provide campaign setup help and made my SDRs team's life easier, with the use of lead enrichment, lead distribution, I can manage my team from a single dashboard. It also comes with CRM that helps me navigate the progress on leads and what my SDRs progress.
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UpLead
The tool is robust, it's powerful, it's accurate, and it's extremely helpful and pivotal in my current banking sales role. I could not succeed without UpLead's accurate data and contact information. I'm thankful that such an incredible service exists at such a fair and reasonable price, thank you for the value that you provide your customers and thank you for making me a very successful salesman and wealthier man
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Support Rating
Affinity (Project Affinity, Inc.)
Nudge.ai is fairly intuitive, so the need for support is minimal. I have only had to reach out to the support team a couple of times for minor issue. The response has been quick and issues resolved to my satisfaction in a reasonable time frame. I have no issues with Nudge support at this time.
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Apollo.io
The team wants to solve probelms, but we are finding that they don't know how to solve the more technical issues quickly. I suspect that they don't have a mature process for escalations, and they don't have a usable knowledge base article repository. They seems to push emails around to let us know that people are working on the issues to find solutions, but this takes weeks and oftentimes still leaves us without a resolution.
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UpLead
i like their support bot.
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Alternatives Considered
Affinity (Project Affinity, Inc.)
Affinity is the bridge that links our communication through our software workflow.
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Apollo.io
All of these platforms are good and offer valuable tools, but where Apollo.io is different is how this one platform does the job of several different ones. It is nice not having to use multiple platforms to get things done and makes integration and analytics issues occur less often. It is user friendly and constantly working to improve.
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UpLead
UpLead costs a bit more, but I found the data on UpLead to be well worth it in comparison and it was easier to transfer to our CRM (HubSpot). I like how they also provide useful API integration into UpLead and I hope they begin to offer more automation in the future.
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Return on Investment
Affinity (Project Affinity, Inc.)
  • Hard to quantify - I know my job would be exponentially more difficult if I didn't have it.
  • Affinity frees someone in business development or sales of the endless spreadsheets needed to track pipeline progress.
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Apollo.io
  • It provides more opportunities to gather more clients.
  • It gives more results and better results in targeting our sales.
  • It is a more effective way to provide information to a large number of potential clients about the events/ projects the company is offering.
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UpLead
  • I haven't been using UpLead long but I have generated interest in our company with several large accounts. Each one of them can add several million in revenue to our company.
  • A huge time saver is to be able to send out email blasts to potential clients I've downloaded from UpLead.
  • Securing any one of the prospects I'm working on through UpLead can easily pay for the investment 10 times over.
  • Most of the salespeople in our company are asking me where I'm getting my leads from.
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ScreenShots

Apollo.io Screenshots

Screenshot of people, appearing in ApolloScreenshot of Apollo's data enrichment dashboardScreenshot of a view of unified customer dataScreenshot of Apollo's AI-assisted meetings