Apollo.io vs. Cognism

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apollo.io
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Apollo is a sales intelligence platform with tools to help users engage with prospects. Sellers and marketers can use Apollo to discover more customers in market, connect with contacts, and establish a modern go-to-market strategy. Apollo's B2B Database includes over 220M contacts and 30M companies. Teams can leverage Apollo’s Engagement Suite to scale outbound activity and sequences effectively. Finally, Apollo's Intelligence Engine supports the user's go-to-market processes…
$59
per month
Cognism
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Cognism is a prospecting software suite from the company of the same name in London. The suite includes tools to enrich sales data and sync sales data across sources to produce context and refresh opportunities, organize outbound prospecting, and improve prospecting and sales activities conducted in Salesforce or in LinkedIn Sales Navigator.N/A
Pricing
Apollo.ioCognism
Editions & Modules
Basic
$59
per month per user
Professional
$99
per month per user
Organization
$1,188
per year per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Apollo.ioCognism
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details20% discount for annual billing on the Basic and Professional plans.
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Community Pulse
Apollo.ioCognism
Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
Apollo.ioCognism
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.2
11 Ratings
8% above category average
Cognism
-
Ratings
Advanced search8.511 Ratings00 Ratings
Identification of new leads7.411 Ratings00 Ratings
List quality8.211 Ratings00 Ratings
List upload/download8.910 Ratings00 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting8.311 Ratings00 Ratings
Load time/data access7.811 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
6.8
11 Ratings
10% below category average
Cognism
-
Ratings
Contact information6.611 Ratings00 Ratings
Company information6.711 Ratings00 Ratings
Industry information7.210 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.4
11 Ratings
13% above category average
Cognism
-
Ratings
Lead qualification process8.48 Ratings00 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations8.69 Ratings00 Ratings
Salesforce integration9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Company/business profiles8.510 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts and reminders8.88 Ratings00 Ratings
Data hygiene8.710 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic data refresh9.39 Ratings00 Ratings
Tags5.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation8.810 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.8
7 Ratings
15% above category average
Cognism
-
Ratings
Sales email templates7.77 Ratings00 Ratings
Append emails to records9.96 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Apollo.ioCognism
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(30 ratings)
8.5
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apollo.ioCognism
Likelihood to Recommend
Apollo.io
Best suited for contact discovery on LinkedIn or for that matter any website, but it works best on LinkedIn. It saves tons of work, you can simply select the complete list of people you want to contact and put them directly into an email sequence. It is a little difficult to find contact info on other websites.
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Cognism
In terms of giving "upfront" info about the data, Cognism is well suited. I've used Lusha and LeadIQ in the past, and they don't give insights on DNC as Cognism does. They also don't give a headsup on whether the phone number is direct, mobile, or office and the only way to find that out is through calling those phone numbers directly.
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Pros
Apollo.io
  • Allows users to easily add new prospects to database without much manual effort at all
  • Allows you to make cold calls from different area codes that are relevant to where your prospect is located
  • Allows A/B testing for emails so you can figure out which ones are gaining the most traction
  • You can also find prospects based off of title, company, technologies, etc
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Cognism
  • They give us a headsup if the phone number is direct, mobile, or HQ
  • They advise us if the email is verified - that reduces our bounce rate.
  • They also advise us if our prospect's number is in the DNC list
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Cons
Apollo.io
  • Their customer service is just terrible. You get an assigned account manager but 9/10 times they wouldn't know what you wanted and/or how the product works or how to fix it. Vast majority of the time it was a canned response that made you question if they read the message, or if they read it and did not understand a word.
  • The software was relatively buggy and lacked features that were promised upon signup. They seem to have some large corporate clients and if you aren't one none of your bug submissions, feature requests, or concerns will be addressed.
  • Their growing quickly so they seem to be very understaffed which I believe caused many of the issues above.
  • The data, while good, can quickly run out if you're looking for specific types of leads. If you're looking for something generic like Managers at companies between 10-5000 people, you can pull leads all day every day. However if you're looking for a specific industry, specific title, and specific location - don't count on having an endless supply of leads (or even really enough to use month after month).
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Cognism
  • Data are not 100% accurate, which is normal for every data enrichment tool. But at least we could flag it to them so they could improve it.
  • Sometimes, I'm having problems exporting info into SFDC.
  • Wish I could also export the contacts directly to Outreach.
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Support Rating
Apollo.io
I received excellent support at any time I opened up a ticket. But I would add to it that the tool was very self-explanatory, so there wasn't much need for support. With Outreach, we have a closer relationship with our CSM because of the intricacy in things like SFDC task mapping.
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Cognism
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Alternatives Considered
Apollo.io
I have also looked into and tried Hunter.io and Lusha, and to be honest, I shouldn't compare them with Apollo. I have found Apollo to be so easy to integrate and use with all of my prospecting that I haven't really even tried out the other two. I bet I could find some useful things by using Hunter.io or Lusha as well, but there is honestly no need since I can do everything I want and more with Apollo. I would just be wasting time trying to figure out another platform when I can be focused on growing my own business with Apollo.
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Cognism
Data quality for phone numbers in APAC
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Return on Investment
Apollo.io
  • Generated a lot of expectations that were not real when we needed them
  • The ROI was positive but we decided to stop using the tool
  • We loved how easy to use it was and how easy it was to interact with the Support team
  • There is room for improvement in the video tutorials - they were from old versions of the software that would not be useful for the version at hand
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Cognism
  • We were able to reach prospective customers through phone or email
  • We save time not dialing office numbers, because Cognism gives us a heads up on that
  • We don't annoy prospects who don't want unsolicited phone calls, since Cognism advise us if the number is in DNC
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ScreenShots

Apollo.io Screenshots

Screenshot of Find every prospect. Uncover high-intent contacts in your market.Screenshot of Connect with every contact. Orchestrate multi-step sequences at scale.Screenshot of Optimize your sales strategy. Unlock efficiencies and opportunities across your entire workflow.Screenshot of Apollo B2B Lead Database - Access data on more than 250M people and companies.Screenshot of Apollo Engagement Suite - Automate personalized messages across your entire pipeline.Screenshot of Apollo Intelligence Engine - Improve your revenue strategy across your workflow and boost efficiencies.