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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Apollo.io

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AApollo is a sales platform that helps revenue teams find and engage leads, automate outreach, manage deals, and enrich data.

    $59

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    Gong

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AGong helps people and companies reach their potential. The Gong Revenue Intelligence Platform™ enables customer-facing teams to take advantage of their most valuable assets – customer interactions, which the Gong platform automatically captures and analyzes. Gong then delivers insights at scale, to empower revenue and go-to-market teams to determine the best actions for winning outcomes. The vendor boasts companies like Morningstar Inc., Paychex, LinkedIn,…N/A
    Pricing
    Apollo.ioGong
    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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    Pricing Offerings
    Apollo.ioGong
    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.ioGong
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    Apollo.io
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    The pricing was better with Apollo.io and the feature set checked all the boxes for us. Gong didn't do everything we needed and then Chorus by ZoomInfo was about 10x the price, so it checked all the boxes for us and was also the best value compared to what we were using before …
    Incentivized
    Chose Apollo.io
    Apollo has many more features and seems to have a better database of prospects. From what I gather, LeadIQ uses only LinkedIn as its database. LeadIQ also leans heavily on Gong to provide certain workflows. There are not enough features provided with LeadIQ, hence why Apollo is …
    Incentivized
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    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Apollo.io
    Apollo.io is a better product. Better valid email addresses
    Incentivized
    Chose Apollo.io
    Apollo is great because it gathers emails and phone numbers as well as makes calls and writes sequences all in the same tool.
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    Gong.io
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    Zoom has great integrations and summary tools. There is less insight at the company level, whereas Gong is built to give insight across the customer journey. Zoom pushes to Hubspot nicely, but Hubspot doesn't have the capabilities to organize this data at the company level in …
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    Chose Gong
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    We're currently using Hubspot as a CRM. I don't think we'll consider Gong as a CRM.
    We didn't have any similar solution to Gong before getting it.
    Incentivized
    Chose Gong
    Gong has the best AI out of these technologies. Its sequencing capability is a bit more complicated but for a growing SDR or AE team, its a perfect tool with its AI capabilities that we have not seen elsewhere.
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    Features
    Apollo.ioGong
    Prospecting
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    Feature
    Apollo.io
    8.2
    197 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Gong
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    Ratings
    Advanced search8.4192 Ratings00 Ratings
    Identification of new leads8.2192 Ratings00 Ratings
    List quality7.8195 Ratings00 Ratings
    List upload/download8.4183 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ideal customer targeting8.0190 Ratings00 Ratings
    Load time/data access8.2193 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Apollo.io and Gong
    Feature
    Apollo.io
    8.2
    196 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Gong
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    Ratings
    Contact information8.3196 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company information8.4196 Ratings00 Ratings
    Industry information8.0194 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
    Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Apollo.io and Gong
    Feature
    Apollo.io
    7.8
    192 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Gong
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    Lead qualification process7.9176 Ratings00 Ratings
    Smart lists and recommendations7.5176 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salesforce integration8.1114 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company/business profiles8.1183 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and reminders7.7165 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data hygiene7.5183 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh7.5173 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tags7.8148 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation8.3178 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Email Features
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Apollo.io and Gong
    Feature
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    7.8
    170 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Gong
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    Sales email templates7.6169 Ratings00 Ratings
    Append emails to records8.0155 Ratings00 Ratings
    Conversation Intelligence Software Features
    Comparison of Conversation Intelligence Software Features features of Apollo.io and Gong
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    -
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    10% above category average
    Speech-to-Text Transcription00 Ratings8.9221 Ratings
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    8.6
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    9.2
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    8.5
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    9.4
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    Usability
    8.3
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    9.0
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    Availability
    -
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    6.4
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    Performance
    -
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    8.2
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    Implementation Rating
    5.5
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    4.6
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    7.3
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    7.3
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    -
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    8.2
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    Professional Services
    -
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    7.3
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    7.3
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    7.3
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    User Testimonials
    Apollo.ioGong
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apollo.io
    Based on my experience using Apollo.io, it is well-suited for organizations like startups that are actively looking to generate new leads to market their products, and for direct marketing using the Apollo.io mail system and filtering leads by locality, sector, or designation.
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    Gong.io
    I think Gong is well suited when you are having a company that makes a lot of calls to clients or receives a lot of calls. It is very important. I think, from a business standpoint, to log all of the calls and conversations that are had to use in case anything ever comes up. Also, just to make sure that your employees are doing well on the calls, because you cannot monitor every single call personally. Having this as a reference point to listen to things that might be important versus not is awesome. it might be less appropriate if you are not really interacting a ton with the clients. If you are more so just doing business meetings, then it might not be needed. However, I do think it's a great tool overall because it provides the AI note recap from the calls and logs everything that might be helpful for any reason
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    Pros
    Apollo.io
    • contacts with verified emails
    • companies according to their economic sector
    • companies based on their size and revenue
    • companies based on their location
    • contactos con correos verificados
    • empresas de acuerdo a su sector económico
    • empresas de acuerdo a su tamaño y facturación
    • empresas de acuerdo a su ubicación
    Incentivized
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    Gong.io
    • Provides executive summaries for meeting notes and email follow ups.
    • AI Briefs allow anyone to seek information on a particular customer in a matter of seconds.
    • Scores calls such as EBRs or new business sales calls that can be used by management for coaching.
    • Provides accurate forecasting and visibility to sales leaders.
    • Theme spotter can be used to gather feedback and provide data to management for opportunities we continuously here from our clients.
    • Accurately depict key points from conversations and allows for different brief themes to quickly get the information needed for teammates throughout the organization.
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    Cons
    Apollo.io
    • Apollo.io's sync to Salesforce is incredibly finnicky and created a large number of duplicates.
    • Apollo.io's workflow functionality is rigid and doesn't play nicely with middleware like Zapier.
    • Apollo.io is focused on helping you spin up many different emails and phone numbers in a spammy manner instead of focusing on domain reputation.
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    Gong.io
    • A history tracker (similar to Google Sheets/Excel) - it'd be nice to see WHO was changing certain fields and when exactly.
    • Dark mode.
    • A quick checklist when getting started to ensure I'm getting the most out of the platform (e.g., Gong Connect, Gong Import).
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Gong.io
    I don't make these decisions for our company, but I would highly encourage our use of Gong to continue. Gong has been very helpful in my sales role in terms of staying organized and on top of accounts, completing actions in a timely manner, and moving deals forward with better insights
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    Usability
    Apollo.io
    I gave it a 7 because it doesn't help you out if you're an organization that's call-heavy, because a lot of times the numbers aren't the best. It's not accurate. If you're somebody who's email and outbound and your goal is to find that, then that's cool. It works well for it. Some of the features, the AI tools, and some additional features they have are just too complex. Sometimes it's easy to use, but at the same time, there are tools that are not efficient, and it's like, "Where is this coming from?"Especially if you're looking for your niche, whatever industry you're in, and the target word, sometimes it can't find it. You can see what people are searching for, and it just doesn't add up. If you're trying to get very, very detailed, it's not the best. Sometimes it's going to depend on your industry, of course.
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    Gong.io
    It does great for all the things I've mentioned. I didn't give it a 10/10 because I still think there is room to improve as far as improving the quality of the insights that are more actionable. I.e. this happened so you should think about doing this thing as a next step.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Gong.io
    I give them a 10 because, I have been using Gong for over a year now and have never had issues or concerns go un resolved in a day or two. Their communication is impeccable and their tech support is very hands on and prompt
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    Implementation Rating
    Apollo.io
    No answers on this topic
    Gong.io
    This is nothing something I'm able to answer
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apollo.io
    We found the contact data from Apollo.io was more reliable than Instantly.ai. We used Instantly.ai for about 6 months before stopping our use of it. Growbots doesn't give you as much volume for the same price at Apollo.io. However, we did close sales with Growbots, and we did not with Apollo.io. It could have just been our unique experience, but that's what happened.
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    Gong.io
    It stacks up in a different way. All of these companies try to do some feature that Gong does. Like Call recording, call analysis, AI discovery, Forecasting and Sales Activity tracking. Gong beats most, Otter.ai is a growing competitor though.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Apollo.io
    No answers on this topic
    Gong.io
    I was not involved with the process
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    Professional Services
    Apollo.io
    No answers on this topic
    Gong.io
    I was not involved with the process
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    Return on Investment
    Apollo.io
    • Apollo.io has helped me find a good set of new target audience for the business that I am in, essentially helping me build a prospective line and grow my lead database by 25 to 30% where I lack a certain skill
    • The Apollo.io quality of the data that it has is significantly better through other competitors like Lusha and others
    • In terms of the revenue increase, there have been certain instances where I have found a new acquirer that essentially I would not have found in a general scenario and that has help me generate from the new identified lead
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    Gong.io
    • I don't have specific metrics since this feature isn't used in my job personally, but I do know that our sales and CS teams use Gong with SFDC opportunities to help with forecasting closed won opportunities based on intent captured within the call.
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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

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    Screenshot of Coach reps into sales superstars. Replicate what works by turning objective, data-based guidance into coachable moments for managers, peer-to-peer coaching, and self-driven improvements — without any drama.Screenshot of Find the truth in your pipeline. There are risks hiding in your pipeline, deals, and customer interactions. Get true visibility from contact to close so you can address them and call the right forecast every time.Screenshot of Bet big. And win. Gong’s early insights into what’s working — and what's not — gives your team the confidence to take big-bet initiatives to market successfully.