Apollo.io vs. KickFire

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
KickFire
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
KickFire’sB2B solutions provide account-level information such as industry, revenue, employee count, and more based on an IP address. KickFire’s proprietary TWIN Caching® technology and robust firmographic database deliver business intelligence for first-party intent, content personalization, account-based marketing, predictive/intent, data enrichment, and much more. KickFire offers IP address intelligence and B2B firmographic data through its LIVE Leads platform, API, and integrations…N/A
Pricing
Apollo.ioKickFire
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.ioKickFire
Free Trial
YesYes
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.ioKickFire
Features
Apollo.ioKickFire
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.1
193 Ratings
5% above category average
KickFire
8.5
2 Ratings
10% above category average
Advanced search8.4188 Ratings00 Ratings
Identification of new leads8.2188 Ratings9.02 Ratings
List quality7.8191 Ratings8.02 Ratings
List upload/download8.4179 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting8.0186 Ratings00 Ratings
Load time/data access8.1189 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.2
191 Ratings
6% above category average
KickFire
7.3
2 Ratings
6% below category average
Contact information8.2191 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Company information8.4191 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Industry information8.0189 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.8
188 Ratings
5% above category average
KickFire
8.0
2 Ratings
7% above category average
Lead qualification process7.8172 Ratings00 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations7.5172 Ratings00 Ratings
Salesforce integration8.1110 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Company/business profiles8.1179 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Alerts and reminders7.7161 Ratings00 Ratings
Data hygiene7.5179 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic data refresh7.5169 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Tags7.8144 Ratings00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation8.3174 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.7
166 Ratings
4% above category average
KickFire
-
Ratings
Sales email templates7.5165 Ratings00 Ratings
Append emails to records7.9151 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Apollo.ioKickFire
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(214 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.5
(6 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(185 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(6 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.5
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apollo.ioKickFire
Likelihood to Recommend
Apollo.io
Ideally, you can organize your list of potential clients based on various criteria, such as business unit, economic sector, location (by country or city), company size, etc. I have tested this with companies in my country and confirmed that the results are genuine, provided the contacts are verified. El mejor escenario es que puedes organizar la lista de clientes potenciales basado en muchos ítems como: unidad de negocio, sector económico, ubicación (por país o ciudad), tamaños de las empresas, etc. Lo he probado con empresas de mi país y he certificado que los resultados son reales si son contactos verificados. This review was originally written in Spanish and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.
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KickFire
For small businesses that don't have big budgets for marketing automation, VisiStat is an ideal first step. For companies that have sophisticated systems in place, VisiStat will augment your analytics and provide a deeper dive into your website activity. Since the implementation involves adding javascript to your site, the user should be familiar with how to do this
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Pros
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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KickFire
  • De-anonymizes website activity at the account (company) level.
  • Identifies net new target accounts.
  • Displays click path, time on page, time per session, and engagement level of each de-anonymized website visit.
  • Gives great daily insight on watchlists you've set up.
  • Delivers every possible de-anonymized visit with little filtering for accuracy.
  • More on the watchlists. I really love that you can receive immediate alerts on website visits from accounts you've listed on your watchlists. This way, you never miss the window of opportunity to reach out to your key targets while they are currently on your site.
  • Salesforce integration is good. KickFire pushes most recent website visits, pages visited, website click path, activity percent change, and more to the given account in Salesforce. You can then create reports and run them regularly to see which accounts are surging in website activity. This is also great for account prospecting, and for planning your sales outreach plan of attack. You can see which bits of your website content are most interesting to the company, and which products they are most interested in.
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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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KickFire
  • Some outdated information and your credits will be used
  • Credit package sizes are not very customizable
  • A tad pricy comapred to simillar prospecting tools I've seen
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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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KickFire
We've been happy customers of VisiStat for many years. I've used the service at multiple companies and you can't beat it.
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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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KickFire
It was designed for people who are business users, not tech users.
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Reliability and Availability
Apollo.io
No answers on this topic
KickFire
We've never had any outages in the 7+ years using the system.
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Performance
Apollo.io
No answers on this topic
KickFire
The system is very responsive, and when there are times in which data is loading, the VisiStat system provides humorous loading messages.
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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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KickFire
They are very good at solving cases that I bring to them. I'd like to see more proactive support to make sure we are getting the full value out of the solution.
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Online Training
Apollo.io
No answers on this topic
KickFire
The tutorials are very good and they explain how to get started using the system. The online webinars are very good for advancing your knowledge of the product.
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Implementation Rating
Apollo.io
No answers on this topic
KickFire
Don't hesitate to contact VisiStat support. They are extremely helpful.
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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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KickFire
I covered this pretty extensively in the cons. The key differentiator here is that KickFire serves up almost all the data (or so it seems) to the end client. The client then has to do their own work on interpreting it. This is good because it means we don't miss out on any website activities, but it's bad because we get a lot of false positives. 6sense uses the confidence score approach I mentioned in the Cons section, which means the match rates of the data we get are much higher. Our experience with Clearbit comes from other tools that are built on it (Bombora, Drift, etc.), and it has not been great. We've seen many more inaccuracies with Clearbit.
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Scalability
Apollo.io
No answers on this topic
KickFire
We've gone from a few thousand unique visitors per month to nearly 200,000 unique visitors. VisiStat doesn't miss a beat.
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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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KickFire
  • Faster lead conversion
  • Less time on LinkedIn trying to figure out DM (decision maker)
  • Increased employee efficiency
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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

KickFire Screenshots

Screenshot of KickFire features a RESTful API builder and JSON schema that makes it simple to query by IP, domain, or company.