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.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Apollo.ioKickFire
Features
Apollo.ioKickFire
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.2
144 Ratings
5% above category average
KickFire
8.5
2 Ratings
9% above category average
Advanced search8.3141 Ratings00 Ratings
Identification of new leads8.3143 Ratings9.02 Ratings
List quality8.0143 Ratings8.02 Ratings
List upload/download8.6134 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting8.0141 Ratings00 Ratings
Load time/data access8.3142 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.2
142 Ratings
5% above category average
KickFire
7.3
2 Ratings
6% below category average
Contact information8.2142 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Company information8.3142 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Industry information8.0140 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.9
140 Ratings
6% above category average
KickFire
8.0
2 Ratings
7% above category average
Lead qualification process7.7129 Ratings00 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations7.7128 Ratings00 Ratings
Salesforce integration8.780 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Company/business profiles8.0135 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Alerts and reminders7.6118 Ratings00 Ratings
Data hygiene7.6135 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic data refresh7.7130 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Tags7.7111 Ratings00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation8.3135 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.6
127 Ratings
2% above category average
KickFire
-
Ratings
Sales email templates7.5126 Ratings00 Ratings
Append emails to records7.8117 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Apollo.ioKickFire
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(163 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(134 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
It is best used for cold outreach sales. While it has some research capabilities for trends in some ways, it really shines in finding and maintaining up to date information on contacts. Being able to mass update contacts that might have moved to a new company allows you to see easily when you might need to find a new contact, or if you have a contact at a new company, expanding your network and reach. It is not a CRM, I don't recommend using it as your full CRM, it is great for tracking cold outreach, but then you should move contacts to your actual CRM tool.
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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
  • Sequencing automated email campaigns for outbound prospecting (BD Function).
  • Integrating with Sales Navigator to help me find emails/phone #' numbers/"add to sequence" while prospecting. It's easy and seamless to find & then load contacts into Cadences.
  • Integration with Salesforce is a huge plus. Allows me to not worry about logging anything, but the executive team can see my activity & what is going on (emails going out, responses I get, etc.).
  • The analytics on the outreach data is always helpful as well (open rates, click rates, etc.).
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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
  • Some of time it happens that right stakeholders' mobile seems not available in which improvement can help more accurate data.
  • Notifications when someone opens the marketing email and showing the interest.
  • Mobile application that will help us during the travelling. It will get very easy to log calls and find the contacts on the way.
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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
Generally quite a reliable tool with decent data quality/availability. Pricing works well for our team and our use case
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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
It is easy to use. The UI has enough options to learn, with advanced documentation and support. The customer service is quick to respond and assists with information in real time. The UI has different segments for each feature which makes it easy to use.
Settings are easy to change as per preferred requirements
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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
I link the interface of Apollo.io better than Zoominfo. Zoominfo only provides a company employees and rarely the specific people I was looking for in shipping and logistics. It generally recommended higher level executives like Presidents or COO's instead of the decision makers I need to work with. I also found much of the info Zoominfo provided to be outdated. In some cases the people were no longer employed with the company
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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
  • 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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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 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.

KickFire Screenshots

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