Apollo.io vs. LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail

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
LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (formerly Rapportive) is a free Chrome Extension that shows an email recipient's LinkedIn details within the user's Gmail inbox, and allows users to jump to the contact's LinkedIn profile. Rapportive was acquired by LinkedIn in 2012. In November 2017, LinkedIn released a new version of Rapportive called Sales Navigator Lite for Gmail, which makes some features of LinkedIn Sales Navigator accessible from within user's email inbox. A subscription to
$0
per month
Pricing
Apollo.ioLinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
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.ioLinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
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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Apollo.ioLinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
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Apollo.io
Chose Apollo.io
Major differentiator is the cost and accuracy of data. While other tools solves the purpose too, Apollo.io in specific gives better data which is more accurate and cheaper. They also have a startup program which gives 50% discount to startup’s with less employees which supports …
LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail

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Features
Apollo.ioLinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.2
172 Ratings
6% above category average
LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
8.3
21 Ratings
7% above category average
Advanced search8.4168 Ratings9.019 Ratings
Identification of new leads8.3168 Ratings7.521 Ratings
List quality7.8170 Ratings9.019 Ratings
List upload/download8.5159 Ratings8.017 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting8.0166 Ratings8.520 Ratings
Load time/data access8.2168 Ratings8.020 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.1
170 Ratings
4% above category average
LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
9.0
24 Ratings
14% above category average
Contact information8.1170 Ratings8.022 Ratings
Company information8.2170 Ratings9.024 Ratings
Industry information8.0168 Ratings10.023 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.8
168 Ratings
5% above category average
LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
6.9
22 Ratings
8% below category average
Lead qualification process7.7157 Ratings8.018 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations7.6155 Ratings8.018 Ratings
Salesforce integration8.299 Ratings5.516 Ratings
Company/business profiles8.1162 Ratings7.522 Ratings
Alerts and reminders7.7143 Ratings8.015 Ratings
Data hygiene7.5161 Ratings4.020 Ratings
Automatic data refresh7.5155 Ratings7.520 Ratings
Tags7.7132 Ratings7.017 Ratings
Filters and segmentation8.2158 Ratings6.518 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.7
151 Ratings
3% above category average
LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
7.5
15 Ratings
1% above category average
Sales email templates7.7150 Ratings8.014 Ratings
Append emails to records7.8139 Ratings7.015 Ratings
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User Ratings
Apollo.ioLinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(162 ratings)
9.0
(26 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(134 ratings)
8.5
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(6 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apollo.ioLinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
Likelihood to Recommend
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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LinkedIn
The Sales Navigator has allowed us to increase our awareness of our potential lead pool and has allowed us to grow our customer base. The system is easy to use and allows us to have great control over the number of leads we can see and the number of leads that we can connect to. Using the system has also helped us in being able to manage the number of leads that we can send.
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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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LinkedIn
  • Has many filter capabilities for me to find exactly who I am looking for.
  • Integrates with other prospecting tools to create a well rounded with the information it can collect.
  • Integrates with SFDC- automatically uploads them as leads.
  • Integrates with Salesloft for me to easily start the cadence.
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Cons
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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LinkedIn
  • Sometimes it tells me I need to log into my LinkedIn profile when I've already logged in. It's weird. It seems to be when the email address is not found. Instead of just saying the email is not found, it tells me I need to log in. Just something I've noticed.
  • Sometimes I get this weird thing where I go to compose an email and instead of having it open all the way to the right, it opens all the way to my left. I'm pretty sure Rapportive is what's causing it. It doesn't happen very often but sometimes I see that.
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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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LinkedIn
Rapportive is simple and great at what it does. Plus I anticipate they'll probably add more features in the future.
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Usability
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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LinkedIn
The user interface is very user-friendly and easy to navigate. The workflow is an easy thing to incorporate into your day-to-day as a sales person. It’s very rare that I come across a glitch or website slowness. The collaborative Aspect is also a plus when I am working with others on my sales team
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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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LinkedIn
I have never used Their support
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Alternatives Considered
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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LinkedIn
LinkedIn Sales Navigators provides different services than most other products and has the unique ability to take advantage of LinkedIn's proprietary user data. That also comes with a drawback that the system is dependent on users to update their data in a timely and accurate manner in order to get the correct intel back to users. I'd recommend other products like Seamless.ai or MediaRadar for more accurate and updated contact information, but also to use LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail for better market and company intel, timely pitching opportunities and seamless integration between Gmail and LinkedIn.
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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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LinkedIn
  • Really lets me leverage my entire business network
  • Empowers me to see the prospect's whole picture (who they know, where they went, what they do) and take advantage of that opening
  • We have no other system like it, so it's irreplaceable for us
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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