Apollo.io vs. PhantomBuster

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
PhantomBuster
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
PhantomBuster is a tool that allows one to create code-free automations of tasks on the web or social networks. It can also be set to perform data extractions from any source on the internet, directly to a CRM or database.
$30
per month
Pricing
Apollo.ioPhantomBuster
Editions & Modules
Basic
$59
per month per user
Professional
$99
per month per user
Organization
$1,188
per year per user
Free Forever
$0
per month
Growth Hacker
$30
per month
Business
$70
per month
Enterprise
$200
per month
Premium
$900
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Apollo.ioPhantomBuster
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details20% discount for annual billing on the Basic and Professional plans.8% discount available for annual pricing.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Apollo.ioPhantomBuster
Considered Both Products
Apollo.io
Chose Apollo.io
all the features in single platform with the power of AI. good lead quality data. easy syncing across domains and emails.
PhantomBuster
Chose PhantomBuster
Scraping is hard, it's very difficult to learn and get right, at least it is for me. ParseHub did not make things easy, I felt I wasn't getting anywhere. Octoparse on the other hand was very different. Your technical literacy is pretty good and it's not impossible as it feels …
Features
Apollo.ioPhantomBuster
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.1
193 Ratings
5% above category average
PhantomBuster
-
Ratings
Advanced search8.4188 Ratings00 Ratings
Identification of new leads8.2188 Ratings00 Ratings
List quality7.8191 Ratings00 Ratings
List upload/download8.4179 Ratings00 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting8.0186 Ratings00 Ratings
Load time/data access8.2189 Ratings00 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
PhantomBuster
-
Ratings
Contact information8.2191 Ratings00 Ratings
Company information8.4191 Ratings00 Ratings
Industry information8.0189 Ratings00 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
PhantomBuster
-
Ratings
Lead qualification process7.8172 Ratings00 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations7.5172 Ratings00 Ratings
Salesforce integration8.1110 Ratings00 Ratings
Company/business profiles8.1179 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts and reminders7.7161 Ratings00 Ratings
Data hygiene7.5179 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic data refresh7.5169 Ratings00 Ratings
Tags7.8144 Ratings00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation8.3174 Ratings00 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
PhantomBuster
-
Ratings
Sales email templates7.5165 Ratings00 Ratings
Append emails to records7.9151 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Apollo.ioPhantomBuster
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(214 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.5
(6 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(185 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apollo.ioPhantomBuster
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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PhantomBuster
PhantomBuster is not a business intelligence tool, and should not be used with that expectation. It's made to scrape data, making it easy for those less tech-savy or scraping data from searches. It's up to the user to determine what you get out of this tool. We used two templates mostly, the Linkedin search scraper, and the Google Maps scraper. We are sponsors of several business organizations, so we would use the sales NAVIGATOR filter to pull people who are also part of those groups as their members. The Google Maps template as I explained previously was fundamental to push our Google Business Profile consulting. As an example, if you're looking to scrape contact data from a chamber of commerce directory, this is the perfect tool.
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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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PhantomBuster
  • Data Extraction
  • Automation
  • Integration with Google Sheets
  • A lot of features
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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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PhantomBuster
  • Better exporting and storage
  • Use of AI for separating fields
  • Has an AI migrator for Hubspot, but not other CRM's
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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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PhantomBuster
First of all, PhantomBuster comes at a very low price point for us. We're more than happy to keep paying it just based on that. Price is not the only motivator alone though. PhantomBuster makes pulling the information you need very easy. Myself and my team require little support to run this tool and we also appreciate efficiency.
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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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PhantomBuster
No answers on this topic
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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PhantomBuster
No answers on this topic
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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PhantomBuster
I don't really have the opportunity to test another Data Extraction tool like Phantombuster. When I started my job they already have bought this tool so I learned how to use it and honestly I do not have any need to change it. I think Phantombuster is the best for this
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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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PhantomBuster
  • More Leads
  • Better leads quality
  • Fast Communication
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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