Apollo.io vs. Piper the AI SDR by Qualified

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
Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
The Qualified product suite automatically identifies, engages, and converts website visitors into pipeline. Piper the AI SDR Agent engages these buyers around the clock with live chat, answers questions, to convert prospects into pipeline.N/A
Pricing
Apollo.ioPiper the AI SDR by Qualified
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.ioPiper the AI SDR by Qualified
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
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.ioPiper the AI SDR by Qualified
Considered Both Products
Apollo.io
Chose Apollo.io
If you're a call-heavy organization, ZoomInfo is way better for you, in my opinion. If you're somebody that's just looking for emails and the right person to reach out to, then Apollo.io works well. It's going to depend on your industry, so I use a mix of both. I feel like the …
Chose 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 …
Chose Apollo.io
Way more accurate than both of the other programs.
Chose Apollo.io
Better package options and filters
Chose Apollo.io
Compared to ZoomInfo, Apollo.io offers comparable data coverage at a fraction of the cost with a more intuitive interface. Against Common Room, Apollo.io is more outbound-execution focused while Common Room excels at signal aggregation. Warmly serves a different real-time …
Chose Apollo.io
My company chose Apollo.io but I do prefer it because of the UI and customer service.
Chose Apollo.io
We liked Apollo.io's interface and easy to understand pricing structure more than the rest. We also felt that Apollo.io's value was higher as it included a lot of other features that we currently aren't taking advantage of for the same if not lower price than its competitors. I …
Chose Apollo.io
Apollo.io was recommended to me as it was a preferred source for lead generation.
Chose Apollo.io
Apollo.io's ability to push contacts directly through our CRM makes outreach a breeze. The pricing has been our biggest decision factor, I've found it to be the cheapest with the same if not more features. I've used their competitors in the past and I always opt to use …
Chose Apollo.io
Apollo.io’s lists are higher quality and deliver ability is better.
Chose Apollo.io
We have integrated Hubspot with Apollo.io. Apollo.io is great but the CRM tools of Hubspot are better for our use.
Chose Apollo.io
Apollo.io is great for getting the exact contact info that these AI tools will not provide. They won't provide names or contact information.
Chose Apollo.io
Apollo has everything with in it and does not require any extra integration and extra tools to be purchased to manage emails, pipelines and does not need to depend on excell sheets for managing everything. It increase productivity and also help me getting right party contact …
Chose Apollo.io
I think Apollo.io has better data than some of the leads we've found through LinkedIn
Chose Apollo.io
I started with Apollo.io, and it was initially overwhelming, but I got the hang of it.
Chose Apollo.io
Cannot provide at this time a full scope, but generating leads is the best so far.
Chose Apollo.io
We've evaluated ZoomInfo, Outreach, Salesloft, and HubSpot Sales Hub as Apollo.io alternatives. Apollo.io won out with its unified interface for lead gen, AI messaging, and analytics—reducing tool switches, costs by 30%, and ramping up outreach speed. No other matched its …
Chose Apollo.io
Apollo.io is usually better than saleshandy and Lusha because it does many sales tasks in one platform. Lusha is mainly used to find contact details like emails and phone numbers, and saleshandy is mostly used for sending cold email campaigns. Apollo.io, however, combines both …
Chose Apollo.io
I used Growbots for year many years ago, it landed me exactly one client. Apollo.io is much easier to use and has gotten me way more results.
Chose Apollo.io
Apollo is much better than lemlist because it gives you more comprehensive offerings in terms of CRM, automated messages, and the UI is much easier and better.
Chose Apollo.io
Similar, much more affordable for the same type of product.
Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
Chose Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
We already had qualified so this was just an add-on. We didn't look at any other vendors.
Chose Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
Easier to use, more suited for inbound, autonomous agentic platform
Chose Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
Qualified is highly competitive to help us create the contextual chat solution on our site to identify users by company, by status in our CRM to give each one unique experiences as well as the ability to interact with our online visitors. Through integrations, you also help us …
Chose Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
Salesforce integration can be a key differentiator here if you're already using Salesforce.com in your organization.
Chose Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
We chose Qualified over their competitors because of our interactions with their team and the product. Their team made it feel like this was a partnership and that we weren't just some other customer. Implementation was fast and the tool is very user-friendly. Their customer …
Chose Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
Qualified provides exceptional customer service. He is constantly eager and able to answer all the issues raised, he also offers excellent subscription prices, he is useful for organizing meetings in the sales area, discussions with VIP clients directly from our website.
Chose Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
This is my first time using a service like Qualified.
Chose Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
As Drift made a massive sweep into the SMB B2B space with their splash into Conversational Marketing they were tapping into a very large ocean (with plenty of competitors). Qualified came into the B2B space targeting large/enterprise SDR teams leveraging Salesforce. Intercom …
Chose Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
Qualified has a lot more capabilities. Drift was a great chatbot product that has really good features for a traditional B2B webpage chatbot. However, the traditional chatbot will route the leads through the marketing automation system, CRM system, and then send the leads to …
Features
Apollo.ioPiper the AI SDR by Qualified
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.1
Ratings
5% above category average
Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
-
Ratings
Advanced search8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Identification of new leads8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
List quality7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
List upload/download8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Load time/data access8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.2
Ratings
5% above category average
Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
-
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Contact information8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Company information8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Industry information8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.8
Ratings
5% above category average
Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
-
Ratings
Lead qualification process7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Salesforce integration8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Company/business profiles8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts and reminders7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Data hygiene7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic data refresh7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Tags7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.7
Ratings
3% above category average
Piper the AI SDR by Qualified
-
Ratings
Sales email templates7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Append emails to records7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Apollo.ioPiper the AI SDR by Qualified
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
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10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
8.7
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-
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Usability
8.2
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10.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.5
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apollo.ioPiper the AI SDR by Qualified
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Piper the AI SDR is perfect for a global marketing team who wants to have greater control over conversations that are happening on the website. She does an excellent job of qualifying leads and getting meetings booked. In addition she does an excellent job routing people to support and away from sales if that is not an area they are interested. There aren't many areas we have found Piper to be not appropriate. As we continue to hone in and improve her capabilities.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Good insight into what product the prospect is interested in
  • Engage the prospect when they are at the researching phase and form a human connection
  • Know when prospects that you are actively targeting are on the website and use that in messaging
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Cons
  • 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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  • Piper the AI SDR can get tripped up when someone asks a question we weren't prepared for. Example Does the webinar cost money? Of course not but we didn't specifically put anywhere that it doesn't, and she can get confused
  • Piper the AI SDR can sometimes get overzealous and try do things she isn't able to like help someone download an ebook
  • There are some trigger limitations for email but we are aware it is on the features roadmap
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Usability
There is a learning curve with Apollo.io, but it's not overwhelming. There's simply a lot of functionality, so it takes a bit to learn the navigation and feature set. I wouldn't let that scare you, though, as there's an AI chat to help you find what you're looking for.
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The Qualified tool itself if superb. It comes with so many features, not just the AI SDR - Sani, in our case, but additional features and benefits which I've started to take full advantage of. It's allowed us to drive engagement across the website within just days, and has already begun to see leads converted to open, and in some cases, won opportunities in under two weeks. Our AI SDR - Sani, has opened so many doors for the business. We've learned so much from our customers, website structure and content that resonates with prospects.
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Support Rating
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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Alternatives Considered
If you're a call-heavy organization, ZoomInfo is way better for you, in my opinion. If you're somebody that's just looking for emails and the right person to reach out to, then Apollo.io works well. It's going to depend on your industry, so I use a mix of both. I feel like the Apollo.io extension works a lot better than ZoomInfo because ZoomInfo always gives you a lot of errors, and sometimes it doesn't work or load. For the most part, Apollo.io does, and I never have an issue with the extension as well.
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We chose Qualified over their competitors because of our interactions with their team and the product. Their team made it feel like this was a partnership and that we weren't just some other customer. Implementation was fast and the tool is very user-friendly. Their customer support is next level and we really appreciate that. All in all, we love their implementation time and great service
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • Useful to attract new consumers.
  • Take steps to expand the portfolio of projects.
  • To increase conversion rates, use visualization and live chat in addition to voice calls.
  • Save time for engineering and contracting teams.
  • Enable artificial intelligence to forecast purchase intent so sales professionals can focus on accounts that are ready to buy.
  • Drive lead generation, pipeline, and revenue for sales and marketing teams.
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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

Piper the AI SDR by Qualified Screenshots

Screenshot of Meet with qualified leads right on your website. Use live chat, voice-calls, and bots to sell smarter.Screenshot of We'll alert your sales team the moment qualified leads land on your website and tell you exactly who they are, powered by apps like Salesforce, Pardot, 6Sense, Marketo, and Clearbit.Screenshot of We'll alert your sales team the moment qualified leads land on your website and tell you exactly who they are, powered by apps like Salesforce, Pardot, 6Sense, Marketo, and Clearbit.Screenshot of Engage qualified prospects in real-time, high-fidelity sales conversations with live chat and voice calls.Screenshot of Use Chat Bots to engage visitors, capture leads, ask qualification questions, and book sales meetings.