Apollo.io vs. Recruit CRM

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
Recruit CRM
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Recruit CRM is an ATS + CRM built for recruitment and executive search firms. It centralizes candidates, clients, jobs, and candidate communications. Key features include AI resume parsing, intelligent candidate matching, automated sourcing, GPT-powered content generation, and customizable workflow automation. A visual Kanban pipeline, AI search, and no-code integrations streamline operations, reduce manual work, and help recruiters fill roles faster while maintaining a structured, data-driven…
$95
per month per user
Pricing
Apollo.ioRecruit CRM
Editions & Modules
Basic
$59
per month per user
Professional
$99
per month per user
Organization
$1,188
per year per user
Pro
$95
per month per user
Business
$125
per month per user
Business
$135
per month per user
Enterprise
$259
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Apollo.ioRecruit CRM
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details20% discount for annual billing on the Basic and Professional plans.Up to 20% discount for annual pricing on Pro and Business plans.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Apollo.ioRecruit CRM
Features
Apollo.ioRecruit CRM
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.2
172 Ratings
6% above category average
Recruit CRM
-
Ratings
Advanced search8.4168 Ratings00 Ratings
Identification of new leads8.3168 Ratings00 Ratings
List quality7.8170 Ratings00 Ratings
List upload/download8.5159 Ratings00 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting8.0166 Ratings00 Ratings
Load time/data access8.2168 Ratings00 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
Recruit CRM
-
Ratings
Contact information8.1170 Ratings00 Ratings
Company information8.2170 Ratings00 Ratings
Industry information8.0168 Ratings00 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
Recruit CRM
-
Ratings
Lead qualification process7.7157 Ratings00 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations7.6155 Ratings00 Ratings
Salesforce integration8.299 Ratings00 Ratings
Company/business profiles8.1162 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts and reminders7.7143 Ratings00 Ratings
Data hygiene7.5161 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic data refresh7.5155 Ratings00 Ratings
Tags7.7132 Ratings00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation8.2158 Ratings00 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
Recruit CRM
-
Ratings
Sales email templates7.7150 Ratings00 Ratings
Append emails to records7.8139 Ratings00 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
-
Ratings
Recruit CRM
8.7
14 Ratings
9% above category average
Job Requisition Management00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
Company Website Posting00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
Publish to Social Media00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
Customized Application Form00 Ratings10.013 Ratings
Resume Management00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
Candidate Search00 Ratings10.014 Ratings
Applicant Tracking00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation00 Ratings8.013 Ratings
Email Templates00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
User Permissions00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
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Apollo.ioRecruit CRM
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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Lead411
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Apollo.ioRecruit CRM
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(162 ratings)
9.0
(14 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(134 ratings)
9.1
(12 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(6 ratings)
9.5
(12 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apollo.ioRecruit CRM
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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Recruit CRM
Another way to describe your CRM experience is to show your skills and abilities in using CRM software and tools. For example, you can mention the specific CRM platforms or systems that you have used or are familiar with, such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, or Microsoft Dynamics.Highlight both technical and transferable skills. Showcase your ability to collaborate with and contribute to a team in addition to your capabilities in CRM applications. This way, the interviewer can see how your skills are assets to their organization. Highlight any special certifications in CRM software you haveTalent Shortage.Attracting the Right Candidates.Targeting Passive Candidates.Engaging with Qualified Candidates.Reducing Time-to-hire.Building a Strong Employer Brand.Creating an Efficient Recruiting Process.Eliminating Bias in Hiring.
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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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Recruit CRM
  • Easy parsing Resume
  • Adding contacts, Companies, candidates with ease from Linkedin
  • setting tasks and calendar invites
  • Advanced boolean search of candidates
  • reports on Activities
  • Fully Customize system
  • Email triggers
  • contact stages
  • Hiring pipeline
  • Deals pipeline
  • Phone calling & Recording Settings
  • Deal Pipeline
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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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Recruit CRM
  • They are adding a lot of features all the time which can be annoying
  • They are usually catching up with features that other programs have rather than being more innovative
  • Other than this, I do not really have any complaints about this software
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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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Recruit CRM
No answers on this topic
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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Recruit CRM
There is always room for improvement and I believe RCRM is a great system that is adapting to what it's users want and need. The system suits our needs and is a huge improvement from our previous system. I can't say enough good things about the customer service. They have great follow up and always get back to me within the same day. If there is ever an unknown, there is a timeline given for follow up and a promise to get it resolved. They always come through. It's important to have a team behind your software that listens and adapts.
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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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Recruit CRM
Again, the customer service team is awesome. They always respond in the same day and have resolved any issue I have ever had. They have made improvements to the system on a weekly basis, always improving for their users. There is a forum where you can leave your feature suggestions and vote on ones left by other users. The reps will jump on a call or screen share with you if you need to be walked through anything. They go above and beyond.
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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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Recruit CRM
We evaluated about 3-5 different vendors. The low barrier to entry made it an easy target to test out. Forcing an upfront annual fee was not in our interest without extensively testing the product. We also had a very basic requirement - an easy way to intake a large number of candidates and move them through a recruitment process. We didn't need anything else special at the time and recruit CRM was the most straightforward application that would provide us with a solution.
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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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Recruit CRM
  • Huge Impact on ROI (This is going from having no ATS to having an ATS)
  • Allowed us to focus more work on our user experiences rather than building our own tool to manage recruitment operations
  • Has allowed us to maintain a relatively low cost in our tooling
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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

Recruit CRM Screenshots

Screenshot of the dashboardScreenshot of Candidate List PageScreenshot of AI Workflow automationsScreenshot of Candidate details pageScreenshot of the AI assist toolScreenshot of AI Candidate Summary