Apollo.io vs. Reply

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
Reply
Score 7.4 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Reply.io helps sales teams book more meetings by automating outreach with smart AI. It finds leads, writes personalized messages, handles replies, and books meetings, so you can focus on closing deals. Reply.io's AI SDR learns the product, targets its potential users, and engages across email, LinkedIn, SMS, WhatsApp, and calls. Additionally it: Handles replies, books meetings, and works in multiple languages Has access to 1B+ leads with…
$59
per month per user (1000 active contacts/month)
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Basic
$59
per month per user
Professional
$99
per month per user
Organization
$1,188
per year per user
AI Chat
$50
per month
Email Volume
$59
per month per user
Multichannel
$99
per month per user
Agency
$166 (starts at)
per month (billed annually) per account
AI SDR Starter
starting with $800
per month 1000 active contacts
AI SDR Growth
Starts from $2500
per month 5000 active contacts
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Apollo.ioReply
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details20% discount for annual billing on the Basic and Professional plans.Discount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
Apollo.ioReply
Considered Both Products
Apollo.io
Chose Apollo.io
So we have evaluated Seamless AI, Enrich AI, and Snov.io before finally deciding to settle for Apollo. These platforms have better UI and some, like Snov, have good email sending capability, but they all lag when it comes to their database; they do not match up to Apollo. …
Chose Apollo.io
I haven't actually made the full switch from Reply to Apollo.io. Right now, I'm using both! Reply has that LinkedIn integration that we really rely on, which is super important for us. But then Apollo.io gives us way better lead generation and outreach stats, and we seriously …
Reply
Chose Reply
I’ve used Apollo.io alongside Reply, and while Apollo offers broader data enrichment and prospecting tools, Reply shines in its simplicity and focus on outreach automation. Reply’s interface feels lighter and more intuitive, making it easier to manage campaigns without …
Features
Apollo.ioReply
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.2
145 Ratings
5% above category average
Reply
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Ratings
Advanced search8.3142 Ratings00 Ratings
Identification of new leads8.3144 Ratings00 Ratings
List quality8.0144 Ratings00 Ratings
List upload/download8.6135 Ratings00 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting8.0142 Ratings00 Ratings
Load time/data access8.3143 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.2
143 Ratings
5% above category average
Reply
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Ratings
Contact information8.2143 Ratings00 Ratings
Company information8.3143 Ratings00 Ratings
Industry information8.0141 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.9
141 Ratings
6% above category average
Reply
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Ratings
Lead qualification process7.7130 Ratings00 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations7.7129 Ratings00 Ratings
Salesforce integration8.780 Ratings00 Ratings
Company/business profiles8.0136 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts and reminders7.6119 Ratings00 Ratings
Data hygiene7.6136 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic data refresh7.7131 Ratings00 Ratings
Tags7.7112 Ratings00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation8.3135 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.6
128 Ratings
2% above category average
Reply
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Ratings
Sales email templates7.5127 Ratings00 Ratings
Append emails to records7.8118 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(163 ratings)
6.3
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(134 ratings)
6.3
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(6 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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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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Reply
Reply works best for structured outbound to a defined ICP, where reps personalize the opener, then let multi-step cadences run across email, calls, and LinkedIn with reply detection and CRM sync. It excels for time-sensitive triggers, event follow ups, closed-lost recycling, and A/B testing to standardize winning copy. It is less suited to bespoke enterprise pursuits that need deep research or legal signoff on every touch, or to untargeted high-volume blasts. In those cases, keep Reply for light structure and handle core outreach manually.
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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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Reply
  • To automatically sync our data, and keep records up to date, it offers a variety of native CRM connections, seamless integration with other tools, a robust API, and the power of Zapier.
  • I'm impressed by it, because it includes all of the capabilities I needed, as well as multivariate testing and, most significantly, an excellent reporting system.
  • It offers an extensive set of features for efficient outbound and inbound marketing automation.
  • With reporting and lead qualifying, the automation component is pretty powerful.
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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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Reply
  • Syncing to other programs. You cannot interrelate Reply with other software in a simple way. Zapier is required and even then it’s not perfect.
  • Similar to syncing, there’s no way to export results of particular campaigns. This is awful. If I send out a campaign to a group, I’d like to export the results to enter into a CRM since I can’t sync the contacts. One of these features must be added ASAP.
  • Organization. While Reply itself is user-friendly, keeping campaigns and contacts and results organized is not. You cannot organize campaigns or file them away when they are done. Therefore you have to delete campaigns to stay organized and lose results, which you cannot even export.
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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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Reply
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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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Reply
Reply’s overall usability is strong. The interface is intuitive, and most features are easy to navigate without much training. Creating and managing sequences is straightforward, and the automation flow saves a lot of manual effort. Occasionally, the dashboard can feel a bit cluttered, and reporting could be more flexible. But overall, it’s a user-friendly tool that allows teams to get started quickly and operate efficiently day to day
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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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Reply
I generally receive a reply in no time at all and found not only the support org. but the sales team to be extremely helpful. Additionally I found a great onboarding process with plenty of resources to consume.
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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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Reply
Reply is a very good and widely known platform. I find it to be a lot more sophisticated and composed. I believe this tool works great for both large and small companies, which makes it stand out. There are so many other tools that work great, but they are restricted to the type and size of certain companies. With Mailchimp the email chain automation was not up to the mark and we faced a lot of problems due to it. However, Reply has solved all those issues.
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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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Reply
  • Reply.io has been a lot more effective than MailChimp in terms of the follow-ups for the email chains. We use them to contact the people who said they wanted to do business with us and MailChimp's emails usually went to Promotions on Gmail. With Reply.io, we overcame this problem and the open rate improved 30%.
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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

Reply Screenshots

Screenshot of an overview of Reply's multichannel outreach toolScreenshot of Reply's multichannel cold outreachScreenshot of an overview of Reply's AI PersonalizationScreenshot of the email deliverability kitScreenshot of Reply's B2B databaseScreenshot of the AI SDR Agent