Apollo.io vs. SimilarTech

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apollo.io
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Apollo is a sales intelligence platform with tools to help users engage with prospects. Sellers and marketers can use Apollo to discover more customers in market, connect with contacts, and establish a modern go-to-market strategy. Apollo's B2B Database includes over 220M contacts and 30M companies. Teams can leverage Apollo’s Engagement Suite to scale outbound activity and sequences effectively. Finally, Apollo's Intelligence Engine supports the user's go-to-market processes…
$59
per month
SimilarTech
Score 5.5 out of 10
N/A
SimilarTech is a sales intelligence software solution offered by SimilarTech Ltd.N/A
Pricing
Apollo.ioSimilarTech
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.ioSimilarTech
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
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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Features
Apollo.ioSimilarTech
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.7
17 Ratings
0% above category average
SimilarTech
10.0
1 Ratings
26% above category average
Advanced search7.417 Ratings00 Ratings
Identification of new leads7.417 Ratings00 Ratings
List quality7.617 Ratings10.01 Ratings
List upload/download8.416 Ratings00 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting7.717 Ratings00 Ratings
Load time/data access7.917 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.3
17 Ratings
5% below category average
SimilarTech
10.0
1 Ratings
27% above category average
Contact information7.217 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Company information7.517 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Industry information7.016 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.7
17 Ratings
4% above category average
SimilarTech
10.0
1 Ratings
30% above category average
Lead qualification process7.914 Ratings00 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations7.714 Ratings00 Ratings
Salesforce integration8.48 Ratings00 Ratings
Company/business profiles7.716 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Alerts and reminders7.114 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Data hygiene7.315 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Automatic data refresh7.415 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Tags7.010 Ratings00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation8.516 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
6.9
12 Ratings
7% below category average
SimilarTech
-
Ratings
Sales email templates6.612 Ratings00 Ratings
Append emails to records7.111 Ratings00 Ratings
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Enterprises
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Apollo.ioSimilarTech
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(36 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apollo.ioSimilarTech
Likelihood to Recommend
Apollo.io
For startups or companies who needs to get big amounts of data but at the same time have some insights about their prospects and leads is the best tool, it provides easy to use tools and interface that makes it simple to any user withut any level of experience, also great with data analysis for small companies.
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SimilarTech Ltd.
1. Looking up the technologies, analytics tools, and services used by your competitors and industry leaders. 2. Checking what has changed technology-wise on the website of your competitor, since you've noticed an improvement in their rankings or other website improvements. You can even set up alerts to receive emails every time a new change was made to the technology of the website you're interested in (usually your top competitors').
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Pros
Apollo.io
  • Allows users to easily add new prospects to database without much manual effort at all
  • Allows you to make cold calls from different area codes that are relevant to where your prospect is located
  • Allows A/B testing for emails so you can figure out which ones are gaining the most traction
  • You can also find prospects based off of title, company, technologies, etc
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SimilarTech Ltd.
  • We were considering changing a hosting provider because we were not happy with the speed of our website. So, we used SimilarTech to look up which hosting providers our competitors and some other faster websites were using, to help us make an informed choice.
  • When the company was considering a new live chat vendor, we also used SimilarTech to see what software some of the best websites on the web are using.
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Cons
Apollo.io
  • Their customer service is just terrible. You get an assigned account manager but 9/10 times they wouldn't know what you wanted and/or how the product works or how to fix it. Vast majority of the time it was a canned response that made you question if they read the message, or if they read it and did not understand a word.
  • The software was relatively buggy and lacked features that were promised upon signup. They seem to have some large corporate clients and if you aren't one none of your bug submissions, feature requests, or concerns will be addressed.
  • Their growing quickly so they seem to be very understaffed which I believe caused many of the issues above.
  • The data, while good, can quickly run out if you're looking for specific types of leads. If you're looking for something generic like Managers at companies between 10-5000 people, you can pull leads all day every day. However if you're looking for a specific industry, specific title, and specific location - don't count on having an endless supply of leads (or even really enough to use month after month).
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SimilarTech Ltd.
  • Given the tasks SimilarTech was designed for, I don't really think there are any issues with it. It's hard to think of a situation where I couldn't get the information I needed from SimilarTech.
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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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SimilarTech Ltd.
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Usability
Apollo.io
Apollo.io is very helpful for any sales team. It is a great way to create a large database of mostly accurate contacts. This has been very helpful for my sales team as we are constantly reaching out to prospects via phone and email and looking to be as strategic as possible which Apollo.io helps us with.
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SimilarTech Ltd.
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Support Rating
Apollo.io
I received excellent support at any time I opened up a ticket. But I would add to it that the tool was very self-explanatory, so there wasn't much need for support. With Outreach, we have a closer relationship with our CSM because of the intricacy in things like SFDC task mapping.
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SimilarTech Ltd.
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Alternatives Considered
Apollo.io
Apollo is inexpensive of all the above tools. Data accuracy of other tools like lintel and infotelligent is much much better but they are expensive also. One needs to be careful while using data from Apollo because email bounces can damage your domain reputation. I suggest you use a different SMTP server while sending mail.
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SimilarTech Ltd.
SimilarTech is more user-friendly and seems to have a bigger index (i.e. covers more websites) of the websites.
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Return on Investment
Apollo.io
  • Generated a lot of expectations that were not real when we needed them
  • The ROI was positive but we decided to stop using the tool
  • We loved how easy to use it was and how easy it was to interact with the Support team
  • There is room for improvement in the video tutorials - they were from old versions of the software that would not be useful for the version at hand
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SimilarTech Ltd.
  • Overall SimilarTech had a positive impact, as it saves a lot of time (days) when it comes to research of the competition and new up-and-coming technologies for our website.
  • Moreover, it helps to monitor updates on the websites of the industry leaders, and to keep up with tech.
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ScreenShots

Apollo.io Screenshots

Screenshot of Find every prospect. Uncover high-intent contacts in your market.Screenshot of Connect with every contact. Orchestrate multi-step sequences at scale.Screenshot of Optimize your sales strategy. Unlock efficiencies and opportunities across your entire workflow.Screenshot of Apollo B2B Lead Database - Access data on more than 250M people and companies.Screenshot of Apollo Engagement Suite - Automate personalized messages across your entire pipeline.Screenshot of Apollo Intelligence Engine - Improve your revenue strategy across your workflow and boost efficiencies.