Apollo.io vs. SMARTe Data Platform

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
SMARTe Data Platform
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
A provider of sales and marketing data, SMARTe offers a data platform for revenue teams and professionals, boasting more than 300 companies around the world have boosted revenue growth and improved marketing ROI using the platform's capabilities and data, that include: -270+ research analysts -300+ customers -153 industries -200+ countries -91+ million job titles - 15+ years of global experienceN/A
Pricing
Apollo.ioSMARTe Data Platform
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.ioSMARTe Data Platform
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details20% discount for annual billing on the Basic and Professional plans.
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Community Pulse
Apollo.ioSMARTe Data Platform
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.
SMARTe Data Platform
Chose SMARTe Data Platform
We use them to compliment each other, there are areas that Clearbit provides matches that SMARTe does not and visa versa. This applies at both a contact and an account level.

Where SMARTe really stands out (for me) is the ability to classify any provided Job Title. This really …
Chose SMARTe Data Platform
Very similar, probably Lusha has a bigger database atm. But for the same contacts SMARTe has more details.
So for a deep unlock I tend to prefer SMARTe over Lusha.
Experience with Lusha was very short, especially because SMARTe deals better with GDPR obligations, so easier to use …
Features
Apollo.ioSMARTe Data Platform
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.1
Ratings
5% above category average
SMARTe Data Platform
7.6
Ratings
2% below category average
Advanced search8.40 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Identification of new leads8.20 Ratings7.20 Ratings
List quality7.80 Ratings7.40 Ratings
List upload/download8.40 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting8.00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Load time/data access8.20 Ratings8.60 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
SMARTe Data Platform
7.8
Ratings
0% above category average
Contact information8.20 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Company information8.40 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Industry information8.00 Ratings7.80 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
SMARTe Data Platform
7.5
Ratings
1% above category average
Lead qualification process7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Salesforce integration8.10 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Company/business profiles8.10 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Alerts and reminders7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Data hygiene7.50 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Automatic data refresh7.50 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Tags7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation8.30 Ratings7.30 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
SMARTe Data Platform
-
Ratings
Sales email templates7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Append emails to records7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Apollo.ioSMARTe Data Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
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7.9
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Likelihood to Renew
8.7
(0 ratings)
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Usability
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
(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.ioSMARTe Data Platform
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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SMARTe offers multiple ways to support the prospecting activity, I tend to use the Chrome Extension to unlock contact details from LinkedIn Sales Nav. Given the difficulty in finding this information working in Europe, I have to admit that the tool does his job perfectly. Only thing that could be developed is ability to find details from smaller companies. Sometimes they are (and I understand why) difficult to find.
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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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  • Enrichment
  • Job title classification
  • New contact identification
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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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  • Efficiency of Chrome Extension. Sometimes page is not loading
  • Duration of log in, usually with a day of not use logs out automatically
  • List of contact unlocked better sorted out and available
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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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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 use them to compliment each other, there are areas that Clearbit provides matches that SMARTe does not and visa versa. This applies at both a contact and an account level. Where SMARTe really stands out (for me) is the ability to classify any provided Job Title. This really has dramatic impact to our processes. Clearbit does have a native integration that offers data refresh.
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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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  • This platform has helped us balance out the entire budget we have for contact discovery. The money we lost in other platform got covered post purchasing this platform, helping us gain a positive ROI cumulatively.
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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

SMARTe Data Platform Screenshots

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