Apollo.io vs. ZeroBounce

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
ZeroBounce
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
ZeroBounce is an email list validator that removes all invalid email addresses to prevent bounces and preserve the sender's reputation.
$39
one-time fee 2,000 emails
Pricing
Apollo.ioZeroBounce
Editions & Modules
Basic
$59
per month per user
Professional
$99
per month per user
Organization
$1,188
per year per user
Pay-as-you-Go
$39
one-time fee starting at 2000 credits
ZeroBounce ONE
$99
per month starting with 10000 credits
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Apollo.ioZeroBounce
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.Plans scale to provide additional validations. A discount of ZeroBounce ONE is available for annual billing. Enterprise customers who need to validate more than 1,000,000 email addresses per month should contact the ZeroBounce sales team for a customized quote.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Apollo.ioZeroBounce
Considered Both Products
Apollo.io

No answer on this topic

ZeroBounce
Chose ZeroBounce
We found ZeroBounce to have the most comprehensive set of tools and easiest to use interface. Their customer support has also been 24/7 and very responsive.
Chose ZeroBounce
I think this is because i think ZeroBounce gives me flexibilty to use my credits for free and i think this would be the great option to check relibility like if it really helps me to make my workflow easier or not.and finally i can say yes
Features
Apollo.ioZeroBounce
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.1
188 Ratings
4% above category average
ZeroBounce
-
Ratings
Advanced search8.4183 Ratings00 Ratings
Identification of new leads8.2184 Ratings00 Ratings
List quality7.8186 Ratings00 Ratings
List upload/download8.4175 Ratings00 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting8.0182 Ratings00 Ratings
Load time/data access8.1184 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.2
186 Ratings
5% above category average
ZeroBounce
-
Ratings
Contact information8.3186 Ratings00 Ratings
Company information8.4186 Ratings00 Ratings
Industry information8.0184 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.8
184 Ratings
5% above category average
ZeroBounce
-
Ratings
Lead qualification process7.9168 Ratings00 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations7.5168 Ratings00 Ratings
Salesforce integration8.1106 Ratings00 Ratings
Company/business profiles8.1175 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts and reminders7.7157 Ratings00 Ratings
Data hygiene7.5175 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic data refresh7.5166 Ratings00 Ratings
Tags7.8141 Ratings00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation8.2170 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.7
161 Ratings
3% above category average
ZeroBounce
-
Ratings
Sales email templates7.5160 Ratings00 Ratings
Append emails to records7.9147 Ratings00 Ratings
User Ratings
Apollo.ioZeroBounce
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(209 ratings)
9.1
(28 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.7
(5 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(180 ratings)
9.4
(24 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(6 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.5
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apollo.ioZeroBounce
Likelihood to Recommend
Apollo.io
If a company is looking to do higher volume email and phone outreach, Apollo.io is a good tool. I would recommend first verifying if this type of outreach works with your offering. If it does, this tool will be very helpful for you.
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ZeroBounce
At the outset of my position with my current company, we used a marketing automation system that was known as a swiss army knife: it could do many things, but none of them well. They had no built in functionality for boosting email deliverability. Digging in to find out what we could do to improve our authority, we learned we needed to clean our lists before sending. ZeroBounce does everything we need it to, and at a reasonable price. What more could you want?
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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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ZeroBounce
  • Bulk List validation up to 25 IDs per action is useful in some situations, as we don't want to create a CSV file every time, and for this smaller number.
  • We sometimes use the email Finder option when we can't find an email for a person on any other platform.
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Cons
Apollo.io
  • 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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ZeroBounce
  • Navigating among bulk validation, CSV upload, and single-ID validation is hard, and sometimes finding them or switching between them can be made more user-friendly.
  • Results: After bulk validation, we receive the results in a Zip file, which is useful sometimes but not every time, as we have to un-zip, and there will be a different CSV file for each result. The final results can be made simple, like email ID in column A, results (valid or Invalid) in column B.
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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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ZeroBounce
No answers on this topic
Usability
Apollo.io
I gave it a 7 because it doesn't help you out if you're an organization that's call-heavy, because a lot of times the numbers aren't the best. It's not accurate. If you're somebody who's email and outbound and your goal is to find that, then that's cool. It works well for it. Some of the features, the AI tools, and some additional features they have are just too complex. Sometimes it's easy to use, but at the same time, there are tools that are not efficient, and it's like, "Where is this coming from?"Especially if you're looking for your niche, whatever industry you're in, and the target word, sometimes it can't find it. You can see what people are searching for, and it just doesn't add up. If you're trying to get very, very detailed, it's not the best. Sometimes it's going to depend on your industry, of course.
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ZeroBounce
For the large suite of services that they offer their system is pretty easy to understand and navigate. ZeroBonce is also NOT one of those services that is constantly tweaking their UI and making it hard to find tasks that you regularly use. More complex tasks can be more challenging but that's understandable. They also have an extensive restful API that if technical enough allow you to automate some of your most used tasks. They stand behind their product with good documentation as well as high quality customer service.
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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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ZeroBounce
We have used ZeroBounce for about 18 months and it works flawlessly. We are able to get all of our questions/issues answered immediately. Felt very comfortable with the product immediately - used their web site which walked us through it and were able to get up and running within minutes. I really haven't had any issues that required support.
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Alternatives Considered
Apollo.io
In terms of Apollo.io, the easiest part is its integration and versatility in handling data. LinkedIn NAVIGATOR, on the other hand, is also a decent tool, but it’s significantly more expensive than Apollo.io and Lusha, especially when considering a decent set of data. However, it’s somewhat incomplete when compared to Apollo.io.
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ZeroBounce
We considered AtData since it was recommended by a colleague who has used it in the past. We ultimately ended up going with ZeroBounce based on the cost and documentation/resources available. Email validation tools are probably very similar, but ZeroBounce seemed the simplest for us, and we needed to implement one fast, so activation time was very quick.
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Return on Investment
Apollo.io
  • Helped to book 30 meetings in 30 days.
  • It's very easy to learn.
  • We sign our new clients based on the list of accounts in the industry that Apollo.io provides. This gives us a clear picture to identify which industry to target.
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ZeroBounce
  • Our deliverability is approximately 99% on most emails we send thanks to ZeroBounce
  • We've had an increase in our domain reputation
  • The price is affordable and similar to other tools that do the same, but are not as accurate as ZeroBounce
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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

ZeroBounce Screenshots

Screenshot of email list bulk validation, with tools to increase the chances of landing in the inbox. Emails can be tested to see if they'll go to the inbox, and Activity Data displays extra insights about subscribers.Screenshot of ZeroBounce's Executive Overview report that shows: 
-Top Domains : This shows the top 10 domains found in an email list and breaks it down by percentages, giving a better picture of the different domains in the database for planning.
-Validation Results: provides the overall statistics of the different email validation results of the entire file, showing how many emails in thelist were valid, invalid, spam traps, catch-all, unknown or abuse (complainers).
-Data Appends: This shows how successful ZeroBounce was in appending additional data to the email list. For some contacts, the email checker will add the subscriber’s first and last name, gender, location and age of the email address.
-IP Location Data Appends: If uploading the IP addresses along with emails, the report will show the demographics by top countries and top regions/states.Screenshot of Email deliverability testing: The mail server tester can be used to check configurations. The inbox placement tester shows where emails will land. The inbox tester shows if the email could land in spam to fix it ahead of time.Screenshot of IP and domain blacklisting: ZeroBounce can be used to monitor an IP and domain to make sure they never end up on an email blacklist, running hundreds of daily tests to keep users updated, and making it easier to get delisted.Screenshot of where to see if an IP and domain are blocked: ZeroBounce can be used to monitor an IP and domain to make sure they never end up on an email blacklist, running hundreds of daily tests to keep users updated, and making it easier to get delisted.