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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Apollo.io

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AApollo is a sales platform that helps revenue teams find and engage leads, automate outreach, manage deals, and enrich data.

    $59

    per month per user

    Autoklose

    Score9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Autoklose, a VanillaSoft brand, is an SEP solution, presenting a combined package of sales email automation and tracking, contact and email campaign management with sequence templates and optimization.

    $59.99

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Apollo.ioAutoklose
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $59
    per month per user
    Professional
    $99
    per month per user
    Organization
    $1,188
    per year per user
    Auto Kloser
    $59.99
    per month per user
    Advanced Kloser
    $69.99
    per month per user
    Accelerated Kloser
    $99.99
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Apollo.ioAutoklose
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional Details20% discount for annual billing on the Basic and Professional plans.—
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Apollo.ioAutoklose
    Considered Both Products
    Apollo.io
    No answer on this topic
    VanillaSoft
    Chose Autoklose
    Much easier to use and it has data with less bugs.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    199 Answers
    90%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    190 Answers
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    26 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    208 Answers
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    165 Answers
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    25 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    170 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    Features
    Apollo.ioAutoklose
    Prospecting
    Comparison of Prospecting features of Apollo.io and Autoklose
    Feature
    Apollo.io
    8.2
    198 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Autoklose
    -
    Ratings
    Advanced search8.4193 Ratings00 Ratings
    Identification of new leads8.2193 Ratings00 Ratings
    List quality7.8196 Ratings00 Ratings
    List upload/download8.4184 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ideal customer targeting8.0191 Ratings00 Ratings
    Load time/data access8.2194 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Apollo.io and Autoklose
    Feature
    Apollo.io
    8.2
    197 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Autoklose
    -
    Ratings
    Contact information8.3197 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company information8.4197 Ratings00 Ratings
    Industry information8.0195 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
    Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Apollo.io and Autoklose
    Feature
    Apollo.io
    7.8
    193 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Autoklose
    -
    Ratings
    Lead qualification process7.9177 Ratings00 Ratings
    Smart lists and recommendations7.5177 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salesforce integration8.1115 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company/business profiles8.2184 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and reminders7.7166 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data hygiene7.5184 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh7.5174 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tags7.8149 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation8.3179 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Email Features
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Apollo.io and Autoklose
    Feature
    Apollo.io
    7.8
    171 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Autoklose
    -
    Ratings
    Sales email templates7.6170 Ratings00 Ratings
    Append emails to records8.0156 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Apollo.ioAutoklose
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    Owler
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Clay
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Mixmax
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Groove (legacy product)
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Apollo.ioAutoklose
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (220 ratings)
    9.0
    (34 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (191 ratings)
    7.0
    (31 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.5
    (30 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Apollo.ioAutoklose
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apollo.io
    Based on my experience using Apollo.io, it is well-suited for organizations like startups that are actively looking to generate new leads to market their products, and for direct marketing using the Apollo.io mail system and filtering leads by locality, sector, or designation.
    Incentivized
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    VanillaSoft
    If someone only runs a campaign using email and telephone communication, Autoklose is perfect, and I highly recommend it. If someone uses a more diverse set of tools and wants a more complex type of sequence, Autoklose does not allow their users to program communication tools that some other tools and software allow.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    Apollo.io
    • contacts with verified emails
    • companies according to their economic sector
    • companies based on their size and revenue
    • companies based on their location
    • contactos con correos verificados
    • empresas de acuerdo a su sector económico
    • empresas de acuerdo a su tamaño y facturación
    • empresas de acuerdo a su ubicación
    Incentivized
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    VanillaSoft
    • It is helping in editing, managing, and send[ing] out large marketing campaigns.
    • It is easy to handle multiple emails in appropriate sequence.
    • Our company [has been] using this for a very long time. It is one of the perfect email solutions we found for our organization.
    • I have been very much impressed by their support staff.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    VanillaSoft
    • AutoKlose uses your own email, (e.g. Microsoft Outlook), so it runs the risk of exceeding the Microsoft Message Rate Limit, which can be problematic for your Outlook account.
    • Additional throttling limits for the SMTP Authentication protocol are:
    • 30 messages per minute
    • Recipient rate limit of 10,000 recipients per day.
    • Exceeding these limits will cause the following issues:
    • Exceeding the per minute limit causes email delivery delays, any excess in message submission will be throttled and successively carried over to the following minutes.
    • Exceeding the per day limit causes the following error message:
    • 554 5.2.0 STOREDRV.Submission.Exception:SubmissionQuotaExceededException.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    VanillaSoft
    We love it and it works
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    VanillaSoft
    Whether it's setting up integrations, creating email campaigns, managing conversations with prospects, Autoklose is a well-designed tool that provides clarity along the way for users to find their bearings, and understand what to do. The help documentation is excellent, the support is great, but the tool is built in a way that simply makes sense when you're using it.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Apollo.io
    No answers on this topic
    VanillaSoft
    We have really had no issues.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Apollo.io
    No answers on this topic
    VanillaSoft
    Always loads fast.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    VanillaSoft
    Our Autoklose rep is amazing! Jelena has always gotten back to us within 24 hours, despite living on a different continent. She is completely proficient with the tool and is usually able to answer our questions with a brief email or short virtual meeting.
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    Apollo.io
    No answers on this topic
    VanillaSoft
    Jelena is amazing! Very knowledgable. Great instructor.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    Apollo.io
    No answers on this topic
    VanillaSoft
    Jelena is fantastic. She always responds to emails immediately.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Apollo.io
    No answers on this topic
    VanillaSoft
    It is extremely easy to implement and start using right away
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    Alternatives Considered
    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 not with Apollo.io. It could have just been our unique experience, but that's what happened.
    Incentivized
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    VanillaSoft
    I think that I have already said it, Autoklose has much better support and is really quick to set up and use compared with any of the other systems that I have used over the years.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Apollo.io
    No answers on this topic
    VanillaSoft
    It's expensive to have a single seat for each salesperson, so the alias feature will be the perfect addition to this product.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Apollo.io
    • 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
    Incentivized
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    VanillaSoft
    • I feel the increased prospect engagement and business opportunities created supported the cost. In my industry 1 customer can support positive ROI.
    • I saw an overall increase in mass emailing effectiveness and we were able to automate majority of our campaigns which increased productivity for marketing & sales.
    Incentivized
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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

    Autoklose Screenshots

    Screenshot of Step 01: Set up your campaignScreenshot of Step 02: Choose your recipientsScreenshot of Step 03: Select the best converting templateScreenshot of Step 04: Customize your e-mail sequence