Apollo.io vs. Vainu

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apollo.io
Score 8.4 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
Vainu
Score 9.8 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Traditional sales prospecting is inefficient and tiring. Vainu aims to fix it by transforming disorganized open and big data into insightful leads. Vainu is a sales intelligence, prospecting and account insights platform which aims to help users discover actionable account insights, identify timely prospecting signals, and determine the most valuable sales prospects from a database of +108 million companies enriched with open data. Currently over 1000 organizations and over…N/A
Pricing
Apollo.ioVainu
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.ioVainu
Free Trial
YesNo
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.
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Community Pulse
Apollo.ioVainu
Top Pros
Top Cons

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Features
Apollo.ioVainu
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.1
11 Ratings
7% above category average
Vainu
8.2
1 Ratings
8% above category average
Advanced search8.411 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Identification of new leads7.211 Ratings8.21 Ratings
List quality8.111 Ratings8.21 Ratings
List upload/download8.910 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting8.211 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Load time/data access7.611 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
6.6
11 Ratings
13% below category average
Vainu
7.6
1 Ratings
1% above category average
Contact information6.311 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Company information6.411 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Industry information7.010 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.4
11 Ratings
13% above category average
Vainu
8.1
1 Ratings
9% above category average
Lead qualification process8.58 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations8.69 Ratings6.41 Ratings
Salesforce integration9.05 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Company/business profiles8.510 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Alerts and reminders8.88 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Data hygiene8.910 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Automatic data refresh9.49 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Tags5.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation8.910 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
8.7
7 Ratings
14% above category average
Vainu
-
Ratings
Sales email templates7.57 Ratings00 Ratings
Append emails to records9.96 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Apollo.ioVainu
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(30 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apollo.ioVainu
Likelihood to Recommend
Apollo.io
Best suited for contact discovery on LinkedIn or for that matter any website, but it works best on LinkedIn. It saves tons of work, you can simply select the complete list of people you want to contact and put them directly into an email sequence. It is a little difficult to find contact info on other websites.
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Vainu.io
Vainu is the best software I have ever used for prospecting. It offers everything that we need for sale, prospecting and leads, and indeed really cost-effective. It's really a small investment when comparing what it can bring to your business. Vainu is not indispensable If you don't have an active selling team and continuous need for new prospects.
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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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Vainu.io
  • You save time and find right prospects as fast as possible.
  • It's also easy to sort prospects by industry, revenue, digital foot print... etc.
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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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Vainu.io
  • Vainu has fixed all bugs we have reported. So no, can't really say what I dislike...
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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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Vainu.io
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Alternatives Considered
Apollo.io
I have also looked into and tried Hunter.io and Lusha, and to be honest, I shouldn't compare them with Apollo. I have found Apollo to be so easy to integrate and use with all of my prospecting that I haven't really even tried out the other two. I bet I could find some useful things by using Hunter.io or Lusha as well, but there is honestly no need since I can do everything I want and more with Apollo. I would just be wasting time trying to figure out another platform when I can be focused on growing my own business with Apollo.
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Vainu.io
Vainu contacted me 15 months ago. I had been looking for a good prospecting tool a long time before that. There wasn't any reason not to take the test! The introduction went well. We got guidance many times. Our new sales team members can still receive training from them if we want. They have been interested in our feedback.
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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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Vainu.io
  • Your sales team saves time and find right prospects as fast as possible.
  • Your sales team members like their work more when you provide a good tool for prospecting
  • More efficient time management and more sales
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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.

Vainu Screenshots

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