Apollo.io alternatives: other databases, enrichment, and buyers who ask
facts about Apollo.io checked on 1 November 2026 from its own pages
The best Apollo.io alternative depends on what you're replacing. Apollo bundles a contact database, outreach, enrichment and visitor identification, so most alternatives replace one piece of it. ZoomInfo, Lusha and Hunter cover contact data. Clay covers enrichment from many providers. RB2B and Warmly cover website visitors. Instantly covers sending. If you want buyers who are already asking for something like your product, HearBuyers finds them in public posts on Reddit and X. It's ours, so it gets its own section below.
Apollo.io and HearBuyers, side by side
| What | apollo.io | hearbuyers |
|---|---|---|
| Sources | Its own contact and company database | Public X posts and replies, and Reddit posts and comments |
| What it does | Database, sequences, dialer, enrichment, intent topics and website visitor identification in one tool | Finds people describing the problem you solve and scores how close they are to buying |
| How you set it up | Sign up and search. Self-serve plans | Paste your website. Buyers, problems, searches and communities are filled in for you to edit |
| Buying intent | Intent topics (1 on Free, 6 on Basic, 12 on Organization) | A score from 0 to 100 per post, with the sentence that shows the need and a one-line reason |
| Contact details | Emails and phone numbers, metered in credits | None, unless a public email appears in the post. You reply where the person asked |
| Price | Free, then $49, $79 or $119 a seat a month billed annually | From $19 a month, free for 14 days with no card. No charge per seat or per match |
Sources for Apollo.io, checked 1 November 2026: Apollo.io pricing. Apollo.io is a trademark of its owner. HearBuyers is not affiliated with it. Spot something out of date? Write to us and we will fix it.
What Apollo.io does
Apollo.io combines a contact and company database with sequences, a dialer, enrichment, intent topics, AI lead scoring and website visitor identification. Everything is metered in credits.
Its plans on 1 November 2026, per seat per month billed annually: Free at $0 (900 credits a seat a year, granted monthly), Basic at $49 ($65 billed monthly), Professional at $79 ($99 monthly) and Organization at $119 with a minimum of three seats. Add-ons such as Inbound and the Advanced Dialer are priced per team.
Alternatives by what you need
Other contact databases
- [ZoomInfo](/alternatives/zoominfo) sells contact and company profiles, mobile numbers and business emails, with intent signals and website visitors on its Copilot packages. It doesn't list prices, so you have to request a quote.
- Lusha focuses on verified emails and phone numbers, with a free plan and self-serve paid plans. We couldn't read its current prices on 1 November 2026, so check its pricing page.
- Hunter finds and verifies work emails and runs email sequences. It's free with 50 credits a month, then Starter costs $34 a month billed yearly.
Enrichment from many providers
- [Clay](/alternatives/clay) enriches lists from more than 150 providers in a waterfall, with an AI research agent, signals and CRM sync. It's free, then Launch starts at $167 a month billed annually.
Who is visiting your website
- RB2B names people and companies on your site and sends them to Slack. Person-level identification works in the US only. Free for companies, then $79 a month.
- Warmly does person-level visitor identification with AI chat, sold through sales from $10,000 a year.
Sending at volume
- Instantly runs cold email at volume across many sending accounts, with self-serve monthly and yearly plans on its pricing page.
People asking in public
- HearBuyers (ours) reads public X posts and replies and Reddit posts and comments, scores each one for buying intent and drafts a reply. More below.
- Octolens monitors Reddit, X and other platforms for mentions of your brand and competitors. From $159 a month billed annually.
At a glance
| Tool | Best for | Starting price (checked 1 Nov 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Apollo.io | Database plus outreach in one tool | Free; $49 a seat a month (annual) |
| ZoomInfo | Broad data for large teams | Quote only |
| Lusha | Verified emails and phone numbers | Free plan; check its page |
| Hunter | Finding and verifying work emails | Free; $34 a month (yearly) |
| Clay | Custom enrichment workflows | Free; $167 a month (annual) |
| RB2B | Naming website visitors | Free; $79 a month |
| Warmly | Visitor identification with AI chat | From $10,000 a year |
| Instantly | Cold email at volume | See its pricing page |
| Octolens | Mention monitoring across platforms | $159 a month (annual) |
| HearBuyers (ours) | People asking for what you sell on Reddit and X | Free for 14 days, then from $19 a month |
Where HearBuyers fits, and where it doesn't
HearBuyers doesn't replace Apollo's database or sequences. You won't get emails or phone numbers unless a public email appears in a post. You get a short list of people who said in public that they need what you sell. You paste your company website, and HearBuyers infers your product summary, buyer roles, the problems buyers describe, search phrases, competitors and subreddits. You fix anything it got wrong, and it reads public posts starting with the last seven days.
Each post gets a score from 0 to 100, the sentence that shows the need and a one-line reason. Matches at or above your threshold (70 by default) get a drafted public reply, plus a DM draft on X. A person edits, approves, copies and posts it. Alerts go to Slack, a daily email digest and a team inbox. It's free for 14 days with no card, then from $19 a month.
Teams often run both: a database for planned outbound, and public posts for the people who raised their hand this week. See outbound lead generation and buying signals examples.
The honest case for staying
If you use Apollo every day for list building, sequences and dialing, one tool with one bill is hard to beat on price at small team sizes, and the free plan covers light use. Replace only the part that's failing.
How to choose
- List which Apollo features you used last month.
- Pick one alternative per feature you want to replace, and price only those.
- Test on the same segment for two weeks and compare replies, not contacts found.
- Check prices on each vendor's page on the day you buy.
See also Apollo vs ZoomInfo, the Apollo pricing guide and the full alternatives list.
Try HearBuyers on your market
Paste your website. Your first scored matches from X and Reddit arrive within minutes, each with a drafted reply. Free for 14 days, no card.