Apollo vs Armada

Apollo is a data intelligence and sales engagement platform for go-to-market teams. It describes a prospecting database with more than 240 million contacts and 30 million accounts, alongside email sequencing, automated outreach, dialing, call recording and pipeline tools. Apollo’s agents can research accounts, prioritize leads, write outreach, follow up and book meetings. The platform lists more than 200 integrations, including Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, SalesLoft, Marketo, Sendgrid, LinkedIn and major email providers. Its free Chrome extension provides contact and account insights, email finding and dialing, and can add prospects to lists or sequences. The Free plan is free and includes 900 credits per seat per year, granted monthly, two sequences, API access and one intent topic. Basic costs $49 a month billed annually, with 30,000 credits per seat per year granted upfront, email sequencing and core integrations. Trial credits and features are subject to limits; unused credits expire at the end of each billing cycle.

Armada is a GTM outbound platform for finding signal-based prospects and running coordinated outreach. Its Find agent identifies people from hiring, funding, job changes, website visits, and social engagement. Email tools provide multi-step sequences, warmup, inbox rotation, and AI personalization, with Gmail, Outlook, and Azure mailbox connections. Outreach can run across email, LinkedIn, and X, while a shared inbox combines cold-email and LinkedIn replies for filtering and in-thread responses. Users can enrich and verify email or phone data with platform credits or provider keys from services including LeadMagic, Prospeo, Findymail, Wiza, Apollo, and Exa. Armada also offers REST API and MCP access for prospect searches, email finding, and sequence enrollment. The Free plan costs nothing and includes email sequencing, inbox, API, MCP, and bring-your-own keys. Growth costs $49 a month and adds Find credits, LinkedIn, and X. A 7-day trial is listed.