Apollo vs Swordfish
Apollo
apollo.io
Swordfish
swordfish.aiSide by side
| Figure | Apollo | Swordfish |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $49/mo | $99/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 3 |
| Spec score · B2B Contact Data Providers | 9.0 (#3) | 8.6 (#20) |
| API access | Yes | Yes |
| Browser extension | The free Chrome extension provides contact and account insights, email finding, dialing, and adding prospects to lists or sequences. | Swordfish says its Chrome extension reduces copying and pasting during recruiting workflows. |
| Contact database size | 275 | 3500000000 |
| Direct-dial data | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 2015 | 2015 |
| Integrations | Apollo lists Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, SalesLoft, Marketo, Sendgrid, LinkedIn, and major email providers among its integrations. | Swordfish describes CRM and ATS workflows and offers API integration to send data into sales tools. |
| Intended users | Apollo identifies founders and early-stage teams, individual sellers, full-time sales reps, and larger teams as audiences for its plans. | The Chrome extension page identifies recruiting, sales, and sourcing teams doing daily LinkedIn prospecting as its intended users. |
| Intent data | Yes | Swordfish says Bombora Intent Data helps identify companies actively researching relevant solutions. |
| Product | Apollo describes itself as a data intelligence and sales engagement platform for go-to-market teams. | Swordfish describes itself as a contact data tool for finding verified mobile numbers and direct dials for sales and recruiting outreach. |
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In their own words
Apollo
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.