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comparisons/vs Apollo.io
honest comparison

An honest Apollo.io alternativeApollo sells a sales platform. seibs.co sells the data layer underneath, by the record. Different category, different math.

Apollo.io
Free tier with limited credits
from $59/mo
seibs.co
$0.004 - $0.05 per record
no contract, no seats
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what is Apollo.io?

All-in-one B2B sales platform with a 275M+ contact database, sequences, dialer, and CRM integrations.

Apollo.io is the default B2B sales platform for thousands of teams. It pairs a 275M-contact database with sequences, a dialer, meeting scheduling, and a built-in CRM. If you're an SDR at a Series B SaaS company prospecting other software buyers, Apollo is genuinely hard to beat on time-to-first-meeting. The product is polished, the integrations are deep, and you can be productive on day one.

what is seibs.co?

A portfolio of 35 vertical scrapers, billed per record.

seibs.co is a portfolio of 35 vertical scrapers running on Apify. Each one is a focused data product: HVAC contractors with their tech stack, independent dentists by EHR, Shopify stores by app fingerprint. You pay per record, not per seat. There's no UI to live inside, no sequences, no dialer. You get clean JSON (or CSV) out of an API call and you pipe it wherever you already work.

when to pick which

Pick Apollo if you want a one-tool prospecting motion and you're hunting in the broad B2B SaaS pool. Pick seibs.co if you need local-SMB verticals Apollo's database is thin on, if you want exclusive (non-shared) records, or if you're a one-person team where Apollo's per-seat cost stops making sense. They're different categories of tool. We aren't trying to be a better Apollo.

Where Apollo.io is genuinely strong
  • Massive consolidated contact database (275M+) with reasonable freshness on common B2B titles
  • Tight integration with sequences, dialer, meetings, and a built-in CRM
  • Huge ecosystem: Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Salesloft, Zapier
  • Strong filtering UX: build a list of CMOs at $10M-$50M SaaS companies in 30 seconds
  • Self-serve onboarding; an SDR can be productive day one
Where Apollo.io can frustrate you
  • Per-seat pricing scales fast when you add a team
  • Credit accounting is opaque (export, enrich, mobile reveal all consume different bundles)
  • Generic data: every Apollo customer pitching the same contacts is now a known problem
  • Hard to plug into a custom data pipeline; you live inside Apollo or you fight the export limits
  • Local SMB coverage (HVAC, dentists, salons) is thin compared to enterprise B2B
feature by feature

Apollo.io vs seibs.co, line by line.

Amber highlight marks the side that genuinely wins the row. Ties are real ties, not throwaways.

Pricing model
Apollo.io
Per seat per month + credits
seibs.cowin
Pay per record, no seats
Starting price
Apollo.io
$0 free tier, $59/mo paid
seibs.cowin
$0 (pay per run)
Typical per-contact cost
Apollo.io
~$0.50 / exported contact
seibs.cowin
$0.004 base + $0.004 email = $0.008
Contact database size
Apollo.iowin
275M+ aggregated B2B contacts
seibs.co
On-demand scrape, no static DB
Sequences + dialer
Apollo.iowin
Built in
seibs.co
Not in scope (use Smartlead / Aircall)
Local SMB coverage (HVAC, dental, salons)
Apollo.io
Thin
seibs.cowin
15 vertical lead-finders, deep
Tech-stack detection
Apollo.io
Generic intent + a few signals
seibs.cowin
Per-vertical SaaS stack detection
CRM integrations
Apollo.iowin
Native to Salesforce / HubSpot
seibs.co
JSON / CSV / webhook out
Email verification
Apollo.io
Included in enrichment credits
seibs.co
Dedicated batch verifier actor
Data freshness model
Apollo.io
Continuous DB refresh
seibs.co
Live scrape per run
Data exclusivity
Apollo.io
Same database as every customer
seibs.cowin
Your run, your records
Onboarding effort
Apollo.iowin
Self-serve, sign up and go
seibs.co
Read input schema, run actor
Best for Apollo.io
  • Outbound SDR teams running multi-touch sequences at scale
  • Series A and up SaaS companies targeting other SaaS / mid-market accounts
  • Teams that want one tool for prospecting + sequencing + dialing
  • Anyone who wants a polished UI and a real customer success motion
Best for seibs.co
  • If you are solo operators or 1-2 person teams paying full per-seat pricing
  • If you are verticals dominated by local SMBs (trades, hospitality, healthcare practices)
  • If you are engineers building a custom data pipeline who want raw records, not a UI
  • If you are teams that need tech-stack detection deeper than the basic Apollo intent feed
  • Teams that want pay-per-record economics with no annual commitment
our coverage

Where our actors overlap with Apollo.io.

These are the actors in our catalog that cover ground Apollo.io customers usually buy Apollo.io for. Click through to the actor card for full inputs and pricing.

actor / home-servicesview ->

Every HVAC / plumbing / electrical contractor in a metro with tech-stack and license detection. Local-SMB territory Apollo barely covers.

actor / healthcare-practicesview ->

Independent dentists, vets, chiros with EHR detection. DSOs pre-blocked.

actor / restaurantsview ->

POS / online-ordering / delivery integration detection for independents.

actor / law-firmsview ->

Practice management + intake CRM detection across solo and boutique firms.

actor / b2b-sales-triggersview ->

Intent signals on named accounts (hiring surge, funding, exec change). Comparable to Apollo's intent feed but as raw records.

actor / email-verifier-batchview ->

RFC 5321 syntax + MX + SMTP RCPT verification, no mail sent. Cleans the list before you send.

how the math actually works

Walked through with a real example.

Say you're prospecting independent restaurants in Texas not on Toast. On Apollo, you'd filter the restaurant industry and apply state + size filters, but the restaurant POS field isn't there, so you'd export the list and then pay a tech-stack vendor to enrich. At $99/mo plus ~$0.50 per exported contact, getting 2,000 enriched records lands around $1,099 the first month. On seibs.co you run the Restaurant Lead Finder with `state=TX` and `exclude_pos=Toast` and get the same 2,000 records, POS already detected, for 2,000 x $0.008 = $16. That's the wedge. You give up the sequences and the dialer; you gain a 60x cost cut on the data layer specifically.

Apollo.io per exported contact
$0.500
seibs.co base record
$0.004
seibs.co with email + premium signal
$0.015
faq

The questions I get on this comparison.

Honest answers, including the cases where Apollo.io is the right pick.

Is seibs.co a direct Apollo replacement?

No. Apollo bundles a contact database with sequences, a dialer, and a CRM. seibs.co only sells the data layer, as raw records. Most teams pair seibs.co with their existing sender (Smartlead, Instantly, lemlist) or CRM.

How does the pricing actually compare?

Apollo charges per seat (around $59-$149 per user per month) plus credits for exports and enrichment, which works out to roughly $0.50 per exported contact. seibs.co charges per record: $0.004 base plus $0.004 for an email plus $0.007 if a premium signal like tech-stack or license number is detected. For most lead-finder use cases that's about $0.008-$0.015 per enriched record.

Why does data exclusivity matter?

Apollo's database is the same one every Apollo customer is pulling from. If you and 50 other vendors are all pitching the same 500 dentists, response rates fall. A live scrape per run gives you records nobody else just bought from the same vendor.

What about email deliverability?

We don't send mail. We have a dedicated Email Verifier Batch actor that runs syntax + MX + SMTP RCPT checks (stopping before DATA so no mail is sent), filters disposable domains and role prefixes, and flags catch-all domains. You point your sender (Smartlead, Instantly, Apollo if you keep it) at the cleaned list.

Does seibs.co integrate with Salesforce or HubSpot?

Not natively. Output is JSON or CSV and a webhook on completion. Most teams pipe it through Zapier or n8n into their CRM, or just import the CSV. If you need a native CRM workflow, Apollo wins that round.

Can I use both?

Yes, and several customers do. Apollo for the broad B2B SaaS prospecting where its database shines, seibs.co for the vertical SMB lists where Apollo is thin. The data layers don't conflict.

Is there a free trial?

Every actor on seibs.co has a free first run on Apify (the platform we deploy to). You can pull the first batch of records and see the output schema before spending anything.

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