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Apollo pricing and alternatives: cached email finder API, POST /people/bulk_match, Bulk people enrichment, full

Apollo's sitellms.txtBest cached email finder API in 2026
70% complete: 7 of the 10 key fields we checkSee the 10 fields
$0.00per 1,000 emailsThe cheapest of the 316 plans we rank by price is GetLeads, $249 monthly, Partner, POST /api/v1/enrich/csv, From LinkedIn profile URL: CSV bulk, at $0.042 per 1,000.
Plan: Free one of Apollo's 7 plans
Call: POST /people/bulk_match, Bulk people enrichment, full one of Apollo's 4 calls for this API
API: Cached email finder API one of Apollo's 12 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 1 month old. You get emails from Apollo's database.
  • 7 of the 10 key fields we check. Verification, Confidence, Name, Job title, Company, LinkedIn URL, Location.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You call POST /people/bulk_match. You send details (up to 10 people), one of webhook_url or poll_only "true". You set reveal_phone_number to "true". Name a webhook in your request and the provider sends the answer there. Leave the webhook out and the call returns the answer.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Apollo: cached email finder API alternatives

The table starts with Apollo's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 emails closest to Apollo's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old.

Apollo, $588 yearly, Basic, POST /people/bulk_match, Bulk people enrichment, fullLeadIQ, $20 monthly, Pro, 200 credits a month, POST /graphql, searchPeopleTomba, $49 monthly, Basic, GET /email-finder, Email Finder, fullLusha, $3,599.10 yearly, Premium, 40,800 credits a year, POST /v3/contacts/search-and-enrich, Search and Enrich ContactsPeople Data Labs, $12,000.20 yearly, Pro, Tier 3, POST /v5/person/bulk
$ per 1,000 emails$176.40$100.00$117.60$176.427$200.00
Completeness70%80%90%70%70%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlyyearlyyearly
Pay$588$20$49$3,599.10$12,000.20
Enough forabout 3,333 results a year200 results a monthabout 416 calls a month20,400 results a year60,001 results a year
Freshness1 month1 month1 month1 week1 month
Who can get itbusiness use only, not as a consumer, users of legal ageanyone, for their internal business purpose only, 18 or over with authority to bind it when accepting for a company, not in a US-embargoed country or on a US restricted listanyone 18 or overanyone 18 or over with a business emailanyone with a work email

Every cached email finder API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-22.

  1. app.apollo.io/api/v1/pricing_variants/random
  2. docs.apollo.io/docs/api-pricing
  3. docs.apollo.io/docs/bulk-people-enrichment
  4. docs.apollo.io/docs/convert-enriched-people-to-contacts
  5. docs.apollo.io/docs/developer-faqs
  6. docs.apollo.io/docs/enrich-phone-and-email-using-data-waterfall
  7. docs.apollo.io/docs/retrieve-mobile-phone-numbers-for-contacts
  8. docs.apollo.io/reference/bulk-people-enrichment
  9. docs.apollo.io/reference/people-enrichment
  10. docs.apollo.io/reference/rate-limits
  11. knowledge.apollo.io/api/v2/help_center/en-us/articles/4423314404621.json
  12. knowledge.apollo.io/hc/en-us/articles/10826699994381-How-Apollo-Verifies-Emails
  13. knowledge.apollo.io/hc/en-us/articles/4423314404621-Email-Status-Overview
  14. knowledge.apollo.io/hc/en-us/articles/45824429846669-Apollo-Data-Overview
  15. knowledge.apollo.io/hc/en-us/articles/4677130104333-Customize-and-Manage-Your-Apollo-Plan
  16. knowledge.apollo.io/hc/en-us/articles/4738396786701-Request-Contact-Data-in-Apollo
  17. apollo.io/email-finder
  18. apollo.io/pricing
  19. apollo.io/pricing/calculator
  20. apollo.io/product/api
  21. apollo.io/terms
  22. apollo.io/terms/api

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Verification
  • Confidence
  • Catch-all domain, not in the answer
  • Where found, not in the answer
  • Personal email, not in the answer
  • Name
  • Job title
  • Company
  • LinkedIn URL
  • Location
Price
$ per 1,000 emails$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forPeople API Search · Search for contacts · Search for accounts · from the same budget: Run an Assistant task · People enrichment · Organization enrichment · Bulk organization enrichment · Organization search · Organization job postings · Get complete organization info · News articles search · Get conversations info · Export conversations · Get complete person info
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
Catch-all
$ per 1,000$0.00
Bounce
Bounce refundthe credit, automatically (in the next billing cycle), for an Apollo-verified email that bounces within 30 days, sent within Apollo
In their words
Their pitchNeed to look up more than one email address? Upload a CSV with names and companies, get verified business emails back.
Data
Freshness1 month
Keep datapeople's business contact information put into your own records, CRM or database during the term: no limit, past it too. The rest: until the term ends
Use data"Term License. [...] solely for your internal business purposes to: [...] communicate with a person in a manner that relates to such person’s profession, business, or employment using any Business Contact Information, identify prospective sales opportunities, research your existing customers and prospects, and otherwise analyze the Contributor Database in a manner relating to your business-to-business sales, marketing, recruiting, and business development activities", "General Usage Restrictions. You will not, and will not permit any third party to: use the Services, the Platform, or data derived therefrom to create, develop, or offer a product or service to third parties that competes with Apollo's products or services. This restriction does not apply to your internal systems or processes that are not commercially offered to third parties, resell, distribute, disclose, sublicense, transfer, sell, offer for sale, or make available any of the Contributor Database or any part of the Services to any third party, [...]", "Business Contact Information Restrictions. You will not: distribute, sell, or license Business Contact Information to third parties, except to the extent expressly authorized by Apollo in writing, use Business Contact Information to create competing databases or services, combine Business Contact Information with other data sources in a manner that would circumvent the usage restrictions applicable to the underlying Apollo data, [...] or use Business Contact Information to train, fine-tune, or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning model, system, or service, except (1) for your own internal models used solely for your internal business purposes and not commercially offered to third parties, or (2) to the extent otherwise expressly authorized by Apollo in writing.", "Technical and Access Restrictions. [...] You may not: [...] Disclose the results of any Platform or program benchmark tests to any third parties without Apollo’s prior written consent.", "Prohibited Uses. You are expressly prohibited from doing any of the following: selling, sublicensing, or otherwise providing access to any API to any third party, using any API with LinkedIn automations, using any API in a manner that allows any third party to use Apollo data to train, fine-tune, or improve any artificial intelligence or machine learning model, system, or service, [...]"
Plan
Pay$0
Expiresat the end of each billing cycle, not rolled over
Rate limit
Per day600
Per second0.028
Batch10
Speed
Answerin the call or by webhook
The call
You senddetails (up to 10 people), reveal_phone_number "true", one of webhook_url or poll_only "true". Optional: details[].first_name, details[].last_name, details[].name, details[].email, details[].hashed_email, details[].organization_name, details[].domain, details[].id, details[].linkedin_url, run_waterfall_email, run_waterfall_phone, reveal_personal_emails
MethodPOST
Path/people/bulk_match
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itan Apollo account registered with a work email address, business use only, not as a consumer, users of legal age
The 125 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, person ID, first name, last name, full name, LinkedIn URL, job title, email, email status, extrapolated email confidence, photo, X URL, GitHub URL, Facebook URL, headline, match confidence, city, state, country, departments, subdepartments, functions, seniority, likely to engage, shows intent, revealed for your team, employment record ID, employment record created date, employment record updated date, employment current, employment title, employment company ID, employment company name, employment start date, employment end date, employment description, employment address, employment kind, employment degree, employment major, employment grade level, employment emails, saved account ID, saved account team ID, saved account stage ID, saved account source, saved account original source, saved account creator ID, saved account owner ID, saved account created date, saved account phone status, saved account HubSpot ID, saved account Salesforce ID, saved account CRM owner ID, saved account parent ID, saved account sanitized phone, saved account playbook statuses, saved account rule statuses, saved account existence level, saved account label IDs, saved account custom fields, saved account custom field errors, saved account modality, saved account source display name, saved account Salesforce record URL, saved account CRM record URL, company ID, company name, company website, company blog URL, company AngelList URL, company LinkedIn URL, company X URL, company Facebook URL, company primary phone, company languages, company Alexa ranking, company phone, company LinkedIn ID, company founded year, company ticker, company stock exchange, company logo, company Crunchbase URL, company domain, company industry, company keywords, company employee count, company industries, company secondary industries, company snippets loaded, company industry tag ID, company industry tag IDs by industry, company NAICS code, company SIC code, company retail location count, company raw address, company street, company city, company state, company postal code, company country, status, error code, error message, requested enrichments, unique enriched records, missing records, credits consumed, phone task status, enriched records, phone enrichment status, phone number, phone sanitized number, phone type, phone confidence, phone source, phone validation status, phone do-not-call status, phone do-not-call country, phone do-not-call status date, phone position, phone record ID, phone record created date, phone record updated date

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