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Apollo pricing and alternatives: cached email finder API, POST /people/match, People enrichment, full

Apollo's sitellms.txtBest cached email finder API in 2026
80% complete: 8 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/match, 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.
  • 8 of the 10 key fields we check. Verification, Confidence, Where found, Name, Job title, Company, LinkedIn URL, Location.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send one of webhook_url or poll_only "true" to POST /people/match. 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/match, 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
Completeness80%80%90%70%70%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlyyearlyyearly
Pay$588$20$49$3,599.10$12,000.20
Enough forabout 3,333 calls 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/convert-enriched-people-to-contacts
  4. docs.apollo.io/docs/developer-faqs
  5. docs.apollo.io/docs/enrich-phone-and-email-using-data-waterfall
  6. docs.apollo.io/docs/retrieve-mobile-phone-numbers-for-contacts
  7. docs.apollo.io/reference/people-enrichment
  8. docs.apollo.io/reference/rate-limits
  9. knowledge.apollo.io/api/v2/help_center/en-us/articles/4423314404621.json
  10. knowledge.apollo.io/hc/en-us/articles/10826699994381-How-Apollo-Verifies-Emails
  11. knowledge.apollo.io/hc/en-us/articles/4423314404621-Email-Status-Overview
  12. knowledge.apollo.io/hc/en-us/articles/45824429846669-Apollo-Data-Overview
  13. knowledge.apollo.io/hc/en-us/articles/4677130104333-Customize-and-Manage-Your-Apollo-Plan
  14. knowledge.apollo.io/hc/en-us/articles/4738396786701-Request-Contact-Data-in-Apollo
  15. apollo.io/email-finder
  16. apollo.io/pricing
  17. apollo.io/pricing/calculator
  18. apollo.io/product/api
  19. apollo.io/terms
  20. 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
  • Personal email, not in the answer
  • Name
  • Job title
  • Company
  • LinkedIn URL
  • Location
Price
$ per 1,000 emails$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forPeople API Search · Search for contacts · Search for accounts · from the same budget: Run an Assistant task · Bulk 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 pitchIntegrate Apollo's email finder into your own product or workflow. Access 240M business contacts programmatically.
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 second0.056
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call or by webhook
The call
You sendreveal_phone_number "true", one of webhook_url or poll_only "true". Optional: first_name, last_name, name, email, hashed_email, organization_name, domain, id, linkedin_url, run_waterfall_email, run_waterfall_phone, reveal_personal_emails
MethodPOST
Path/people/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 190 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 contact ID, saved contact roles, saved contact stage ID, saved contact owner ID, saved contact creator ID, saved contact source, saved contact original source, saved contact source display name, saved contact created date, saved contact updated date, saved account ID, present address, time zone, LinkedIn ID, Salesforce ID, Salesforce lead ID, Salesforce contact ID, Salesforce account ID, HubSpot contact ID, HubSpot company ID, CRM ID, CRM owner ID, CRM record URL, merged CRM IDs, queued for CRM push, sequence IDs, label IDs, custom fields, custom field errors, rule statuses, suggesting rule ID, existence level, last activity date, email needs tickling, email source, email from customer, email unsubscribed, email status unavailable reason, email true status, email true status updated, pending email arcgate request, email arcgate request, free email domain, direct dial status, direct dial enrichment failed date, sanitized phone, account phone note, contact email, contact email MD5, contact email SHA-256, contact email status, contact email source, contact email confidence, contact email position, contact email from customer, contact email free domain, saved phone number, saved phone sanitized number, saved phone type, saved phone position, saved phone status, saved phone do-not-call status, saved phone do-not-call info, saved phone dialer country, saved phone dialer country enabled, saved phone high-risk calling enabled, saved phone potential high-risk number, 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, company parent ID, company SEO description, company short description, company subsidiaries, company subsidiary count, company annual revenue, company annual revenue, formatted, company total funding, company total funding, formatted, company latest funding round date, company latest funding stage, company funding event ID, company funding event date, company funding event news URL, company funding event type, company funding event investors, company funding event amount, company funding event currency, company technology names, company technology ID, company technology name, company technology category, company org chart root people IDs, company org chart sector, company org chart removed, company org chart shows department filter, phone task status, requested enrichments, enriched records, missing records, credits consumed, 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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