Apollo pricing and alternatives: cached phone finder API, POST /people/bulk_match

Apollo's site llms.txt Best phone finder API in 2026

27% complete: 3 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields

$0.00per 1,000 phones

Plan: Free one of Apollo's 7 plans

Call: POST /people/bulk_match one of Apollo's 2 calls

About this item

A copy at most 1 month old. You get phones from Apollo's database.
3 of the 11 key fields we check. Number, Line type, Verification.
Nothing to pay.
One call. You send one of webhook_url or poll_only "true" to POST /people/bulk_match. You set reveal_phone_number to "true". The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. Or the provider sends the answer to your webhook.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Apollo: cached phone finder API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 phones. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a month old, like this plan.

	This planApollo, free, Free, POST /people/bulk_match	AI Ark, free, Plan, POST /v1/people/mobile-phone-finder	LeadIQ, free	StableEnrich, pay as you go, Pay per request with x402 or MPP, POST /api/minerva/enrich	People Data Labs, $12,000.20 yearly, Pro, Tier 3, POST /v5/person/bulk
$ per 1,000	$0.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.10	$200.00
Completeness	27%	18%	82%	55%	64%
Billing	free	free	free	pay as you go	yearly
Pay	$0	$0	$0	per call	$12,000.20
Enough for	not published	20 calls a month	5 results	as many as you pay for	60,001 results a year
Freshness	1 month	30 days	1 month	1 day	1 month
Who can get it	an Apollo account registered with a work email address, business use only, not as a consumer, users of legal age	anyone 18 or over with authority to bind the company or organization the account is for, not in a US-embargoed country or on a US restricted-party list	anyone, 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 list	anyone 18 or over, not in a jurisdiction where use is prohibited, paying in USDC from a wallet on Base, Solana or Tempo	anyone with a work email

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-23.

Product details

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

Number
Line type
Verification
Do not call, not in the answer
Country, not in the answer
Name, not in the answer
Job, not in the answer
Links, not in the answer
Place, not in the answer
Company, not in the answer
Email, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000	$0.00
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Per	result
Also pays for	People 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

In their words
Their pitch	Use Apollo API to retrieve available phone numbers for a person, including mobile and direct-dial numbers.

Data
Freshness	1 month
Keep data	people'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
Expires	at the end of each billing cycle, not rolled over

Rate limit
Per day	600
Per second	0.028
Batch	10

Speed
Answer	by polling or webhook

The call
You send	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
Method	POST
Path	/people/bulk_match

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	an Apollo account registered with a work email address, business use only, not as a consumer, users of legal age

The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

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