Apollo.io vs. Autoklose

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apollo.io
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Apollo is a $1.6B AI-powered sales platform that helps revenue teams find and engage leads, automate outreach, manage deals, and enrich data. Boasting B2B database of more than 210 million contacts and 35 million companies, Apollo’s end-to-end platform helps businesses of all sizes unlock their full market potential with precision and ease. With users among 500,000+ companies, including Autodesk, Cyera, and DocuSign, Apollo offers a go-to-market platform to…
$59
per month per user
Autoklose
Score 8.6 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Autoklose, a VanillaSoft brand, is an SEP solution, presenting a combined package of sales email automation and tracking, contact and email campaign management with sequence templates and optimization.
$59.99
per month per user
Pricing
Apollo.ioAutoklose
Editions & Modules
Basic
$59
per month per user
Professional
$99
per month per user
Organization
$1,188
per year per user
Auto Kloser
$59.99
per month per user
Advanced Kloser
$69.99
per month per user
Accelerated Kloser
$99.99
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Apollo.ioAutoklose
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details20% discount for annual billing on the Basic and Professional plans.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Apollo.ioAutoklose
Considered Both Products
Apollo.io

No answer on this topic

Autoklose
Chose Autoklose
Much easier to use and it has data with less bugs.
Features
Apollo.ioAutoklose
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.9
17 Ratings
2% above category average
Autoklose
-
Ratings
Advanced search7.517 Ratings00 Ratings
Identification of new leads7.817 Ratings00 Ratings
List quality7.717 Ratings00 Ratings
List upload/download8.316 Ratings00 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting7.817 Ratings00 Ratings
Load time/data access8.317 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.8
17 Ratings
1% above category average
Autoklose
-
Ratings
Contact information7.817 Ratings00 Ratings
Company information8.117 Ratings00 Ratings
Industry information7.516 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.7
17 Ratings
4% above category average
Autoklose
-
Ratings
Lead qualification process7.814 Ratings00 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations7.614 Ratings00 Ratings
Salesforce integration8.38 Ratings00 Ratings
Company/business profiles7.716 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts and reminders7.014 Ratings00 Ratings
Data hygiene7.215 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic data refresh7.315 Ratings00 Ratings
Tags7.610 Ratings00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation8.516 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
6.9
12 Ratings
8% below category average
Autoklose
-
Ratings
Sales email templates6.812 Ratings00 Ratings
Append emails to records7.011 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Apollo.ioAutoklose
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(36 ratings)
8.6
(33 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(6 ratings)
9.2
(30 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(5 ratings)
8.5
(30 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apollo.ioAutoklose
Likelihood to Recommend
Apollo.io
The automatic email feature is extremely helpful for quickly contacting more potential clients. It is user-friendly and easy to access all buttons, which helps you navigate the task efficiently. It could greatly help to acquire more clients for a project to be successful. I cannot see anything less appropriate for me to achieve the goal I am aiming for.
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VanillaSoft
If someone only runs a campaign using email and telephone communication, Autoklose is perfect, and I highly recommend it. If someone uses a more diverse set of tools and wants a more complex type of sequence, Autoklose does not allow their users to program communication tools that some other tools and software allow.
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Pros
Apollo.io
  • Sequencing automated email campaigns for outbound prospecting (BD Function).
  • Integrating with Sales Navigator to help me find emails/phone #' numbers/"add to sequence" while prospecting. It's easy and seamless to find & then load contacts into Cadences.
  • Integration with Salesforce is a huge plus. Allows me to not worry about logging anything, but the executive team can see my activity & what is going on (emails going out, responses I get, etc.).
  • The analytics on the outreach data is always helpful as well (open rates, click rates, etc.).
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VanillaSoft
  • It is helping in editing, managing, and send[ing] out large marketing campaigns.
  • It is easy to handle multiple emails in appropriate sequence.
  • Our company [has been] using this for a very long time. It is one of the perfect email solutions we found for our organization.
  • I have been very much impressed by their support staff.
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Cons
Apollo.io
  • Some of time it happens that right stakeholders' mobile seems not available in which improvement can help more accurate data.
  • Notifications when someone opens the marketing email and showing the interest.
  • Mobile application that will help us during the travelling. It will get very easy to log calls and find the contacts on the way.
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VanillaSoft
  • AutoKlose uses your own email, (e.g. Microsoft Outlook), so it runs the risk of exceeding the Microsoft Message Rate Limit, which can be problematic for your Outlook account.
  • Additional throttling limits for the SMTP Authentication protocol are:
  • 30 messages per minute
  • Recipient rate limit of 10,000 recipients per day.
  • Exceeding these limits will cause the following issues:
  • Exceeding the per minute limit causes email delivery delays, any excess in message submission will be throttled and successively carried over to the following minutes.
  • Exceeding the per day limit causes the following error message:
  • 554 5.2.0 STOREDRV.Submission.Exception:SubmissionQuotaExceededException.
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Likelihood to Renew
Apollo.io
Generally quite a reliable tool with decent data quality/availability. Pricing works well for our team and our use case
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VanillaSoft
We love it and it works
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Usability
Apollo.io
Apollo.io has an amazing amount of features. It's great being able to complete so many tasks in one space but it's also overwhelming. It took me a few days to work through all of the options when searching for a company or person. After a few days it started to provide companies for me which was confusing before I understood what was happening. At first, I was also confused about what a "sequence" was so maybe some of the jargon can be confusing. I think with time I will become more comfortable once I understand all of the options offered.
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VanillaSoft
Whether it's setting up integrations, creating email campaigns, managing conversations with prospects, Autoklose is a well-designed tool that provides clarity along the way for users to find their bearings, and understand what to do. The help documentation is excellent, the support is great, but the tool is built in a way that simply makes sense when you're using it.
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Reliability and Availability
Apollo.io
No answers on this topic
VanillaSoft
We have really had no issues.
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Performance
Apollo.io
No answers on this topic
VanillaSoft
Always loads fast.
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Support Rating
Apollo.io
The team wants to solve probelms, but we are finding that they don't know how to solve the more technical issues quickly. I suspect that they don't have a mature process for escalations, and they don't have a usable knowledge base article repository. They seems to push emails around to let us know that people are working on the issues to find solutions, but this takes weeks and oftentimes still leaves us without a resolution.
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VanillaSoft
Our Autoklose rep is amazing! Jelena has always gotten back to us within 24 hours, despite living on a different continent. She is completely proficient with the tool and is usually able to answer our questions with a brief email or short virtual meeting.
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In-Person Training
Apollo.io
No answers on this topic
VanillaSoft
Jelena is amazing! Very knowledgable. Great instructor.
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Online Training
Apollo.io
No answers on this topic
VanillaSoft
Jelena is fantastic. She always responds to emails immediately.
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Implementation Rating
Apollo.io
No answers on this topic
VanillaSoft
It is extremely easy to implement and start using right away
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Alternatives Considered
Apollo.io
Make.com, Dripify and Hubspot all seem to have similar systems. However, they don't have any of the data. So, you wind up spending more money and time connecting them all to your system. Zoom Info has great data, but they didn't have automation. Apollo.io allows you to combined all of these other ones into on system which is fantastic.
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VanillaSoft
I think that I have already said it, Autoklose has much better support and is really quick to set up and use compared with any of the other systems that I have used over the years.
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Scalability
Apollo.io
No answers on this topic
VanillaSoft
It's expensive to have a single seat for each salesperson, so the alias feature will be the perfect addition to this product.
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Return on Investment
Apollo.io
  • I've only just started using Apollo, but with the 24 emails I've sent out using Apollo, I've already received one response, which is a much better ratio than before.
  • I was also able to add several companies that were not already in my Salesforce account, which appeared in Apollo.io.
  • Apollo.io helped me find genuine companies that we could assist through the prospecting filters, which was very helpful.
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VanillaSoft
  • I feel the increased prospect engagement and business opportunities created supported the cost. In my industry 1 customer can support positive ROI.
  • I saw an overall increase in mass emailing effectiveness and we were able to automate majority of our campaigns which increased productivity for marketing & sales.
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ScreenShots

Apollo.io Screenshots

Screenshot of Find every prospect. Uncover high-intent contacts in your market.Screenshot of Connect with every contact. Orchestrate multi-step sequences at scale.Screenshot of Optimize your sales strategy. Unlock efficiencies and opportunities across your entire workflow.Screenshot of Apollo B2B Lead Database - Access data on more than 250M people and companies.Screenshot of Apollo Engagement Suite - Automate personalized messages across your entire pipeline.Screenshot of Apollo Intelligence Engine - Improve your revenue strategy across your workflow and boost efficiencies.

Autoklose Screenshots

Screenshot of Step 01: Set up your campaignScreenshot of Step 02: Choose your recipientsScreenshot of Step 03: Select the best converting templateScreenshot of Step 04: Customize your e-mail sequence