Apollo.io vs. D&B Optimizer

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
D&B Optimizer
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
D&B Optimizer is a sales intelligence software solution offered by Dun & Bradstreet, and presented by the vendor as a secure cloud-based platform that optimizes data, helps users profile best opportunities, and target the audiences they want to reach.N/A
Pricing
Apollo.ioD&B Optimizer
Editions & Modules
Basic
$59
per month per user
Professional
$99
per month per user
Organization
$1,188
per year per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Apollo.ioD&B Optimizer
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details20% discount for annual billing on the Basic and Professional plans.
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Community Pulse
Apollo.ioD&B Optimizer
Features
Apollo.ioD&B Optimizer
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Apollo.io
7.9
17 Ratings
2% above category average
D&B Optimizer
5.7
2 Ratings
30% below category average
Advanced search7.517 Ratings3.52 Ratings
Identification of new leads7.817 Ratings5.12 Ratings
List quality7.717 Ratings5.12 Ratings
List upload/download8.316 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting7.817 Ratings4.42 Ratings
Load time/data access8.317 Ratings8.02 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
D&B Optimizer
6.8
2 Ratings
13% below category average
Contact information7.817 Ratings6.92 Ratings
Company information8.117 Ratings6.22 Ratings
Industry information7.516 Ratings7.12 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
D&B Optimizer
6.9
2 Ratings
7% below category average
Lead qualification process7.814 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations7.614 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Salesforce integration8.38 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Company/business profiles7.716 Ratings4.32 Ratings
Alerts and reminders7.014 Ratings00 Ratings
Data hygiene7.215 Ratings8.82 Ratings
Automatic data refresh7.315 Ratings6.22 Ratings
Tags7.610 Ratings00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation8.516 Ratings8.21 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
D&B Optimizer
7.3
1 Ratings
2% below category average
Sales email templates6.812 Ratings00 Ratings
Append emails to records7.011 Ratings7.31 Ratings
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User Ratings
Apollo.ioD&B Optimizer
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(36 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Apollo.ioD&B Optimizer
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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Dun & Bradstreet
NetProspex is particularly well suited to help your organization keep up an accurate database. It helps to use the NetProspex tools at least once a quarter to help maintain accuracy. It also helps to fill in any incomplete records that could slow down your business process, and it eliminates barriers during the sales funnel.
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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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Dun & Bradstreet
  • Update and correct data.
  • Integrate with your sales and marketing automation systems.
  • Help maintain updated records.
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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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Dun & Bradstreet
  • Sometimes missing records
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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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Dun & Bradstreet
No answers on this topic
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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Dun & Bradstreet
No answers on this topic
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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Dun & Bradstreet
No answers on this topic
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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Dun & Bradstreet
We used Zoominfo before to help search for new leads, or leads similar to ones that were already in our database. We've found that Zoominfo may have had more records overall, but their data was not as accurate. We were also looking for a tool that could help evaluate our current leads on a more regular basis, something which Zoominfo could not provide.
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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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Dun & Bradstreet
  • We save time and money having sales people trying to complete and update records.
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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.

D&B Optimizer Screenshots

Screenshot of Ensure your data is clean, complete and actionable before integrating into your CRM & Marketing Automation Platform (MAP) systems.Screenshot of Enrich and augment your data sets with specialized information to better target your customers and prospects.Screenshot of Connect clean and enriched data into your CRM or Marketing Automation Platform (MAP) systems for immediate activation.Screenshot of Once your target audiences are established, source new, high-quality companies and contacts for your online and offline activation.Screenshot of Search your CRM universe and the Dun & Bradstreet Data Cloud before creating a new account record, preventing record duplication.Screenshot of Ensure corporate relationships and hierarchies are reflected in your account records, allowing you to drive a robust ABM strategy.