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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Apollo.io

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AApollo 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

    KickFire

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AKickFire’sB2B solutions provide account-level information such as industry, revenue, employee count, and more based on an IP address. KickFire’s proprietary TWIN Caching® technology and robust firmographic database deliver business intelligence for first-party intent, content personalization, account-based marketing, predictive/intent, data enrichment, and much more. KickFire offers IP address intelligence and B2B firmographic data through its LIVE Leads platform, API, and integrations…N/A
    Pricing
    Apollo.ioKickFire
    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.ioKickFire
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details20% discount for annual billing on the Basic and Professional plans.—
    More Pricing Information
    Features
    Apollo.ioKickFire
    Prospecting
    Comparison of Prospecting features of Apollo.io and KickFire
    Feature
    Apollo.io
    7.9
    17 Ratings
    2% above category average
    KickFire
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Advanced search7.517 Ratings00 Ratings
    Identification of new leads7.817 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    List quality7.717 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    List upload/download8.316 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Ideal customer targeting7.817 Ratings00 Ratings
    Load time/data access8.317 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Apollo.io and KickFire
    Feature
    Apollo.io
    7.8
    17 Ratings
    0% above category average
    KickFire
    7.3
    2 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Contact information7.817 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Company information8.217 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Industry information7.516 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
    Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Apollo.io and KickFire
    Feature
    Apollo.io
    7.7
    17 Ratings
    4% above category average
    KickFire
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Lead qualification process7.814 Ratings00 Ratings
    Smart lists and recommendations7.614 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salesforce integration8.38 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Company/business profiles7.716 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Alerts and reminders7.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data hygiene7.215 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh7.315 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Tags7.710 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation8.516 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Email Features
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Apollo.io and KickFire
    Feature
    Apollo.io
    6.9
    12 Ratings
    8% below category average
    KickFire
    -
    Ratings
    Sales email templates6.812 Ratings00 Ratings
    Append emails to records7.011 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Owler
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Owler
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    UpLead
    Score9.7 out of 10
    UpLead
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Apollo.ioKickFire
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (36 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Apollo.ioKickFire
    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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    KickFire
    For small businesses that don't have big budgets for marketing automation, VisiStat is an ideal first step. For companies that have sophisticated systems in place, VisiStat will augment your analytics and provide a deeper dive into your website activity. Since the implementation involves adding javascript to your site, the user should be familiar with how to do this
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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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    KickFire
    • De-anonymizes website activity at the account (company) level.
    • Identifies net new target accounts.
    • Displays click path, time on page, time per session, and engagement level of each de-anonymized website visit.
    • Gives great daily insight on watchlists you've set up.
    • Delivers every possible de-anonymized visit with little filtering for accuracy.
    • More on the watchlists. I really love that you can receive immediate alerts on website visits from accounts you've listed on your watchlists. This way, you never miss the window of opportunity to reach out to your key targets while they are currently on your site.
    • Salesforce integration is good. KickFire pushes most recent website visits, pages visited, website click path, activity percent change, and more to the given account in Salesforce. You can then create reports and run them regularly to see which accounts are surging in website activity. This is also great for account prospecting, and for planning your sales outreach plan of attack. You can see which bits of your website content are most interesting to the company, and which products they are most interested in.
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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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    KickFire
    • Some outdated information and your credits will be used
    • Credit package sizes are not very customizable
    • A tad pricy comapred to simillar prospecting tools I've seen
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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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    KickFire
    We've been happy customers of VisiStat for many years. I've used the service at multiple companies and you can't beat it.
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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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    KickFire
    It was designed for people who are business users, not tech users.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Apollo.io
    No answers on this topic
    KickFire
    We've never had any outages in the 7+ years using the system.
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    Performance
    Apollo.io
    No answers on this topic
    KickFire
    The system is very responsive, and when there are times in which data is loading, the VisiStat system provides humorous loading messages.
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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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    KickFire
    They are very good at solving cases that I bring to them. I'd like to see more proactive support to make sure we are getting the full value out of the solution.
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    Online Training
    Apollo.io
    No answers on this topic
    KickFire
    The tutorials are very good and they explain how to get started using the system. The online webinars are very good for advancing your knowledge of the product.
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    Implementation Rating
    Apollo.io
    No answers on this topic
    KickFire
    Don't hesitate to contact VisiStat support. They are extremely helpful.
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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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    KickFire
    I covered this pretty extensively in the cons. The key differentiator here is that KickFire serves up almost all the data (or so it seems) to the end client. The client then has to do their own work on interpreting it. This is good because it means we don't miss out on any website activities, but it's bad because we get a lot of false positives. 6sense uses the confidence score approach I mentioned in the Cons section, which means the match rates of the data we get are much higher. Our experience with Clearbit comes from other tools that are built on it (Bombora, Drift, etc.), and it has not been great. We've seen many more inaccuracies with Clearbit.
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    Scalability
    Apollo.io
    No answers on this topic
    KickFire
    We've gone from a few thousand unique visitors per month to nearly 200,000 unique visitors. VisiStat doesn't miss a beat.
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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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    KickFire
    • Faster lead conversion
    • Less time on LinkedIn trying to figure out DM (decision maker)
    • Increased employee efficiency
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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.

    KickFire Screenshots

    Screenshot of KickFire features a RESTful API builder and JSON schema that makes it simple to query by IP, domain, or company.