Apollo.io alternative when you only need contacts from your own list of websites
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Short answer: Apollo.io is a per-seat sales platform: a contact database, sequencing, dialer and CRM integrations. The structured pricing data on its pricing page lists Free ($0), Basic ($49 a month) and Professional ($99 a month), with the plan picker priced “per seat”, plus a Custom plan through sales. If you only need the public contact details of businesses you have already listed — role emails, phones, WhatsApp, social links — our Apify Actor does that without a seat licence: the Actor is free during launch and you pay only Apify platform usage. If you need to discover people by title and company, or run sequences, Apollo is built for that.
The pain this page is about
Many small agencies and exporters sign up for a sales database when the actual task is simple: “here are 200 dealer websites, give me how to reach each one.” A per-seat plan for that one job is a cost you may not need.
Side by side (from public pages)
| Apollo.io | Unadhi Website Contact Scraper (Apify) | |
|---|---|---|
| Main job | Find people and companies in Apollo's database, sequence emails, calls, CRM sync | Read the websites you list and return what each publishes |
| Input | Search filters in Apollo | Your list of domains, start URLs, or the dataset from another Apify run (for example a Google Maps scrape) |
| Output | Contacts with emails and phone numbers drawn with credits | One row per site: role emails (MX-checked), phones (E.164), WhatsApp/Telegram numbers, 16 social networks, source page for each |
| Price (public, 14 Oct 2026) | Free $0 · Basic $49/month · Professional $99/month (structured pricing data on the page); plan picker shows prices “per seat”; Custom via sales. Annual billing is discounted per the FAQ | Actor fee: free during launch. Pay only Apify platform usage; Apify Free plan $0 includes $5 usage a month |
| Seats | All seats on an account are on the same plan (FAQ) | No seats with us; your Apify account |
| Credits | Pooled across the team, reset each cycle, do not roll over (FAQ) | No credits; Apify usage only |
| Using the data for clients | Apollo's FAQ says the plans are for internal business use only; powering external products, sharing with customers or reselling needs a separate agreement | Data comes from public websites you choose; you stay responsible for DPDP/GDPR and each site's terms (sites whose terms forbid scraping are skipped) |
| Refunds/cancel | Downgrades take effect immediately with no refund for unused time; cancellations at end of term (FAQ) | No subscription with us |
Who should pick Apollo.io instead
- You need to discover decision-makers by job title, industry and company size — not just reach sites you already know.
- You want sequencing, calling and CRM sync in one place for a sales team.
- You want a free trial of a full sales platform; Apollo says its free Starter plan stays free with no time limit after the trial.
Who our Actor fits better
- You already have the list of businesses (Maps, directory, exhibitor list) and need each one's published contacts.
- You are an agency delivering contact sheets for a client and want data whose source page is recorded on every row.
- You want phones and WhatsApp numbers that the business itself put on its website.
- You do not want a per-seat subscription for a one-off or monthly job.
Try it on five of your own websites first
Actor fee: free during launch · you pay only Apify platform usage
The Website Contact Scraper: Emails, Phones & WhatsApp is a pay-per-usage Actor on Apify. Apify's own docs explain the model: you pay only for the platform resources the run uses, with no extra charge from the developer (Apify docs). Apify's free plan is $0 and includes $5 of platform usage a month, with no credit card (apify.com/pricing). We do not quote a cost per 1,000 sites, because it depends on the sites; Apify suggests a small test run to measure it. Sites that block bots, disallow crawling or forbid scraping in their terms are skipped and not charged. Built and published by Unadhi (disclosure).
Free gift: copy-paste input for a five-site test
Replace the five domains with real ones from your list. Check the rows by hand against two of the sites before you run hundreds. More walk-throughs: find public role emails on a company website · add emails and phones to a Google Maps export.
Frequently asked questions
What is an Apollo.io alternative if I only need contacts from my own list of websites?
Unadhi's Website Contact Scraper on Apify takes your list of domains, or a dataset from another Apify run such as a Google Maps scrape, and returns each site's published contacts: role emails, phones, WhatsApp numbers and social links. There is no seat licence. Our Actor is free during launch; you pay only Apify platform usage, and Apify's free plan includes $5 of usage a month.
How much does Apollo.io cost in 2026?
The structured pricing data on apollo.io/pricing, read on 14 Oct 2026, lists Free at $0, Basic at $49 a month and Professional at $99 a month, and the plan picker prices plans per seat. A Custom plan is quoted by sales. Annual billing is discounted, so check the live page for that figure.
Can I resell Apollo.io data to my clients?
Apollo's pricing FAQ says its listed plans are for internal business use only. Powering external products, sharing data with customers or reselling needs a separate agreement with custom pricing. If you deliver contact sheets to clients, check that agreement first or use data from public websites with the source page recorded.
Does the Unadhi Actor search a database of people?
No. It has no database. It reads only the websites you give it and returns the public contact details each site shows, plus the page it found them on. For discovering decision-makers by title, industry or company size, a sales database such as Apollo is the right kind of tool.
When should I choose Apollo.io over the Apify Actor?
Choose Apollo when you need to find people you do not yet know, by job title, industry or company size, or want sequencing, calling and CRM sync in one place for a sales team. Choose the Actor when you already have the business list and only need each site's published contacts without a per-seat subscription.
Can I resell Apollo data to my clients?
Apollo's pricing FAQ says the plans on that page are for internal business use only, and that powering external products, sharing with customers or reselling requires a separate agreement with custom pricing.
What does the Actor cost?
The Actor charges nothing during launch. You pay Apify platform usage for each run. Apify's free plan includes $5 of usage a month. Test on a few sites to see your usage before scaling.
Not legal advice. Work emails and phone numbers of identifiable people are personal data under India's DPDP Act 2023 and the EU/UK GDPR; you decide what to do with the output and you stay responsible for it. Competitor prices and plans change; re-check their pricing pages before you decide. Spotted an error about any product on this page, including ours? Write to mininglife7@gmail.com and we correct it.
Sources
- Apollo.io pricing page (structured pricing data, per-seat picker, FAQ on seats, credits, refunds and internal-use terms) — https://www.apollo.io/pricing (read 14 Oct 2026)
- Unadhi Website Contact Scraper on Apify Store — https://apify.com/laudable_instrument/contact-details-scraper-half-price (read 14 Oct 2026)
- Apify docs: pay-per-usage Actors — https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage (read 14 Oct 2026)
- Apify pricing — https://apify.com/pricing (read 14 Oct 2026)
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