Apollo alternative
An Apollo alternative that waits for your approval
How Apollo and Honest Intros compare, using only what each product's own pages say.
We make Honest Intros, one of the products compared here. Every fact about another product comes from that product's own website, is linked to its source and carries the date we checked it. Where an official page does not say something, we write “not stated” rather than guess.
The short answer
Apollo suits: sales teams that want a large contact database, enrichment and sequences in one per-seat tool. Choose Honest Intros if you want every email to wait for your approval, to quote the prospect's own website word for word, and to leave from your own Gmail at a human pace.
Apollo and Honest Intros side by side
| Apollo | Honest Intros | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | per seat a month with credits | free to start; emails written from scratch by AI use your own OpenAI key; no paid plans yet |
| Entry price | Basic $49 per seat a month billed annually | $0 |
| Free option | free plan with 900 credits a year and 2 sequences; 14-day trial of paid plans | free, no card; private pilot by invitation |
| Who sends | your own connected mailboxes; domain and mailbox purchase on paid plans | your own Gmail mailbox, connected with Google sign-in |
| Approval before a first email | optional: any sequence step can be a manual email you review instead of automatic | required for every email; nothing is sent without it and there is no timer |
| Where leads come from | its own database of 240M contacts and 30M companies, enrichment, CRM | websites you paste or upload as CSV; search by country is being switched on; no contact database |
| Personalisation | AI-generated sequences and AI research; checking claims against sources not stated | every first email quotes the prospect's own website word for word, and a check refuses any draft whose quote is not on the page |
| Replies | meeting scheduling and pre-meeting insights; AI replies not stated | replies, bounces, out-of-office and opt-outs recognised in several languages; the sequence stops by itself; you answer from a suggested starter |
| Best for | Sales teams that want a large contact database, enrichment and sequences in one per-seat tool | People who want to read every email before it goes and send it from their own Gmail, at a human pace |
Apollo facts checked on 1 October 2026. Sources: [1] [2]
Where Apollo is the better choice
Sales teams that want a large contact database, enrichment and sequences in one per-seat tool. Honest Intros has no built-in contact database; at most 50 emails a day per mailbox, 20 for personal Gmail; no AI agent that answers replies or books meetings.
Where Honest Intros is the better choice
- Nothing is sent until you approve it, one by one or in a batch you have read.
- Every first email quotes the prospect's own site, and a draft is refused if the quote is not on the page.
- It sends from your own Gmail, 20 a day at first and never more than 50.
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Questions
Does Apollo send from my own mailbox?
As of 1 October 2026, Apollo's official pages say: your own connected mailboxes; domain and mailbox purchase on paid plans.
Does Apollo let me approve each email before it is sent?
As of 1 October 2026: optional: any sequence step can be a manual email you review instead of automatic.
How much does Apollo cost?
As of 1 October 2026: Basic $49 per seat a month billed annually. Pricing model: per seat a month with credits.
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