Apollo.io vs Salesloft: Sales Engagement Platform Comparison
Compare Apollo.io and Salesloft side by side. See pricing, features, and integrations to choose the right sales engagement platform for your needs.
Apollo.io publishes four tiers from free to $119 a seat billed annually, each with a stated annual credit grant, and includes a contact database. Salesloft's pricing page names no package and quotes no rate, and its capability list carries no contact database, so a data provider is a separate cost.
Key takeaways
- Salesloft's pricing page publishes no rate and no tier names, routing instead to a fifteen-minute intro call.
- A byte search of that page found neither of the two tier names our own pricing dataset records for Salesloft, so treat any published tier name as unverified.
- Salesloft's capability list contains no contact database, so a data provider is a second subscription alongside it.
- Apollo publishes rate and credits together, so an effective cost per credit can be computed before any sales contact.
Reviewed and updated August 29, 2026
Apollo.io vs Salesloft: Sales Engagement Platform Comparison
Salesloft's pricing page names no tier and quotes no figure. A byte search of it finds neither of the two package names our own pricing dataset still records for the product, so any Salesloft tier name in a comparison, including one written last month, is unverified until the vendor confirms it. Apollo publishes four tiers, four credit grants and a seat minimum.
The Short Answer
Pick Apollo.io when you need contact data and sending together and you want a price you can budget from. Pick Salesloft when the requirement is a revenue orchestration platform with cadences, conversation intelligence, deals and forecasting for a larger team.
One practical consequence of Salesloft's silence: you cannot shortlist it on price, and neither can anyone writing about it. Treat every published Salesloft figure, in this comparison or another, as somebody's negotiated outcome rather than a list price.
What Apollo.io And Salesloft Actually Are
Apollo.io is a prospecting and engagement platform with a B2B contact database behind it, and its pricing page lists Free at $0 with 900 credits a seat a year, Basic $49 with 30,000 upfront, Professional $79 with 48,000 and Organization $119 with 72,000, per seat billed annually with a three-seat minimum on the top tier.
Salesloft is a revenue orchestration platform. Cadence automation across email, phone and social sits beside conversation intelligence with AI call summaries, deal pipeline tracking, AI-driven forecasting, coaching and rep scorecards.
The pricing page says "Packages designed for results" and routes to a fifteen-minute intro call. There is no ladder, no tier list and no rate, which is a deliberate enterprise posture rather than an oversight, and it means the only honest comparison available today is structural.
Pricing Compared
Free, 900 credits a seat a year
talk to sales
Apollo.io Pricing
| Plan | Per seat, billed annually | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 900 per seat per year, granted monthly |
| Basic | $49/mo | 30,000 per seat per year, granted upfront |
| Professional | $79/mo | 48,000 per seat per year, granted upfront |
| Organization | $119/mo | 72,000 per seat per year, granted upfront |
Apollo is the only platform in this comparison publishing a self-serve ladder, and it grants a paid seat's whole year of credits upfront rather than monthly. Organization carries a three-seat minimum, and the page advertises annual billing at 24 percent below monthly.
Source: Apollo.io pricing
Salesloft Pricing
| What the page publishes | Detail |
|---|---|
| Rate card | None |
| Package names | None; the page says "Packages designed for results" |
| Route to a number | "Talk to Sales", a 15-minute intro call form |
Salesloft's pricing page is the least specific of the four here. It names no tier and no figure, and a byte search of the page finds neither of the two tier names our own dataset still records for it. Treat any Salesloft tier name you meet in a comparison as unverified until the vendor confirms it in a quote.
Source: Salesloft pricing
What you can and cannot compute
Here is an invented but arithmetically honest example built from what each page actually publishes. It is illustrative only and nothing in it comes from a customer.
Twelve Apollo Professional seats billed annually is 12 at $79 a month, so $948 a month, with 12 times 48,000 credits a year granted upfront, which is 576,000 credits. Every input to that calculation is on Apollo's page, so the number survives review.
The same calculation for Salesloft cannot be started. No seat rate, no package names, no allowances. What can be compared is what each subscription contains, and the missing half on Salesloft's side is data: there is no contact database in its capability list, so a Salesloft team pays a data provider separately. That second subscription belongs in any comparison against Apollo's single one, and it is frequently omitted.
So build the comparison as capability plus a placeholder. Ask Salesloft for a per-seat figure and an annual commitment, add your data provider's cost, and set the total against Apollo's published one.
Who Should Pick Which
Pick Apollo.io when self-serve matters, when contact data is part of the problem, or when you want to prove value on a free tier before spending. It is the only tool in this comparison you can adopt without a conversation.
Pick Salesloft when a larger revenue team needs cadences, coaching, deal tracking and forecasting in one platform, and when the purchase was always going to be a negotiation. Its conversation intelligence and rep scorecards are aimed at managers rather than at senders.
Underneath a certain size Salesloft is difficult to justify, not because the product is weak but because most of what you would pay for is management infrastructure a small team does not need.
- Yes: You manage a revenue team rather than run outbound yourself
- Yes: Coaching, scorecards and forecasting are requirements
- Yes: Procurement expects a negotiated contract anyway
- No: You need a contact database in the same subscription
- No: You want to budget from a published rate
- No: You want to prove value on a free tier first
What Each One Lists
Both lists are each vendor's own wording from its own pages. Read them as advertising rather than as an audit: both run multi-channel sequences, both record and analyse calls and both sync to a CRM.
- B2B contact and company database
- Multi-channel sequences (email, phone, LinkedIn)
- AI-powered email writing and optimization
- Built-in dialer with call recording
- Automated workflows and engagement rules
- A/B testing for email sequences
- Cadence automation
- Conversation intelligence with AI call summaries
- Deal pipeline tracking and management
- AI-driven revenue forecasting
- CRM sync with bi-directional updates
- Analytics and team performance reporting
Apollo.io Key Features
- B2B contact and company database
- Multi-channel sequences (email, phone, LinkedIn)
- AI-powered email writing and optimization
- Built-in dialer with call recording
- Automated workflows and engagement rules
- A/B testing for email sequences
- Buying intent signals and job change alerts
- Advanced lead scoring and filtering
- Email deliverability tools and mailbox rotation
- Conversation intelligence (Professional+)
Salesloft Key Features
- Cadence automation
- Conversation intelligence with AI call summaries
- Deal pipeline tracking and management
- AI-driven revenue forecasting
- CRM sync with bi-directional updates
- Analytics and team performance reporting
- Coaching and rep scorecards
- Mobile app for on-the-go selling
- Calendaring and meeting scheduling
- Workflow automation and rules engine
Salesloft's list is written for a manager: coaching and rep scorecards, AI-driven revenue forecasting, deal pipeline tracking, team performance reporting. Apollo's is written for a sender: a contact database, intent signals, job change alerts, deliverability tooling, mailbox rotation. Cadence or sequence automation, conversation intelligence and CRM sync appear on both, which is the honest overlap and the reason the two appear on the same shortlists at all.
Integration Ecosystem
Apollo.io connects with: Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, LinkedIn, Zapier, Slack, Sendgrid, Outreach, Salesloft.
Salesloft connects with: Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Drift, Vidyard, Zoom, Slack, Highspot, Seismic.
Both lists carry: Salesforce, HubSpot, Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, Slack.
Salesloft's list is the enterprise one, adding Microsoft Dynamics 365, Drift, Vidyard, Highspot and Seismic to Salesforce and HubSpot: those last two are sales enablement systems, which tells you the size of team it expects. Apollo's carries Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive plus Sendgrid, Zapier and a webhooks API, and it lists Salesloft itself, which is the common arrangement of Apollo for data and Salesloft for cadences.
Where Apollo.io And Salesloft Sit In A Cold Outbound Stack
Apollo is the top of the funnel with data included. Salesloft is the execution and management layer above a data source bought elsewhere.
Our own house rule removes a lot of the overlap: we send one message per campaign and never bump a thread, so cadence orchestration is not the capability we would pay for. What remains valuable in Apollo is the database and the deliverability tooling; what remains valuable in Salesloft is visibility across a team, which is a management problem rather than a sending one. Teams that run both do so for exactly that division.
Switching Between Them
Moving from Salesloft to Apollo usually reduces cost and reduces management visibility. Export cadence content and performance history first, since analytics do not migrate, and accept that scorecards and coaching workflows become process rather than product. You gain a contact database that was previously a separate line.
Going the other way is a procurement exercise. Get the per-seat rate and the commitment term in writing, keep your data provider in the budget, and plan the CRM integration before the cutover, because Salesloft's value is the reporting and reporting is only as good as the sync underneath it.
Getting Started
- Ask Salesloft for a per-seat rate, the package name and the commitment term in writing, since the page publishes none of them.
- Add a data provider to the Salesloft side of your comparison; its list contains no contact database.
- Compute Apollo's effective cost per credit from its published rates and grants as your baseline.
- Decide whether coaching, scorecards and forecasting are requirements or preferences, because that is what the premium buys.
- Test Apollo's data on your own segment through the free tier before either conversation.
Final Thoughts
Apollo publishes everything and sells data plus sending. Salesloft publishes nothing and sells a revenue platform for a team large enough to need managing.
The practical advice is the same either way: get Salesloft's number in writing and add your data provider's cost to it before comparing. Any Salesloft price you read anywhere, including tier names, is worth checking against the vendor first.
Related Reading
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Pricing and features are taken from the vendors' own pages. Verify current terms with the vendor before relying on them.
Frequently asked questions.
Frequently asked questions- What does Salesloft cost?
- Its pricing page does not say. There is no ladder, no package name and no figure on it, only "Packages designed for results" and a route to a fifteen-minute intro call. Any specific number you find elsewhere is somebody's negotiated outcome rather than a list price, and it may not apply to your seat count or term.
- Are Salesloft's tier names published anywhere?
- Not on the pricing page. A byte search of it found neither of the two tier names our own pricing dataset still records for the product, which is a good reason to confirm the package name on your quote rather than reusing one from a comparison article, including this one.
- Does Salesloft include prospect data?
- No. Its published capability list covers cadence automation, conversation intelligence, deal pipeline tracking, forecasting, coaching and analytics, with no contact database anywhere in it. Budget a data provider alongside it, because that second subscription is the largest omission in most Apollo-versus-Salesloft comparisons and it changes which of the two looks cheaper.
- Which is better for a ten-person team?
- Apollo for most, and the reason is what each product sells. Salesloft's differentiators are coaching, scorecards and forecasting, which are management infrastructure. A ten-person team usually needs conversations more than it needs visibility into them, and Apollo's free tier lets you test the data before committing.
About the author.
Tim Carden is CMO / CTO at RevenueFlow, which builds and operates outbound revenue engines for B2B companies. Studied at McGill University.
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