PitchWhip

Comparison

PitchWhip vs Apollo

Run both. Apollo is where the list lives. PitchWhip adds the fit verdict and its evidence, an opener and likely objections beside the LinkedIn profile you open. Optional live call mode suggests responses while you talk. What follows is the honest sum, with Apollo’s own help centre quoted where it counts.

Same profile. Two tools.

What a contact tool returns

DWDana WhitfieldVP Revenue Operations

+1 (512) 555 0148

dana.whitfield@pellucidmetrics.com

That is the whole output.

What PitchWhip returns

PitchWhip

Read from this page
Right personStrong fit

VP Revenue Operations owns the sales stack. The functional buyer, named cleanly on the page.

Right nowStrong timing

Closed a $42M Series B on 14 Jan and has opened three SDR reqs in five weeks. Headcount is outrunning onboarding. Source: trade press, this week

Say this first

“Dana, this is a cold call. You can hang up. I noticed you have had three SDR roles open since the Series B. Usually when a team scales that fast, ramp is what quietly breaks. Worth sixty seconds?”

She will probably say

“We already use Gong for this.”

Answer · Most RevOps teams your size do. Gong tells you what happened on the call. We are upstream of that, in the first ten seconds before there is a call worth recording.

+1 (512) 555 0148

and the number

dana.whitfield@pellucidmetrics.com

and the email

Same profile. The difference is that you already know what to say, and the number is the footnote rather than the product.

An illustration of the panel. Dana, Pellucid Metrics and the round are invented.

The like-for-like

Apollo

PitchWhip

Entry price, monthly
$65 a seat, month to month. $49 on annual
$49 a seat, or $490 a year
What arrives with the number
No script in their Chrome extension: on the profile you have open it shows contact data, lists and sequences. A script exists only if you run a separate AI Research job in their web app. Another tab, every call, and no fit verdict for the person
Included. The fit verdict with the evidence quoted, why now, the opener in your phrasing, the objection with its answer, one-tap logging
Help while they are talking
Their help centre’s live coaching is a manager joining the call. Recording is on every paid plan; transcripts and AI summaries come after the call, on Professional and up
Live call mode uses your computer’s microphone and Chrome’s speech recognition when you turn it on. It suggests responses as the conversation moves. The microphone must hear the conversation; otherwise, type what they said. No audio file is ever made or saved
The dialler
Built in, US numbers on Basic, at 2 credits a minute from the same pool as your reveals. International calling needs the Advanced Dialer add-on: $119 a month per team on annual, $149 monthly
None. You call from your own phone or the dialler you already have, from any country, and the panel logs the outcome. No per-minute credits
Who finds the next prospect
Their Suggested leads widget offers contacts matched to personas you define first, your past prospecting and their score, each with a one-word reason such as “targeted seniority”. AI scores and buying intent rank searches you build yourself
Up to 10 a day on a paid seat, chosen for fit and timing against what you sell, each with a quoted source. You add the ones you want. No list building, no export
A number that turns out to be dead
No route back for a number. Their help centre: “Apollo doesn’t refund any credits for mobile numbers”
Reportable for 30 days. We check the report by hand and put the credit back, under a clause in the terms
Follow-up email sequences
Included on Basic: “Unlimited Sequences”, sent from your own connected mailbox. Their own words: “Apollo doesn’t send emails on your behalf.” One mailbox a user, 250 sends a day on that tier
Included at $49, using a connected mailbox for eligible relationships or a verified campaign subdomain for cold contacts. Sending limits, windows, unsubscribe links and bounce checks apply. A separate subdomain does not guarantee that reputation problems stay separate
Who presses send on LinkedIn
A task you complete, under their own heading “Not a Bot”: “Apollo doesn’t automatically complete LinkedIn tasks for you.” It stores the message; you open the profile and send it. Their own warning is that too many actions too fast can get the account restricted
A task, never a send, and only on a page you have open. You press Connect, the panel presses “Add a note” in the dialog that opens and writes the note, and you press Send. For a message or an InMail it presses LinkedIn’s own Message button, on a profile or a Sales Navigator lead page. It writes the message in for you to read before you press LinkedIn’s Send
Included contact allowance
2,500 credits a month shared by everything: a phone is 8, an email 1, the dialler 2 a minute, AI research 1 a run. About 312 numbers if you spend nothing else; a US rep dialling through Apollo an hour a day uses 2,400 of the 2,500. Unused credits expire at the end of the cycle
50 finds, phone or email, and nothing else costs a credit: not the brief, the script, the call, the logging, the sequences, or a lookup that finds nothing. If your numbers come from a data tool already, keep it for volume; the seat is the call layer
Price per phone-credit equivalent
About $0.21 for a number that arrives, working or not
$0.98, down to 50c on a 100-pack, and pack credits never expire
A lookup that finds nothing
Emails only: a bounced email is refunded within 30 days
Not charged: 0 credits
The contract
Monthly available
Monthly. Cancel any time from the dashboard, no notice period, no annual lock-in

Sources: Apollo’s pricing page, dialler page and help centre, 6 September 2026; follow-up and LinkedIn rows 3 September 2026; our own pricing page and terms. Wrong about something? hello@pitchwhip.com and we will correct it.

A credit is not a number.

A reveal tool

PitchWhip

The lookup finds nothing
Check the provider’s credit policy
YesNot charged: 0 credits
A number comes back
YesCharged, the number arrived
YesCharged, and this is what you wanted
That number is dead
Check the provider’s bad-data policy
YesReport it within 30 days, a person checks it, the credit comes back
Check what happens after a number is returned. PitchWhip’s bad-data re-credit policy is written into the credits clause of our terms.

Where they are better

The whole stack under one seat at a self-serve price: database, sequencing, dialler, recording and enrichment. They are cheaper per number than anything we sell, and their free tier is usable rather than a teaser. Their dialler page does sell per-prospect scripts, so nobody should tell you Apollo stops at data.

Try it before you believe it

Apollo’s free tier is real, and so is ours: five scripts a day, your first direct dial on us and four more with your email, no card. Install it, open a lead you already have, and put the brief next to whatever Apollo’s AI Research writes for the same record.

Here is the gap in money rather than ratios. At fifty numbers a month the seat is $49 against Apollo Basic’s $65 month to month, $16 under. At a hundred and fifty it is $49 plus the 100-pack at $50, so $99 against $65: $34 a rep a month. The $34 buys what Apollo's script leaves out: the fit verdict for the person on the page, and the objection with its answer. If $34 a rep is the whole decision, keep Apollo and buy us alongside it.

Dial time is the other line. Apollo’s dialler draws on the same credits you build lists with, at 2 credits a minute on their pricing page, so an hour on the phone is fifteen reveals gone. Nothing in our panel costs a credit except a find.

Cheaper per credit is not cheaper per conversation

A $0.21 credit prices a number that arrives, not a number that works, and Apollo publishes no route back when it is dead. So the sum that decides it is the price divided by the share that reach the right person. Nobody in this market publishes that share, and that includes us. The one published figure is Cognism’s, from a study on their own data: 18% of mobiles reached the right person before a human had dialled them, and 45% after. That is their number about their data, and we are not applying it to anybody else. Finish the division at whatever rate you believe. Against our 50c pack rate, a 21c credit costs the same per working number at about two in five, and more below that.

Run both?

Yes. Apollo keeps the lists, the database and the sequences; the panel takes the call, and nothing needs exporting between them.

Test it on a profile your current tool already gave you a number for.

Free: 5 scripts a day, and your first number free, plus 4 more with your email. No card. PitchWhip never presses Send on LinkedIn. Desktop Chrome.

Email me the install link$49 a seat a month, 50 finds included, phone or email

Third-party names and trade marks belong to their owners, none of whom endorse or are affiliated with PitchWhip. Their figures are quoted from their own public pages on the date given; the judgements are ours. All of them, on one page · PitchWhip vs Lusha · PitchWhip vs Kaspr · PitchWhip vs ZoomInfo · PitchWhip vs Cognism.