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Pricing · Apollo.io13 Aug 2026

The headline

Apollo.io discloses credit consumption ratios for data enrichment and phone retrieval

The source, word for word

“Accessing a contact’s emails uses 1 credit. Accessing a contact’s phone number uses 8 credits. Data enrichment uses up to 9 credits per record.”
apollo.io/pricing

The numbers

1 credit
Email
8 credits
Phone number
9 credits max
Enrichment

Scored on four dimensions

  • Specificity
  • Actionability
  • Novelty
  • Evidence quality

So what

Phone-heavy prospecting burns Apollo credits fast. If you sell flat-rate, lead with that.

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Six more, 15 Sep to 4 Oct.

4 OctReply.ioAdds email + domain add-ons
29 SepNektarNew homepage: “trusted AI context”
29 SepLushaAdds waterfall email enrichment
29 SepApollo.ioNamed Salesforce’s Hunter data partner
15 Sep11xAdds a live voice demo
15 SepClayRaises $115M at $7.1B

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