Is Apollo built for recruitment?

No. Apollo is a general purpose B2B sales prospecting and outreach platform. It has no candidate data or recruitment-specific features. Agencies sometimes use it for client-side prospecting only.

How accurate is Apollo's contact data?

Apollo claims around 97% email accuracy. Independent testing across multiple review platforms puts real-world accuracy at 65 to 80%, with bounce rates commonly reported at 15 to 35%.

Does Apollo charge per seat?

Yes, Apollo's pricing runs from $0 to $119 per user per month, plus a credit system for data, mobile and export actions, so cost multiplies with headcount. 360AI uses agency level licensing with no per seat multiplier.

Can Apollo replace a recruitment platform like 360AI?

No. Apollo has no talent profiles or candidate sourcing capability. It only addresses the client/business development side of a recruitment desk, and even there its data accuracy is a common complaint in independent reviews.

Apollo vs 360AI: Sales Tool vs Recruiting AI

A generalist sales tool vs a recruitment intelligence platform

Apollo is not built for recruitment. It is a general purpose B2B sales prospecting and outreach platform, and agencies sometimes reach for it, or tools like it, to cover the client side of the desk: finding companies, finding contacts, running sequences. On that job, Apollo is a genuinely capable, affordable all-in-one tool with a huge database and a low entry price.

But it was built for sales teams selling software, not recruiters winning mandates, and the gaps show. There is no candidate data at all, no recruitment context, and independent testing repeatedly finds Apollo's real-world data accuracy well below what it advertises. 360AI's AI Prospector covers the same client-side job, backed by the same verified, real-time data engine that powers candidate sourcing, so your BD data and your candidate data come from one trustworthy source instead of two separate tools with two separate accuracy problems.

One is a sales tool doing a recruiting job. The other was built for recruiting from the ground up.

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	Apollo	360AI
What it is	General-purpose B2B sales prospecting and outreach platform, not built for recruitment	Recruitment intelligence platform covering candidates and clients
Candidate data	Not covered; Apollo has no talent profiles or candidate sourcing	1.5B+ talent profiles built in
Client / company data	275M+ contacts, 70M+ companies [1]	72M+ companies, plus client-side hiring and buying intent signals
Data model	Single-source enrichment from Apollo's own database, with no fallback to secondary providers when a record is missing or stale [1]	Waterfall enrichment across 100+ simultaneous sources
Data accuracy	Apollo claims 97% email accuracy; independent testing puts real-world accuracy at 65 to 80%, with bounce rates commonly reported at 15 to 35% [1][2][6]	Every contact verified in real time at point of search
International / EMEA coverage	US data is strongest; reviewers report inconsistent European, APAC and LATAM coverage with outdated titles and invalid numbers [1][3]	Global coverage across 100+ simultaneous sources
Phone data	Costs 8 credits per number, the highest of any data type, with accuracy reported as weaker than email [4][5]	Every verified phone number included as standard, no extra credits
LinkedIn outreach	Marketed as multichannel, but reviewers report LinkedIn features are manual task reminders rather than true automation [4]	Multi channel outreach, no LinkedIn scraping extension or account risk
Failed enrichment	Credits are consumed even when the data returned is incomplete or inaccurate [3]	No contact found, no credit deducted; enriched profile, analytics and outreach access still free
Business development tools	Sequencing, dialer, basic CRM and intent data built in	AI Prospector, client signals and market intelligence built in
Market mapping / live jobs	Not covered	Market mapping and global live jobs data included
MCP / LLM integration	Not published	MCP server for direct use inside Claude, ChatGPT and other LLMs and AI Agents
Pricing model	Per seat: $0 to $119 per user per month, plus a credit system for data, mobile and export actions; costs multiply with headcount [1]	Agency licence, success based, no per seat multiplier
Get pricing	Published rate card, free tier	Tailored to your team, book a 15 minute demo

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The bottom line

Apollo is a reasonable choice if you only need generic B2B contact data and have no interest in a recruitment-specific platform. But independent reviewers consistently find its real-world accuracy well short of its marketing, its credit system consumes allowance even on bad data, and it offers nothing on the candidate side of your desk. Recruiters using 360AI save 12 to 15 hours per week and agencies cut up to 90% of their tech stack cost by running candidates, clients, signals and outreach on one verified intelligence layer.

Book a demo and see it in action.

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Sources

Claims marked [n] are drawn from the following sources, current as of July 2026.

[1] SyncGTM, "Apollo.io Review 2026": https://syncgtm.com/blog/apollo-io-review
[2] Salesforge, "Apollo.io Review 2026: A 4-Week Hands-On Test": https://www.salesforge.ai/blog/apollo-io-review
[3] G2, Apollo.io reviews (verified user reviews): https://www.g2.com/products/apollo-io/reviews
[4] La Growth Machine, "Apollo.io Review 2026": https://lagrowthmachine.com/apollo-io-review/
[5] Cleverly, "Apollo.io Review 2026": https://www.cleverly.co/blog/apollo-io-review
[6] Tomba, "Apollo.io Reviews 2026": https://tomba.io/blog/apolloio-reviews

Last updated: July 2026. Apollo details based on published pricing and independent reviews at time of writing.

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