The best Apollo alternative

Autocloz is the strongest free alternative for outbound teams: a free-forever, AI-native CRM with email, calling, LinkedIn, SMS and WhatsApp built into one login. Unlike most Apollo alternatives, the core CRM stays free for 5 users and 100,000 contacts, and every paid plan lifts the seat count to unlimited — you only pay to raise per-channel daily limits.

For most teams, yes. Autocloz charges no per-seat fee, so adding users never raises the bill, and the CRM is free forever. Calling uses carrier pass-through (your own Telnyx, DIDLogic or FreJun rates, with no per-minute markup), so you scale on volume instead of seats or bundled minutes.

Import your contacts, companies and deals by CSV or API, connect your mailboxes (Google, Microsoft or SMTP) and carrier, and rebuild your sequences as multichannel. You keep every channel — email, calling, LinkedIn, SMS and WhatsApp — on one lead timeline, and built-in warmup means you can move sending over without rebuilding your stack.

For multichannel engagement, yes — Autocloz runs the email, calling and LinkedIn cadences Apollo is known for and adds native SMS and WhatsApp, a free CRM and a compliance gate. The main thing it doesn't chase is enterprise-only RevOps tooling, which is where the largest orgs may still prefer Apollo.

No. Every paid Autocloz plan includes unlimited users with no per-seat fee, and the CRM is free forever for 5 users — you can start without a card and invite the whole team. Paid plans simply raise per-channel daily limits, mailboxes, contacts and verifications, and you can change or cancel any time.

Most teams are sending the same day. Importing contacts and connecting a mailbox takes minutes; rebuilding your best sequences as multichannel is the bulk of the work. Built-in warmup and deliverability tooling mean you can ramp sending safely rather than cutting over cold.

For the outreach + CRM half, yes — Autocloz runs email, calling, LinkedIn, SMS and WhatsApp with a free CRM and unlimited users on paid on paid. For data, you connect your own source or any Apify actor rather than a bundled database.

Autocloz focuses on outreach + CRM; you bring data via CSV, API, or per-org Apify actors. That keeps pricing off per-record database fees.

That is the honest trade and worth deciding before you switch. Apollo's value is the database as much as the sequencer. Autocloz gives you email finding and free unlimited verification on the contacts you already have, plus per-org Apify actors for sourcing, but it does not resell a B2B contact set. Many teams keep a data subscription and move only the outreach and CRM.

Apollo includes a dialer with its sequences. Autocloz runs a carrier-grade dialer with IVR, and — the part that usually matters more — quiet hours and TCPA windows are enforced per channel in the recipient-relevant timezone, so a sequence cannot place a call outside a legal window because someone mis-set a schedule.

It removes the decision about who gets a seat. On per-seat pricing, teams routinely leave SDRs, contractors or founders off the tool to control cost, and the CRM stops reflecting reality. Every paid Autocloz plan includes unlimited users, so everyone who touches a deal can be in the system and the pipeline stays accurate.

That is where the mailbox layer matters more than the sequencer. Autocloz rotates across connected mailboxes, runs a warmup pool, monitors DMARC, DKIM and SPF, and runs inbox-placement seed tests so a drift into spam shows up as a measurement rather than as a quiet drop in replies. The free plan includes 10 mailboxes, which is usually the constraint teams hit first when they scale sending, and paid plans are unlimited.

Yes, and for teams whose Apollo value is the database that is usually the right shape. Export or sync the contacts you have sourced, sequence them in Autocloz across email, calling, LinkedIn, SMS and WhatsApp, and keep the pipeline in the included CRM. You keep the dataset you are paying for and stop paying per seat for the engagement layer on top of it.

It means the sourcing step is yours to choose rather than bundled into the subscription. In Autocloz you import contacts by CSV or API, connect per-organisation Apify actors to scrape a source you trust, and use built-in email finding with unlimited free verification on whatever you bring. The trade is real in both directions: you lose the convenience of searching a bundled database inside the same window, and you stop paying per record for data you may not use. Teams with an existing data subscription usually find this cheaper; teams starting from nothing usually keep a data vendor alongside.