A database ages.
A run can't.
Apollo is a contact database with a sales workflow around it. Kavex is forty-five scrapers that open the live page at the moment you press Run. Almost everything in the table below follows from that one difference.
There is not a single invented Apollo number on this page. We compare structure, which anyone can check. Where we cannot verify something from the outside, the cell says so and sends you to their pricing page.
THIS IS THE LINE KAVEX ENDS EVERY RUN WITH · WHAT IT FOUND, HOW LONG IT TOOK, WHAT IT COST
Structure, not adjectives.
Seven things that decide which of the two fits the way you work. Read the right column with their pricing page open.
Forty-five scrapers open the live page the second you press Run. Nothing is served from an old copy, because there is no stored copy.
A contact database you search. How often a record is refreshed is decided on their side, not on yours. Check their docs for the refresh policy.
Delivered results. A Google Maps lead is 2 credits, so $2 per thousand, and 1 credit is $0.001. What a run did not find comes straight back to your balance.
Seats. You buy a user per month and then work inside the limits of that plan. Check their current plan page for the seat price.
Forty-five, and they are different in kind: Google Maps places, LinkedIn people, Trustpilot reviews, Booking properties, Indeed jobs, Amazon products, Reddit threads.
One set, built around B2B people and the companies they work for. For places, listings, reviews or job posts, check whether their coverage reaches that far.
They never expire. Top up in March, use the rest in December, nobody resets anything at midnight.
Credits are handed out per plan and per period. Check their current plan for what happens to the ones you did not use.
CSV with no row cap, every column the run produced. The same rows over the API, on the same credits.
Export is metered per plan. Check their current plan for the row limit that applies to yours before you count on a big list.
One pot of credits, five people, one invoice. Nobody is charged for the month they did not run anything.
Five seats, billed whether or not all five worked that month. Check their current plan for what five users cost together.
Your first 500 Google Maps leads free, no card, no contract, no call.
Check their current plan page for the free tier and for what it lets you export.
When to take Apollo.
Three cases where we are the wrong tool. If one of them is you, buy theirs.
You want the whole sales motion in one login.
Search, sequences, dialer, inbox, all in the same tab. Kavex hands you rows and an export and then gets out of the way. That is on purpose, but it is not what you asked for.
You want to browse before you buy anything.
A database lets you search and stare at results all afternoon. Kavex has nothing to show until a run finishes, because there is no stored table behind it.
Finance prefers a fixed seat to a moving number.
Usage-based spend has to be watched. If one predictable invoice per user is easier to defend inside your company, that is a real reason and we will not argue with it.
No seats. Just a balance.
Top up whatever you want, whenever you want. A bigger top-up buys more credits for the same dollar, and every scraper has one published rate underneath.
CREDITS NEVER EXPIRE · NO SUBSCRIPTION, NO SEATS, NO CONTRACT · SAME PRICES OVER THE API