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Orange Slice vs Apollo: research beyond a contact database.

Apollo is a large contact database with sequences and a dialer built in. Orange Slice answers questions a database has no column for, by researching each company on the web.

Side by side

Price

Orange Slice

Free to start with 2,000 credits. Paid plans from $20/mo for 10,000 credits, month to month.

Apollo

Free plan, then Basic at $49, Professional at $79 and Organization at $119, per seat per month, billed annually. Organization needs three seats.

Source: apollo.io/pricing

Free plan

Orange Slice

2,000 credits once, with every data source included.

Apollo

900 credits per seat per year, given out monthly, with two sequences.

Source: apollo.io/pricing

How you pay

Orange Slice

One kind of credit, per lookup, not per seat. Unused credits roll over.

Apollo

Per seat, with credits pooled across the team. Unused credits do not roll over.

Source: apollo.io/pricing

A work email

Orange Slice

25 credits ($0.05 at the base rate), charged only when an email is found.

Apollo

1 credit per email. A phone number is 8 credits.

Source: apollo.io/pricing

Data

Orange Slice

A B2B database plus specialist providers, and web research for anything a database does not hold.

Apollo

Its own database of 240M+ contacts and 30M+ accounts.

Source: apollo.io/pricing

How you work

Orange Slice

You describe the job in a chat. An agent builds the sheet, picks the providers and runs it. It also runs inside Claude Code with one command.

Apollo

Search the database with filters, then send with sequences and call with the dialer. An MCP server is available on every plan.

Source: apollo.io/product/mcp

Calling

Orange Slice

No dialer. Phone numbers go to your sheet or your CRM.

Apollo

A built-in dialer. Power dialing and local presence are a paid add-on.

Source: apollo.io/pricing

Security

Orange Slice

No SOC 2 audit yet. See our security page.

Apollo

SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001.

Source: trust.apollo.io

We read every Apollo source on 2026-10-24. Prices change, so check their site before you decide. If a line is wrong, email privacy@orangeslice.ai and we will fix it.

Which one to pick

Pick Apollo if

  • You want one database, sequences and a dialer in a single seat.
  • Your reps spend the day calling.
  • Your buyer requires a SOC 2 report today.

Pick Orange Slice if

  • Your best accounts are defined by something no filter has: what they sell, who they hire, what their site says.
  • You would rather pay for lookups than for seats.
  • You want unused credits to carry over to next month.

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