Apollo.io Alternative
Just the data.
Not the sales platform.
Apollo bundles enrichment with a CRM, email sequences, a dialer, and analytics. If you only need the contact data — emails, phone numbers, social profiles — you're paying for a lot you don't use. PeopleDB is the data layer, nothing else.
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How they compare
| Apollo.io | PeopleDB | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Subscription + credit limits | Pay per lookup |
| Credits expire | Yes (monthly reset) | Never |
| LinkedIn lookup | Yes | Yes |
| GitHub lookup | No | Yes |
| Email addresses | Yes | Yes |
| Phone numbers | Yes | Yes |
| CRM | Yes | No |
| Email sequences | Yes | No |
| Dialer | Yes | No |
| Built for | Sales teams | Developers |
| Free tier | Limited (export caps) | 10 free credits |
When PeopleDB makes more sense
You need enrichment, not a sales workflow
Apollo is designed for SDRs — prospecting lists, sequences, A/B tested subject lines. If you're enriching data for an internal tool, a pipeline, or programmatic outreach, you don't need any of that. You need an API that returns contact data reliably and cheaply.
Apollo's export limits get in the way
Apollo's free and lower tiers cap how many records you can export per month, separate from their credit system. PeopleDB has one number to track: credits. Each successful lookup costs one, and they never reset or expire.
You're starting from a GitHub identifier
Apollo doesn't support lookup by GitHub username or ID. If your pipeline starts on GitHub — contributor lists, repository stargazers, commit authors — PeopleDB can bridge from a GitHub login to a full contact profile.
The API
GET /api/v1/people
curl "https://peopledb.co/api/v1/people?linkedin_public_identifier=dhh" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"
// ←
{
"linkedin_public_identifier": "dhh",
"github_login": "dhh",
"email_addresses": ["[email protected]", "[email protected]"],
"phone_numbers": []
}Pricing
100 credits — $2 (2¢ / lookup)
500 credits — $8 (1.6¢ / lookup)
2,000 credits — $28 (1.4¢ / lookup)
10,000 credits — $100 (1¢ / lookup)
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10 free credits. No card required.