Apollo vs Findymail
Choosing between Apollo and Findymail usually comes down to how each one deals with the addresses your list actually struggles with. Apollo is a per-seat sales platform with a large contact database and bundled verification. Findymail is an email finder that verifies what it finds, sold as a single monthly plan. Below we walk through how they price, what they do with catch-all addresses, and how accurate each claims to be, and we show where Giggal.ai lands on the same list so you have a third number to weigh.
How Apollo, Findymail and Giggal.ai compare
| Apollo | Findymail | Giggal.ai | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Sales intelligence platform | Finder & outreach platform | Catch-all and SEG verifier |
| Resolves catch-all | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catch-all cost | Claims to distinguish valid/invalid on catch-all (91%) | 1 credit, the same as any other verification | 1.5 credits in the same run, 2 credits standalone |
| Secure email gateways | No | No | 15 gateways |
| Price at 10,000 | Per seat | Enterprise | $9.90 |
| Price at 100,000 | Per seat | Enterprise | $76 |
| Price at 1,000,000 | Per seat | Enterprise | $680 |
| Credit expiry | Plan credits reset each month, no rollover | Unused credits roll over up to twice the monthly allowance | Credits never expire, with no condition. |
| Free tier | Free plan with limited monthly credits | 10 credits on signup, no card | 1,000 credits, no card, usable on bulk |
| Charges for unknown results | - | No | No |
| Accuracy figure | Claims 91% | Guarantees under a 5% bounce rate, with credits refunded above it | Claims 98.5% |
Every price and policy here comes from the vendor's own pricing. Where a tool does not sell by volume, the cell shows "Quote only", "Per seat" or its monthly plan price instead.
How Apollo and Findymail handle catch-all
Apollo markets a seven-step process that distinguishes valid from invalid on catch-all at 91%. Findymail verifies catch-all addresses rather than flagging them, and reports recovering around 23% more valid emails that way. Catch-all domains accept mail for every name, so a normal check cannot tell a real mailbox from a dead one, and this is usually where a list quietly loses good contacts.
How Giggal.ai handles catch-all. Giggal.ai resolves catch-all addresses to a real deliverable or undeliverable result at 1.5 credits in a run, or 2 standalone.
Apollo vs Findymail pricing
Apollo is priced per user seat, with verification bundled rather than sold by volume. Findymail is sold by monthly plan, from Enterprise for 10,000 verifications a month. Both numbers come straight from each vendor's own pricing, so put them next to the volume you send each month.
How Giggal.ai prices it. Giggal.ai publishes a flat pay-as-you-go price, $9.90 at 10,000, $76 at 100,000 and $680 at a million, with credits that never expire.
Secure email gateway support
On enterprise domains a gateway like Mimecast, Proofpoint or Barracuda often sits in front of the mailbox and blocks the usual check. Apollo does not cover those gateways, and Findymail does not.
How Giggal.ai handles gateways. Giggal.ai detects 15 named secure email gateways including Mimecast, Proofpoint and Barracuda, and returns a real result on addresses behind them.
Credits, free tiers and expiry
Apollo plan credits reset each month, no rollover, and offers free plan with limited monthly credits to start. Findymail unused credits roll over up to twice the monthly allowance, and offers 10 credits on signup, no card to start.
How Giggal.ai treats credits. Giggal.ai credits never expire, it does not charge for unknown results, and every list starts on 1,000 free credits with no card.
Why teams pick Giggal.ai over both
Apollo and Findymail each leave a pile of catch-all and gateway-protected addresses unconfirmed. Giggal.ai returns a real result on those at 1.5 credits, verifies behind 15 secure email gateways, and publishes a flat $9.90 per 10,000 with credits that never expire.
Verify 1,000 emails freeFrequently asked questions
It depends on your list. Apollo suits sales teams that need a contact database and outreach, not just verification. Findymail suits teams that need to find addresses and verify them on one subscription. If catch-all resolution and secure email gateway coverage matter most, Giggal.ai handles both at $9.90 per 10,000.
Apollo is priced per user seat, with verification bundled rather than sold by volume. Findymail is sold by monthly plan, from Enterprise for 10,000 verifications a month. Giggal.ai is $9.90 at 10,000, $76 at 100,000 and $680 at a million, with credits that never expire.
Apollo returns a result on catch-all addresses. Findymail returns a result on catch-all addresses. Giggal.ai resolves catch-all to a real deliverable or undeliverable result at 1.5 credits in a run and also verifies behind 15 secure email gateways.
Giggal.ai is built for the hard addresses both tend to skip. It resolves catch-all to a real result at 1.5 credits, verifies behind 15 secure email gateways, and publishes a flat price of $9.90 per 10,000 with credits that never expire. You can run a list on 1,000 free credits, no card.
Yes. Giggal.ai gives 1,000 free credits with no card, usable on a bulk upload, so you can run the same list you would test in Apollo or Findymail and compare the catch-all rows.
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