Apollo.io vs ScrapeCreators (and is ScrapeField better?)
Apollo.io is a sales platform: a contact database, sequences, a dialer and a CRM. ScrapeCreators is a social-media API for about 38 platforms. Here is how they differ, when to choose which, and where ScrapeField fits.
| Apollo.io | ScrapeCreators | ScrapeField | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | A sales platform: a contact database, sequences, a dialer and a CRM | A social-media API for about 38 platforms | An API for five platforms, Google Maps, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and X |
| What it covers | Its own database of people and companies; a Google Maps business search on paid plans | About 38 platforms, from YouTube to Telegram, five ad libraries and transcripts; not Google Maps | Google Maps, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and X: 45 endpoints |
| How you use it | An app with a seat per person, and an API | An API, an MCP server and a CLI | From code, an agent or the MCP server: one GET returns the answer |
| How it bills | Free; then $49, $79 or $119 per seat a month billed annually, with credits per seat | Credits, most calls one: $1.88 per 1,000 on its $47 pack, $0.99 on its $497 pack | Credits per call, in packs from $39; they never expire |
| Free to try | A free plan | The first 100 credits, no card | 2,000 credits once, and a demo with no account at all |
| Needs your login | No | No | Never: no login, cookie or session of yours, for any reason |
| What you get back | Contact and company records from its database | Each platform’s own JSON, shown by example; no response schema | One documented schema per platform, named after its official API |
Checked 3 October 2026 against each vendor’s own pricing page. Rechecked quarterly — tell us if something here is out of date and we will fix it.
Which to choose
Choose Apollo.io if you are a sales team that wants contacts with emails and phone numbers, sequences and a dialer in one seat.
Choose ScrapeCreators if you need a platform beyond Google Maps, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and X, such as YouTube, Reddit or Threads, or the lowest price per social profile.
Is ScrapeField better?
Only for one job. Choose ScrapeField if you need Google Maps, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok or X data in your code, at a price per call you can multiply, without lending us an account. For anything else, choose Apollo.io or ScrapeCreators as above.
Each has a full comparison with us, including where it wins: ScrapeField vs Apollo.io and ScrapeField vs ScrapeCreators.
Try it before you decide
Every endpoint has a playground that runs against the live API with no key and no account. If the response shape does not fit your code, you will know in about a minute.