Clodura.AI vs Apollo.io (2026): Pricing, Data, and Deliverability Compared

Clodura.AI's Max plan starts at $99/month for 4,500 credits, or $89/month if you pay annually. Apollo.io's Starter plan runs $49/month billed annually and comes with 30,000 credits a year. For a team burning through contact credits every week, that gap in included volume matters more than the sticker price. Here's how the two actually compare on cost, data coverage, and outreach tooling in 2026.

How does Clodura.AI pricing compare to Apollo.io pricing in 2026?

Category	Clodura.AI	Apollo.io
Free plan	$0/mo, 100 credits, 600M+ lead database	$0/mo, 900 credits/year, 240M+ contacts
Entry paid plan	Max: $99/mo, or $89/mo billed annually (4,500 credits)	Starter: $49/mo billed annually (30,000 credits/year)
Mid-tier plan	Max: $214/mo for 10,000 credits	Professional: $79/mo billed annually (48,000 credits/year)
Top-tier plan	Max: $1,027/mo for 50,000 credits	Enterprise: $119/mo billed annually, 3-seat minimum (72,000 credits/year)
Email verification	Standard and deep verification built in, 0.04-0.1 credits per check	Waterfall enrichment plus built-in verification on paid plans
Sequencing	Atlas AI-assisted sequences on every paid plan	Unlimited sequences from Starter up, A/Z testing on Professional and above
Warmup and deliverability	Mailbox warmup and inbox placement testing bundled in (200 and 50 credits per run)	Deliverability Suite and Email Warmup from Starter up
LinkedIn prospecting	Chrome extension for LinkedIn data capture	Chrome prospecting extension on every paid tier

What do Clodura.AI and Apollo.io actually do?

Clodura.AI and Apollo.io are both B2B contact databases with an outreach layer bolted on: find a prospect, verify the email, drop them into a sequence. Clodura meters everything, email finds, verification, warmup, inbox testing, from one shared credit pool. Apollo grants a fixed annual credit allowance per seat up front, which behaves more like a subscription than a utility.

Where does Clodura.AI win?

Clodura's edge is what's bundled free: mailbox warmup and inbox placement testing sit inside every paid tier, priced in credits (200 and 50 per run) instead of sold as a separate add-on. Its database is larger on paper too, 600M+ leads per Clodura's pricing page, against Apollo's stated 240M+ contacts. If you don't want a third deliverability tool stacked on top of your data platform, that bundling is worth something concrete.

Where does Apollo.io win?

Apollo wins on price-per-credit at low seat counts. One Starter seat gets 30,000 credits a year for $49/month billed annually, which beats Clodura's $99/month entry tier for 4,500 credits by a wide margin per credit. Apollo also ships unlimited sequences from Starter up, with A/Z testing on Professional, useful once you're iterating on subject lines across more than one list. Under five seats and a few thousand contacts a month, Apollo is the cheaper way in.

Which one should you actually use?

Watching cost per credit and fine running warmup separately? Apollo's Starter or Professional plan is the better deal, per Apollo's pricing page. Want verification, sequencing, and deliverability testing under one roof and don't mind paying more per credit at scale? Clodura's Max plan is the more complete single SKU. Neither fixes a bad list or a burned domain by itself. Inbox placement and reply handling are the other half of the job, and that's where most DIY setups actually break.

Frequently asked questions

Is Clodura.AI cheaper than Apollo.io?

At the entry tier, no. Apollo's Starter plan is $49/month billed annually for 30,000 credits a year, per Apollo's pricing page. Clodura's Max plan starts at $99/month (or $89/month annually) for 4,500 credits, per Clodura's pricing page. Clodura's free plan (100 credits) is also more limited than Apollo's (900 credits/year).

Does Apollo.io include email verification?

Yes. Apollo bundles waterfall enrichment and built-in verification into paid plans starting at Starter ($49/month billed annually), per Apollo's pricing page. Clodura also verifies inline, at 0.04 to 0.1 credits per check across standard and deep verification modes.

Which tool has more contact data, Clodura or Apollo?

Clodura.AI advertises a 600M+ lead database on its pricing page. Apollo.io states 240M+ contacts and 30M+ companies on its homepage. Raw size isn't the same as fit for your ICP, so treat both as a ceiling, not a match-rate guarantee.

Can I use Clodura.AI or Apollo.io for cold email deliverability and warmup?

Both include warmup tooling. Clodura bundles mailbox warmup and inbox placement testing into every paid tier at 200 and 50 credits per run, per Clodura's pricing page. Apollo includes its Deliverability Suite and Email Warmup from the Starter plan up, per Apollo's pricing page. Neither replaces proper SPF/DKIM/DMARC setup or sending discipline.

Either tool gets you a database, a verifier, and a sequencer. What breaks most cold email programs is everything around that stack: domain reputation, inbox rotation, and reply triage. Modern Inbound has booked 3,000+ qualified B2B meetings running that layer for clients who'd rather not babysit deliverability themselves. If you want that handled, see our setup service.

By Rishabh Ambasta, Founder, Modern Inbound.