The Apollo alternative that gets your reps to 15+ human connects an hour.
We know who'll pick up and when, then give you the whole platform free to help your team book more meetings.
Keep your Apollo subscription, run both, or start with a 30-day proof of concept. No per-seat fees, no seat minimums, no multi-year contracts.
15+ human connects per rep-hour.Teams can convert that into 3+ meetings an hour.
* A REAL connect means a live human answering your rep. Not a voicemail, not a machine, not an AI Screener.
Trusted by B2B Brands:
Our AI predicts who picks up the phone before you call them.
We score who picks up
Every contact goes through our proprietary process to give us a score on their likelihood to pick up the phone.
The AI works the queue
Based on that score, our AI optimises the order of your prospects and the number of parallel dials per prospect, per minute of the day.
Maximum human connects
We get your rep into the maximum number of human connects per hour, across exactly the prospects you want to target.
Why calling teams leave.
Apollo is a strong email-led platform. But teams doing high-volume cold calling as the primary channel hit the same walls. Recurring themes in public reviews, 2024 to 2026. Paraphrased, not quoted.
The dialer is an add-on, not a seat
The parallel dialer lives in the team-level Advanced Dialer add-on at $149/mo ($119/mo annual), on top of every seat, with dialer minutes billed per second. Calling-heavy teams pay for the same phone twice.
Seen across apollo.io/product/dialer, fetched 5 Jul 2026
Credits burn, then vanish
Monthly mobile and export credits run out faster than expected, don't roll over, and the fix on offer is always a higher tier or paid top-ups at $0.20 a credit with a $50 minimum.
Seen across Reddit, G2 reviews; Salesmotion (Jun 2026), SalesHandy (Mar 2026)
Numbers get flagged as spam
Dialer numbers get flagged 'Spam Likely' after sustained high-volume calling, tanking pickup rates. Apollo's own documentation advises manually getting a new number, and the reputation problem stays yours.
Seen across Reddit; third-party dialer reviews citing Apollo's help docs
Billing and cancellation disputes
Charges without clear notice, auto-renewal surprises and a reported 60-day pre-renewal cancellation window: the main driver of a roughly 2.9/5 Trustpilot score, against a 4.7/5 on G2.
Seen across Trustpilot reviews of apollo.io
Data accuracy drifts
Stale contacts and email bounce rates users peg anywhere from 15 to 35% depending on geography and industry, with accuracy complaints rising through 2025.
Seen across G2 reviews, Reddit, 2026 review roundups
Slow, ticket-only support
Lower tiers report long response times and unresolved issues, with no faster channel available without upgrading.
Seen across Trustpilot, G2 reviews
After the switch to Sentrama
Switchers' reps go from rationed credits to 15+ human connects an hour, with the platform included when you buy the data.
If your outbound is primarily email-led, and you need a huge self-serve database, use Apollo. If you want results over the phone, use Sentrama.
Sentrama versus Apollo.
Apollo is an email-led platform with a dialer add-on. Sentrama is a calling platform where the leads, the dialer and the coaching arrive together.
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* Estimated. Competitor details from public documentation and third-party analyses, July 2026.
The phone got harder. Here's the maths.
Cold-call connect rates halved in a year... 4.82% to 2.3%. 11% of prospects now screen calls with AI, and iOS 26 turns it on by default. A rep dialling a flat list gets two live conversations an hour. Here's what changes on Sentrama:
Dial-to-connect rate
Live human conversations per Sales Rep-hour
Booked meetings per hour
What the calling channel actually costs on Apollo.
Apollo publishes seat prices, which is to its credit: Free, Basic $49, Professional $79 and Organization $119 per user a month on annual billing, monthly billing roughly 20% more. The full bill for a calling team takes more reading. A 5-rep team on Professional annual pays roughly $395 a month in seats plus $119 a month for the dialer add-on, about $514 a month (around $6,170 a year) before credit overages, dialer minutes and data top-ups. Third-party analyses put realistic all-in cost for calling-heavy teams at $150 to $400 per user per month (Salesmotion, Jun 2026; SalesHandy, Mar 2026).
Seat prices published on apollo.io/pricing; dialer add-on on apollo.io/product/dialer. Prices checked 5 July 2026. Spotted a change? Tell us and we will correct it.
Apollo sells the pieces. You still assemble the machine.
Seats, credits, a bolt-on dialer, and the one number that books meetings stays unowned. Sentrama runs the whole chain and points everything at the number below.
Our platform optimises one number
A connect means a live human answering your rep. Counted on a dashboard you will watch during the demo.
You don't have to rip anything out.
Leaving Apollo doesn't mean a hard cutover. Keep the subscription, run us alongside it, or test the whole system on a fixed-price proof of concept. Nothing you've paid for is wasted.
Bring the exports, keep the subscription
Keep Apollo for email-led outbound and bring the exports you already pay for. We run them through any step of our pipeline, qualification, reachability scoring, pickup validation, priced per record, with full platform access included with the work.
Dial one queue, side by side
Run Sentrama on the calling channel while Apollo handles email, on the same market. The dashboard shows the connects and meetings from each, so you decide with the numbers, not a hunch.
The 30-day proof of concept
Full platform access with dial seats included. Fixed price, no per-seat fees, no lock-in. Watch your reps hit 15+ connects an hour before you cancel a thing.
Built UK-first. Compliant in every market we operate in.
No synthetic voice. Anywhere. Every word your prospect hears comes from a real rep. Compliance is built into every dial... which is why legal signs off fast and your brand stays protected.
TPS & CTPS screening
GDPR-compliant data
Full audit trail
CCPA
No sales deck. A straight product walkthrough.
See the Apollo alternative on your own list
See the platform on your target market. Bring your Apollo exports if you have them, and compare side by side.
- See exactly how the platform gets reps to 15+ human connects an hour
- Your exact per-lead and per-action prices, sized to your market.
- No per-seat fees, no seat minimums, no multi-year contracts
Book a demo now to claim the 30-day proof of concept offer*
*Limited space available monthly.
The questions Apollo switchers ask.
- What's the best Apollo alternative for high-volume cold calling?
- If calling is your primary channel, Sentrama is built for it end to end: pickup-scored leads included, a parallel dialer with voicemail auto-skip, AI screeners stripped before a rep ever dials, and caller IDs retired and replaced automatically as they degrade. Teams run 15+ human connects an hour on our leads. There is no separate dialer add-on and no expiring mobile credits.
- Do I have to cancel Apollo to switch to Sentrama?
- No. Keep your Apollo subscription and bring the exports you already pay for. We run them through any step of our pipeline, priced per record, with full platform access included with the work. Many teams run both during the 30-day proof of concept: Apollo for email-led outbound, Sentrama for the calling channel, side by side on the same market, and decide with the numbers in front of them.
- How is Sentrama's pricing different from Apollo's?
- Apollo charges per seat, with monthly credit allowances on top, the parallel dialer sold as a team-level add-on, and dialer minutes billed per second. Sentrama charges per record: you buy leads or individual pipeline steps pay-as-you-go, and the platform, dialer, coaching, CRM and reporting come with the work. You never pay for the software. No per-seat fees, no seat minimums, no multi-year contracts.
- Will I lose my data and history if I move off Apollo?
- No. We import your Apollo exports and dispositions, score every record for pickup, strip AI screeners, and blend them into one clean, AI-ordered queue. Nothing you've already paid for is wasted, and your reps dial from day one.
- Does Sentrama fix the spam-flagged number problem?
- Yes. Sentrama watches every caller ID's connect rate, retires a number the moment its pickup rate degrades and rotates in a healthy replacement automatically, with pacing designed for TCPA and PECR compliance. Your reps never dial from a burned number and never have to swap one manually.
- Where does Sentrama's data come from, and is it GDPR and TPS compliant?
- We source and verify B2B contact data ourselves, score every record for pickup likelihood, and strip AI screeners before a rep ever dials. UK numbers are screened against the TPS before any dial, and processing is designed for GDPR and PECR compliance.
Apollo is a trademark of its respective owner. Sentrama is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apollo. Comparison information is drawn from public sources as of 5 July 2026 and may change; contact us for corrections.