Apollo

Apollo on xpay — Sales intelligence and lead enrichment without the subscription

Apollo is a B2B data platform that powers people search, company enrichment, and sales intelligence workflows. Developers and sales teams use it to find verified contact information, build prospect lists, and enrich CRM records with employment history, social profiles, and company details. On xpay, you call Apollo's tools directly through MCP—no Apollo account signup, no subscription fees, just $0.03 per API call.

Apollo's official platform serves thousands of sales and recruiting teams. xpay wraps its API as MCP-native tools so you can invoke them from Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, or any MCP-compatible agent, with transparent per-call billing.

What's available

• people_search — Find prospects by title, company domain, location, seniority level, and keywords. Returns verified contact profiles with name, title, organization, and key identifiers.
• people_enrich — Deepen a person's profile with email, phone number, social media handles, full employment history, company details, and verified contact channels.
• organizations_search — Discover companies by name, industry, employee count, location, and business criteria. Returns company profiles with revenue estimates, headcount, and key business signals.
• organizations_enrich — Enrich a company record with industry classification, employee count, revenue, technology stack, funding details, and social profiles.

When Apollo is the right tool

• Building a prospect list for outbound sales or recruiting campaigns.
• Enriching a single contact or company record with verified data before a pitch or outreach.
• Researching competitors' employees or organizational structure.
• Populating CRM fields with employment history, email, and phone without manual research.
• Finding decision-makers at target accounts by title, seniority, or function.
• Validating or updating contact information in bulk workflows.

When to choose something else

• If you need real-time web search or news monitoring, use tavily_search instead.
• If you're building a consumer-facing product and need broad demographic data, consider third-party data brokers or public records APIs.
• If your use case is internal HR or employee directory lookup, a direct HRIS integration may be more cost-effective.
• If you need historical employment data spanning decades, specialized career history APIs may be more comprehensive.
• If you're on a strict budget and can tolerate lower data freshness, free or freemium alternatives like LinkedIn Sales Navigator may suffice for small-scale prospecting.

Pricing snapshot

All calls are billed on-demand; there is no subscription or minimum spend.

Quickstart

For Claude Code (recommended for Apollo alone):

claude mcp add --transport http apollo "https://apollo.mcp.xpay.sh/mcp?key=YOUR_XPAY_KEY"

Replace YOUR_XPAY_KEY with your xpay API key (get one free at https://xpay.tools after email or Google signup). Once connected, you can ask Claude to use people_search, people_enrich, organizations_search, or organizations_enrich by name, and it will invoke them directly.

For Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, or VS Code (Copilot):

Add this entry to your mcp.json configuration file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apollo": {
      "url": "https://apollo.mcp.xpay.sh/mcp?key=YOUR_XPAY_KEY"
    }
  }
}

Once configured, your agent will have access to Apollo's tools and can call them by their native names.

Why route Apollo through xpay?

• No Apollo signup. xpay holds the upstream credentials; you authenticate once with your xpay API key and gain access to Apollo's full toolset.
• Pay-per-call pricing. Every call costs $0.03—no monthly subscription, no seat licenses, no overages. You pay only for what you use.
• MCP-native integration. Call Apollo tools directly from Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, or any MCP-compatible agent without building custom API wrappers.
• Unified billing. If you use multiple xpay providers (Tavily, Perplexity, etc.), all calls appear on one invoice with one API key.
• Transparent cost tracking. Each call is logged with its price, so you know exactly what you're spending on lead enrichment, prospecting, or research workflows.