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Build a B2B lead list with your AI agent
Ask your agent for companies by what they do, where they are and their size. A real run: the prompt, the call, the list it returned and the rows to check.
Apollo MCP alternative
Search companies and people, read full profiles and find verified work emails from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. Company and people data, paid per lookup, with no Apollo seat.
The tools your agent gets
What each tool returns, and what a call costs.
People and company tools in the docsSearch companies
Companies matching a name, keywords, location or headcount.
leads_search_companiesFrom 1 creditGet a company profile
The full firmographic record of one company, by domain.
leads_get_companyFrom 1 creditSearch people
People matching title, seniority and company filters.
leads_search_peopleFrom 1 creditGet a person profile
The full record of one person: real name, title, company, location, LinkedIn, employment history and education.
leads_get_personFrom 3 creditsFind a person's work email
Find and verify the work email of one named person.
leads_get_emailFrom 7 creditsVerify an email address
Whether an email address the user already has will deliver.
leads_get_email_statusFrom 1 creditGet a domain's email addresses
Email addresses known for a website's domain, with name, role, confidence and where each was seen.
leads_get_domain_emailsFrom 31 creditsSearch job postings
Open job postings Google Jobs lists for a role: employer, location, salary and where it is posted, from LinkedIn, Indeed, other boards and company careers sites.
leads_search_jobsFrom 1 credit
Things to ask
Plain questions in any connected client. The agent picks the tools.
Find heads of marketing at Series A fintechs in London.
Get the work email for Jane Doe at acme.com.
Enrich these 50 domains with headcount and industry.
Is this email address safe to send to? [email]
Who at this company would buy a CRM, and what are their emails? [company.com]
Find every email address known for this domain. [domain]
Leads data without an Apollo seat
Apollo’s own MCP server runs on your Apollo account, free or paid, and spends that plan’s credits. Manifold searches company and people data from its own providers, finds emails through several sources, and charges per lookup from one balance.
| Apollo’s own MCP | Apollo’s API | Manifold | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Needs an Apollo account | Yes, free or paid | Yes | No |
| Company and people search | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Where emails come from | Apollo | Apollo | Several sources, verified |
| Sign up with a personal email | No search or enrichment | Depends on plan | Yes |
| LinkedIn, SEO and social beside it | No | No | Yes |
| Setup | Paste a URL | Your own code | Paste one URL |
Pay per call. Start free.
One balance pays for every tool, with nothing else to subscribe to. Every account gets 250 free credits a month, and an answer already in the cache costs 25% of the price or less.
- Search companies
- From 1 credit
- Get a company profile
- From 1 credit
- Search people
- From 1 credit
- The same answer again, from the cache
- 25% or less
On the same server
The same server URL and credit balance reach every source. Switch off what you don’t need.
All MCP servers- Clay MCP alternativeEnrichment and waterfall emails in your agent.
- LinkedIn MCPPosts, profiles and company pages.
- SEO MCPKeywords, rankings, backlinks and audits.
- AI visibility MCPWhat ChatGPT, Gemini and others say and cite.
- Reddit MCPThreads, comments and subreddits.
- Facebook MCPPages, posts, groups and comments.
- YouTube MCPVideos, channels, comments and transcripts.
Questions about the Apollo MCP alternative
Where does the data come from?
Company and people searches run on Manifold’s data providers. A work email is found through multiple sources, and verified before it reaches your agent.
Do I need an Apollo account?
No. Manifold holds the provider accounts; you spend credits from one balance for every source.
What does an email cost?
A found, verified email is 7 credits; a miss is 0 credits. Searching people is 12 credits a page of 100 and never reveals an email by itself. People and company tools in the docs
Which clients does it work with?
Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Grok, OpenCode and any other client that connects to a remote MCP server. Sign in with OAuth, or use an API key from the dashboard for scripts. Setup guides for every client
Can it add contacts to a sequence or CRM?
No. The tools look things up, so your agent finds and checks people and hands you the list. Sending stays with your own tools.
See it in use
- 3 min read
Find and verify work emails with your AI agent
Ask your agent who to email at a company and check the address before you write. A real run for link outreach, with what the verification meant.
Further reading
- 19 min read
AI backlink analysis with Claude: audit links and find competitor gaps
Connect Claude to Manifold MCP, run an AI backlink analysis: audit your own links, pull the sites that link to competitors, find the backlink gap, then get contacts and a draft pitch.
- 12 min read
The best email marketing MCP servers
Official MCP servers for newsletters, ecommerce flows and cold email, compared on hosting, sign-in, sending and price. Manifold MCP pairs as the lead research server.
- 11 min read
Attio MCP: how to set it up in Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor
Attio hosts an MCP server at mcp.attio.com. This guide covers OAuth setup in Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code and Cursor, the tool list, prompts that work, rate limits, and the community server on GitHub.
