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
People and company tools in the docsSearch companies
Companies matching a name, keywords, location or headcount.
leads_search_companiesFrom 4 creditsGet 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 4 creditsGet a person profile
The full record of one person: real name, title, seniority, company, location, LinkedIn and employment history.
leads_get_personFrom 3 creditsFind a person's work email
Find and verify the work email of one named person.
leads_get_emailFrom 6 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 2 credits
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 Icypeas’s company and people data, 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, on Icypeas |
| 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 |
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]
Pay per call. Start free.
No seats and nothing else to subscribe to. Every workspace starts with 500 free credits, and an answer already in the cache costs 25% of the price or less.
- Search companies
- From 4 credits
- Get a company profile
- From 1 credit
- Search people
- From 4 credits
- 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.
- Clay MCP alternativeEnrichment and waterfall emails in your agent.
- LinkedIn MCPPosts, profiles and company pages.
- X (Twitter) MCPAccounts, recent posts and replies.
- 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
Is this Apollo’s data?
No. Company and people searches run on Icypeas’s database. 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 6 credits; a miss is 1 credit. Searching people is 4 credits a page 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.