- Jan 2025 Rung 3 · Hard allotment
- Now Rung 3 · Hard allotment
Held one rung all window — pattern: Incumbent bolt-on.
The short version A usage meter was bolted onto a seat you already pay for — the subscription is no longer the whole bill.
The verdict
Apollo did not move along the metering continuum between January 2025 and today. Throughout the window it ran the same hybrid: per-seat subscriptions plus a shared credit pool gating contact-data reveals, enrichment, exports, and every AI feature. That pool behaves as a hard allotment — credits expire each cycle, never roll over, and when they run out prospecting stops until you manually buy add-on packs; there is no automatic pay-as-you-go overage. The one genuine soft-meter surface is unlimited email addresses under a Fair Use Policy, but that is the access side, not the AI side. The only 2025 evolution was Apollo bolting more AI features onto the pre-existing credit pool rather than standing up any new AI meter or per-action price.
Current pricing snapshot
As published on Apollo's own pages · captured Jun 12, 2026. Unit: credit.
| Plan | Price / mo | Included | At zero | Top-up vs plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 900 | Unstated | — |
| Basic | $49 | 30,000 | Hard stop | Yes · price hidden |
| Professional | $79 | 48,000 | Hard stop | Yes · price hidden |
| Organization | $119 | 72,000 | Hard stop | Yes · price hidden |
- Credit ↔ dollar
- Not pegged — a credit is not a fixed $
- Billing
- Monthly or annual
- Included credits
- Expire each cycle
- Purchased credits
- Unstated
What changed
No dated repricing events are itemized for Apollo in this edition's log (the pricing history is in the verdict above). New moves are added to the change log as they're captured.
Where it's headed
Sourced from Apollo's official pricing pages and archived snapshots. Primary: pricing page. Method & limits: Methodology & data.