Search “apify apollo scraper” and Apify pages hold five of the seven results, most of them pointing at “Leads Finder” actors by code_crafter and others. Those actors are not Apollo scrapers. They sell rows from databases their owners maintain, at $1.50 per 1,000; Apify removed every community Apollo actor on 22 September 2025, and these database listings filled the gap. This page is the head-to-head with Apollo Exporter (apolloexporter.com) on data freshness, price and what you actually receive; the Apify alternative page keeps the dated timeline.
The short answer
- Leads Finder by code_crafter lists $1.50 per 1,000 results, 48,473 total users and a 3.46 rating, as published on 7 October 2026. It queries the actor’s own database and never opens your Apollo search.
- The actors that did export Apollo, from curious_coder, code_crafter, supreme_coder and Apollo Easy Scrape, were removed on 22 September 2025; Apify said they worked only by using Apollo accounts in breach of Apollo’s terms.
- Apollo Exporter runs a live export through your own logged-in Apollo session via its Chrome extension, page by page from the search you see, verifies every email with BounceBan before download, and does not charge rows without an email. Sign-up includes 500 free credits.
- Pick Leads Finder for the cheapest bulk rows when the exact Apollo search does not matter; pick Apollo Exporter when it does.
Apify Leads Finder at a glance
Leads Finder is the successor listing to code_crafter’s apollo-scraper-2-0, whose title now reads DEPRECATED. As published on 7 October 2026 it had 48,473 total users, a 3.46 rating and a price of $1.50 per 1,000 results, with Apify platform usage billed on top. The input is a set of filters that resemble Apollo’s, and the output is a dataset of rows that resemble Apollo’s columns, which is why so many n8n and Make workflows were pointed at it after the old actors disappeared. The listing does not say how large the database is, when it was last rebuilt, or how its rows were sourced; it also does not take an Apollo search URL, because it does not touch Apollo. The removal that created this situation is documented on Apify’s Discord and on ScraperCity’s status page: on 22 September 2025, after months of legal pressure from Apollo, Apify removed every community Apollo actor. A bring-your-own-cookie actor published afterward was deprecated within days and its page now returns 404; as of 31 October 2026 another cookie actor, datasaurus/apollo-ppe, is listed and takes an Apollo search URL plus your exported browser cookies.
Side by side
| Apify Leads Finder | Apollo Exporter (apolloexporter.com) | |
|---|---|---|
| Price per 1,000 | $1.50 plus Apify platform usage (Apify) | $3 per 1,000 BounceBan-cleaned emails, $0.50 per 1,000 rows without emails, pay as you go (pricing); no subscription |
| Where it runs | Apify cloud; no Apollo account involved | Web app; export runs through your own logged-in Apollo session via the Apollo Exporter extension |
| Data source | The actor owner’s own database; rebuild date not stated | Live Apollo search, page by page from the same search you see |
| Email verification | Not published | Every email verified with BounceBan before download |
| Delivery | Immediate, from the database | Page by page as the job runs; live status in the dashboard; measured times on methodology |
| Refunds | Apify’s platform terms; none stated per actor | Failed exports are not charged and rows without an email are free; terms on pricing |
| Free trial | Apify free plan credit applies to platform usage | 500 free credits on sign-up |
| Reviews | 3.46 rating, 48,473 total users (Apify) | Measured figures under a named author on methodology |
Apify figures as published on 7 October 2026.
Where Apify Leads Finder is the better pick
Leads Finder is the right tool when the Apollo search itself is not the point. If you need a large volume of contacts matching broad criteria such as a job title and a country, and you would have built the same search in any database, then $1.50 per 1,000 is the lowest published price in this market and the rows arrive in seconds, with no browser to keep open and no Apollo account at risk. That last point is real: because the actor never touches Apollo, nothing it does can draw enforcement on your login, which is a risk every in-session tool, Apollo Exporter included, carries. It also fits existing Apify workflows without change. If your n8n or Make flow already calls an actor, waits and fetches a dataset, swapping the actor id is a one-line edit, and Apify’s own run logs, retries and dataset storage come with it. For teams that treat Apollo as one input among several and run their own verification pass on every file, a database actor at this price is hard to beat on cost per raw row.
Where Apollo Exporter is the better pick
Apollo Exporter (apolloexporter.com) is the better pick when the file must contain the people your Apollo search shows. The export runs through your own logged-in Apollo session via the Apollo Exporter Chrome extension, so rows are collected page by page from the exact search, with Apollo’s filters and counts, at the moment the job runs; there is no cached database, no shared account and no credentials handed over. Every email is verified with BounceBan before download, and rows without an email are not charged, which changes the arithmetic: Leads Finder’s $1.50 buys raw rows of unstated freshness, while our per-1,000 packs on the pricing page buy rows that passed verification. The dashboard shows live status, the file is CSV or XLSX with the 25 standard Apollo people fields, and an API with keys serves workflow users who want the actor-style call-poll-download shape. Sign-up includes 500 free credits. Measured validity and delivery figures are on the methodology page. The trade-off is that it runs in your account, so Apollo’s terms apply to you; the legal guide says what they prohibit.
Switching from Apify Leads Finder
- Decide whether you need Apollo’s rows or just rows. If a broad database pull is enough, stay on Leads Finder; if your workflow assumes “paste Apollo URL, get those people”, it has been returning something else since September 2025.
- Copy the Apollo search URL you want and check it with the free search URL parser, since newer “Filters 2.0” links trip up some tools.
- Sign up at dashboard.apolloexporter.com, install the Apollo Exporter extension, and keep that browser logged in to Apollo while jobs run. The automation triggers and collects; it does not replace your session.
- Run the search on the 500 free credits and compare it with your last Leads Finder dataset: row count against Apollo’s own count, overlap of names, and email fill after verification.
- Replace the Apify actor node with an HTTP call to the Apollo Exporter API, poll for completion, then parse the CSV as before. The Apify alternative page has the full n8n, Make and Clay notes and the dated timeline of the removal.