Apollo to Cargo
Rebuild an Apollo list on Cargo and price the two side by side before you move anything.
Install apollo-to-cargo and follow its SKILL.md, starting from https://api.getcargo.io/INSTALL.md$npx skills add getcargohq/gtm-skills/apollo-to-cargoNo account needed to install. A new Cargo account starts with 100 free credits, no card.
Say this to your agent
Before our Apollo renewal, compare it with Cargo on 20 rows from `apollo-q3-export.csv`.
Illustrative output #
Fictional records, to show the shape of what comes back.
| Source | Emails found | Verified | Credits | Credits per verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apollo, via Cargo | 15 / 20 | 11 | 21.5 | 1.95 |
| Cargo waterfall | 18 / 20 | 17 | 41.8 | 2.46 |
63.3 credits for the whole comparison (20 × 1 + 15 × 0.1 on Apollo, 20 × 2 + 18 × 0.1 on the waterfall): the waterfall verified 6 more addresses at a higher cost per address, and the call is the user’s.
What it costs #
| Action | Credits |
|---|---|
waterfall.verifyEmail | 0.1 |
apolloio.enrichPerson | 1 |
apolloio.enrichOrganization | 1 |
waterfall.enrichContact | 2 |
A 20-row comparison running both sides is roughly 20 × (1 + 2 + 0.1 × 2), around 64 credits, which fits inside the free balance a new account starts with.
Never run this across a full list on the first attempt. Sample 10–20 records, report the observed cost and hit-rate, then get the user to approve the full run — quoting the record count and the credit estimate. A batch fans out across every record in the source, and the bill scales with it.
Worth knowing #
- Do not quote a saving you have not measured. The comparison above exists because the answer varies by niche: Apollo’s coverage is genuinely strong in some segments and thin in others, and the sample is what tells you which one you are in.
apolloio.enrichPersoncosts 3 rather than 1 withrevealPhoneNumber: true. Leave it off unless phones are the reason for the migration, and say so when you turn it on.- An Apollo export is a snapshot. Rows exported months ago carry stale titles and stale companies, so a low hit rate on an old export is a fact about the export, not about either vendor. Check the export date before reading anything into the numbers.