Both sell business emails and mobile numbers. Apollo is a global go-to-market platform: prospecting, sequences, dialers, lead scoring and CRM integrations on top of a 240M contact database. disburse is narrower on purpose, APAC-only and driven by an agent, at a fraction of the cost per contact.
A$4 per 1,000, email or mobile. A phone reveal costs about eight credits on Apollo, one here.
240M+ contacts and 30M+ companies worldwide. Outside Asia-Pacific we have nothing.
Sequences, dialers, lead scoring, website visitors, workflows and CRM integrations.
Apollo's MCP drives the same filters as its UI. Here the agent is the only interface.
ENTRY PAID PLAN ON BOTH SIDES, IN AUD.
Apollo's Basic plan is US$49 per user per month billed annually with 30,000 credits a year, and Apollo states annual billing saves 20%, giving a monthly equivalent of US$61.25. At 2,500 credits a month, one credit per verified email and about eight per phone reveal, that is roughly A$34.55 per 1,000 emails and A$276.39 per 1,000 phone numbers, converted at USD/AUD 1.41016 on 17 September 2026. Pricing and credit allocations can change.
THE RED DOT MARKS THE STRONGER ANSWER · BLANK MEANS IT IS A WASH
PLAIN ENGLISH IN · A RANKED LIST OUT · ONE CALL
Apollo has an MCP, but reports are that it calls the same interface its UI does: strict filters and fixed taxonomies, so the agent gets whatever those filters allow rather than what it asked for. disburse vectorises the index instead, so a request that maps to no single filter still resolves, and a list of any size comes back in one call.
USE BOTH WHEN YOU NEED GLOBAL COVERAGE, OUTBOUND TOOLING, OR APOLLO'S WIDER INTELLIGENCE ALONGSIDE APAC CONTACT DATA.
A low-cost first source for emails and mobiles in the region, and search is free, so a miss costs nothing.
Records disburse missed, everywhere outside Asia-Pacific, and the sequencing, dialing and CRM workflow a platform gives you.
For contact data, yes. Apollo charges one credit for a verified email and about eight credits for a phone reveal. Using its published Basic-plan credit allocation and a monthly-equivalent price based on the stated 20% annual discount, that implies roughly A$35 per 1,000 emails and A$276 per 1,000 phone numbers, against A$4 per 1,000 for either on disburse. Apollo includes substantially more platform functionality, so the fairest comparison depends on whether you need it.
Apollo publishes the larger overall footprint: 240M+ contacts and 30M+ companies globally. It does not publish a directly comparable APAC-only figure on the pages reviewed for this comparison. disburse is APAC-only, with 88 million people and 64 million companies in the region. If global reach matters, Apollo has the clear advantage. For prospecting concentrated in Asia-Pacific, coverage of your actual audience matters more than a global total.
Apollo. It includes job-change signals, lead scoring, firmographic and technographic filters, enrichment and workflow intelligence. disburse carries the standard signals such as funding and hiring, but focuses on finding relevant companies and contacts at a very low unit cost.
If your priority is low-cost APAC contact data through Claude, ChatGPT or Codex, disburse may cover most of what you need. If you need global data, sequencing, dialing, CRM integrations, intent data or a full sales-engagement workspace, Apollo offers far more functionality. Many teams run both in a waterfall: disburse first, then Apollo for uncovered records or additional intelligence.