What are the pricing and lead limits of the Curious Coder Apollo scraper?
The Curious Coder Apollo scraper costs $45 per month. It allows up to 10,000 leads per month, which works out to about $0.0045 per lead—roughly three and a half times higher than some free options. While the plan isn’t ideal for high‑volume scraping, it’s still usable. There are other scrapers available: one at $5 per thousand results with a 25‑lead per‑search limit, another at $35 per month for up to 10k leads (about $0.0035 per lead), and a free tier that gives 25 leads per search. Each option has different limits on searches per day and total leads, so you can choose based on your budget and volume needs.
These days most people are using LeadsFinder, which costs about $1.50 per 1,000 leads with emails; there are a few newer similar tools popping up at around $1.70 per 1,000. Even though I don’t have an Apollo account (so I’m effectively out of credits), I’d just scrape using one of these alternative services—they’re plentiful on Apify, and you can also scrape other platforms. If you run out of Apollo credits, the same approach applies: use a lead‑scraping tool like LeadsFinder or another provider to build your lead list, then proceed with your outreach (e.g., Instantly) as usual.
The Apollo scraper costs $120 per 1,000 leads; $39 in credits gets you ~32,500 leads, so you won’t exhaust a TAM of 40k‑150k marketing companies quickly. TAM isn’t a big concern—when one niche saturates, pivot to related niches (PPC, creative agencies, etc.) and your offer works the same.
You are getting only about 10 % usable leads because your ICP and industry filters are off. Run a verification loop: take a small sample (e.g., 50 leads), apply your filters, have a low‑cost Claude model label each as pass/fail, compute the pass rate. If it’s below 80 %, tighten the filters and repeat until the sample shows ~80 % relevance. Then run that filter set on your full list. After verification, expect roughly 40 % of the original list to be send‑worthy, which lowers your effective cost per lead—e.g., a $0.50‑per‑lead scraper may cost only $3–$4 per verified lead. Services like AnymailFinder or Airbrake may seem pricey but often deliver higher‑quality leads, making their true cost comparable.
You're watching the best video for that because I'm going to show you how to do it today. Apollo Appify is definitely your go-to at this price point. Basically, set up a free Apollo account, then go to Apify and use the Apollo Scraper to scrape up to 50K leads for $120 per thousand. If you're really bottlenecked, you can technically scrape 100 leads per search for free, so you could chunk searches into 100‑lead bins. Otherwise, it's $120 per thousand. Realistically, you could sign up for the Appify plan for about $35‑$40 and get around 30,000 leads. Is that the best absolute use of your money? No, but you asked for leads. If you meant getting clients instead, I'd go to communities and send cold DMs across LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, saying, 'Hey, I noticed you're doing X, Y, and Z. I think I could save you or make you this money with a little tweak.' Over the next two minutes I'll show you what that looks like. Whether or not you choose to work with me, I'll give you everything you need to decide. You could send 10 of those a day, or three per 100 a month. With a 5% reply rate on 300, you'd get about 15 replies a month; half might convert to meetings, giving you roughly one meeting every four days. As a total newbie, that's reasonable.