Apollo’s own compliance article ranks first for “apollo email scraper” and tells you not to do it. This page tells you what an email scraper for Apollo can and cannot deliver, how verification changes the economics, and what Apollo Exporter does with each row.
What an Apollo email scraper really returns
Apollo shows an email for most people in its database, with a status of verified, likely to engage, unavailable or, under the hood, catch-all. A scraper exports that address and that status. It does not find new addresses, and any tool that claims otherwise is enriching from another database. A verification vendor’s study of 100,000 Apollo contacts exported in the first half of 2026 found 73.2% valid, 18.4% catch-all and 5.8% invalid (BounceZero), which means roughly one row in four from a raw export is a risk to your sending domain.
How verification works here
Each exported email is checked by syntax, MX lookup and SMTP mailbox probe before the file is built. Rows come back in one of four states.
| Status in the file | Meaning | Billed? |
|---|---|---|
| Valid | Mailbox confirmed to exist | Yes |
| Catch-all | Domain accepts all mail; mailbox cannot be confirmed | Yes, flagged |
| Invalid | Mailbox rejected or domain dead | No |
| No email | Apollo showed no address for this person | No |
Invalid and no-email rows are still in the file, so your row count matches the search and you can enrich them elsewhere, but they cost nothing. The measured share of each state across our exports is published on the methodology page.
Phone numbers
Apollo gates phone data by plan and reveals mobile numbers on demand against credits. Apollo Exporter exports a phone column containing whatever Apollo shows to your account in the search results; it does not spend your credits to reveal numbers and does not fetch numbers from other sources. If your plan shows direct dials in search, they will be in the file; if it does not, the column is empty. Apollo’s credit pricing by plan is in the pricing and credits guide.
Cost per usable email
Per-row pricing with free failures changes the maths. A 10,000-row export at the Growth price of $1.98 per 1,000 costs $19.80 before verification; if 26% of rows fail, you pay for 7,400 rows and the effective price is $2.68 per 1,000 usable emails. A cloud scraper at $3.90 per 1,000 with verification as a $5-per-1,000 add-on costs $89 for the same list and still leaves you to filter the failures. The pricing page has a calculator for your own list size.
Step by step
- In Apollo, open Search → People and apply your filters. Set Email Status to Verified to raise the hit rate.
- Copy the URL from the address bar and paste it into Apollo Exporter, or check it first with the free URL tool.
- Start the export. It runs inside your own Chrome through the extension; you can watch the counts for valid, catch-all and invalid rows update.
- Download CSV or XLSX. Choose your header list, including whether to keep the status column.
The wider picture, including extensions, cloud services and what each one risks, is on the Apollo scraper page.