An Apollo MCP alternative: lead data for your agent, paid per call
Looking at Apollo MCP for Claude? Ahel is one MCP connection for lead lists, company enrichment, work email finding and email verification, paid per call from a prepaid balance, with no Apollo seat.
The problem
You want Claude or another agent to build lead lists and find emails. Apollo's MCP works inside an Apollo account and plan. If you do not use Apollo, or only need the data, a seat is a lot to pay for a few hundred leads.
Steps
5- Search companies by industry, size or technologyNo charge
Find companies by industry, size, country or technology, described in plain words. Company data ·
companies.search - Enrich a company from its domain or name$0.002 per successful call
Enrich each company from its domain: industry, employee count, country, LinkedIn page and description. Company data ·
companies.enrich - Search a company's employees by job titleNo charge
Find the people at each company with a given job title, with their LinkedIn page. Company data ·
companies.employees.search - Find a person's work email address$0.0005445 per email found
Find each person's work email from their name and the company domain. People & contact data ·
people.email.find - Verify an email address is deliverable$0.0011 per address settled
Check each address accepts mail before it goes into your outreach. People & contact data ·
people.email.verify
Example cost for 100 rows
- Search companies by industry, size or technologyNo charge
100 x No charge
- Enrich a company from its domain or name$0.20
100 x $0.002 per successful call
- Search a company's employees by job titleNo charge
100 x No charge
- Find a person's work email address$0.05445
100 x $0.0005445 per email found
- Verify an email address is deliverable$0.11
100 x $0.0011 per address settled
Steps charged only when a result is found cost less when nothing is found. Paid from your prepaid balance at the quoted customer price. No top-up fee. Pay per call; each call’s price is shown before it runs. Each run is quoted before it starts.
Paste this into your agent
Start free, no card needed. Your agent runs each step and reports the cost.
Use Ahel. Find 25 US fintech companies with 20 to 100 employees using companies.search, and enrich each one with companies.enrich. For each company, find the head of sales with companies.employees.search, find their work email with people.email.find and verify it with people.email.verify. Quote the total before you run anything, then give me a table with company, size, person, title, email and status, and tell me what it cost.
How Ahel and Apollo MCP differ
Apollo MCP connects your agent to your Apollo account. It searches Apollo's own database, and enrichment uses credits from your Apollo plan. Ahel is a data catalog: each task can try several providers in order, and your agent pays per call from a prepaid balance, with no seat and no monthly plan. Every run is quoted before it starts.
When Apollo MCP is the better pick
If your team already pays for Apollo, its MCP is the natural choice. It also does what Ahel does not: sequences, one-off emails, tasks, deals and CRM updates inside Apollo. Ahel only returns data. You still send your emails from your own tools.
Using both
Both are remote MCP servers. You can add Ahel at https://mcp.ahel.ai/mcp next to Apollo in Claude, Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, and let your agent use Ahel for the lookups Apollo misses. Start free, no card needed.
Use contact data lawfully
Work emails and job titles are personal data. Use them for relevant B2B outreach, honour opt-outs and follow the rules where you sell, such as the GDPR in the EU.
Set up Ahel in your agent
- Claude Code
Run once, then approve the sign-in:
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user ahel 'https://mcp.ahel.ai' - Codex
Run once, then approve the sign-in:
codex mcp add ahel --url 'https://mcp.ahel.ai' && codex mcp login ahel - Claude.ai
Add a custom connector with the server address https://mcp.ahel.ai and approve the sign-in.