B2B Leads Finder — Apollo & ZoomInfo Alternative with Emails

Type an industry and a city, get complete B2B leads: company, website, phone, address, emails and social profiles — for $8 per 1,000 leads, no subscription, no seats, no credits that expire. Built for agencies, freelancers and SDRs who need targeted local and niche business lists today without committing to a $49–$99/month platform they'll use twice.

Every lead is discovered live (not pulled from a stale database) and enriched by actually visiting the company's website to extract emails, extra phone numbers, LinkedIn/Facebook/Instagram/Twitter profiles, and the site's tech stack.

What you get per lead

Field	Example
name	Bayfront Dental Studio
category	Dentist
address, city, country	120 SE 2nd Ave, Miami, United States
phone	+1 305-555-0134
website	bayfrontdental.com
email + emails[]	smile@bayfrontdental.com
socialProfiles	linkedin, facebook, instagram, twitter
websitePhones[]	extra numbers found on the site
techStack[]	WordPress, Google Analytics
rating, reviewsCount	4.8, 312
placeUrl	Google Maps link for verification

How it works

1. Discover — searches the live web (Google Maps business index) for your industry + location and collects every matching company with its name, category, address, phone, rating and website.
2. Enrich — visits each company's actual website (homepage, /contact, /about…) and extracts emails, additional phones, social profiles and technology stack.
3. Deliver — one clean, consolidated row per company. Export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or pipe into your CRM via API.

Typical run: 50 leads in ~3–5 minutes.

Honest comparison vs Apollo and ZoomInfo

	This Actor	Apollo.io	ZoomInfo
Pricing	$8 / 1,000 leads, pay as you go	from $49/user/month	~$15,000+/year contracts
Subscription / seats	None	Required	Required
Data freshness	Scraped live at run time	Database (can be stale)	Database
Local & niche businesses	Excellent (any niche, any city)	Weak for local SMBs	Weak for local SMBs
Contact-person data (names, job titles, direct dials)	Not included	Excellent	Excellent
Corporate org charts, intent data	Not included	Partial	Excellent
Emails	Company emails from the business's own website	Person-level emails	Person-level emails

Be clear about the fit: this Actor is a business discovery and contact extraction engine — ideal for local businesses and niche B2B segments (dentists, HVAC, gyms, agencies, restaurants, clinics, law firms…). If you need person-level data on employees inside Fortune-500 companies (titles, direct dials, org charts), Apollo or ZoomInfo are the right tool. If you need fresh, verified SMB leads with real emails at 1/50th the cost — this is.

Who uses this

• Marketing agencies — build prospect lists of local businesses per city + niche, at scale, per client.
• Cold email / outreach — feed Instantly, Smartlead, Lemlist or Woodpecker with fresh company emails.
• SDRs & founders — territory research: every competitor or prospect in a region, with contacts, in minutes.
• Data teams — enrich CRM records with websites, socials and tech stack via the Apify API.
• Web designers / SEO consultants — the techStack field finds businesses on outdated platforms (your pitch: "your site runs on X, I can do better").

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

• $0.008 per lead delivered ($8 per 1,000)
• $0.01 one-time Actor start fee

A 500-lead list costs about $4. The same list on Apollo requires a paid plan; on ZoomInfo, a sales call and an annual contract.

Example input

{
  "industry": "dentists",
  "location": "Miami, FL",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "maxPagesPerSite": 2
}

Advanced: pass searchQueries (e.g. ["dentists in Miami, FL", "dentists in Tampa, FL"]) to cover several cities in one run.

Covering a whole state or region, not one city

location: "Texas" does not give you Texas. A map search is anchored to one place, and it stops feeding results at roughly 120 companies, so a state-wide query silently returns the biggest metro plus noise. Cover a region by enumerating it in searchQueries instead — one line per city, all in the same run:

{
  "searchQueries": [
    "HVAC contractors in Houston, TX",
    "HVAC contractors in San Antonio, TX",
    "HVAC contractors in Dallas, TX",
    "HVAC contractors in Austin, TX",
    "HVAC contractors in Fort Worth, TX",
    "HVAC contractors in El Paso, TX"
  ],
  "maxResults": 120
}

Rules of thumb that hold up in practice:

• Go by population, not by map area. The top 10–15 cities in a US state usually cover most of the addressable SMB market; adding the next 50 towns multiplies run time for a thin tail.
• In a big metro, drop to suburb level. "in Phoenix, AZ" and "in Scottsdale, AZ" return substantially different sets, and each gets its own result budget.
• Duplicates are handled. Companies are keyed by their Maps place across every query in the run, so overlapping city boundaries cost you nothing — one row, one charge.
• Every row keeps its searchQuery, so a 40-query state sweep can still be split by city afterwards for territory assignment.
• Non-English markets: set language and use the local term (fontanero, Klempner, plombier), not the English one — the search index is the local Maps index.

What "verified" means here, and how to actually verify before sending

Lead vendors use "verified" for two very different things, and it matters for your bounce rate:

• Published, not guessed. Every address here was found printed on the company's own website — the contact page, the footer, a team page. It is not firstname@domain constructed from a pattern, which is what most cheap lists are. A published address is one the business chose to expose because it wants to be contacted there, so it is far likelier to be live and monitored.
• Not SMTP-checked. No mailbox is probed at scrape time. A published address can still be an abandoned inbox, a role account nobody reads, or a domain that has since changed hands.

So the honest answer: these are real, current, published business addresses, not verified mailboxes. If you are loading them into a cold-email tool and your sender domain matters, run the email column through a verification step first — Email Verifier checks syntax, MX and disposable domains on a list before you send. On a list of a few thousand it costs a fraction of the scrape, and it is the difference between a warm sender reputation and a burned one.

FAQ

Is this a database like Apollo or ZoomInfo? No — and that's the point. Databases go stale; this Actor discovers businesses live at run time, so phones, websites and emails reflect what's published right now.

Where do the emails come from? From each company's own website (homepage, contact, about pages). That makes them the emails the business actually wants to be reached at — typically far fewer bounces than database emails.

Does every lead include an email? No. Roughly 40–70% of businesses with a website publish an email (varies by niche). Every lead includes the emailFound flag; enable onlyWithWebsite to skip companies that can never yield one. You pay the same low per-lead price either way, so filter downstream by emailFound if you only want emailable leads.

Can I get employee names and job titles? Not from this Actor — it extracts company-level contacts. For person-level data, combine it with an email-finder tool using the domains this Actor gives you.

How many leads can one run produce? Up to ~120 companies per search query (the practical ceiling of a single map search). Add more queries — one per city or per niche variation — to build lists of thousands.

Is scraping this data legal? The Actor collects publicly available business information (the same data anyone sees in a search) and emails that businesses publish on their own websites. Comply with GDPR/CAN-SPAM in how you use the data, especially for outreach in the EU.

Can I schedule it or use it via API? Yes — run it on a schedule (e.g. weekly per territory) or call it from the Apify API / SDK and read the dataset programmatically. Works with Zapier and Make too.

What if a run finds nothing? Overly narrow searches can return zero results; the run still succeeds and you're only charged the $0.01 start fee. Broaden the industry term or use a bigger city.

Related tools by the same author

• Website Contact Finder — already have the websites? Extract emails and socials in bulk.
• Email Verifier — verify MX/syntax/disposable before sending.
• Company Enrichment API — domain to tech stack and contacts.