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Account-based marketing platforms · September 2026 Edition

AdRoll ABM vs Apollo.io

Eleven of twelve models named AdRoll ABM first on the direct prompt; zero named Apollo.io. AdRoll ABM was named by twelve of the twelve models and Apollo.io by ten and AdRoll ABM carries 67 labels and Apollo.io 15, so the shares are not directly comparable.

AdRoll ABM

endorsed leader

By AdRoll, San Francisco, United States, founded 2007. Named in ten categories this edition.

Apollo.io

accepted challenger

San Francisco, United States, founded 2015. Named in twenty categories this edition.

First-choice share56%4%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate6%13%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#5A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels6715A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, AdRoll ABM reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Demandbase was named alongside these two in seven of the twelve direct answers. AdRoll ABM vs HubSpot ABM · AdRoll ABM vs Terminus · AdRoll ABM vs ZenABM

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the account-based marketing platforms page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
AdRoll ABMFirst choices, of twelve modelsApollo.io
Direct110
Paraphrase100
Comparative00
Budget-constrained621 against AdRoll ABM
Scale-constrained40
Negative103 against AdRoll ABM · 2 against Apollo.io
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

Every model, every framing

The seventy-two answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where AdRoll ABM and Apollo.io stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
AdRoll ABM Apollo.io first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, AdRoll ABM on the left and Apollo.io on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where AdRoll ABM and Apollo.io stood in it.

AdRoll ABM first, Apollo.io not the choice

11 of 12 modelsApollo.io was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5AdRoll ABM, ZoomInfo alternatives: 6sense
Gemini 3.5 FlashAdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense, Abmatic AI, HubSpot ABM
Perplexity SonarAdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense, Demandbase
Grok 4.1 FastAdRoll ABM alternatives: Demandbase, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Terminus
Mistral SmallAdRoll ABM alternatives: Factors.ai, HockeyStack, HubSpot Native ABM, Terminus
DeepSeek V4 FlashAdRoll ABM, Terminus alternatives: HubSpot ABM
Llama 4 MaverickAdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense Revenue AI, Demandbase, Metaflow AI, ZoomInfo MarketingOS
Qwen 3.7 FlashAdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense, Demandbase, Terminus
Kimi K2AdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense, DemandScience, HubSpot Marketing Hub
GLM 4.7 FlashXAdRoll ABM, HubSpot ABM alternatives: 6sense Revenue AI, Demandbase
MiniMax M2.5AdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense Revenue AI, Demandbase, Terminus

Neither was the first choice, one was named

1 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
GPT-5.4 mini6sense alternatives: AdRoll ABM, Demandbase

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
AdRoll ABM leads by three points.
AdRoll ABM20%#2 of 13
Apollo.io16%#3 of 13
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
AdRoll ABM leads by fifty-three points.
AdRoll ABM56%#1 of 11
Apollo.io4%#5 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
AdRoll ABM0%#7 of 8
Apollo.io0%#– of 8
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about AdRoll ABM

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of seven in this category shown.

“Enterprise tools (RollWorks ~$12K/yr, Demandbase) are overkill/too costly.” Grok 4.1 Fast · budget prompt · hard negative
“Renamed to AdRoll ABM (Aug 2025) | Same product, different name — reviews may be split” MiniMax M2.5 · negative prompt · soft negative
“RollWorks / AdRoll ABM (Be cautious of: Ad-only limitations and superficial metrics)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“The best account-based marketing platform for a company with a limited budget is RollWorks, which is an approachable and budget-friendly ABM tool” Llama 4 Maverick · budget prompt · first choice
“I'd generally recommend RollWorks / AdRoll ABM if your priority is fast setup, practical ABM, and a more approachable mid-market fit” GPT-5.4 mini · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I'd suggest starting with RollWorks if you need a dedicated ABM platform, as it's specifically designed for mid-market companies” Claude Haiku 4.5 · paraphrase prompt · first choice

What the models said about Apollo.io

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.