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Account-based marketing platforms · October 2026 Edition

Apollo.io vs HubSpot Marketing Hub

Zero of fourteen models named Apollo.io first on the direct prompt; one named HubSpot Marketing Hub. Apollo.io was named by twelve of the fourteen models and HubSpot Marketing Hub by fourteen and Apollo.io carries 17 labels and HubSpot Marketing Hub 38, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Apollo.io

accepted challenger

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

HubSpot Marketing Hub

accepted challenger

By HubSpot, Cambridge, United States, founded 2006. Named in twenty-eight categories this edition.

First-choice share11%8%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%5%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#3A position in a field of 7; printed, not drawn.
Labels1738A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Apollo.io reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.AdRoll ABM was named alongside these two in fourteen of the fourteen direct answers. AdRoll ABM vs Apollo.io · AdRoll ABM vs HubSpot Marketing Hub · Apollo.io vs Demandbase

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen 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 fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Apollo.ioFirst choices, of fourteen modelsHubSpot Marketing Hub
Direct01
Paraphrase00
Comparative00
Budget-constrained631 against HubSpot Marketing Hub
Scale-constrained00
Negative001 against HubSpot Marketing Hub
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Apollo.io and HubSpot Marketing Hub 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
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Apollo.io HubSpot Marketing Hub first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Apollo.io on the left and HubSpot Marketing Hub on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Apollo.io and HubSpot Marketing Hub stood in it.

HubSpot Marketing Hub first, Apollo.io not the choice

1 of 14 modelsApollo.io was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Muse Glimmer 30BAdRoll ABM, HubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Propensity ABM, Userled

Neither was the first choice, one was named

6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Gemini 3.5 FlashAdRoll ABM alternatives: Factors.ai, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Influ2
Perplexity SonarAdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense, Demandbase, HubSpot Marketing Hub
Grok 4.1 FastAdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense, Demandbase, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Terminus
Kimi K2AdRoll ABM, Demandbase alternatives: HubSpot Marketing Hub, ZoomInfo MarketingOS
GLM 4.7 FlashXAdRoll ABM alternatives: HubSpot Marketing Hub, Terminus
MiniMax M2.5AdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense, HubSpot Marketing Hub, ZoomInfo Marketing

Neither was named

7 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5AdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense
GPT-5.4 mini6sense alternatives: AdRoll ABM, Demandbase, Influ2
Mistral SmallAdRoll, AdRoll ABM
DeepSeek V4 FlashAdRoll ABM alternatives: Terminus, ZoomInfo Marketing
Llama 4 MaverickAdRoll ABM alternatives: Abmatic AI
Qwen 3.7 FlashAdRoll ABM alternatives: MarketBetter, Terminus
GPT-6 LunaAdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense, Demandbase, HubSpot's built-in ABM tools

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
HubSpot Marketing Hub leads by nineteen points.
HubSpot Marketing Hub39%#1 of 13
Apollo.io19%#3 of 13
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Apollo.io leads at mid-market.
Apollo.io11%#2 of 7
HubSpot Marketing Hub8%#3 of 7
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: HubSpot Marketing Hub leads at enterprise.
HubSpot Marketing Hub3%#4 of 8
Apollo.io0%#– of 8
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Apollo.io

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about HubSpot Marketing Hub

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.