Search people

Search people

Returns people in Apollo's database who match title, seniority, location and company filters, without their emails or phone numbers.

Note: Costs no credits and finds only net-new people, not contacts already saved in Apollo. Returns no emails: enrich the matches to get them. Up to 100 people per page and 50,000 in total.

Set up

Use the first option your agent supports.

MCP (official, remote)

Add this server to your agent's MCP settings, then sign in when asked.

{ "mcpServers": { "apollo": { "url": "https://mcp.apollo.io/mcp" } } }

Call the MCP tool apollo_mixed_people_api_search.

Server URL: https://mcp.apollo.io/mcp

CLI (official)

Install the command and sign in with it, then confirm it runs.

brew install apolloio/apollo-io-cli/apollo-io-cli
apollo --version

Run apollo people search.

API (official)

• Base URL: https://api.apollo.io/api/v1
• Endpoint: POST /mixed_people/api_search
• Auth: send the header x-api-key: $APOLLO_API_KEY
• Get a key: https://developer.apollo.io/#/keys
• Docs: https://docs.apollo.io/reference/apollo-api

Before anything else, confirm access with the cheapest read-only call, like a list or a search. Never send or change anything to test access.

Rules

• Ask the user before anything that sends messages, costs money, or changes data, and say how many records it touches. One approval covers a batch the user has seen.
• Never print API keys.