Search for people

Search for people

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

Search costs no credits and finds net-new people, not contacts already saved in Apollo. It returns up to 100 people per page and 50,000 in total, so narrow it with filters such as person_titles, person_seniorities and q_organization_domains_list. Enrich the matches to get their work emails.

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, 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 doing anything else, make one read-only call to confirm access.

Rules

• Ask the user before anything that sends messages, costs money, or changes data.
• Never print API keys.