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Account-based marketing platforms · November 2026 Edition

HubSpot Marketing Hub vs Apollo.io

One of fourteen models named HubSpot Marketing Hub first on the direct prompt; zero named Apollo.io. HubSpot Marketing Hub was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Apollo.io by eleven and HubSpot Marketing Hub carries 53 labels and Apollo.io 12, so the shares are not directly comparable.

HubSpot Marketing Hub

accepted challenger

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

Apollo.io

accepted challenger

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

First-choice share12%10%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate9%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#3A position in a field of 8; printed, not drawn.
Labels5312A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, HubSpot Marketing Hub 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 HubSpot Marketing Hub · AdRoll ABM vs Apollo.io · HubSpot Marketing Hub vs Terminus

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.
HubSpot Marketing HubFirst choices, of fourteen modelsApollo.io
Direct10
Paraphrase101 against HubSpot Marketing Hub
Comparative00
Budget-constrained451 against HubSpot Marketing Hub
Scale-constrained00
Negative003 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 HubSpot Marketing Hub and Apollo.io stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
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
HubSpot Marketing Hub Apollo.io first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, HubSpot Marketing Hub on the left and Apollo.io on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where HubSpot Marketing Hub and Apollo.io 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.
MiniMax M2.5AdRoll ABM, HubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: 6sense Revenue AI, Demandbase, Valasys AI

Neither was the first choice, one was named

7 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5AdRoll ABM alternatives: HubSpot Marketing Hub, Terminus
Perplexity SonarAdRoll ABM alternatives: HubSpot Marketing Hub, Terminus
Grok 4.20AdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense, HubSpot Marketing Hub, N.Rich, Terminus
DeepSeek V4 FlashAdRoll ABM alternatives: Abmatic AI, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Terminus
Kimi K2AdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense, Adobe Marketo Engage, Common Room, Demandbase, HubSpot Marketing Hub, N.Rich, Terminus
GPT-6 LunaAdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense, Demandbase, HubSpot Marketing Hub
Muse Glimmer 30BAdRoll ABM alternatives: HubSpot Marketing Hub, Terminus

Neither was named

6 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 mini6sense alternatives: AdRoll ABM, Demandbase, ZoomInfo GTM Studio
Gemini 3.5 FlashAdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense, Demandbase, Metadata.ai
Mistral SmallDemandbase alternatives: 6sense Revenue Marketing, AdRoll ABM, Factors.ai, Personyze, ZoomInfo Marketing
Llama 4 MaverickAdRoll ABM alternatives: Demandbase, N.Rich
Qwen 3.7 FlashAdRoll ABM alternatives: Terminus
GLM 4.7 FlashXAdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense, Coffee, Demandbase, Foundry ABM

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 eighteen points.
HubSpot Marketing Hub40%#1 of 12
Apollo.io22%#2 of 12
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
HubSpot Marketing Hub leads by two points.
HubSpot Marketing Hub12%#2 of 8
Apollo.io10%#3 of 8
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
HubSpot Marketing Hub leads by five points.
HubSpot Marketing Hub5%#3 of 8
Apollo.io0%#– of 8
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about HubSpot Marketing Hub

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

“Pricing traps: Unexpected subscription costs, sudden auto-upgrades locking users into higher fees” Kimi K2 · negative prompt · hard negative

What the models said about Apollo.io

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

“Best for early-stage ABM teams that need to identify, research, and contact target accounts without spending $50K+ on an enterprise platform” Claude Haiku 4.5 · budget prompt · first choice
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.