Short answer: to get a phone number in Apollo, search for the person, open their record and click to access the phone number. Apollo then looks for a verified number and charges your mobile credits only if it finds one: once per contact, even when it returns more than one number. Mobile credits are a separate balance from email credits, they reset each billing cycle, and they are the scarcest thing in most Apollo plans. Third-party trackers report that a mobile reveal costs 8 credits, so a small allowance goes fewer contacts than it looks.
How to find a contact's phone in Apollo
- Search. In People search, filter by job title, company, location or industry, or type the person's name.
- Open the record. Email and phone are hidden until you access them.
- Access the phone number. Apollo searches for a verified number. If it finds one, it spends mobile credits and shows the number; it can return several types for the same person.
- Save or export. Add the contact to a list or sequence, or export the list as a CSV within your plan's export limits.
The same steps work from a LinkedIn profile through Apollo's Chrome extension; our article on the Apollo Chrome extension covers that route.
What a phone number costs in credits
Apollo's help article on credits (updated 15 October 2026) says email and mobile data use separate credit balances, that you are charged when Apollo finds and verifies a phone number, and that unused credits expire at the end of each billing cycle. It does not print the rate per number; Apollo shows it in your account under Settings, Credits & AI Usage, About Credits. Docket's Apollo pricing review (verified April 2026) reports 8 credits per phone lookup and lists 5 mobile credits a month on Free, 100 on Professional and 200 on Organization, which would be about 12 and 25 numbers. Check the rate in your own account before you plan a calling list around it. Plan prices are on our Apollo pricing page.
Getting more numbers for the same budget:
- Reveal phones last. Build and filter the list first, check emails, and spend mobile credits only on the people you will actually call.
- Do not reveal twice. Apollo charges once per contact, so keep revealed contacts in Apollo or your CRM instead of re-running the same people.
- Use the cycle. Credits do not roll over, so a reveal you postpone past the billing date is a credit lost.
- Test before a campaign. Call a sample of 20 revealed numbers and count how many reach the right person before you buy more credits.
When Apollo's mobile allowance is too small
If you need numbers for hundreds of people at a time, two routes avoid Apollo's mobile credits. The Apollo scraper exports an Apollo people search to CSV with emails and phones. If your prospects come from LinkedIn or Sales Navigator, Scrupp exports the whole search, past the 2,500 results Sales Navigator displays, and finds emails and phones for each person. A lead costs 1 credit, a found email 1 more and a found phone 2 more, and the free plan includes 100 credits a month. For the LinkedIn route step by step, see how to get phone numbers from LinkedIn.