How we make this list: we compare pricing pages, product documentation and public user reviews. Ratings come from G2, Capterra or Trustpilot, with the date we checked them.
Key takeaways
- The category splits by direction: autonomous outbound agents (11x, Artisan, AiSDR) that prospect and email for you, and inbound agents (Qualified's Piper, Conversica) that work the leads you already have.
- AiSDR is the pricing outlier in a good way: it publishes tiers at $250, $900, and $2,500 per month. Most rivals quote, with 11x reported from $3,750 per month and Qualified commonly $40,000 plus per year.
- The compliance risk sits with you, not the vendor. AI sent outreach still has to obey CAN-SPAM, consent rules, and platform terms, and no tool on this list can promise meetings.
- Check the record before you buy: 11x faced 2025 reporting over customer logos, and LinkedIn temporarily restricted Artisan accounts in late 2025. Both are covered in their entries below.
- Start in approval mode. Every serious platform offers it, and it is how you learn what the agent actually writes before it writes at scale.
Quick comparison
| Tool | Best for | Starting price | Free plan |
|---|
 11x | Autonomous outbound at volume | $3,750 per month | No |
 Artisan | All in one outbound with data included | See website | Yes |
 AiSDR | Published pricing, fast start | $250 per month | No |
 Qualified | Inbound website pipeline on Salesforce | See website | No |
 Conversica | Lead follow up and reactivation | See website | No |
 Regie.ai | Augmenting human SDR teams | $180 per user per month | No |
 Reply.io | Multichannel sequences plus an agent | $500 per month | No |
 Salesforge | A flat priced email agent | $499 per month | No |
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The best AI sales agent software
Starting price$3,750 per month
Free planNo
11x is the category's best known name and sells two agents: Alice, who prospects and runs outbound sequences, and Julian, who works the inbound side by voice and chat. Its scale story is genuine, large funding, multichannel reach, a built in database, and it is aimed at companies that want an always on outbound motion rather than a copilot for existing reps.
Two things belong in any evaluation. First, price: comparisons report Growth from $3,750 per month on annual billing, enterprise budget territory despite its startup image. Second, history: in March 2025 TechCrunch reported that companies whose logos 11x displayed said they were not customers and had only trialled the product; the founder left the CEO role that May. A buyer should run reference calls with current customers and verify any claim that matters.
What we like- Alice runs outbound across email, LinkedIn, SMS, and WhatsApp
- A second agent, Julian, calls and qualifies inbound leads by phone and chat
- Built in contact data and multilingual outreach
- Designed for high volume programmes
Watch out for- Growth reported from $3,750 per month on annual terms, Pro and Enterprise are custom
- Fully autonomous sending with no described pre send approval step
- 2025 TechCrunch reporting said some logos on its site were trial customers, not customers, and its founder stepped down as CEO in May 2025
- Reference checks are essential
#2Artisan
Best for: All in one outbound with data included4.0/5 on
G2 (47 reviews, checked Oct 2026)
Visit artisan.co
Starting priceSee website
Free planYes
Artisan's Ava is the all in one pitch: data, sequences, deliverability, and replies in one product, with a control most autonomous tools lack, a dial that sets how much a human reviews before sending. That dial is the feature to test in a trial, because it maps directly onto your compliance comfort: reviewed sending for regulated markets, autopilot for safe segments.
Artisan does not publish flat pricing; its model charges per action, and third party estimates put typical spend between $1,500 and $5,000 per month. The LinkedIn episode deserves a plain telling: in late December 2025 LinkedIn restricted Artisan accounts for roughly two weeks over scraped data and use of LinkedIn's name, and reinstated the company after changes. It is a useful reminder that platform risk in AI outreach is real and lands on the sender's campaigns.
What we like- Ava works from a built in database of hundreds of millions of contacts
- An autonomy dial runs from review every message to fully hands off
- Deliverability tooling, warm up, and reply handling included
- Free trial and a small free credit tier reported
Watch out for- Pricing is usage based and not published as simple tiers, comparisons report roughly $1,500 to $5,000 per month
- LinkedIn restricted Artisan's accounts for about two weeks in late December 2025 over data and brand use, per TechCrunch, before reinstatement
- The AI dialer is a paid add on
- Results depend heavily on your market's data quality
#3AiSDR
Best for: Published pricing, fast start4.6/5 on
G2 (102 reviews, checked Oct 2026)
Visit aisdr.com
Starting price$250 per month
Free planNo
AiSDR's distinction is commercial honesty: its pricing page prints the tiers. Solo runs $250 per month billed monthly for 200 researched contacts, mid and Scale tiers at $900 and $2,500 run on quarterly terms, and HubSpot sync is included across plans while full Salesforce sync waits for Scale. For a small team that wants to test an AI agent without an enterprise sales cycle, that transparency is the product.
The capability set covers the standard autonomous loop, research, personalised email and LinkedIn outreach, reply handling, and booking. What it will not do is repeal the laws of outbound: a bad list and a weak offer fail with an AI sender exactly as they fail with a human one, only faster. Budget a pilot quarter, keep a human reading replies, and judge AiSDR on meetings per dollar against your current motion.
What we like- Every tier is published: $250, $900, and $2,500 per month
- Email and LinkedIn outreach with signal based list building
- Mailbox warm up included
- Cancel anytime terms on entry plans suit a genuine pilot
Watch out for- Native two way Salesforce sync only appears on the $2,500 Scale plan
- Autonomous sending with no stated approval mode
- Contact allowances cap each tier, 200 researched contacts on Solo
- Smaller vendor than the enterprise names here
Starting priceSee website
Free planNo
Qualified's Piper is the inbound counterpart to the outbound agents: an AI sales agent stationed on your website, greeting known accounts by name, answering questions, qualifying, and booking meetings while the visitor is still reading. For Salesforce centred companies with real inbound traffic, that real time coverage is the highest converting slot in the funnel to automate, the visitor who arrives at 2 a.m. and would otherwise get a form.
The price is the filter. Comparisons and deal data put Piper commonly between $40,000 and $100,000 plus per year, and there is no prospecting database behind it: Piper works your traffic, it does not create any. A company without the traffic or the Salesforce base should look at the outbound tools or Conversica; a company with both usually puts Qualified on its shortlist first.
What we like- Piper engages website visitors in real time by chat, voice, and video
- Built for Salesforce, with account data driving every conversation
- Follows up by email and books meetings into rep calendars
- Enterprise grade controls and reporting
Watch out for- Pricing reported commonly at $40,000 to over $100,000 per year
- Value depends on having meaningful website traffic and a Salesforce estate
- Agent handoff features sit on the Enterprise plan
- Not an outbound prospecting tool, it works demand you already attract
Starting priceSee website
Free planNo
Conversica is the category's elder: it has run AI lead conversations since 2007, and its job is the unglamorous, valuable one: follow up. Every form fill, event lead, and webinar registrant gets a two way conversation within minutes, answered questions, and a handoff to a human when intent appears, and its reactivation campaigns mine the database of leads marketing already paid for and sales never reached.
Pricing is enterprise and unpublished. Conversica will not build your outbound lists or run cold prospecting; it converts and revives demand that exists. For companies sitting on years of untouched leads, that is frequently the best return in this category, because the leads were already bought.
What we like- Two way conversational follow up running since 2007, long before the current wave
- Replies within minutes and persists politely across days
- Reactivation campaigns wake old and dormant leads
- Enterprise integrations and a mature compliance posture
Watch out for- Enterprise custom pricing with no published figures
- The conversational scope is follow up, not full prospecting
- Documented CRM links lean on list syncs rather than deep two way integration
- Less flashy than newer autonomous rivals
#6Regie.ai
Best for: Augmenting human SDR teams4.4/5 on
G2 (355 reviews, checked Oct 2026)
Visit regie.ai
Starting price$180 per user per month
Free planNo
Regie.ai takes the opposite bet from the replacement crowd: sales teams keep their reps and give them an AI that drafts, prioritises, dials, and, on the agent tier, runs defined plays in the background. Its RegieOne platform combines the engagement tooling an SDR team already uses with generation and automation layered in, which makes adoption easier than a rip and replace agent purchase.
Comparisons report entry around $180 per user per month with the full agent tier near $499 per user per month, though buyers should confirm current figures directly. For a company whose problem is rep productivity rather than rep headcount, Regie.ai is the honest fit, and its copilot design keeps a human between the AI and your prospects, which compliance teams notice.
What we like- Built as a copilot for reps rather than a replacement narrative
- Sequence generation, an AI dialer, and an autopilot agent in one platform
- Reported pricing from $180 per user per month, agent tier around $499
- Keeps humans in the loop by design
Watch out for- Reported prices vary by source and plan shape
- Value depends on having reps to augment
- The full agent tier costs approach autonomous rivals
- Less built in data than Artisan or 11x
#7Reply.io
Best for: Multichannel sequences plus an agent4.6/5 on
G2 (1,559 reviews, checked Oct 2026)
Visit reply.io
Starting price$500 per month
Free planNo
Reply.io's Jason AI sits on one of the established multichannel outreach platforms, which changes the purchase: instead of betting the outbound motion on a young agent company, a team adds agent capability, autopilot or copilot, to sequences, data, and deliverability tooling it may already run. Jason is reported at $500 per month billed annually as the AI add on, with the underlying sequencer from $59 per month.
That modular shape suits teams phasing autonomy in: sequences first, copilot drafting second, autopilot on proven segments last. For outbound teams modernising rather than replacing, Reply.io is the pragmatic route on this list.
What we like- A mature multichannel sequencer underneath the AI agent
- Jason AI runs autopilot or copilot mode across email, LinkedIn, and calls
- Built in data and deliverability tooling
- Sequences start far below the agent price, from $59 per month
Watch out for- The AI agent is a $500 per month add on billed annually, on top of platform costs
- Autonomous mode still requires your compliance discipline
- The platform's breadth means setup and learning time
- Per channel pricing details need care in the quote
Starting price$499 per month
Free planNo
Salesforge sells Agent Frank, an autonomous email agent, at the simplest price in this category: a flat $499 per month, billed quarterly in comparisons, layered on an email infrastructure business that manages mailboxes and warm up for deliverability. For an SMB or mid market team, a known flat number for an always on email agent is a genuinely different offer from the per action and per contact models above it.
Frank runs in copilot or autopilot, and the advice is the same as everywhere in this category: copilot first. Salesforge's background in sending infrastructure is a real asset, since deliverability decides whether any agent's work lands in an inbox at all.
What we like- Agent Frank is a flat $499 per month, no per contact surprises
- Copilot or autopilot modes
- Built on Salesforge's own deliverability infrastructure and mailbox network
- Platform plans below the agent start at $40 to $80 per month
Watch out for- Email led, LinkedIn handling is narrower than full multichannel rivals
- A younger vendor with a shorter enterprise track record
- Flat price still needs sending volume discipline to pay back
- Fewer inbound capabilities than Qualified or Conversica
How we chose
We covered both directions of the category, autonomous outbound and inbound follow up, plus the copilot middle, using October 2026 comparisons from Artisan, Dashly, Albato, Cirrus Insight, Mutiny, and Revspire, which agree on most prices and features. The 11x and Artisan caution items come from TechCrunch reporting carried in those comparisons, and they are stated with their dates because a buyer's reference checks should cover them. We excluded pure data tools, dialers with no agent, and CRM native features that cannot be bought as a sales agent product in their own right.
What to look for in AI sales agent software
Put compliance before capability, in writing. Ask who is the legal sender of the agent's email (you are), how opt outs and suppression lists are enforced, how the tool handles EU and UK consent rules, and what happens to your sending domains if the platform is restricted by a network, the Artisan and LinkedIn episode is the template question. Any vendor vague on these points is a risk you are underwriting.
Then judge autonomy as a dial, not a badge. The safe deployment pattern is approval mode on a small segment, measure reply quality and complaint rates with your own eyes, then widen. Measure the pilot on meetings held per thousand contacts and on unsubscribe and spam complaint rates, because an agent that books three meetings while burning your domain has cost you the channel. Finally, contract small: monthly or quarterly terms, published prices where they exist, and exit clauses that return your data and your warmed mailboxes. Vendors confident in results rarely fear short contracts.
Frequently asked questions
Are AI sales agents legal to use for cold outreach?
The tools are legal to buy; the outreach still has to be lawful, and that duty is yours. In the US, CAN-SPAM requires truthful headers and subject lines, a clear opt out honored promptly, and a valid postal address. The EU and UK apply stricter consent and legitimate interest tests under ePrivacy rules and GDPR. LinkedIn and other platforms also enforce their own terms against automation, which is a contract risk on top of the legal one. Have your own counsel review the programme; this article is not legal advice.
How much does AI sales agent software cost?
Published prices are the exception: AiSDR prints $250 to $2,500 per month, Salesforge's agent is a flat $499 per month, and Reply.io's agent add on is about $500 per month. The enterprise end quotes: 11x is reported from $3,750 per month, Artisan's usage model lands roughly between $1,500 and $5,000 per month, and Qualified's Piper commonly runs $40,000 to over $100,000 per year. Model the full cost, including the data, mailboxes, and the human time reviewing output.
Will an AI agent book meetings on its own?
It can book meetings, and vendors will show you calendars to prove it. What no vendor can promise is a rate, because results depend on your list quality, your offer, your market's saturation, and your domain's reputation, none of which the software controls. Treat any guaranteed meeting or pipeline claim as a disqualifier. Run a bounded pilot with approval mode on, and compare cost per held meeting against your current outbound before scaling anything.
What is the difference between an AI sales agent and a sequencer?
A sequencer sends the steps a human wrote to a list a human built, and flags replies for a human to answer. An AI sales agent is sold as doing the whole loop itself: research the account, write the message, handle the reply conversation, and book the meeting. Copilot products such as Regie.ai sit between the two. The practical difference is supervision: the more of the loop the agent owns, the more your review process has to cover, especially at the start.
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