Last updated October 2026. Digital Patron publishes this list. We sell a managed AI SDR service, so read our entry as a vendor describing itself. Every other entry is taken only from the vendor's own pages, checked 26 Oct 2026, and linked so you can verify it.
Best AI SDR agent 2026: autonomous AI sales development representative platforms comparison, pricing, features
An AI SDR agent researches prospects, writes and sends outreach, and handles some replies with limited human input. The products below differ less in what the AI does than in how you pay and who is responsible for deliverability, lists and reply handling. Where a vendor did not publish a figure, the table says "Not published". Where a page could not be loaded, it says "Not checked".
| Vendor | Model | Pricing as published | Minimum term | Best for | Source (checked 26 Oct 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AiSDR | Self-serve AI SDR platform; managed add-ons | Pay as you go $1.50 per person prospected; team plans priced on volume; fully managed add-on $2,500/mo | Pay as you go: cancel anytime; team plans: quarterly contracts | Teams that want to start small on usage pricing | aisdr.com/pricing |
| Salesforge Agent Frank | AI SDR agent on the Salesforge platform | $499/month, billed quarterly; email infrastructure add-on $416/month | Quarterly or annual billing; demo required before access | Teams already sending with Salesforge | salesforge.ai/pricing |
| Artisan (Ava) | AI BDR platform, credit-based | Not published (plans scoped by lead volume, mailboxes and dialer seats) | Not published | Teams prepared to go through a sales process | artisan.co/pricing |
| Reply.io (Jason AI) | AI SDR inside a sales engagement platform | Not checked (reply.io returned 403) | Not checked | Existing Reply.io users | reply.io/pricing |
| Apollo.io | Data platform with AI agents and sequencing | Free, Basic, Professional and Custom plans; prices not shown on the fetched page | Monthly (cancel anytime) or annual upfront | Teams that need contact data and sequencing in one place | apollo.io/pricing |
| 11x (Alice) | AI email and social agents; voice agents (Julian) | Not published; demo only | Not published | Larger teams wanting several agent channels | 11x.ai |
| Digital Patron | Managed AI SDR and cold email service | $800/month, no setup fee | 2-month minimum | Teams that want the outcome without running the tool | digitalpatron.in/pricing |
AiSDR
AiSDR sells an AI outbound agent with two ways to pay: a self-serve pay as you go option at $1.50 per person prospected, charged daily with "Cancel anytime", and team plans where "Pricing is based on your volume", billed monthly on quarterly contracts, with annual plans at a 20% discount to quarterly. A warmed-up mailbox is $33, a per-campaign managed service is $149 per campaign and a fully managed service is $2,500 a month. No setup fee is mentioned. Source: aisdr.com/pricing, checked 26 Oct 2026.
Salesforge Agent Frank
Agent Frank is Salesforge's AI SDR. The pricing page lists it at $499 a month billed quarterly, with annual billing shown but no annual figure, and an effective rate of $0.25 per contact at 2,000+ contacts a month. The FAQ says you must book a demo before getting access. An email infrastructure add-on is $416 a month billed quarterly for up to 1,000 active contacts. Salesforge's own sending plans start at $40 a month. Source: salesforge.ai/pricing, checked 26 Oct 2026.
Artisan (Ava)
Artisan sells Ava, an AI BDR, on credit-based pricing with plan tiers from startup to enterprise, scoped by lead volume, mailboxes and dialer seats. No prices, terms or setup fees were published on the pages we could read. Sources: artisan.co/pricing and artisan.co/llms-full.txt, checked 26 Oct 2026.
Reply.io (Jason AI)
Jason AI is the AI SDR inside Reply.io's sales engagement platform. Both reply.io/pricing and the Jason AI page returned a 403 when we fetched them on 26 Oct 2026, so we have not checked its price or term. Look at reply.io/pricing directly.
Apollo.io
Apollo.io is a contact database and sequencing platform with AI features rather than a standalone AI SDR. The pricing page names Free, Basic, Professional and Custom plans, offers monthly billing ("cancel anytime") or annual billing upfront at a discount, and describes "agents that work in the background". The page we fetched did not show the plan prices. Source: apollo.io/pricing, checked 26 Oct 2026.
11x
11x sells AI agents for revenue teams: Alice for outbound email and social, Julian for voice. The site publishes no prices or plans and directs buyers to a demo. Source: 11x.ai, checked 26 Oct 2026.
Where Digital Patron fits
Every product above is software that someone on your team still has to run: choose the ICP, buy and warm domains, set SPF, DKIM and DMARC, review copy, watch deliverability and answer replies. Digital Patron is the managed option. We use AI agents for research and personalisation and run the whole programme for you.
Price: $800/month, 2-month minimum, no setup fee for cold email and AI SDR outbound. Included: ICP lists, sending domains and mailboxes, SPF, DKIM and DMARC with warm-up, copy, sequences and reply handling. We plan for 8 to 14 booked meetings a month; that is a planning range, not a guarantee. See pricing, case studies and reviews (our Clutch profile is linked there). Want to test the targeting first? Rumo, our free AI lead agent, builds a sample list of ICP leads at no cost.
Our AI SDR service page sets out the scope. For India-based options see the best AI SDR agencies and tools in India, and for the tool versus agency trade-off see AI cold email agent tools vs managed agencies.
How to choose an AI SDR agent
- Decide who runs it. If nobody on your team owns outbound, a tool becomes shelfware. Budget for an owner or buy a managed service.
- Price the whole stack. Add mailboxes, domains, data and warm-up to the headline price. Agent Frank's $416 infrastructure add-on and AiSDR's $33 mailboxes are examples.
- Check the billing term. Quarterly billing (Agent Frank, AiSDR team plans) is a 3-month commitment in practice.
- Ask where it sends from. Cold email belongs on separate sending domains, never your main company domain.
- Read the replies yourself in week one. AI reply handling is the part most likely to embarrass you with a good prospect.
If you are weighing agencies rather than tools, our guide on how to choose a cold email agency lists the red flags to check before you sign.
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