10 Best AI SDR Tools of 2026

AiSDR ranks first because it is the closest match to the job of an SDR at a price a small team can test. On the self-serve plan you pay $1.50 for each person prospected, with research, list building and message writing included, charged daily and cancelable at any time. Its Ami agent builds a campaign, runs it and adjusts it as replies come in, drawing on 2B+ profiles, live signals such as job changes, new hires and funding, and waterfall enrichment across 20 data providers. Sequences mix email with LinkedIn connection requests, DMs, InMails and voice notes, and a unified inbox classifies replies and answers them in 5 to 10 minutes or waits for approval in co-pilot mode. Deliverability tools include triple bounce checks, lookalike domains and warmup. Teams contacting more than 1,000 people a month can move to a team plan with up to 40% lower cost per contact, Salesforce sync and visitor tracking, on quarterly contracts.

Apollo.io is the runner-up because it gives reps an AI research and writing layer on top of a large contact database for less than most dedicated AI SDR products. The free plan includes 900 credits per seat per year and a limited AI Assistant, and Basic at $49 per seat per month billed annually adds 30,000 credits, email sequencing and core integrations. Professional at $79 is the plan Apollo recommends for full-time reps who need higher credit limits, AI features, call recording and advanced CRM integrations. Credits pay for emails, phone numbers, warmup, mailboxes and AI-researched data, and they are pooled across the team. The trade-off is that Apollo is a toolkit for reps rather than an autonomous agent: a person still builds the sequence and decides who to contact. All seats must sit on the same plan, so mixed teams pay for the highest need. Apollo says over 600,000 companies use it.

Regie.ai sells its prospecting product as RegieGO, and it ranks third because it gives one seller research, drafting, enrichment and a dialer for $41 a month billed annually, or $49 monthly. The free plan is real: 250 one-time credits per person for up to 10 people, with no credit card. Every plan includes a free built-in CRM, so a small team does not need to buy one, and teams on HubSpot or Salesforce can connect them and switch on write-back. Email goes from your own Gmail or Outlook, each contact is verified before sending, and sending is throttled with unsubscribes handled. Pro adds 5,000 credits a month and a parallel dialer with local numbers, and enrichment that comes up empty does not use credits. The limits are on the team side: Team costs $125 per seat billed annually with a two-seat minimum, extra credits cannot be bought separately, and custom CRM sync sits on Enterprise.

Unify is the cheapest way on this list to put AI copywriting and signal-based prospecting in a rep's hands. The free plan covers up to 3 seats with limited credits, and Base costs $20 per seat per month billed monthly with 800 credits, AI email copywriting, phone and email enrichment and job change and hiring signals. Its data covers 1.1B+ people and 65M+ companies from 40+ data sources, and signals extend to funding, tech stack, news, paid ad activity and warm intro paths. Pro at $60 per seat adds 2,400 credits, Slack notifications and read-only HubSpot and Salesforce sync, with a 14-day trial that needs no card. The gaps show for larger teams: read-write CRM sync, website intent, signal-triggered automations, managed mailboxes with warmup and the power dialer are all on the custom-priced Business plan, billed annually. For an individual rep or a small team, though, the entry price is hard to beat.

Reply.io sits in the middle of the list because it offers two routes to AI outreach. Jason AI SDR is the autonomous option: from $500 a month, shown at $375 with a 25% discount when we checked, it runs around the clock with realtime contact search, intent signals, AI personalization and AI-generated responses. Teams that prefer to keep reps in charge can use the regular plans instead. Email Volume starts at $49 per user and allows unlimited mailboxes with 1,000 active contacts a month, while Multichannel starts at $89 per user and adds LinkedIn, calls, SMS and semi-automated WhatsApp. Both plans include email warmup and a deliverability suite. The add-on model is the main drawback: on the email plan, LinkedIn costs $69 per account and calls and SMS $29 per account a month. The pricing page also shows time-limited discounts, so confirm the price at checkout.

Amplemarket scores well on features because its Duo AI layer covers most of the SDR workflow on top of its own B2B database. Duo Copilot and Duo Copywriter write personalized emails, Duo Signals flags buying intent, AI agents find buyers and research prospects, and an MCP add-on lets reps prospect and research from Claude or ChatGPT. The Startup plan costs $600 a month on an annual term and includes 2 users, 27,000 contacts, multichannel sequences, AI intent signals and Duo Copilot, plus scaled CSM support and community onboarding. Growth and Elite are custom priced, with 4 and 10 users, 140,000 and 400,000 contacts, and Duo Voice for AI voice messages; Duo Inbox, which drafts replies to every prospect email, is listed on Elite. The value score is lower because the entry price and annual commitment are high for a small team, though Amplemarket can replace a separate database and sequencer.

Clay has the deepest research toolkit here, which is why it leads on features and trails on ease of use. It is a spreadsheet-style workspace where you pull prospects, run multi-provider enrichment waterfalls and ask Claygent, its AI web research agent, for any custom data point, then send the result through Clay's own email sequencer or a sequencing integration. The free plan includes 500 actions and 100 data credits a month with unlimited seats, tables of up to 200 rows and Claygent. Launch costs $167 a month at the annual rate, starts at 15,000 actions a month and adds phone enrichment, unlimited Audience search and signals for job changes, promotions, new hires and company news. Growth at $446 adds CRM auto-sync, any HTTP API, web intent signals and domain and mailbox buying for the sequencer. Clay rewards teams with someone who enjoys building workflows; teams that want the AI to run campaigns alone will set up faster with AiSDR or Artisan.

Artisan's Ava is one of the most complete autonomous AI BDRs we compared: she finds leads from 250M+ verified B2B contacts, runs email and social campaigns, handles replies and books meetings, and sends in your reps' names from your own domains. Controls are good, with approve-before-send, locked tone and calls to action, banned phrases and writing coaching. Salesforce and HubSpot sync both ways, custom webhooks bring in your own data and an AI dialer can be added per seat, with a brief before each call and a follow-up after. Every plan includes CSM support in a shared Slack channel and onboarding; Scale adds a dedicated CSM and Enterprise a forward-deployed strategist. Artisan is SOC 2 Type II certified. The reason it ranks ninth is value transparency: there are no public prices, the Team plan is sized at about 2,500 leads contacted a month and Scale at about 6,000, and you need a sales call to learn the cost.

Persana AI is a research and enrichment tool first, which makes it a good feeder for AI-written outreach rather than a full replacement for an SDR. Its Quantum AI Research Agent, web scrapers and waterfall enrichment across 100+ data providers build the prospect profile, and the plan comparison also lists Persana AI Agents, Autopilot AI Agents and a full-service AI SDR. Every plan allows unlimited users. The free plan gives 50 credits with no billing, and Starter costs $68 a month billed annually or $85 monthly for 24,000 credits a year, with credit rollover and searches of up to 7,000 people or companies. One email found costs 1 credit and one phone number 10 credits, so phone-heavy teams burn credits fast. Growth at $151 and Pro at $400 a month, both billed annually, raise credits to 60,000 and 216,000 a year. Ease of use scores lower than the autonomous tools because you assemble the workflow yourself.

11x is the broadest platform here, built for revenue teams that want AI agents on every stage rather than outbound email alone. Its outbound agents act on live signals for target accounts, run deep research on each prospect by combining account updates, contact information and CRM context, and coordinate email, social and dials in one sequence with deliverability managed in house. It can also re-engage inactive and closed-lost leads and de-anonymize website visitors. On the inbound side, voice and chat agents respond to new leads in under 60 seconds, qualify them in several languages and book meetings with the right rep, and expansion agents look for upsell and cross-sell openings in the customer base. The feature score reflects that range. It finishes last because 11x publishes no prices, its pricing page did not load when we checked, and every deal starts with a demo, which makes it hard for smaller teams to compare cost.