The best Artisan alternatives
with the price on the page.

The best Artisan alternatives are the AI SDRs and outbound tools that do what Ava does, or the part of it you need, on terms you can read before a sales call. This list ranks six, from AI BDRs with their own data to one agent that works your list by email, text and a call it places itself, with who each one suits and how it charges.

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Every channel wired into one agent and out to the tools behind it: email, SMS, phone, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, LINE, Slack, Discord, X, Reddit, Bluesky, website chat, campaign sequences and follow-ups on one side; HubSpot, GoHighLevel, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, Jobber, Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, Calendly, HubSpot Meetings, Zoho Bookings, Acuity Scheduling, Cal.com, Square Appointments, Stripe, Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix and Squarespace on the other.

Why teams look for Artisan alternatives

Artisan builds what it calls AI employees, and the first of them is Ava, an AI BDR. Its site describes her running outbound end to end: searching more than 250 million verified B2B contacts across over 200 countries, enriching them from more than 22 sources, prioritising them with intent signals such as hiring, funding and website visits, writing each email individually for each prospect, sending by email and social from your own domains in your reps' names, handling the replies and booking meetings onto your team's calendars. B2B data, enrichment, deliverability, sequencing, intent signals and a dialer sit in one platform, with CSM support from the first day and Salesforce and HubSpot syncing both ways.

The reasons people shortlist something else tend to come from how it is sold rather than what it does. Artisan's pricing page does not list prices: plans are sized to your lead volume, mailboxes and dialer seats, roughly 2,500 leads contacted a month on Team and 6,000 on Scale, and the figure comes from its sales team. The AI dialer is an add-on priced per seat, and Artisan's own FAQ is plain that Ava does not make calls; she queues them for your reps to dial. And the whole product points at outbound, from finding the lead to booking the meeting.

None of that is a mark against it. For a sales team with reps who want an AI to fill their calendars, and a budget sized to lead volume, it is a sensible way to buy. But it leaves three kinds of buyer looking elsewhere: those who want to see a price before a call, those who want the AI itself on the phone, and those whose leads already exist and who need them followed up, answered and booked on every channel rather than found.

This page ranks six Artisan alternatives for those buyers, each described from its own website, with how it charges and when it is the better choice. Bold Agent Kit is first, for businesses with a list and a follow-up problem: $25 a month for the account, with the agent placing and speaking its own calls. The rest are ordered by how closely they do what Ava does, starting with the AI SDRs that find and work prospects, then the outbound platforms where your team steers more of the work.

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Pricing scoped by salesArtisan sizes plans to lead volume, mailboxes and dialer seats, and prices them through its sales team.

Calls queued, not placedIts FAQ says Ava does not make calls; she queues them in a dialer for your reps.

Dialer priced per seatThe AI dialer is an add-on per seat, on top of the plan.

Data at the centreA database of more than 250 million contacts, with campaigns for your CRM as well.

Outbound is the briefArtisan describes Ava's work as outbound, from finding the lead to booking the meeting.

Your buyer type decides itPrice on the page, the AI on the phone, or leads followed up: each points somewhere different.

Four reasons teams move on from Artisan

Artisan is open about how it sells, and its own pricing page and FAQ show the trade-offs. These are the four that send people looking.

The price arrives after the conversation

Artisan's pricing page describes plans rather than prices: Team for about 2,500 leads contacted a month, Scale for about 6,000, and Enterprise for custom volume, each priced by its sales team, with credit volume and dialer seats tuned to your pipeline. For a team that buys software through a sales process, that is normal. For a founder comparing three tools on a Sunday evening, or an agency working out a retainer for a client, a number on the page is part of the decision.

Ava does not pick up the phone

Artisan's own FAQ answers "Can Ava make calls?" with a no: she builds a list of qualified prospects for your reps to dial, with context and talking points on each lead, and the AI dialer is an add-on per seat. For a team of reps who want warm call lists, that is a sensible division of work. For a business without reps, or one that wants the day 5 call made to everyone still silent, the call remains a person's job.

Sized for a team with reps

Ava is described as booking meetings for your reps, with CSM support on every plan, a dedicated CSM on Scale and a forward-deployed strategist on Enterprise, on plans that begin at thousands of leads contacted a month. That is the shape of a sales organisation. A two-person business, a local firm, or an agency running a dozen small clients may need less volume and none of the rollout, and wants a plan that fits that size.

Outbound is the whole brief

Artisan describes Ava's work as outbound: finding the lead, writing the sequence, handling the reply and booking the meeting, including campaigns to your CRM's existing and churned contacts. Answering the website chat, the phone line when it rings or an Instagram DM falls outside that brief as Artisan describes it. A business that wants the agent that sent the email to answer the enquiry that follows it, on whatever channel it arrives, is looking for a broader agent.

What to look for in an Artisan alternative

Every tool below sends outreach and handles replies in some form. For someone leaving Artisan, the differences that matter sit in three places.

01 / Price

A number you can read, and what moves it

Check whether the price is published, then what it is measured in: leads contacted, researched contacts, active contacts, emails sent, seats, credits, or one price for the account. Then the term: monthly, quarterly or annual. A plan measured in contacts rises with the list; a plan measured in seats rises with the team; a flat plan does neither, and lets you forecast the year on the back of an envelope.

02 / Calls

Who actually makes the call

Some tools queue calls for a person to dial, with a script or a brief; some include or integrate a dialer for your team; some have the AI place and speak the call itself. If the phone is part of your sequence and you do not have reps sitting at a dialer, this is the question that decides the shortlist, and it is worth reading each vendor's own FAQ on it.

03 / Source

Where the list comes from

If you need prospects found, pick a tool with a database or a live search, and check how its data is metered. If your leads already exist, in a CRM, a spreadsheet, a trade directory or last year's enquiries, you may not need data at all, and a tool that does not charge for it spends your budget on the follow-up instead.

The best Artisan alternatives, ranked

Bold Agent Kit is first, for businesses whose leads already exist and who want the follow-up, including the call, done by the agent. After it, the list runs from the tools that work most like Ava to the ones where your team steers more of the work: AiSDR and Reply.io, AI SDRs with published prices; 11x, the enterprise-scale option with AI workers for outbound and inbound; then Apollo and lemlist, outbound platforms with large lead databases and AI features, where your team runs the sequences.

We make Bold Agent Kit, which is why it is first on this list. Every other entry is described from its own website, including when it is the better choice.

01 / Best for businesses with a list who want the calls made too

Bold Agent Kit

Bold Agent Kit is one AI agent that works the list you have by email, text and phone, and it makes the call itself. A campaign sends the email on day 0 from your own mailbox, the text on day 2 from your own number, and on day 5 the agent dials on your own Twilio number, speaks in real time from your script and knowledge base, answers questions, offers real calendar slots and books the one the person picks, keeping the recording and transcript. Each step has its own delay and send condition, the schedule holds to the days, hours and time zone you set, and nothing sends until you press Start on a plan you have read.

The price is on the page: $25 a month or $200 a year for the whole account, with a 7-day free trial, unlimited agents and contacts, and no per-seat, per-lead or per-message charge. The AI runs on your own key with one of sixteen providers, and your carrier bills you for texts and calls, both at cost. Mailboxes are unlimited, warmed on a ramp, health-scored out of 100 and rested automatically when they slip, and the same agent answers the website chat, the phone line and DMs on eleven platforms, into one inbox.

Choose it when the leads exist and the problem is getting every one of them followed up, answered and booked. It has no contact database: lists come from a CSV, a segment of a connected CRM such as HubSpot, or the Chrome side panel as you browse. It does not automate LinkedIn and does not connect to Salesforce, so if Ava's data and Salesforce sync are what you rely on, a tool further down may fit better.

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Best forbusinesses with a list who want the calls made too

Pricing$25 a month or $200 a year for the account, with a 7-day free trial. AI and carrier usage billed to you at cost

ChannelsEmail, text, calls, website chat and 11 DM platforms

The agent makes the callIt dials, speaks in real time, answers from your material and books the slot.

Price on the page$25 a month for the account. No seats, no credits, no dialer add-on.

Inbound on the same agentWebsite chat, calls, texts and DMs on eleven platforms, from one knowledge base.

You bring the listNo contact database, no LinkedIn automation and no Salesforce connection.

02 / Best for an AI SDR with published, month-to-month entry pricing

AiSDR

AiSDR covers much of what Ava does, with its prices on the page. It finds prospects with a live AI search built on the buying signals you describe, researches them, writes personalised messages and runs them in a sequence with conditional logic, then answers the replies, handles objections and books meetings into your calendar. Its LinkedIn steps cover connection requests, direct messages, InMail, post likes and voice and video notes, and email goes out through Gmail or Outlook with warm-up and domain setup included.

At the time of writing, its published plans start at $250 a month for Solo, billed month to month, with 200 AI-researched contacts, one user, one domain, three mailboxes and one LinkedIn account. Explore and Scale raise the contacts, users, mailboxes and LinkedIn accounts, on quarterly contracts billed monthly. HubSpot is a native two-way integration on every plan, Salesforce sync comes with Scale, and an AI strategist, Ami, helps plan the campaigns.

Choose AiSDR if you want what Ava does, the prospects found and worked by the AI, and you would rather start small, on a plan you can read and leave after a month, before deciding how far to scale it. It suits founders and lean revenue teams, especially those already on HubSpot.

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Best foran AI SDR with published, month-to-month entry pricing

PricingBy AI-researched contacts a month. At the time of writing, its published plans start at $250 a month

ChannelsEmail and LinkedIn; phone through Aircall

Published pricingThree plans on the page, measured in AI-researched contacts a month.

LinkedIn in every planConnection requests, messages and InMail, alongside email.

HubSpot firstNative two-way HubSpot on every plan; Salesforce sync on Scale.

Contacts are the meterMore researched contacts, mailboxes or LinkedIn accounts means a larger plan.

03 / Best for an AI SDR and your own sequences in one tool

Reply.io

Reply.io gives you both halves of outbound in one place: a sequencing platform your team runs, and Jason, an AI SDR you hand prospects to. Jason finds prospects from an ideal-customer description written in plain language, drawing on data from more than a billion B2B contacts, researches each one across LinkedIn, company websites and other sources, writes by email and LinkedIn, answers replies from your instructions and materials, and books meetings against live Google Calendar availability. When a call makes sense, it adds a call step as a task and writes a script for each prospect.

Prices are published. At the time of writing, its published plans start at $49 a month per user, billed annually, on the Email Volume plans, which rise in tiers of active contacts, with LinkedIn automation and Calls & SMS as add-ons; the Multichannel plan bundles those per user and has a 14-day trial. Jason has its own plans, from $500 a month billed annually for 1,000 active contacts. Jason can run in approval mode, where you see every reply before it goes, and you choose its engine from Claude, Gemini, Mistral or OpenAI.

Choose Reply.io if you like the idea of Ava but want your human reps sequencing in the same platform, want to see the price before you talk to anyone, and want a say in the model the AI runs on.

Bold Agent Kit vs Reply.io

Best foran AI SDR and your own sequences in one tool

PricingPer user or per active contact. At the time of writing, its published plans start at $49 a month per user, billed annually; Jason AI SDR from $500 a month

ChannelsEmail, LinkedIn, calls, SMS and WhatsApp

AI and manual side by sideJason for the prospects you hand over; sequences for the ones your team works.

A large databaseData from more than a billion B2B contacts, with live data credits on the sequence plans.

Your choice of modelJason runs on Claude, Gemini, Mistral or OpenAI.

Priced on several measuresSeats, active contacts and channel add-ons each move the bill.

04 / Best for enterprise teams wanting outbound and inbound AI workers

11x

11x is the enterprise-scale alternative, and the one on this list that sells a separate AI worker for inbound. Its outbound worker, Alice, researches prospects from a real-time company and lead database with live web search, writes personalised outreach and runs multi-channel sequences by email, LinkedIn and consented outbound calls, with managed Gmail mailboxes, domain setup, warm-up and inbox rotation handled for you, and multi-language outreach in more than 105 languages from its Pro plan up. Its inbound worker, Julian, answers leads by phone, chat, SMS, WhatsApp and email, qualifies them against your criteria and books them with the right rep.

At the time of writing, its published plans for Alice start at $3,750 a month, billed annually, for up to five end users and 2,000 new prospects a month, and 11x says it charges per lead rather than per send. Julian is priced by calls and chats a month, also billed annually, and the Pro and Enterprise tiers of both are quoted. Named integrations include Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Slack and Google Calendar.

Choose 11x if you are a revenue team that wants prospecting and inbound qualification from one vendor, needs outreach in many languages, and buys software by the year. Its published Growth prices let you size it before the demo.

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Best forenterprise teams wanting outbound and inbound AI workers

PricingPer lead for Alice, by calls or chats for Julian, billed annually. At the time of writing, its published Alice plans start at $3,750 a month

ChannelsEmail, phone, LinkedIn, chat, SMS and WhatsApp

Outbound and inbound workersAlice prospects and sequences; Julian answers inbound by phone, chat and messaging.

Infrastructure managedManaged Gmail mailboxes and phone numbers, with warm-up and rotation handled.

Published entry pricesGrowth plans for Alice and Julian are on the page; larger tiers are quoted.

Annual by defaultBoth workers are billed annually, and priced separately.

05 / Best for teams who want the data and to run the outreach themselves

Apollo

Apollo is a sales platform built around its B2B database, with more than 240 million contacts and 30 million companies, verified emails and phone numbers, and the engagement tools to work them: email sequencing with built-in deliverability guardrails, a dialer that records calls, task reminders, LinkedIn steps in multi-touch workflows, and an AI assistant that helps create campaigns, summarise calls and draft follow-ups. For inbound, it offers lead routing with a built-in calendar and scheduler. It syncs contacts, activity and campaigns with Salesforce, HubSpot and other tools.

Apollo has a free plan, which it describes as free forever, with basic engagement tools and limited access to its database; on non-paying plans you can connect only Gmail accounts, and other mailboxes need a paid plan. At the time of writing, its published paid plans start at $49 a month per seat, with higher tiers above it and the largest quoted, and data exports and phone numbers drawing on credits.

Choose Apollo if the part of Artisan you valued most was the data, and your team is happy to write and run the sequences itself with AI help. The free plan lets you check whether its data covers your market before you pay anything.

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Best forteams who want the data and to run the outreach themselves

PricingA free plan, then per seat. At the time of writing, its published paid plans start at $49 a month per seat

ChannelsEmail, phone dialer and LinkedIn steps

A free planFree forever, with Gmail sending; paid plans connect other mailboxes.

Database at the centreMore than 240 million contacts and 30 million companies, with verified emails and phones.

Your team at the wheelSequences, a dialer and tasks, with an AI assistant helping write and follow up.

Seats and creditsPaid plans are per seat, and exports and phone numbers use credits.

06 / Best for multichannel outbound with a lead database and LinkedIn

lemlist

lemlist is an outbound platform that runs email, LinkedIn, calls, WhatsApp and SMS from one workflow, with a lead database of more than 650 million, an email and phone number finder and verifier, and its warm-up tool, lemwarm, included with every seat. Its AI agents include lemAgent alongside intent signal and data enrichment agents that research leads, spot buying signals and personalise the outreach. It integrates with Salesforce and HubSpot, offers an API and MCP support, and lists more than 500 integrations.

At the time of writing, its published plans start at $69 a month, or $55 a month billed annually, for the Email plan, which includes 50,000 emails a month and unlimited users. The Multichannel plan, where LinkedIn, SMS and WhatsApp automation and the built-in dialer sit, is priced per user and has a 14-day free trial with no card. Finding verified emails and phone numbers draws on credits.

Choose lemlist if you want Artisan's mix of data and multichannel reach, but with your team designing and steering the sequences, and AI agents to help with the research and personalisation.

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Best formultichannel outbound with a lead database and LinkedIn

PricingAn Email plan for unlimited users, and Multichannel per user. At the time of writing, its published plans start at $69 a month, or $55 billed annually

ChannelsEmail, LinkedIn, calls, WhatsApp and SMS

Five channels in one workflowEmail, LinkedIn, calls, WhatsApp and SMS on the Multichannel plan.

Data and warm-up includedA lead database of more than 650 million, and lemwarm with every seat.

A trial without a card14 days on the Multichannel plan, at the time of writing.

Per user past emailThe Multichannel plan is priced per user, and data finding uses credits.

Artisan alternatives at a glance

Who each tool suits, the channels it covers and how it charges, from each vendor's own website.

Tool	Best for	Channels	How it charges
Bold Agent Kit	businesses with a list who want the calls made too	Email, text, calls, website chat and 11 DM platforms	$25 a month or $200 a year for the account, with a 7-day free trial. AI and carrier usage billed to you at cost
AiSDR	an AI SDR with published, month-to-month entry pricing	Email and LinkedIn; phone through Aircall	By AI-researched contacts a month. At the time of writing, its published plans start at $250 a month
Reply.io	an AI SDR and your own sequences in one tool	Email, LinkedIn, calls, SMS and WhatsApp	Per user or per active contact. At the time of writing, its published plans start at $49 a month per user, billed annually; Jason AI SDR from $500 a month
11x	enterprise teams wanting outbound and inbound AI workers	Email, phone, LinkedIn, chat, SMS and WhatsApp	Per lead for Alice, by calls or chats for Julian, billed annually. At the time of writing, its published Alice plans start at $3,750 a month
Apollo	teams who want the data and to run the outreach themselves	Email, phone dialer and LinkedIn steps	A free plan, then per seat. At the time of writing, its published paid plans start at $49 a month per seat
lemlist	multichannel outbound with a lead database and LinkedIn	Email, LinkedIn, calls, WhatsApp and SMS	An Email plan for unlimited users, and Multichannel per user. At the time of writing, its published plans start at $69 a month, or $55 billed annually

For comparison, Artisan sizes its plans to lead volume, mailboxes and dialer seats, roughly 2,500 leads contacted a month on Team and 6,000 on Scale, and prices them through its sales team; the AI dialer is an add-on per seat. Bold Agent Kit is $25 a month or $200 a year for the account, plus your own AI and carrier usage at cost.

We checked each tool’s public website on 11 September 2026 for this page. Plans and features change, so check each vendor’s own site for the current detail. Product names are trademarks of their owners, and Bold Agent Kit is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.

Which Artisan alternative is right for you

If you want an AI BDR that finds the prospects and works them, and you would like to see the price first, start with AiSDR, which publishes its plans and begins month to month, or Reply.io, which publishes both its sequence plans and its Jason AI SDR plans and lets your team run sequences alongside the AI. If you are an enterprise revenue team that wants outbound and inbound AI workers from one vendor, and buys annually, 11x sits at that end of the same category, with its entry prices on the page.

If the database was the real draw, and your team is happy to run the sequences with AI help, Apollo has a free plan for testing its data against your market, and lemlist adds LinkedIn, WhatsApp and SMS to a large lead database on published plans.

If your leads already exist, and what you need is every one of them followed up by email, text and a call the agent places itself, the replies answered, the meeting booked, and the website chat, phone line and DMs answered by the same agent, Bold Agent Kit does that for $25 a month for the account. The full side-by-side is on the Bold Agent Kit vs Artisan page.

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Before you switch

What is the best Artisan alternative?

It depends on your team. For an AI SDR that works like Ava with published pricing, AiSDR and Reply.io are close matches: both find prospects, handle replies and book meetings, and both put prices on the page. For an enterprise team wanting outbound and inbound AI workers, 11x. For teams that mainly want the data and will run the sequences themselves, Apollo, which has a free plan, or lemlist. For a business whose leads already exist and that wants one agent following them up by email, text and a call it places itself, and answering inbound too, Bold Agent Kit at $25 a month.

Why do people switch from Artisan?

Usually for fit. Artisan prices its plans through its sales team, sized to lead volume, mailboxes and dialer seats, so there is no number to compare before a conversation. Its own FAQ says Ava does not make calls; she queues them in a dialer, which is an add-on per seat, for reps to dial. Plans start at thousands of leads contacted a month, the shape of a sales team with reps. And Ava's brief is outbound. Teams that want a published price, the AI on the phone, a smaller plan or inbound handled too often find another tool suits them better.

How is Bold Agent Kit different from Artisan?

Artisan's Ava is an AI BDR built around a database of more than 250 million B2B contacts: she finds and enriches leads, writes and sends by email and social, handles replies and books meetings for your reps, on a plan scoped by its sales team. Bold Agent Kit has no database. It works the list you bring by email, text and a call the agent places and speaks itself, answers replies from your own material, books real calendar slots, and answers website chat, calls and DMs too, for $25 a month for the account. The full side-by-side is on our Bold Agent Kit vs Artisan comparison page.

Is there a free Artisan alternative?

Apollo has a free plan, which it describes as free forever, with basic engagement tools and limited access to its contact database; on it you can send from Gmail accounts only, and other mailboxes need a paid plan. Artisan's own site says Ava is free to start before you commit to a paid plan. Among the others, at the time of writing, Bold Agent Kit has a 7-day free trial, lemlist a 14-day free trial on its Multichannel plan, and Reply.io a 14-day trial on its Multichannel plan. A free plan tests the data; a trial tests the whole workflow.

How do I move from Artisan to another tool?

Start with the contacts and their history. Artisan syncs both ways with Salesforce and HubSpot, so the prospects and activity Ava produced are usually already in your CRM; export them as a CSV, or in Bold Agent Kit pull a HubSpot segment straight into a list. Save the sequences, subject lines and objection answers that worked, since they carry over to any tool. Ava sends from your own sending domains, so check with Artisan which mailboxes on them you can take with you, and warm up any new ones before raising volume. Then rebuild the sequence, review it and start it when your plan ends.

Which Artisan alternatives can make phone calls with AI?

In Bold Agent Kit, a call is a step in the sequence: the agent dials on your own Twilio number inside the hours you set, speaks in real time from your script and knowledge base, answers questions, offers calendar slots and keeps the recording and transcript, and it can answer inbound calls too. 11x lists consented outbound calling for Alice and has a separate AI phone agent, Julian, for inbound. Reply.io's Jason adds call steps as tasks with a personalised script, lemlist and Apollo include dialers for your team, and AiSDR works with Aircall.

Do I need a contact database?

Only if you need new prospects found. Artisan, 11x, Reply.io, Apollo and lemlist all include B2B data, and AiSDR searches for prospects live against your buying signals, so if the hard part is knowing who to contact, one of them fits. If your list already exists, in a CRM, a spreadsheet, a trade directory or last year's enquiries, paying for data is paying for the part you have. Bold Agent Kit has no database and works that list instead: a CSV, a segment of a connected CRM, or contacts the Chrome side panel extracts from the pages you browse.

Does Bold Agent Kit work with Salesforce or LinkedIn?

No. Bold Agent Kit does not connect to Salesforce and does not automate LinkedIn. It connects to HubSpot, GoHighLevel, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, Jobber, Stripe, Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix and Squarespace, and to eight calendars including Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, Calendly and Cal.com. If Salesforce sync or LinkedIn steps are central to your outbound, Artisan, AiSDR, Reply.io, 11x and lemlist each name one or both, and may suit that part of the work better, with Bold Agent Kit following up the rest of the list.

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