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Index › GTM › Sales › AI SDR · September 2026 Edition

AI SDR agents

Asked as “AI SDR agent”, and as “AI sales development tool that prospects and books meetings”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 46 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
20%
Contested · Amplemarket Duo 17%
20Apollo.io17Amplemarket Duo13Artisan Ava50others

20% of first choices, contested.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Apollo.io20%4%24accepted challenger
02Amplemarket Duo17%0%24accepted challenger
03Artisan Ava13%39%38criticized challenger
04Salesforge Agent Frank4%18%11accepted challenger
05AiSDR2%11%37accepted challenger
06Reply.io Jason2%5%19accepted challenger
07Qualified Piper2%8%13accepted challenger
08Agent Frank2%0%10accepted challenger
Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
1211x0%53%43criticized challenger
10Regie.ai0%15%13accepted challenger
11Salesforce Agentforce SDR0%10%10accepted challenger
09Clay0%0%17accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
All twenty-eight head-to-head pages: the top eight products, each against each

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

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01Apollo.io20%
02Amplemarket Duo17%
03Artisan Ava13%
04Salesforge Agent Frank4%
05AiSDR2%
06Reply.io Jason2%
07Qualified Piper2%
08Agent Frank2%
09Clay0%
10Regie.ai0%
11Salesforce Agentforce SDR0%
1211x0%

What they warned about

Three of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Perplexity Sonar, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
11x
53%
23 of 43 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 9 hard negative
“11x.ai targets enterprise buyers with opaque pricing ... users reporting 75 to 90% churn at 3 months, with multiple accounts of "zero results" despite extensive setup.” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
Artisan Ava
39%
15 of 38 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 7 hard negative
“Avoid fully autonomous AI SDRs with annual lock-in contracts, no trials, and documented quality problems (Artisan, 11x.ai especially)” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
AiSDR
11%
4 of 37 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“AiSDR - Platform compliance issues, quality degradation at scale” Mistral Small, negative prompt
Regie.ai
15%
2 of 13 labels negative · 2 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Regie.ai — Moderate Risk | High Minimum Commitment | $35K/year floor prices out smaller teams” Kimi K2, negative prompt

What they cite

Four of the twelve models returned a source list in this edition: four return the pages they cited.

Sites the answers cite

22 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 4 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 297 links across 141 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. The other 8 models searched through a gateway that returned no source list on this edition.

vendor site · Amplemarket12 answers · 12 citations · 3 models
vendor site · 11x11 answers · 16 citations · 4 models
vendor site · Salesforge11 answers · 13 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Artisan10 answers · 12 citations · 4 models
vendor site · Salesmotion6 answers · 9 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Saleshandy6 answers · 6 citations · 2 models
vendor site · AiSDR5 answers · 7 citations · 2 models
5 answers · 5 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Monday.com5 answers · 5 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Reddit4 answers · 5 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Clay4 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
4 answers · 4 citations · 3 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “ai sdr agent”, “best ai sdr agent”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
Apollo.io apollo.io20%101033,100396111,60894
Amplemarket Duo amplemarket.com17%3320012,06787
Artisan Ava artisan.co13%143170649,821$2666
SalesTools.io salestools.io7%1200
Salesforge Agent Frank salesforge.ai4%44100119,383191
Jeeva jeeva.ai4%6
Outreach outreach.ai4%26933,1009,28227,855$14351
eesier eesier.com4%1
AiSDR aisdr.com2%12388038,41805
Reply.io Jason reply.io2%29036,88620

Google's top ten for the two searches hold 15 sites; 5 of them are among the sites the models cited here (aisdr.com, amplemarket.com, reddit.com, salesforge.ai, saleshandy.com). The first result for “ai sdr agent” is therankmasters.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best AI SDR agent for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which AI sales development tool that prospects and books meetings would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top AI SDR agents and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best AI SDR agent for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating an AI SDR agent. What should we look at?”Negative“Which AI SDR agents should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5RocketSDR
One alternativeApollo.io
against: 11x
Artisan Ava, CalendlyChanged
One alternative11x
no first choiceApollo.io
Two alternativesAiSDR, Reply.io Jason
no first choiceagainst: 11x
GPT-5.4 miniQualified Piper
One alternativeReply.io Jason
against: 11x
Salesloft RhythmChangedagainst: GongQualified Piper, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
Five alternatives11x, AiSDR, Apollo.io, Artisan Ava, Regie.ai
Apollo.io
One alternativeClay
against: 11x, Artisan Ava
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashArtisan Ava
Three alternativesClay, Regie.ai, Reply.io Jason
against: 11x
Artisan AvaHeld
Three alternatives11x, AiSDR, Clay
11x
Four alternativesAiSDR, Amplemarket Duo, Artisan Ava, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
Jeeva, eesier
Four alternativesAgent Frank, Clay, SalesRobot, Smartlead SmartAgents
against: 11x, Artisan Ava
no first choiceagainst: "ChatGPT Wrapper" SDRs, 11x, Artisan Ava
Perplexity SonarAmplemarket Duo
Two alternativesAiSDR, Artisan Ava
against: 11x, Reply.io Jason
Apollo.io, Artisan AvaChanged
Three alternativesOutreach, Saleshandy, Salesloft Rhythm
11x, Artisan Ava
Five alternativesAiSDR, Apollo.io, Breakout, Clay, Qualified Piper
Apollo.io, Jeeva
One alternativeAiSDR
against: Saleshandy
no first choicenothing named
Grok 4.20Apollo.io
Two alternativesAmplemarket Duo, Reply.io Jason
against: Artisan Ava
Apollo.ioHeld
Three alternativesAiSDR, Amplemarket Duo, Saleshandy
Amplemarket Duo
Five alternativesAiSDR, Artisan Ava, Clay, Qualified Piper, Reply.io Jason
against: 11x, Regie.ai
Apollo.io
Three alternativesHumanlinker, Jeeva, Lindy
against: 11x, AiSDR, Artisan Ava
Amplemarket Duo
Three alternativesArtisan Ava, Salesmotion, Unify
against: 11x, Artisan Ava
Mistral SmallAmplemarket Duo
Three alternativesAiSDR, Artisan Ava, Salesforge Agent Frank
Salesforge Agent FrankChanged
Three alternatives11x, AiSDR, Apollo.io
Amplemarket Duo
Five alternatives11x, AiSDR, Apollo.io, Artisan Ava, Reply.io Jason
AiSDR
Three alternativesSalesforge Agent Frank, Smartlead SmartAgents, Waalaxy
no first choiceagainst: 11x, AiSDR, Artisan Ava, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
DeepSeek V4 FlashAmplemarket Duo
Four alternatives11x, AiSDR, Artisan Ava, Reply.io Jason
Artisan AvaChanged
Three alternativesAiSDR, Amplemarket Duo, Salesforge Agent Frank
against: 11x, Qualified Piper
no first choice
Eight alternatives11x, AiSDR, Amplemarket Duo, Artisan Ava, Clay, Landbase, Qualified Piper, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
Artra
Three alternativesAgent Frank, Apollo.io, Jeeva
against: SalesTools.io
no first choiceagainst: 11x, AiSDR, Artisan Ava, Salesforge Agent Frank
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceno first choiceHeldBreakout
Three alternatives11x, 1mind, Artisan Ava
Gojiberry AI
Three alternativesAiSDR, JustCall, Salesforge Agent Frank
no first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashAmplemarket Duo
Two alternativesAiSDR, Reply.io Jason
against: Apollo.io, Artisan Ava, Salesforge Agent Frank
Salesforge Agent FrankChanged
Three alternativesAiSDR, Buzz, Zeeg
AiSDR, Amplemarket Duo
Nine alternativesApollo.io, Artisan Ava, LeadLoft, Nooks, Qualified Piper, Reply.io Jason, SalesPlay, Salesforce Einstein, Saleshandy
against: 11x
Babuger
Four alternativesAgent Frank, Reply.io Jason, Smartlead SmartAgents, Waalaxy
no first choiceagainst: 11x
Kimi K2Amplemarket Duo, Reply.io Jason
One alternativeAiSDR
against: 11x, Artisan Ava
Apollo.ioChanged
Three alternatives11x, Agentplace, AiSDR
Amplemarket Duo
Five alternativesAiSDR, Artisan Ava, Nooks, Regie.ai, Reply.io Jason
against: 11x
SalesTools.io
Three alternativesAgent Frank, Jeeva, LeadLoft
against: 11x, Artisan Ava
no first choice
Two alternativesClay, Lavender
against: 11x, Artisan Ava
against: 11x, Artisan Ava, Regie.ai
GLM 4.7 FlashXArtisan Ava
Four alternatives11x, AiSDR, Regie.ai, Salesforge Agent Frank
Chase AIChanged
Three alternatives11x, Agentplace, Regie.ai
Breakout
Five alternatives11x, AiSDR, Artisan Ava, Regie.ai, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
Agent Frank
Two alternativesOpenClaw, SalesTools.io
against: Instantly
Outreach
Two alternativesClay, Lavender
nothing named
MiniMax M2.5Amplemarket Duo, SalesTools.io
Three alternativesAgent Frank, AiSDR, Reply.io Jason
Amplemarket Duo, Apollo.ioChanged
Two alternatives11x, Salesmotion
Amplemarket Duo
Nine alternatives11x, Apollo.io, Artisan Ava, Clay, Persana AI, Qualified Piper, Regie.ai, Reply.io Jason, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
SalesTools.io, eesierLavender, Outreach
One alternativeClay
against: 11x, AiSDR, Artisan Ava
against: 11x, Artisan Ava
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 03:43yes98 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 03:32yes44 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 00:37yes1725 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 01:54yes206 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-15 04:04yes011 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 01:46yes06 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 04:28yes050 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 02:38yes02 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 02:17yes037 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 00:57yes049 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-14 22:59yes026 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 02:14yes011 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-14 23:34yes99 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 00:25yes34 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 05:01yes1725 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 04:47yes205 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-15 01:25yes08 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 00:38yes05 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 01:48yes018 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 04:57yes01 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 01:54yes038 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 02:12yes029 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 01:25yes0105 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-14 23:25yes012 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 03:15yes68 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 03:06yes720 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 03:59yes1727 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-14 23:09yes199 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-15 02:51yes011 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 04:31yes07 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 05:02yes041 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 03:00yes02 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 03:22yes031 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-14 23:37yes058 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 04:24yes020 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-14 23:58yes012 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 04:36yes148 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 04:53yes38 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 04:15yes1821 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-14 23:38yes186 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-15 00:15yes07 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-14 23:02yes08 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-14 23:59yes038 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 03:44yes01 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 02:27yes048 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 01:19yes042 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 03:40yes0197 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 04:05yes013 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 01:15no07 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 04:29no09 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 03:22yes1126 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-14 23:28yes2011 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-14 23:40yes011 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 01:13yes012 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 00:29yes029 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 02:40yes02 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-14 23:59no027 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-14 23:17yes035 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-14 23:44yes018 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 01:24yes015 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-14 23:40yes1610 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-14 23:08yes56 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 05:04yes2425 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 00:55yes207 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-15 03:11yes07 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 04:59yes06 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-14 23:24yes051 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 04:32yes02 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 01:24yes042 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 03:50yes037 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 04:38yes0106 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 00:33yes011 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
Amplemarket read as Amplemarket Duo
Amplemarket (Duo Copilot) read as Amplemarket Duo
Amplemarket (Duo) read as Amplemarket Duo
Amplemarket Duo Copilot read as Amplemarket Duo
Amplemarket's Duo Copilot read as Amplemarket Duo
Artisan read as Artisan Ava
Artisan (Ava + Ava Inbound) read as Artisan Ava
Artisan (Ava AI Agent) read as Artisan Ava
Artisan (Ava) read as Artisan Ava
Artisan AI (Ava) read as Artisan Ava
HubSpot Breeze AI read as HubSpot Prospecting Agent
Qualified read as Qualified Piper
Qualified (Piper) read as Qualified Piper
Reply read as Reply.io Jason
Reply.io read as Reply.io Jason
Reply.io (Jason AI) read as Reply.io Jason
SalesLoft read as Salesloft Rhythm
Salesforce Agentforce read as Salesforce Agentforce SDR
Salesforge read as Salesforge Agent Frank
Salesforge (Agent Frank) read as Salesforge Agent Frank
Salesforge (Frank) read as Salesforge Agent Frank
Salesloft read as Salesloft Rhythm
Smartlead read as Smartlead SmartAgents
Smartlead.ai read as Smartlead SmartAgents
ZoomInfo read as ZoomInfo Copilot
Unresolved, counted raw
"ChatGPT Wrapper" SDRs
APIS
AiSDR Explore
Buzz
Instantly\u2019s Reply Agents
Nexus
RocketSDR
SalesPlay
useArtemis
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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