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

AI SDR agents for enterprise buyers

Asked as “AI SDR agent”, and as “AI sales development tool that prospects and books meetings”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 46 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
15%
Contested · Outreach 15%
1511x15Outreach15Salesforce Agentforce SDR54others

15% 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 an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Salesforce Agentforce SDR15%4%26accepted challenger
02Outreach15%6%18accepted challenger
0311x15%35%49criticized challenger
04AiSDR13%14%22accepted challenger
05Salesloft Rhythm9%19%16accepted challenger
06Artisan Ava9%37%38criticized challenger
07Amplemarket Duo4%12%25accepted challenger
08Qualified Piper2%0%13accepted challenger
09Clay2%17%12accepted challenger
10Apollo.io2%43%14criticized challenger
Show the one product at 0%, ordered by negative rate
11Regie.ai0%29%24criticized 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.
Head to headHead-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not enterprise.
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%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
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01Salesforce Agentforce SDR15%
02Outreach15%
0311x15%
04AiSDR13%
05Salesloft Rhythm9%
06Artisan Ava9%
07Amplemarket Duo4%
08Qualified Piper2%
09Clay2%
10Apollo.io2%
11Regie.ai0%

What they warned about

One of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.20, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, 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
35%
17 of 49 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 13 hard negative
“Specific vendors that appear in the results as cautionary examples include 11x.ai, which is described as an autonomous-agent category example tied to reported issues like high churn, fabricated claims” Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt
Artisan Ava
37%
14 of 38 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 8 hard negative
“Companies that deployed tools like Artisan and 11x.ai as full SDR replacements have largely reverted to hybrid models or returned to human-first approaches” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
Regie.ai
29%
7 of 24 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“as a standalone enterprise AI SDR agent, it underdelivers on its positioning” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
Apollo.io
43%
6 of 14 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Avoid per-seat tools like Apollo or Salesloft if your priority is cost predictability” Perplexity Sonar, budget 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

23 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. 321 links across 153 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 · Amplemarket11 answers · 11 citations · 3 models
vendor site · 11x10 answers · 16 citations · 4 models
vendor site · Artisan10 answers · 14 citations · 4 models
vendor site · Monday.com7 answers · 10 citations · 3 models
7 answers · 8 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Salesforge7 answers · 7 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Salesmotion6 answers · 10 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Fin.ai5 answers · 7 citations · 2 models
5 answers · 6 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Instantly5 answers · 6 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Landbase5 answers · 6 citations · 2 models
5 answers · 5 citations · 2 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
Salesforce parent site
Salesforce Agentforce SDR 15%
15%46550,00060,632
Outreach outreach.ai15%26933,1009,28227,855$14351
11x 11x.ai15%1246,6001,1087,146$1,01026
AiSDR aisdr.com13%12388038,41805
Salesloft salesloft.com
Salesloft Rhythm 9%
9%1218,10044552,058 company$4,22974
Artisan Ava artisan.co9%143170649,821$2666
Amplemarket Duo amplemarket.com4%3320012,06787
ZoomInfo parent site
ZoomInfo Copilot 4%
4%8135,0001,810
Qualified Piper qualified.com2%41170424,264$23173
Clay clay.com2%287135,000168,089294,05611

Google's top ten for the two searches hold 15 sites; 4 of them are among the sites the models cited here (amplemarket.com, knock-ai.com, landbase.com, salesforge.ai). 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 an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which AI sales development tool that prospects and books meetings would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade AI SDR agents and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best AI SDR agent for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating an AI SDR agent. What should we look at?”Negative“Which AI SDR agents should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.511x
Two alternativesAmplemarket Duo, Coldreach
11xHeld
Two alternativesAiSDR, Default
Reply.io Jason
Two alternativesAmplemarket Duo, Lavender
against: Artisan Ava
AiSDR
One alternativeArtisan Ava
against: 11x
no first choiceagainst: 11xagainst: 11x, Artisan Ava
GPT-5.4 miniQualified Piper
Two alternativesArtisan Ava, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
Salesloft RhythmChanged
Two alternatives6sense, Qualified Piper
11x, Artisan Ava
Two alternativesApollo AI Assistant, Regie.ai
Relevance AI
One alternative11x
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashSalesforce Agentforce SDR
Four alternatives11x, AiSDR, Amplemarket Duo, Artisan Ava
Artisan AvaChanged
Two alternatives11x, Regie.ai
Artisan Ava
Four alternatives11x, Amplemarket Duo, Salesforce Agentforce SDR, Unify
Salesforce Agentforce SDR
Three alternatives11x, AiSDR, Instantly
no first choiceagainst: 11x, AiSDR, Apollo.io, Artisan Ava, Regie.ai
Perplexity SonarArtisan Ava
Four alternatives11x, Amplemarket Duo, Landbase, Qualified Piper
Apollo.io, ZoomInfo CopilotChanged
Two alternativesOutreach, Salesloft Rhythm
11x, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
Four alternativesAmplemarket Duo, Artisan Ava, Lyzr Jazon, Qualified Piper
Reply.io Jason, Salesforce Agentforce SDRagainst: 11x, Amplemarket Duo, Apollo.io, Landbase, Salesloft Rhythmno first choiceagainst: 11x, Reply.io Jason
Grok 4.2011x, Outreach
Two alternativesSalesforce Agentforce SDR, ZoomInfo Copilot
against: AiSDR, Apollo.io, Artisan Ava
OutreachChanged
Three alternativesCopilot, Salesloft Rhythm, ZoomInfo Copilot
against: 11x, Apollo.io, Instantly
Amplemarket Duo
Six alternatives11x, Apollo.io, Artisan Ava, Outreach, Regie.ai, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
Outreach, Salesloft Rhythmagainst: 11x, Amplemarket Duo, Apollo.io, Artisan Ava, Regie.ai, Salesforce Agentforce SDRno first choiceagainst: 11x, Artisan Ava
Mistral SmallHubSpot Prospecting Agent, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
Two alternativesAiSDR, Qualified Piper
11xChanged
Three alternativesCirrus Insight, Outreach, ZoomInfo GTM Workspace
Amplemarket Duo
Five alternatives11x, AiSDR, Artisan Ava, Regie.ai, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
Outreach, Salesloft Rhythm
Two alternativesAiSDR, Amplemarket Duo
no first choiceagainst: 11x, Artisan Ava, Autobound, Coldreach, Instantly, Smartlead SmartAgents, Warmly
DeepSeek V4 FlashAmplemarket Duo, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
Four alternatives11x, Clay, Jazon, Regie.ai
11xChanged
One alternativeArtisan Ava
Amplemarket Duo
Five alternatives11x, Artisan Ava, Jazon, Regie.ai, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
AiSDR
One alternativeSalesforce Agentforce SDR
against: 11x, Artisan Ava, Clay, Regie.ai, Reply.io Jason
no first choiceagainst: 11x, Artisan Ava, Regie.ai
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceOutreachChangedno first choiceAiSDRno first choiceagainst: 11x, Artisan Ava
Qwen 3.7 FlashAmplemarket Duo
Five alternatives11x, Artisan Ava, Clay, Qualified Piper, Regie.ai
Outreach.aiChanged
Two alternativesClay, Snowball Intelligence
11x, Artisan Ava
Two alternativesRegie.ai, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
AiSDR
One alternativeReply.io Jason
against: 11x, Amplemarket Duo, Artisan Ava, Instantly, Regie.ai, Salesloft Rhythm
no first choicenothing named
Kimi K211x
Two alternativesArtisan Ava, Docket
Outreach, Salesloft RhythmChanged
Two alternatives11x, Amplemarket Duo
Amplemarket Duo
Six alternativesAiSDR, Landbase, Lyzr, Nooks, Regie.ai, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
against: 11x, Artisan Ava
AiSDR
Two alternatives11x, Reply.io Jason
against: Apollo.io, Outreach, Regie.ai, Salesloft Rhythm
no first choiceagainst: 11x, AiSDR, Artisan Ava, Regie.ai
GLM 4.7 FlashXSalesforce Agentforce SDR
Three alternatives11x, Amplemarket Duo, Qualified Piper
11xChanged
Two alternativesOutreach, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
no first choice
Nine alternatives11x, AiSDR, Apollo.io, Artisan Ava, Breakout, Clodura AI, Qualified Piper, Regie.ai, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
against: Intercom
Artisan Ava, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
One alternativeAiSDR
no first choiceagainst: 11x, Artisan Ava
MiniMax M2.5Artisan Ava
Three alternatives11x, Regie.ai, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
Outreach, ZoomInfo CopilotChanged
Two alternativesArtisan Ava, Salesloft Rhythm
11x, Artisan Ava
Four alternativesAmplemarket Duo, Qualified Piper, Regie.ai, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
against: Clay
AiSDR, Clay
One alternativeInstantly
no first choicenothing named
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 03:57yes149 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 01:38yes34 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 00:18yes1420 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 03:17yes196 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 04:36yes015 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 03:36yes011 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-14 23:20yes047 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 03:10yes02 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 04:10yes036 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 03:08yes035 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 04:41yes037 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 00:27yes012 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 03:08yes78 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 03:57yes34 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 01:18yes2325 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 01:17yes204 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 04:36yes08 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 01:15yes09 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 02:20yes046 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 05:06yes02 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 00:10no036 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 03:37yes034 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 04:54yes091 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 00:05yes029 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 03:30yes1310 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 04:48yes511 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 01:49yes1729 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-14 23:00yes208 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)2026-09-14 23:16yes010 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 02:48yes07 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 03:57yes052 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 03:24yes02 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 01:37yes051 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-14 23:27yes039 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 03:27yes0117 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 01:03yes038 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 03:30yes1711 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 01:53yes210 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 00:33yes2129 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 00:01yes206 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)2026-09-14 23:53yes09 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 00:58yes05 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-14 22:54yes050 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 01:40yes02 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 02:16yes060 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-14 23:07yes045 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 05:08yes0113 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 04:02yes095 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 03:39yes1512 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 02:57yes58 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 01:49no016 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 00:28yes209 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)2026-09-15 00:05yes09 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 04:01yes010 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 01:33yes0171 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 00:00yes02 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 03:48no045 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 03:20yes077 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 00:17yes066 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 02:55yes024 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 03:57yes139 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 04:06yes57 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 04:00yes2528 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-14 23:18yes207 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 00:42yes011 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 02:37yes06 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 03:22yes076 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-14 23:25yes02 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 04:33yes051 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 01:33yes0101 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 03:29yes099 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-14 23:07yes017 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
Artisan read as Artisan Ava
Artisan (Ava 2.0) read as Artisan Ava
Artisan (Ava) read as Artisan Ava
Artisan AI read as Artisan Ava
Artisan AI (Ava) read as Artisan Ava
HubSpot Breeze Prospecting Agent read as HubSpot Prospecting Agent
Qualified read as Qualified Piper
Qualified (Piper) read as Qualified Piper
Qualified (formerly Piper) read as Qualified Piper
Qualified (now Salesforce Piper) read as Qualified Piper
Regie read as Regie.ai
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
Salesforce Agentforce (Powered by Qualified) read as Salesforce Agentforce SDR
Salesforce Agentforce (SDR) read as Salesforce Agentforce SDR
Salesforce Agentforce / Einstein read as Salesforce Agentforce SDR
Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce read as Salesforce Agentforce SDR
Salesforge read as Salesforge Agent Frank
Salesloft read as Salesloft Rhythm
Salesloft (Rhythm) read as Salesloft Rhythm
Salesloft (with Rhythm + Drift AI) read as Salesloft Rhythm
Salesloft (with Rhythm AI) read as Salesloft Rhythm
Smartlead read as Smartlead SmartAgents
ZoomInfo read as ZoomInfo Copilot
ZoomInfo (GTM Workspace/Copilot) read as ZoomInfo Copilot
Unresolved, counted raw
Apollo AI Assistant
Lyzr Jazon
Outreach.ai
Snowball Intelligence
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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