# AI SDR agents for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, October 2026

Gane Index, October 2026 Edition. Asked as "AI SDR agent" and as "AI sales development tool that prospects and books meetings", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/sales/ai-sdr-agents/2026-10/enterprise

This is the permanent record of the October 2026 Edition, published October 1, 2026 and superseded since. The current standing: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/sales/ai-sdr-agents/enterprise/index.md

**Standing:** Artisan Ava leads with 22% of first choices; verdict contested. 49 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Artisan Ava](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/artisan-ava/index.md) | 22% | 20% | 40 |
| 2 | [11x](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/11x/index.md) | 16% | 31% | 42 |
| 3 | [Outreach](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/outreach/index.md) | 8% | 10% | 20 |
| 4 | [Regie.ai](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/regie-ai/index.md) | 6% | 9% | 32 |
| 5 | [AiSDR](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/aisdr/index.md) | 6% | 17% | 23 |
| 6 | [Amplemarket Duo](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/amplemarket-duo/index.md) | 4% | 0% | 11 |
| 7 | [Reply.io Jason](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/reply-io-jason/index.md) | 4% | 10% | 10 |
| 9 | [Qualified Piper](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/qualified-piper/index.md) | 2% | 0% | 14 |
| 10 | [Salesforce Agentforce SDR](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/salesforce-agentforce-sdr/index.md) | 2% | 18% | 17 |
| 11 | [Salesloft Rhythm](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/salesloft-rhythm/index.md) | 2% | 0% | 11 |
| 23 | [Apollo.io](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/apollo-io/index.md) | 0% | 23% | 13 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 76 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Artisan Ava; alternatives 11x, Amplemarket Duo, Qualified Piper
- GPT-5.4 mini: 11x; alternatives Apollo.io, Artisan Ava, Outreach
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 11x; alternatives Amplemarket Duo, Artisan Ava, Clay, Qualified Piper
- Perplexity Sonar: Artisan Ava; alternatives 11x, Apollo.io, Outreach, Salesloft Rhythm
- Grok 4.20: Clay; alternatives 11x, Reply.io Jason
- Mistral Small: Artisan Ava, Regie.ai; alternatives Alice, Ava
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: 11x; alternatives Artisan Ava, Qualified Piper
- Llama 4 Maverick: no first choice; alternatives Artisan Ava, Regie.ai
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Jazon, Regie.ai; alternatives Artisan Ava, Outreach, Salesforce Einstein
- Kimi K2: 11x, Artisan Ava; alternatives Regie.ai
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Artisan Ava; alternatives 11x, AiSDR, Regie.ai, Reply.io Jason
- MiniMax M2.5: Qualified Piper; alternatives 11x, Artisan Ava, Regie.ai
- GPT-6 Luna: Artisan Ava; alternatives 11x Alice, Regie.ai, Salesforce Agentforce Prospecting
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 11x, Artisan Ava

## Sources the answers cite

80 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- artisan.co: 43 answers, 74 citations
- salesforge.ai: 36 answers, 46 citations
- 11x.ai: 32 answers, 78 citations
- pipeline.zoominfo.com: 26 answers, 45 citations
- amplemarket.com: 24 answers, 29 citations
- unifygtm.com: 22 answers, 34 citations
- salesmotion.io: 18 answers, 23 citations
- getvoip.com: 16 answers, 16 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://salesforge.ai/blog/ai-sales-agents (33 answers)
- https://artisan.co/blog/the-best-ai-sdrs (27 answers)
- https://amplemarket.com/blog/best-ai-sales-agents (22 answers)
- https://pipeline.zoominfo.com/sales/ai-sdr-tools (21 answers)
- https://getvoip.com/ai-sdr-agents (16 answers)
- https://unifygtm.com/explore/best-ai-sdr-software-2026 (13 answers)
- https://artisan.co/blog/best-ai-sdr-enterprise-sales-teams (12 answers)
- https://clay.com/guides/best/ai-sdr-tools (11 answers)
- https://monday.com/blog/crm-and-sales/best-ai-sdr-tools (10 answers)
- https://11x.ai/guides/ai-sdr-tools-b2b-sales-teams (9 answers)

## Warned against

- 11x: 13 of 42 labels negative. "Specific AI SDR Agents/Platforms to Avoid or Be Highly Cautious About: - 11x.ai (Alice): ... reports indicate 70-80% customer churn shortly after onboarding" (Grok 4.20, negative prompt)
- Artisan Ava: 8 of 40 labels negative. "Artisan has output quality concerns, with a G2 rating of 3.8/5 which is the lowest among reviewed platforms" (Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt)
- AiSDR: 4 of 23 labels negative. "Explicitly named in the avoid list above and in the autonomous-SDR group with high churn/compliance risk" (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)
- Regie.ai: 3 of 32 labels negative. "Regie.ai's pricing has seat minimums and is primarily per-user, making it less predictable for thousands of users." (Kimi K2, budget prompt)

## Movement since September 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
New leader: Salesforce Agentforce SDR (15%) to 11x (17%). Margin 15 points, beyond the floor.

- Salesforce Agentforce SDR: 15% to 2%, −13. Cleared the floor by 2 points · rank 1 → 10 of 68.
- Artisan Ava: 9% to 17%, +8. Inside the floor by 3 points · rank 6 → 2 of 68.
- AiSDR: 13% to 5%, −8. Inside the floor by 3 points · rank 4 → 5 of 68.
- Salesloft Rhythm: 9% to 2%, −7. Inside the floor by 4 points · rank 5 → 11 of 68.
- Outreach: 15% to 10%, −5. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 2 → 3 of 68.
- Regie.ai: 0% to 5%, +5. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 16 → 4 of 68.
- Reply.io Jason: 2% to 5%, +3. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 11 → 7 of 68.
- 11x: 15% to 17%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 3 → 1 of 68.
- Apollo.io: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 15 → 23 of 68.
- Amplemarket Duo: 4% to 5%, +1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 7 → 6 of 68.
- Qualified Piper: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 9 of 68, unchanged.
- Clay: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 10 → 12 of 68.

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, October 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/gtm.