# AI SDR agents: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 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 a mid-market B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/sales/ai-sdr-agents/2026-11

**Standing:** AiSDR leads with 34% of first choices; verdict contested. 47 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [AiSDR](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/aisdr/index.md) | 34% | 5% | 44 |
| 2 | [Apollo.io](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/apollo-io/index.md) | 19% | 0% | 30 |
| 3 | [Artisan Ava](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/artisan-ava/index.md) | 17% | 35% | 48 |
| 7 | [11x](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/11x/index.md) | 4% | 62% | 37 |
| 8 | [Qualified Piper](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/qualified-piper/index.md) | 2% | 0% | 13 |
| 9 | [Amplemarket Duo](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/amplemarket-duo/index.md) | 2% | 15% | 13 |
| 14 | [Clay](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/clay/index.md) | 0% | 7% | 14 |
| 15 | [Instantly](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/instantly/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 10 |
| 16 | [Regie.ai](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/regie-ai/index.md) | 0% | 15% | 13 |
| 17 | [Salesforce Agentforce SDR](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/salesforce-agentforce-sdr/index.md) | 0% | 9% | 11 |
| 18 | [Salesforge Agent Frank](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/salesforge-agent-frank/index.md) | 0% | 29% | 17 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 86 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 AiSDR, Apollo.io, RocketSDR
- GPT-5.4 mini: Unify; alternatives AiSDR, Alta, Qualified Piper, Warmly
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Artisan Ava; alternatives 11x, Qualified Piper, Regie.ai
- Perplexity Sonar: 11x; alternatives Agent Frank, AiSDR, Artisan Ava, Regie.ai
- Grok 4.20: 11x; alternatives AiSDR, Apollo.io, Artisan Ava, Breakout
- Mistral Small: Amplemarket Duo; alternatives Apollo.io, Artisan Ava
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Apollo.io, Artisan Ava; alternatives AiSDR
- Llama 4 Maverick: Apollo.io; alternatives AiSDR, Amplemarket Duo, Artisan Ava
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: AiSDR; alternatives Amplemarket Duo, Apollo.io, Artisan Ava
- Kimi K2: AiSDR, Apollo.io; alternatives Artisan Ava
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: AiSDR; alternatives Amplemarket Duo, Artisan Ava
- MiniMax M2.5: Apollo.io, Artisan Ava; alternatives Amplemarket Duo
- GPT-6 Luna: AiSDR; alternatives HubSpot Prospecting Agent, Unify
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Artisan Ava; alternatives 11x.ai — Alice, AiSDR, Amplemarket Duo

## Sources the answers cite

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

- artisan.co: 23 answers, 34 citations
- gane.ai/index: 18 answers, 19 citations
- getbreakout.ai: 17 answers, 18 citations
- aisdr.com: 15 answers, 16 citations
- amplemarket.com: 15 answers, 15 citations
- latenode.com: 15 answers, 15 citations
- albato.com: 13 answers, 13 citations
- salesforge.ai: 12 answers, 18 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://latenode.com/blog/ai-agents-for-sales (15 answers)
- https://amplemarket.com/blog/best-ai-sales-agents (14 answers)
- https://gane.ai/index/gtm/sales/ai-sdr-agents (14 answers)
- https://albato.com/blog/publications/best-ai-sdr-tools (13 answers)
- https://getvoip.com/ai-sdr-agents (12 answers)
- https://grouglobal.com/blog/best-ai-sdr-tools (11 answers)
- https://hunter.io/blog/ai-sdr-tools (11 answers)
- https://agentmarketplace.ai/ai-sdr-agents (10 answers)
- https://artisan.co/blog/the-best-ai-sdrs (10 answers)
- https://github.com/Salesably/awesome-ai-agents-for-sales (10 answers)

## Warned against

- 11x: 23 of 37 labels negative. "the controversies around misrepresentation and effectiveness make it a high-risk choice... Multiple sources describe it as over-hyped with "shady tactics."" (Grok 4.20, negative prompt)
- Artisan Ava: 17 of 48 labels negative. "Be cautious about quality and value. A review describes it as having the lowest reported G2 score among the compared platforms" (Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt)
- Salesforge Agent Frank: 5 of 17 labels negative. "Tools to Avoid on a Budget ... Salesforge (Agent Frank) — $499/month, quarterly billing" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- Alice: 2 of 2 labels negative. "one model (11x/Alice) was flagged for this issue" (Mistral Small, negative prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
New leader: Apollo.io (24%) to AiSDR (34%). Margin 15 points, beyond the floor.

- AiSDR: 18% to 34%, +16. Cleared the floor by 5 points · rank 3 → 1 of 86.
- Artisan Ava: 24% to 17%, −7. Inside the floor by 4 points · rank 2 → 3 of 86.
- Apollo.io: 24% to 19%, −5. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 1 → 2 of 86.
- Regie.ai: 5% to 0%, −5. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 4 → 16 of 86.
- Reply.io Jason: 0% to 4%, +4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 19 → 4 of 86.
- Instantly: 4% to 0%, −4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 6 → 15 of 86.
- 11x: 2% to 4%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 18 → 7 of 86.
- Amplemarket Duo: 4% to 2%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 5 → 9 of 86.
- Salesforge Agent Frank: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 8 → 18 of 86.
- Agent Frank: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 7 → 24 of 86.
- Qualified Piper: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 9 → 8 of 86.
- Clay: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 20 → 14 of 86.

## Record

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