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AI SDR agents · November 2026 Edition

Apollo.io vs Qualified Piper

Four of fourteen models named Apollo.io first on the direct prompt; zero named Qualified Piper. Apollo.io was named by thirteen of the fourteen models and Qualified Piper by eight and Apollo.io carries 30 labels and Qualified Piper 13, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Apollo.io

accepted challenger

San Francisco, United States, founded 2015. Named in twenty-two categories this edition.

Qualified Piper

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share19%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#5A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels3013A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Apollo.io reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Artisan Ava was named alongside these two in twelve of the fourteen direct answers. AiSDR vs Apollo.io · AiSDR vs Qualified Piper · Apollo.io vs Artisan Ava

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the AI SDR agents page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Apollo.ioFirst choices, of fourteen modelsQualified Piper
Direct40
Paraphrase30
Comparative00
Budget-constrained21
Scale-constrained00
Negative00
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Apollo.io and Qualified Piper stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
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
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Apollo.io Qualified Piper first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Apollo.io on the left and Qualified Piper on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Apollo.io and Qualified Piper stood in it.

Apollo.io first, Qualified Piper not the choice

4 of 14 modelsQualified Piper was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
DeepSeek V4 FlashApollo.io, Artisan Ava alternatives: AiSDR
Llama 4 MaverickApollo.io alternatives: AiSDR, Amplemarket Duo, Artisan Ava
Kimi K2AiSDR, Apollo.io alternatives: Artisan Ava
MiniMax M2.5Apollo.io, Artisan Ava alternatives: Amplemarket Duo

Neither was the first choice, one was named

6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5Artisan Ava alternatives: AiSDR, Apollo.io, RocketSDR
GPT-5.4 miniUnify alternatives: AiSDR, Alta, Qualified Piper, Warmly
Gemini 3.5 FlashArtisan Ava alternatives: 11x, Qualified Piper, Regie.ai
Grok 4.2011x alternatives: AiSDR, Apollo.io, Artisan Ava, Breakout, Intercom
Mistral SmallAmplemarket Duo alternatives: Apollo.io, Artisan Ava
Qwen 3.7 FlashAiSDR alternatives: Amplemarket Duo, Apollo.io, Artisan Ava

Neither was named

4 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Perplexity Sonar11x alternatives: Agent Frank, AiSDR, Artisan Ava, Regie.ai
GLM 4.7 FlashXAiSDR alternatives: Amplemarket Duo, Artisan Ava
GPT-6 LunaAiSDR alternatives: HubSpot Prospecting Agent, Unify
Muse Glimmer 30BArtisan Ava alternatives: 11x.ai — Alice, AiSDR, Amplemarket Duo

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Apollo.io leads by twenty points.
Apollo.io20%#2 of 10
Qualified Piper0%#– of 10
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Apollo.io leads by seventeen points.
Apollo.io19%#2 of 11
Qualified Piper2%#5 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: Qualified Piper leads at enterprise.
Qualified Piper4%#5 of 10
Apollo.io0%#10 of 10
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Apollo.io

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about Qualified Piper

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of four in this category shown.

“If you want the lowest cost to start, pick Qualified.” GPT-5.4 mini · budget prompt · first choice
“If by "prospects" you mainly mean engaging people who visit your website, rather than cold outbound, I'd look at Qualified instead.” GPT-6 Luna · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Choose Qualified (Piper) if your biggest bottleneck is capturing, qualifying, and converting visitors” Gemini 3.5 Flash · comparative prompt · alternative
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.