# AI SDR agents for enterprise buyers: 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 an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/sales/ai-sdr-agents/enterprise

**Standing:** 11x leads with 25% of first choices; verdict contested. 48 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [11x](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/11x/index.md) | 25% | 31% | 45 |
| 2 | [Artisan Ava](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/artisan-ava/index.md) | 23% | 22% | 49 |
| 3 | [Regie.ai](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/regie-ai/index.md) | 12% | 26% | 31 |
| 5 | [Salesforce Agentforce SDR](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/salesforce-agentforce-sdr/index.md) | 4% | 21% | 33 |
| 6 | [Qualified Piper](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/qualified-piper/index.md) | 4% | 10% | 20 |
| 7 | [Outreach](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/outreach/index.md) | 4% | 23% | 13 |
| 9 | [AiSDR](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/aisdr/index.md) | 4% | 44% | 25 |
| 10 | [Amplemarket Duo](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/amplemarket-duo/index.md) | 2% | 18% | 11 |
| 16 | [Clay](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/clay/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 10 |
| 17 | [Apollo.io](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/apollo-io/index.md) | 0% | 25% | 16 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 75 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: 11x; alternatives Artisan Ava, Qualified Piper, Regie.ai
- GPT-5.4 mini: Qualified Piper; alternatives Alta, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Regie.ai; alternatives 11x, Artisan Ava, Clay, Qualified Piper
- Perplexity Sonar: 11x; alternatives Artisan Ava, Regie.ai, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
- Grok 4.20: 11x; alternatives Artisan Ava, Salesforge Agent Frank
- Mistral Small: 11x; alternatives Amplemarket Duo, Artisan Ava, Qualified Piper
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: 11x; alternatives Artisan Ava, Landbase, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
- Llama 4 Maverick: 11x; alternatives Agentplace, Amplemarket Duo, Artisan Ava, Qualified Piper
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: 11x; alternatives Artisan Ava, Landbase
- Kimi K2: 11x; alternatives Artisan Ava, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Artisan Ava; alternatives 11x, AiSDR, Regie.ai, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
- MiniMax M2.5: 11x; alternatives Artisan Ava
- GPT-6 Luna: Artisan Ava; alternatives 11x Alice, Agentforce for Sales Development, Qualified Piper
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 11x Alice, Artisan Ava; alternatives Regie.ai, Salesforce Agentforce SDR

## Sources the answers cite

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

- artisan.co: 36 answers, 52 citations
- instantly.ai: 23 answers, 36 citations
- getbreakout.ai: 22 answers, 23 citations
- gane.ai/index: 22 answers, 22 citations
- albato.com: 17 answers, 17 citations
- github.com: 16 answers, 17 citations
- salesforge.ai: 15 answers, 19 citations
- amplemarket.com: 14 answers, 14 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://gane.ai/index/gtm/sales/ai-sdr-agents/enterprise (22 answers)
- https://albato.com/blog/publications/best-ai-sdr-tools (17 answers)
- https://artisan.co/blog/best-ai-sdr-enterprise-sales-teams (16 answers)
- https://amplemarket.com/blog/best-ai-sales-agents (14 answers)
- https://artisan.co/blog/the-best-ai-sdrs (13 answers)
- https://salesforge.ai/blog/ai-sales-agents (13 answers)
- https://getvoip.com/ai-sdr-agents (11 answers)
- https://github.com/Salesably/awesome-ai-agents-for-sales (11 answers)
- https://latenode.com/blog/ai-agents-for-sales (11 answers)
- https://agentmarketplace.ai/ai-sdr-agents (10 answers)

## Warned against

- 11x: 14 of 45 labels negative. "11x / Alice: Highest caution. Public reporting and industry commentary have raised concerns about customer churn, credibility of customer claims, opaque annual-contract pricing" (Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt)
- Artisan Ava: 11 of 49 labels negative. "What to Avoid for Your Use Case: - Artisan (Ava): Credit-based usage model ... not designed for thousands of concurrent users." (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- AiSDR: 11 of 25 labels negative. "What to Avoid ... AiSDR / Salesforge: SMB/mid-market focus; not built for enterprise scale." (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- Salesforce Agentforce SDR: 7 of 33 labels negative. "Avoid seat-priced platforms for this requirement — tools such as Regie.ai and Salesforce Agentforce can become expensive" (Perplexity Sonar, budget prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
New leader: Artisan Ava (22%) to 11x (25%). Margin 2 points, within noise.

- 11x: 16% to 25%, +9. Inside the floor by 2 points · rank 2 → 1 of 75.
- Regie.ai: 6% to 12%, +6. Inside the floor by 5 points · rank 4 → 3 of 75.
- Outreach: 8% to 4%, −4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 3 → 7 of 75.
- Reply.io Jason: 4% to 0%, −4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 7 → 25 of 75.
- Salesforce Agentforce SDR: 2% to 4%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 10 → 5 of 75.
- Qualified Piper: 2% to 4%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 9 → 6 of 75.
- Salesloft Rhythm: 2% to 4%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 11 → 8 of 75.
- AiSDR: 6% to 4%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 5 → 9 of 75.
- Amplemarket Duo: 4% to 2%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 6 → 10 of 75.
- Clay: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 12 → 16 of 75.
- Artisan Ava: 22% to 23%, +1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 1 → 2 of 75.
- Apollo.io: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 23 → 17 of 75.

## 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.