Artisan AI Alternatives

First, what Ava does — because it does a lot.

Ava finds B2B leads in Artisan’s 250M+ contact database. She enriches them, sends personalized email and social outreach, handles replies and books meetings for your reps.

She sends in your reps’ names, from your own domains.

For a B2B team selling to companies, that’s a strong package.

People look for Artisan alternatives for three reasons:

• Price — self-serve plans start at $280 a month, and team plans are “talk to sales”
• Buyers — your customers are local businesses, not job titles in a database
• Control — Ava is autonomous by default (you can turn on approval)

Artisan’s real price

The self-serve prices only show on the “Startups” tab of the pricing page. The default tab shows team plans scoped by sales.

Every new account starts with a 30-day trial: 10K credits, no card. It’s one trial per company. If you don’t add a card, the account drops to Free and campaigns pause.

A human power dialer is extra: $75 per seat a month.

The short answer

Prices from each vendor’s own site, checked November 9, 2026.

What 500 leads a month costs

Same job on each — reach about 500 people in a month. Monthly billing, from each vendor’s published prices:

This is our math on their published prices, not a quote. Check the vendor’s page at your real volume before you buy.

Each alternative, honestly

11x (Alice)

The enterprise pick. Alice is 11x’s AI outbound SDR: prospecting, live research, and outreach across email and social. 11x also has voice agents and a power dialer.

The footer says it’s “for the world’s largest companies.” There’s no public price; you book a demo.

Pick it if you’re a large revenue team and want voice plus outbound in one platform.

AiSDR

The pay-as-you-go pick. AiSDR’s agent finds in-market buyers from live signals and runs email and LinkedIn outreach — connection requests, DMs, InMails and voice notes.

No monthly fee, no free plan. You can build and test campaigns before you pay; the paywall only shows when you launch.

Pick it if you sell B2B, want to start small and don’t want a contract.

Instantly

The volume pick. Unlimited sending accounts, warmup, a big lead database, a CRM and AI agents for replies.

Outreach Growth is $47 a month for 5,000 emails and 1,000 uploaded contacts.

Pick it if you already know who to email and need deliverability at scale.

Apollo.io

The database-and-sequences pick. A 240M-contact database with email sequences, a dialer and enrichment.

The free plan stays free with no time limit: 75 credits per seat a month, 2 sequences, Gmail only.

Pick it if you want the data and the tools, and you’ll do the writing yourself.

AI Hustle Team

The local-business pick. No database. An AI team that works on its own cloud computer with a real browser you can watch.

It searches Google Maps and the web, opens each business’s website and checks the detail that matters. Then it writes one personal email per business — or writes through the contact form when there’s no email.

It follows up, drafts replies in your voice and proposes call times. It asks before the first send, and can wait for your OK on every one.

Database leads vs local leads

Here’s where the two approaches split.

A database is great at this: “Heads of Marketing at US software companies with 50–200 people.”

It struggles with this: “Family-owned dental clinics in Austin that can’t book online.” Many of them have no email listed. Just a form.

Half that list only has a contact form.

So AI Hustle Team opens the site in its own browser and writes through the form:

The follow-ups

Busy owners miss the first message. AI Hustle Team follows up on a schedule you set:

1. Day 0First message

   Email or contact form, with one real detail.

2. Day 3Quick bump

   “Floating this up — worth a look?”

3. Day 7New angle

   One more reason, one more question.

4. Day 14Close the loop

   “I’ll stop here — reply anytime.”

When someone answers, it drafts the reply and proposes two call times — for your OK.

Which should you pick

Where AI Hustle Team is not the best pick

• You sell to job titles at mid-size and large companies — Artisan or Apollo find them faster
• You want cold calling — it doesn’t make calls; Artisan has a power dialer and 11x has voice agents
• You need LinkedIn DMs and InMails at scale — AiSDR is built for that
• You run a large SDR team with contracts and seats — 11x or Artisan’s team plans fit better

Where it fits: you sell to local and small businesses, and you want the list, the research, the emails, the contact forms, the follow-ups and the reply drafts done in one place.

Free plan with no card. Founding prices: Pro $29/mo, All-in-One $97/mo, Scale $297/mo. Cancel anytime.

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