Best AI SDR tools for small teams (2026): 15 compared
The best AI SDR for a small team depends on the job: cold email, LinkedIn, or an AI that runs outreach for you. We compare 15 tools by list price and fit. Ragworks, which publishes this page, is one.
Checked · By Kishore Kannan, Co-Founder & CEO · How we checked
Quick picks
Cold email on a small budget
Instantly or Salesforge: Instantly Growth is $47 a month ($37.6 billed yearly) and Salesforge Pro $48 ($40 billed yearly), both with unlimited mailboxes.
LinkedIn first
Waalaxy: Classic starts at $29 a user a month billed yearly, and Waalaxy AI is $100 a month per LinkedIn account.
An AI SDR that runs the outreach for you
Ragworks AI SDR, AiSDR, Gojiberry, Reply.io or Waalaxy: Gojiberry is $99 a month, Waalaxy AI $100, Ragworks Lite $99 on a 3-month commitment and Reply's Jason Starter $500 billed annually. AiSDR charges $1.50 per person prospected, with no monthly fee.
Contact data and outreach in one tool
Apollo, Snov.io or Amplemarket: Apollo has a free plan, Snov.io Starter is $29.25 a month billed annually, and Amplemarket's Startup plan is $600 a month on an annual term.
A budget for a quote or an annual contract
11x, Nooks or Artisan: 11x Growth is $3,750 a month billed annually, and Nooks and Artisan publish no price and ask you to talk to sales.
Introductions, not outreach
Boardy is free to talk to, and it makes an introduction once both people opt in.
The 15 tools, A to Z
| Tool | What it is | Best for | List price | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11x | AI agents for outbound, inbound and customer expansion1 | Teams with a budget for an annual contract. | Growth from $3,750 a month billed annually: 5 users, 2,000 new prospects a month. Pro and Enterprise are quoted by sales2 | Its pricing card says $3,750 a month and its FAQ $36,000 a year: we used the card2 |
| AiSDR | AI SDR that finds in-market buyers from real-time signals and writes the outreach3 | Teams that want to pay only for the people it prospects. | $1.50 per person prospected, charged daily, no monthly fee. Team plans, for 1,000+ people a month, are quoted at up to 40% lower4 | Its page also shows “from” campaign prices that read differently: we used the per-person price4 |
| Amplemarket | Sales platform with B2B contacts, buying signals and AI agents5 | Small sales teams that want data and sequences in one place and can commit to a year. | Startup $600 a month on an annual term, 2 users included. Growth and Elite are quoted. Every plan has a free trial6 | Users beyond the 2 included are bought separately6 |
| Apollo | AI sales platform with contact data, lead generation and email outreach78 | Teams that want contact data and email sequences first, with a free plan to start on. | Free ($0, 2 sequences, Gmail only). Basic $49 per seat a month billed annually, $65 monthly, with a 14-day trial8 | Every seat on an account is on the same plan, and unused credits expire each billing cycle8 |
| Artisan | AI BDR, Ava, that finds leads, writes the outreach and books meetings for your reps9 | Teams that want a managed rollout and will go through sales. | No price published: plans are scoped to your lead volume, mailboxes and dialer seats, and the page says to talk to sales. Team is sized for about 2,500 leads contacted a month10 | Ava runs email and social; calls are queued for your reps in a dialer, an add-on priced per seat10 |
| Boardy | Warm introductions to investors, customers and hires11 | Founders who want introductions rather than outreach. | Free to talk to Boardy and get introductions. Some extras are paid12 | It makes an introduction once both people opt in11 |
| Gojiberry | AI agent that finds warm leads from buying and social signals and runs the outreach13 | A flat monthly price for an agent that finds and contacts prospects. | $99 a month for Pro: 2 AI agents, up to 1,800 prospects contacted a month, email and social13 | It counts prospects contacted; other tools count contacts, people or leads, so compare what a plan does, not the number13 |
| Instantly | Automated outreach with a B2B lead database, deliverability tools and AI agents14 | Cold email at volume on a small budget. | Growth $47 a month, $37.6 billed yearly: unlimited email accounts and warmup, 1,000 uploaded contacts, 5,000 emails a month15 | Its pricing page lists outreach, credits and VIP plans separately: we show the outreach plan15 |
| lemlist | Outbound platform: verified contacts, signals and outreach on every channel16 | Teams that want email, LinkedIn and calls in one sequence, paid per user. | Multichannel $87 a month per user billed yearly, $109 monthly. Email is $55 billed yearly, $69 monthly17 | Data credits are extra: 2,000 for $16 yearly, $20 monthly17 |
| Nooks | AI agents that dial, sequence and follow up alongside your reps18 | Sales teams with reps who dial, and a budget set by quote. | Not published: its page asks for a quote.19 Vendr, a third party, shows a median contract of $30,105 a year from 59 purchases, from $7,674 to $150,89720 | Vendr's figures are contract values from a listing updated on 6 January 2026, not a price per seat20 |
| Ragworks AI SDR | AI SDR that researches each prospect, writes the message and sends on LinkedIn and email, with an AI sales strategist. How it works | Teams that want one AI SDR across LinkedIn and email, billed in monthly credits. | Lite $99 to Pro $2,999 a month on a 3-month commitment, $149 to $3,999 month to month: about 160 to 10,800 leads a month. Lite has a 7-day free trial for an organization that has never subscribed. Current plans | A lead costs about $0.28 to $0.93: less than AiSDR or 11x, more than flat-priced agents. Cost per prospect compared |
| Reply.io | AI-powered outreach platform with multichannel campaigns and a B2B database21 | Teams that want multichannel sequences, with an AI SDR as an option. | Jason AI SDR: Starter $500 a month billed annually, $800 monthly, for 1,000 active contacts and 2 LinkedIn accounts. Multichannel: $89 a month per user billed annually, $99 monthly22 | Jason's Growth plan is $1,500 billed annually, $2,500 monthly, for 5,000 active contacts22 |
| Salesforge | Cold email and LinkedIn outreach, with an AI SDR called Agent Frank23 | Cold email and LinkedIn on a small budget, with an AI SDR you can add. | Pro $48 a month, $40 billed yearly: unlimited email senders, 1 LinkedIn sender, 1,000 active contacts, 5,000 emails a month. Growth $96, $80 billed yearly, with a 14-day free trial24 | Agent Frank is listed apart from the plans: $599 a month billed quarterly24 |
| Snov.io | Lead finder with verified emails and phone numbers, plus cold outreach automation25 | Teams that want lead data and cold email on tiered plans. | Starter $29.25 a month billed annually, $39 monthly: 1,000 credits, 5,000 recipients, unlimited team seats26 | LinkedIn is extra: $62 a month per account billed annually, $69 monthly26 |
| Waalaxy | LinkedIn and email outreach automation; Waalaxy AI writes each message and handles the conversations2728 | LinkedIn-first outreach, from a classic tool or an AI agent. | Waalaxy AI: $100 a month per LinkedIn account, $80 on a launch offer, 800 prospects a month28. Classic: $29 to $90 a user a month billed yearly, $59 to $179 monthly29 | It shows euros or dollars by country: we read dollars29 |
Prices are USD list prices a month, as each vendor states them; taxes and negotiated terms are not included. “Billed yearly” is the per-month price when paid once a year. The tools are in alphabetical order, not ranked. For the cost per prospect of the AI SDRs, see AI SDR pricing compared.
Frequently asked questions
It depends on the job. For cold email on a small budget, Instantly ($47 a month, $37.6 billed yearly) and Salesforge ($48, $40 billed yearly) are two low-priced options. For LinkedIn, Waalaxy. For an AI that runs the outreach for you, Gojiberry is $99 a month, AiSDR charges $1.50 per person prospected, and Ragworks AI SDR starts at $99 a month on a 3-month commitment. 11x, Nooks and Artisan sell by quote or annual contract and suit bigger budgets.
Apollo, Instantly, Salesforge, Snov.io, lemlist, Waalaxy, Gojiberry, AiSDR, Reply.io and Ragworks publish list prices on their pricing pages. Amplemarket publishes its Startup plan only, and 11x its Growth plan only. Nooks and Artisan publish no price and ask for a quote. Boardy is free to talk to.
AI SDR list prices run from $99 a month (Gojiberry) to $3,750 a month on an annual contract (11x). Waalaxy AI is $100 a month, Ragworks Lite $99 to $149, and AiSDR $1.50 per person prospected. Apollo has a free plan for contact data and email sequences. The units differ from tool to tool, so read the pricing comparison before you compare.
We publish this page, so read it as our view. The tools are in alphabetical order, not ranked, and each row says who the tool fits. Another tool fits better when you want cold email at volume on a small budget (Instantly or Salesforge), a flat monthly price (Gojiberry) or a per-person price with no monthly fee (AiSDR).
A cold email tool sends and tracks the emails you write to the contacts you load. An AI SDR also finds and researches prospects, writes each message and handles replies. The line is blurring: Instantly and Salesforge list an AI SDR beside their sending tools, and Apollo adds an AI assistant to its data and sequences.
The date at the top is the last day we read any page for this list, and the table in How we checked gives the date of each page. We read them again each month. Vendors change prices without notice, so check a vendor's own page before you buy.
How we checkedeach tool's own homepage and pricing page, and one third-party page, 29 sources, read 4 November 2026
- Written by
- Ragworks, so from our side: Ragworks AI SDR is one of the 15 tools. We list the tools in alphabetical order and do not rank them. Read “Quick picks” and the “Best for” column with that in mind.
- Chosen
- The nine tools in our competitive analysis of 29 October 2026, five more that AI answers and search results name for “best AI SDR tools” (Amplemarket, Apollo, Artisan, Instantly and Salesforge), and Ragworks AI SDR.
- Small team
- A few people selling, who buy with a card on a monthly or yearly plan rather than through a negotiated contract. A tool that sells by quote or on an annual contract is marked as such, not left out.
- Read
- Each tool's homepage and pricing page. We read the nine earlier tools' prices on 3 November 2026 for our pricing comparison, and every homepage and the five added tools' pages on 4 November 2026; the table below gives each page's date. A figure we could not read again is not here.
- Not run
- We report list prices and what each tool says about itself. We ran none of the products, and where this page says a tool describes something, that is what its own pages say.
- Prices
- USD list prices; every vendor changes them. Where a page shows an annual and a monthly view we give both. Waalaxy shows euros or dollars by country: we read dollars. 11x's pricing card says $3,750 a month billed annually, its FAQ $36,000 a year: we used the card. Nooks publishes no price, so its figures are a third party's.
| # | Page | Label | Checked | Used for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | www.11x.ai/ | vendor page | What 11x says it is | |
| 2 | www.11x.ai/ | vendor page | Growth price, users and prospects, other tiers, FAQ | |
| 3 | www.aisdr.com/ | vendor page | What AiSDR says it is | |
| 4 | aisdr.com/ | vendor page | Price per person, Team plans | |
| 5 | www.amplemarket.com/ | vendor page | What Amplemarket says it is | |
| 6 | www.amplemarket.com/ | vendor page | Startup price, users included, free trial, other plans | |
| 7 | www.apollo.io/ | vendor page | What Apollo says it is | |
| 8 | www.apollo.io/ | vendor page | Free and Basic plans in both billing views, trial, seats, credits | |
| 9 | www.artisan.co/ | vendor page | What Artisan says it is and the channels it works | |
| 10 | www.artisan.co/ | vendor page | No price published, plan sizes, dialer add-on | |
| 11 | www.boardy.ai/ | vendor page | What Boardy says it is, how introductions work | |
| 12 | www.boardy.ai/ | vendor page | Free introductions, paid extras | |
| 13 | gojiberry.ai/ | vendor page | What Gojiberry says it is, Pro price, prospects contacted a month | |
| 14 | instantly.ai/ | vendor page | What Instantly says it is | |
| 15 | instantly.ai/ | vendor page | Growth plan in both billing views, limits, the plan tabs | |
| 16 | www.lemlist.com/ | vendor page | What lemlist says it is and the channels it works | |
| 17 | www.lemlist.com/ | vendor page | Email and Multichannel prices, data credits | |
| 18 | www.nooks.ai/ | vendor page | What Nooks says it is | |
| 19 | www.nooks.ai/ | vendor page | No price published, quote only | |
| 20 | www.vendr.com/ | third party | Nooks contract range (59 purchases, entries updated 6 January 2026) | |
| 21 | reply.io/ | vendor page | What Reply says it is | |
| 22 | reply.io/ | vendor page | Jason and Multichannel prices, contacts | |
| 23 | www.salesforge.ai/ | vendor page | What Salesforge says it is, its AI SDR | |
| 24 | www.salesforge.ai/ | vendor page | Pro and Growth prices in both billing views, free trial, Agent Frank price | |
| 25 | snov.io/ | vendor page | What Snov.io says it is | |
| 26 | snov.io/ | vendor page | Starter price, credits, seats, LinkedIn account price | |
| 27 | www.waalaxy.com/ | vendor page | What Waalaxy says it is | |
| 28 | www.waalaxy.com/ | vendor page | Waalaxy AI: what it does, price, prospects a month | |
| 29 | www.waalaxy.com/ | vendor page | Waalaxy Classic prices by plan |
