AI SDR agents
Asked as “AI SDR agent”, and as “AI sales development tool that prospects and books meetings”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B software company. 46 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, six models each.
01The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all six models, for a mid-market B2B software company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.
Recommended versus criticized
Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.
Criticized challengerCriticized default
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11Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
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Key
01Apollo.io20%
Apollo.io20%02Artisan13%
Artisan13%03Amplemarket11%
Amplemarket11%04Salesforge4%
Salesforge4%05AiSDR2%
AiSDR2%06Reply.io2%
Reply.io2%07Agent Frank2%
Agent Frank2%08Qualified2%
Qualified2%09Clay0%
Clay0%10Regie.ai0%
Regie.ai0%1111x0%
11x0%02What they warned about
A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
11x53%
23 of 43 labels negative · 10 of 6 models · 9 hard negative
“**11x.ai** targets enterprise buyers with opaque pricing ... users reporting 75 to 90% churn at 3 months, with multiple accounts of "zero results" despite extensive setup.” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
Artisan42%
15 of 36 labels negative · 8 of 6 models · 7 hard negative
“Avoid fully autonomous AI SDRs with annual lock-in contracts, no trials, and documented quality problems (Artisan, 11x.ai especially)” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
AiSDR11%
4 of 37 labels negative · 4 of 6 models · 1 hard negative
“**AiSDR** - Platform compliance issues, quality degradation at scale” Mistral Small, negative prompt
Regie.ai15%
2 of 13 labels negative · 2 of 6 models · 1 hard negative
“**Regie.ai** — Moderate Risk | **High Minimum Commitment** | $35K/year floor prices out smaller teams” Kimi K2, negative prompt
03What they cite
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: four of the six in this edition.
Sites the answers cite
22 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 4 of 6 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 193 links across 106 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. The other 2 models searched through a gateway that returned no source list on this edition.
vendor site · Salesforge9 answers · 9 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Amplemarket8 answers · 8 citations · 2 models
vendor site · 11x6 answers · 7 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Artisan6 answers · 6 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Saleshandy6 answers · 6 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Salesmotion5 answers · 8 citations · 2 models
4 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Fin.ai3 answers · 3 citations · 2 models
3 answers · 3 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Monday.com3 answers · 3 citations · 1 model
vendor site · SyncGTM3 answers · 3 citations · 2 models
2 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
Pages the answers cite
The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.
8 answers · 2 models
5 answers · 2 models
4 answers · 2 models
4 answers · 2 models
4 answers · 2 models
3 answers · 2 models
3 answers · 2 models
3 answers · 1 model
3 answers · 2 models
2 answers · 2 models
04How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ModelDirect“What is the best AI SDR agent for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which AI sales development tool that prospects and books meetings would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top AI SDR agents and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best AI SDR agent for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating an AI SDR agent. What should we look at?”Negative“Which AI SDR agents should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Opus 5no first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Claude Opus 4.8no first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
GPT-6 Astrano first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
GPT-5.6 Solno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.1 Prono first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Perplexity Sonar Prono first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against
05The record
One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Zero rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
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Normalization in this category
Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.
Category-scoped readings
None. Every name in this category resolved on its own.
Unresolved, counted raw
"ChatGPT Wrapper" SDRs
APIS
AiSDR Explore
Apollo/Reply.io AI Features
Buzz
HubSpot Breeze AI
Instantly\u2019s Reply Agents
Nexus
Outreach AI
RocketSDR
SalesPlay
Salesloft Rhythm
useArtemis
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.