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September 2026 Edition, published September 15, 2026 · The permanent record of that edition, superseded since. The current standing is on the category page →
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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 company. 55 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
24%
Contested · Artisan Ava 24%
24Apollo.io24Artisan Ava18AiSDR35others

24% of first choices, contested.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Apollo.io24%0%33accepted challenger
02Artisan Ava24%26%53criticized challenger
03AiSDR18%7%42accepted challenger
04Regie.ai5%11%19accepted challenger
05Amplemarket Duo4%9%11accepted challenger
06Instantly4%20%10accepted challenger
07Agent Frank2%0%10accepted challenger
08Salesforge Agent Frank2%14%14accepted challenger
09Qualified Piper2%7%14accepted challenger
1011x2%50%38criticized challenger
Show the two products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
11Reply.io Jason0%6%16accepted challenger
12Clay0%0%13accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
All twenty-eight head-to-head pages: the top eight products, each against each

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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01Apollo.io24%
02Artisan Ava24%
03AiSDR18%
04Regie.ai5%
05Amplemarket Duo4%
06Instantly4%
07Agent Frank2%
08Salesforge Agent Frank2%
09Qualified Piper2%
1011x2%
11Reply.io Jason0%
12Clay0%

What they warned about

Three of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.20, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. 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.
11x
50%
19 of 38 labels negative · 13 of 12 models · 10 hard negative
“11x had been listing companies as customers that were not customers, with ZoomInfo's lawyer threatening legal action” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
Artisan Ava
26%
14 of 53 labels negative · 11 of 12 models · 9 hard negative
“Artisan faced platform-level enforcement including a LinkedIn ban ... Artisan reviews and third-party reports document concerns around zero quality leads despite high outreach volume” Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt
AiSDR
7%
3 of 42 labels negative · 3 of 12 models
“they appear more specialized and less universally established than Apollo or Qualified” GPT-5.4 mini, direct prompt
Instantly
20%
2 of 10 labels negative · 2 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Avoid if you want an *agent* that thinks and responds; this is just a high-volume sender.” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt

What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

80 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1068 links across 262 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · Salesforge42 answers · 67 citations · 13 models
vendor site · Artisan40 answers · 57 citations · 12 models
vendor site · ZoomInfo26 answers · 46 citations · 10 models
vendor site · AiSDR23 answers · 43 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Amplemarket23 answers · 27 citations · 9 models
20 answers · 20 citations · 11 models
vendor site · 11x19 answers · 29 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Coldreach19 answers · 21 citations · 10 models
16 answers · 27 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Dashly16 answers · 24 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Salesmotion15 answers · 17 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Instantly15 answers · 16 citations · 7 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.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “ai sdr agent”, “best ai sdr agent”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
Apollo.io apollo.io24%100033,100396111,60894
Artisan Ava artisan.co24%132170649,821$2666
AiSDR aisdr.com
AiSDR 18%, AiSDR Solo 2%
20%11288038,41805
RegieGO regie.ai
Regie.ai 5%, RegieGO 2%
7%6059001,9880
Amplemarket Duo amplemarket.com4%2520012,06787
Instantly instantly.ai4%10674,00087,94459,881$98617
Agent Frank2%210152
Salesforge Agent Frank salesforge.ai2%36100119,383191
Qualified Piper qualified.com2%36170424,264$23173
HubSpot parent site
HubSpot Prospecting Agent 2%
2%11368,0009,776

Google's top ten for the two searches hold 15 sites; 4 of them are among the sites the models cited here (aisdr.com, amplemarket.com, coldreach.ai, salesforge.ai). The first result for “ai sdr agent” is therankmasters.com.

How 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.
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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 Haiku 4.5Artisan Ava
Four alternativesJeeva, Persana AI, RocketSDR, Salesloft Rhythm
Apollo.io, HubSpot Prospecting AgentChanged
Four alternativesAiSDR, Artisan Ava, Reply.io Jason, ZoomInfo Copilot
11x
Four alternativesAiSDR, Artisan Ava, Breakout, Piper
Apollo.io
Three alternativesAiSDR, Instantly, Reply.io Jason
no first choiceagainst: 11x, Artisan Ava
GPT-5.4 miniApollo.io, Qualified Piper
One alternativeSalesforce Agentforce SDR
against: AiSDR, Clara, Luru, SalesMonk
Apollo.ioChanged
Four alternativesAiSDR, B2B Rocket, Qualified Piper, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
11x, Artisan Ava
Eight alternativesAgent Frank, Apollo.io, Conversica, Piper, Qualified Piper, Regie.ai, RegieGO, Salesforge Agent Frank
Regie.ai
One alternativeApollo.io
against: 11x, Artisan Ava
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashAmplemarket Duo
Six alternatives11x, Artisan Ava, Clay, HubSpot Prospecting Agent, Piper, Topo.io
Amplemarket DuoHeld
Three alternatives11x, Artisan Ava, Clay
no first choice
Six alternatives11x, AiSDR, Amplemarket Duo, Artisan Ava, Clay, Unify
Instantly
Six alternativesAgent Frank, Apollo.io, Clay, Jeeva, Lindy, Valley
against: 11x, Artisan Ava
no first choiceagainst: 11x, Artisan Ava, Firstquadrant
Perplexity SonarApollo.io
Three alternativesAiSDR, Amplemarket Duo, Regie.ai
Artisan Ava, ZoomInfo GTM WorkspaceChanged
One alternativeApollo.io
no first choiceagainst: Reply.io JasonAiSDR
Two alternativesApollo.io, Artisan Ava
against: Instanly Copilot
no first choicenothing named
Grok 4.20AiSDR, Artisan Ava
Three alternativesApollo.io, Conversica, Reply.io Jason
Apollo.ioChanged
One alternativeReply.io Jason
AiSDR
Seven alternatives11x, Amplemarket Duo, Artisan Ava, Jazon, Regie.ai, Salesforce Agentforce SDR, Salesforge Agent Frank
AiSDR
Five alternativesApollo.io, Artisan Ava, Humanlinker, Reply.io Jason, Salesforge Agent Frank
against: 11x, Instantly, Topo.io
no first choiceagainst: 11x, Artisan Ava, Drift
Mistral SmallArtisan Ava, Regie.ai
One alternativeConversica
Apollo.io, OutreachChanged
One alternativeHubSpot Sales Hub
against: Gong
no first choiceAiSDRno first choiceagainst: 11x, Amplemarket Duo, Artisan Ava, Coldreach, Salesforge Agent Frank, Warmly
DeepSeek V4 FlashArtisan Ava
Two alternativesAiSDR, Clay
against: 11x
Artisan AvaHeld
Three alternativesAmplemarket Duo, Dashly, Salesforge Agent Frank
Agent Frank
Seven alternatives11x, AiSDR, Artisan Ava, Chase AI, Coldreach, HubSpot Prospecting Agent, Regie.ai
AiSDR
Three alternativesArtisan Ava, OpenClaw, Salesforge Agent Frank
no first choiceagainst: 11x, Artisan Ava
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceSalesloft RhythmChanged
Two alternativesAgentforce Sales, CallPrep
no first choiceApollo.io
Two alternativesAgent Frank, AiSDR
no first choiceagainst: 11x, Artisan Ava
Qwen 3.7 FlashSalesforge Agent Frank
Three alternativesApollo.io, Clay, ZoomInfo Copilot
Artisan AvaChanged
Two alternativesApollo.io, Jason AI
Outcraft AI, Qualified Piper
One alternativeReply.io Jason
Apollo.io
Three alternativesCellCog, Humanlinker, Snov.io
11x, AiSDR, Artisan Avaagainst: Salesforce Outplayagainst: 11x, AiSDR, Instantly, Outreach, Regie.ai, Salesloft Rhythm, Smartlead
Kimi K2Apollo.io
Four alternativesAiSDR, Artisan Ava, Regie.ai, ZoomInfo Copilot
Apollo.ioHeld
One alternativeReply.io Jason
against: 11x, Artisan Ava
no first choiceagainst: AiSDR, Regie.aiApollo.io, Regie.ai
One alternativeSmartlead
against: 11x, Artisan Ava, Qualified Piper
Artisan Ava
Three alternatives11x, Regie.ai, Salesforce Agentforce SDR
against: 11x, Artisan Ava
GLM 4.7 FlashXLaxis AI SDR
Four alternatives11x Alice, AiSDR, Amplemarket Duo, Reply.io Jason
Agent FrankChanged
Three alternativesAiSDR, Artisan Ava, Reply.io Jason
Artisan Ava
Three alternatives11x, Agent Frank, AiSDR
RegieGO
Two alternativesAiSDR, Jeeva
no first choiceagainst: 11x, Artisan Ava
MiniMax M2.5AiSDR, Artisan Ava
Three alternativesColdreach, Reply.io Jason, ZoomInfo Copilot
AiSDRChanged
Three alternativesAgent Frank, Chase AI, Salesforge Agent Frank
11x, AiSDR, Artisan Ava
Three alternativesAgent Frank, Apollo.io, Chase AI
Apollo.io, Instantly
Three alternativesAiSDR, AutoRev AI, Lindy
no first choiceagainst: 11x, Artisan Ava
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The 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
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 13:12yes109 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:50yes34 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 13:24yes2429 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 07:49yes203 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 12:57yes229 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 09:34yes52 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 11:16yes2136 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 11:30yes54 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 10:19yes537 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 11:30yes1014 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:07yes2524 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 13:35yes516 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 08:38yes98 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 09:26yes55 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 07:49yes1424 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 12:17yes193 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 13:12yes237 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 12:01yes57 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 07:48yes2330 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 13:32yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 12:14yes1037 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:51yes1526 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 13:42yes1558 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 12:31yes1446 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 08:23yes98 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 12:41yes89 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 09:29yes2028 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 11:58yes206 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 11:36yes2115 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 10:17yes88 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:59yes2439 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 11:27yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 08:28yes958 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 11:01yes2033 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 10:54yes2240 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 11:32yes918 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 13:57yes98 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 10:10yes45 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 13:41yes1623 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 07:24yes193 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 12:07yes258 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 10:48yes52 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:13yes2525 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:44yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 08:59yes1023 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:00yes2025 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 12:48yes1414 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 11:17yes1117 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 08:21no06 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 07:57no08 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 08:01no017 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 13:53yes209 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 12:27yes198 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 10:36no08 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 07:26yes2353 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 12:21yes51 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:17yes941 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 11:47yes1427 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 12:16yes2540 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 07:53yes520 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 12:46yes1712 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 11:19yes46 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 12:42yes2229 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 08:49yes193 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 11:01yes176 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 12:27yes54 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:26yes2430 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:32yes52 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 13:35yes523 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 11:56yes2525 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 13:23yes2368 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 10:05yes1422 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
Amplemarket read as Amplemarket Duo
Amplemarket (Duo Copilot) read as Amplemarket Duo
Amplemarket (Duo) read as Amplemarket Duo
Amplemarket's Duo Copilot read as Amplemarket Duo
Artisan read as Artisan Ava
Artisan (Ava AI BDR) read as Artisan Ava
Artisan (Ava AI SDR) read as Artisan Ava
Artisan (Ava) read as Artisan Ava
Artisan AI (Ava) read as Artisan Ava
Artisan AI (agent "Ava") read as Artisan Ava
HubSpot Breeze read as HubSpot Prospecting Agent
Instantly Copilot read as Instantly
Qualified read as Qualified Piper
Qualified (Piper) read as Qualified Piper
Reply read as Reply.io Jason
Reply (Jason AI) read as Reply.io Jason
Reply.Io read as Reply.io Jason
Reply.io read as Reply.io Jason
Reply.io (Jason AI) read as Reply.io Jason
Reply.io (Jason) read as Reply.io Jason
Salesforce Agentforce read as Salesforce Agentforce SDR
Salesforge read as Salesforge Agent Frank
Salesforge (Agent Frank) read as Salesforge Agent Frank
Salesforge — Agent Frank read as Salesforge Agent Frank
Salesforge's Agent Frank read as Salesforge Agent Frank
Salesloft read as Salesloft Rhythm
ZoomInfo read as ZoomInfo Copilot
Unresolved, counted raw
Actively
Agentforce Sales
Anthropic (via agents)
AutoRev
AutoRev AI
Bland.ai
CallPrep
DealCrush
Firstquadrant
Funkel AI
Instanly Copilot
Laxis AI SDR
Luru
Outcraft AI
Persana AI Nia
Reply's Jason AI
RocketSDR
SalesMonk
Salesforce Outplay
Valley
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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