Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 8 → 20 of 66
8 categories · RankedInstantly
114Judge labels
12First choices
17Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
8Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10-05.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
5% in Email deliverability for small business buyers
Rank 6 of 77 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 20% of its 10 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Instantly →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business22 of 74
0%12 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market6 of 77
4%10 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise27 of 77
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
In ai sdr · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Instantly for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI SDR agents | Sales | 4% | 6 of 77 | 20% | 10 | accepted challenger | ▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Sales engagement platforms | Sales | 2% | 5 of 66 | 8% | 12 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Email deliverability and testing tools | Marketing | 2% | 14 of 110 | 14% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by GlockApps at 34% | |
| Email verification | GTM data and infrastructure | 0% | 20 of 65 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by ZeroBounce at 42% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Email marketing platforms | Marketing | 0% | 23 of 66 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by HubSpot Marketing Hub at 35% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| AI marketing agents | Marketing | 0% | 132 of 157 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by HubSpot Breeze at 24% | |
| Lead routing and management | Sales | 0% | 45 of 111 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by LeadAngel at 26% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Value selling tools | Sales | 0% | 83 of 116 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Minoa at 21% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Instantly held within the floor in all eight categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · AI SDR · by segment
Mid-market▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 43 → 6 of 70
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 44 → 29 of 69
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI SDR | 0% | 4% | ▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 43 → 6 of 77 |
| Email deliverability | 0% | 2% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. | New this edition | Rank 14 of 110, unchanged |
| Sales engagement | 2% | 2% | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 6 → 5 of 66 |
| Email verification | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 33 → 20 of 65 |
| Email marketing | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 23 of 66, unchanged |
| AI marketing agents | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 132 of 157, unchanged |
| Lead routing | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 78 → 45 of 111 |
| Value selling | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 83 of 116, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Instantly across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Instantly across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct21 labels5
Paraphrase5 labelsNone
Comparative14 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained38 labels7
Scale-constrained6 labelsNone
Negative30 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative114 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 14 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Starts at $47/month flat... Instantly lets you connect unlimited email accounts, includes free automated warm-up, and offers modular AI agents” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI SDR · budget prompt · first choice
“Apollo or Instantly as your starting point - both offer generous free tiers and affordable entry plans” MiniMax M2.5 · AI SDR · budget prompt · first choice
“The sweet spot for most mid-market B2B companies: Instantly if you need an outreach platform” Kimi K2 · Email deliverability · direct prompt · first choice
“look toward modern "unlimited mailbox" platforms (like Smartlead, Instantly, or Salesforge)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Sales engagement · negative prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Avoid if you want an *agent* that thinks and responds; this is just a high-volume sender.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · AI SDR · negative prompt · hard negative
“Instantly was described by one Reddit user as "trash" and "an absolute scam" for warmup” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Email deliverability · negative prompt · hard negative
“a stack like Instantly.ai (~$30/mo) + open-source LLMs for basic personalization, but lacks full autonomy” Grok 4.1 Fast · AI SDR · budget prompt · soft negative
“user sentiment has shifted negatively due to hidden costs and technical instability” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Sales engagement · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Instantly, over the 114 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Instantly was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Instantly, over the 114 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Instantly was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Instantly. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 106 of the 114 answers that named Instantly and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
amplemarket.com37
salesforge.ai36
instantly.aiYour site34
g2.com26
prospeo.io24
blog.hubspot.com23
overloop.com22
pipeline.zoominfo.com22
saleshandy.com22
artisan.co21
233 of the 267 domain citations in answers naming Instantly came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
instantly.ai is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Instantly takes 4% of first choices and Apollo.io takes 24%.ShowHide
Search and answers
instantly.ai is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Instantly takes 4% of first choices and Apollo.io takes 24%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “ai sdr agent”
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not in the top ten
Position for “best ai sdr agent”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 74,000 a month (“instantly”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 87,944 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 59,881 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 12,984 · 305 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 6,570
- Paid Google search
- 3 searches its ads show for, about 70 clicks and $986 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 6 of 77 in AI SDR
Segment leader
24%
Apollo.io
- First choices
- 12 across its categories
- Named in
- 114 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 106 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on instantly.ai
2,528
subdomains included
Content
1,436
counted in the table below
Documentation
549
Product · Integration
0 · 39
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,234 | 35 | 2026-09-28 | CRM, Scheduling | |
| Comparison | 119 | 14 | 2026-09-14 | CRM, Scheduling | |
| Glossary or explainer | 41 | 4 | 2026-08-27 | Enrichment | |
| Template or tool | 22 | 3 | 2026-08-11 | CRM, Scheduling | |
| Case study | 6 | 0 | 2026-05-25 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 6 | 1 | 2026-09-04 | ||
| Report or ebook | 5 | 0 | 2026-02-24 | ||
| Podcast or video | 2 | 0 | 2025-05-07 | ||
| News or press | 1 | 0 | 2022-09-20 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Ai for manual data entry blog
- 2026-09-25Prioritize sales leads with ai blog
- 2026-09-24Ai prompts for sales prospecting blog
- 2026-09-22Ai sales agents for sales enablement programs blog
- 2026-09-21Best time to send cold email blog
- 2026-09-17Respond to sales leads faster blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page instantly.ai exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name CRM (54); 11 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Instantly
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Instantly; a claim can dispute any of them.
Instantly.ai 11Instantly Copilot 2Instantly / Smartlead 1
Follow Instantly
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Instantly.ShowHide
The company
Instantly.
ShowHideOn record
Wikidata- Website
- instantly.ai
- Founded
- 2019
Fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata · Crunchbase
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Sales Engagement and Lead Intelligence
- For
- sales teams
- Price stated
- Pricing built for businesses of all sizes. Always know what you’ll pay. instantly.ai/pricing
- Starting price
- 47 instantly.ai/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Start free today instantly.ai
- Customers named
- Video Business MasteryForge StrategyThree Red BoxesProspectr DigitalRev AscensionContent Marketing MediaEmail Outreach CompanyCold Labs
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, hosting
What Instantly's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: instantly.ai, instantly.ai/pricing, trust.instantly.ai, instantly.ai/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Instantly's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Instantly, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Instantly by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Instantly is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Instantly, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.