Agentic Index
11x vs Artisan (2026)
11x and Artisan are the two most prominent AI SDR digital workers, and the practical split is packaging and proof of price. 11x sells Alice for outbound and Jordan for inbound as autonomous sales workers, priced only through sales conversations. Artisan leads with Ava, an AI BDR wrapped in a full outbound platform, with public pricing that starts free and moves through 280 dollar and 660 dollar monthly tiers.
| At a glance | 11x | Artisan |
|---|---|---|
| Category | GTM / revenue agent | GTM / revenue agent |
| Entry price | Contact sales | Free ($0, 300 credits/mo) · Intern $280/mo ($250 annual, 12K credits) · Employee $660/mo ($600 annual, 30K credits) · Enterprise custom · ~10% off annual |
| Free / trial | n/p | n/p |
| Pricing confidence | contact only | public partial |
| Feature |
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11x
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Artisan
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| Action & orchestration | ||
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Knowledge & context | ||
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
Partial | Partial |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
Partial | Partial |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Partial | Unknown / Unspecified |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Partial | Partial |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
| Solution readiness | ||
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Platform extensibility | ||
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
Partial | Partial |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
| Specialist automation | ||
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
| Pricing |
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11x
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Artisan
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Contact sales | Free ($0, 300 credits/mo) · Intern $280/mo ($250 annual, 12K credits) · Employee $660/mo ($600 annual, 30K credits) · Enterprise custom · ~10% off annual |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Public — partial |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
flat | hybrid |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
High variable cost | High variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
No free tier
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Free tierTrial
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | Mixed |
Choose 11x if
- You want both directions covered: Alice runs outbound while Jordan handles inbound response and routing.
- You are replacing a function, not buying a tool, and prefer a vendor that sells the worker framing all the way through.
- Deep testing and memory in our matrix suggest a platform built for sustained autonomous operation.
Choose Artisan if
- You want to see the price before the demo: a free tier and published tiers make Artisan the easier evaluation.
- Credit based pricing lets you start small and scale volume instead of committing to a worker sized contract.
- The consolidated platform, data, sequencing, deliverability, and Ava in one, replaces several point tools at once.