Agentic Index
AiSDR vs Artisan (2026)
AiSDR and Artisan are the two most price transparent full AI SDR platforms, so this comparison actually resolves on economics and packaging. AiSDR starts at 900 dollars a month billed quarterly with quota visible pricing and a documented security posture. Artisan starts free and scales through 280 dollar and 660 dollar credit tiers around Ava, its AI BDR, inside a consolidated outbound platform.
| At a glance | AiSDR | Artisan |
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| Category | GTM / revenue agent | GTM / revenue agent |
| Entry price | From $900/mo (Explore, quarterly) | 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 | public exact | public partial |
| Feature |
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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. |
Partial | 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. |
Full / Explicit | 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. |
Partial | 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. |
Full / Explicit | 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. |
Partial | 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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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
From $900/mo (Explore, quarterly) | 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 |
Public — exact | Public — partial |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
usage | hybrid |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium 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 |
Self-serve | Mixed |
Choose AiSDR if
- Quota visible pricing lets you hold the vendor to a cost per meeting number.
- Security documentation matters to your buyers; our matrix scores AiSDR Full on security.
- You want a platform that leads with outbound performance rather than platform breadth.
Choose Artisan if
- The free tier and 280 dollar entry make Artisan the cheapest serious way to trial the category.
- Credit pricing scales down as well as up, fitting seasonal or campaign based outbound.
- You want data, sequencing, deliverability, and the agent consolidated in one product.