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AiSDR's pricing page tells you what job it was built for. Its self-serve plan costs $1.50 per person prospected, charged daily, with no monthly fee. A tool priced per person it reaches is a tool for reaching people who have never heard of you. That is a real job, and AiSDR is built for it. But many teams searching for AiSDR alternatives are realising the pipeline they want is sitting on their own website.
So before comparing tools, I'd run what I call the stranger test: is the person you need to convert a stranger you have to find, or a visitor who already found you? Strangers need an outbound AI SDR. Visitors need an inbound website agent. Most "alternatives" lists mix the two, which is why they rarely help. (Here is the difference between an AI sales agent and an AI SDR.) I work at Storylane, which sells an inbound agent called Storylane RepX, so weigh my view of the inbound half accordingly. If your answer is "strangers", one of the outbound tools is the right pick.
AiSDR alternatives at a glance
Prices and features below come from each vendor's own website, checked on November 12, 2026.
| Tool | Main job | Best for | Standout | Price (Nov 12, 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storylane RepX | Inbound | Demand gen and web teams who want to convert the traffic they already pay for | Shows interactive demos of your product inside the conversation | Starts at $2,000 a month; price depends on website traffic |
| AiSDR | Outbound | Teams that want pay-per-contact outbound across email, LinkedIn and phone | Its agent, Ami, builds and runs campaigns from a plain-English prospect description | $1.50 per person prospected; team plans volume-based |
| 11x | Outbound and inbound | Teams that want separate named agents for prospecting and for speed to lead | Alice for outbound, Julian for inbound voice and chat qualification | Not listed (book a demo) |
| Artisan | Outbound | Teams that want one platform for data, sequencing and a dialer | Ava, an AI BDR that runs outbound end to end | Credit-based plans; see artisan.co/pricing |
| Regie.ai (RegieGO) | Outbound | Reps and small teams who want to approve every message and make lots of calls | Parallel dialer, up to five lines at once | Free; Pro $41/month annual; Team $125/seat/month annual |
| Qualified (Piper) | Inbound | Salesforce-centred teams with large website traffic | Piper works the website and the inbox, with deep Salesforce ties | Not listed (contact us) |
When should you stay with AiSDR?
Pick AiSDR if your main problem is not enough conversations with the right accounts, and you want to pay for outbound by the contact rather than by the seat. Its site says it finds prospects from live AI search, buying signals and LinkedIn engagement, enriches them across 20 data providers, and runs email, LinkedIn and call tasks in one sequence. It syncs with HubSpot and Salesforce, and its site says it also follows up with and qualifies inbound leads. If you have no inbound volume to speak of yet, an outbound tool is the honest first hire, and AiSDR's pricing makes it cheap to test.
The reason to look elsewhere is rarely that AiSDR does outbound badly. It is that you have found a different job.
Why do outbound and inbound need different tools?
The obvious answer is channels. The real difference is who speaks first and what they need.
In outbound, the agent speaks first. The craft is everything before the reply: the list, the signal, the first line, deliverability.
In inbound, the buyer speaks first, and they arrive with a question. The craft is the answer. Internal Storylane data from 1,332 RepX website conversations across five B2B software companies (June 1 to September 9, 2026) shows what those questions are: pricing and capability checks make up 42% of everything buyers ask. The same data shows qualification rising with conversation length, from 17% of one-message conversations to 60% of the longest, and the median converting conversation runs five buyer messages. More in what we learned from 1,332 RepX conversations.
That is what the stranger test points at: an outbound AI SDR earns a reply, while an inbound agent earns a decision, and the skills barely overlap. A brilliant cold email does nothing for a visitor on your pricing page who wants to know whether you integrate with their CRM. That visitor needs qualification that happens live, in the conversation, not a form that asks for their details first.
How much pipeline is waiting on your own website?
More than most teams think, because most websites leave buyers' questions half-answered. The Storylane Buyability Index tested 10,580 buyer questions against 529 B2B websites and found only 58.6% fully answered, and pricing questions only 46.4%. (The questions are generated per company to match what a buyer would plausibly ask, and the sites were chosen by the people who ran the scans, between September 8 and October 20, 2026.) Often the answer exists but sits in the docs, far from where buyers land.
Timing makes it worse. Storylane's Modern Buying Trends 2026 report found that 51.4% of 8,211 website agent conversations across 19 companies started outside the buyer's working hours, and that nine in ten of the buying committee never join a sales call. If your site answers only part of what buyers ask, the pipeline you are trying to buy with outbound may already be on your site, leaving. We compare the two motions in inbound vs outbound AI SDRs.
Inbound alternatives to AiSDR
If the stranger test says visitors, you want an agent that answers, shows and qualifies on your own site. For the wider field, see the top AI SDR tools.
Storylane RepX
RepX is a website agent: it engages, qualifies and converts inbound visitors around the clock. It is best for demand gen, PMM and web teams who want more of their traffic to become pipeline. It shows the product, not just describes it: mid-conversation it pulls up interactive demos and walks the buyer through the real product, and buyers can use text, voice or video. Each demo gets a plain-language display instruction that tells RepX when to show it.
It is trained on your own material: your website, decks, sales call recordings or transcripts, Storylane demos and FAQs. Playbooks set the intro, starter questions, CTAs and qualification questions per page, along with when to ask for an email (work emails only, after a set number of messages, or once qualification criteria are met) and the goal, either a meeting booked through Chili Piper, RevenueHero or HubSpot Calendar or a trial signup. You define your ICP in plain English and RepX qualifies through conversation instead of a form. It handles objections, follows guardrails you set on pricing, competitors and compliance, and you can test the agent before launch.
Qualified leads and conversation summaries flow to HubSpot, Salesforce and Slack. In HubSpot, RepX identifies known leads when it loads, creates or updates the contact when a visitor shares an email, and logs the full transcript and summary as a note; our guide to routing website conversations in HubSpot covers the owner and lifecycle side. A Zapier trigger fires when a conversation completes, so teams can brief a rep before outreach or post high-intent conversations to Slack.
Hospitable sourced 36 meetings and 7 deals in RepX's first month. RepX starts at $2,000 a month, and the price depends on website traffic, with a 30-day free trial on the plans page.
Qualified (Piper)
Qualified's AI SDR agent, Piper, greets website visitors, captures leads and converts qualified buyers by video, voice or live chat, then follows up in the inbox with nurture emails. Qualified is closely tied to Salesforce, and its site says Piper is ranked first on the Salesforce AppExchange. Its pricing page lists Premier, Enterprise and Ultimate plans by web sessions and email contacts, with prices on request.
Pick Qualified if your team lives in Salesforce, you have high website traffic, and you want one agent across the website and inbound email. See also Qualified vs Warmly.
Outbound alternatives to AiSDR
If the stranger test says strangers, these are the tools I'd look at. For the rest of the stack, see the best SDR tools, job by job.
11x
11x sells named AI agents for different jobs. Alice handles outbound: account research, messaging, and email, social and dials in one sequence. Julian handles inbound, contacting and qualifying leads by voice and chat and booking meetings, around the clock in multiple languages, per the site. It also lists SMS, WhatsApp, a human dialer and HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive integrations. Pricing is not on the site.
Pick 11x if you want one vendor for outbound prospecting and phone-first speed to lead, and you are comfortable buying through a sales process.
Artisan
Artisan's AI BDR, Ava, runs outbound end to end: finding and enriching B2B leads, writing and sending outreach, handling replies and booking meetings. Artisan describes the platform as the whole outbound stack: data, enrichment, deliverability, sequencing, a dialer and intent signals. Its pricing page describes credit-based plan tiers from startups to enterprise.
Pick Artisan if you want to replace several outbound tools with one platform and let the agent run most of the motion.
Regie.ai
RegieGO reads your website, suggests target companies and roles, finds and enriches buyers across up to seven data providers, and drafts emails and call scripts for a rep to review. Its parallel dialer calls up to five lines at once, and it includes a built-in CRM that syncs with HubSpot or Salesforce. Pricing on its site: a free plan for up to 10 people sharing 250 one-time credits each, Pro at $41 a month billed annually ($49 monthly), and Team at $125 per seat a month billed annually ($150 monthly) with a two-seat minimum.
Pick Regie if your reps want to stay in the loop on every message and phone is a big part of your motion.
How do you choose between them?
Three questions settle most of it.
- Where does your best pipeline come from today? If closed-won deals mostly start with a demo request or a site visit, your bottleneck is inbound conversion, not outbound reach.
- What do buyers ask before they book? If the answer is pricing, integrations and setup, you need an agent that can answer and show the product, not one that writes better first lines.
- How will you measure it? Outbound tools are measured on replies and meetings per contact. Inbound agents are measured on qualified conversations and meetings per visitor. Pick the tool whose unit matches the number you are trying to move. Our guide to measuring AI SDR ROI covers both.
Plenty of teams run both; they are not substitutes. An outbound agent fills the top of the funnel with strangers; an inbound agent makes sure the people who show up, from outbound or anywhere else, get their answer before they leave. Adding inbound for the first time? Start with speed to lead.
The one idea to keep
Before you replace AiSDR, run the stranger test. If you need to find people, compare outbound tools on data, deliverability and price per contact. If people are already finding you, the job is answering them, and the right comparison is between inbound agents. On Monday, pull the last 50 deals your team closed and count how many started on your website. That number tells you which half of this page you need.
If the answer is your website, book a demo of RepX and we'll show you what it would say to your visitors.