AI Sales Agent Pricing (2026): $250 to $3,750 a Month

11x lists Alice, its outbound SDR, at $3,750 a month billed annually. AiSDR publishes Solo at $250 a month. Artisan’s Ava page does not publish a dollar price. I rechecked those cards on September 26, 2026. Do not budget from a roundup that still quotes a figure the vendor page no longer shows.

Short answer: AI sales agent pricing is not one number. AiSDR starts at $250 a month, 11x lists $3,750 a month billed annually, and Artisan will not show a price until a sales call. If the leak is one repeating job, One Lane is $3,500 once. If the leak is the phone, the receptionist is $8,000 once. You own those. The SDR invoice stops the day you stop paying.

Buy	Published sticker	24 months at that sticker	You keep it
AiSDR Solo	$250/mo, or $2,400/yr	$6,000 on the monthly rate	No
AiSDR Explore	$900/mo, or $8,640/yr	$21,600 on the monthly rate	No
AiSDR Scale	$2,500/mo, or $24,000/yr	$60,000 on the monthly rate	No
11x Alice Growth	$3,750/mo, billed annually	$90,000	No
Artisan Ava	No dollar price published	Quote only	No
One Lane	$3,500 once	$3,500	Yes — one named job
AI Receptionist	$8,000 once	$8,000	Yes — the phone agent

How much does an AI sales agent cost in 2026?#

Published SDR prices I rechecked on September 26, 2026 run from $250 a month to $3,750 a month on the vendor card. Artisan does not publish a dollar price. I charge $3,500 once for one named job, or $8,000 once when the leak is the phone.

Those sticker rows are the vendors’ own pages, not a compiled average. AiSDR’s pricing page lists Solo at $250 a month ($2,400 a year) for 200 AI-researched contacts, Explore at $900 a month ($8,640 a year), and Scale at $2,500 a month ($24,000 a year). The year prices are 20% under twelve times the monthly sticker, which matches the annual discount in AiSDR’s own FAQ. Explore and Scale require a quarterly contract. Solo is month to month. Managed-service add-ons sit on top: $149 per campaign on Explore, and a fully managed service at $2,500 a month on Scale.

11x’s Alice pricing page lists Growth starting at $3,750 a month, billed annually, for up to five end users and 2,000 new prospects a month. The FAQ on that same page says Growth starts at $36,000 a year. $3,750 times 12 is $45,000, so those two lines do not agree. I would not put either number in a budget until it is on a written quote. Pro and Enterprise are custom. 11x says it charges per prospect, not per send, and that onboarding has no separate setup fee.

Artisan’s pricing page shows Team at about 2,500 leads contacted a month and Scale at about 6,000, and every tier says “Pricing scoped on your plan.” There is no public dollar figure to cite. The AI dialer is a per-seat add-on. Ask for the agent price and the dialer seats as separate lines.

Clay is an enrichment layer, not an SDR seat. Clay’s pricing memo puts Launch at $185 a month and Growth at $495 a month. Useful if you are building your own outbound tables. It is not a substitute for answering the phone.

If the search that landed you here was for the ecommerce assistant, that price is on Rep AI pricing. It is a storefront tool. It is not this comparison.

What does AI SDR pricing actually buy?#

AI SDR pricing is rent for outbound: researched contacts, mailboxes, and meetings on someone else’s platform. 11x prices Alice per prospect. AiSDR meters researched contacts. Artisan sizes plans by leads contacted, then scopes the dollar amount on a sales call.

You do not keep the workflow when you cancel. 11x’s own comparison is a fully loaded human SDR at $8,000 to $12,000 a month versus Alice starting at $36,000 a year on the FAQ line. That comparison is for a company that already runs outbound pipeline. A service business with missed calls is shopping a different product, and the human-SDR salary is not the right benchmark.

Is renting cheaper than owning over 24 months?#

Only the smallest published SDR plan beats a one-time build over 24 months, and it does not answer the phone. AiSDR Solo at $250 a month is $6,000. 11x at $3,750 a month is $90,000. One Lane is $3,500 once. The receptionist is $8,000 once.

Annual billing on AiSDR cuts the monthly run-rate by about 20%, so two years of Solo at the $2,400 year price is $4,800, and two years of Scale at $24,000 a year is $48,000. Still rented. The 11x card rate is $90,000 over 24 months; the conflicting FAQ rate is $72,000. Either way you own nothing on day 731.

One Lane is $3,500 once for one named job: the form that should already be a CRM row, the follow-up you copy by hand, the Friday report. AI Receptionist is $8,000 once when the leak is the phone. I do not add a subscription. You still pay the carrier, the model API, and hosting on your own accounts, and I quote that usage from your volume instead of inventing a flat monthly fee.

The same rent-versus-own shape for other agent categories is in how much an AI agent costs, and the phone-side breakdown is on AI receptionist pricing. The subscription vs. own calculator will run your own 24-month number.

What does an AI sales agent workflow actually look like?#

A sales agent earns its price when it turns one inbound lead into a booked, logged next step without you in the middle. It qualifies, writes the CRM note, and texts you when the lead falls outside the rules. An outbound SDR seat will not fix missed calls.

Here is the map I deploy when the leak is inbound:

• Trigger: a missed call, a website form, an Instagram or WhatsApp DM, or an after-hours voicemail.
• AI action: the agent responds in seconds, asks your three or four qualifying questions, and books straight into the calendar.
• System of record: it writes a structured note to Jobber, Housecall Pro, HubSpot, GoHighLevel, or a shared sheet.
• Human escalation: a price negotiation, an angry customer, or a deal worth real money comes to you by text with the context attached.

Speed is the point. The lead you answer in 60 seconds is worth multiples of the one you answer in an hour, which is why speed-to-lead is usually the first leak worth plugging.

What would I automate first?#

Start with the leak you can name this week: missed calls, or one form that never becomes a CRM row. Missed calls are the receptionist at $8,000 once. One repeating job is One Lane at $3,500 once. Cold outbound is the last lane, not the first.

Trying to automate qualification, outbound, follow-up, and reporting on day one is how deployments fail. One lane, working, beats five lanes half-built.

When is an AI sales agent the wrong move?#

Skip it if you cannot name a repeating leak, a written qualification rule, and a CRM you actually open. An agent automates a process. Volume you already handle by hand, steps that live only in your head, or blank CRM records will make any vendor look like a failure.

Skip it, for now, if:

• You already answer every inquiry within minutes, and the volume is small enough that this is true.
• Your qualifying questions, booking rules, and definition of a real lead are not written down.
• Your CRM is a graveyard of half-filled records.
• You want the tool to create demand. It converts demand you already have.

A two-week cleanup of intake questions and CRM fields will do more for your close rate than any SDR seat, and it makes a later deployment cheaper.

The next step#

Name the leak before you price a seat. Send me where leads come from, what you ask, and where they should land through the free audit. I will reply within 24 hours with what I would automate first and which one-time number matches that leak. If you would rather talk it through, book a 20-minute call.