One database, sequencer and dialer for a founder who wants outbound without stitching tools together
The most complete solo outbound starter — as long as you accept that you are the SDR and Apollo is the engine, not the rep.
Ava, an autonomous AI BDR that prospects, writes, sends and books, now with a self-serve startup tier
A credible hire-an-agent option for a funded solo founder — use the published startup tier and avoid the quote-only track.
Setup: Same day · Control: Acts autonomously
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Artisan's Ava is an outbound AI BDR, not inbound lead capture. Given your ideal customer profile, Ava searches a large B2B contact database, enriches prospects, writes one-to-one style email outreach, manages the sending infrastructure around it — warm-up, mailbox health and deliverability controls — handles replies and objections, and books meetings onto a rep's calendar, with an autonomy dial and approval guardrails so a founder can review before full autopilot. Website-visitor and signal features can also flag companies showing intent and trigger outreach. This is the closest pattern to hiring a junior SDR as software, and since its 2026 relaunch it is finally buyable without an enterprise sales cycle at the small end: a free tier for list building and published credit-based startup plans. Read the pricing page carefully, though, because it runs two tracks at once. The Startups tab publishes real prices metered in credits, where a full email campaign costs roughly twenty credits per person contacted. The default Businesses and Enterprises tab — Team, Scale and Enterprise — publishes no price at all and routes you to a demo and a quote. Mailboxes and phone infrastructure can be billed separately, and the human power dialer is an extra per-seat charge, so confirm what a campaign actually consumes before committing annually.
Two tracks: published credit-based Startup plans (annual billing, credits upfront) and quote-only Business/Enterprise plans sized by leads contacted.
| Plan | Published price |
|---|---|
| Free (Startups) | $0 |
| Intern (Startups) | $250/month billed annually ($280 billed monthly) |
| Employee (Startups) | $600/month billed annually ($660 billed monthly) |
| Team / Scale / Enterprise | Pricing not published — quote only |
Integrations we verified: HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, Gmail, Outlook, Calendly, Zapier
One database, sequencer and dialer for a founder who wants outbound without stitching tools together
The most complete solo outbound starter — as long as you accept that you are the SDR and Apollo is the engine, not the rep.
Flat-fee cold email sending with unlimited mailboxes, plus a lead database sold on credits
Excellent value if cold email is your channel — budget for the bundle, not the $47 headline, plus domains and mailboxes.
Multichannel sequences across email, LinkedIn and calls, with warm-up and a built-in lead database
The best pick here if LinkedIn belongs in your sequence — just price the plan plus data credits together, not the headline alone.
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