AvA vs AI SDRs (Explee, 11x, Artisan)

An AI SDR prospects for you: it finds companies, writes cold emails and sequences, and books meetings from the replies. 11x and Artisan focus on cold outbound; Explee is email-only.

What they cost

Published figures, with where we read them.

Product	Figure	Source
Explee Pay as you go. Explee also advertises “from $1 per warm lead” and a $1 – $20 range: their estimate from email spend, not a separate fee.	about $0.04 per email sent	their own page
11x Its AI SDR, “Alice”, is described as an outbound digital worker. Pricing on request.	Not published	their own page
Artisan ("Ava") Artisan’s outbound AI BDR is also called Ava. It is not related to us. Pricing on request.	Not published	their own page
AvA	$0.05 / min, all in	our live rate card

Only Explee publishes a per-unit price, read from its own site. 11x and Artisan publish none on their home pages. Checked 8 October 2026. Prices change, ours too. If something here is wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

Fair is fair

Where AI SDRs is the better choice

If what you need is a high volume of cold outbound email to new prospects, that is their whole product.
Large licensed contact databases and enrichment built in.
AvA Prospect (live since October 2026) searches maps, open data, India’s company register and your own lists, not a licensed contact database.

Where AvA is different

What AvA does.

For businesses that talk to more customers than their team can keep up with, AvA is the AI that answers every lead, order and question in under a minute, by phone, WhatsApp, SMS or email, in the customer’s own language, then does the work behind it: qualifies, books, collects, updates your systems and follows up until it is done.

Inbound first

AvA starts with the leads you have already paid for: every enquiry from a form, an ad or a missed call answered in under a minute.

Voice and WhatsApp, not only email

A call within the minute, or a WhatsApp message in their own language, rather than the next email in a sequence.

After the yes

Booking, reminders, payment links and no-show recovery, in the same journey.

Prospecting that ends in a call

AvA Prospect finds businesses that fit and says why, then its AI SDR reaches out by call, WhatsApp or email, whichever each business answers, and AI judges every reply.

In one line

Which to pick.

Pick AI SDRs if

You need cold outbound email at volume today.

Pick AvA if

You already get enquiries and too many go unanswered or unfollowed.

The comparison that settles it.

Set AvA up in one box and let it call you. It takes about ten minutes.

Get a call from your own AI All comparisons