Comparison

Artisan pricing, plans and alternatives

Artisan prices its AI sales agent Ava in credits: Intern is $280 a month on monthly billing for 10K credits, about 500 leads contacted, read 19 October 2026. A free plan and a 30 day trial exist. The alternatives below differ in what they count, from a person prospected to a seat or an agent, so the unit matters more than the headline number.

Published by Sellinger AI. Numbers and settings checked on 19 October 2026 against the fact register. Report an error.

Artisan Intern per month on monthly billing: 10K credits, about 500 leads contacted per month: $280
Artisan Employee per month on monthly billing: 25K credits, about 1,250 leads contacted: $660
free trial with 10K credits, no card, one grant per company: 30 days

What Artisan is and what it costs

Artisan sells an AI sales agent that finds leads in its own database, writes outreach, answers replies and books meetings. Its plan sizes are monthly credit allocations, which the pricing page translates into approximate leads contacted.

Artisan Startups plans, monthly billing, USD
Plan	Monthly price	What it includes
Free	$0	300 credits a month, no card, no campaigns
Intern	$280	10K credits, about 500 leads contacted a month
Employee	$660	25K credits, about 1,250 leads contacted a month
Team and Scale	No price shown	Pricing scoped on your plan, through sales

Source: artisan.co, read 19 October 2026. On annual billing with credits upfront Intern shows $250 and Employee $600 a month. An end to end campaign costs about 20 credits per person contacted, a phone enrichment 10 credits and an autonomous reply 2 credits (artisan.co, read 19 October 2026). Mailboxes and phone numbers are billed separately.

Who Artisan fits

Teams that want a start with no cost: a permanent Free plan with lead lookup, and a 30 day trial with all features.
Teams that want the database and the agent from one vendor. Artisan lists 250M+ verified B2B contacts.
Teams that work mostly by email and want signals as triggers: job changes, funding, hiring and web visits are listed.

What its pages do not list or say plainly

From the register, not from user reviews. Items marked not verified rest on absence from the pages we checked.

LinkedIn automation is not listed (not verified): marketing says email and social, and the help center sequence builder lists email, manual task and human call steps (support.artisan.co, read 19 October 2026).
WhatsApp, Instagram and live chat are not listed. Phone is a power dialer for human reps.
Terms: purchases are non refundable and non cancellable for convenience except as the Order Form states, and renew unless 30 days written notice is given.
When credits run out, new enrollments pause while sequences in progress continue. The Free plan has no campaigns.
No white label or agency program was found (not verified). Team, Scale and Enterprise show no public price.

Alternatives by need

Alternatives to Artisan, grouped by need
Need	Tool and price as stated	What the price counts
An AI SDR on LinkedIn and email, no monthly fee	AiSDR: $1.50 per person prospected, daily pace of 5, 10 or 20 people	Per person prospected, charged daily
An AI SDR across more channels	Sellinger: LinkedIn $198 per agent per month for 1 to 2 agents, $168 at 10 or more agents; Email from $39; WhatsApp and Instagram from $29; bundles $249 to $1,199	Per agent, per module or per bundle per month
An AI SDR sold by contact tier	Reply.io Jason AI SDR: $800 a month for 1,000 active contacts on monthly billing	Flat per month by active contact tier
An AI SDR sold by contact tier	Salesforge Agent Frank: $599 a month billed quarterly	About $0.25 per contact at 2,000 or more a month
A larger managed AI SDR	11x Alice Growth: from $3,750 a month, billed annually	Per new prospect per month, up to 2,000
Data and enrichment first	Apollo: Free $0, Basic $65 per seat a month (monthly billing)	Per seat plus a credit allowance
Cold email at volume	Instantly Growth $47 for 5,000 emails; Smartlead Base $39 for 6,000 sends	Flat per plan by email volume

Sources: aisdr.com, read 19 October 2026; reply.io, read 19 October 2026; salesforge.ai, read 19 October 2026; 11x.ai, read 19 October 2026; apollo.io, read 19 October 2026; instantly.ai, read 19 October 2026; smartlead.ai, read 19 October 2026. Sellinger from the pricing page, checked 19 October 2026. Sellinger's database is a database of 700M+ contacts, paid per lookup from $0.01.

The row by row view of Sellinger against Artisan is on the head to head page. Here the question is wider: which kind of AI SDR you want, and what you are paying for it.

When to stay with Artisan

You want to try an AI SDR with no spend. The Free plan and the 30 day trial are both listed.
You need Salesforce. Artisan lists Salesforce and HubSpot sync on Team, Scale and Enterprise, while Sellinger lists Salesforce as coming soon.
Your outreach is email led and you want intent triggers such as Bombora data or website visitor identification, both listed for Artisan.
You want its 250M+ contact database in the same product as the agent.

Common questions

What is a credit on Artisan?

A unit of usage. The pricing page says an end to end campaign costs about 20 credits per person contacted, email enrichment 2, phone enrichment 10 and an autonomous reply 2. Plan sizes are monthly credit allocations (read 19 October 2026).

Does Artisan have a free plan?

Yes. The Free plan is $0 with 300 credits a month, no card and no campaigns. A separate 30 day trial gives 10K credits and all features, one grant per company.

Does Artisan work on LinkedIn?

We could not confirm it. Its marketing says email and social without naming LinkedIn, and the help center sequence builder lists only email, manual task and human call steps. Treat this as not verified.

Which alternative has no monthly fee?

AiSDR lists pay as you go at $1.50 per person prospected with no monthly fee, charged daily. Add ons such as a warmed up mailbox are extra.

Sources and method

Artisan cells read from its own pages on 19 October 2026: artisan.co, read 19 October 2026; artisan.co, read 19 October 2026; artisan.co, read 19 October 2026. Other vendors as linked in the table. Sellinger from the facts page.