11x alternatives

Updated July 2026. Prices checked 2026-07-21; this page gets a monthly fact-check.

11x sells autonomous digital workers, and the promise is replacing SDR hiring; driftwood is built on the opposite belief, that the job is making the humans you already employ better at selling, with a working demo of your product in every message and a person approving each send. The genuine 11x buyer is a mid-market or enterprise org replacing SDR headcount, with budget for a reported five-figure annual contract; driftwood is for founders whose constraint is replies rather than capacity.

We build driftwood (driftwood.sh), one of the options below; judge accordingly. Hard claims about 11x are linked to outside sources where they are made.

At a glance

Six alternatives beside 11x, priced and staged.

Every cell is words, not checkmarks. Prices are entry points; the fuller snapshot, with sources, is further down.
Tool What it is Entry price (as of July 2026) What you still need to buy Best stage
11x Autonomous digital workers: Alice runs outbound end to end, Julian covers the phone No public pricing; reported near $5,000 a month, annual contract Implementation fees on top; a CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot) to feed it Mid-market and enterprise replacing SDR headcount
Artisan (Ava) Autonomous AI BDR, the closest direct swap, self-serve From $250 a month Little to start; lead discovery and sending are in the box Small teams testing the autonomous model
Amplemarket All-in-one platform: data, engagement, deliverability, an AI copilot (Duo) for reps None published that we could verify Reps to run the motion Sales teams that want AI leverage, not replacement
Unify Signal-driven outbound: intent triggers decide who gets contacted None published that we could verify People to run the plays it triggers Product-led companies with real intent signal
Apollo B2B database with sequencing, a dialer, and light CRM, per seat Free tier; paid from $49 per user per month billed annually Deliverability care and the time of whoever runs it Any stage with people to run outbound
Clay Data workbench: waterfall enrichment, AI research columns, workflows you assemble Free tier; paid from $185 a month A sequencer to send with; an operator to build and maintain it Teams with a RevOps or GTM engineering owner
driftwoodour tool GTM agent for demo-led outbound: a working demo of your product, built per prospect, in every message $1,000 to $5,000 a month Nothing bolted on; it sends from the LinkedIn and email accounts you already have Founders and small teams whose product demos well

For the whole AI SDR category rather than 11x specifically, we keep a separate comparison.

what a volume agent sends

what driftwood sent

CTO @
Yuvan Sundrani · 6:57 PM · sent by driftwood

hey , found a bug on . our agents caught your pricing page still promising early access for features lower tiers already have…

19 second demo video of Autosana's agent catching a pricing bug on the prospect's site

driftwood built this demo

CTO · 7:18 AM

send me a blurb + demos to and I'll forward to my team - best

The right window is a real send from the Autosana week; identities redacted.

What 11x is, and where it wins

Alice, Julian, the backing, and the reported numbers.

The product. 11x sells digital workers for go-to-market teams.

Alice. The flagship is Alice, an AI SDR that runs outbound end to end: sourcing prospects, researching them across what 11x says is more than 50 data sources, writing and sending multi-channel sequences spanning email, phone, social, and SMS, handling follow-up, and booking meetings.

Julian. The second worker is Julian, an AI phone agent built around 11x's acquisition of the voice startup Opkit, which handles calls for speed-to-lead, qualification, and re-engagement.

The backing. The company has raised more than $70 million from Benchmark and Andreessen Horowitz, and the positioning leans mid-market and enterprise.

No public pricing. There is no public pricing page; numbers come on a sales call. The figures that circulate, roughly $5,000 a month for a single digital worker on an annual contract and first-year totals commonly between $50,000 and $60,000 once implementation fees are included, are procurement data reported by Vendr rather than published prices; the pricing snapshot below collects them.

Where it wins. The real strength is scope. 11x is the fullest expression of the replace SDR headcount bet: one platform covers sourcing, research, multi-channel sequencing, and, unusually for the category, the phone, since Julian lives in the same product as Alice.

Who that fits. For a larger sales org with the budget and the integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot) to feed it, that scope in one vendor is the real draw.

Where 11x falls short, and for whom

The price, the 2025 record, and the volume bet.

The price and the contract

No public pricing, a sales process, reported entry around $5,000 a month, an annual commitment, and implementation fees on top.

Reported monthly price, annual contract

$5,000

Reported first-year total with implementation

$50k to $60k

Reported figures, not published prices; sources in the pricing snapshot below.

That is by design: the product is priced against SDR salaries, and for an org replacing headcount the comparison holds. For a founder or a seed-stage team, the entry cost alone rules it out before any product question comes up.

The 2025 record, both sides of it

This history belongs in any 11x evaluation, so here it is once, dated.

  • March 2025. TechCrunch reported that some companies whose logos appeared on 11x's site said they were not customers, that former employees described losing 70 to 80 percent of early customers, and that reported annual recurring revenue included the full value of 12-month contracts even when customers left at three-month break clauses.
  • The company's response. 11x disputed the characterization, said its retention at the time was 79 percent, and said inaccurate customer mentions were removed when flagged. Its investors publicly backed the company.
  • May 2025. Founder Hasan Sukkar stepped down as CEO, moving to non-executive chairman, and CTO Prabhav Jain took over.

None of that settles what the product does today. It does mean you should reference-check current customers rather than trusting logos, which is fair diligence for any vendor on this page.

Volume is still the strategy

The bet underneath. An autonomous SDR is a bet that the way to more meetings is more touches with less human time on each.

Where it fails. For founders selling into a small market, that bet fails the same way it does with cheap sending tools: burning through your addressable market with templated outreach is not recoverable. If your problem is that replies are low, an agent that scales sends will not fix it.

The slop problem

Volume sends go out in your name.

What slop is. Slop is outreach written by a machine, sent at volume, and seen by nobody on the sending side before it goes out.

Why it is cheap. An autonomous SDR makes slop cheap: every send improves the vendor's numbers, and the cost of a bad one lands on you, because your name is on it. The churned customers in the March 2025 reporting described the result: output that read as generic and results that fell short of the sales pitch.

The hidden cost. That cost has no dashboard. Nobody logs the prospect who read two templated lines and filed your company under spam, and the vendor never finds out.

The split incentive. The author of the message and the owner of the reputation are different parties, and in a fully autonomous product nothing stands between them.

Our counter. driftwood's counter is structural. Every message carries a working demo of your product, built for the one prospect receiving it, and a person approves each send before it leaves.

The intent. We design for the message to leave a prospect thinking better of your company whether or not they buy. That is intent, not measurement, but the Autosana week in the entry below points the same way, including founders who had ignored more than four months of prior outreach.

The alternatives

driftwood is listed first because it is ours; the other five run from the closest swap for 11x to the furthest. Artisan sells the same autonomous bet self-serve, Amplemarket and Apollo keep reps running the motion, and Unify and Clay fix targeting rather than volume.

driftwoodour tool

The split. driftwood and 11x split on what a cold message carries. Alice personalizes text at volume; driftwood runs demo-led outbound: every message includes a working demo of your product, built for the specific prospect receiving it, so the prospect sees your product working on their problem before replying to anything.

How it runs. The agent researches the prospect, builds the demo, and drafts the message; a human reviews each send, and sending happens from your own LinkedIn or email account.

Reply rate before

under 1%

Reply rate, week one

over 14%

On the same lead list, replies went from under 1% to over 14% in week one at Autosana (YC S25).

The two tools side by side. The figures are the same sourced ones as the pricing snapshot below.
11x driftwoodour tool
Built for Replacing SDR hiring with autonomous digital workers Making the people you already employ better at selling
What the message carries Text the agent personalized, sent at volume A working demo of your product, built for the prospect receiving it
A good week Meetings booked at volume across email, phone, and social, with no human time spent Meetings from a small number of sends, each one reviewed and carrying a demo
A bad week Generic output going out at volume in your name; churned customers in the 2025 reporting described exactly that Fewer sends than you hoped; each demo takes real work per prospect
Entry cost No published price; reported near $5,000 a month on an annual contract, plus implementation fees $1,000 to $5,000 a month, published
Support Enterprise account management The founder runs your onboarding

driftwood is early, and it trades volume for depth. It does not do phone, and if you are an enterprise org replacing a ten-person SDR team with a hands-off digital worker, that is 11x's product, not ours.

Best for: founders and small teams selling a product that demos well, whose constraint is replies rather than capacity.

Artisan (Ava)

The closest swap. Artisan is the closest direct swap: Ava is an autonomous AI BDR covering the outbound cycle from lead discovery through follow-up, the same category bet as Alice.

Self-serve. Since the Ava 2.0 relaunch, Artisan is self-serve, so you can test the autonomous model without a sales cycle or an annual contract; we keep a full page on Artisan if the autonomous model itself is your open question.

Best for: teams that want an autonomous outbound agent without 11x's price point or commitment.

Amplemarket

The diagnosis. Amplemarket answers a different diagnosis: that autonomy was the problem, not the tooling.

The platform. It is an all-in-one platform, contact data, engagement, deliverability tooling, and an AI copilot called Duo, where your reps run the motion and the AI gives them leverage rather than an agent running it alone. Coming from 11x, the change is where the humans sit.

Best for: sales teams that want AI leverage for their reps, not a replacement for them.

Unify

Signals first. Unify makes signals decide the targeting: deanonymized website visitors, job changes, and other buying signals trigger plays that determine who gets contacted and what they hear.

The contrast. Where an autonomous SDR works a static list at volume, Unify concentrates effort on accounts showing intent right now. Teams that want to build this by hand reach for Clay instead; we compared Clay alternatives separately.

Best for: teams with real intent signals, especially product-led companies, that care more about who gets contacted than how many.

Apollo

Per seat. Apollo is the pragmatic per-seat answer: a large B2B database with sequencing, a dialer, and light CRM, with a free tier and paid seats priced in the snapshot below.

The budget math. Nothing about it is autonomous; your team runs the motion. Against a reported $50,000-plus first year with 11x, a few Apollo seats plus a rep's time is the budget it competes on.

Best for: teams with people to run outbound that want data and sending in one affordable place.

Clay

The workbench. Clay is the build-it-yourself path: a data workbench with waterfall enrichment across more than a hundred providers, AI research columns, and workflows that feed whatever sequencer or CRM you run.

The cost it hides. Instead of renting a digital worker, a RevOps or GTM engineer assembles your own motion with full control over every step. It takes real operator time, which the entry price in the snapshot below does not show.

Best for: teams with a RevOps or GTM engineering owner who would rather build the machine than rent one.

When 11x is the right choice, including over us

Buy 11x to replace capacity you would otherwise hire; the 2025 record does not change that answer, it changes the diligence you do on the way in.

Choose 11x if

  • You are a mid-market or enterprise org that wants outbound capacity without adding SDR headcount.
  • A five-figure annual contract fits the budget, and a sales-led buying process does not put you off.
  • You want email, social, and phone handled by one vendor; Julian makes that rarer than it sounds.
  • Salesforce or HubSpot is already in place to feed it.
  • You have reference-checked current customers and negotiated the break clause.

Choose an alternative if

  • The reported entry price rules it out before any product question comes up; that is most founders and seed-stage teams.
  • You want to test the autonomous model without a sales call or an annual commitment (Artisan).
  • You have concluded full autonomy was the problem and want AI helping reps run the motion (Amplemarket, Apollo).
  • Targeting, not volume, is what needs fixing (Unify to buy the signal plays, Clay to build them).
  • Replies, not capacity, are your constraint and your product demos well (driftwood, which is early and trades volume for depth).

Pricing snapshot

The numbers live here, once. This table is what the monthly fact-check maintains.

Entry pricing as of July 2026, checked 2026-07-21.
Tool Entry plan and price What it includes What it leaves out
11x No published plan. Reported: about $5,000 a month per digital worker on an annual contract; Vendr puts the median contract at about $55,050 a year, range about $38,000 to about $90,000. Contracts have historically run 12 months, sometimes with a break clause at three months. One digital worker running outbound end to end Implementation fees, reported on top; every number in this row is reported, not published
Artisan (Ava) From $250 a month, self-serve Ava, covering lead discovery through follow-up Higher volume tiers; our Artisan page breaks them down
Apollo Free tier; paid from $49 per user per month billed annually Database access, sequencing, a dialer, light CRM The people; nothing in it is autonomous, and deliverability care is on you
Clay Free tier; paid from $185 a month The workbench: enrichment, AI research columns, workflows Sending; you bring a sequencer and an operator
driftwoodour tool $1,000 to $5,000 a month, published on our FAQ The agent: prospect research, a working demo of your product built per prospect, drafting, and sending from your own accounts Phone outreach and volume plays; driftwood is early

Amplemarket and Unify are not in this table: neither had a published entry price we could verify at the July check. Work at any of these companies and see something wrong or missing? Email aayush@driftwood.sh and we will fix it.

FAQ

Four short answers.

Why does 11x not publish pricing?

By design. The sales motion is enterprise: pricing comes on a call, contracts run annual, and implementation is scoped per customer, which is normal at that end of the market.

What exists publicly. The public numbers that exist are procurement data from Vendr rather than published prices; they are collected in the pricing snapshot above, and the right move is to treat them as directional and confirm directly.

What happened with 11x in 2025?

The reporting. In March 2025 TechCrunch reported that some companies whose logos appeared on 11x's site said they were not customers, alongside claims about early churn and revenue reporting; 11x disputed the characterization, its investors backed it, and in May 2025 the founder handed the CEO role to the company's CTO.

The takeaway. The dated timeline above has both sides. The practical takeaway is to reference-check current customers.

Can I get out of an 11x contract if it does not work?

Sometimes. Reported contract structure has historically been 12 months, sometimes with a break clause at three months. A break clause is a negotiation item rather than a given, so raise it before signing and get it in writing.

Is there a way to try the autonomous AI SDR model without a sales call?

Yes. Artisan's Ava is the same autonomous category bet, self-serve from $250 a month with no annual contract required.

If the real need is plain high-volume cold email rather than an autonomous agent, Instantly starts at $47 a month; we compared Instantly alternatives separately.

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