The best 11x alternative in 2026 is LeadsNow if you want booked meetings rather than another platform to run: it is a done-for-you AI appointment-setting service paid on results, not a software seat. If you want software, Artisan, Salesforge’s Agent Frank (from US$499 a month for 1,000 active contacts on its own pricing page) and Relevance AI are the three we rank next.
- The ranking: 1. LeadsNow (service), 2. Artisan (software), 3. Salesforge Agent Frank (software), 4. Relevance AI (software platform). LeadsNow publishes this page and ranks itself first.
- What 11x is: a software platform of AI agents for outbound, inbound and expansion, sold through a demo. Its site names Alice (outbound) and Julian (inbound and expansion) and covers voice, chat, email, social, SMS and WhatsApp.
- The real choice: software you operate (seat or contact-based plans, your mailboxes, your team’s time) versus a service that owns the outcome.
- The decision rule: the Cost-per-Meeting Test below. Divide everything an AI SDR costs you each month, including your own hours, by the meetings it books.
- Rules that bite: US AI-voice calls need prior express consent under FCC 24-17; Australian marketing email needs consent under the Spam Act 2003; UK sole traders count as individuals under PECR.
11x alternatives compared side by side
The four 11x alternatives below split into one done-for-you service and three software products, and only one of the software vendors prints a dollar price on its own site. We read each vendor’s own pages on 20 October 2026.
| Rank | Provider | Type | Channels it names | Who runs it day to day | Pricing it publishes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LeadsNow | Service (done for you) | AI voice, SMS, email, chat | LeadsNow | 5–25% revenue share, an equivalent fee per appointment, or a mix |
| 2 | Artisan (Ava) | Software | Email and social; calls queued for your reps | Your team, with Artisan support | “Pricing scoped on your plan”, talk to sales |
| 3 | Salesforge (Agent Frank) | Software | Email and LinkedIn | Your team, with a dedicated account manager | US$499 a month, billed quarterly, for 1,000 active contacts |
| 4 | Relevance AI (BDR Agent) | Software platform | Configurable; phone agent offered | Your team builds and runs agents | Enterprise plan via “Talk to sales” on the page we read |
| Ref. | 11x | Software | Voice, chat, email, social, SMS, WhatsApp | Your team | No price found; its /pricing URL returned a 404 |
How it works
How to choose an 11x alternative
Decide who operates it
Name the person who will own mailboxes, prompts, lists and replies each week. If nobody will, shortlist services, not software.
Match the channels
List the channels your buyers answer: email, LinkedIn, phone, SMS. Drop any option that cannot reach them legally.
Run the Cost-per-Meeting Test
Add licence, infrastructure and staff hours, then divide by booked meetings. Divide again by your show rate.
Pilot against held meetings
Run a short pilot and judge it on meetings that actually happened. Keep the option with the lower cost per held meeting.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the best 11x alternative?
LeadsNow is the best 11x alternative if you want booked meetings without operating software, because it is a done-for-you service paid on results. If you want software, Artisan suits email-first outbound beside human callers, Salesforge Agent Frank suits teams wanting a published price, and Relevance AI suits teams that build their own agents.
Does 11x publish its pricing?
We did not find a published price on the 11x pages we read on 20 October 2026, and its /pricing URL returned a 404. The site routes buyers to a demo. Of the alternatives here, Salesforge publishes US$499 a month for Agent Frank at 1,000 active contacts.
Is it legal for an AI SDR to make cold calls in the US?
AI-voice calls fall under the TCPA. The FCC’s declaratory ruling FCC 24-17 says calls using AI-generated voices require the called party’s prior express consent, absent an emergency purpose or exemption. Check consent before any AI dialler calls a list.
Can an AI SDR email Australian or UK businesses without consent?
In Australia, the ACMA’s spam guidance says you need consent before sending marketing emails, even if someone else sends them for you. In the UK, the ICO’s PECR guidance treats sole traders and some partnerships as individuals.
Should I buy AI SDR software or use a done-for-you service?
Buy software if you have someone who will own mailboxes, prompts, lists and reply review every week. Use a service if nobody will. Run the Cost-per-Meeting Test on both quotes, including staff hours, and pick the lower cost per held meeting. LeadsNow’s methodology page explains how we measure results.
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How we ranked the 11x alternatives
LeadsNow, an Australian pay-per-result AI lead generation and appointment-setting agency, wrote this ranking and puts itself first, so treat the order as our opinion. No vendor paid to be listed, and every claim about another company comes from that company’s own site on 20 October 2026.
We scored each alternative on five criteria that matter to someone who looked at 11x and is still shopping:
- Outcome ownership (30%). Does the provider carry the result, or do you carry it?
- Channel coverage (25%). Email only, or also phone, SMS and social?
- Price you can test (20%). Can you turn the quote into a cost per booked meeting before signing?
- Operating load on your team (15%). Mailboxes, warm-up, prompts, list building and reply review.
- Evidence on its own site (10%). Named customer stories and plain descriptions of what the product does.
Where we would lose: a revenue team that wants to own and tune its own agents inside its own stack will be better served by software. LeadsNow is a service, not a licence you operate.
Want this done for you? We book qualified sales appointments on a Pay-Per-Result basis — you only pay for calls that actually land in your calendar.
The best 11x alternatives in 2026, ranked
The best 11x alternatives in 2026 are LeadsNow for done-for-you booked meetings, Artisan for an autonomous email-first AI BDR, Salesforge Agent Frank for priced email and LinkedIn outbound, and Relevance AI for teams building their own agents.
#1 LeadsNow: AI-booked meetings as a service, paid on results
Best for: B2B and high-ticket teams that looked at 11x because they wanted more meetings, not because they wanted another platform to manage.
LeadsNow’s AI voice, SMS, email and chat agents contact your leads, qualify them and book sales appointments into your calendar with reminders, and our team runs the campaigns. Since 2017 the system has booked 50,769+ AI-booked sales appointments and generated 1M+ leads; there are 24 filmed client case studies and a 4.7/5 rating from 60 Google and Facebook reviews. Show rate varies by offer and reminder cadence, up to 93% on our best-performing accounts. Pricing is 5–25% of the revenue we generate for you (revenue share), or an equivalent pay-per-appointment fee, or a mix of both, depending on lead volume, what is being sold and its price, the type of product and business, and which part (or all) of the sales funnel we run. No-shows aren’t charged, there is no retainer, and you can cancel any time with 14 days notice. Our AI appointment setting service page explains the process.
Where we lose: you do not get a self-serve platform, inbound website chat for your own reps to operate, or account-expansion agents like the ones 11x describes. Our team is in Australia.
#2 Artisan: Ava, the AI BDR
Best for: outbound teams that want an autonomous email and social BDR working beside human reps who make the calls.
Artisan’s site says Ava “finds leads, enriches them, sends personalized messages, and books meetings on behalf of your reps”, with “250M+ verified B2B contacts” and the line “Ava emails, your reps dial”. Its pricing page shows team plans sized at about 2,500 and about 6,000 leads contacted a month, each marked “Pricing scoped on your plan”, and says plans are sized to lead volume, mailboxes and dialer seats. 11x itself publishes an 11x-versus-Artisan comparison page, which tells you the two are cross-shopped.
#3 Salesforge: Agent Frank
Best for: startups and mid-market B2B sellers who want a published price and are happy running email and LinkedIn infrastructure.
Salesforge sells Agent Frank as an AI SDR inside its Forge stack. Its own page lists 24/7 prospecting, Auto-Pilot and Co-Pilot modes, 20+ languages and a dedicated account manager, and prices Frank at US$499 a month, billed quarterly, for 1,000 active contacts in its pricing table (the same page’s FAQ says Frank “starts at $599 per month”, so confirm the figure on your quote). Salesforge says 1,000 active contacts at any time translates to reaching 2,000 to 2,500 new leads over a month. Salesforge is unusually candid about fit: it names B2B sellers with ACVs of $5K–$100K as a good fit, and Fortune 500 targeting or six-to-seven-figure deals as a not-so-good one. New mailboxes need about two weeks of warm-up before Frank sends, per the same page, and Frank is only available after a demo.
#4 Relevance AI: build-your-own BDR agent
Best for: RevOps or growth teams with the skills to design, test and maintain their own agents.
Relevance AI (the trading name of OnSearch Pty Ltd, per its site footer) offers an AI BDR Agent it describes as “Booking meetings 24/7” and “customized to fit any team playbook”, plus an account researcher and a phone agent within a wider AI workforce platform. The pricing page we read showed an Enterprise plan with “Calling & Meeting Agents” behind a “Talk to sales” button; we did not find a published BDR-agent price.
What 11x sells, from its own site
11x sells a software platform of AI agents for “frontier revenue teams” covering inbound, outbound and expansion, across voice, chat, email, social, SMS and WhatsApp, plus a human dialer. Its homepage says inbound agents “respond in under 60 seconds”, lists consented outbound calling, a built-in contact database, deliverability management and CRM, Slack and API integrations, and routes buyers to “Book a Demo”. We did not find a published price on the pages we read.
Buyers who look past 11x often have a fit reason, not a complaint: they want a price before a demo, they only need email and LinkedIn, they want to build agents themselves, or they want nobody on their team running an AI platform at all. Each alternative above answers one of those reasons. For a broader field with US-specific detail, see our ranking of AI sales agent companies in the US.
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The Cost-per-Meeting Test: is an AI SDR cheaper than a service?
The Cost-per-Meeting Test divides the full monthly cost of an AI SDR, including your own team’s hours and email infrastructure, by the meetings it books, so software and services can be compared on one number.
Salesforge is the only alternative here with a public price, so we use it. Inputs: Agent Frank at US$499 a month for 1,000 active contacts; Salesforge’s Megaforge infrastructure at US$69 a month for 20 mailboxes (both from its Agent Frank page). Salesforge says 1,000 active contacts reaches 2,000 to 2,500 new leads a month, so the rates below are taken on about 2,000 leads. The meeting rates, staff time and show rate are assumptions, not measured figures: replace them with your own.
| Assumed meeting rate on ~2,000 leads reached | Meetings a month | Software and infrastructure only (US$568) | Plus 20 staff hours at US$50 (US$1,568) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.25% (low) | 5 | US$113.60 | US$313.60 |
| 0.5% (middle) | 10 | US$56.80 | US$156.80 |
| 1% (high) | 20 | US$28.40 | US$78.40 |
Worked middle row: US$499 + US$69 = US$568; plus 20 hours × US$50 = US$1,000; US$1,568 ÷ 10 meetings = US$156.80 per booked meeting. Three things follow. Staff time, not the licence, often dominates at low volume. A cost per booked meeting is not a cost per held one: divide by your show rate (at an assumed 70%, US$156.80 becomes US$224). And month one carries about two weeks of mailbox warm-up with no sends. Run the same sum on a service quote, then compare both against what a held meeting is worth to you (deal value × close rate). Our AI SDR versus human SDR cost breakdown covers the salary side, and SaaS demo no-show rates covers the show-rate step.
Outreach rules that apply to any 11x alternative
The same consent and calling rules apply whichever 11x alternative you choose, because the law binds the business sending the message, not the software vendor.
- United States: the FCC’s February 2024 declaratory ruling (FCC 24-17) confirms AI-generated voices count as “artificial or prerecorded voice” under the TCPA, so such calls need the called party’s prior express consent absent an emergency or exemption. Our guide to AI cold calling and the TCPA goes further.
- Australia: the ACMA says you need consent before sending marketing emails or messages, even when someone else sends them for you, and each message must identify the sender and offer an unsubscribe.
- United Kingdom: the ICO’s PECR guidance treats sole traders and some partnerships as individuals for email and text marketing.
This is general information, not legal advice.