Jorge LewisDisclosure: GTM Bud is our product. We include it alongside competitors to give you a complete picture, and we call out its limitations honestly.
AiSDR pricing prints three numbers: a $250 Solo tier, a $900 Explore plan, and a $2,500 Scale plan. The number that matters is the one that never makes the headline: Explore bills quarterly, so the real entry commitment is $2,700 upfront by straight multiplication, prepaid before your inboxes finish warming up. This guide is the brand decode: the 2026 tier ladder with sources, the quarterly-billing floor behind the $900 sticker, the per-contact math at the credit caps, what the new Solo tier says about price pressure in the category, and what a plan built around 20 LinkedIn accounts tells you about how the vendor expects volume to work. If you want the category-wide picture instead, from $499 entry agents to $3,750 enterprise contracts, that lives in our AI SDR pricing guide; this article stays on one vendor’s invoice.
One thing straight before the numbers: we have not run AiSDR on client campaigns ourselves, and aisdr.com was not directly reachable from our research environment, so this is a research-based decode with every figure attributed to the named third-party coverage that published it, and rival-authored sources flagged as such. The evaluator’s lens is first-hand, though. Our parent agency, Referral Program Pros, has booked over 7,000 meetings across more than 4,000 outbound campaigns, and we built GTM Bud on that playbook, backed by a written guarantee: 5 percent positive replies on LinkedIn or 1.5 percent on email, or a full refund. Pricing outbound for a living is why a $900 sticker attached to a quarterly contract gets a careful read.
What does AiSDR actually cost in 2026?
AiSDR costs $250 a month for Solo, $900 a month for Explore, and $2,500 a month for Scale, per usecarly’s and tooldebut’s 2026 reviews and usagepricing’s plan history. Solo covers one user, one domain, three mailboxes, and 200 AI-researched contacts a month, and the most recent coverage reports it as the only month-to-month tier. Explore and Scale require a quarterly contract paid in advance, which makes Explore a $2,700 upfront commitment per quarter by our own multiplication. Annual prepayment discounts each tier by roughly 20 percent, bringing Explore to $8,640 a year per marketbetter’s 2026 pricing breakdown and usagepricing’s history. All tiers above Solo include unlimited users, and there is no classic free trial: ZoomInfo’s pricing coverage, published by a rival data vendor, states none exists at any tier, while usecarly describes a no-card signup that paywalls at campaign launch.
Here is the ladder with sources:
| Line item | Figure | What it covers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solo, monthly | $250/mo, reported month to month | 1 user, 1 domain, 3 mailboxes, 200 AI-researched contacts/mo | usecarly 2026 review; tooldebut 2026 review |
| Explore, quarterly | $900/mo, $2,700 per quarter upfront by our multiplication | 1,200 lead credits and 1,200 AI messages/mo in earlier coverage; 800 AI-researched contacts/mo in the most recent | marketbetter 2026 breakdown; usagepricing plan history |
| Explore, annual | $8,640/yr, $720/mo after the discount | Same plan, roughly 20 percent off | marketbetter 2026 breakdown; usagepricing plan history |
| Scale, quarterly | $2,500/mo, $7,500 per quarter upfront by our multiplication | 2,500 AI-researched contacts/mo, 6 domains, 18 mailboxes, 20 LinkedIn accounts | usecarly 2026 review; unkoa 2026 review |
| Scale, annual | ~$2,000/mo, ~$24,000/yr | Same plan on annual prepayment | hackceleration 2026 pricing coverage |
| Free trial | None in the classic sense | No-card signup, paywall at campaign launch | ZoomInfo coverage (rival-published); usecarly 2026 review |
Every tier is the full agent: the system sources prospects, writes the copy, sends across email and LinkedIn, and handles replies through to a booked meeting. What changes as you climb is the contact allowance and the infrastructure allotment, not the autonomy. Whether that autonomy model fits you at all is a different question from the bill, and our AiSDR alternatives roundup handles the fit question. This article stays on the invoice.
How does the quarterly billing floor actually work?
The $900 headline is a rate, not a price. Because Explore bills quarterly in advance per usecarly’s and tooldebut’s 2026 reviews, the smallest real purchase at that tier is $2,700, and on Scale it is $7,500, both by our own multiplication. Now put that next to the ramp: independent AiSDR reviews report 30 to 60 days before new email accounts reach full sending capacity, which means somewhere between a third and two thirds of your first prepaid quarter is spent warming up rather than sending at volume. That is not a scam; warmup is physics in cold email, and every vendor’s customers live through it. But it changes what the first invoice buys. You are prepaying for a quarter in which the first month is mostly infrastructure ramp, and judging the product before the quarter ends means judging it on its slowest weeks.
The annual option sharpens the same trade. Prepaying $8,640 drops the effective rate to $720 a month, a real saving of $2,160 a year against quarterly terms by our own subtraction. The price of that saving is committing four quarters before the first one has produced a verdict. The decode: quarterly billing moves the testing risk from the vendor to you, and the annual discount pays you to move more of it. Before you prepay either, run the diligence checks in our guide to evaluating an AI SDR before you buy, because every question in it is cheaper to ask before the quarter clears.
What do the credit caps do to the per-message math?
Divide the sticker by the cap and the tiers converge. All arithmetic in this section is our own, run on the caps the coverage publishes. On the earlier metering that marketbetter’s 2026 breakdown prints, Explore’s $900 covered 1,200 AI messages a month, which is $0.75 per AI-written, AI-sent message. On the current metering that usagepricing’s plan history and the recent reviews report, Explore covers 800 AI-researched contacts, which is $1.13 per contact. Solo works out to $1.25 per contact at its 200-contact cap, and Scale to an even $1.00 at 2,500. Notice how flat that curve is: moving from Solo to Scale multiplies your spend tenfold and improves the unit price by 20 percent. You are not buying volume discounts as you climb; you are buying allowance, infrastructure, and support.
The per-contact figure is also the honest way to compare against the category, because each AiSDR contact bundles sourcing, enrichment, copywriting, and multichannel sending that cheaper tools leave to you. A dollar and change per fully worked prospect is genuinely efficient against the hours those steps consume manually. The number it cannot tell you is cost per meeting, because that depends on your list quality and offer, and the break-even arithmetic for turning contact math into meeting math lives in our AI SDR ROI breakdown.
What does the $250 Solo tier signal?
The Solo tier is new, and its existence is the most interesting number on the page. Per usagepricing’s plan history, AiSDR added Solo in mid-2026 at $250 a month with 200 AI-researched contacts, one user, one domain, and three mailboxes, and simultaneously re-metered the lineup onto AI-researched contacts. Before that, the floor was effectively $900 on a quarterly contract. The context makes the move legible: Artisan opened a self-serve tier of its Ava agent at around $250 a month per its own announcement, and the category’s entry prices have been sliding toward the point where a solo founder will try an agent on impulse. A $250 contract-free tier from a vendor that previously demanded $2,700 upfront is price pressure made visible.
Read the caps before celebrating, though. At 200 contacts a month, Solo is an evaluation tier, not an outbound program; most positioning tests need more prospects than that to produce a statistically honest read, and a single domain with three mailboxes caps safe sending volume by design. The decode: Solo exists to get you into the product and onto the ladder, and the product AiSDR actually sells, the one with the dedicated onboarding and the volume to matter, still starts at $900 on a prepaid quarter. Model Solo as a paid pilot with a real but narrow ceiling, and budget for Explore if the pilot works.
What does a 20-LinkedIn-account Scale plan tell you?
Scale’s infrastructure allotment is the plan’s confession. Per usecarly’s and unkoa’s 2026 reviews, $2,500 a month buys 2,500 AI-researched contacts spread across six domains, 18 mailboxes, and 20 LinkedIn accounts. Divide it out, our arithmetic again, and the system is built to work roughly 139 contacts per mailbox and 125 contacts per LinkedIn account per month if spread evenly. That is deliberately low per-identity volume multiplied across many identities, and it tells you exactly what the vendor believes about deliverability and platform risk: the safe way to run volume in 2026 is to whisper from twenty mouths rather than shout from one. On the email side that is standard practice. On the LinkedIn side it deserves a harder look, because LinkedIn’s help center prohibits third-party automation software outright, and 20 automated accounts is 20 separate exposures to that policy.
There is also a line item hiding in the allotment: the accounts themselves. The 20 slots are capacity to connect LinkedIn identities your team supplies, and senders doing serious outbound typically run Sales Navigator, which costs roughly $100 a month per seat based on LinkedIn’s published Premium pricing range. Filling the full allotment would add up to roughly $2,000 a month of seat cost on top of the subscription by our own multiplication, plus the human beings whose names and faces those accounts carry. Scale’s sticker is $2,500; Scale operated at capacity is a materially larger program, in both budget and organizational surface area.
How consistent is the AiSDR pricing record?
The anchors hold and the details wobble, which is worth printing precisely because most coverage smooths it over. The $250, $900, and $2,500 stickers are consistent across usecarly, tooldebut, usagepricing, hackceleration, marketbetter, and the rival-published coverage from ZoomInfo, Artisan, and landbase. Our own record agrees: our AiSDR alternatives guide and our Artisan vs 11x vs AiSDR comparison both printed the same ladder with quarterly billing and no free trial, so there is no drift between those articles and this one.
Four details do wobble. First, the meter: earlier 2026 coverage, including marketbetter’s breakdown, prints Explore at 1,200 lead credits plus 1,200 AI messages a month, while usagepricing’s plan history reports a mid-2026 re-metering onto AI-researched contacts with Explore at 800, and the most recent reviews carry the new meter. Second, the names: landbase’s breakdown, published by a rival GTM vendor, still calls the $2,500 tier Grow, which usagepricing reports was renamed Scale. Third, the annual math: ZoomInfo’s pricing coverage, rival-published, prints Explore at $10,800 a year, which contradicts the $8,640 that the widely reported 20 percent discount produces. Fourth, the support story: ZoomInfo states every plan includes a dedicated GTM engineer, while usecarly and tooldebut place that engineer on Explore and above, with Solo self-serve. Reputation context for all of it: AiSDR’s G2 listing carries strong ratings across a few dozen reviews as of mid-2026, thinner validation than the category leaders. As always, prices and terms move; verify the live checkout before you budget.
What AiSDR’s price never includes
AiSDR’s subscription is unusually complete for the category, which makes the gaps more specific. The LinkedIn identities are yours to supply, with their seat costs and their policy exposure. The warmup weeks are yours to wait through, inside a quarter you have already paid for. The targeting definition is yours to get right, and in a fully autonomous system it is the one input that decides whether 800 AI-researched contacts a month compounds pipeline or burns addressable market under your brand’s name. And the billing structure is yours to carry: outside the Solo pilot, the minimum honest test costs $2,700 before the first positive reply arrives.
If the structure is what stops you rather than the product, that is the gap we built for. GTM Bud as an AI SDR for small business runs the same upstream work, prospect research against your ICP and campaigns written from the playbooks our agency ran across 4,000+ campaigns, with one structural difference: you review and approve every campaign before it launches, so the autonomy risk never ships unseen. It costs $600 a month per LinkedIn account on monthly terms with a 14-day trial, and it carries the written guarantee: 5 percent positive replies on LinkedIn or 1.5 percent on email, or a full refund. The honest limitation is the mirror image of AiSDR’s pitch: it is reviewed done-for-you execution on LinkedIn and email, not a hands-off conversational agent, and if unsupervised end-to-end autonomy wired into HubSpot is precisely what you want, AiSDR is the closer fit.
Frequently asked questions about AiSDR pricing
Does AiSDR have a free trial?
Not in the classic sense. ZoomInfo’s pricing coverage, published by a rival data vendor, states there is no free trial at any tier, and usecarly’s 2026 review describes the actual path: you can sign up without a card, chat with the Ami assistant, and build a campaign, but the paywall appears when you launch it. One 2026 review lists a limited 7-day email trial, so the record wobbles. Treat the no-card signup as a product tour rather than a trial, because nothing sends until you pay.
Can you pay for AiSDR monthly?
Only at the bottom of the ladder, per the most recent coverage. usecarly’s and tooldebut’s 2026 reviews both report the $250 Solo plan as month to month with no commitment, while Explore and Scale require a quarterly contract paid in advance. One pricing index reports Solo on quarterly billing instead, so the terms are not perfectly consistent across sources. If a monthly structure with real volume is the requirement, that is the shape of done-for-you outbound rather than this ladder, so compare both before committing a quarter.
How much does AiSDR cost per year?
On annual prepayment, marketbetter’s 2026 breakdown and usagepricing’s plan history both put Explore at $8,640 a year, which is $720 a month after the roughly 20 percent discount the coverage reports across tiers. ZoomInfo’s rival-published coverage prints $10,800 for the same plan, a conflict worth noting. For Scale, hackceleration’s 2026 pricing coverage reports an annual option around $2,000 a month, or $24,000 a year. Where sources disagree, treat the lower figures as negotiating anchors rather than facts.
What is an AI-researched contact in AiSDR pricing?
It is the usage meter the current plans are priced on: a prospect the system sources, enriches, writes to, and works across email and LinkedIn, counted once per month. usagepricing’s plan history reports that AiSDR moved to this single meter in mid-2026, replacing the earlier model that counted lead search credits and AI messages separately. The practical effect is that cost scales with how many new prospects you work, not how many touches each receives, which favors deep multi-step sequences over wide shallow blasts.
Does every AiSDR plan include a dedicated GTM engineer?
The record is split. ZoomInfo’s pricing coverage, published by a rival data vendor, states that all plans include a dedicated GTM engineer, email infrastructure setup, and 24/7 Slack support. The most recent 2026 reviews from usecarly and tooldebut disagree, describing Solo as self-serve with email and in-app chat, and placing the dedicated engineer and Slack support on Explore and above. If hands-on onboarding is why you are buying, get the support terms for your tier in writing before the quarter is prepaid.
Prepay the quarter, or pay for the replies
The AiSDR pricing decode reduces to three findings. First, the anchors are solid: $250 Solo, $900 Explore, $2,500 Scale, printed consistently across independent and rival-published coverage alike, with a roughly 20 percent annual discount and no classic free trial. Second, the structure is the story: Explore’s quarterly billing turns a $900 sticker into a $2,700 upfront commitment that overlaps the 30-to-60-day warmup ramp, the per-contact math stays near a dollar at every tier, and Scale’s 20-LinkedIn-account architecture quietly adds seat costs and policy exposure the sticker never shows. Third, the new Solo tier is a signal more than a product: proof the category’s entry price is collapsing, with caps that make it a pilot rather than a program. If you can absorb a prepaid quarter and you want hands-off autonomy wired into HubSpot, AiSDR’s ladder is coherent and its coverage is unusually consistent on the numbers. If what you actually want to buy is replies on monthly terms with a veto over what goes out under your name, run the side-by-side on our AiSDR alternative comparison, where $600 a month per LinkedIn account, a 14-day trial, and the 5 percent LinkedIn or 1.5 percent email reply guarantee are priced against exactly this ladder. The cheapest quarter and the cheapest meeting are different purchases, and only one of them is refundable.