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.
Jason AI pricing has one headline number, a reported $500 a month, and two surprises hiding behind it. The first is that the price is a meter, not a flat fee: it scales with active contacts, so your list size moves the bill. The second is that the meter runs on a separate invoice from Reply.io itself, because the AI SDR agent is not a feature of the $49 or $89 seats; it is its own product. Lemlist’s 2026 review, written by a rival sender, puts it right in its title: four plans, and a $500 AI SDR beside them. This guide decodes the reported figures, prints the places the sources disagree, and runs the per-meeting math no pricing page will run for you.
We read these numbers as operators, not as spectators. 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 a reply-rate guarantee forces you to understand exactly what a contact, a reply, and a meeting cost, and that is the lens on every figure below.
One sourcing note before the numbers: Reply.io’s own pricing page was not directly reachable during this research, so every figure here is a reported one from named 2026 third-party coverage, with rival-published sources flagged as such. Verify the live checkout before you budget.
What is Jason AI, and why is it a separate bill?
Jason AI is Reply.io’s autonomous AI SDR agent: software that sources prospects from a built-in B2B database, writes personalized outreach, sends across email and LinkedIn, handles follow-ups, and books meetings, in either an autopilot mode that runs alone or a copilot mode that waits for your approval. The pricing fact that matters is that the agent is not included in Reply.io’s regular seats. Valley, a rival AI SDR vendor, states in its 2026 pricing guide that Jason AI is not bundled into any Sales Outreach plan: the Email Volume seat at a reported $49 per user per month and the Multichannel seat at $89, per FullEnrich and Hack’celeration 2026 guides, buy the sequencing platform your reps operate, while the agent bills separately on contact-based plans starting at a reported $500 a month. Buyers who assume the seat includes the agent are budgeting for half the invoice.
The AI features that do ride along on regular seats, drafting, reply handling, sequence generation, are assistants, not the agent. The distinction sounds pedantic until the invoice arrives with two lines on it. Our full Reply.io pricing breakdown decodes the seat side of that invoice, including the $69 per account LinkedIn add-on and the $187 working multichannel seat; this article decodes the agent side.
How much does Jason AI cost in 2026?
Jason AI costs a reported $500 per month on annual billing for the Starter plan, or $800 per month billed monthly, per Mailtrap’s 2026 review, with SalesRobot, a rival LinkedIn automation vendor, reporting the same $800 monthly start and annual billing saving up to 40 percent. The Growth tier is reported at $1,500 per month on annual billing for 5,000 active contacts, with Valley’s rival-published pricing table printing $2,500 as its monthly-billing equivalent and a 10,000-contact step at $3,000 annual or $5,000 monthly. Hack’celeration reads Growth more loosely at roughly $1,500 a month covering 5,000 to 10,000 contacts, and Mailtrap frames it as a $1,500 to $3,000 range. The two-readings pattern that confused earlier coverage, $500 against $800 and $1,500 against $2,500, resolves cleanly once Mailtrap’s billing-period split is applied: they are the same tiers on different terms.
Here is the reported map in one table:
| Plan | Reported annual billing | Reported monthly billing | Reported active contacts | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI SDR Starter | $500/mo | $800/mo | Disputed: 1,000 or 500, see below | Mailtrap; SalesRobot (rival); Stamina (rival) |
| AI SDR Growth (5,000) | $1,500/mo | $2,500/mo | 5,000 | Valley (rival); Modern Outreach; Hack’celeration |
| AI SDR Growth (10,000) | $3,000/mo | $5,000/mo | 10,000 | Valley (rival) table; Hack’celeration reads lower |
| Agency AI SDR | $500/mo per client | Not printed | Not printed | UsagePricing directory |
Two disputes stay open after that reconciliation. First, the Starter contact cap: Stamina, SalesRobot, and Modern Outreach report about 1,000 active contacts at the $500 annual tier, while the Salesforge Jason AI review, another rival vendor, describes Starter as 500 active contacts with one LinkedIn account included. Both cannot be current at once, and at $500 a month the difference is a factor of two in unit price, so we print both rather than picking. Second, the low-end outliers: earlier 2026 captures printed figures as low as $139 per user per month from MarketBetter and a $259 AI SDR plan from FullEnrich, readings our pricing breakdown treats as repackaging snapshots rather than coexisting prices. The only safe number is the one on your own live quote, in writing, with the contact cap beside it.
What does the active-contacts meter actually meter?
An active contact is a prospect the agent is currently working in a campaign, and that definition is what makes Jason AI pricing a meter instead of a subscription. Your bill does not track your team size or your results; it tracks how many prospects are in motion at once. By our own division of the reported figures, the $500 annual Starter at 1,000 active contacts prices each worked prospect at $0.50 per month, or $1.00 under the 500-contact reading, while the $1,500 Growth tier at 5,000 contacts drops it to $0.30. Finished and paused prospects fall off the meter, so disciplined list hygiene stretches a tier, while a growing pipeline pushes straight through it. The cap is less a feature boundary than a throughput limit on how much pipeline you are allowed to run at once, and it rewards scale while punishing exactly the buyer the sticker attracts.
Here is the thing: a serious outbound motion burns through the entry cap fast. A solo founder cycling a few hundred new prospects a week is at 1,000 active contacts within the first serious month, and past the cap the choices are top-up credits or a tier jump that triples the bill. The jump lands whether or not reply rates earned it, which is the structural complaint with every contact-metered agent in the category: the pricing unit is list size, but the thing you are buying outbound for is meetings. When the two diverge, you pay for the divergence.
The annual term compounds the meter. By our own multiplication, the $500 annual Starter is a $6,000 commitment and the $800 monthly route reaches the same twelve months at $9,600, a $3,600 spread that is the real price of keeping your exit open. With 2026 review roundups repeatedly flagging a three-month minimum contract and a no-refund policy among the most cited complaints, the meter, the term, and the refund policy together decide who carries the risk of a failed test. It is you.
What does the $500 tier actually include?
The reported inclusions are genuinely strong, which is why the tier anchors the category. Stamina’s 2026 review, flagged as a rival vendor, lists the $500 starting price as covering 24/7 operation, real-time B2B data, unlimited warmup, and unlimited mailboxes. The unlimited mailboxes and warmup reading is corroborated across the review crop, including the Capterra listing for the agent, which describes unlimited mailboxes with warmup and access to both autopilot and copilot modes. Compare that with the seat side of Reply.io, where FullEnrich and Hack’celeration report LinkedIn automation billing separately at $69 per account per month, and the agent tier starts to look like the cleaner package: data, sending infrastructure, and the AI in one line.
The platform underneath earns real ratings too. Reply.io holds 4.6 out of 5 on G2 across roughly 1,500 reviews per 2026 snapshots, and the agent has its own listing on G2 and Capterra, where the agent-specific review base is still thin. What the inclusions list does not cover is performance: Salesforge’s review roundup of critical feedback flags AI output quality, off-target contact filters, and billing friction around auto-renewal and minimums as the recurring complaints, each from a rival with its own agent to sell, but consistent with the complaint record our Jason AI review and alternatives guide compiled independently.
The honest per-meeting math
No vendor in this category publishes cost per meeting, so run the scenario yourself before you sign. Every calculation in this section is our own arithmetic, using the reported prices above and our guarantee floors as benchmark reply rates. Take the $500 annual Starter at the 1,000-contact reading, fully utilized. At a 1.5 percent positive reply rate, the floor we guarantee on email, 1,000 worked contacts return 15 positive replies, which prices a positive reply at about $33. At a 5 percent positive reply rate, our LinkedIn floor, the same contacts return 50 positive replies at $10 each. If half of positive replies become booked meetings, an assumption, not a measurement, the tier delivers between 7 and 25 meetings, or roughly $20 to $67 per meeting.
Those are defensible numbers if the agent performs. The honest caveats run the other way. On the 500-contact reading of Starter, every figure doubles: $67 per positive reply at the email floor, $133 per meeting at the half-book assumption. On monthly billing at $800, add 60 percent to all of it. And if the agent lands under the floor rates, the reported no-refund policy means the meter keeps running anyway. The math is not an argument against Jason AI; it is the spreadsheet the three-month minimum expects you not to build.
Who should pay the meter, and who should not?
Pay it if you are a mid-market team already operating Reply.io, your prospect volume sits comfortably inside a tier, and you have someone to own the agent’s targeting and output quality. The consolidated data, warmup, and mailbox stack at $500 on annual terms undercuts assembling the same pieces separately, and the autopilot-plus-copilot design is one of the more complete in the category.
Skip it if you are a founder or a two-to-three person team whose list size is still finding its level. The meter punishes growth spikes, the annual term and reported no-refund policy price a failed test in four figures, and the tier jump from $500 to $1,500 arrives on list size, not on results. Teams in that position are usually choosing between an AI SDR for small business with monthly terms and a done-for-you outbound service where the operating labor is in the price. The deciding question is not which sticker is lower; it is which pricing unit, contacts, seats, or sending capacity, maps to how your pipeline actually grows.
Frequently asked questions about Jason AI pricing
Does Jason AI require an annual contract?
The agent sells on both terms, but the gap is large: Mailtrap reports Starter at $500 per month on annual billing against $800 billed monthly, and SalesRobot, a rival LinkedIn tool, reports annual billing saving up to 40 percent. On top of that, 2026 review roundups repeatedly flag a three-month minimum contract and a no-refund policy. The advertised $500 is a $6,000 twelve-month commitment by our own multiplication, and the true month-to-month test costs $800 plus the minimum term.
Why do sources disagree on the Jason AI Starter contact cap?
Because the packaging appears to have moved between captures. Stamina, SalesRobot, and Modern Outreach describe the $500 Starter tier covering about 1,000 active contacts, while the Salesforge Jason AI review describes the same tier at 500 active contacts with one LinkedIn account included. Both readings come from rival vendors, and both cannot be current at once. The cap decides your real per-contact price, so verify it on the live checkout before budgeting either number.
Is Jason AI included with a Reply.io Multichannel seat?
No, not the autonomous agent. Valley, itself a rival AI SDR vendor, states in its 2026 pricing guide that the Jason AI SDR is not bundled into any of the regular Sales Outreach plans. The $49 Email Volume and $89 Multichannel seats carry AI-assist features like drafting, but the agent that prospects, sends, and books on its own is a separate contact-based bill. If the second invoice is the dealbreaker, our Reply.io alternative comparison maps the single-bill options.
How much does Jason AI cost per booked meeting?
No source publishes a per-meeting figure, so any number is scenario math. By our own calculation, the $500 annual Starter working 1,000 active contacts at a 1.5 percent positive reply rate yields 15 positive replies, about $33 per positive reply, and roughly $67 per meeting if half of those book. At the 500-contact reading of the same tier, every figure doubles. The spread is why the contact cap, not the sticker, is the number to negotiate.
What is the cheapest way to test an AI SDR before committing to one?
Prioritize monthly terms and a defined workload over the lowest sticker, because a $500 annual plan with a reported three-month minimum and no-refund policy prices a failed test in four figures. Month-to-month options include the $800 monthly reading of Jason AI Starter, and GTM Bud’s AI outbound sales tool at $600 per month per connected LinkedIn account with a 14-day trial and a written reply-rate guarantee, so the vendor carries the testing risk instead of you.
Pay for the meter, or pay for the outcome
The decoded version of Jason AI pricing: a capable agent sold on a contact meter, at a reported $500 a month on annual billing or $800 monthly per Mailtrap and SalesRobot, with a Growth step to $1,500 or $2,500 on the same split, a Starter cap the rival-published sources cannot agree is 1,000 contacts or 500, and a reported three-month minimum with no refunds deciding who pays for a miss. None of that makes it a bad product. It makes it a product whose bill moves with your list size, billed separately from the Reply.io seats you may also need, and priced so that the honest per-meeting math only works if performance lands well above the floor.
If what your budget line actually says is meetings, invert the purchase. GTM Bud charges a flat $600 per month per connected LinkedIn account, covering up to 1,000 leads contacted per month, on monthly terms with a 14-day trial: prospect research, copy built from our agency’s 4,000-plus campaigns, and coordinated LinkedIn and email sending included, with no contact meter and no second invoice. Every campaign carries the written guarantee of 5 percent positive replies on LinkedIn or 1.5 percent on email, or a full refund. The honest limitation is that it hands you the positive replies rather than conversing autonomously, and there is no dialer or SMS step. Put the two models side by side on our Reply.io alternative page and price the meter against the outcome.