Saleshandy vs Artisan: Which Should You Choose?

Saleshandy and Artisan both sell AI outreach with a contact database behind it. The resemblance ends at the price tag and who does the work.

Here’s a closer look at both, plus a smarter third option for an AI SDR.

What is Saleshandy?

Saleshandy is a deliverability-first cold email platform with a B2B database and credits bundled into every plan. 1 subscription covers a sending engine, an 852M+ contact Lead Finder, an AI Sequence Copilot, email verification, warm-up, a dialer, and a CRM. The mechanism that sets it apart commercially is its credit math, where 1 credit reveals a verified work email through an 8-source enrichment waterfall. Unverified results cost nothing. Saleshandy carries a 4.6/5 rating across 773+ G2 reviews.

Pros

• 1 credit covers the whole enrichment job: A single credit runs an 8-provider waterfall, verifies the result including catchall verification, and delivers it. Misses cost nothing.
• Unlimited sending mailboxes on every plan: There’s no per-inbox fee at any tier, and sender rotation, unlimited warm-up, dynamic IP addresses, and spintax all start at the entry plan.
• Published pricing and a trial that doesn’t ask for a card: Every tier below Enterprise is self-serve, with a 7-day free trial and no credit card required to start.
• Multichannel inside a single sequence: Email, calls, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp run in 1 sequence, alongside manual tasks you can assign to a salesperson and subsequences that fire based on how a prospect responds.

Cons

• Starter is 1 seat with a hard sending cap: The entry plan covers 1 user, 2,000 active prospects, 6,000 emails a month, and sender rotation across 10 email accounts. Adding a second person moves you to Pro at more than double the price.
• Verification and AI credits arrive once rather than monthly: Starter includes 500 email verification credits and 100 AI credits as one-time grants. Reviews note the credits run out and have to be bought again.
• The AI assists the campaign rather than running it: Saleshandy’s AI assists the operator through Sequence Copilot, AI variants, AI lead search, and AI enrichment, so someone on your team still owns targeting, sequencing, and reply handling.

Pricing

Starter runs $34 a month billed annually or $41 monthly, and it covers 1 user, 2,000 active prospects, 6,000 emails, and 1,500 Lead Finder credits. Pro at $76 a month annually opens that to 10 users and 4,000 monthly credits, and every published plan is self-serve with a 7-day trial. The email infrastructure add-on is the line item to watch, since it starts at $3.49 per mailbox per month but requires a minimum purchase of 25 mailboxes plus $14 per domain per year.

What is Artisan?

Artisan sells Ava, an autonomous AI BDR that runs the outbound workflow end to end, positioned as a consolidation play against the usual 5-contract stack of data provider, enrichment layer, sequencer, dialer, and intent tool. Ava identifies and researches prospects, writes 1:1 outreach from that research, runs email and LinkedIn sequences, handles replies including objections, and books meetings straight onto calendars, with approval gates available at every stage. Underneath sits a 250M+ verified contact database plus 200M+ local businesses, waterfall email and phone enrichment across 22+ sources, ML-based lead scoring, and continuous multivariate testing on copy. Artisan holds a 4.1/5 rating across 52+ G2 reviews.

Pros

• Autonomy you can dial up gradually: Approval gates sit at every stage of Ava’s workflow, with escalation rules for when a person steps in. A cautious team can start with review switched on and loosen it as results come in.
• The full data layer is in every plan: 250M+ verified B2B contacts and 200M+ local businesses, with waterfall email and phone enrichment across 22+ sources and custom AI enrichment for details like tech stack and recent funding. None of it is tier-gated.
• CRM sync across the business tiers: The Salesforce and HubSpot integration syncs both ways, pulls CRM records into campaigns for personalization, and writes activity back while updating stages.
• Onboarding rollout on the business tiers: Team, Scale, and Enterprise all include CSM support in a shared Slack channel, guided onboarding, and sending infrastructure sized to the motion, with a dedicated CSM and CRM setup starting at Scale.

Cons

• Published pricing stops where the business tiers start: The Startups tab lists Free, Intern, and Employee with real figures, and Free explores and enriches lists rather than sending campaigns. Move up to Team, Scale, or Enterprise volume and the page switches to pricing scoped on your plan behind a talk-to-sales button.
• Credits meter every action Ava takes: Research, enrichment, each message, and each reply all draw from 1 monthly balance, delivered upfront on annual billing. G2 reviews describe learning to spend credits efficiently and getting asked for credits at every turn, so a heavy month can drain the balance before it resets.
• The dialer needs human callers and costs per seat: Artisan’s framing is that Ava emails and your team dials. The AI dialer is a per-seat add-on billed separately, so calling capacity costs both seats and your team’s time.

Pricing

Artisan runs 2 pricing tracks. Startups see a self-serve ladder, with Free at $0 and no credit card, Intern at $250 a month, and Employee at $600 a month. Businesses and Enterprises need a demo and custom quote, with credits, mailboxes, and dialer seats billed on top.

Saleshandy or Artisan: Which should you choose?

Both tools are AI outreach with a database attached, so they sit in the same category. The decision splits on something else. 

You’re choosing between a system your team operates and a service that operates itself, and budget follows from that answer rather than driving it.

Choose Saleshandy if…

You need to start sending this week without a sales call

Every published Saleshandy plan is self-serve, and the 7-day trial doesn’t ask for a credit card. You can sign up, connect mailboxes, pull a list from Lead Finder, and have a sequence running the same afternoon.

For a founder or a 1-person sales function testing whether outbound is a viable channel at all, that speed is the whole point. The entry price of $34 a month billed annually keeps the experiment cheap enough that a month of flat results costs you very little. If the answer turns out to be no, you’ve spent the price of a team lunch finding out.

Your outbound is email-led and you want the data on the same bill

Lead Finder credits are included monthly rather than sold as a second subscription, at 1,500 a month on Starter and 4,000 on Pro. That single credit covers an 8-provider waterfall plus verification, and a lookup that returns nothing costs you zero, which matters when your source lists are patchy.

Unlimited sending mailboxes with warm-up included means you can scale sending volume without a per-inbox fee eating the savings. For a team whose primary channel is cold email and whose main constraint is budget, 1 bill covering prospecting and sending is the cleaner setup. Assembling a data subscription and a sender separately costs more and takes longer to wire up.

Choose Artisan if…

You want the outbound motion handed over rather than assisted

Ava is built to run the workflow end to end. It finds prospects, researches them, writes 1:1 outreach from that research, sends the sequences, handles the replies including objections, and books meetings onto calendars without a person driving each step.

The approval gates let you keep a hand on the wheel at the start and hand over more as the results justify it. That suits a team where nobody has the hours to run campaigns properly and where the real cost of the current setup is the work not getting done. You’re buying the outcome rather than the machinery.

You have the volume and a team who’ll work the dialer

Artisan’s entry business tier is scoped at roughly 2,500 leads contacted a month, so the pricing assumes real outbound volume. A company that can’t reach that many target accounts a month will pay for capacity it doesn’t use.

The dialer is the other half of the fit. Artisan’s explicit position is that Ava handles email and your team handles the phone. The model works best when you have people who will work the warm leads Ava queues up.

Add the CSM support and guided onboarding included on every plan, and the fit is a team ready to run a structured, sales-led rollout.

Why AiSDR might be a smarter third option

There’s a third shape this decision can take. Saleshandy gives your team the machinery and expects them to drive it. Artisan drives it, from a free tier up to a plan you scope on a sales call. 

AiSDR sits between those two: the strategy gets built for you, the list gets found on demand, and the sending runs across every channel your buyers use.

Ami AI Strategist

Ami closes a gap that both tools above leave open. Saleshandy’s AI drafts copy inside a sequence you already designed, and Ava executes a motion you scoped with a CSM, but neither builds the strategy itself. Ami does that thinking upstream instead.

Ami turns your website, offer, CRM data, and past campaigns into a strategy on its own. It returns specific audiences and niches worth chasing, plus complete campaigns covering messaging angles, sequences, and targeting parameters.

Ami is trained on more than 20,000 campaigns AiSDR has run, so the recommendations come from plays already tested in the market. The analysis takes about 20 minutes, and you review and launch in 2 clicks. 

80% of AiSDR customers use Ami rather than building campaigns by hand, which is the practical signal that it removes real work.

Ami decides what to look for, then hands that brief to Live AI search.

Live AI search

AiSDR builds the list on demand instead of asking you to search a static database. 

Saleshandy’s Lead Finder runs 852M+ contacts, and Artisan’s sits at 250M+ contacts plus 200M+ local businesses. Either way, you’re trusting that a stockpile collected before you needed it still holds good records.

With AiSDR, you describe the audience in plain text, even an ultra-niche one, and live AI research goes and finds it, with contact data valid as of today. That matters most when your ICP is narrow enough that a static database returns a thin list and part of it has gone stale since it was collected.

It also means the list reflects the brief Ami just wrote rather than whatever filters a database happens to support. Other vendors advertise how many records they hold. AiSDR finds the people when you need them.

Intent & CRM data

AiSDR pulls website visitors, LinkedIn profile visitors, LinkedIn social engagement, and LinkedIn keyword activity into 1 signal set. Outreach fires when someone is showing they have the problem you solve, which is the timing you’d otherwise have to assemble yourself.

The HubSpot and Salesforce integrations go deeper than a sync. AiSDR processes, scores, and enriches your account data for both inbound and outbound leads, then reaches out only to accounts that qualify.

The result is outreach that reads as well timed rather than unsolicited. Enrichment can draw on any publicly available web data, so the context inside a message is something a human could go verify. It’s part of why AiSDR sees a 9.22% response rate and a 5.63% positive response rate.

Campaign Builder with multichannel conditional sequencing

AiSDR runs email, LinkedIn messages, connection requests, InMails, and calls in 1 sequence, then adds AI-generated video, voice notes, text, and memes as mediums inside that flow. Channel coverage is where the 2 tools above split, and where the add-ons stack up.

The builder is drag-and-drop with conditional logic when you need it, and touchpoints are unlimited so you can stretch a sequence to match your sales cycle.

AiSDR also handles the infrastructure that usually gets billed separately: lookalike mailboxes, continuous warmup, bi-weekly deliverability tests, and inbox health monitoring. AiSDR processes replies, objections, and unsubscribes automatically until the goal is met.

In practice, that replaces 8+ standalone tools and gets a first campaign live in about 30 minutes.