11x vs Salesforge: Which Should You Choose?

Both 11x and Salesforge sell an AI SDR that runs outbound end to end, each with a named agent at the center of the pitch – 11x has Alice, and Salesforge has Agent Frank. 

We compared them on their products, pricing, and results.

What is 11x?

11x sells what it calls digital workers for go-to-market teams, positioning its agents as job functions rather than tools your team operates. Alice, the flagship, builds audiences, researches each prospect, writes and sends multi-channel outreach, handles replies, books meetings, and syncs activity back to the CRM. It runs on a 3-layer stack: live web search paired with a database 11x describes as 400M+ verified contacts, an intelligence layer reading account events like funding and hiring, and managed Gmail mailboxes it warms and rotates. 11x holds a 4.4/5 on G2 across 33+ reviews.

Pros

• Sending infrastructure comes bundled: 11x includes managed Gmail mailboxes, domain setup, warmup, inbox rotation, and monitoring on Growth, Pro, and Enterprise alike. You’re not buying a separate deliverability stack.
• Bi-directional CRM sync on every tier: Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, and Zoho sync both ways. Activities, outcomes, and transcripts map to your existing fields rather than landing in a generic notes object.
• Coverage past cold outbound: The platform runs net-new prospecting, inbound conversion, account expansion, and dormant reactivation. Each motion gets its own configuration.

Cons

• No self-serve path and no trial: All 3 tiers route to “Talk to sales.” A June 2026 Trustpilot reviewer describes an engagement positioned as a pilot that shifted late to requiring a full annual commitment.
• Message quality slips at volume: Reviews across G2, Trustpilot, and Reddit through the first half of 2026 describe output that reads templated. One independent test of 200 leads found roughly 24% of emails carried personalization the reviewer called meaningful.
• The operating load is heavier than the autonomous label suggests: A Trustpilot reviewer who spent $9,000 sending 9,000 messages concluded that using Alice well would take a full-time person watching targeting and messaging. 11x’s own docs point to 1-2 weeks for initial workflow automation and 6-8 weeks for full integration, against the 2-week standard onboarding its pricing page advertises.

Pricing

11x’s Growth plan starts at $3,750 a month billed annually, covering up to 5 end users and 2,000 new prospects a month. Pricing runs per lead contacted rather than per message sent, so a 3-touch sequence and a 30-touch sequence cost the same. 11x bundles mailboxes, warmup, CRM sync, and onboarding with no setup fee, but annual is the default term and there’s no trial or self-serve checkout.

What is Salesforge?

Salesforge leads with Agent Frank, an AI SDR built for teams that want autonomous outbound without an enterprise contract, and you set him up by defining an ICP and uploading a knowledge base of brochures, docs, and pitch materials. Frank then prospects from what Salesforge describes as a 500M+ contact search engine, writes personalized email and LinkedIn outreach, sends across rotated inboxes, and handles replies. He runs in Auto-Pilot without supervision or in Co-Pilot, where he drafts and waits for your approval, and Salesforge is unusually direct about fit, targeting deal sizes between $5K and $100K at startups, SMBs, and mid-market companies. The Salesforge platform holds a 4.6/5 on G2 across 137+ reviews.

Pros

• Priced per active contact: Frank bills on how many prospects he’s working at any moment, starting at 1,000. Adding people to your team costs nothing, and the bill tracks pipeline capacity rather than headcount.
• Co-Pilot mode lowers the risk of going autonomous: You can require human approval on every message rather than committing to full autonomy. That matters when your ICP is tight enough that one generic message costs more than it saves.
• Multi-ESP sending fallback: Megaforge, the premium infrastructure built for Frank, auto-distributes sending across Gmail, Outlook, Mailforge, and Infraforge. A burned domain has somewhere to fall back to.

Cons

• CRM sync sits at the platform layer, apart from the agent: Salesforge positions Frank as a standalone agent that runs without CRM dependency. Salesforge itself does publish native CRM connectors for Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Attio, and folk, so the sync runs through the platform layer rather than through Frank. Reviewers using the HubSpot connector ask for more control over deal creation and contact status updates.
• No buying signals: Frank sends personalized email at scale. But a June 2026 review rating him 3.9/5 describes no mechanism to tell a prospect who just raised funding from one sitting in a hiring freeze.
• Email infrastructure sits outside the subscription: Salesforge’s own onboarding puts agent setup at a few hours, then requires roughly 2 weeks of email warmup before Frank can send. Warmup itself runs in-house at no extra cost, but Salesforge bills mailboxes separately, from $33 a month for 10 through Infraforge or $69 a month for 20 through Megaforge.

Pricing

Agent Frank starts at $499 a month billed annually, or $599 billed quarterly, covering 1,000 active contacts. Salesforge says that works out to 2,000-2,500 new leads and 6,000-7,500 personalized emails a month. Salesforge gates Frank behind a demo with no free trial, so the effective minimum is roughly $1,797 at the quarterly rate, and email infrastructure plus the separate sequencing platform both sit outside that price.

11x or Salesforge: Which should you choose?

Both sell the same core thing, so this is a true head-to-head. The split is scale and commitment. One asks for an annual contract and hands back a managed outbound function. The other asks for a quarter and leaves more of the plumbing to you.

Choose 11x if…

You want data, sending, and execution under one contract

11x bundles the pieces most teams buy separately. Contact data, intent signals, managed mailboxes with domain setup and warmup, inbox rotation, deliverability monitoring, and bi-directional CRM sync all come with the subscription on every tier, with no setup fee or per-integration charge on top. That’s a real advantage if your alternative is stitching together a data provider, an infrastructure vendor, and a sequencer, then owning the seams between them. It suits teams with budget above roughly $3,750 a month for outbound tooling, and a RevOps owner who can keep the CRM clean enough for the agent to work from.

Cold outbound is only part of the job

Alice covers 4 motions, each with its own configuration: net-new prospecting, converting inbound demand you’ve already paid for, expanding existing accounts, and reviving dormant or closed-lost opportunities. Teams consolidating several point tools get more surface area than a cold-email-only agent gives them. Multi-language outreach across 105+ languages sits at Pro and above, which helps if you’re selling into EMEA or APAC from one instance. And if you’re already covering inbound with Julian, 11x’s inbound phone agent, one agent creates demand while the other catches it.

Choose Salesforge if…

You want an AI SDR without an enterprise commitment

Agent Frank starts at $499 a month billed annually, putting a working autonomous agent inside a budget most small teams can approve without a procurement cycle. Billing runs per active contact rather than per seat, so cost tracks how many prospects Frank is working rather than how many people you’ve hired. Quarterly billing caps the downside at roughly $1,797 if it doesn’t work out. Salesforge is direct about who this fits: deal sizes between $5K and $100K, decision-makers at startups through mid-market, and a target universe of at least 3,000 businesses.

You’d rather approve messages before they go out

Co-Pilot mode lets Frank draft everything and wait for your sign-off. That’s the sensible setting when your ICP is narrow enough that one generic message burns an account you can’t replace. You can switch to Auto-Pilot once you trust the output.

The configuration surface backs that up with 9 tone options, 21 named languages, and operating hours set to a specific time zone and days. You also control which sources Frank personalizes from, whether that’s a prospect’s website, their blog, or their LinkedIn activity. And Frank works from documents you upload rather than inferring your positioning from your homepage, which helps when the product is technical.

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Drop your URL and we’ll send back outbound strategies, a few real target companies, and a pitch written to you as a prospect.

Then reply with questions, pushback, or anything else on your mind. The AI takes it from there.

No call required. The AI handles every reply itself.

Why AiSDR might be a smarter third option

Both tools ask you to bring the strategy. 

11x wants a defined ICP and a clean CRM before Alice can work. Salesforge wants an ICP and a knowledge base uploaded before Frank sends. 

AiSDR starts a step earlier, with an agent that works out who’s worth chasing and what to say.

Ami AI Strategist

The gap both tools leave is the part that takes years on the job to learn: 

• what a good ICP looks like
• what messaging lands
• when a campaign needs tearing up

AiSDR trained Ami on the 14,000 campaigns it has run. It closes that gap by reviewing your offer, your CRM data, and your past campaigns, then suggesting specific audiences and niches worth going after based on your goals. The AI takes about 20 minutes to analyze your site and build a full campaign with messaging angles, sequences, and targeting parameters.

You review and launch in 2 clicks. 80% of AiSDR customers use AI Strategist rather than building campaigns by hand, and execution runs 6x faster than manual. That’s the difference between buying an execution engine and buying the judgment to point it somewhere.

Live AI search

Salesforge works from a fixed 500M+ contact pool, and 11x pairs live web search with a 400M+ database it asks you to trust is still current. 

AiSDR builds the list on demand instead. Live AI search takes a plain-text query and goes and finds the audience, including ultra-niche ICPs that don’t map cleanly onto database filters. Contact data is valid as of today.

Other vendors advertise how many leads sit in their database and ask you to believe it’s still relevant. 

AiSDR finds it in real time, on the spot. For your team, that means the list stops being the constraint. When Ami suggests a niche worth testing, you don’t have to check whether a vendor collected those people 18 months ago.

Intent & CRM data

One of Frank’s documented gaps is that he can’t tell a prospect who just raised funding from one sitting in a hiring freeze. Frank’s CRM connectors also sit in the platform layer rather than in the agent itself, so the signal and the pipeline stay a step apart. 

AiSDR works from signals you can see and verify. Website visitors, LinkedIn profile visitors, LinkedIn social engagement, and LinkedIn keywords all sit in one place, so you’re targeting the pain rather than the profile.

In-depth HubSpot and Salesforce integrations let you process, score, and enrich account data for inbound and outbound leads. The AI scores accounts so outreach only goes to the ones that qualify. Timing is what makes that show up in the numbers. AiSDR campaigns convert at 1-3% against an industry average of 0.1-0.5%.

Campaign Builder with multichannel conditional sequencing

11x reviewers describe an operating load heavier than the autonomous label suggests, and Salesforge runs email and LinkedIn as its only channels. 

AiSDR’s Campaign Builder covers email, LinkedIn messages, connection requests and InMails, and calls. It adds text, AI-generated video, voice notes, and memes as mediums inside the same flow. You can send an email, follow up on LinkedIn 15 minutes later, drop a voice note, and close with a meme, all in one sequence.

The builder is drag-and-drop with conditional logic when you need it, and touchpoints are unlimited, so the sequence matches your sales cycle. 

Behind it, AiSDR handles what agencies charge thousands for: procuring and configuring lookalike mailboxes, continuous warmup, bi-weekly deliverability tests, and inbox health monitoring. Campaigns go live 5-7 days from kickoff.

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