Artisan vs Relevance AI (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Artisan if

• Fits if you want an AI rep to work outbound email from your own domains
• Works for a small sales team that will buy through a quote

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want a price: Team, Scale and Enterprise are all quoted
• Not for you if you want to try it free, as no free plan or trial is shown
• Watch out: plans are sized to about 2,500 and 6,000 leads contacted a month
• Pricey if you want calls: the dialer is an add-on priced per seat
• Watch out: Ava sends in your reps' names, so mistakes land under their names

Pick Relevance AI if

• Fits if your sales or support team wants research, outreach and CRM updates done by agents
• Works for organizations that want to bring their own model API keys

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want to try before you pay, as the Free plan has been retired and no trial is listed
• Pricey if your agents are busy, since extra Actions cost $80 per 1,000 and plan Actions reset at renewal
• Skip it if you need calling or meeting agents on a budget, because they start at Team, from $234 a month
• Skip it if you need SSO, RBAC or audit logs, which are Enterprise only
• Watch out: the website's pricing page lists only Enterprise, and Pro and Team prices are in the docs

Artisan

• No prices are published: Team, Scale and Enterprise plans are quoted by sales and sized to volume.
• The listed plans are sized at about 2,500 and 6,000 leads contacted a month for Team and Scale.
• Ava sends in your reps' names from your own sending domains.
• The dialer is an add-on priced per seat.

Relevance AI

• The Free plan has been retired for new and existing accounts, so every organization needs a paid plan.
• Plan Actions reset at each renewal, and extra Actions cost $80 per 1,000.
• Calling and meeting agents and the analytics dashboard start at Team; SSO, RBAC and audit logs are Enterprise only.
• The website's pricing page lists only Enterprise; Pro and Team prices are published in the documentation.

Artisan

Ava, the AI BDR

Runs outbound campaigns on email and social, replies to prospects and books meetings; calls are queued for human reps.

B2B lead database

Plans include a database of 250M+ verified B2B contacts, plus enrichment and signal-triggered outreach.

Guardrails on what Ava sends

Approve before sending, lock tone and calls to action, set banned phrases and keep do-not-contact lists.

CRM sync

Salesforce and HubSpot sync both ways, with custom webhooks and Slack for the team.

Dialer add-on

An AI dialer is sold per seat; Ava emails and reps dial, with a brief before each call and a follow-up after.

Relevance AI

Agents and Tools

Agents complete tasks on their own using Tools, which are assembled in a no-code builder from API calls, LLM prompts and custom code. Both are unlimited on every plan.

Workforces

A visual canvas connects specialist agents into a team, with AI-driven handoffs, fixed sequences or conditional logic deciding how work moves between them.

Invent

A built-in agent that works through a business process with you, then creates the Agents, Tools, Triggers and Workforces for it and proposes improvements after launch.

Chat on web and mobile

Agents and Workforces can be @mentioned in a chat interface at chat.relevanceai.com, in a desktop app, and in native Android and iOS apps.

Integrations and triggers

Native integrations ship with ready-made actions and triggers, and a Pipedream connection extends the catalog to 2,000+ services. Custom API calls cover the rest.

Actions and Vendor Credits

Plans count Actions, one each time an agent runs a Tool, separately from Vendor Credits, which pass model and tool costs through with no markup.

Artisan

Pricing could not be confirmed. See artisan.co.

Relevance AI

• Pro$19

  per month, billed annually; $29 billed monthly

  2,500 Actions and $20 of Vendor Credits a month, unlimited agents, tools and workforces, 2 build users, 1 project and your own API keys.

• Team$234

  per month, billed annually; $349 billed monthly

  7,000 Actions and $70 of Vendor Credits a month, 5 build users, 45 end users, 5 shared projects, calling and meeting agents and priority support.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Custom Actions and Vendor Credits, unlimited users and projects, agent evaluations, SSO, RBAC, audit logs and a dedicated account manager.

Artisan

No public discounts listed.

Relevance AI

• Annual discount

  Save 33% with annual billing

  Relevance AI's documentation says annual billing saves 33% over the monthly rate: Pro is $19 a month instead of $29, and Team is $234 instead of $349.