Emailchaser Autopilot, the AI SDR
Our AI SDR comes with every plan from $47 and sends nothing until you approve.
Give Autopilot your website. It builds your ideal customer profile, sizes your audience for free, writes a 4-step email sequence and lines up your sending accounts. Then it stops and waits for you. Nothing is revealed, bought or sent until you press Approve & launch.
- Read acme.com and built the ideal customer profileOps leaders at 50 to 500 person logistics companies, US
- Sized the audience for free34,000 people match
- Wrote a 4-step sequence into a draft campaignAn opening email and 3 follow-ups
- Checked your sending accounts3 mailboxes connected
Ready when you are.Nothing has been sent, bought or charged yet.
Emailchaser's AI SDR starts at $47 a month, Artisan's at $280 and Reply's at $500.
Prices from each company's own pages on 6 October 2026, and what each price includes a month.
| AI SDR | Price | What that price includes a month | Price per person | What the AI costs | How you buy it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 EmailchaserAutopilot | $47a month | 1,500 lead credits and 5,000 emails1 credit reveals 1 prospect; 1,000 contacts at a time | $0.047 | Included in every plan | Sign up and start today | Start my free trial |
 ArtisanAva | $280a month, Intern | About 500 leads contacted10,000 credits | $0.56 | About 20 credits per person contacted | Sign up for the small plans; bigger ones go through sales | |
 ReplyJason | $500a month, billed annually | 1,000 active contactsAI SDR Starter | $0.50 | Sold as its own plan | Book a demo with sales | |
 InstantlyAI Sales Agent | $94a month, 2 plans | About 300 agent leads and 5,000 emails1,500 credits at 5 credits a lead | $0.31 | 5 credits per lead, from a separate credits plan | Sign up, then add a credits plan |
1,500 lead credits and 5,000 emails (1 credit reveals 1 prospect; 1,000 contacts at a time).
$0.047 per person. Included in every plan. Sign up and start today.
Start my free trialAbout 500 leads contacted (10,000 credits).
$0.56 per person. About 20 credits per person contacted. Sign up for the small plans; bigger ones go through sales.
1,000 active contacts (AI SDR Starter).
$0.50 per person. Sold as its own plan. Book a demo with sales.
About 300 agent leads and 5,000 emails (1,500 credits at 5 credits a lead).
$0.31 per person. 5 credits per lead, from a separate credits plan. Sign up, then add a credits plan.
Monthly billing unless marked. Artisan's Intern plan is $250 a month billed annually. Reply's Jason is $800 a month on monthly billing. Instantly: Growth sending plan $47 plus Growth credits plan $47; its AI Sales Agent uses 5 credits for each lead, and a $9 credits plan with 150 credits also exists. Price per person is the price divided by the people it covers: for Emailchaser, the 1,000 contacts Starter holds at a time. Emailchaser checks each address before its first email, at $0.0017 a check, one or two checks an address. Sources: artisan.co/pricing, reply.io/pricing (AI SDR tab), instantly.ai/pricing and help.instantly.ai (credit system), emailchaser.com/pricing, all read on 6 October 2026.
Pick how many new people you want to reach each month and compare the bill.
Each tool's cheapest published plan that covers that many people, each sent the 4 emails Autopilot writes. Reply prices Jason by active contacts and is shown billed annually; Artisan sizes its Team and Scale plans on a sales call. Emailchaser Starter holds 1,000 contacts at a time and Pro holds 25,000, and every Emailchaser plan sends from unlimited mailboxes. Rival prices from their own pages, 6 October 2026.
Emailchaser costs $97 less than Instantly's agent, $613 less than Artisan's Ava and $453 less than Reply's Jason a month at 1,000 people.
Autopilot does all the prep for free, then waits for one approval.
These are the five steps in the Autopilot screen of the app. The first four cost nothing, and the fifth is your yes.
Before you approve
Everything up to your approval costs you nothing.
- It reads your website and builds your ideal customer profile: job titles, seniorities, industries, company sizes, locations and keywords.
- It sizes your audience for free, so you see how many people match before you spend a single credit.
- It writes an opening email and 3 follow-ups, a few days apart, into a draft campaign you can open and edit.
- It turns a monthly budget into a sending plan, with the first-month and monthly cost on screen.
After you press Approve & launch
From that one yes, it runs the outbound for you.
- It reveals your prospects at 1 credit each, from the lead credits your plan includes every month, and checks every address before its first email.
- It sends from the mailboxes you connect, or from managed mailboxes we set up for you at $6 a mailbox a month.
- Mailboxes bought through Emailchaser start at 5 emails a day in week one and climb by 5 a week to 50.
- It launches the campaign and tops it up with fresh prospects as it works through the list. If you add A/B variants, it shifts sends toward the one that wins.
- When a prospect replies with interest, it drafts an answer and waits for you to send it, unless you turn on auto-send.
Artisan's Ava runs fully autonomous by default, and Emailchaser asks you first.
Ava can be switched to approvals, and Reply's plan cards list autopilot and copilot modes for Jason. On Emailchaser, every run starts in draft and stops at your approval, so you read the sequence once instead of every send.
Artisan's own FAQ“Fully autonomous by default.”
A Trustpilot review of Artisan“We saw only about a 0.07% positive response rate, and almost none of the responses turned into meaningful interest.”
Emailchaser puts the review in one place: one approval per run, on a sequence you have already read. After that the campaign runs without you, and you can pause or stop the whole run at any time from the Autopilot dashboard.
Every Emailchaser plan includes Autopilot, so the AI SDR is not a second bill.
| Plan | Price a month | Emails a month | Contacts at a time | Lead credits a month | AI SDR (Autopilot) | Mailboxes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $47 | 5,000 | 1,000 | 1,500 | Included | Unlimited, with built-in warm-up |
| ProMost popular | $97 | 125,000 | 25,000 | 5,000 | Included | Unlimited, with built-in warm-up |
| Max | $358 | 500,000 | 100,000 | 10,000 | Included | Unlimited, with built-in warm-up |
| Enterprise | $897 | 1,500,000 | 500,000 | 30,000 | Included | Unlimited, with built-in warm-up |
More lead credits cost $33 per 1,000 credits, or $20 per 1,000 when you buy 5,000 or more at once, and credits you buy never expire. Instantly's credits expire 2 months after purchase on monthly plans (instantly.ai/pricing and help.instantly.ai (credit system), 6 October 2026). A year of any Emailchaser plan costs 10 months.
Moving from Instantly? Your plan is 50% off for life →These are the questions people ask about AI SDRs.
What is an AI SDR?
An AI SDR is software that does a sales development rep's outbound work: it decides who to contact, finds them, writes the emails and follows up. Emailchaser's AI SDR is called Autopilot, and it comes with every plan.
How much does an AI SDR cost?
On 6 October 2026, Emailchaser starts at $47 a month with Autopilot included. Artisan's Ava starts at $280 a month for about 500 leads, or $250 a month billed annually. Reply's Jason starts at $500 a month billed annually for 1,000 active contacts, or $800 on monthly billing. Instantly's AI Sales Agent uses 5 credits a lead from a credits plan sold on top of its sending plan, $47 for 1,500 credits.
Does Emailchaser's AI SDR send anything without my approval?
No. Campaigns start in draft, and nothing is revealed, bought or sent before you approve. After that the campaign runs on its own, AI replies wait for you unless you turn on auto-send, and you can pause or stop the run at any time.
What do I need to start?
Your website and somewhere to send from. Connect the Google, Microsoft or IMAP mailboxes you already have, or buy managed mailboxes at $6 a mailbox a month, plus $3 setup each and the domain, and we set them up for you. The 7-day free trial includes 500 lead credits, enough for Autopilot's first 500 prospects.
Where do the prospects come from?
From the business contact database built into Emailchaser. Sizing your audience is free, each prospect revealed uses 1 credit, and every address is checked before its first email, at $0.0017 a check. Plans include 1,500, 5,000, 10,000 or 30,000 lead credits a month.
Does the AI write the cold emails too?
Yes. It writes a short opening email and 3 follow-ups from your website and your customer profile, and you can edit every step in the draft campaign before you approve.
Can my AI assistant run Autopilot?
Yes. Emailchaser's hosted MCP server lets Claude, Cursor and other AI agents start an Autopilot run with your API key and report back to you. Every run still stops at the approval, and an agent holding a read and write key can give it, so tell your agent to wait for you if you want to approve yourself.
Let Autopilot build your first campaign, then decide.
Your website in, a ready campaign out, and nothing sends until you say so.