Best AI Sales Tools in 2026

Apollo.io combines a B2B contact database, listed at 240 million contacts and 30 million companies, with email sequencing and AI features; it states that more than 600,000 companies use it. AI capabilities include an AI Assistant, AI-researched data fields that consume credits, background agents marketed as Intelligence, and Builder Studio for constructing custom AI workflows. A free plan has no time limit, although free email campaigns connect only to Gmail. The pricing page's structured data lists Basic at US$49 and Professional at US$99 per month on monthly billing, with annual billing discounted and a Custom tier for larger teams.

Clay describes itself as infrastructure for gathering data, running agentic workflows and launching go-to-market plays, with access to more than 150 data sources and AI research agents; it says it is used by more than 500,000 go-to-market teams. Its AI agent, Claygent, researches the web to produce custom data points and is included on every plan, including Free. The free plan provides 500 actions and 100 data credits a month with unlimited seats; Launch was listed at US$167 a month and Growth at US$446, with a 10% annual discount, though the page's FAQ quoted higher figures of US$185 and US$495.

HubSpot, founded in 2006 and headquartered in Boston, reports about 306,000 customers across its products. Sales Hub adds pipeline management, sequences and AI agents to the HubSpot CRM. HubSpot claims its Prospecting Agent can double response rates compared with traditional sequences and cut account research time by up to 95%. A free tier covers two users; Starter costs US$7 per seat per month on annual billing, Professional US$90 and Enterprise US$150, with one-time onboarding fees of US$1,500 and US$3,500 on the upper tiers. Paid tiers include 500, 3,000 or 5,000 HubSpot Credits a month for AI features, with extra credits at US$0.010 each.

ZoomInfo Technologies, headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, reported revenue of US$1.25 billion for 2025 and more than 35,000 customers at year end. Its paid products are ZoomInfo Copilot, Sales, Marketing, Operations and Talent, with a free community edition, ZoomInfo Lite. Copilot tiers add AI-generated buying groups and talking points (Copilot Advanced) and account summaries, ideal-customer-profile creation and a chat interface (Copilot Enterprise). Pricing is not published; it depends on features, number of licences and credit usage, with each contact or company export using one credit.

lemlist, made by the company lempire, is a sales-engagement platform that sources leads from a database of more than 600 million contacts and runs campaigns across email, LinkedIn, calls, WhatsApp and SMS; it states that more than 20,000 sales teams use it. Its plans include AI agents for signals, enrichment and messaging, and the Multichannel plan adds LinkedIn agents, AI reply detection, AI-generated replies and call summaries. The Email plan costs US$55 per user per month billed yearly (US$69 monthly) and Multichannel US$87 (US$109 monthly), with a 14-day trial including 200 credits.

Gong captures and analyses customer calls, emails and meetings and describes its product as a "Revenue AI OS"; it states that more than 5,000 customers use it. Components include Gong Engage for outreach, Gong Forecast, Gong Enable for coaching, and Gong Agents, which automate follow-ups, pipeline edits, enablement triggers and forecast corrections. Gong names Anthropic and Uber for Business among customers reporting productivity gains. Licences are priced per user, with a platform fee that depends on the number of users; prices are given only in a customised proposal.

Salesloft, Inc. describes its product as a "predictive revenue system" that captures signals across a company's software and turns them into recommended actions; it cites more than 4,000 sales teams as customers. Its products include Cadence for sales engagement, Conversation Intelligence, Deals and, for executives, Clari Forecast and pipeline inspection; the clari.com domain now redirects to Salesloft's site. An AI engine prioritises signals and triggers agents, for example to write AI forecast summaries for revenue leaders or update meeting preparation, with some tasks requiring human review. Prices are not published on its home page.

Nooks sells an AI dialer, which it markets as helping teams connect with three times more prospects, alongside a "Revenue Agent Platform" with agents for inbound, outbound, deal management, expansion and coaching. Its flagship agent, Node, is described as an AI personal assistant that works deals in the background. Other capabilities include AI sequencing, signals and enrichment, and AI coaching. Nooks states that more than 2,000 teams use it; prices are not shown on its home page.

Amplemarket combines prospect data with outbound sequencing and a family of AI features branded Duo: Duo Copilot, Copywriter for personalised emails, Competitive Intelligence, Signals for buying intent, Voice for AI voice messages and Inbox for drafted replies. The Startup plan costs US$600 a month on an annual term for two users and 27,000 contacts; Growth and Elite are custom-priced for four and ten users. Duo Copilot is included on all plans, while Voice and Inbox are reserved for higher tiers. The company says "thousands of companies" use it but gives no exact figure.

Outreach sells sales engagement, conversation intelligence, deal management and forecasting, packaged as Amplify Essentials, Core, Plus and Pro. Pricing is custom, combining per-user seats with AI credits: 10,000 in Essentials, 25,000 in Core, 50,000 in Plus and 100,000 in Pro, with no platform fee and support included. Its AI agents include Omni, Research, Revenue, Personalization, Deal and a Meeting Prep Agent; Essentials excludes the Revenue and Personalization agents. The company states that sellers using it close more than two million opportunities a month but does not give a customer count.

Salesforce's Sales Cloud is priced per user per month: Starter Suite US$25, Pro Suite US$100, and on annual billing Core US$195, Advanced US$395 and Max US$550. AI can be added to Core and above, and Agentforce for Sales is included in Max; separately, Agentforce for Sales is listed from US$125 per user per month. Free trials are offered on all editions except Max, and a free suite appears in the feature comparison. Salesforce does not publish a customer count on the pages reviewed.