Best AI Sales Tools for 2027: Sales AI Software Compared

The best AI sales tool depends on the job you need done. HubSpot Sales Hub is the best all-in-one choice for teams that want a CRM with AI built in, Apollo.io is the best for prospecting, and Salesmotion is the best for account research and buying signals. Gong leads for conversation intelligence and forecasting, and ZoomInfo for B2B data at enterprise scale.

Sales AI software has moved from basic automation to agents that research accounts, draft outreach, review calls and forecast revenue. Bain & Company's 2025 research found that AI has the potential to double the time reps spend actually selling and increase win rates by over 30%, yet sellers today still spend only about 25% of their time in front of customers. The tools below are the ones built to close that gap. This guide covers 11 of them: what each vendor sells today, what it costs, and which team it suits.

TL;DR: Three picks cover most teams. HubSpot Sales Hub for growing companies that want CRM and AI in one platform, with free tools for up to 2 users. Apollo.io for teams that need prospecting data, sequences and AI research in one product, starting on a free plan. Salesmotion for teams selling into complex accounts that need account research, buying signals and drafted outreach a rep reviews, from $85/month. Add Gong for conversation intelligence and ZoomInfo for enterprise-scale data; both are sold by quote. Jump to the Comparison Grid for all 11 tools side by side.

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Why Trust This Guide?

I'm Semir Jahic, CEO & Co-Founder of Salesmotion. I've spent a decade in enterprise B2B sales, managing seven-figure tech stacks at Salesforce, Clari, and Webhelp before founding Salesmotion. I've been the seller evaluating these tools, and now I compete in the space. Salesmotion publishes this guide, and Salesmotion is on the list at number 3. It is not number 1 because "AI sales software" is much wider than our lane: Salesmotion is account research, signals and drafted outreach, and most teams run it beside a CRM and a contact database.

Three things keep the guide honest:

• Every price and product fact was checked against the vendor's own site on 10 October 2026. Where a vendor does not publish a price, we say so instead of estimating.
• Third-party figures are named. When a number comes from Vendr, Bain, Gartner or Forrester, the sentence says so and links to the source.
• The buyer view comes from our own calls. We sat in 55 sales and customer calls between August and October 2026. In 21 of them the buyer wanted fewer tools, and asked what a new one would let them stop paying for.

Two things buyers said in those calls explain why this list is organized by job and not by feature count:

"I think with our tech stack, it's quite fragmented." (Sales lead, data software)

"the hope would be that we would have one solution, not like multiple solutions." (Business development rep, CRO)

Verified G2 review highlighting time savings and value from Salesmotion.

Who This List Is For

This guide is designed for:

• Sales leaders and revenue operations teams looking to implement AI-powered tools that produce measurable results
• SDRs and AEs seeking tools to automate repetitive tasks and focus on high-value selling activities
• Growing B2B companies that need to scale their sales operations without proportional headcount increases
• Enterprise sales teams managing complex, multi-stakeholder deals that require deep account intelligence
• Sales enablement professionals evaluating tools to improve team performance and coaching

Whether you're replacing legacy tools or building your first modern sales tools stack, this guide will help you understand which AI sales software fits your use case, budget, and growth stage.

“The Business Development team gets 80 to 90 percent of what they need in 15 minutes. That is a complete shift in how our reps work.”

Andrew Giordano

VP of Global Commercial Operations, Analytic Partners

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Short Picks: Best Sales AI Software for 2027

One pick for each of the five jobs sales teams most often buy AI for.

HubSpot Sales Hub: best all-in-one CRM with built-in AI

• Breeze Prospecting Agent (Beta) finds accounts, sources buying committees and executes personalized outreach
• Free tools for up to 2 users, with paid editions from $20 per seat per month

Apollo.io: best for AI-powered prospecting

• A database of 240M contacts and 30M companies, with sequences, a dialer and AI research in the same product
• A free plan with no time limit, and intent topics on every tier

Salesmotion: best for account research and buying signals

• Three AI agents monitor 1,000+ public sources for 50+ signal types, write cited account briefs and draft outreach
• Incredible Health booked 50% more meetings, and Guild Education saved 6 hours per rep per week on account research

Gong: best for conversation intelligence and revenue forecasting

• Trusted by 5,000+ customers, according to Gong
• Announced ARR above $500 million in May 2026, with growth past 55% year over year

ZoomInfo: best for B2B data at enterprise scale

• Verified data on 500M+ contacts and 100M+ companies
• ZoomInfo Copilot, its AI sales agent, adds buyer signals, research and personalized messaging on top of the data

Comparison Grid: Features at a Glance

Every pricing cell is the vendor's own published figure as of 10 October 2026. Where a vendor publishes no price, the cell says how it is sold.

The 11 Best AI Sales Tools, Reviewed

How the list is ordered. Positions 1 to 5 are our lead pick for each of five jobs: CRM, prospecting, account intelligence, conversation intelligence and data. Positions 6 to 11 are strong tools for narrower jobs or alternatives for the same ones. Within each group, tools with a published price come first. The order is our editorial judgment, not a score.

1. HubSpot Sales Hub

HubSpot Sales Hub is HubSpot's sales product, which the company titles "AI Sales Software for Pipeline & Closed Deals". It brings AI to prospecting, deals, meetings and forecasting inside the same platform as the CRM. HubSpot says Sales Hub works best paired with its own CRM but can also run alongside an existing one.

HubSpot Sales Hub: all-in-one sales software with the Breeze Prospecting Agent.

Best for: Growing companies that want CRM and AI tools from one vendor instead of assembling a stack.

What it is strong at:

• Breeze Prospecting Agent (Beta). Finds accounts, sources buying committees and executes personalized outreach with an AI agent that learns from your best reps over time.
• AI across the deal. Deal Scoring, AI Guided Selling, Buying Groups and forecasting with AI-powered projections.
• Meetings and calls. HubSpot Notetaker, Conversation Intelligence, and call tracking with a power dialer and CRM logging.
• A way in at no cost. Free tools for up to 2 users, and a 14-day free trial.

Pricing: HubSpot publishes Sales Hub pricing: free tools for up to 2 users, Starter from $20 per seat per month, Professional from $100 per seat per month ($90 on an annual commitment) plus a required one-time $1,500 onboarding fee, and Enterprise from $150 per seat per month, billed annually, plus a required one-time $3,500 onboarding fee.

Choose it if: you want one system for records, outreach, meetings and forecasting, and you would rather turn AI features on inside the CRM than connect separate tools to it.

2. Apollo.io

Apollo.io combines a database of 240M contacts and 30M companies with sequencing, a dialer, enrichment and AI research. It organizes the product into data, intelligence and execution layers, so a rep can find a prospect, research them and start a sequence in one place.

Apollo.io: prospecting platform with 240M contacts, AI research and outreach sequences.

Best for: SDR teams and growth companies that want prospecting data and outreach in one product at a published per-seat price.

What it is strong at:

• AI in the workflow. An AI Assistant, AI Research (1 credit per run), AI Scores and agents, plus an Apollo MCP.
• A large database. 240M contacts and 30M companies with advanced filters, signals and buying intent.
• Engagement built in. Two sequences on the free plan, unlimited sequences from Basic, and a US dialer.
• A free plan that stays free. 900 credits per seat per year with no time limit, and a 14-day trial on Basic and Professional.

Pricing: Apollo publishes its pricing: a free tier, then Basic at $49, Professional at $79 and Organization at $119 per seat per month on annual billing (3-seat minimum on Organization). Monthly billing is $65 and $99 on Basic and Professional; Organization is annual only. Usage is metered in credits (an email costs 1 credit, a phone number 8), and unused credits expire at the end of each billing cycle.

Choose it if: you need to find people and reach them today, and want to see the price before you talk to anyone. In September 2026 Apollo also announced it was named flagship data partner for Hunter, Salesforce's new outbound sales agent.

3. Salesmotion

Salesmotion is an account intelligence platform: research and signals, with drafted outreach a rep reviews before it goes out. Three AI agents do the work. The Signal Agent monitors 1,000+ public sources for 50+ signal types, from earnings calls and job posts to podcasts and news. The Research Agent turns what it finds into cited account briefs. The Outreach Agent drafts messages that reference the specific event.

Salesmotion generates account briefs with strategic context, key initiatives, and source-backed talking points.

Best for: B2B teams selling into complex, multi-stakeholder accounts that need deep sales intelligence on a defined set of target accounts.

What it is strong at:

• Signal monitoring. 50+ signal types across 1,000+ public sources, so reps hear about an executive hire or a strategy shift without going to look.
• Cited account briefs. Every insight links to its source, so a rep can check a claim before repeating it to a buyer.
• Outreach drafts tied to the signal. The rep reviews, edits and sends, and drafts can be pushed to lemlist.
• Fits the stack you have. Native Salesforce integration, HubSpot integration, a REST API, and an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants.

The Global Feed surfaces trigger events across all accounts: earnings calls, executive hires, funding rounds, and competitive moves.

Pricing: $85/month for individuals on a monthly contract with no annual commitment. The Individual plan tracks up to 100 accounts and includes 200 contact credits a month for verified emails and phone numbers. Teams and enterprise are custom-priced. The interactive demo shows the product without a call. See Salesmotion on G2.

Choose it if: you sell into named accounts with several stakeholders and want research, signals and drafted outreach in one place, working alongside the CRM and contact data you already have.

Salesmotion's Take

We built Salesmotion to solve the account intelligence gap, the problem I hit repeatedly at Salesforce and Clari. Reps had CRM data and contact databases, but no way to understand what is actually happening at their target accounts right now. Our platform monitors 1,000+ public sources to deliver that context automatically. It is built for teams running complex, multi-stakeholder deals, and we've seen customers like Analytic Partners cut research time by 85% while growing qualified pipeline 40%.

Semir Jahic

CEO & Co-Founder, Salesmotion

Beyond account research, teams use Salesmotion as an onboarding accelerator for new hires:

"For a junior SDR, Salesmotion also became an onboarding tool. They learn the industry, they learn relevant people, and they start connecting the dots — all within one platform." — Adam Wainwright, Cacheflow

Explore Salesmotion's three AI agents in detail: Signal Agent for real-time trigger detection, Research Agent for deep account briefs, and Outreach Agent for research-backed messaging. Or see them all on the AI Agents hub.

4. Gong

Gong calls itself the "#1 AI OS for Revenue Teams". Its flagship is the Gong Revenue AI OS, which captures customer interactions and builds products on top of them: Gong Engage for prioritizing and personalizing outreach, Gong Forecast, Gong Enable for enablement, Gong Agents and the Gong Revenue Graph.

Gong: revenue AI built on captured customer interactions.

Best for: Mid-market to enterprise sales teams that want conversation intelligence, forecasting and enablement grounded in what customers actually said.

What it is strong at:

• Conversation and revenue intelligence at scale. 5,000+ customers, and ARR above $500 million as of May 2026 with growth past 55% year over year, according to Gong.
• Gong Engage. Recommends who to contact, when to engage and what to say, with an AI Composer for emails and signals pulled in from 6sense, G2, LinkedIn, Dealroom and more.
• A widening platform. Forecast, Enable and Agents sit on the same interaction data, and on 30 September 2026 Gong announced a sales enrichment layer.
• Integrations included. Gong's pricing page says you can integrate your existing tech stack for free.

Pricing: Gong does not publish list pricing; contracts are quoted per organization. Its pricing page confirms licences are priced per user with a platform fee based on the number of users supported, and that integrations are included.

Choose it if: your biggest blind spot is what happens on calls and in deals, and you are ready for a quote-based platform purchase. Gong is built around your own customer interactions, so teams often pair it with an account intelligence layer for external research.

5. ZoomInfo

ZoomInfo is a B2B data platform with verified data on 500M+ contacts and 100M+ companies, including 200M+ verified business email addresses and 120M+ direct-dial phone numbers. On top of the data it sells ZoomInfo Copilot, which it describes as an AI sales agent, along with GTM Workspace, GTM Studio and MCP and API access.

ZoomInfo: B2B data platform with an AI sales agent on top.

Best for: Larger sales organizations that need broad contact and company coverage and want AI working on that data.

What it is strong at:

• Data breadth with human verification. 500M+ contacts, 100M+ companies and 300+ human researchers.
• ZoomInfo Copilot. Buyer signals, priorities that update as new signals come in, instant research in natural language, deal briefs and personalized messaging.
• Connections. ZoomInfo says Copilot connects to Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Salesloft and Gong.
• A free way in. ZoomInfo Lite is a permanent free tier with 10 credits a month, and the paid sales plans show a free trial option.

Pricing: ZoomInfo does not publish list pricing; contracts are quoted per organization. Its own pricing page states that no specific dollar amounts are published because pricing is consumption-based. Vendr reports a median contract of $33,500 a year based on 1,576 purchases, with a range of $7,233–$156,053. ZoomInfo Lite is a permanent free tier with 10 credits a month. ZoomInfo states that paid plans are annual subscriptions.

Choose it if: contact and company coverage is the constraint, you sell across many segments and regions, and you can commit to an annual subscription.

6. Clay

Clay is a data enrichment and GTM workflow platform. Its waterfall approach checks multiple data providers in sequence until one returns a result, and its AI agents, called Claygents, carry out research tasks on your behalf. Clay now also has its own company and people database, native signals, a sequencer, and Account Agents that monitor a book of business.

Clay: data enrichment and workflow platform for GTM teams.

Best for: GTM teams with technical resources that want to build custom, data-rich sales workflows.

What it is strong at:

• Multi-provider enrichment on one bill. Clay says it finds and enriches data from 150+ providers, and that you are not charged when an enrichment returns no result.
• Agents. Claygents for research tasks and Account Agents that reason over what you know about an account and track what changed.
• Native signals. Job change, company news and social listening signals on Launch and above; web intent signals on Growth and above.
• Reach into AI assistants. A Clay MCP lets reps prompt ChatGPT, Claude or Codex, governed by Ops-defined rules and budget guardrails.

Pricing: Clay publishes its pricing: a free tier, Launch from $185/month and Growth from $495/month (about $167 and $446 on annual billing), then custom Enterprise on an annual commitment. Paid plans start with a 14-day trial, include unlimited seats, and meter usage in Actions and Data Credits. Clay introduced these plans in spring 2026; customers on the legacy Starter, Explorer and Pro plans can stay on them.

Choose it if: you have someone who enjoys building workflows and you want control over every step of how a lead is found, enriched and scored.

7. Lavender

Lavender is an AI email coach. It scores and improves sales emails as the rep writes them, inside Gmail and Outlook 365. Lavender has also launched Ora, which it describes as an AI sales agent that "writes emails like a top seller".

Lavender: AI email coach that scores sales emails as they are written.

Best for: Individual sales reps and small teams focused on improving email effectiveness.

What it is strong at:

• Coaching at the moment of writing. Emails are scored and improved before they are sent.
• Works where reps already work. Gmail and Outlook 365, with integrations on the Individual Pro and Team plans.
• A manager view. The Team plan adds a Coaching Dashboard.
• A free tier to test it. The Basic plan is free forever and analyzes and personalizes 5 emails a month.

Pricing: Lavender publishes pricing for its Email Coach: Basic is free forever for 5 emails a month. On monthly billing, Starter is $29/month, Individual Pro is $49/month and the Team plan is $99 per seat per month. Annual billing lowers these to $27, $45 and $89.

Choose it if: your reps write their own emails and the quality varies from rep to rep. Lavender coaches what the rep writes, so it pairs well with a research or signal tool that supplies what to write about.

8. Pipedrive

Pipedrive is a sales CRM that says it is trusted by over 100,000 sales teams. It is sold in four plans (Lite, Growth, Premium and Ultimate) with add-ons that extend it beyond the pipeline. It is on this list as a CRM option for small and mid-market teams that want a system of record with a published price.

Pipedrive: sales CRM with four plans and add-ons.

Best for: Small to mid-market teams that want a sales CRM with published per-seat pricing.

What it is strong at:

• A CRM built for sales. Pipedrive describes itself as a sales CRM, and says over 100,000 sales teams use it.
• Add-ons. LeadBooster, Projects, Campaigns, Web Visitors and Smart Docs.
• Integrations. Pipedrive lists 500+ integrations.
• Easy to try. A free 14-day trial with no credit card required.

Pricing: Pipedrive publishes its pricing: Lite at €14, Growth at €39, Premium at €59 and Ultimate at €79 per seat per month, billed annually. The page is priced by region; these are the euro figures.

Choose it if: you need a system of record for deals before you add anything else, and you want to know the per-seat cost up front.

9. Attio

Attio is a CRM with a free plan for up to 3 seats and paid plans priced per user. It sells add-on workspace credits alongside the plans and offers a 14-day trial of its Pro plan.

Attio: CRM with a free plan and per-user pricing.

Best for: Small teams that want a CRM they can start on for free.

What it is strong at:

• A real free plan. $0 for up to 3 seats.
• Published pricing on both billing terms. Monthly and annual prices are shown side by side, with a 20% discount for paying annually on Plus and Pro.
• Room to grow. Plus covers up to 10 seats, with Pro and a custom Enterprise plan above it.
• A trial of the top self-serve tier. 14 days of Pro.

Pricing: Attio publishes its pricing: a free plan for up to 3 seats, Plus at $35 per user per month and Pro at $79 per user per month billed annually ($44 and $99 billed monthly), then custom Enterprise, billed annually.

Choose it if: you are a small team choosing a first CRM and want to start free and upgrade seat by seat.

10. Outreach

Outreach describes itself as an agentic AI platform for revenue teams. It covers sales engagement, conversation intelligence (Kaia), deal management, forecasting and mutual action plans, and has added a broad line-up of AI agents: Research Agent, Revenue Agent, Deal Agent, Personalization Agent, Meeting Prep Agent, Omni and Agent Studio.

Outreach: enterprise sales engagement platform with AI agents for deal execution.

Best for: Large enterprises with complex sales processes and dedicated sales operations teams.

What it is strong at:

• Sales execution at scale. Sequences, conversation intelligence, deal management and forecasting on one platform.
• A broad agent line-up. The Revenue Agent identifies high-intent accounts; the Research Agent combines Outreach conversation data with first-party engagement data and third-party public data.
• Kaia. Outreach's own AI conversation intelligence and meeting assistant.
• Growing AI use. Outreach reported 12x growth in AI credit consumption in the first half of 2026.

Pricing: Outreach does not publish list pricing; contracts are quoted per organization. It sells four tiers (Amplify Essentials, Core, Plus and Pro) differentiated by AI credit allotments, described as per-user pricing with no platform fees.

Choose it if: you manage a large team and need every rep running the same plays, with coaching and forecasting in the same system. Evaluation starts with a sales conversation.

11. Salesloft

Salesloft describes itself as a predictive revenue system. Its products include Cadence for engagement, Conversation Intelligence, Deals, Rhythm, Signals and Analytics. Clari merged with Salesloft in a deal completed in December 2025, and Clari's forecasting product is now sold by Salesloft as Clari Forecast.

Salesloft: engagement, conversation intelligence and forecasting, including Clari Forecast.

Best for: Mid-market and enterprise revenue teams that want engagement, coaching and forecasting from one vendor.

What it is strong at:

• Forecasting. Clari Forecast is part of the Salesloft product line.
• Engagement with coaching. Cadence, Conversation Intelligence, Deals and Analytics in one platform.
• In-workflow agents. Account Research, Person Research, Buyer Identification, AI Email Steps for Cadence and deal summaries.
• MCP server. Works with AI applications that support MCP, including Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot.

Pricing: Salesloft does not publish list pricing; contracts are quoted per organization. Its pricing page lists products, including Clari Forecast, without dollar figures, contract terms or seat minimums.

Choose it if: forecast accuracy and call coaching matter as much to you as outbound, and you want them in the same system as your cadences.

Also in this space: Minoa (business cases for value selling) and Lative (sales capacity planning) appeared in earlier editions of this list.

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How to Choose: Sales AI Scenarios and the Tool for Each

Feature lists do not settle a shortlist. The problem you are trying to fix does. Each scenario below is a pain point sales teams bring to AI, with the tools from this list built for it.

Scenario 1: The Account Intelligence Gap

Challenge: Your sales team spends hours researching accounts, misses key buying signals, and struggles to personalize outreach at scale.

AI Solution: Automated account intelligence, signal detection, and research synthesis, increasingly handled by purpose-built AI sales agents that monitor, research, and write on behalf of each rep.

Tools to look at: Salesmotion for research and signals on named accounts, ZoomInfo when you also need the contact database, Clay if you want to build the research workflow yourself.

Scenario 2: The Conversation Blind Spot

Challenge: Sales calls happen, but insights are lost. Coaching is inconsistent. Deal risks go unnoticed until it's too late.

AI Solution: Conversation intelligence, automated note-taking, and deal analysis.

Tools to look at: Gong as the specialist, or the conversation intelligence products inside Salesloft, Outreach (Kaia) and HubSpot Sales Hub if you want it in the platform you already run.

Scenario 3: The Prospecting Bottleneck

Challenge: Your SDR team can't scale personalized outreach. Data is scattered across multiple tools.

AI Solution: AI-powered research, automated sequence building, and prospect data in the same place.

Tools to look at: Apollo.io for data and sequences in one product, Outreach or Salesloft for large teams that need standardized execution, HubSpot Sales Hub if you want the Breeze Prospecting Agent inside your CRM.

Scenario 4: The Pipeline Visibility Problem

Challenge: Forecasting is guesswork. Deal progression is unclear. Revenue operations lack real-time insights.

AI Solution: AI-assisted forecasting, pipeline intelligence, and a CRM the team actually updates.

Tools to look at: HubSpot Sales Hub for CRM and forecasting together, Salesloft for Clari Forecast, Gong Forecast if your forecast should draw on conversations, and Pipedrive or Attio if the first step is a CRM a small team will use.

Scenario 5: The Email Optimization Challenge

Challenge: Email response rates are declining. Personalization doesn't scale. Sales messaging lacks impact.

AI Solution: AI email coaching and research-backed drafting.

Tools to look at: Lavender to coach the emails reps write, and Salesmotion when the missing ingredient is something specific and current to say.

Three questions that narrow the list fast

1. Do you need a price before a call? HubSpot, Apollo.io, Salesmotion, Clay, Lavender, Pipedrive and Attio publish their prices. Gong, ZoomInfo, Outreach and Salesloft are sold by quote.
2. Can you start without a contract? HubSpot, Apollo.io, Clay, Lavender, Attio and ZoomInfo (through ZoomInfo Lite) have a free plan or free tools. Salesmotion is on a monthly contract with no annual commitment.
3. Who will run it? Clay rewards teams with a builder on staff. Gong, Outreach and Salesloft are platforms sold by quote. Apollo.io, Lavender and Salesmotion are tools an individual rep can buy and run without a builder.

The AI Sales Landscape: What the Analysts Say

The analyst view is consistent on one point: more AI does not automatically mean more productivity.

• Gartner, "Predicts 2026: Leading Sales in the Age of AI Contradictions": AI agents will outnumber sellers 10:1 by 2028, but fewer than 40% of sellers will report that AI agents improved their productivity. (Source)

• Gartner (2023): expects 60% of B2B seller work to be executed through generative AI technologies within five years. (Source)

• Forrester's 2026 B2B Predictions: B2B companies will lose more than $10 billion from ungoverned generative AI use, and one in five B2B sellers will face AI-powered buyer agents. (Source)

• Bain & Company, "AI and the Sales Productivity Frontier" (2025): AI can double selling time and increase win rates 30%+, but most companies haven't unlocked benefits at scale. Sales data is spread across too many systems, and applying AI to broken processes automates inefficiencies. (Source)

• Gartner, Melissa Hilbert (VP Analyst, Sales Practice): "The future of sales will belong to organizations that combine human empathy with AI-powered insights — delivering superior buyer experiences and unlocking real productivity gains." (Source)

The practical reading: the best AI sales tools are not the ones with the most features. They are the ones that fit into existing workflows, deliver insights reps actually use, and improve outcomes without adding another system to maintain. That is the lens behind the "Choose it if" line on every tool in this guide.

"The intelligence layer that makes every methodology work": Enterprise Strategic Seller on G2.

Key Takeaways

• Sales AI software now covers five distinct jobs: CRM with built-in AI, prospecting, account intelligence, conversation intelligence, and data. No single tool is best at all five.
• Choose by your main pain point: HubSpot Sales Hub for all-in-one CRM with AI, Apollo.io for prospecting, Salesmotion for account research and buying signals, Gong for conversation insights, or ZoomInfo for B2B data at scale.
• Seven of the eleven tools publish their prices. Gong, ZoomInfo, Outreach and Salesloft are sold by quote; for ZoomInfo, Vendr reports a median contract of $33,500 a year based on 1,576 purchases.
• Six tools can be tried at no cost through a free plan or free tools: HubSpot Sales Hub, Apollo.io, Clay, Lavender, Attio and ZoomInfo Lite.
• Clari is now part of Salesloft, and its forecasting product is sold as Clari Forecast.
• AI augments sales reps. It handles repetitive work like research and data entry so reps can focus on relationships, strategic conversations, and closing.
• Start with one job, run a pilot on your own accounts, and make sure the tool writes into the systems your team already uses before you roll it out.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is sales AI software?

Sales AI software is any sales tool that uses artificial intelligence to do work a rep or manager used to do by hand: researching accounts, finding and prioritizing prospects, drafting outreach, analyzing calls, scoring deals or forecasting revenue. The category spans CRMs with AI built in (HubSpot Sales Hub), prospecting platforms (Apollo.io), account intelligence (Salesmotion), conversation intelligence (Gong) and data platforms (ZoomInfo).

How do I choose the right sales AI software for my team?

Start by identifying your primary pain point: account research (Salesmotion), conversation insights (Gong), prospecting volume (Apollo.io), or pipeline visibility in the CRM (HubSpot Sales Hub). Then consider your deal size, sales cycle length, and team size. Teams with complex deals benefit from specialized tools, while growing companies often prefer an all-in-one platform. Several tools offer a free plan or trial, so test on your own accounts before committing to a paid plan.

How much does sales AI software cost?

It ranges from free to a custom enterprise quote. HubSpot Sales Hub has free tools and paid editions from $20 per seat per month. Apollo.io runs from free to $119 per seat per month on annual billing. Salesmotion is $85/month for individuals. Clay starts at $185/month on Launch, and Lavender at $29/month on Starter. Gong, Outreach and Salesloft publish no dollar figures. ZoomInfo does not publish prices either; Vendr reports a median contract of $33,500 a year based on 1,576 purchases.

Are there free AI sales tools?

Yes. HubSpot offers free tools for up to 2 users. Apollo.io's free plan has no time limit and includes 900 credits per seat per year. Clay has a free tier, Attio is free for up to 3 seats, Lavender's Basic plan is free for 5 emails a month, and ZoomInfo Lite is a permanent free tier with 10 credits a month. Free plans meter usage, so check the allowance against the volume you plan to run.

How do AI sales agents differ from sales automation software?

Sales automation follows rules a person sets: if a lead fills in a form, enrol them in this sequence. An AI sales agent is given a goal and decides the steps, for example researching an account, choosing who to contact and drafting a message from what it found. Several vendors on this list now sell agents by name, including HubSpot's Breeze Prospecting Agent, Outreach's Research Agent, Salesloft's Account Research agent and Salesmotion's Signal, Research and Outreach Agents. The buying question is how much the agent does on its own and where a person reviews the work.

What ROI can I expect from sales AI software?

Results vary widely by team and motion, so treat any vendor's headline productivity figure as a starting point for your own pilot, not a benchmark. Measure the thing the tool is meant to change. Conversation intelligence tools like Gong focus on deal and forecast visibility. Account intelligence is measured in research time and meetings: Guild Education saved 6 hours per rep per week on account research with Salesmotion. Choose tools that match your highest-impact activities and track before and after.

Are AI sales tools secure enough for enterprise use?

Many are built for it, and you should verify each one. Ask every vendor for its current SOC 2 report, how it handles GDPR, whether it supports SSO and role-based permissions, where data is stored, and whether your data is used to train models. Review the security documentation yourself and check data residency requirements for your industry and geography before a rollout.

Will AI sales software replace human sales reps?

No. AI sales software is designed to extend what reps can do. These tools handle repetitive tasks like research, data entry, and first drafts, which lets reps spend more time on relationships, complex problem-solving, and closing deals. Gartner's own research, cited above, expects fewer than 40% of sellers to say AI agents improved their productivity, which is a reminder that the gain comes from fitting AI into how a team sells, not from adding more of it.