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Honest comparison · updated August 2026

Artisan vs. Rocketship:
a $250 BDR seat that stops at the meeting, or the whole loop for $24.99.

Artisan sells Ava, an AI BDR seat with entry reported around $250 a month — ten Rocketship subscriptions for outbound alone. And when the outbound works and your phone rings, nothing at Artisan picks up: there is no inbound receptionist anywhere in it. Rocketship runs every step of getting a customer as software — finds buyers, emails from your own Gmail, answers replies unsupervised, books meetings, answers your phone 24/7, builds the site where they pay. $24.99 a month, published, bought with a card.

Disclosure: Rocketship publishes this page. Artisan capability and pricing notes reflect publicly reported information as of August 2026 — verify current details at artisan.co.

Outbound email at scaleROCKETSHIP — Yes — Sophie, personalised, from your own GmailArtisan — Yes — email and social sequencing
AI voice calls (outbound)ROCKETSHIP — Yes — live calls that qualify and book on the callArtisan — Dialer for human reps to work — the AI doesn't hold the call itself
Inbound: answers your phoneROCKETSHIP — Yes — 24/7, live transfer to a human mid-callArtisan — No — outbound only
Lead finder + enrichmentROCKETSHIP — Built in — verified emails and direct dials, at the published priceArtisan — Yes — allowance sized to the seat; more data, bigger bill
Appointment bookingROCKETSHIP — Yes — Claire books against your real calendarArtisan — Yes
Builds the app or site behind the campaignROCKETSHIP — Yes — that is the other half of the productArtisan — No
Takes the paymentROCKETSHIP — Stripe Connect built inArtisan — No
How you buy itROCKETSHIP — Card, live in minutes, cancel from the settings pageArtisan — Self-serve now — at a reported ~$250/mo entry, before seats and data
Starting priceROCKETSHIP — Free tier; outbound included from $24.99/mo — published for everyoneArtisan — Reported from ~$250–$280/mo, climbing with seats and data — ten times ours

The cost math

Artisan's entry price is reported around $250 to $280 a month, climbing with seats and data. Call it $250 on a good day: that is ten Rocketship subscriptions, and every one of those dollars stops before your phone rings. Ours is $24.99, on the pricing page, for everyone — and it answers the phone.

The number is not an accident; it is the business model. Artisan is venture-funded, and a venture-funded BDR seat has to earn back the round and the headcount behind it — which is why entry is reported in the hundreds and climbs with every seat and data add-on. Rocketship made the opposite decision: $24.99, flat, public, cancel from the settings page.

Then look at what the number buys. Ava's job ends when the meeting is booked: the prospect calls back, and nothing at Artisan picks up — its dialer points outward and expects a human rep, and inbound goes to voicemail. Rocketship's $24.99 sent the email, answered the reply unsupervised, booked the meeting, answers the phone at 2am on your own number, built the site the campaign points at, and takes the payment on it — one customer timeline from first touch to paid, instead of a BDR seat that hands off at the exact moment a buyer becomes real.

The test you can run today

Sign up for both today — Artisan went self-serve too, at a reported $250 a month to Rocketship's $24.99. When your phone rings, only one of these products will pick it up. Keep whichever one produced a customer.

When Rocketship is the right choice

  • — You want the whole loop for a tenth of the seat price. Artisan's reported entry is about $250 a month for outbound; Rocketship's plans — $0, $24.99, $79, $149, all published — run outbound, inbound, the site and the checkout.
  • — Your outbound makes your phone ring, and nothing at Artisan answers inbound. Sophie answers 24/7 on your own number and books the meeting on the call.
  • — Some buyers never read the email. Rocketship makes live AI voice calls that qualify and book on the call. Artisan's dialer expects a human rep on the line.
  • — A booked meeting isn't a customer. Rocketship keeps going — the quote signed with e-signature, the Stripe payment taken on the site it built — on one timeline instead of a handoff.
  • — You want the campaign, the site it points at, and the checkout on it from one product — not a BDR seat plus everything the seat hands off to.
  • — You want the price to stay $24.99 flat while you grow — not a seat bill that climbs with every hire and every data add-on.

The comparison that settles it: a phone call.

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