Is there a free AI SDR? What $0 gets you
Is there a free AI SDR? What free plans and trials really include, what they leave out, and how to get AI sales writing free forever with no card.
There is no fully free AI SDR that finds leads, writes and sends for you forever. Sending email and buying contact data cost the vendor real money, so the full loop sits behind a paid plan or a time-limited trial. What you can get for free is the writing and memory part: an AI that knows your company and your prospects and writes your sales emails and replies. Outbind's Free plan does exactly that, with no card and no time limit.
Is there a completely free AI SDR?
No. A complete AI SDR finds people, checks their emails, writes, sends, follows up and sorts replies. Lead data and sending have a cost per contact and per message, so no vendor can give that away without limits for long.
What exists is free parts of the job. Some tools give you a small number of contacts a month, some give you a trial of everything, and some give you the AI writing for free. If a tool says "free AI SDR", check which of these it means.
What do free AI SDR plans usually include?
Free AI SDR offers fall into three groups, each with a catch.
| Type of free | What you get | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Free trial | The full product for a few days | It ends, and some need a card up front |
| Free plan with limits | A small slice of the product forever | Low caps on contacts, emails or seats |
| Free single tool | One step, such as writing or checking emails | You do the other steps yourself |
A trial tells you whether the full loop works on your market. A free plan or free tool helps you every day while you are not ready to pay.
What does Outbind's Free plan include?
Outbind's Free plan is Obi's brain for one person, free forever with no card. It is the writing and memory part of an AI SDR.
- Remembers your company. What you sell, who buys it and how you talk about it.
- Remembers up to 100 prospects. Notes, research and history for each one, so the next email builds on the last.
- Writes 500 drafts a month. Sales emails, LinkedIn messages and call scripts, written with Outbind's playbook and pre-send checks.
- Answers 100 hard replies a month. Paste in a reply and Obi sorts it and writes the answer.
- Learns from 10 knowledge sources. Your website, decks and documents.
- Checks 100 email addresses a day.
You can use it in the Outbind app, or inside ChatGPT or Claude through Outbind's MCP connection. It never sends anything on its own: you copy the text and send it from your own email or LinkedIn. See how to write sales emails with ChatGPT.
What is not free on Outbind?
Autopilot is not free. Finding leads, enriching contacts, sending from your inbox, following up, LinkedIn in the cloud and the Unibox are on the paid plans:
- Pro $49 a month for one founder or seller.
- Pro Plus $99, Team $199 and Team Scale $399 for more leads, LinkedIn accounts and seats.
Every paid plan starts with a 7-day free trial with that plan's features and 1,000 credits. A card is needed at sign-up and is charged on day 7 unless you cancel. See pricing.
What is the best free setup for a startup?
The best free setup for a startup is free AI writing plus your own inbox and a short list of people you chose yourself. It costs nothing and teaches you what message works.
- Write down your ideal customer. One sentence: who, what size, what problem.
- Make a list of 20 to 50 people by hand. People you know, people who follow you, companies you already sell near.
- Let the AI write, you send. Use Outbind's Free plan to write each email from what it knows about you and the prospect. Send from your own mailbox.
- Answer every reply fast. Paste hard replies into Obi for a first draft.
- Move to a paid plan when the list runs out. Once you know which message gets replies, Autopilot can find more people like the ones who answered.
This is the same path we describe in how to get your first customers.
When should you pay for an AI SDR?
Pay for an AI SDR when finding and emailing new people takes more time than you have, and you already know who buys. If you are still guessing at your ideal customer, more volume will not fix it.
A simple test: if you have sent 50 good emails by hand and booked at least one meeting, you have a message worth scaling. That is when a paid plan earns its money. For budgets, see AI SDR pricing.
FAQ
Is there a free AI SDR?
Not a complete one. Lead data and sending cost money, so the full loop is paid or on a trial. Outbind's Free plan gives you the writing and memory part free forever, with no card.
Does Outbind have a free plan?
Yes. Outbind's Free plan is Obi's brain for one person: $0, no card, no time limit. It remembers up to 100 prospects and writes 500 drafts and 100 hard replies a month. Sending and lead finding are on the paid plans.
Does the Outbind free trial need a card?
The Free plan does not. The 7-day free trial of a paid plan does: a card is taken at sign-up and charged on day 7 unless you cancel.
Can I use Outbind for free in ChatGPT?
Yes. The Free plan includes the MCP connection, so you can use Obi's brain inside ChatGPT, Claude and other AI assistants that support MCP.
Will the free plan send emails for me?
No. On the Free plan, Obi writes and you send from your own email or LinkedIn. Sending, follow-ups and lead finding are on Autopilot, from $49 a month.
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