OXYGENvsArtisan

Oxygen vs Artisan Artisan's Ava sends email and queues calls. Oxygen adds LinkedIn steps.

Oxygen leads on price, LinkedIn automation, sequences, workflows, AI access and a built-in CRM with deals, from $49 a month per workspace. Artisan leads on its own database of 250M+ contacts, two-way Salesforce sync and SOC 2, and its AI BDR Ava writes, sends and answers email on her own.

By Tim Scheuer, Co-founder of Oxygen · Checked October 17, 2026

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Oxygen vs Artisan: the short answer

Choose OXYGEN if

You want 3 people on email and LinkedIn for $118.50 a month; Artisan's Intern plan starts at $280 and runs no LinkedIn steps.
You want LinkedIn visits, invites and messages to run in the cloud next to email, at $34 an account a month.
You want deals on a pipeline and every reply on the timeline, where Artisan reads deals in from HubSpot or Salesforce.
You want scheduled and event-triggered workflows with approval steps and run logs, which Artisan's pages do not show.

Choose Artisan if

You want to search 250M+ B2B contacts inside the tool, on every plan including Free.
You run Salesforce and want it synced both ways, which Artisan offers on its sales-led plans.
Your security review asks for a SOC 2 Type II report, plus SSO and SAML on Artisan's Enterprise plan.

Best fit by team
Team	Pick	Why
A founder on email and LinkedIn	OXYGEN	$49 a month for both channels; Artisan starts at $280 and has no LinkedIn steps.
A team of 3 on email and LinkedIn	OXYGEN	$118.50 a month with LinkedIn included; on Artisan, LinkedIn needs a second tool.
A Salesforce team with a security review	Artisan	Two-way Salesforce sync on its sales-led plans, a SOC 2 Type II report, and SSO on Enterprise.
A sales team whose reps make calls	Artisan	Artisan's power dialer runs call steps at $75 a seat a month; Oxygen's calls are still in beta.
An email team that wants AI to write and reply	Either	Ava writes, sends and answers on her own; Oxygen drafts replies and asks before sends unless Auto-approve is on.

Why switch from Artisan to Oxygen

LinkedIn has no step in the sequence

Artisan's help center lists 3 sequence step types: email, manual task and human call, with no LinkedIn step. Oxygen runs visits, invites, messages and InMail in the cloud at $34 an account a month, in the same sequence as email.

LinkedIn automation in detail

The Oxygen deals board with deals in Lead, In Progress, Won and Lost

Deals and pipelines stay in another CRM

Artisan reads deals from HubSpot or Salesforce for context and suppression, and its pages show no pipeline board or custom objects. Oxygen keeps companies, people and deals on a pipeline, with every reply on the timeline, free on every plan.

Built-in CRM in detail

The first paid plan starts at $280 a month

Artisan's Intern plan is $280 a month, or $250 billed yearly, for 10K credits, about 500 leads contacted; mailboxes and dialer seats cost extra. Oxygen starts at $49 a month per workspace, with email and LinkedIn.

Pricing model in detail

Automation outside campaigns has no builder

Artisan's pages show campaigns fed by a webhook and approval before sending, but no scheduled or event-triggered workflows and no run logs. Oxygen's workflows start on schedules, webhooks or 77 workspace events, with approvals and retries.

Workflow automation in detail

Oxygen vs Artisan at a glance

Oxygen and Artisan compared on 14 criteria
Criterion	OXYGEN	Artisan
Lead data and signals
SignalsWhich buying signals it captures, what they cost, and whether one can start outreach.	LinkedIn profile viewers, new followers and post reactions from your connected accounts at no extra cost, plus hiring, funding, news, tech-stack and job-change searches on credits. A signal can start a workflow or enroll the lead in a sequence. Ahead	14 signal types, from funding, hiring and champion job changes to Bombora intent, social keywords and website visitors. Each runs as a campaign that contacts matches, on credits.
Own contact databaseContacts in the vendor's own database, searchable in the product.	No contact database of its own. Searches run through data providers on credits, and through Apollo's database on your own Apollo key.	250M+ B2B professionals across 200+ countries, searchable on every plan including Free, plus a local business database of 200M+ Google Maps businesses. Ahead
Email, LinkedIn and more channels
Email deliverabilityWarm-up, inbox buying, placement tests, rotation, send limits, bounce protection, then the price of an inbox.	Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 inboxes at $4 a month with warm-up included, or a Microsoft tenant at $40 a month for up to 100 inboxes. Placement tests from $1 an inbox a month, inbox rotation, daily limits per mailbox and a bounce auto-pause. Even	Sends from your mailboxes with warm-up, mailboxes to buy, placement tracking, rotation, a 100-a-day cap on the primary mailbox, bounce tests and auto-pause. No inbox price found. Even
LinkedIn automationWhich steps run on their own, how the account connects, and what 2 senders cost a month.	Runs in the cloud with no browser extension: visits, invites, messages, InMail, follows, likes and comments. $34 a month per connected account, every action included. Ahead	No LinkedIn steps found: a sequence holds email, manual task and human call steps, though its marketing pages mention email and social.
WhatsApp, calls and SMSChannels beyond email and LinkedIn inside the same sequence. Beta channels do not count.	WhatsApp steps at $34 a month per number, over a linked-device connection. Calls from a web softphone are in beta. No SMS. Even	Human call steps in a built-in power dialer at $75 a seat a month ($67 yearly), plus phone numbers and 1 credit a call; Ava herself does not call. No SMS or WhatsApp. Even
Sequences and inboxMixed channels, branches, A/B tests, reply stops on every channel, one inbox, AI replies.	One sequence mixes email, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and call tasks, branches on connection state, signals or lead data, tests up to 26 versions of a step, and stops a lead when they reply on any channel. Replies land in one inbox with AI triage and drafted answers. Ahead	Email, call and task steps with conditional branching per its launch post, multivariate tests, an inbox and AI replies that book meetings. No LinkedIn steps; a stop on reply is not stated.
CRM and integrations
Built-in CRMDeals, a pipeline and custom records in the same workspace, and what they cost.	Companies, people, deals and objects you define, a deals pipeline, and an activity timeline where replies land. Free on every plan, the free one included. Ahead	People, companies and deals, with deals synced in from HubSpot or Salesforce for context; lead profiles show campaign activity. No pipeline board or custom objects found.
Works with your stackWhich CRMs sync both ways. Push-only syncs and imports do not count.	Two-way sync with HubSpot, one-way sync to Attio and an import from Pipedrive. No Salesforce sync. Pushes leads into Instantly, Smartlead, lemlist and HeyReach campaigns, and has a public API and webhooks.	Two-way sync with HubSpot on Intern and with Salesforce on its sales-led plans, one CRM at a time. Webhooks feed campaigns; Slack alerts. No Pipedrive, Attio, Zoho or Close found. Ahead
Workflows and AI
Workflow automationAutomations on schedules, webhooks and events, with approvals and run logs, built in.	Built in: schedules down to every minute on paid plans, webhooks, API calls and 77 workspace events as triggers, with approval steps, retries and a log of every run. Ahead	No workflow builder found. A webhook can feed leads into a campaign and messages can wait for approval; schedules, event triggers and run logs outside campaigns are not documented.
AI and agent accessAn in-app assistant, AI over your rows, cited research, and MCP, CLI and API access.	A Copilot in the web app that asks before sends and larger paid steps unless you turn on Auto-approve, AI columns over your rows, a research agent that cites its sources, an MCP server, a CLI and an API. Ahead	Chat with Ava in the app, an AI web research column, research that shows its sources, and an MCP connector for Claude, an early feature, on all plans. No CLI or public API found.
Pricing and security
Pricing modelWhat you pay for, and the monthly list price for three common setups.	One plan from $49 a month per workspace, paid in credits, with no seat per user. A LinkedIn account uses $34 of credits a month. Ahead	Credits per workspace with free seats: Intern from $280 a month or $250 yearly (10K credits, about 500 leads), Employee from $660 or $600. Mailboxes, dialer seats and numbers cost extra.
Security and complianceAudits, SSO and the documents a security review asks for.	A public DPA and subprocessor list. No SOC 2 report, ISO 27001 certificate, SSO or public status page.	SOC 2 Type II, SSO and SAML on Enterprise, and a public DPA. The subprocessor list is a document in its trust center, not a public page. No ISO 27001 or status page found. Ahead
Free plan and trialWhat you can use before paying, and for how long.	A free workspace with 1,000 credits once, the CRM, tables and workflows, and no time limit. Sending needs a paid plan. Even	A Free plan with 300 credits a month for lead search, lists and enrichment, without campaigns. New accounts get a 30-day trial with 10K credits and no card. Even
Data access and exportGetting your data out: CSV, API, SQL, or your own database.	Free CSV export, export through the API, read-only SQL over your workspace, and the option to attach your own Postgres. Ahead	CSV import and export on every plan, Free included; its Claude connector returns CSV download links. No export API, SQL access or warehouse sync found.

Across 14 criteria: OXYGEN ahead on 8 (signals, LinkedIn, sequences, CRM, workflows, AI, price, data access), Artisan ahead on 3 (CRM syncs, security, own database), even on 3. How we compared

Lead data and signals: Oxygen vs Artisan

An Oxygen table of 18 leads with company, name, title, industry, employees, funding, a work email column and HQ — A lead list in an Oxygen table. The work email column runs the email waterfall on every row when you start it.

Does Artisan track buying signals, and which does Oxygen capture?

Yes, a strength: 14 signal types, from funding, hiring and champion job changes to Bombora intent, social keywords and website visitors, each a campaign that contacts matches on credits. Oxygen reads profile viewers, new followers and post reactions from your LinkedIn accounts at no extra cost, and a signal can enroll a lead in a sequence. See signals.

How big is Artisan's own contact database?

Artisan leads here: its own database of 250M+ B2B professionals across 200+ countries, searchable on every plan including Free, plus a local business database. Oxygen has no contact database of its own; searches run through data providers on credits, or through Apollo's database on your own Apollo key from the $99 plan.

Email, LinkedIn and more channels: Oxygen vs Artisan

How does Artisan protect deliverability, and what does Oxygen include?

Both send email themselves. Artisan warms up secondary mailboxes, sells mailboxes, tracks inbox placement, rotates sending infrastructure, caps the primary mailbox at 100 emails a day and tests for bounces. Its pages give no mailbox price. Oxygen sells inboxes at $4 a month with warm-up included. See mailboxes.

Does Artisan automate LinkedIn, and what does a sender cost?

No. Artisan's help center lists three sequence steps, email, manual task and human call, and no LinkedIn step, though its marketing pages mention email and social. Oxygen runs visits, invites, messages, InMail, follows, likes and comments in the cloud with no browser extension, at $34 an account, so 2 senders cost $73.70 a month.

Can Artisan send WhatsApp or SMS, or place calls, in a sequence?

Artisan places calls through a human power dialer: reps dial the leads Ava queues, at $75 a seat a month or $67 billed yearly, plus phone numbers and 1 credit a call. Ava herself does not call. Oxygen has WhatsApp steps at $34 a number instead, and calls in beta, which this page does not count. Neither sends SMS.

Can one Artisan sequence mix channels, and where do replies land?

Artisan sequences mix email, call and task steps, with branching per its launch post and multivariate tests. Ava answers replies and books meetings. Oxygen adds LinkedIn and WhatsApp steps, tests up to 26 versions of a step and stops a lead on a reply from any channel. See sequences.

CRM and integrations: Oxygen vs Artisan

Does Artisan have a CRM, and how does Oxygen's compare?

Partly. Artisan keeps people, companies and deals, but deals come in from HubSpot or Salesforce for context and suppression, and its pages show no pipeline board or custom objects. Oxygen's CRM holds companies, people, deals on a pipeline and objects you define, with every reply on the timeline, free on every plan.

Which CRMs does Artisan sync with, and which does Oxygen?

Artisan leads here. It syncs both ways with HubSpot on Intern and with Salesforce on its sales-led plans, one CRM at a time, with field-level export controls. Oxygen syncs both ways with HubSpot, one way to Attio, imports from Pipedrive and has no Salesforce sync. If your team lives in Salesforce, this row matters. See Oxygen's integrations.

Workflows and AI: Oxygen vs Artisan

Can Artisan automate work outside a sequence?

Not as a separate feature. Artisan runs campaigns, can take leads from a webhook and can hold messages for approval, but its pages show no scheduled or event-triggered workflows and no run logs. Oxygen's workflows start on schedules, webhooks, API calls or 77 workspace events, with approval steps, retries and a log of every run.

What can AI do in Artisan, and can coding agents drive it?

Ava is the product: you chat with her in the app, she adds AI web research columns to lists and shows her sources, and an MCP connector for Claude, an early feature, works on all plans. Its pages show no CLI or public API. Oxygen has a Copilot, AI columns, a research agent that cites its sources, an MCP server, a CLI and an API.

Pricing and security: Oxygen vs Artisan

How does Artisan pricing compare with Oxygen for a small team?

Oxygen costs less in all 3 setups. Artisan's Intern plan is $280 a month, or $250 billed yearly, for 10K credits, about 500 leads contacted; seats are free, and mailboxes, dialer seats and numbers cost extra. It has no LinkedIn steps, so LinkedIn needs another tool. Oxygen is one plan per workspace paid in credits. See Oxygen pricing.

Is Artisan SOC 2 compliant, and is Oxygen?

Artisan leads. It holds a SOC 2 Type II report, offers SSO and SAML on Enterprise and publishes a DPA; its subprocessor list is a document in its trust center. Neither shows ISO 27001 or a public status page. Oxygen publishes a DPA and a subprocessor list, with no SOC 2 report or SSO.

Does Artisan have a free plan, and does Oxygen?

Both have a free tier without sending. Artisan's Free plan gives 300 credits a month for lead search, lists and enrichment, and new accounts get 10K trial credits for 30 days with no card. Oxygen's free workspace gives 1,000 credits once, with the CRM, tables and workflows and no time limit.

How do you get your data out of Artisan?

CSV, mostly. Artisan exports CSV on every plan, and its Claude connector hands back CSV download links; its pages show no export API, SQL access or warehouse sync. Oxygen exports CSV free, exports through its API, gives read-only SQL over your workspace and can attach your own Postgres. See tables.

Oxygen vs Artisan pricing for 1 and 3 senders

Monthly list prices on monthly billing
Setup	OXYGEN a month	Artisan a month
1 person on email and LinkedIn	$49the $49 plan	$280Intern, 10K credits; no LinkedIn steps, so LinkedIn needs another tool; $250 billed yearly
3 people on email and LinkedIn	$118.50the $99 plan plus 1,500 credits in top-ups	$280Intern with free seats for 3 people; no LinkedIn steps, so LinkedIn needs another tool; $250 billed yearly
A team on email only, 3 inboxes	$49the $49 plan	$280Intern, 3 connected mailboxes; mailboxes bought in Artisan are billed separately; $250 billed yearly

Switching from Artisan to Oxygen, or running both

Carries over

Lead lists, exported from Artisan as CSV into an Oxygen table or the CRM.
Your Google and Microsoft mailboxes, connected to Oxygen directly.
HubSpot records, which Oxygen also syncs both ways.

Rebuilt in Oxygen

Campaigns, messaging setups and reply history, which stay in Artisan.
Salesforce sync, which Oxygen does not offer.
The power dialer; calls in Oxygen are in beta.

Both can sync with the same HubSpot portal. Artisan can keep running email campaigns while Oxygen runs LinkedIn sequences and workflows, with both writing activity to HubSpot. Keep the two audiences apart so nobody is contacted twice.

Oxygen vs Artisan FAQ

Is Oxygen cheaper than Artisan?

Yes, in all 3 setups on this page: 1 person on email and LinkedIn costs $49 a month on Oxygen against $280 on Artisan's Intern plan, 3 people cost $118.50 against $280, and an email team with 3 inboxes costs $49 against $280. Artisan seats are free, but its plan has no LinkedIn steps, and mailboxes and dialer seats cost extra.

What is Artisan's Ava?

Ava is Artisan's AI BDR. She finds and enriches leads, writes and sends email from your reps' mailboxes, answers replies and books meetings, with approval before sending if you want it. Reps take calls in a power dialer. Oxygen is a workspace where you build the sequences, with a Copilot that asks before sends unless Auto-approve is on.

Does Artisan automate LinkedIn?

Its pages show no LinkedIn automation. Artisan's help center lists three sequence step types: email, manual task and human call. Its marketing pages mention email and social, but name no LinkedIn step, connection method or price. Oxygen runs LinkedIn visits, invites, messages and InMail in the cloud at $34 an account a month.

Does Artisan have a free plan or trial?

Yes. Artisan's Free plan gives 300 credits a month for lead search, lists and enrichment, with no campaigns. Each new account also gets a 30-day trial with 10K credits and no card required. Oxygen's free workspace gives 1,000 credits once, with the CRM, tables and workflows; sending needs a paid plan.

Does Artisan sync with Salesforce and HubSpot?

Yes, both ways, one CRM at a time. HubSpot sync is on the Intern plan; Salesforce appears on Artisan's sales-led plans. Contacts and companies sync both ways, deals come in for context, and activities are written back. Oxygen syncs both ways with HubSpot and has no Salesforce sync.

Is Artisan SOC 2 compliant?

Yes. Artisan's pricing page and DPA say it holds a SOC 2 Type II report, and SSO and SAML are on its Enterprise plan. It publishes a DPA, and its subprocessor list is a document in its trust center. Oxygen publishes a DPA and a subprocessor list but has no SOC 2 report or SSO.

When is Artisan the better choice?

When you want an AI BDR to write, send and answer cold email on its own from a built-in database of 250M+ contacts, your CRM is Salesforce, or a security review needs SOC 2. For LinkedIn in the same sequence, a CRM with deals, workflows and a lower price, Oxygen leads.

How we compared Oxygen and Artisan

We make OXYGEN, so read this as an interested comparison. Every comparison on this site scores both products on the same rubric, and a fixed rule decides each row from the facts, never a writer. This page shows the 14 criteria that decide a choice between OXYGEN and Artisan. We also scored lead data and tables and left them out; Artisan leads on none of them. Artisan facts come from Artisan's own pages, checked on the dates below; OXYGEN facts and prices come from the product and its live price list.

Sources for Artisan, checked October 17, 2026

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