The 8 Best GDPR-Compliant 11x.ai Alternatives for Sales Teams in 2026

Looking for an 11x.ai alternative that is truly GDPR compliant? You are not alone. 11x.ai, with its outbound agent Alice and its inbound agent Julian, is one of the most-watched AI SDR products of the last two years: it researches accounts, drafts emails, picks up the phone and books meetings on its own¹. The problem starts when your data protection officer reads the fine print. The security page lists SOC 2 Type II and CASA Tier 3, with all data on AWS, but names no EU region². The privacy policy says data from outside the US may be “a destination in the United States” and that EU controllers need a separate DPA on top³. And the public pricing has moved from self-serve to custom contracts around USD 45,000 per year for the Growth plan^4,5. For a German sales team sending company emails and CRM data through the agent, that is where the conversation stops.

This comparison looks at eight AI tools you can give to a sales team instead. Honest pros and cons, with a focus on what counts for teams in Germany and the EU: hosting and processing in Europe, a signed Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag (AVV / DPA), no training on your data, the option to approve before an email or call goes to a prospect, and a price that does not scale per seat. Every entry is checked against the vendor’s own pages, as of October 2026. Where a vendor does not say, we write “check with vendor”.

What is a GDPR-compliant 11x.ai alternative?

A GDPR-compliant 11x.ai alternative is an AI sales tool that does the same kind of work as Alice or Julian, researching accounts, drafting emails, placing calls and booking meetings, but with a signed data processing agreement, a documented processing location in Europe and no training on your customer data. Some alternatives are AI employees you simply write to in your existing channels; others are autonomous AI SDRs that run outbound on their own. All eight below are checked against what their vendors publish on their own pages.

Why you need an 11x.ai alternative

11x.ai does something real. Alice researches accounts, writes multichannel sequences and books meetings, Julian handles inbound reactivation and phone calls, and both plug into HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, LinkedIn and Outlook¹. Teams in Germany and the EU still look for alternatives, for these reasons:

• Hosted on AWS without a named EU region - the security page says all data sits on AWS and lists SOC 2 Type II and CASA Tier 3, but it does not name an EU region or an EU-only deployment option². The privacy policy notes that data may travel to and be processed in the US³. For a DPO who wants European processing by default, that is the first blocker.
• DPA for EU customers, not in-plan - the security page says 11x maintains data processing agreements for EU-based customers, and the privacy policy requires GDPR controllers to “sign or agree to an additional Data Processing Agreement”^2,3. There is no public, pre-signed AVV linked next to the pricing. If your legal team works from its own AVV template, the review starts here.
• Public pricing has moved to custom contracts - 11x no longer lists a self-serve price. Third-party reports put the Growth plan near USD 3,750 per month billed annually (~USD 45,000 per year), 5 users and about 2,000 new prospects per month; Pro and Enterprise are annual or multi-year contracts^4,5. Earlier sources put the cost near USD 5,000 per month. For a 10-person team on an annual commit, that is a different buying motion than a self-serve tool.
• The autonomous model attributes every send to your company - Alice sends emails, LinkedIn messages and SMS, and Julian makes calls, in your name¹. There is no built-in approval step on every outbound touch. One hallucinated line in a cold email goes out as if a human from your team wrote it, and under section 7 UWG and GDPR, the sender is still your company.
• Teams and the web app are not working channels - 11x.ai integrates with Slack, Outlook and Gmail, and the agents reach prospects by voice, email, SMS, WhatsApp and social¹. But the sales team itself writes to Alice through the 11x web app, not Microsoft Teams, Outlook or Slack as a working channel. Many German sales teams live in Teams first.
• Price does not scale with the team - the Growth plan is bundled around 5 users and about 2,000 new prospects per month⁴. Adding more users, more prospects or Julian on top pushes the contract into custom pricing territory fast, with limited transparency before you talk to sales.
• Model training opt-out is partial - the privacy policy excludes Google Workspace data from model training, but for other customer data it limits use to what is “necessary to provide and improve the Services”³. For CRM and prospect data, the exact training behaviour is not spelled out in a single plan setting.

None of this makes 11x.ai a bad product. It is one of the most ambitious AI SDRs on the market, and some US-based teams love it. Whether it fits your data protection and brand-safety bar depends on which prospects it writes to in your name, and your DPO’s view of US processing on a per-send basis.

GDPR compliant is more than an EU server

An EU data centre is a good start, but your data protection officer and your Betriebsrat ask more questions. For sales data this is sharper than for most tools, because the AI touches personal data (names, emails, phone numbers, LinkedIn profiles) on both sides: your reps and the prospects you write to. Check these six points for every tool on this list, including Superkind:

• DPA - is there a signed data processing agreement for the plan you actually buy, and how do you get it (included in the terms, downloadable, on request, Enterprise only)?
• Where the AI models run - EU hosting of the app is not EU hosting of the model. Which large language models are used, and where are they processed? Superkind uses models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral and Google, processed in Europe.
• Training - is your prospect list and CRM data excluded from model training by default, or only after someone opts out?
• Who sees what - roles and permissions decide whether the SDR intern can read the account-executive pipeline. Both the user roles and the AI’s access to systems matter.
• Approval where you want it - can a person check before an outbound email, LinkedIn message or call leaves the team, or does the agent act and the CRM catches it afterwards?
• Retention and deletion - how long do call recordings, email drafts and prospect lists stay, and how do you delete them when you leave the vendor?

Ground rule: Superkind itself uses AI models from US vendors (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google), processed in Europe. The point is not where a vendor’s headquarters is, but where the data goes, who signs for it, and who approves before it leaves. For a wider look at hosting across AI tools, see The Best GDPR-Compliant AI Tools with EU Hosting. For a plain explanation of what 11x.ai is and does today, read 11x.ai Explained: Alice, Julian and the AI SDR Model.

The 8 GDPR-compliant 11x.ai alternatives compared

Hosting and data protection are shown as each vendor documents them on its own pages. Prices are as of October 2026, excl. VAT where applicable.

The 8 GDPR-compliant 11x.ai alternatives in detail

Superkind comes first; the other seven are described as their vendors document them.

1. Superkind: Best Overall Choice for Teams in Germany and the EU

Superkind is an AI employee for your sales team. Instead of handing outbound over to an autonomous agent, you write to Superkind in Outlook or any email inbox, Microsoft Teams, Slack or the Superkind web app like you would to a colleague. It drafts the email, logs the call, pulls up the account, updates HubSpot or Salesforce. You decide what needs approval - e.g. outbound emails to prospects can wait for your OK, routine work runs on its own. It is hosted and processed in Europe, GDPR compliant, and works through 1,500+ integrations, including Outlook, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Microsoft Dynamics, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Aircall and lemlist.

Why it is our overall pick - the criteria you can check:

• Lives where your team already works - you message it in Outlook, Gmail, Teams, Slack or the web app like a colleague, no new tool to learn.
• Does the task in your programs - through 1,500+ integrations, not just a draft in a chat window.
• You decide what needs approval - sensitive steps wait for your OK, routine work runs on its own.
• Keeps your company knowledge - the Company Brain stores accounts, ICP, pricing rules and your top wins, even when AEs move on.
• EU-first - hosted and processed in Europe, GDPR compliant, aligned with the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), no training on your data, AVV through the Trust Center.
• Unlimited users from EUR 50 per month - no price per seat, one credit budget for the whole sales team; EUR 100 covers up to 1,000 tasks (as of October 2026, excl. VAT).
• Grows into your own apps - when it gets more complex, you build your own scoring workflow or sales cockpit on the platform instead of starting over.

Best for

• Teams on Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace that want Outlook and Teams, not just a US web app
• BDRs and AEs who want AI drafts and research, not an autonomous agent sending in their name
• Companies with a Betriebsrat or DPO who needs a signed AVV with a European processing location
• Sales teams whose 11x contract has moved to USD 45k+ annual commit

How to use Superkind as your 11x alternative

Take a typical Alice use case: a target account loads a new product page, your rep needs to send a tailored follow-up, log the call for next week and update the pipeline. With Superkind it is four steps, and the last one runs on its own. More on this use case: sales follow-up with an AI employee.

1. 1

   You write to Superkind

   In Outlook, Teams, Slack or the web app, in plain words. Forward the Dealfront signal or the HubSpot alert and say what should happen next.

2. 2

   Superkind does it in your systems

   It opens the HubSpot record, pulls the account research from your Company Brain, drafts a follow-up email in your tone of voice and schedules a call reminder for Tuesday, processed in Europe.

3. 3

   You approve what you want to check

   If you set outbound emails to need approval, you see each one in Outlook or Teams and click Approve or Reject. Discounts over 15 % go to management first.

4. 4

   Done, and next time it is a routine

   Say it once and it keeps running: “Every known-fit lead that opened the launch email last week gets a tailored follow-up for approval the next morning.”

From the first task to your own app

For a team that was going to hand outbound to Alice, the path to your own AI sales setup has four stages.

1. 1

   Ready in minutes

   Sign up for free, forward your first prospect email in Outlook or Teams and watch Superkind draft the follow-up for your approval.

2. 2

   Tasks become routines

   What you explained once keeps running: every known-fit lead that opened the launch email gets a tailored follow-up drafted the next morning, every call gets logged in HubSpot the same way, and you decide which steps wait for your approval.

3. 3

   Learns from day one

   Every approved email adds to your Company Brain: your ICP, your top wins, which objection goes with which product, which discount belongs to which segment. Unlike the prompts hidden inside one SDR’s Alice setup, this knowledge belongs to the sales team, not to one seat.

4. 4

   Your own Super App

   When it gets more complex, you do not start over: you build a lead-scoring workflow or a sales cockpit on the Superkind platform, on top of what Superkind already knows about your pipeline, yourself or with the Superkind team. It all belongs to you.

Data protection and EU hosting

Safe by default

Your data stays in Europe, under a DPA, with no training on your data.

• Hosted and processed in Europe
• GDPR compliant
• Aligned with the EU AI Act
• No training on your data
• DPA through the Trust Center

For an 11x alternative this means: prospect names, LinkedIn profiles, CRM records and call notes that would otherwise run through a US-hosted agent are processed in Europe, under one AVV for the whole sales team, with a rep approving outbound wherever you want it. For teams with a Betriebsrat, that is often what unlocks the roll-out.

2. lemlist

lemlist is a multichannel outreach platform from France. All lemlist data is stored on OVH servers in France inside the European Economic Area, and the company runs as a GDPR data processor with a standard DPA you can download^7,8. The Email plan starts at USD 55 per month billed yearly with 50,000 emails and unlimited users; the Multichannel plan adds LinkedIn, SMS and calling at USD 87 per month yearly⁶.

Features

• EU hosting - all data on OVH servers in France, no transfer outside the EEA⁷.
• Unlimited users - every plan includes unlimited users and senders⁶.
• Multichannel sequences - email, LinkedIn, SMS and calling in one flow⁶.
• AI SDR Agent - a built-in AI SDR for drafting and reply handling, plus a Chrome extension for LinkedIn and Gmail⁶.
• Open integrations - HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Aircall, Ringover, Zapier, Make, n8n, Clay, and an MCP server⁶.

Best for

• Teams that want polished EU cold email at a flat monthly price
• SDRs who already use LinkedIn and want it in the same sequence
• Companies with a hard “data in Europe” requirement from the DPO

3. Dealfront

Dealfront (Dealfront Group GmbH, Karlsruhe) is the European sales intelligence company that formed from the merger of Echobot and Leadfeeder. The platform is built and hosted in the EU, with company and contact profiles sourced from national registries, company news and corporate websites, plus website-visitor identification (Leadfeeder)⁹. All plans include unlimited users with no seat fees, from EUR 79 per month billed annually¹⁰.

Features

• Built and hosted in the EU - European sales intelligence sourced from registries, not scraped web lists⁹.
• Website visitor identification - the former Leadfeeder product, now Dealfront Target¹⁰.
• MCP server - an official MCP server to let AI assistants work on Dealfront data¹⁰.
• Open integrations - Salesforce, Pipedrive, Microsoft Dynamics, HubSpot, Zoho, Google Ads, LinkedIn Audience Sync, API and browser plugin¹⁰.

Best for

• Sales teams prospecting German or EU companies that need German-registry data
• Marketing teams that want to turn anonymous site traffic into named accounts
• Teams that will pair the data with an AI employee like Superkind rather than another sender

4. Beam AI

Beam AI is an agentic workflow platform from Berlin (Beam Technologies GmbH) that runs enterprise processes with human sign-off on critical steps^11,12. Deploy on Beam cloud in the EU, US or GCC, your own cloud or on-prem, with SOC 2 Type II and GDPR documented¹¹. For sales teams, it is a build-your-own setup: configure the agent, connect Salesforce and HubSpot, define approvals, run.

Features

• EU data residency option - deploy on Beam cloud in the EU, your own cloud or on-prem¹¹.
• 1,000+ integrations - including Salesforce, HubSpot, SAP and DATEV¹¹.
• Human approval - critical steps wait for sign-off, the rest runs automatically¹¹.
• Custom interfaces - sales teams can get apps built on top of the same agent¹¹.
• Clear plan tiers - Free, Pro USD 50/month, Scale USD 3,990/month, Custom¹³.

Best for

• IT or RevOps teams that build and maintain their own sales agents
• Enterprises with Salesforce and SAP at the centre
• Projects where EU data residency is a hard requirement

5. Zeliq

Zeliq is a French B2B sales prospecting platform with contact-data search, email and phone enrichment, a Chrome extension and multichannel sequences, plus Zelia Agent for automated prospecting and Agents Signals for buying signals¹⁴. The Starter plan is USD 59 per user per month with 750 credits (annual billing saves 20 %); Basic is free with usage-based credits; Custom starts at USD 1,500 per user per year with a minimum of three licences¹⁴.

Features

• French company - with GDPR compliance stated in the vendor FAQ¹⁴.
• Zelia Agent - an automated prospecting agent that handles research and first-touch¹⁴.
• Credit-based enrichment - verified email 1 credit, mobile number 10, AI persona insights 5; credits never expire and roll over¹⁴.
• CRM and dialer integrations - HubSpot sync, Aircall, Ringover and a Clay integration¹⁴.

Best for

• Teams that want an EU alternative with a native prospecting database
• French and southern-European sales teams
• Reps who prefer per-seat with free overage credits

6. Salesforge

Salesforge is a cold outreach platform in the EU-based Forge family. It combines human-run campaigns with AI personalisation, mailbox rotation, email warm-up and the Primebox unified inbox with AI sentiment tagging. Agent Frank is a separate AI SDR add-on at USD 499 per month billed quarterly; Pro is USD 40 per month with 1 user and Growth is USD 80 per month with unlimited users and senders¹⁵.

Features

• Agent Frank - an autonomous AI SDR as an add-on, not the core product¹⁵.
• Unlimited users on Growth - USD 80 per month with no price per seat¹⁵.
• Primebox AI inbox - unified inbox with sentiment tagging across mailboxes¹⁵.
• MCP and API - Growth adds MCP/CLI access for AI assistants plus multi-language sequences¹⁵.
• DPA linked - the vendor publishes a DPA; hosting region not stated¹⁵.

Best for

• Small sales teams that want cold email at a low per-month cost
• Teams that want an AI SDR add-on without a USD 45k annual commit
• Reps who need mailbox rotation and warm-up for high-volume outbound

7. Clay

Clay is a US GTM data layer, not an autonomous sender. You build workflows that enrich prospects from 150+ data providers, run Claygent (an AI research agent), score fit and push to the CRM or an ad audience¹⁶. Free includes unlimited seats and 500 actions per month; Launch is USD 185 per month and Growth is USD 495 per month; Custom CSA and DPA are available on Enterprise, with SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001¹⁶.

Features

• 150+ enrichment providers - run waterfalls to find the best data for each prospect¹⁶.
• Claygent AI research - fills in company and account research in a table¹⁶.
• Native sequencer and CRM push - send email or push to HubSpot, Salesforce, LinkedIn and Meta¹⁶.
• Data warehouse connectors - Snowflake, Fivetran, Postgres, Databricks, BigQuery (Growth and above)¹⁶.
• DPA on Enterprise - custom CSA and DPA, with ISO 27001 and ISO 42001¹⁶.

Best for

• RevOps teams that want data and research under their control
• Companies that have an AE for the final send, not an agent
• Teams that will pair Clay with Superkind to draft and approve the actual outreach

8. Apollo.io

Apollo.io is a US sales intelligence and engagement platform with 240 million contacts and 30 million companies, email sequencing, a dialer and pipeline tools. The Free Starter plan has no time limit and can connect Gmail for email campaigns; Basic, Professional and Custom tiers add seats and features. Apollo lists itself as GDPR compliant on its pricing page; the hosting region and DPA details are not on the pricing page¹⁷.

Features

• 240M contacts and 30M companies - the biggest prospect database on the list¹⁷.
• Email sequences and dialer - built-in cold email and calling, with call recording on Professional¹⁷.
• Deal and pipeline tools - a light CRM option alongside Salesforce and HubSpot¹⁷.
• Credit-based email and phone reveals - usage controlled by credits per plan¹⁷.

Best for

• Small sales teams that need a prospect database first and sequencing second
• Reps who want a free start before committing
• Teams that will treat Apollo as a data source and use Superkind to draft and approve the actual outreach

For a wider look at AI you can host in Europe, see The Best GDPR-Compliant AI Tools with EU Hosting.

Feature comparison: What Superkind does that 11x.ai does not

✓ = yes, ~ = partly, ✗ = no, as documented by the vendor. Where the vendor page does not say, we write “check with vendor”.

Where 11x.ai is better: the autonomous model is more hands-off out of the box, and Julian’s phone agent is one of the most ambitious voice-first SDRs on the market. If your team has an annual budget around USD 50,000 and is comfortable with a US-hosted agent sending in your name, 11x is strong.

Who benefits most

Three groups gain the most from moving their AI sales work from 11x to an EU setup.

Sales teams on Microsoft 365 (Outlook and Teams, not just Slack)

Most German Mittelstand sales teams live in Outlook and Microsoft Teams. 11x.ai integrates with Outlook and Slack, but the rep writes to Alice through the 11x web app, not Teams¹. If your BDR has to leave the inbox or Teams to brief the agent, adoption stalls. An AI employee that works where the rep already works keeps the day flowing.

Companies with a Betriebsrat or DPO who needs a signed AVV

Many Betriebsräte and DPOs want a signed Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag with a listed sub-processor table and a European processing location, not a “GDPR aligned” badge in the footer. For 11x, the DPA is a separate agreement required for EU controllers and the processing location is not EU by default^2,3. A tool with EU hosting plus a pre-signed AVV is often what unlocks the roll-out.

Sales teams where the 11x contract has moved to USD 45k+ annual commit

11x no longer sells self-serve. For a 10-person sales team the Growth plan commits around USD 45,000 per year⁴, and Pro and Enterprise are custom annual or multi-year deals⁵. A tool with unlimited users and one company budget costs the same with 5, 20 or 50 reps, and you can cancel at the end of the month.

Switching from 11x to Superkind

You do not have to switch everything on day one. Most teams run both for a few weeks and move one play at a time.

• Notice period - 11x plans are annual or multi-year^4,5. Mark the renewal date in your calendar: notice periods often sit between 30 and 90 days before renewal. Keep the seats running until then, so your SDRs do not lose sequences in flight.
• Data export - export the sequences, templates, call recordings and audience definitions you want to keep. The ICP notes and objection handling become knowledge in Superkind’s Company Brain, so they belong to the sales team, not to one agent seat.
• What to take over - the plays that Alice runs today (launch-week follow-up, closed-lost reactivation, event invite) become routines in Superkind. You decide which steps need a rep to click Approve before they go out in your name.

The first three steps

1. 1

   Pick the Alice play that gets used most

   Launch-week follow-up, closed-lost reactivation, event invite or inbound reactivation. Your 11x usage shows which one runs every day.

2. 2

   Sign up and connect the same systems

   Start free at app.superkind.ai and connect Outlook, Teams or Slack plus the systems Alice used, for example HubSpot or Salesforce, LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Aircall or Ringover.

3. 3

   Write the task once and make it a routine

   Write it to Superkind like a colleague, approve the first batch, then say “do this every Tuesday”. Switch the matching Alice play off when the routine runs for a week.

6 tips for choosing a GDPR-compliant 11x alternative

List the plays and the data they touch

Write down which Alice or Julian plays touch personal data: prospect names, LinkedIn URLs, phone numbers, call recordings. Those need EU processing first, long before the ones that stay inside the CRM.

Get the AVV and check where the models run

Sign the Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag before real prospect data flows, and ask where the AI models run, not just the app. EU hosting of the app is not EU hosting of the model. Also plan AI training for the sales team: Article 4 of the EU AI Act requires companies that use AI to ensure sufficient AI literacy among their staff¹⁸.

Keep the approval step on every outbound touch

11x’s model is to send on its own. The failure case is one hallucinated line in a cold email that lands in a VP’s inbox in your name. Make approval part of the process, not of one agent, so the same rule applies for every rep and every campaign.

Count the seats and the annual commit, not just the monthly price

11x Growth is around USD 45,000 per year for a bundle⁴. Pick ten reps in your team, model one year with your real prospect volume, and compare against a company plan with unlimited users. Cold-outreach volume shows the biggest difference.

Check UWG and ePrivacy before you buy any AI SDR

In Germany, section 7 UWG requires prior consent for most commercial email in B2B; a narrow legitimate-interest exemption applies only when the recipient can be assumed to have a specific interest in the product¹⁹. The AI SDR does not change the lawful basis - it just scales the sends. Legal review before volume, not after.

Test with last month’s real cases

Run twenty real prospects from last month through the new tool. Demo lists never show your exceptions. Watch what the AI drafts for an existing customer that is also a former lost deal, for a prospect in a regulated industry, and for an opportunity with a champion change.

Conclusion

11x.ai is one of the most ambitious AI SDRs on the market, with Alice for outbound and Julian for inbound, and a voice agent that is rare in the category. For sales teams in Germany and the EU, the trade-offs are clear: hosting on AWS without a named EU region, a separate DPA for EU controllers, a US transfer in the privacy policy, an annual commit around USD 45,000, and a model that sends in your name without a built-in approval step on every touch^2,3,4. If you want a European sender for cold email, lemlist on OVH France is honest; for European prospect data, Dealfront is built and hosted in Germany; for a build-your-own agent with EU residency, Beam AI in Berlin is a real option. If you would rather give the task to an AI employee that drafts in your name, logs calls and books meetings through 1,500+ integrations such as HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive, lets you decide which outbound steps need approval, and runs for unlimited users from EUR 50 per month, Superkind is the overall pick. Your next step: take the Alice play your SDRs ran most last week and send that task to Superkind this afternoon.

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Henri Jung

Co-founder of Superkind, the AI employee teams write to in Outlook, Teams and Slack. Henri helps companies, from small teams to the Mittelstand, hand their routine work to AI - without new tools, consultants or an in-house AI team.