Aijent vs Drift · October 2026

Your vendor picked your successor.
You didn't.

Drift helped build this category. In March 2026 Salesloft announced a gradual sunset, and it has since set the date: Drift retires on 31 January 2027, and the chat widget stops working that day. That makes this a decision with a deadline.

The fact: Salesloft acquired Drift, announced a gradual sunset in March 2026 naming 1mind as the successor, and retires Drift on 31 January 2027. Data you have not exported is deleted on 1 May 2027.

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Drift was built on rule-based playbooks with generative AI layered over the top. That is why the answers follow the branches somebody drew rather than the conversation the visitor is having.

On booking, Drift Meetings attaches a link you set up in advance on a meeting template. The same standing room, every time. Aijent creates a new Zoom, Teams or Google Meet for each booking and sends the invite from it.

The successor you are being pointed at is sold through a demo with no published price, and its CEO says every named customer is on an annual contract. Aijent has a published price of A$99 a month, a 14-day trial with no credit card, and you are live in under 8 minutes.

Your Drift chat widget stops working on 31 January 2027.
You can try the alternative this afternoon, for nothing.

Side by side for inbound sales

Aijent against Drift, including the row where they beat us

CapabilityAijentIndependentDriftSalesloft, retiring 31 January 2027
Time to go liveUnder 8 minutesRetiring
Cost at 50 conversations a monthA$99/moNot sold; was from A$3,575/mo
Zoom, Teams & Meet creationYesPre-set link on a template
Works with your own calendar, no extra scheduling toolGoogle or Microsoft 365Google or Office 365
Contact + deal + transcript to CRMAll four CRMs, HubSpot Free includedContact and transcript, no deal
You decide who gets bookedSureGate, Growth+Yes, playbook branch rules
Declines in your own wordsYour wording, server-postedYes, scripted branch copy
Reads your product catalogueShopify, WooCommerce, structured dataNo catalogue sync
CTA conversion + attributionTracked back to the CRMNo link-click tracking
Inline, in-page agentGrowth+Yes, embedded landing page
Conversations included, not meteredIncluded up to your capNot sold to new customers
Languages4529 languages; AI in English only
Month to month, no contractCancel any monthNo: annual contracts, retiring
Whole-site auto-trainingUp to 1,500 pages, sitemap awareNo: paid add-on, manual setup
Free trial14 days, no cardNo: not sold, retiring
A visitor can reach a person liveLive Human Handover, every planLive chat with your team
Where Drift leadsYears of playbook tooling, account intent signals through Drift Intel, and live chat with your team, until it retires on 31 January 2027.
Sources - all checked October 2026
  • Aijent: aijency.ai/pricing - from A$99/mo (Starter, 50 conversations included); Growth is A$199/mo for 200. No setup fee, no contract, and a 14-day trial on Starter with no credit card. 8-Minute Aijent: our own timed video, signup to live; a Salesforce connection takes about 17 minutes. Capabilities audited against the live production platform.
  • Drift pricing: Drift never published a price. It was quote-only and sold inside Salesloft, and it retires on 31 January 2027.
  • Drift sources: Salesloft help centre, Drift Sunset FAQ (last updated 22 September 2026: retirement on 31 January 2027, data deleted on 1 May 2027, 1mind recommended); the Salesloft newsroom (sunset announced March 2026); drift.com, which redirects to Salesloft's page saying it has transitioned from Drift to 1mind; and the Drift help centre on Drift Meetings. Checked October 2026.
  • Competitor prices converted from USD at about US$1 = A$1.43 (Reserve Bank of Australia, 22 October 2026) and written A$, shown as the cost to stand the product up from scratch rather than the cost of an existing instance. Aijent prices are in AUD.

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