Aijent vs Drift · August 2026

Your vendor picked your successor.
You didn't.

Drift invented this category. In March 2026 Salesloft announced a gradual sunset and began referring clients to 1mind. There is no published end-of-life date, which makes this a decision you get to make rather than one you have to wait for.

The fact: Salesloft acquired Drift, and in March 2026 announced a gradual sunset, naming 1mind as the successor. No end-of-life date has been published.

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Drift was built on rule-based playbooks with generative AI layered over the top. That is why setup ran to weeks with a dedicated manager, and 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 enterprise, demo-gated, annual, and takes about four weeks to stand up. Aijent has a published price, a 14-day trial with no credit card, and you are live in minutes.

You are being migrated to a vendor you did not choose.
You can try the alternative this afternoon, for nothing.

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Aijent against Drift, including the row where they beat us

CapabilityAijent by AijencyIndependentDriftSalesloft, sunsetting
Setup timeMinutesWeeks
Zoom, Teams & Meet creationYesPre-set link on a template
Contact + deal + transcript to CRMAll four CRMs, every bookingVia integration
You decide who gets bookedSureGate, Growth+Playbook branches
Declines in your own wordsYour wording, server-postedPlaybook branch carries your copy
Reads your product catalogueShopify, WooCommerce, structured dataNo
CTA conversion + attributionTracked back to the CRMNo
Inline, in-page agentGrowth+Corner widget
Conversations included, not meteredIncluded up to your capAnnual platform fee
Month to month, no contractCancel any monthAnnual
Whole-site auto-trainingUp to 1,500 pages, sitemap awareContent added manually
Free trial14 days, no cardNone
Starting price$199/mo$3,750+/mo
Where Drift leadsEarly stage on independent reviews, website only, and our agent takes speech in but answers in text.The category originator, with years of playbook tooling and a large review base behind it.
Sources - all verified August 2026
  • Aijent: aijency.ai/pricing - $199/mo flat, 200 conversations included, no setup fee, no contract, and a 14-day trial with no credit card. Capabilities audited against the live production platform.
  • Drift pricing: The Premium entry tier was about $3,750 a month billed annually, plus $4,500 to $7,500 onboarding. Sold only inside Salesloft, quote-only, with no standalone purchase.
  • Drift sources: salesloft.com/platform/drift and the Salesloft newsroom (Drift sunset announced March 2026, 1mind named as successor), plus the Drift help centre on Drift Meetings. Verified August 2026.
  • All figures in Australian dollars, converted from USD at approximately US$1 = A$1.50, and shown as the cost to stand the product up from scratch rather than the cost of an existing instance.

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