If your sales org is already standardized on Salesloft for outbound cadences and you intend to follow its official successor path to 1mind, staying inside that ecosystem is a reasonable enterprise choice. Drift itself, however, entered a gradual sunset announced in March 2026. If you need an actively developed platform that takes website visitors from AI conversation to booked meetings and follow-up, Meeton Chat is the practical alternative.
| Criteria | Meeton Chat | Drift (Salesloft) |
|---|---|---|
| Primary purpose | Pipeline generation end to end: conversation → booking → content → follow-up (AI SDR) | Conversational marketing (chat + ABM routing) |
| AI conversation | 5-second first response, 24/7 AI dialogue | AI chatbot with routing to live chat or meeting booking |
| Coverage | Chat + on-site ads + content + booking + follow-up in one platform | Chat + ABM (follow-up email lives in separate Salesloft products) |
| Pricing | From ¥150,000/mo + add-ons (public) | Not published (contact sales) |
| CRM integration | Native HubSpot / Salesforce integration | Native to Salesloft, plus a broad integration ecosystem |
| Availability | Actively developed (built in Japan, native-level Japanese support) | Gradual sunset announced March 2026 (successor: 1mind) |
* Information on Drift (Salesloft) is for reference based on public sources (please check each vendor's official page for the latest specs).
Drift created the conversational-marketing category and built nearly a decade of thought leadership, with a combined global base of roughly 6,000 customers at the time of the Salesloft acquisition. Its mature ABM and account-routing logic, native integration with Salesloft's cadence platform, and broad third-party integration ecosystem made it a genuine enterprise standard for account-based selling.
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Yes. Drift was acquired by Salesloft in February 2024, and in March 2026 Salesloft officially announced a "gradual sunset" of Drift alongside a partnership with AI-agent company 1mind, which is positioned as the successor product. As of July 2026, drift.com redirects to salesloft.com/platform/drift, which states "We've transitioned from Drift to 1mind." New adoption of Drift is effectively no longer an option.
Drift pioneered conversational marketing with strong chat and ABM routing, but follow-up email sequences live in separate Salesloft products, and there is no evidence of Japanese localization or a Japan-based support team. Meeton Chat is an AI SDR that runs the full journey on one platform — 24/7 AI conversations with a 5-second first response, content recommendations, meeting booking, and follow-up — with native HubSpot / Salesforce integration and a 1-line JS tag that deploys in 5 minutes.
Pricing is not published — both Salesloft and Drift require you to contact sales, and no official page lists prices (as of 2026). Meeton ai publishes its pricing: from ¥150,000/mo for the base plan, plus add-ons for meeting conversion and follow-up.
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