ShowPilotvsDrift
Drift was a chatbot. ShowPilot is an agent platform.
Clari + Salesloft announced a gradual sunset of Drift in March 2026 and points its customers to a separate company, 1mind. If you’re choosing what comes next, ShowPilot is an AI agent platform for your website: its agents know who’s visiting, decide the next step for each buyer, and act on it, from answering to booking the meeting with your rep.
Reviewed October 2026. Every claim about Drift is sourced at the end of the page.
The agent opening the page that answers the question. Recorded on a sample company’s site.
ShowPilot vs Drift: which should you pick?
ShowPilot is a Drift alternative for growing companies: an inbound agent platform whose agents answer each buyer from your content, decide the next step and book the meeting, on HubSpot or Salesforce.
Choose Drift if
your team runs on Salesloft and wants the successor Salesloft recommends, with chat signals feeding its seller workflows.
Choose ShowPilot if
you want an agent that answers from your content, presents your product, and books meetings on your reps’ own calendars, whatever sales tools you use.
The agent on this page is ShowPilot. Ask it how we compare to Drift.
Why choose ShowPilot over Drift?
Drift ran playbooks: preset questions, then a route to a rep. ShowPilot’s agents answer in their own words from your content, and DecisionIQ picks the next step for each buyer before a word is written.
Recorded in ShowPilot on a sample company’s site
ShowPilot and Drift, feature by feature.
Drift is a conversational marketing chatbot, owned by Salesloft and now being retired. What we say about Drift comes from its own website.
| Drift | ShowPilot | |
|---|---|---|
| The agent | ||
| Status | Being retired; customers referred to 1mind | Actively developed and sold |
| Answers from your own content | Salesloft’s chat page describes replies tailored from web activity, CRM data and past chats | Your website, PDFs and notes, with website pages re-checked automatically |
| Voice and video avatar | Not listed on their site | Chat or voice, plus a live video avatar or Beam on the page (included on Team, an add-on on Launch) |
| Avatar on the page itself | Not listed on their site | Beam puts the agent on your page (on Team, or an add-on on Launch) |
| Live rep takeover | Routes high-intent visitors to sales reps | Reps take over the chat, send times or start a video call |
| Showing the product | ||
| Opens pages and documents | Not listed on their site | Opens pages, PDFs and videos |
| Interactive product tours | Not listed on their site | Captured with a Chrome extension, then presented by the agent |
| Turning visitors into pipeline | ||
| Qualifies visitors | Preset questions and data capture | Listens for budget and timing; asks only what’s missing |
| Books the meeting | Not listed on its current pages | Straight onto the right rep’s Google or Microsoft calendar |
| Targeted offers | Not listed on their site | Targeted offers, made on the page or in conversation |
| Fit and cost | ||
| Works without Salesloft | Current pages describe it only inside Clari + Salesloft | HubSpot or Salesforce, no sales platform needed |
| Pricing | Not published | From $1,500 a month, billed annually; quoted on traffic |
Beam is ShowPilot’s video presenter that stands on your page. DecisionIQ is how the agent decides its next step. Team marks features included on ShowPilot’s Team plan and up, or added to Launch.
Seen enough?See the agent live, from first question to booked meeting.
Where Drift is stronger.
- Inside the Salesloft stack
- Chat signals trigger seller actions in Salesloft, and its successor 1mind feeds Clari’s forecast, which matters if your team already runs on both.
- A recommended successor
- Clari + Salesloft has an exclusive agreement to move Drift customers to 1mind, so Salesloft teams get a path their vendor endorses.
Moving from Drift to ShowPilot.
- Add one script tagPaste it on your site once. After that, you choose which agent appears on which pages from the dashboard.
- Point it at your contentAdd your website, PDFs and notes. The agent answers from them and re-checks your pages so answers stay current.
- Connect your CRM and calendarsHubSpot or Salesforce, and your reps’ Google or Microsoft calendars, so leads and meetings land where your team works.
ShowPilot vs Drift: questions buyers ask.
Is Drift being shut down?
Clari + Salesloft announced a gradual sunset of Drift in March 2026 and refers existing customers to 1mind. We didn’t find a public end date, and existing customers can still log in for now.
What’s the best Drift alternative?
It depends on your stack. If you run on Salesloft, its recommended successor is 1mind. If you want to replace a chatbot with an agent platform, whose agents decide the next step for each buyer and book meetings on your reps’ calendars with HubSpot or Salesforce, ShowPilot is built for that.
What’s the difference between Drift and ShowPilot?
Drift is a chatbot: it runs the playbooks you build, asking preset questions and routing visitors to sales. ShowPilot is an agent platform: its agents answer in their own words from your content, decide the next step for each buyer, and act on it, from showing the product to booking the meeting.
How hard is it to move from Drift to ShowPilot?
You swap Drift’s script for one ShowPilot script tag, add your website and documents for the agent to learn from, and connect your CRM and calendars. You choose which pages the agent appears on from the dashboard.
Does ShowPilot work without Salesloft?
Yes. ShowPilot works with HubSpot or Salesforce, Google or Microsoft calendars, and Slack, and doesn’t need a sales engagement platform.
How much does Drift cost?
Salesloft doesn’t publish Drift pricing, and its chat page now points buyers to 1mind. ShowPilot is priced for growing teams.
Who owns Drift now?
Salesloft bought Drift in 2024, and Salesloft and Clari merged in December 2025. Drift now sits with Clari + Salesloft.
How we compared
Last reviewed October 2026. What we say about Drift comes from its public website at that time; what we say about ShowPilot comes from our help docs. If something here is out of date, tell us at info@showpilot.com and we’ll fix it.
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- The AI SDR agent
- Interactive product tour software
- Lead routing and meeting booking
- DecisionIQ, the agentic marketing engine
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