Warmly vs Drift: Best Drift Alternative After Sunset (2026)
Modern revenue teams choose Warmly’s more affordable chat solution that doubles Drift's conversions because it actually retargets prospects who didn’t convert with personalized outreach across email.
Companies With Warmly Turn More Web Visits Into Pipeline
What Happened to Drift and What Are Your Options?
Drift pioneered conversational marketing and was acquired by Salesloft in 2024. While Salesloft continues to support Drift's chat features, the product roadmap has shifted toward Salesloft's core sales engagement platform. Warmly picked up where Drift left off, combining AI chat with visitor identification and multi-channel outreach.
Too Expensive
With a $30k starting price tag, it’s not within reach for SMBs & Mid-Markets who want to experiment for a year with revenue orchestration.
Reactive
There are plenty of qualified leads on your site. Drift only engages the ones who raise their hand.
Lack of Orchestration
Drift’s chatbot workflows are great, but you need to approach prospects omni-channel (over email, etc).
Go From Chatbot to Signal-Based Automation
Drift
Only Reveals Companies
You can’t view who’s on your site until they start a conversation.
Warmly
Reveals Info at the Contact Level
Get deeper insights and exact-know how with person-level identification.
Drift
Stops at Chatbot
Prospects don’t always reply to the corner chatbot - its so important to engage them omni-channel.
Warmly
Gives Your Team Novel Ways to Engage Prospects
Get notified instantly when prospects you email click and visit your site. Then, video chat with them live.
Drift
Manual Work
Drift will encourage you to hire more SDRs just to use their tool. You didn’t sign up to be forced to make more hires.
Warmly
Can Auto-Prospect for You
Trigger automated personalized sequences via email based on engagement activity and intent signals.
Drift
Drift Will Break Your Bank
“To be most effective, you must purchase a seat for your entire sales team. This can be extremely costly.” - Verified G2 Review
Warmly
Warmly Will Pay for Itself in Days
"Before Warmly, we had literally no insights into customer behavior on our site. Now, we can capitalize on warm leads via AI chat and fire off sales emails that convert at 10x the rate of our normal sequences." - Verified G2 Review
Unveiling Deceptive Tactics: Exposing Qualified's Misleading Claims
Watch as our CEO goes through Qualified’s “Warmly Compete” Deck they made to try to mislead prospects. We caught on and want to set the record straight.
Warmly Is Built for Sales and Marketing Teams
Warmly gives you the nurture chatbot capabilities you need while arming your sales reps with intent-based data and workflows.
Capture More Opportunities
Our customers see a 150% increase in pipeline in weeks.
Consolidates Costs
Bombora, Demandbase, Clearbit and other providers come embedded natively.
Scale Your GTM Operations
Connect Warmly’s first-party data to your existing revenue stack.
Head to Head
250+ Companies Have Already Switched to Warmly
Arc Increased ROI 200% in 6 Months With Warmly
“Having the right tools for us to be able to identify who's engaging and easily stay top of mind has been a real linchpin to our success”
NameCoach Booked 26 Meetings in 6 Months
“We want to capture every single person and not just rely on them to click the request a demo button… Warmly allows us to do just that”
200% Increase in Enterprise Pipeline in 1 Month
Jay and his team at Behavioral Signals booked 4 meetings & secured 12 qualified prospects, while saving $60k to replace other tools.
