Salesloft Review 2026: Clari Merger, Pricing, Pros & Cons + 6 Alternatives

Salesloft is an enterprise revenue platform built around Cadence, its sales engagement tool for multi-step email, phone and LinkedIn outreach, plus conversation intelligence, deal management, AI agents and, since its merger with Clari, Clari Forecast. Clari and Salesloft completed their merger in December 2025, and in September 2026 the combined company dropped the dual brand: it now operates as Salesloft, with only Clari Forecast keeping the Clari name. Salesloft doesn't publish prices; you get a quote after a demo, and Vendr, which brokers software purchases, reports a median contract of about $30,700 a year.

That makes Salesloft a strong fit for sales teams of 20+ reps on Salesforce or Dynamics who want engagement, call recording and forecasting in one system, and an expensive one for startups and small teams. Below: what Salesloft does in 2026, what changed since 2024, pricing, pros and cons, and six alternatives with verified prices.

Salesloft at a glance

What is Salesloft used for?

Salesloft started as a sales engagement platform and has grown into what it calls a "revenue orchestration platform". In October 2026 its platform is organized in three layers:

• Revenue execution (for reps): Cadence for prospecting sequences, Conversation Intelligence to record and analyze calls, Deals to manage opportunities, and Rhythm, which ranks each rep's daily to-dos by buyer signals.
• Revenue intelligence (for leaders): Clari Forecast for forecasting, Inspect for pipeline risk, and Analytics.
• AI and data: AI agents, an MCP server that lets AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot read Salesloft data, and a unified data layer that syncs with the CRM.

Cadence: the sales engagement core

A Cadence is a sequence of touches your reps work through. According to Salesloft's help center, steps can be Email, Phone, Other (a custom touch, such as sending a gift or researching an account) or Integration steps, such as LinkedIn Sales Navigator actions (connection requests, InMail) or text messages. Some features, like the Salesloft dialer inside Cadence steps, depend on your package.

AI agents

Salesloft's AI agents cover the whole sales cycle: Account Research and Person Research summarize a company or a buyer and feed AI-written emails; Buyer Identification suggests stakeholders to add (it integrates with ZoomInfo); AI Email Steps write a personalized email each time a Cadence step runs; Deal Summaries and Stalled Deals Insight help managers; Sales Strategist gives coaching recommendations.

What changed since 2024?

A lot, mostly on the corporate side:

• February 2024: Salesloft acquired Drift, the conversational marketing and chatbot company.
• August 2025: attackers used OAuth tokens stolen from the Salesloft Drift integration to pull Salesforce data from hundreds of organizations, and Salesloft took Drift offline while it investigated (FINRA alert). If you evaluate Salesloft, its Trust Center is the place to review its security posture today.
• December 2025: Clari and Salesloft completed their merger and named Steve Cox CEO, positioning the combined company as a "Predictive Revenue System".
• March 2026: the company announced a gradual sunset of Drift and a partnership with 1mind for AI chat. Drift will be retired on January 31, 2027 (Drift Sunset FAQ).
• April 2026: launch of the Salesloft MCP server, connecting revenue data to external AI tools.
• September 2026: the dual "Clari + Salesloft" brand was retired: the company is Salesloft, and Clari Forecast keeps the Clari name.

On the product side, the shift is from "sequences and a dialer" to AI agents that research accounts, write emails and prioritize reps' work, and from engagement only to engagement plus forecasting.

How much does Salesloft cost?

Salesloft doesn't publish prices. Its pricing page is a "talk to sales" form, and the price depends on the number of seats, the modules you add (conversation intelligence, forecasting, dialer…) and the contract length, usually annual.

For a reference point, Vendr, a SaaS purchasing marketplace, reports a median annual contract value of $30,740 based on 710 purchases, with contracts ranging from about $5,000 to $146,000 a year (data updated February 2026). Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a price list: your quote depends on seats and modules, and there's no self-serve plan you can buy with a credit card.

Salesloft pros and cons

Pros

• One platform for the whole team: prospecting sequences, call recording, deal management and, since the merger, forecasting from the same data.
• Built for managers: Rhythm prioritization, coaching insights, pipeline inspection and analytics.
• Deep CRM integration with Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics and HubSpot.
• AI agents across the cycle, plus an MCP server to use Salesloft data inside Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot.
• Mature product with a large customer base and a services offering for rollout.

Cons

• No public pricing and no self-serve trial: you need a sales process and usually an annual contract.
• Expensive for small teams compared with self-serve tools priced per seat or per sender.
• LinkedIn isn't automated in the same way as dedicated tools: LinkedIn touches go through the Sales Navigator integration as Cadence steps, rather than automated invitations and messages.
• Setup takes work: cadences, CRM sync and permissions need an admin or RevOps owner.
• Transition period: the Clari merger, the Drift sunset and the rebrand mean products, logins and roadmaps are still being consolidated.

Verdict: is Salesloft worth it in 2026?

If you run a sales org of 20 to several hundred reps on Salesforce, with SDRs, AEs and managers who need sequences, call recording and a forecast in one place, Salesloft is one of the most complete platforms you can buy, and the Clari merger made the forecasting side stronger.

If you're a founder, a small sales team or an agency, Salesloft is probably more platform than you need. You'll pay for seats and modules you won't use, and you still won't get automated LinkedIn outreach, which dedicated LinkedIn automation tools handle natively. A self-serve tool with public pricing gets you running the same day.

Salesloft alternatives compared (October 2026)

Prices from each vendor's site in October 2026.

1. Outreach: the like-for-like enterprise alternative

Outreach (now at outreach.ai) is Salesloft's closest competitor: sequences across email, LinkedIn, SMS and calls, conversation intelligence, deal management and forecasting, now pitched as an "AI agent platform for revenue teams". Like Salesloft, it doesn't publish prices: packages (Amplify Essentials, Core, Plus and Pro) combine a per-user seat fee with a pool of AI credits, and every package is "request pricing". Choose it if you want the same category of platform from a different vendor, for example after the Clari merger changed your roadmap.

2. Gong: conversation intelligence first, engagement second

Gong is best known for recording and analyzing sales calls, and Gong Engage, launched in 2023, adds sequences ("Flows"), AI-written emails, a dialer and automatic contact enrichment inside the same platform. Pricing is by quote: licenses are priced per user, plus a platform fee based on the number of users. It makes sense if your priority is coaching and deal visibility from calls, with engagement as a second layer; for heavy outbound prospecting, Salesloft or Outreach are more complete.

3. HubSpot Sales Hub: CRM and engagement in one

HubSpot now sells one platform priced per seat rather than separate hubs (pricing). There's a free plan for up to 2 users; Starter has a $20 list price per seat per month (with limited-time discounts at the time of writing) and includes the Prospecting Agent, calling and meeting tools; sequences require Professional, at $90 per seat per month billed annually plus a required onboarding fee. The big advantage over Salesloft: the CRM is included, so small teams don't need Salesforce on top.

4. Apollo.io: data plus sequences, with a free plan

Apollo.io gives you a large B2B database, email sequences and a dialer for a fraction of an enterprise contract. The free plan includes 2 sequences and 250 email sends a day from one mailbox; Basic costs $65 per seat per month ($49 billed annually) and Professional $99 ($79 annually) with unlimited sends and mailboxes. Credits pay for contact data and don't roll over. See our Apollo.io review.

5. Reply.io: self-serve multichannel

Reply.io covers what most SDR teams use Salesloft's Cadence for (email, LinkedIn, calls and SMS in one sequence) with public, self-serve pricing: $59 per user per month on Email Volume ($49 billed annually), plus $69 per LinkedIn account, or $99 per user per month on Multichannel ($89 annually) with every channel included. It also sells an AI SDR, Jason, from $500 a month. Our Reply.io review breaks down the costs.

6. useArtemis: LinkedIn + email prospecting for small teams

useArtemis is our own product, so read this with that in mind. It isn't a Salesloft replacement for a 200-rep org (no forecasting, call recording or dialer), but it's a lighter option for founders, small sales teams and agencies whose outreach happens on LinkedIn and email:

• Find leads: Discover (a B2B lead database with verified emails), a LinkedIn and Sales Navigator scraper, an email finder and verifier, and AI enrichment columns on your lead lists.
• Reach out: sequences mixing LinkedIn steps (invitations, messages, profile visits, likes) and email steps, with AI-written personalized messages, safe sending limits and a unified inbox for LinkedIn and email; automatic AI replies from the Scale plan.
• Price: Starter $69 a month (2 LinkedIn accounts, 500 verified emails, 2,500 Discover leads), Scale $159 (5 accounts, 1,500 emails, 5,000 leads), Agency $399 (10 accounts, 3,000 emails, 100,000 leads), billed monthly with credits that roll over. No free plan, but Starter comes with a 7-day free trial (card required).

Unlike Salesloft, where LinkedIn touches go through Sales Navigator integration steps, useArtemis automates the LinkedIn steps themselves.

How to choose a Salesloft alternative

• You need a full enterprise platform (engagement, calls, forecasting): Outreach, or Gong if call intelligence is the priority.
• You don't have a CRM yet: HubSpot Sales Hub.
• You're a startup that needs data and basic sequences: Apollo.io.
• You want self-serve multichannel sequences: Reply.io.
• Your prospecting runs on LinkedIn and email, and you want leads included: useArtemis.

If AI is part of your evaluation, our guide to AI for sales prospecting shows where it helps most.

FAQ

Did Clari and Salesloft merge?

Yes. Clari and Salesloft completed their merger on December 3, 2025, with Steve Cox as CEO. On September 2, 2026, the combined company retired the "Clari + Salesloft" brand and now operates as Salesloft; the forecasting product keeps the name Clari Forecast.

How much does Salesloft cost per month?

Salesloft doesn't publish prices and sells through quotes, usually on annual contracts. Vendr reports a median contract of $30,740 a year across 710 purchases (February 2026), which shows the scale, but your price depends on seats, modules and contract length.

Is Salesloft a CRM?

No. Salesloft is a sales engagement and revenue platform that sits on top of a CRM such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics or HubSpot. It runs your outreach, records calls, manages deals and forecasts revenue, and syncs that activity back to the CRM, which remains the system of record.

Is Drift still part of Salesloft?

Drift is being retired. Salesloft acquired Drift in 2024, then announced a gradual sunset in March 2026 and a partnership with 1mind for AI chat. According to Salesloft's Drift Sunset FAQ, Drift will be retired on January 31, 2027.

What is the best Salesloft alternative for small teams?

Pick a self-serve tool with public pricing. Apollo.io if you need data (free plan, Basic from $49 per seat per month billed annually), Reply.io if you want multichannel sequences (from $49 per user per month billed annually), HubSpot Sales Hub if you also need a CRM, or useArtemis if your outreach is mainly LinkedIn plus email (from $69 a month with 2 LinkedIn accounts and 500 verified emails).