Drift vs Qualified
One of fourteen models named Drift first on the direct prompt; one named Qualified. Drift was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Qualified by thirteen and Drift carries 55 labels and Qualified 33, so the shares are not directly comparable.
By Salesloft, Atlanta, United States, founded 2011. Named in ten categories this edition.
Named in five categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the conversational marketing platforms page.
By framing
DriftFirst choices, of fourteen modelsQualified
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Drift and Qualified were named in the same answer ninety-five times, of the 259 answers naming Drift and the 117 naming Qualified. In those answers Qualified took the first choice twenty-four times and Drift seven.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | | | |||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | | | | ||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | | | | | |
| Perplexity Sonar | | | | | ||
| Grok 4.1 Fast | | | | | | |
| Mistral Small | | | | | ||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | | | | | | |
| Llama 4 Maverick | | |||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | | | | | | |
| Kimi K2 | | | | | | |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | | | | | ||
| MiniMax M2.5 | | | | | | |
| GPT-6 Luna | | | | |||
| Muse Glimmer 30B | | | | |
Drift Qualified first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Drift on the left and Qualified on the right.The direct prompt
Drift first, Qualified not the choice
1 of 14 modelsQualified was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Qualified first, Drift not the choice
1 of 14 modelsDrift was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
10 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
2 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
By buyer segment
Qualified44%#1 of 6Drift15%#2 of 6What the models said about Drift
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.
“the main one to be cautious about is Drift, because multiple recent sources say it is being sunset/wound down after Salesloft's acquisition” Perplexity Sonar · negative prompt · hard negative
“A supply-chain attack in August 2025 exploited OAuth tokens issued to the Salesloft Drift integration with Salesforce and Google Workspace.” Muse Glimmer 30B · negative prompt · hard negative
“Drift, the long-time pioneer of this space, has been officially sunset by Clari + Salesloft... Do not purchase legacy Drift.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · hard negative
“Choose Drift (Salesloft/1Mind) or Qualified if you are a B2B enterprise company with active sales development representative (SDR) teams.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · comparative prompt · first choice
“Drift defined the modern "greet → qualify → book meeting" playbook... making it a go‑to for outbound‑oriented B2B teams.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · comparative prompt · first choice
“The gold standard for B2B pipeline acceleration, but premium pricing is a barrier for mid-market and smaller companies.” Kimi K2 · comparative prompt · first choice
What the models said about Qualified
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Five of six in this category shown.
“Qualified, another major B2B player, was acquired by Salesforce. Its conversational AI capabilities (formerly "Piper") are now integrated directly into Salesforce's Agentforce.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · soft negative
“More expensive (quote-based, starting around $40K-68K/year)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · direct prompt · soft negative
“with Qualified as the default choice if your primary goal is *more meetings and sales-qualified conversations*” Perplexity Sonar · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“For mid-sized companies specifically, Drift or Qualified are typically the strongest choices” Claude Haiku 4.5 · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“if you need pipeline chat and visitor de-anonymization, a Drift/Qualified-type engine fits” Muse Glimmer 30B · comparative prompt · first choice
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.