A Salesloft alternative for teams that live in Salesforce.
Overdrive Engage runs as a managed Salesforce package — campaigns, replies and AI personalisation all on the standard Contact record. From £49/seat/mo, no seat minimum.
How the per-seat numbers line up.
Honest pricing comparison. Salesloft does not publish per-seat pricing. Figures here are from G2 reviews and reported customer quotes — verify directly with Salesloft sales.
What's in the box.
Side-by-side feature comparison. Where we're missing a featureSalesloft has, we say so plainly — no fudging the table.
| Feature | Engage | Salesloft |
|---|---|---|
| Salesforce-native (managed AppExchange package) | — | |
| Lives inside Salesforce Contact / Opportunity layout | — | |
| Sends from each rep's own Gmail / Outlook mailbox | ||
| Multi-step email sequences with branching | ||
| AI personalisation from CRM data | Claude-based, included | Salesloft Drift / Conversations, add-on |
| Reply, bounce, OOO detection | ||
| Dialer with call recording | — | |
| SMS cadence steps | — | |
| LinkedIn task steps | — | |
| Conversation intelligence / transcription | — | |
| No seat minimum | — | |
| Per-seat pricing published on website | — | |
| Bundled gamification (leaderboards, achievements) | Yes, +£29 with Performance | — |
| UK billing in GBP | Via reseller |
Why teams pick Engage over Salesloft.
The handful of things that genuinely matter — based on what customers say after the switch.
Salesforce-native architecture, not an integration
Salesloft syncs activity into Salesforce on a schedule and pushes data over its own API. Engage is a managed AppExchange package — there is no parallel database. Activity lands directly on the Contact and Opportunity records as native Salesforce data the moment it happens.
Roughly a third the per-seat cost
£49/seat covers the full Engage product including AI personalisation and all four Opportunity finders. Salesloft Essentials is typically $125+ per user, with the AI and conversation intelligence features in higher tiers.
Lower commitment threshold
Engage is monthly billing with no seat minimum — Salesloft's standard motion is annual commit with double-digit seat minimums. Easier to start small and grow into it.
GBP-native pricing for UK teams
Direct GBP billing through Stripe with VAT calculated at checkout. No FX volatility, no separate billing entity. For UK-based recruitment and sales teams this is materially simpler.
When Salesloft is the right call.
Honesty isn't a tactic. If one of these is core to your team, Salesloft is the more complete tool today — and we'd rather you know that before the demo.
Multi-channel cadences (Salesloft Dialer + SMS + LinkedIn)
Salesloft ships a built-in dialer with native call recording and Salesloft Conversations for transcript-based coaching. Engage is email-first, so teams typically pair it with the dialer they already use rather than consolidate everything into a single tool.
Conversation Intelligence
Salesloft Conversations records, transcribes, and AI-scores sales calls — a separate capability from cadence management. Many teams use a dedicated conversation intelligence tool (Gong, Chorus, Salesloft's own) alongside their cadence platform.
Maturity and analyst recognition
Salesloft has been around since 2011, has hundreds of integrations, and ranks high in Gartner's MQ for Sales Engagement. For procurement processes that weigh analyst position heavily, that's part of the picture.
Questions buyers ask.
The things teams switching from Salesloft ask us most often.
01Why pick Engage over Salesloft?
Three reasons most commonly: (1) you live in Salesforce and want outreach to be a native part of the CRM, not an external syncing platform; (2) you mostly run email cadences and prefer not to pay for dialer / SMS / LinkedIn breadth you don't use; (3) the price gap (£49 vs $125+) frees up real budget.
02Can Engage do call cadences like Salesloft Dialer?
Engage is email-first. We surface call tasks on the Contact record so the workflow stays in Salesforce, and most teams pair Engage with the dialer they already use.
03Does Engage have anything like Salesloft Conversations?
No conversation intelligence today. Many of our customers use a dedicated tool (Gong, Chorus, etc.) alongside Engage rather than have both in one platform.
04How long does an Engage implementation take vs Salesloft?
Engage installs as a Salesforce package in about 60 seconds and is sending live campaigns the same afternoon — every contract includes an onboarding call where we get the team's mailboxes connected and the first campaign built. Salesloft implementations typically run 2–4 weeks with a paid onboarding fee.
Want a side-by-side demo on your data?
20 minutes. We'll set up the equivalent of your current Salesloft workflow in Overdrive Engage and you can decide.