7 Qualified alternatives for 2026, after the Salesforce deal

In December 2025, Salesforce announced it had signed a definitive agreement to buy Qualified, expected to close in the first quarter of Salesforce's fiscal year 2027. The stated purpose was not subtle. "By integrating Qualified's agentic marketing expertise into Agentforce, we will enhance our ability to offer autonomous pipeline generation", said Steve Fisher, Salesforce's President and Chief Product Officer. Qualified's CEO Kraig Swensrud was equally plain about the gravity that had always been there: "As Salesforce alumni, my co-founders and I have always built our products to deeply integrate with Salesforce." The deal closed on schedule; the release itself now opens with the note that Salesforce completed its acquisition of Qualified on April 1, 2026.

The integration is public too. On July 15, 2026, Qualified published its post-acquisition roadmap, and its own words are the clearest statement of what an acquired product becomes: the plan is to "integrate Piper into the larger agentic enterprise and position her as a specialized coworker for Agentforce agents, rather than a standalone agent". The first two integrations announced are both Salesforce systems: a deep integration with Data 360, available Q3 2026, and a data handoff to Hunter, Salesforce's new prospecting agent, which runs outbound sequences to cold accounts. And the small print has already changed hands: the footer of qualified.com now reads "© Copyright 2026 Salesforce, Inc."

Say the concession first, because it is most of the market this deal touches. Qualified was always the Salesforce-native choice: founded by Salesforce alumni, sold on the AppExchange, and its pricing page files "Integrations with Salesforce CRM" under what all plans include. If your CRM, your marketing cloud and your data layer are Salesforce, the acquisition makes the product you already chose deeper, and leaving now would be trading integration for ideology. Stay put. This map is for the minority who ran Qualified without Salesforce underneath it, and for evaluators who were never on Salesforce at all.

The pricing asymmetry after the deal is worth seeing plainly, because it says who the buyer is meant to be. Salesforce publishes Agentforce prices in public: Flex Credits at $500 per 100,000, standard agent actions metered at 20 Flex Credits each, conversations at $2 per conversation, and Agentforce 1 editions from $550 a user a month. Qualified's own page, five months after completion, sits under a masthead that now reads "Qualified from Salesforce" and still lists three tiers and not one number; the tiers are named Premier, Enterprise and Ultimate, and every button on the page books a demo. A product with no public price inside a platform with a very public per-conversation meter is a product whose pricing future is the platform's to decide.

Three more products belong on a Qualified shortlist with a plain label attached: they are support products first, with inbound chat that can book a meeting, and none of them enriches the account before the visitor types or briefs a rep the way Piper does. Intercom Fin is the only one with a sales-side meter: fin.ai/pricing lists $0.99 per outcome for support and $9.99 per qualification for its inbound sales product, with Intercom seats at $29 to $132 a month on top and a 14-day trial. Fin is also on its way into Salesforce: the company signed with Salesforce in June 2026, so a Qualified customer leaving for Fin is leaving for the same acquirer. Chatbase's pricing page runs from a free plan to $40, $150 and $500 a month, metered in message credits with extra credits at $40 per 1,000; its sales agent will "engage prospects, answer product questions, and guide conversations toward revenue", its own words, and Calendly is on its integrations list for the booking. Tidio's pricing page runs from a free plan to $24.17, $49.17 and $300 a month, with its Lyro AI agent metered from $0.50 a conversation; it is built for ecommerce stores whose customers write on WhatsApp and Instagram, not for a B2B pipeline. All three are honest products at published prices, and all three do half of Piper's job. We compare each one on one on our Intercom Fin comparison page, our Chatbase comparison page and our Tidio comparison page.

Every load-bearing claim above is linked at the phrase that makes it. The Qualified, Salesforce, 1mind, Docket and Warmly pages were fetched by us on 31 August 2026; Fin's on the same day, and Chatbase's and Tidio's on 3 September 2026, when we read them for our one-on-one comparison pages. The completion date is not secondhand: qualified.com's own press release carries the editor's note stating the acquisition completed on April 1, 2026, and we read it there. The Agentforce numbers are not secondhand either; salesforce.com serves its pricing page to anyone who asks, and the Flex Credit, per-conversation and per-user figures above were read from it directly. Quoted phrases are verbatim from the pages they are attributed to.

What we could not verify, stated plainly. Nobody outside a Qualified contract knows what Qualified costs, because no number has ever been published; the demo call is the price list. Nothing has been announced about what happens to standalone Qualified contracts as the integration proceeds, and our reading of the roadmap's direction is inference, labelled as such above. And one claim we arrived with and threw away: our notes said Qualified's blog went quiet after the acquisition, so we fetched the live blog to check, found a Summer '26 release post and an active roadmap, and dropped the claim. The team is clearly still shipping. If a vendor moves a number after we checked it, the link beside the claim will disagree with us before we notice. Trust the link.

Algomo is our product, so weigh this section accordingly. It does what an inbound SDR does: it enriches the account before anybody types, asks the qualifying questions you wrote in plain language, and books the meeting with the rep briefed. It is not a Salesforce feature and it is not becoming one; it works whether your CRM is Salesforce, HubSpot or a spreadsheet, which is precisely the buyer the consolidation left behind. And you can find out what it costs without a demo call: there is a free plan, then a monthly amount you set from $50 to $4,300, spent as credits on the conversations that actually helped someone rather than on seats, and the amount is the most any one charge can be. The numbers are on this site's pricing page, what it does on a B2B site is on our B2B page, and the like-for-like table against Piper is on our Qualified comparison page. What it does not do: read or write your CRM, send email, or run outbound.

So the honest routing, one last time. Salesforce end to end: stay with Piper and let the acquisition work for you. A six-figure budget and a taste for avatar-led selling: 1mind is real and its customers are getting results. Clearing $36,000 a year: Docket publishes its prices and moves fast. Below all of those lines, point Algomo at your site this afternoon, on the free plan, and ask it what your last real visitor asked you. That test costs nothing, and it answers the only question that matters.