The honest one-liner
Drift puts a chatbot on your website — buyers who reach your homepage can interact with the bot to book demos or start conversations. MyDeetz runs inside the chatbot buyers already use — ChatGPT — and captures leads there before they ever see your website. For B2B SaaS in 2026, this distinction matters more than it did two years ago, because buyer behavior has shifted.
Context on Drift (and why buyers are looking for alternatives)
Drift pioneered “conversational marketing” in 2015. A chatbot on the homepage asking “Hi! What brings you here?” became standard B2B playbook. It worked — when web traffic was the top-of-funnel battleground.
In 2026, two things have changed:
- Salesloft acquired Drift (late 2024) and pricing ~doubled for many customers.
- B2B discovery moved upstream — from Google-to-website to ChatGPT-to-answer. A chatbot on your homepage only matters if buyers make it to your homepage. Many no longer do.
Both forces are driving teams to reevaluate whether $30k–$100k/year for Drift still pencils out.
Quick comparison
| MyDeetz | Drift | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Inside ChatGPT | On your website |
| Primary job | Capture contact info during ChatGPT conversation | Qualify/book visitors on your homepage |
| Requires visitor on your site | ❌ | ✅ |
| AI conversation | ChatGPT does it | Drift’s own chatbot |
| Fields captured | Up to 13, fully configurable | Configurable, typically 3–6 per flow |
| CRM integration | HubSpot Q3 2026, Salesforce Q4 | Native SFDC / HubSpot / Marketo |
| Starting price | Free plan (2 leads/mo) | ~$2,500/month minimum |
| Setup | 2 minutes | 2–4 weeks for meaningful flow |
What Drift does better
Drift is a mature, sales-heavy platform. If you have:
- Heavy website traffic (50k+ monthly uniques)
- A fully-staffed SDR team wanting real-time chat handoffs
- Budget to run conversational campaigns with ABM targeting
Drift earns its cost.
It also has:
- Richer conversation design tools
- Deeper enterprise SFDC integration
- Live video/audio handoff capability
- Playbooks and analytics
If your existing Drift flows are generating real pipeline, don’t rip them out. Add MyDeetz to capture the leads Drift can’t reach (the ones in ChatGPT that never make it to your site).
Where MyDeetz wins
Three scenarios:
1. Your top-of-funnel web traffic is declining. If your site got 100k MAU in 2023 and 60k MAU now — ChatGPT is eating it. MyDeetz captures demand where demand migrated to.
2. You’re evaluating Drift renewal. A team we spoke with replaced Drift with MyDeetz + Calendly + HubSpot’s free chat widget. Saved $48k/year. Your mileage will vary; don’t rip and replace without testing first.
3. You’re an SMB/startup. Drift’s floor price ($2,500+/month, per recent quotes) is prohibitive below 5-person revenue teams. MyDeetz is $49–$149 flat.
Pricing reality check
| Annual cost | MyDeetz Business | Drift (estimated) |
|---|---|---|
| Single team | $1,788 | $30,000–$60,000 |
| Mid-market | $1,788 | $60,000–$100,000 |
| Enterprise | $1,788 (contact for larger) | $100,000+ |
You can test MyDeetz free for a month. Drift requires annual contracts negotiated through sales.
The smart play (if Drift is working)
Don’t rip out Drift — add MyDeetz to capture the leads Drift can’t see:
- ChatGPT user asks about your product → MyDeetz captures their contact info via in-chat flow → delivers to your SDR inbox.
- If they ALSO visit your site later, Drift engages them there.
Two independent channels. Combined pipeline > either alone.
FAQs
Can I switch from Drift to MyDeetz entirely? If your website chatbot isn’t driving meaningful pipeline anymore, yes — plenty of teams have. Keep a simple free chat widget (HubSpot, Crisp) for website visitors who still want to chat there. Use MyDeetz for the (growing) ChatGPT channel.
Does MyDeetz do live handoffs to human reps? Not today. Leads are delivered to your inbox and your team follows up manually (or via your existing tools). Live handoff is on the roadmap.
What about playbooks and analytics? MyDeetz is simpler and more focused. Pipeline-level analytics (how many leads, from which query type, at what conversion rate) are in the product; conversation-design tools are not — because ChatGPT is running the conversation, not MyDeetz.
Will Drift add ChatGPT integration? Likely, eventually. It’ll be retrofitted, not core. MyDeetz is purpose-built for this.
Try it free
If you’re seeing Drift pipeline shrink or evaluating the renewal, test MyDeetz for one month — free plan, no credit card.