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Here is the position I will defend: if you are searching for Conversica alternatives, the real question is not "which vendor sends better follow-up emails." It is "where should the conversation with my buyer start?" Conversica built its name on following up with leads after they leave a form, an event or an ad. Most demand gen teams I talk to now want the conversation to happen while the buyer is still on the website, with the product in front of them.
I'm Madhav, CMO at Storylane. We make RepX, one of the tools on this list, so read the disclosure section and weigh my bias accordingly. I've kept every price and capability to what each vendor publishes on its own site as of October 2026. Where a vendor does not publish pricing, I say "quote-based" instead of guessing.
The short answer
If your pipeline problem is leads going cold after they submit a form, Conversica is still a reasonable fit and you may not need an alternative. If your problem is that high-intent visitors leave the site without talking to anyone, look at website-first AI agents: Qualified (Piper), 1mind, Spara, Warmly, Chili Piper, Intercom Fin, or Storylane RepX. The table below is the fast version. The rest of the article explains who should pick what.
| Tool | Primary motion | Website conversation | Public pricing | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualified (Piper) | Inbound AI SDR agent, now part of Salesforce | Yes: text, voice and video per its pricing page | Quote-based (Premier, Enterprise, Ultimate plans) | Salesforce-centric teams with large inbound volume |
| 1mind | AI "Superhumans" for website, in-product and live calls | Yes | Quote-based | Teams replacing Salesloft Drift, which now points to 1mind |
| Spara | GTM AI agent platform across inbound and outbound | Yes: chat, email, voice and text | Quote-based | Teams wanting one agent across chat and email follow-up |
| Warmly | Visitor de-anonymization plus inbound chat | Yes, on Inbound Chat and higher plans | From $10,000/year (annual); chat from $20,000/year | Teams whose first problem is knowing who is on the site |
| Chili Piper | Routing and scheduling, with chat in Experiences | Yes: live chat and Chat AI on Experiences | Experiences: $3,500/month billed annually | Teams whose main leak is form-to-meeting routing |
| Intercom (Fin) | Customer service AI agent and messenger | Yes | $0.99 per outcome plus seats from $29/seat/month billed annually | Support-led companies that also want pre-sales answers |
| Storylane RepX | AI agent that answers, qualifies, shows interactive demos and books meetings | Yes: text, voice and video | Quote-based | Product-led B2B sites where buyers want to see the product |
What Conversica does today
Conversica describes itself as "The Conversation Company" and sells AI Agents. Its homepage lists email, SMS, chat, messaging apps and website or web forms as channels, and groups use cases into demand generation and acquisition, customer service and retention, and customer growth. The demand gen use cases lead with follow-up on events, ads, content, outbound campaigns, ABM programs and inbound inquiries. It claims to have powered 1.5 billion conversations for more than 2,000 teams.
I found no acquisition, merger or rebrand announced on conversica.com. I could not find a public pricing page (the /pricing URL returned a 404 when I checked), so treat Conversica as quote-based.
That matters for framing. Conversica's center of gravity is persistent, multi-touch follow-up after a lead exists. That is a real job, and plenty of teams need it. It is just a different job from converting an anonymous visitor who is reading your pricing page right now.
Follow-up agents vs website agents: the decision axis
Most "Conversica alternatives" lists mix two categories that solve different problems. Sort your shortlist on this axis first.
| Question | Follow-up agent (Conversica's core) | Website agent (most tools below) |
|---|---|---|
| When does the conversation start? | After a form fill, event scan or list upload | While the visitor is on the page |
| What does it need to work? | A known contact (email or phone) | A visitor, known or anonymous |
| What does it fix? | Leads going cold, slow SDR response | Visitors bouncing without talking to anyone |
| Main metric | Response and re-engagement rate | Visitor-to-meeting conversion |
| Main risk | Over-messaging, deliverability | Bad answers in front of buyers, intrusive pop-ups |
If you are honest that your leak is on the website, a better follow-up tool will not fix it. If your leak is in follow-up, a website agent alone will not fix it either. Some teams need both, which is why I flag below which tools also cover email.
If you want the longer version of why speed of follow-up still matters, I wrote about it in our guide to B2B lead follow-up.
1. Qualified (Piper)
Qualified sells Piper, which it calls "the AI SDR Agent." Its pricing page describes Piper as helping companies "generate inbound pipeline at scale" through website conversations, email engagement and meeting scheduling, and lists a multi-modal agent across text, voice and video.
The big change: Salesforce completed its acquisition of Qualified in April 2026, per Salesforce's quarterly filing with the SEC. Qualified's site now carries a Salesforce copyright. If you run Salesforce, that is a point in its favor. If you do not, ask how the roadmap will treat non-Salesforce CRMs.
Pricing: quote-based. Plans are named Premier, Enterprise and Ultimate, all behind "Contact us."
Pick it if: you are a Salesforce shop with meaningful inbound volume and want a mature, enterprise-grade website agent.
2. 1mind
1mind sells AI agents it calls "Superhumans," with versions for website inbound, live sales calls (a "ride-along" agent), in-product guidance and customer success. One detail most lists miss: Salesloft's Drift page now says "We've transitioned from Drift to 1mind," and positions 1mind as feeding buyer signals into Salesloft. If you were evaluating Drift, 1mind is effectively where that path leads.
Pricing: quote-based. The site directs you to talk to sales.
Pick it if: you are a Salesloft customer, or you want one vendor for website, in-product and live-call agents.
3. Spara
Spara positions itself as a GTM AI agent platform, "a dedicated sales agent for every buyer." Its homepage says the inbound agent will "answer buyer questions, and qualify and book leads across chat, email, voice, and text," and it also offers outbound drafting, agentic workflows and AI product demos.
Of the tools here, Spara is the closest to Conversica's multi-channel follow-up heritage while still leading with website chat, so it is a natural bridge if you do not want to give up email follow-up.
Pricing: quote-based.
Pick it if: you want one agent spanning website chat and email or SMS follow-up.
4. Warmly
Warmly starts from visitor identification and adds conversation on top. Its pricing page lists three annual plans: AI Web-Deanonymization at $10,000/year, Inbound Chat at $20,000/year and AI Inbound Autopilot at $30,000/year, with quarterly options also listed. The chat tiers add an AI chatbot agent, live chat and automated email follow-up.
Pricing: public, from $10,000/year on annual billing.
Pick it if: your first problem is not knowing which accounts are on the site, and chat is a second step.
5. Chili Piper
Chili Piper is best known for form routing and scheduling. Its pricing page lists Routing and Scheduling at $1,250/month and Experiences at $3,500/month, both billed annually, with Chat AI (described as 24/7 automated engagement) and live chat included in Experiences. Monthly billing is not offered.
Pricing: public. Chat sits on the $3,500/month Experiences plan (annual).
Pick it if: your biggest leak is the gap between form submit and booked meeting, and chat is a nice addition rather than the core.
6. Intercom (Fin)
Intercom is a customer service platform first. Fin, its AI agent, is priced at $0.99 per outcome, and seat plans are listed at $29, $85 and $132 per seat per month billed annually, or $39, $99 and $139 billed monthly (Essential, Advanced, Expert), with a 14-day free trial. Every plan includes Fin and the Messenger.
Fin is excellent at answering questions from your help content. It is not built around qualifying and booking sales meetings, so if pipeline is the goal, expect to configure that yourself.
Pricing: public, usage plus seats.
Pick it if: support is your main use case and you want pre-sales questions handled by the same messenger.
7. Storylane RepX (full disclosure: this is ours)
RepX is Storylane's AI agent for your website. Per our RepX product page, it "autonomously engages, qualifies, converts inbound buyers into pipeline, around the clock." It is trained on your website, docs and scripts, qualifies on your criteria, handles objections, books meetings, talks over text, voice and video, and pipes data to HubSpot, Salesforce and Slack.
The difference I will defend: RepX "answers with demos, not just words." It pulls up the relevant interactive demo and walks the buyer through the real product inside the conversation. If your buyers' main question is "what does it actually look like," that matters more than a perfectly worded text answer. I go deeper on why in pairing interactive demos with an AI agent.
Where it is not the right fit: RepX is a website agent. It is not a multi-week email and SMS nurture engine like Conversica, and it is not a support desk like Intercom. If those are your core needs, pick accordingly.
Pricing: quote-based. Storylane's public plans cover the Demo Suite; RepX is priced separately through sales.
Who should pick what
| Your situation | Start your shortlist with |
|---|---|
| Leads exist but go cold after the form | Stay with Conversica, or look at Spara |
| Salesforce shop, high inbound volume | Qualified (Piper) |
| Salesloft customer, or replacing Drift | 1mind |
| You do not know who is on the site | Warmly |
| Form-to-meeting routing is the main leak | Chili Piper |
| Support-led, one messenger for everything | Intercom (Fin) |
| Buyers want to see the product before a call | Storylane RepX |
If you are moving from a rules-based chatbot rather than from Conversica, the checklist in replacing a chatbot with an AI sales agent covers the migration steps. And if you run HubSpot, compare the native option first in HubSpot chatbot vs an AI sales agent.
An illustrative worked example
The numbers below are hypothetical, chosen only to show the math. Use your own analytics.
Say your site gets 20,000 visitors a month, 400 of them land on pricing or product pages, and 40 fill a form. A follow-up agent works on those 40. Even if it lifts follow-up response sharply, the ceiling is 40 people.
A website agent works on the 400. If it starts a useful conversation with 1 in 10 and books a meeting with 1 in 5 of those, that is 8 extra meetings a month from people who would otherwise have left. Those are illustrative rates, not benchmarks. The point is structural: the website agent's pool is ten times larger in this example, so the question to answer for your own site is which pool is bigger and leakier.
How to evaluate any Conversica alternative
- Test it on your hardest page. Put the agent on pricing or a competitor comparison page in a trial and read every transcript for a week.
- Check answer grounding. Ask what it is trained on (site, docs, scripts) and how you correct a wrong answer.
- Check the handoff. Confirm the meeting lands on the right rep's calendar and the transcript lands in your CRM.
- Define the qualified outcome before you buy. We use the idea of an agent-qualified lead (AQL) so the metric is not just "chats started."
- Get the pricing model in writing. Per outcome, per seat, per credit and flat annual pricing behave very differently as volume grows. Our breakdown of AI sales agent pricing models walks through the trade-offs.
Common mistakes when switching
- Comparing tools across categories. A follow-up agent and a website agent will both say "AI SDR." Sort by motion first.
- Turning off follow-up entirely. If you replace Conversica with a website-only agent, make sure someone still follows up on form fills and event leads.
- Judging on the demo, not the transcripts. Every vendor demo looks good. Your own visitors' real questions are the test.
- Ignoring ownership changes. Two of the names here changed hands or direction recently (Qualified to Salesforce, Drift to 1mind). Ask about roadmap and CRM support.
Bottom line
Conversica is a follow-up company. If follow-up is your problem, it is still worth a look. If your problem is that buyers leave the site without a conversation, choose a website agent, and choose based on your stack and your buyers: Qualified for Salesforce shops, 1mind for Salesloft, Warmly for identification, Chili Piper for routing, Intercom for support-led teams, Spara for chat plus email, and RepX when your buyers need to see the product to say yes. If you want to see RepX on your own site, book a RepX demo.
FAQ
What is the best Conversica alternative for website conversations?
It depends on your stack and buyers. Qualified (Piper) suits Salesforce shops, 1mind suits Salesloft customers, Warmly suits teams that first need visitor identification, and Storylane RepX suits teams whose buyers want to see the product in the conversation.
Was Conversica acquired?
As of October 2026, conversica.com does not announce any acquisition, merger or rebrand. It still sells AI Agents under the Conversica name.
How much does Conversica cost?
Conversica does not publish pricing on its website, so treat it as quote-based and ask its sales team.
Is Drift still an option?
Salesloft's Drift page now says it has transitioned from Drift to 1mind, so new evaluations will likely be steered to 1mind.
Which Conversica alternatives publish pricing?
Of the tools in this list, Warmly, Chili Piper and Intercom publish prices on their sites. Qualified, 1mind, Spara and Storylane RepX are quote-based.
Sources
- Conversica homepage (channels, use cases, conversation claims)
- Qualified pricing (Piper, plan names)
- Salesforce Form 10-Q, quarter ended July 31, 2026 (Qualified acquisition)
- Salesloft Drift page (transition to 1mind)
- 1mind homepage
- Spara homepage
- Warmly pricing
- Chili Piper pricing
- Intercom pricing