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Kill Drift

$2,500-$5,000/mo

Drift was taken offline in September 2025 after a supply chain attack compromised OAuth tokens across 700+ organizations. Salesforce confirmed Drift will remain disabled until further notice. If you're looking for a replacement, here's how to rebuild conversational marketing and meeting booking on infrastructure you actually control - for $15/month.

Why Replace Drift?

  • ×Drift is offline and isn't coming back - Salesloft pulled the plug after a supply chain attack compromised OAuth tokens across 700+ customer organizations
  • ×When your chat tool has deep OAuth integrations into your Salesforce and AWS, and that vendor gets compromised, your customer data goes with it
  • ×Self-hosted eliminates the specific risk of a third-party vendor's breach becoming your breach
  • ×You were paying $2,500-5,000/month for two core functions (chat and meeting booking) that cost $15/month to self-host

What People Use Drift For

Website chat and lead qualification
Bot flows for automated visitor engagement
Meeting booking directly from chat conversations
Real-time routing of hot leads to sales reps
Conversational marketing campaigns

Replacement Stack

Chatwoot

Open source customer engagement platform. Handles website chat, bot flows, team inbox, and conversation routing. Self-hosted on Railway. Used by thousands of teams in production. Active development, strong community.

Free (self-hosted)Get Started

Cal.com

Open source scheduling. Self-hosted on Railway. Handles meeting booking, availability, calendar sync, and team routing. The 'book a meeting from chat' flow Drift was known for is replicated by linking to a Cal.com booking page from Chatwoot conversations.

Free (self-hosted)Get Started

Railway

Hosts both Chatwoot and Cal.com. One-click templates for both. Approximately $10/month for Chatwoot + $5/month for Cal.com. No DevOps required.

~$15/moGet Started

Kill Checklist

1

Create a Railway account

~5 mins

Both Chatwoot and Cal.com deploy on Railway. One account covers both. Sign up and add a payment method.

https://railway.com?referralCode=killyoursaas →
2

Deploy Chatwoot on Railway

~10 mins

Use the one-click Chatwoot template on Railway. It provisions Chatwoot, PostgreSQL, Redis, and the required environment variables. Takes about 5 minutes. Then add a custom domain like chat.yourdomain.com and add the CNAME record to your DNS.

https://railway.com/new/template/chatwoot?referralCode=killyoursaas →
3

Set up your Chatwoot workspace

~15 mins

On first load, Chatwoot walks you through account creation and workspace setup. Add your team members, set up your inbox (Website channel), and configure your availability hours.

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Get the full kill plan for Drift

Sign up to unlock 5 more steps, a customizable Claude Code prompt tailored to the features you actually use, and a checklist to track your progress.

  • ✓Pick which Drift features you care about - skip the rest
  • ✓Get a Claude prompt customized to your exact setup
  • ✓Track your kill progress across all your SaaS tools

Free account. No credit card required.

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