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Published September 14, 2026 · Updated October 8, 2026
The answer up front: choose Valley for a focused outbound process that starts with buyer discovery and research and sends LinkedIn plus email after your approval, from one seat at $199 a month (or $149 billed quarterly). Choose Salesloft when signal prioritization, cadences, conversation intelligence and forecasting need to run across an established sales organization, and you are ready to buy by quote with a typical 10 to 15 seat minimum.
Disclosure: Valley makes one of the tools discussed here. Where another tool is the better fit for your motion, this page says so. Vendor facts were read from the vendors' own pages on the dates named next to them.
How we know this category: Valley runs outbound for 1,000+ LinkedIn accounts and has sent 30M+ messages.
Valley is an AI outbound platform that finds the people most likely to buy from you - from live buying signals, natural-language search, or your own lists - qualifies them against your ICP, researches each one, and sends personalized messages across email and LinkedIn that get 15-45% reply rates, against a category average of about 2%.
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Salesloft completed its merger with Clari on December 3, 2025 and now sells a revenue platform: Cadence, Rhythm, Conversation Intelligence, Deals, Clari Forecast and AI agents. Its outbound engagement is one part of that. Rating terms and the seven-stage method are defined once on how Valley compares outbound tools, so this page spends its words on the differences that are specific to this vendor.
Three differences that decide it
1. LinkedIn is an instruction step in Salesloft
Salesloft's developer documentation lists four cadence step types: Phone, Email, Integration and Other (cadence steps). LinkedIn steps are Integration steps with an instructions field, with the documented example Send an Inmail, carried out by the seller through the Sales Navigator integration. No automated LinkedIn step type appears in those docs or on the Cadence page. Email steps automate with send windows and time zones, and the dialer and texting are built in.
Valley sends the LinkedIn message and the email itself after you approve the draft. For a team that wants sellers to perform every LinkedIn touch deliberately, Salesloft's design is the point; for a founder with no sellers, it is a queue nobody will work.
2. Nothing is published, and the floor is a team
Salesloft's pricing link redirects to a demo request, and no package name or price appears on its site. Vendr (page dated February 2026) reports a median buyer paying $30,740 a year across a range of $5,152 to $146,494 from 710 purchases, a typical minimum of 10 to 15 seats, onboarding at $5,000 to $25,000 and up, and tier names (Essentials, Advanced, Premier) that Salesloft's own pages do not confirm. Vendr also notes there is no built-in contact database, so buyers add ZoomInfo, Cognism or Apollo; Salesloft's own Buyer Identification agent integrates with ZoomInfo.
Valley publishes its prices, starts at one seat, and finds the prospects itself from live buying signals, natural-language search or your lists.
3. Breadth of a revenue platform versus depth on one workflow
The AI agents page names Account Research, Person Research, Buyer Identification, Ask Salesloft, Rhythm Prioritizer, AI Email Steps for cadences, Deal Summaries, methodology extraction, stalled-deal and objection insights and a Sales Strategist for coaching. Rhythm turns 32 connected signal sources into a prioritized daily workflow. Conversation Intelligence went generally available on July 14, 2026; an MCP server launched April 14, 2026 and is listed in Claude's connector directory. That is a management system for a sales floor.
Valley does one workflow deeply: pick the person from a signal, qualify against your ICP, research them with sources, write in your voice, send on both channels, and keep the reply with its context. The buyer's guide explains why those are different purchases rather than competing ones.
Pricing, read October 8, 2026
Plan | Price | What it includes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
Salesloft | Not published; demo request only | Cadence, Rhythm, Conversation Intelligence, Deals, Clari Forecast, AI agents; Salesforce sync; Sales Navigator; dialer and texting | |
Salesloft, what buyers pay | Median $30,740 a year; range $5,152 to $146,494 | Vendr, February 2026, 710 purchases; typical minimum 10 to 15 seats; onboarding $5,000 to $25,000 and up; add-ons on top | |
Valley | Starter $199 a month, or $149 a month billed quarterly; Plus $299 or $249 quarterly; Growth $499. Per seat. | Plus adds 1,000 emails a month, priority Slack support and an onboarding call (optional add-ons on Starter); Growth adds $300 in monthly credits. 7-day free trial. | Valley pricing, read October 8, 2026 |
Ask for modules, seat minimum, term, escalators, onboarding and the data subscription you will need beside it, then compare that total with the Valley seats you would actually use. The stack-cost guide has the line items.
When to choose Salesloft
Many sellers share accounts and managers need one cadence standard, activity logging and Salesforce as the system of record.
Forecasting, deal inspection and conversation intelligence are part of the purchase; those are Clari and Salesloft products Valley does not have.
Calling and texting belong in every cadence and you want them logged automatically.
You already own a contact database such as ZoomInfo, Cognism or Apollo and want engagement on top of it.
When to choose Valley
You are a founder or a small team validating a motion and nobody is going to work a LinkedIn task queue.
You want LinkedIn and email sent automatically after approval, from one workspace, with research and sources behind each draft.
You want a published seat price, monthly billing and a 7-day trial rather than a quote and an onboarding fee.
Discovery should come from buying signals and natural-language search, not from a database you buy separately.
A test to run on both
For an enterprise team, show a new stakeholder joining an active account in Salesloft: the signal, the Rhythm priority, the owner and the proposed cadence step, including a LinkedIn step from assignment to completion. For a new-logo test, run the same 50-account segment through Valley from discovery to a reviewed message and a reply. Keep expansion and new-logo prospecting as separate objectives. Salesloft's own pages claim 4.5 out of 5 on G2 from over 4,200 reviews; G2 and Capterra blocked automated reads on October 8, 2026, so treat that as a vendor claim until you open the pages yourself.
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FAQ
Does Salesloft publish pricing? No. The pricing link redirects to a demo request. Vendr reports a median of $30,740 a year and a typical 10 to 15 seat minimum, from a page dated February 2026.
Does Salesloft send LinkedIn messages automatically? Not according to its developer documentation, where LinkedIn steps are Integration steps with written instructions for the seller, completed through Sales Navigator. Email steps automate.
Does Salesloft include contact data? No. Its Buyer Identification agent integrates with ZoomInfo, and Vendr notes buyers add a data provider. Valley finds prospects from signals, search and your lists.
What changed at Salesloft in 2026? The Clari merger closed December 3, 2025; the first MCP server launched April 14, 2026; Conversation Intelligence went generally available July 14; an allGood partnership followed on August 5; and a unified brand launched September 2.
Can Valley replace Salesloft? For discovery, research, sending and replies, yes. For forecasting, coaching, conversation intelligence and deal management, no; scope those with a revenue platform.
Sources
Clari and Salesloft complete merger, December 3, 2025
Salesloft Conversation Intelligence GA, July 14, 2026
Vendr: Salesloft pricing data, page dated February 2026
Vendor facts were read on October 8, 2026 unless a line says otherwise. Review sites that blocked automated reads are named as such rather than quoted. Send corrections through the contact options on this site with the vendor, the claim and the supporting page.
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How this page was made: the facts were read from the sources named in the text on October 8, 2026; drafted with AI assistance; fact-checked, reviewed and edited by Saniya Sood.
