# Qualified Alternatives: Features, Pricing and Comparison

*AI Sales Agents*

Looking for an alternative to Qualified? Compare features, pricing, and fit to choose the right platform.

Qualified vs Sistava

Qualified built its business on website visitor identification for Salesforce customers, then layered Piper, an AI SDR that qualifies inbound visitors, chats with them, and books meetings. Piper is genuinely strong at one job: converting website traffic that is already Salesforce-tracked into booked calls. The catch is the dependency chain. Piper only works meaningfully once you already run Salesforce and pay for the Salesforce stack underneath it, which is why total cost of ownership estimates run well past the sticker price. Sistava has no such prerequisite. An AI SDR Employee works from day one on a flat plan, with no CRM to buy first.

> **Bottom line:** Piper requires a Salesforce license as a precondition. Sistava employees work standalone, or alongside whatever CRM you already use, with no mandatory stack purchase.

## Profile

- **Pricing:** Custom, no public pricing. Piper (the AI SDR) reportedly runs $40K-$68K/year for around 25 users, on top of a required Salesforce Sales Cloud license.
- **Founded:** 2018, San Francisco
- **Funding:** $163M+ total raised, including a $95M Series C led by Sapphire Ventures
- **Focus:** AI SDR ("Piper") for pipeline generation, built to sit on top of Salesforce and website visitor data

## Why choose Sistava as an alternative to Qualified

- Piper requires a Salesforce license as a precondition. Sistava employees work standalone, or alongside whatever CRM you already use, with no mandatory stack purchase.
- Qualified prices in the tens of thousands per year with a custom quote. Sistava is flat-rate and published ($25-$200/mo), no sales call needed to see the number.
- Qualified's edge is real: years of purpose-built conversational-intent data and a product tuned specifically for converting warm website traffic, a narrower and deeper job than Sistava's general-purpose AI SDR is trying to do.

## Feature Comparison

| Feature | Qualified | Sistava |
|---|---|---|
| AI Sales Agents | Inbound qualification and booking | Autonomous, full-cycle |
| Works Without a CRM Purchase | ✗ | ✓ |
| Website Visitor Identification | Native, deep | Via integrations |
| Outbound Prospecting | Limited, inbound-focused | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | Custom quote only | Published flat rate |
| Multi-Function Coverage | Sales pipeline only | Sales, Marketing, Support, Ops |

## What is Sistava?

Sistava is an AI workforce platform where you hire AI employees and work with them through conversation. Tell an employee what you need in plain language, and Sistava handles the setup behind the scenes, including the tools, context, and team coordination needed for the work. You do not need to learn AI configuration or build workflows first. You can start with the work you want done, stay involved in the decisions that matter, and see how your team is moving forward.

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