Gong vs. Salesloft

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Gong
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Gong helps people and companies reach their potential. The Gong Revenue Intelligence Platform™ enables customer-facing teams to take advantage of their most valuable assets – customer interactions, which the Gong platform automatically captures and analyzes. Gong then delivers insights at scale, to empower revenue and go-to-market teams to determine the best actions for winning outcomes. The vendor boasts companies like Morningstar Inc., Paychex, LinkedIn,…N/A
Salesloft
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Salesloft is a provider of their eponymous sales engagement platform that helps sellers and sales teams drive more revenue. The Modern Revenue Workspace™ by Salesloft is presented as a place for sellers to execute all of their digital selling tasks, communicate with buyers, understand what to do next, and get the coaching and insights they need to win. The vendor states thousands of the world’s most successful sales teams, like those at IBM, Shopify, Square, and Cisco, drive more revenue…N/A
Pricing
GongSalesloft
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GongSalesloft
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
GongSalesloft
Considered Both Products
Gong
Chose Gong
Gong and Salesloft have similar features regarding conversation intelligence and call analytics but Gong had a forecasting tool that helps in understanding the overall health of the business. The insights that Gong shows during the forecasting make it stand apart from similar …
Chose Gong
We are a user of both Salesloft and Salesforce, but during our review, it was clear that Gong was the market leader in terms of offering AI and actionable insights, being able to create trackers, have transcriptions. The fact that it integrated seamlessly with the above …
Chose Gong
Both Outreach and Salesloft allow for call recording but are missing all features that fall under call intelligence, and simply offer the option to go back and listen to calls.
Chose Gong
I tried to use Salesloft conversation intelligence and was bumbling around in the interface. It also doesn't give me the insights and analytics like Gong.
Chose Gong
My company is currently using Salesloft. I enjoy both systems, however, I do think that Salesloft provides a bit more insight on the history with an account, and a bit more on the analytics side of things.
Chose Gong
pretty high, SFDC too slow, Outreach way better than Salesloft, Clari is for managers as a rep i keep track of that in my own notes. Gong is a platform build for sellers and managers to help progress deals where as the others feel like tools meant to help predict a business not …
Chose Gong
Gong has the best AI out of these technologies. Its sequencing capability is a bit more complicated but for a growing SDR or AE team, its a perfect tool with its AI capabilities that we have not seen elsewhere.
Chose Gong
Overall, Gong proved to be superior to the use cases that the company needed, and on top of that from what I heard, the pricing was more in line with what the company was willing to spend. Customer service is great but otherwise, we hardly have any issues with the solution, …
Chose Gong
GONG is far and above the best product in this category that I reviewed. Everything from our interaction with sales to onboarding and now dealing with customer success has been flawless and smooth. I had previous experience with the platform, and when I re-evaluated, there was …
Chose Gong
I believe that Gong blows refract out of the water not only in the functionality but also with the level of insights and data you can get from Gong.
Chose Gong
Gong was already a selected vendor. I have not used or tried any vendors but likely would not look to switch. Why change something that Isn't broken It is a great tool that I really enjoy using.
Chose Gong
Gong is the best in the space no question. I don’t think any other platform will gain the majority of market share away from Gong. It is somewhere I would have liked to work a few years ago I’m sure their sales team sold the software like hotcakes. Good stuff!
Chose Gong
Better support and a little further advanced product. It is all they do so very focused.
Chose Gong
It is my opinion that the overall user interface and usability of the Gong interface are better in almost every way. While on paper these two platforms do many of the same things, Gong does them all better and in a more user-friendly manner. Some things Gong does not do, like …
Chose Gong
not even comparable, gong is muccch better
Chose Gong
Was not involved in the decision.
Chose Gong
I have used other call recording software platforms, like Zoom and Chorus.ai. However those platforms are not the easiest to leverage and get around in. Gong makes everything very easy to get to and you can find what you are looking for without having to search around aimlessly …
Salesloft
Chose Salesloft
SalesLoft has a much easier user interface and product than Gong.io.
Chose Salesloft
Salesloft has a way better UI and data point - the calling integration is also the best on salesloft
Chose Salesloft
Cirrus was so bad. It was slow and never properly added information from Salesforce into the merge fields. I always had to manually update my emails, which was awful. When we implemented SalesLoft and it actually added the merge data in, I couldn't believe it. I can send emails …
Chose Salesloft
We were previously using Mixmax and found it to be generally quite good. We also evaluated Outreach before selecting Salesloft. We chose to move to Salesloft because of a) the size of the company and the reputation in the industry; b) our team members had previous experience …
Chose Salesloft
I was not involved in the evaluation process for SalesLoft.
Chose Salesloft
The UI for RingDNA is much worse. The dialer is clunky, and it's not very user friendly. The cadences aren't as customizable and the overall workflow is poor when compared to SalesLoft. There also isn't a mobile app at all for RingDNA. It felt like the generic version of …
Chose Salesloft
Stacks up well against Outreach but only used Outreach for a short period.
Personally Outreach had some features which Salesloft does not, pausing cadences, taking bank holidays into account with cadences, tasks coming due at a specific time not just date, ability to prioritize …
Chose Salesloft
SalesLoft is a more reliable option than Yesware, but they're definitely in the same ballpark.
Chose Salesloft
I've used different software to track emails and cadences throughout my sales career. SalesLoft has been the easiest to learn and the team has been very helpful with onboarding all of the representatives on our sales team. Integrations in salesforce are huge as well.
Chose Salesloft
It stacks up very well against its competition but from my use of it, I haven't seen any other solutions that can do what it does with all its integrations and how easy it is to use and set up.
Chose Salesloft
Very similar tools, some better analytics on outreach. outreach is better for putting together team sequences. Salesloft is better for individual send-outs.
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Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
Clari Copilot
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Score 8.9 out of 10
Salesmate
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Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Clari
Clari
Score 8.2 out of 10
Mixmax
Mixmax
Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises
Clari
Clari
Score 8.2 out of 10
Groove, a Clari company
Groove, a Clari company
Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
GongSalesloft
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(443 ratings)
9.0
(233 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.7
(10 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
9.2
(211 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.6
(99 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.7
(5 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.7
(143 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
GongSalesloft
Likelihood to Recommend
Gong.io
Any team that has a direct relationship with a client via a phone or a video call would benefit from Gong. I've worked on sales in the past and these tools are the dream of every leader. I can't think of a better way to get actual material from our performance to give us a better chance to detect areas of improvement and hone our skillset before our next call. Even it's super fast. In merely a few minutes after the call you receive an email telling you that the recording is already ready for us to exploit it
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SalesLoft
Organizations with budget and proper support resources will be able to best leverage the benefits of SalesLoft. Earlier stage organizations with bootstrap budgets would still benefit from SalesLoft, albeit, I personally feel that without the proper RevOp's resources, that SalesLoft potentially loses a bit compared to Outreach.io
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Pros
Gong.io
  • Recommendations to improve (silence time, speaking ratio, etc.)
  • Source of absolute truth! So easy to see what meetings have been done, and how it was done. No more he says she says
  • Transcription - it has been accurate, and helps when trying to learn how to handle rejections
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SalesLoft
  • The use of cadences allows my team to quickly process calls that have been prequalified by our filters in Salesforce
  • The live call coaching with "drop in" capability has been useful for quality checking the calls, while allowing us to steer a call in a particular direction if necessary
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Cons
Gong.io
  • Would like to have Gong use AI to alert me when a customer is at risk for attrition
  • Would like to make it easier to search on Accounts. When I type into the search field, sometimes multiple accounts appear, and when I click on one, there's an error.
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SalesLoft
  • Calendaring -- specifically ensuring credit is properly aligned when trying to calendar for sellers as a BDR -- even when using a booking/ calendar availability link (a seller's link -- this is the trouble spot from what I recall and why we can't use some of the helpful link scheduling tools in our org).
  • Would love to set up some report automation on the management side -- where specific things could be sent to me (e.g., I would love to set up a report that would auto-populate to show how many dials were completed during a power-hour/blitz period that would hit my alerts in the UI or be sent to email/Slack automatically).
  • A manager-specific view/home screen would be nice but not essential.
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Likelihood to Renew
Gong.io
We love Gong and our customers like it too. We can bring additional value by being to provide a dialogue of all our customer conversations.
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SalesLoft
The renewal really depends on who the client is. SalesLoft works for some clients better than others.
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Usability
Gong.io
Esy and simple to use outside of a few clunky moments with integrating to zoom/gcal or resetting the duration of recordings. Overall it's a really great tool that certainly empowers customer success and account managers to add of ton of value to the customer experience in a really simple way and makes the process more smooth and secure.
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SalesLoft
SalesLoft is a fantastic product that will be extremely helpful to any Sales Rep looking to organize their information and stay one step ahead. While it has its shares of quirks and bugs it proves to be an awesome tool for anyone that is in the sales industry.
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Support Rating
Gong.io
I give them a 10 because, I have been using Gong for over a year now and have never had issues or concerns go un resolved in a day or two. Their communication is impeccable and their tech support is very hands on and prompt
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SalesLoft
great support team
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Implementation Rating
Gong.io
This is nothing something I'm able to answer
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SalesLoft
must invest time and effort in define the best way to integration with Salesforce in order to get data visualization
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Alternatives Considered
Gong.io
We used to use Zoom recordings but they don't compare, we also had to spend a ton on extra storage while Gong is unlimited. In my opinion, Zoom/etc. provides no insights, no ability to score calls, no collaboration, poor sharing, etc.
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SalesLoft
We switched from InsideSales Playbooks to SalesLoft. Salesloft is much easier to use and more intuitive. We had previously used Inside SalesPlaybooks before they changed their name just so we had the powerdialer plug in in Salesforce then tried implementing PlayBooks and it was a bit cumbersome and not intuitive. We evaluated a few others but SalesLoft was the best choice!
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Gong.io
I was not involved with the process
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SalesLoft
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
Gong.io
I was not involved with the process
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SalesLoft
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Gong.io
  • Greater collaboration across internal teams
  • Improved presentation and conversation skills, based on manager feedback and individual assessment
  • Improved patience (must fewer instances of interrupting customers thanks to Gong)
  • Customers are more confident in their decisions (when they can rewatch demos)
  • Better alignment with customers, since we can be truly present on the call then listen to the recording later instead of taking notes in real-time
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SalesLoft
  • Our sales activities are very predictable and we know how much effort to focus on certain leads.
  • SalesLoft also gives us supporting metrics for individual productivity - we use activity metrics to supplement attainment metrics.
  • Our SDRs have a much wider reach and can process more leads which saves them time and keeps them targeted on the best leads.
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Screenshot of Coach reps into sales superstars. Replicate what works by turning objective, data-based guidance into coachable moments for managers, peer-to-peer coaching, and self-driven improvements — without any drama.Screenshot of Find the truth in your pipeline. There are risks hiding in your pipeline, deals, and customer interactions. Get true visibility from contact to close so you can address them and call the right forecast every time.Screenshot of Bet big. And win. Gong’s early insights into what’s working — and what's not — gives your team the confidence to take big-bet initiatives to market successfully.