HubSpot CRM vs Maxdesk

HubSpot CRM brings customer data and reporting together, with tools for managing sales activity and team conversations. Users can visualize a sales cycle, assign tasks, and predict future revenue. The CRM includes email sync, marketing and workflow automation, lead scoring, sales forecasting, AI features, and payment links. Teams can connect messaging tools in a shared inbox and manage permissions for records, content, and tools. It runs in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge, with mobile apps for Android and iOS. The HubSpot Marketplace lists more than 2,000 apps, and data can sync automatically in both directions with third-party apps. The free plan costs nothing, requires no credit card, and has no expiration date; it allows 2 users. Starter costs $15 a month per seat, Professional $50 a month per seat, and Enterprise $75 a month per seat. Professional and Enterprise also list one-time onboarding costs.

Maxdesk is a hosted, web-based help desk and ticketing system for customer support and internal IT. Each workspace receives a support address that turns incoming email into threaded tickets. The ticket view brings conversations, priorities, statuses, assignments, internal notes and attachments together. SLA targets can vary by priority and business hours, with countdowns and breach alerts. No-code rules use triggers, conditions and actions to route, tag, escalate or auto-reply. Its dashboard reports ticket counts, SLA breaches, CSAT, response time, trends and live activity. Custom roles, groups, a permission matrix and ticket-scope controls manage access. The Free plan includes unlimited agents and tickets within fair use, basic SLA policies, templates, a knowledge base and limited active automations. Pro costs $20 a month; Elite costs $99 a month and adds AI capabilities.