HubSpot CRM vs Pipedrive

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.

Pipedrive is paid sales software centered on a visual pipeline for managing leads and sales activity. It runs on the web and has iOS and Android apps, with email sync, marketing automation, AI features and a mobile app listed. Lite combines lead, calendar and pipeline management with AI-powered report creation, meeting intelligence and more than 500 integrations. Growth adds full email sync with tracking, automations and nurturing sequences, subscription and forecast reports, a meeting scheduler and a contacts timeline. Premium adds lead generation and routing, custom scoring, company data enrichment, AI-powered multi-email tools, contracts and e-signatures. Ultimate includes account security rules and alerts, phone and email data enrichment, a sandbox testing account and extended phone support. Pipedrive has no free plan but offers a 14-day trial. The maker was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, United States.