HubSpot alternative

The HubSpot alternative with no cliff after Starter.

HubSpot Starter is $20 a seat. The automation most teams outgrow it for lives in Professional: $100 a seat and a required $1,500 onboarding fee. AutomateNexus CRM is one price for the whole team, from $49 a month for five people, with branching workflows, eight AI agents and unlimited contacts on every plan.

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HubSpot Sales Hub · 5 people · a monthMonthly list prices

Free

Stops at 2 users

Starter

$100

$20 × 5 seats

Professional

$500

$100 × 5 seats

+ $1,500 onboarding

AutomateNexus CRM: $49 a month for all 5, with branching workflows, AI agents and unlimited contacts.

The deals pipeline in AutomateNexus CRM: deals in Lead, Qualified, Proposal, Negotiation and Closed columns, with values, owners and close dates

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What is the best HubSpot alternative?

AutomateNexus CRM is the HubSpot alternative for small businesses that would otherwise outgrow Starter. HubSpot Starter is $20 a seat a month, but full workflows sit in Professional at $90 to $100 a seat plus a required $1,500 onboarding fee, so ten people pay $900 a month billed yearly. AutomateNexus CRM is one flat price for the team (five people from $49 a month, ten for $119 billed yearly) with branching workflows, eight AI agents and unlimited contacts on every plan.

Figures checked October 29, 2026 against HubSpot Sales Hub pricing, HubSpot Marketing Hub pricing, HubSpot plan comparison and our pricing.

AutomateNexus CRM: $49 a month, 5 people
HubSpot Starter: $20 a seat a month
HubSpot Professional: $100 a seat + $1,500 once
10 people, yearly: $119 vs $900 a month
Contacts: Unlimited vs metered
AI: 8 agents vs 500–5,000 credits

The price cliff

Watch the bill climb the stairs, and the line that stays flat.

Set the team and what it will need. The black line is HubSpot's running total; the sudden rise is the onboarding fee, landing the month you move up.

People on the team6

130

What the team will need

You’ll need it frommonth 4

HubSpot, running total AutomateNexus CRM Growth

+$1,500 onboarding, once

HubSpot · 24 months

$12,966

Starter, 6 seats$126
Professional, 6 seats$11,340
Onboarding fees$1,500

AutomateNexus CRM · 24 months

$2,856

Growth, flat$119/mo
Workflows, AI agentsIncluded
Onboarding feeNone

You keep

$10,110

Over 24 months, $1,500 of it before you use a single new feature.

HubSpot prices from hubspot.com/pricing, checked October 29, 2026. Starter billed yearly uses the new-customer price HubSpot shows (from $7 a seat); its monthly price is $20. Calling, AI credits beyond the monthly allowance and extra marketing contacts are not counted on either side.

Beside Starter

What you'd still need beside HubSpot Starter.

Starter is a fair price for what it is. Here is where its limits sit, what getting past them costs at HubSpot, and what comes with every plan here.

The need

In HubSpot Starter

Getting more at HubSpot

In AutomateNexus CRM

01
Automation that branches
HubSpot Starter
Up to 50 workflows, with limited triggers and actions.
Getting more at HubSpot
Full workflows are Professional: $100 a seat a month ($90 billed yearly), plus a required $1,500 onboarding fee.
AutomateNexus CRM
A visual workflow builder on every plan: trigger on any record change, branch on conditions, add delays, send email or SMS, assign tasks and move stages.
How it works
02
Follow-up that starts itself
HubSpot Starter
Sequences you enrol people in by hand, up to 500 sends per person a day.
Getting more at HubSpot
Starting a sequence from a workflow is a Professional feature.
AutomateNexus CRM
The AI SDR agent qualifies every new lead against your rules and enrols the good ones in your sequences, with a log of each decision.
How it works
03
AI that does the work
HubSpot Starter
500 HubSpot Credits a month for AI, reset monthly.
Getting more at HubSpot
3,000 credits on Professional, 5,000 on Enterprise; more are bought on top.
AutomateNexus CRM
Karrie and all eight agents on every plan, on your own AI key or on credits at $5 a month per 5 million tokens. Nothing reaches a customer until you say yes.
How it works
04
Email campaigns to your list
HubSpot Starter
Marketing Hub Starter counts 1,000 marketing contacts; more are bought on top.
Getting more at HubSpot
Marketing automation is Marketing Hub Professional: $800 a month billed yearly for 3 seats and 2,000 contacts, plus $3,000 onboarding.
AutomateNexus CRM
Unlimited contacts on every plan. Campaigns and sequences go through your own sending service, or hosted sending as an add-on.
How it works
05
Your brand on it, for clients
HubSpot Starter
HubSpot's own branding.
Getting more at HubSpot
White-label is not available on any HubSpot plan.
AutomateNexus CRM
White-label branding, your own domain and separate client workspaces, on every plan.
How it works
06
Calls and texts
HubSpot Starter
500 calling minutes and one HubSpot number.
Getting more at HubSpot
3,000 minutes and up to 3 numbers on Professional.
AutomateNexus CRM
Calling, texting and call recording on your own Twilio account, which bills its own usage.
How it works

On every plan

The automation HubSpot keeps for Professional, on the $49 plan.

This is a real follow-up in the workflow builder: a first email, a wait for a reply, and a different path for people who answer and people who don't.

The AutomateNexus CRM workflow builder: a follow-up sequence that sends an email, waits for a reply, creates a task if the contact answers and sends two more emails if not

Triggers on any CRM event

A new record, a stage change, a form, a booking, an invoice or a reply.

Branches, delays and conditions

Wait for a reply, then take a different path for each answer.

Email, SMS, tasks and stage moves

The steps a person would take, done on time.

Agent steps, held for your yes

Hand a step to Karrie, with a run log for every execution.

Side by side

HubSpot and AutomateNexus CRM, honestly.

Including the three places HubSpot is the better choice.

Where HubSpot wins · 01

A bigger world around it

More than 1,000 apps in HubSpot's marketplace, and a large community of agencies, courses and consultants. If you want to hire someone who already knows your CRM, that's HubSpot.

Where HubSpot wins · 02

Deeper inbound marketing

For a business that grows on content, SEO and ads, Marketing Hub Professional and up is still the strongest marketing suite there is, if the budget is there.

Where HubSpot wins · 03

Free to start, for two

HubSpot's CRM is free for up to two users. If that's all you need, and you won't outgrow it, nothing here beats free.

HubSpot compared with AutomateNexus CRM
		AutomateNexus CRM
Price model	Per seat: Starter $20, Professional $100 ($90 yearly), Enterprise from $150	Flat by team: from $49 a month for 5 people
10 people, billed yearly	$900 a month on Professional, plus $1,500 once	$119 a month on Growth, no fee
Onboarding fee	$1,500 on Professional, $3,500 on Enterprise, required	None. Self-serve import, with undo
Workflows	50 limited on Starter; full workflows from Professional	Every plan
AI	HubSpot Credits: 500, 3,000 or 5,000 a month by tier	Karrie + 8 agents; your own key or $5 per 5M tokens
Contacts	Marketing contacts counted and billed by tier	Unlimited on every plan
White-label for agencies	Not available	Included
Free plan	Free CRM for up to 2 users HubSpot ahead	7-day free trial, no card
Marketing depth	Marketing Hub is the reference for content, SEO and ads tools HubSpot ahead	Campaigns, sequences and workflows; lighter on content tools
Ecosystem	1,000+ apps in its marketplace, and a large community of agencies and courses HubSpot ahead	70+ integrations, a full API and webhooks

Every row is on AutomateNexus CRM vs HubSpot, the other options are in the best HubSpot alternatives, and every plan is on our pricing page.

Moving over

From HubSpot in an afternoon.

Your records and how they link come with you, and nothing is final until you say so.

Step 01
Export from HubSpot
Export your contacts, companies and deals from HubSpot as CSV files.
Step 02
Match the columns
Data, Migration matches HubSpot's columns to fields for you, custom ones included. Change any before anything moves.
Step 03
Bring it across
Companies, then contacts, then deals, linked to each other as they were. The whole import can be undone.
Step 04
Connect your inbox
Connect Gmail or Outlook, rebuild your key workflows, and the agents start on your pipeline.

FAQ

Questions about leaving HubSpot

For a small business that would otherwise outgrow HubSpot Starter, AutomateNexus CRM: one flat price for the team, from $49 a month for five people, with branching workflows, eight AI agents and unlimited contacts on every plan and no onboarding fee. If you only need a free contact list for two people, HubSpot's free CRM is hard to beat.

Yes. HubSpot Sales Hub Professional is $90 a seat a month billed yearly plus a required $1,500 onboarding fee, so ten people pay $900 a month. AutomateNexus CRM's Growth plan covers ten people for $119 a month billed yearly, with workflows and AI agents included. On Starter alone, HubSpot can be the smaller bill for a very small team.

HubSpot's CRM is free for up to 2 users. Sales Hub Starter is $20 a seat a month (HubSpot shows new customers a price from $7 billed yearly), Professional is $100 a seat a month or $90 billed yearly plus a $1,500 onboarding fee, and Enterprise starts at $150 a seat with a $3,500 fee. Marketing Hub Professional starts at $800 a month billed yearly with a $3,000 fee.

On the upper tiers, yes, and it is required: $1,500 once for Sales Hub Professional, $3,500 for Sales Hub Enterprise, $3,000 for Marketing Hub Professional and $7,000 for Marketing Hub Enterprise. Starter has none. AutomateNexus CRM has no onboarding fee on any plan; you import your own data, with undo.

For contacts, deals and simple email it can be. Starter allows 50 workflows with limited triggers and actions, 500 HubSpot Credits a month for AI, and 1,000 marketing contacts on Marketing Hub Starter. Teams usually move up when they need workflows that branch, sequences that start themselves, or a bigger list.

HubSpot's own CRM is free for up to 2 users, and Zoho CRM is free for up to 3. AutomateNexus CRM is not free: it has a 7-day free trial with no card, then plans from $49 a month for five people with every feature included.

Yes. Export your contacts, companies and deals from HubSpot as CSV files and import them in Data, Migration: columns are matched to fields, custom fields included, records stay linked as they were, and the whole import can be undone.

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