Pipedrive Alternatives for Small Sales Teams

Our team also builds shop software. It is not included in these comparisons.

Why People Look Past Pipedrive

Pipedrive is a visual sales CRM built around the pipeline. It has no free plan, and it lists some tools, like lead generation and email campaigns, as paid add ons. Its price is per seat.

Teams that want a free start, or more marketing and service tools in one app, often compare the options below.

How We Picked These

These are listed in alphabetical order. It is not a ranking, and it is not based on user reviews. We looked at four plain things. Fit for your size of business. The features each vendor lists on its site. Whether the price is published. The support channels each vendor lists.

Pipedrive and Its Alternatives at a Glance

Product	Starting price shown	Free plan	Free trial	Mobile app	Support listed
Pipedrive	From $14 per seat per month, billed yearly	No	14 day free trial, no card needed	Yes	Phone, help center, training
Freshsales	From $9 per user per month, billed yearly	Not listed	21 day free trial, no card needed	Yes	Email
HubSpot Sales Hub	From $7 per seat per month, billed yearly	Yes	Not listed	Yes	Phone, chat, help center, training
monday CRM	From $12 per seat per month, billed yearly	No	14 day free trial, no card needed	Yes	Help center, training
Salesforce Starter Suite	From $25 per user per month	Not listed	Free trial offered, length not stated	Not listed	Help center, training
Zoho CRM	From $14 per user per month, billed yearly	Yes	Free trial offered on paid plans, length not stated	Not listed	Email, phone, chat, help center

Starting price is the lowest paid price the vendor showed plainly, before add ons and taxes. Not listed means the vendor site did not say when we checked.

The Alternatives

Freshsales

Freshsales is the Freshworks sales CRM. It tracks contacts and deals and adds phone, email, chat and AI scoring in one place.

Who it fits: Freshworks points the Growth plan at startups and small businesses. Pro and Enterprise are for larger teams.

Price: From $9 per user per month, billed yearly.

HubSpot Sales Hub

HubSpot Sales Hub is sales software built on the HubSpot Smart CRM. It tracks contacts and deals and adds tools for outreach, calls, meetings and sales reports.

Who it fits: The vendor says the free CRM is made for startups and small businesses. Sales Hub scales from single reps to large sales teams.

Price: From $7 per seat per month, billed yearly.

monday CRM

monday CRM is a customizable sales CRM built on monday.com boards. It manages leads and deals with AI help for notes, summaries and forecasts.

Who it fits: monday names agencies, professional services, real estate, financial services, healthcare, nonprofits and retail. It serves both small and large companies.

Price: From $12 per seat per month, billed yearly.

Salesforce Starter Suite

Starter Suite is the Salesforce CRM package for small businesses. It covers sales pipeline, email campaigns and service in one app with a built in AI assistant.

Who it fits: Salesforce aims Starter Suite at small teams that want sales, marketing and service in one place. Pro Suite is for teams that need quoting and forecasting.

Price: From $25 per user per month.

Zoho CRM

Zoho CRM is cloud sales software that manages leads, contacts and deals. It adds calling, scheduling, quotes, forecasting and AI helpers.

Who it fits: Zoho says it serves small and growing teams across many industries, including healthcare, insurance and IT services. The free plan covers up to 3 users.

Price: From $14 per user per month, billed yearly.

Common Questions

Is there a free alternative to Pipedrive?

Yes. HubSpot has a free plan for up to 2 users and 1,000 contacts. Zoho CRM has a free plan for up to 3 users.

Which Pipedrive alternative is cheapest?

Of the paid plans shown, HubSpot Starter is $7 a seat a month billed yearly and Freshsales Growth is $9 a user a month billed yearly.

Which has the longest free trial?

Freshsales offers 21 days with no card. Pipedrive and monday CRM offer 14 days.

Checked September 2026. Product names are trademarks of their owners. T3CHS is not connected to any company on this page.

Pipedrive Alternatives for Small Business

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