5 alternatives to HubSpot (3 free)
5 alternatives to HubSpot, picked out of 4 saved Instagram reels and 1 liked tweet, from creators like @TweetsOfSumit, @jasoncooperson, @suprava.ss. 3 of them are free, freemium or open source.
A curated shortlist of CRM platforms recommended by founders for early-stage startup sales pipelines. It highlights Attio, Close, and Pipedrive as top contenders based on community feedback. It serves as a focused starting point for evaluating sales tools without sorting through enterprise bloat.
HighLevel (also known as GoHighLevel) is an integrated sales and marketing CRM that replaces disparate point solutions like funnel builders, email automation tools, and chat managers. It includes workflow automations, consolidated messaging inboxes, and native Instagram and Facebook comment-to-DM triggers. A major appeal over tools like Manychat is that its plans include unlimited contacts and users rather than charging escalating per-subscriber fees.
Privyr is a mobile-first CRM built for salespeople, solopreneurs, and agencies dealing with B2C leads. It connects directly to lead sources like Facebook Lead Ads, TikTok, Google Ads, and website forms to deliver instant phone alerts. From there, users can trigger auto-personalized follow-up messages across WhatsApp, SMS, and email without manual data entry.
SendPulse is a comprehensive marketing automation platform offering tools for email campaigns, SMS, web push notifications, and built-in CRM. It features a chatbot builder for Telegram, WhatsApp, and Instagram that integrates directly with OpenAI API keys to automate customer support and conversational sales.
Twenty is an open-source CRM built with TypeScript, React, and NestJS, positioned as an extensible alternative to Salesforce. It allows engineering and product teams to define data models, fields, views, and logic as code, with full version control and native support for AI agents. It can be self-hosted via Docker or used through a managed cloud workspace.