Pipedrive
$72at 3 users
$3 a month cheaper$24 at 1 user
A sales team that lives in a visual deal pipeline and wants automation, email sync, scheduling and e-signature contracts added one plan at a time.
- Also lists a meeting scheduler and web forms
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Salesforce Starter Suite alternatives
The 9 closest of 19, each with its real monthly cost at 3 users and what it does that Salesforce Starter Suite does not. See all 22.
Pipedrive does everything we verified about Salesforce Starter Suite for $3 a month less at 3 users, $72 against $75. It is a price cut rather than an upgrade: on the two features checked against the vendors’ own pricing pages the two are level. The trade: Salesforce Starter Suite is built for running CRM, email and sales from one subscription and Pipedrive is not, so this is a swap with a cost.
Why people look for an alternative
The jump from $25 to $100 a user, billed annually on a contract, is steep; transaction fees apply on Starter; and calling, SMS, forms and a mobile app are not listed on the pricing page.
It runs $75 a month at 3 users with the add-ons it forces on you included. 10 of the 19 alternatives to Salesforce Starter Suite cost less than that.
The closest thing to Salesforce Starter Suite
Ranked by how much of what we record for Salesforce Starter Suite each platform also does. Pipedrive is the nearest, and it is $3 a month cheaper at 3 users. On every feature this site records, the two are level.
Cheaper, with nothing we record missing
Everything this site records for Salesforce Starter Suite is also recorded for these, and they cost less at 3 users. That is not the same as saying they are better: the last column is what Salesforce Starter Suite is built for that they are not, and for someone who needs that, the saving is not a saving.
| Platform | At 3 users | You save | What Salesforce Starter Suite does that it does not |
|---|---|---|---|
| OnePageCRM | $29.85 | $45.15 | running CRM, email and sales from one subscription, a mature platform with a large ecosystem and growing into a large sales team |
| monday CRM | $51 | $24 | running CRM, email and sales from one subscription |
| HubSpot | $60 | $15 | growing into a large sales team |
| Pipedrive | $72 | $3 | running CRM, email and sales from one subscription |
The rest, in order of how close they are
Prices are the real monthly cost at 3 users with the add-ons each platform forces on you included, from the same engine the shortlist quiz uses.
Capsule CRM
$66at 3 users
$9 a month cheaper$22 at 1 user
A small business that wants a tidy contacts-and-pipeline CRM it can start on for nothing and grow into without a sales call.
- Also lists a mobile app
- Does not list quotes, proposals and invoices
OnePageCRM
$29.85at 3 users
$45.15 a month cheaper$9.95 at 1 user
A one-person or small sales team that wants the cheapest per-user pipeline with a next-action habit built in, unlimited contacts, and no setup project.
- Also lists built-in calling, web forms and a mobile app
monday CRM
$51at 3 users
$24 a month cheaper$51 at 1 user
A sales team of three or more that wants a board-style, highly customisable pipeline with quotes, invoices, mass email and client projects in the same workspace, and is happy to pay annually.
- Also lists built-in calling, web forms and a mobile app
Copper CRM
$87at 3 users
$12 a month dearer$29 at 1 user
Teams that run on Google Workspace and want the CRM inside Gmail and Google Calendar, with project pipelines for the work after the sale.
- Also lists web forms and a mobile app
- Does not list quotes, proposals and invoices
Streak
$177at 3 users
$102 a month dearer$59 at 1 user
A Gmail or Google Workspace team that wants its pipeline, contacts and tasks inside the inbox rather than in a separate tab.
- Also lists built-in calling and a mobile app
- Does not list quotes, proposals and invoices
folk
$90at 3 users
$15 a month dearer$30 at 1 user
A founder or small team running relationships out of Gmail, LinkedIn and WhatsApp who wants a light, list-based CRM with campaigns and sequences rather than a sales-ops system.
- Also lists a mobile app
- Does not list tasks and projects after the sale and quotes, proposals and invoices
Salesflare
$117at 3 users
$42 a month dearer$39 at 1 user
A small B2B sales team that lives in Gmail, Outlook and LinkedIn and wants the CRM to fill itself in rather than be typed into.
- Also lists a mobile app
- Does not list tasks and projects after the sale and quotes, proposals and invoices
Attio
$0at 3 users
$75 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
A small team that wants to model its own data (companies, people, deals and custom objects) in a fast, spreadsheet-like CRM and start on a genuinely usable free plan.
- Also lists a mobile app
- Does not list tasks and projects after the sale and quotes, proposals and invoices
What Salesforce Starter Suite is still the best answer for
A small business that wants sales, service, marketing email and a storefront in one Salesforce subscription from day one, with a path onto the full platform later.
On this site it is the pick for running CRM, email and sales from one subscription, a mature platform with a large ecosystem and growing into a large sales team. If that is you, read the savings above and then ignore them.
Salesforce Starter Suite against one other, side by side
The pairs people actually search for, each one priced at the same four sizes off both vendors' own pages.
Salesforce Starter Suite vs AttioBoth priced at four sizes Salesforce Starter Suite vs CloseBoth priced at four sizes Salesforce Starter Suite vs Copper CRMBoth priced at four sizes Salesforce Starter Suite vs FreshsalesBoth priced at four sizes Salesforce Starter Suite vs GoHighLevelBoth priced at four sizes Salesforce Starter Suite vs HubSpotBoth priced at four sizes Salesforce Starter Suite vs monday CRMBoth priced at four sizes Salesforce Starter Suite vs PipedriveBoth priced at four sizes Salesforce Starter Suite vs SalesflareBoth priced at four sizes Salesforce Starter Suite vs Zoho CRMBoth priced at four sizes
Questions people ask about Salesforce Starter Suite alternatives
What is the closest alternative to Salesforce Starter Suite?
Pipedrive. It is $3 a month cheaper at the size we compare on and gives up nothing we verify, though you should read why it exists before swapping: no two of these do exactly the same job.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Salesforce Starter Suite?
OnePageCRM, monday CRM and HubSpot are cheaper and level with Salesforce Starter Suite on every feature we verify. Nothing here is strictly better: each one exists to do a slightly different job.
How much does Salesforce Starter Suite cost?
Salesforce Starter Suite is $25 a month at 1 user and $250 at 10 users, read off their own pricing page and re-checked every week.
Why do people look for alternatives to Salesforce Starter Suite?
The jump from $25 to $100 a user, billed annually on a contract, is steep; transaction fees apply on Starter; and calling, SMS, forms and a mobile app are not listed on the pricing page.
How many alternatives to Salesforce Starter Suite are there?
We compare 19 of them here, every one priced at the same size off its own pricing page, and the whole list of 22 is on the crm page.
Should yours be on this list? If you make CRMs for small service businesses and it is not compared here, ask to be shortlisted. Listings are free and cannot be bought.
How to read the feature lines
Two features were checked against each vendor's own pricing page: a free plan and pricing per user. Those are the ones written above as does and does not. The other 14 are read out of each vendor's own pricing page, so an absence there means we did not find it listed, not that the product lacks it, and those lines say lists and does not list instead. How all of this gets checked.
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