“Nutshell is super user-friendly and intuitive
“I would highly recommend Nutshell
“Easy to use and... wait for it ... 100% buy in!
“Nutshell is both simple and powerful
Choosing the right CRM is crucial for your business. This HubSpot comparison will help you discover why Nutshell is the better alternative.
Nutshell’s standout features include:
HubSpot is a widely-used sales, marketing, and customer support platform that has been around for a while now. HubSpot consists of a marketing automation solution, a CRM, a CMS, and a help desk solution.
Despite the toolbox of features HubSpot boasts, many small and medium-sized businesses can’t justify the high cost of HubSpot’s paid plans. Without the staff and time to maximize many aspects of HubSpot’s platform, there’s a good chance you won’t get your money’s worth.
Nutshell is an award-winning CRM platform that helps B2B sales, marketing, and customer teams work together to close more deals and retain more customers.
Powerful enough to support any element of your business and simple enough to implement without a paid admin or IT department, Nutshell is favored among businesses from a wide variety of industries and sizes due to its ease of use, flexible set up, and available features.
Furthermore, Nutshell Sales’ features often outshine the competitors in terms of both usability and comprehensiveness, according to customer reviews. Plus, we have a full Marketing Suite and Engagement Suite, with some of our marketing and engagement tools included with your Nutshell Sales license.
Here at Nutshell, we’re dedicated to helping businesses grow their revenue and solve the most critical challenge of sales and marketing software: motivating teams to use it. We’re passionate about our customers’ success, and we love finding new ways to take the frustrations out of selling, marketing, and managing.
Nutshell not only seamlessly syncs with all of Google Workspace (download our Chrome extension), but we also sync seamlessly with all of Microsoft 365 (download our Outlook extension).
With several users worldwide, HubSpot has set a precedent when it comes to CRM pricing and user-friendliness since its start in 2006. While it is a decent choice for some businesses in need of customer relationship management (CRM) software, there are better options for expanded integration, deal tracking, automation, and more. Here’s how Nutshell compares.
The thing that draws in many of HubSpot’s customer base is that it offers a limited free CRM plan, which is also part of the reason it’s a well-known name in CRM, especially among solopreneurs and startups. It’s also relatively easy to use, making it simple for most to get started. Some of the core features offered by HubSpot include:
While this software brings with it several admirable features, many users find that more and more issues crop up as they use it. Common challenges companies encounter with HubSpot are:
When brands like yours search for HubSpot alternatives, they often go with Nutshell. Why? During their 14-day free trial, they experience the power of our:
We listen to and anticipate the needs of our customers to provide a user-friendly and affordable CRM filled with valuable features.
We regularly add new features and update our software to provide superior service, including:
We came over from Salesforce after six years of use and our sales team couldn’t be happier.
Matthew W. SafetySync
Very straightforward. We don‘t need to send our salespeople to ‘Nutshell Camp’ to learn how to use the product
Kevin E. TrustWorkz, Inc.
A major selling point for us was Nutshell’s integrations. About 70% of our communication is done through Google Mail, so as you can imagine, a seamless integration between our email and our CRM was absolutely critical.
Steven S. Blommerang
Nutshell’s customer service has been great. Not only are they quick to respond, but it’s nice to know they take their users’ suggestions and implement them if they are an improvement to the product.
Michelle M. Statewide Aquastore, In
The perfect blend of function and ease of use! I can’t believe how good Nutshell is!
Alan P. Skytop Business Loans
CRM is Nutshell’s flagship feature that is available in our Sales Suite. Our Sales Suite has 5 plan tiers to help you choose the best plan for your budget and required features. Below, we’re comparing our most popular Sales plan (Sales Pro) to HubSpot’s most comparable plan.
Annual license cost for a 10-person team
Pricing gathered from Hubpost.com and Salesforce.com
Email sequences & campaigns
Implementation costs
Source: BacancyTechnology.com
Full-time admin salary
Source: Talent.com
Live phone and chat support
Source: Salesforce.com
Fully functional mobile app
Source: G2.com
Data storage
One-click dialing and call recording
Year 1 Total
Let’s assume the average of the optional fees and one level of overage for 6 months of the year.
Year 2 and Beyond Totals
This assumes you don’t grow as a company and add more records…
$18,000
($150/user/month)
$55,000/year
($3,600/mo for 5 Marketing Seats for up to 50,000 contacts – Includes 10,000 contacts – $400/month more for up to 50,000 contacts) + $7,000 one-time mandatory Marketing Hub onboarding
$3,500
(one-time mandatory Sales Hub onboarding fee)
$6,000-$38,400/year
(available, but not required)
$0
$0
$1,100/month
for going over 1 million total records
$50/month for 1,000 minutes
(12,000 minute limit)
$105,600
$95,100
$9,480
($79/user/month)
$4,680/year
(3 additional marketing-only seats with Marketing Foundation for up to 50,000 contacts – Starts at $5/mo – Tied to your total # of contacts – Custom Pricing after 1 million contacts)
$0-$1,500
(scaled options – available but not required)
$0-$18,000/year
(available to customers, but in no way required)
$0
$0
$0
unlimited storage at no extra cost
$0
On Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans
$23,910
$23,160
$19,800
($165/user/month)
$19,800/year
(for up to 50,000 contacts – Starts at $1,250/mo for 10,000 contacts – $100 for every additional 10,000 contacts) – Want SMS? That’s $4,200/mo
$75,000 – $200,000
(depends on number of users, levels of customizations and more)
$96,687/year
(if you’re lucky)
$5,940/year
(30% of software license)
$3,000
($25/user/month of software license)
$1,500/year
for every 500MB after the first 10GB ($125/month)
$3,600+/year
($30/month/user and an additional $15/month for every 1,000 minutes logged)
$284,452
$146,952
See how Hubspot pulls a bait and switch with their pricing model. Check out the real price of Hubspot.
To compare all of Nutshell’s Sales plans, go to our pricing page and click “compare all plans”.
When making CRM comparisons with HubSpot, Nutshell should be on your radar. That’s because we offer:
As seen in this HubSpot comparison, Nutshell offers advanced automation and better pricing. Your task of jumping from one CRM software to another is over now that you’ve landed at Nutshell. Sound too good to believe? Start your 14-day free trial now or get to know our support team and learn more about how we compare to the competition.
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