Alternatives to HubSpot
HubSpot alternatives: the bill grew and the team didn't.
Most people looking for a way off HubSpot are not unhappy with the CRM.
HubSpot
Spodus- Pricing moves with
- Seats, contact tiers and hubs
- People who sign in
- Marketing: landing pages, nurture, SEO tooling
- Included
- Not offered
- Integration marketplace
- Included
- Not offered
- Invoicing, tax rates and recurring schedules
- Commerce, on some tiers
- Included
What actually pushes people off HubSpot.
Three mechanics, all of them in the pricing rather than the product.
The contact list is a billing input
Marketing Hub is tiered by marketing contact volume, so a list that grew because a campaign worked raises the bill without a single new person signing in.
Every new job is another hub
Sales, Marketing, Service, Content and Data are separate subscriptions with their own tiers.
The reason you bought it is two tiers up
The entry tiers are a working product with the ceiling drawn low.
What a Spodus seat is instead.
One rate, five finished products, and a database that costs nothing to grow.
Contacts are records, not a meter
A contact in Spodus is a row.
The other four products are already there
Invoices with tax rates, recurring schedules and a paid, due or overdue state you set when the money arrives, a ticket queue with SLAs and a knowledge base.
One rate, from three seats to fifty
Free covers up to three people.
What you would be giving up.
HubSpot's marketing side is genuinely deep and Spodus has no answer to it.
Side by side.
| Spodus | HubSpot | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing moves with | People who sign in | Seats, contact tiers and hubs |
| CRM and pipeline | ||
| Marketing: landing pages, nurture, SEO tooling | ||
| Integration marketplace | ||
| Invoicing, tax rates and recurring schedules | Commerce, on some tiers | |
| HR, time off and org chart | ||
| Help desk with SLAs | Service Hub, separate subscription | |
| Customer portal at no seat cost | Contacts still counted |
HubSpot's pricing structure above was read from their own pricing page on 28 August 2026. Spodus is priced per seat, from a three-seat minimum; customers in the support portal are free.
Getting the data out is the easy part.
Spodus ships a CSV importer with a HubSpot preset, so exported contacts, companies and deals map onto Spodus records without hand-matching every column, and custom properties become custom fields.
Thinking about the rest of the stack?
The same honest read on the other tools teams try to leave.
Two ways
to start
Start fresh today, or bring the clients, deals and history you already have.
Start fresh
Free for up to three people.
You get every product: CRM, invoicing, support, team, chat and Spodus AI, which asks before it changes anything. Upgrade when your team grows.
Start for freeBring your data
Bring your data from the tool you use now.
Your deals arrive with their stages, owners and dates. Connect your work email, and each client's emails land on their record. On a paid plan, we'll move it all for you, free.
Try it before you cancel anything.
Start today, or bring your own data to a demo and see it there.
Questions, answered
For the CRM, the ticketing and the operations around them, yes. For Marketing Hub, no, and it is not close. There are no landing pages, no marketing email to lists, no ad attribution and no SEO tooling in Spodus. Sales sequences from your own mailbox are on paid plans. Teams who leave HubSpot for us are usually the ones who bought the marketing suite and use the CRM.
No. Seats are the people you give a Spodus account, and everyone else is a record. A contact never takes a seat, each plan holds a set number of records (250,000 on Starter, 1,000,000 on Growth), and customers who open or track a ticket through your portal never hold an account in the first place.
They do not transfer. Spodus has its own automations, included on every plan rather than gated behind a tier, and the honest advice is to rebuild only the ones you can name from memory. Most workspaces carry far more automation than they use.
Yes, and several teams do exactly that for a quarter: HubSpot keeps the marketing motion while Spodus takes the pipeline, the invoicing and the tickets. Export by CSV whenever you are ready to move the rest.
It depends on what the agency uses HubSpot for. If it is the CRM and the tickets, Spodus covers both and adds invoicing, a client portal and people records. If it is inbound marketing, look at a marketing tool first, because Spodus has no landing pages, no marketing email and no ad tracking. Agencies that bill by tracked hours can do that in Spodus: billable hours become invoice lines, and retainers and profit per project are built in. Agencies that need Gantt charts and resource planning should look at Scoro or Productive.
Half of that. Spodus replaces the HubSpot CRM, the ticket queue and the contact database, and adds invoices, a portal and HR on the same record. It does not replace Asana for programme planning: there is no timeline with dependencies, no portfolios and no workload view. Boards, tables and calendars over records cover process work, not a multi-team delivery plan.
Sometimes. One tool instead of HubSpot and Asana works when the Asana side is task lists and simple boards, which Spodus does over the same records as the deal and the invoice. It does not work when the team lives in Asana's timeline. The honest split for many agencies is Spodus for the customer, the money and the tickets, with Asana kept for delivery.
Pipedrive is the simpler sales pipeline and the easier one to learn. HubSpot is the bigger platform, with marketing, service and content sold as separate hubs. An agency that only needs a pipeline usually prefers Pipedrive. An agency that runs inbound marketing usually needs HubSpot. Neither holds an employee record, and HubSpot's tickets and invoices are separate hubs. That is the gap Spodus sits in.