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| 10,000 Contacts Plan | Enterprise | Pro | |
| Features | Comparable | ||
| Reviews | |||
| Terms | Annual and Monthly Options | Annual Contract Paid Up Front | |
| Annual Cost* | $7,800 | $38,400 | $15,000 |
| Reviews | |
| Terms | Annual and Monthly Options Annual Contract Paid Up Front |
| Annual Cost* | $7,800 Enterprise $28,800 Pro $15,000 |
* Cost for all products based on 10K contacts.
Note: HubSpot ‘Basic’ is not included in this report. It’s regarded as a blogging tool with minimal functionality.
SharpSpring launched in 2014 to deliver powerful and affordable marketing automation. It’s a flexible, innovative platform that integrates easily with other tools. SharpSpring has annual and monthly payment options and is a fraction of the cost of competitors, while still offering all of the features you need to smoothly automate your marketing.
Founded in 2006, HubSpot launched the inbound concept. HubSpot offers a powerful platform and a high volume of quality content. However, HubSpot pricing is on the high end of the spectrum and the annual payment is required upfront, making it a less flexible and more expensive option all around.
Compare HubSpot pricing and terms to SharpSpring; a competitive alternative to HubSpot. Review the finer details; including the number of contacts, up-front requirements, monthly breakdown, and how HubSpot compares when it comes to onboarding costs.
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| 10,000 Contacts Plan | Enterprise | Pro | |
| Total | |||
| Get started cost | $2,710 (As little as) | $44,400 | $18,000 |
| Monthly cost | $650/mo. | $3,200/mo | $1,250/mo $800 + $450 contacts fees. |
| Onboarding | $1,800 | $6,000 | $3,000 |
| Contacts included in base plan | 10K | 10K | 1K |
| Additional contacts | Next Plan | $10 per 1K/mo. | $50 per 1K/mo. |
| Emails included per month in base plan | 50K | 100K | 10K |
HubSpot’s Enterprise plan matches up with the features SharpSpring provides, but is more than three times the cost. SharpSpring includes the same number of contacts with a much lower onboarding fee and overall cost, making SharpSpring the most flexible financial option.
Compare HubSpot’s email marketing features to SharpSpring’s. See how SharpSpring, a HubSpot alternative, competes in key areas such as the email design tool, available dynamic content, and render testing.
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| All Plans | Enterprise | Pro | |
| Total | 7/8 | 8/8 | 7/8 |
| Drag-And-Drop Designer | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| WYSIWYG Interface | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Dynamic Content | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Responsive Templates | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| After-The-Click Tracking | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Render Testing | $ | ✔ | ✔ |
| A/B Testing | ✔ | ✔ | |
| RSS Email Syndication | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Email marketing is at the core of all marketing automation platforms. Both HubSpot and SharpSpring excel in this area by offering features that help agencies use email as an effective campaign tool. Both vendors provide an email designer, responsive templates and more. While HubSpot and SharpSpring both offer render testing, SharpSpring charges a small fee. Meanwhile, A/B testing is not available in HubSpot Pro. HubSpot Enterprise has both A/B testing (which is somewhat costly) and render testing, giving it marginally more power in email marketing.
$ = available for additional charge
Explore HubSpot competitors via automation features. See how HubSpot compares in key areas such as branching workflows, behavior-based automations and more. Find HubSpot alternatives for key automation functions that drive your marketing.
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| All Plans | Enterprise | Pro | |
| Total | 11/11 | 11/11 | 11/11 |
| Visual Workflow Builder | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Unlimited Workflows and Tasks | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Triggers and Filters | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Branching Workflows | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Time-Based Automations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Behavior-Based Automations | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced Lead Scoring | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Personas | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Dynamic Lists | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced Segmentation | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Dynamic Landing Pages | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
SharpSpring and HubSpot are well matched here; both offering a number of core marketing automation capabilities. These features allow marketers to target leads with personalized content based on their interests, actions and where they are in the buying process.
Compare key form features between HubSpot and top competitor, SharpSpring. See how HubSpot compares in key form functions, such as analytics, auto-complete, progressive profiling and more. Find an alternative to HubSpot for form building – a vital component of lead collection for marketers.
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| All Plans | Enterprise | Pro | |
| Total | 12/12 | 10/12 | 10/12 |
| Drag-And-Drop Form Builder | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Dynamic Forms | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Use CSS To Match Your Site | ✔ | Requires tech support | |
| Customized fields | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Custom Calls To Action | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Auto-Complete | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Progressive profiling | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Form analytics | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Third-Party Forms Supported | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Third-Party Post-Back | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| GoToWebinar connected | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| WebEx connected | ✔ | ||
SharpSpring allows users to dynamically update forms and customize how they look using CSS – all without the need for complex IT or vendor tech support. Additionally, SharpSpring’s WebEx connection (something HubSpot is lacking) makes video conferences easy, underlining the platform’s flexibility.
View a side-by-side comparison of HubSpot and SharpSpring for contact tracking features. Learn about HubSpot alternatives for contact tracking and compare key functions, such as, anonymous site visitor tracking, daily email of site visitors and more. Find HubSpot competitors that similarly make it easy to track your contacts through the sales and marketing funnel.
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| All Plans | Enterprise | Pro | |
| Total | 6/6 | 5/6 | 5/6 |
| Identify Anonymous Site Visitors | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Contact Info From Anonymous Visitors (ZoomInfo) | ✔ | ||
| Track Behavior History Of Known Leads | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Timeline Of Lead Interactions | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Daily Email Of Site Visitors | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Important Page Visit Tracking | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Through its partnership with ZoomInfo, Sharpspring provides additional information on anonymous site visitors. This includes the names, titles, and contact details of prospects working in the areas most relevant to your business. All other contact and tracking platform features are available across HubSpot and SharpSpring. Of all HubSpot’s top competitors, the ability to get contact information from anonymous visitors through ZoomInfo, sets SharpSpring apart.
Landing pages are key to conversions, so be sure you’ve got the right tool. Compare the landing page designers in HubSpot and SharpSpring, plus, learn about alternatives to HubSpot for building and designing landing pages that convert, and compare key functions and features, such as dynamic content, a template library, and more.
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| All Plans | Enterprise | Pro | |
| Total | 7/7 | 6/7 | 6/7 |
| Point-And-Click Editor | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| WYSIWYG Interface | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Dynamic Content | ✔ | ✔ | *✔ |
| Library Of Responsive Templates | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Optimize For Mobile | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Build Single Landing Pages | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Build Landing Page Funnels | ✔ |
Unlike HubSpot, SharpSpring offers pre-built and customizable funnels — a series of landing pages that work together to convert visitors into leads. SharpSpring and HubSpot Enterprise offer the ability to add dynamic web content using any CMS, whereas HubSpot Pro requires you to use the HubSpot CMS in order to target visitors with dynamic web content.
* Must use HubSpot CMS
Fill the top of your funnel with a tool that makes blogging easy. Compare the blog builder in HubSpot and SharpSpring, and see if there’s a powerful alternative in using HubSpot competitor, SharpSpring. Compare key functions and features, such as social sharing, advance post scheduling and more.
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| All Plans | Enterprise | Pro | |
| Total | 7/8 | 8/8 | 8/8 |
| Point-And-Click Editor | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| WYSIWYG Interface | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Dynamic Content | ✔ | ✔ | *✔ |
| Library Of Responsive Templates | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| RSS Email Syndication | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advance Post Scheduling | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Social Sharing Widget | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Blog SEO recommendations | ✔ | ✔ |
Blogging tools assist with top-of-the-funnel marketing and lead acquisition efforts. HubSpot offers SEO recommendations on keywords to assist with content optimization. However, HubSpot Pro is more limited in that it requires you to use HubSpot's CMS to incorporate dynamic blog content, giving HubSpot Enterprise a slight advantage.
* Must use HubSpot CMS
Track social media efforts in your marketing automation platform. See how HubSpot’s social media features compete with SharpSpring’s. See HubSpot alternatives for social media by comparing key functions and features, such as social sharing, measuring social conversions and more.
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| All Plans | Enterprise | Pro | |
| Total | 8/8 | 6/8 | 6/8 |
| Social-CRM Integration | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Social Profiling | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Social Listening / Monitoring | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Social Publishing | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Social Media Conversions | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Content Calendar | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automation Rules Based on Social Activity | ✔ | ||
| Social Activity History in Life of the Lead | ✔ |
Both HubSpot and SharpSpring offer social media profiling and the ability for the sales team to interact with leads through social channels. Additionally, all listed options can track social media conversions/ROI. SharpSpring takes it to the next level by including social activity in the Life of the Lead and allowing users to create automation rules based on that activity, something HubSpot does not have the capability to do.
Unite sales and marketing teams in your marketing automation platform. See how HubSpot’s sales tracking features compare to SharpSpring’s. Check out HubSpot CRM alternatives and compare key functions, such as integrations, lead scoring and more.
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| All Plans | Enterprise | Pro | |
| Total | 6/6 | 5/6 | 5/6 |
| Built-In CRM | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced Lead Scoring | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Native Salesforce Integration | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Shopping Cart Integration | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Custom Notifications | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Report Scheduling | ✔ | $ | $ |
Providing a free CRM that’s optional (i.e. we play nicely with other CRMs) is something that sets both SharpSpring and HubSpot apart from their competitors. However, HubSpot falls short by charging additional fees for report scheduling, giving SharpSpring an edge for sales platform capabilities.
$ = available for additional charge
Integrations are vital to ensuring your marketing automation platform performs the way you want it to. Is the system open to integrations? Or will you have to accommodate inflexible software? See how well HubSpot integrates with other tools like your CRM, CMS and more — and how HubSpot compares to SharpSpring on integrations.
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| All Plans | Enterprise | Pro | |
| Total | 7/7 | 6/7 | 6/7 |
| Universal CMS Compatibility | Universal | Must use HubSpot CMS for full functionality. $50-$200/mo. fee | |
| Open API | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Zapier Integration(CRMs and other platforms) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| PieSync Integration | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Multiple Device Tracking | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Third-Party/Native Form Compatibility | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Native Salesforce Integration | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Both platforms offer an open API and other ways to connect their platforms to third-party solutions. SharpSpring goes further in being vendor agnostic by offering universal CMS compatibility, where HubSpot requires use of its CMS for full functionality and charges customers more for it.
Does HubSpot stand behind the platform with comprehensive, free support? Will HubSpot support migrate you from another platform if you decide to make the change? Compare HubSpot alternative SharpSpring, in customer support.
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| All Plans | Enterprise | Pro | |
| Total | 5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Phone, Email Support | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| In-App Contextual Support Videos | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Ongoing Training | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Platform Migration Support Included | Included | $7,000 | $7,000 |
| Dedicated Customer Success Manager Included | Included | $500/mo. | $500/mo. |
Both platforms offer ongoing training and support, but HubSpot charges a hefty added fee for platform migration support. Similarly, HubSpot charges $500 per month for a dedicated customer success manager, while SharpSpring includes this as part of the overall package at no extra cost to you.
How a marketing automation platform treats its agencies can make the difference between a customer having a positive experience and a mediocre one. See why of all Hubspot competitors, SharpSpring comes out on top when it comes to agency features. Compare the capabilities and features offered by SharpSpring and HubSpot that are agency specific and will immediately impact your user experience.
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| All Plans | Enterprise | Pro | |
| Total | 8/8 | 1/8 | 0/8 |
| Rebrandable Interface (logo/colors) | ✔ | ||
| White-labeled URL | ✔ | ||
| Rebrandable Sales Materials | ✔ | ||
| Rebrandable Notifications | ✔ | ||
| Multi-client Management Console | ✔ | ||
| Add A Client In-app | ✔ | ||
| Unlimited Subdomains | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Share Templates Across Clients | ✔ |
SharpSpring provides an overall program and agency-focused features designed to build client relationships with the agency, not their software provider. SharpSpring’s agency partners decide what to charge clients and get a suite of tools to reinforce their brand across the client relationship. Of all HubSpot alternatives, agencies choose SharpSpring because it compares well on agency-specific features that HubSpot doesn’t include. Plus, SharpSpring lets agencies rebrand the platform to promote the agency rather than having to compete with the marketing automation platform.
Fraction of the Cost of Competitors • Month-to-Month Contracts • Unlimited Users/Support
A fraction of the cost of competitors with no long-term contracts.
Phone and email support are 100% free, plus enjoy access to 100+ training videos and a dedicated customer success manager.
Get up and running quickly with contextual help on every page of the platform.
Powerful native integrations plus an open API and universal CMS compatibility.
