HubSpot Pricing and Reviews

Compare HubSpot pricing and terms to one of HubSpot’s top competitors: SharpSpring.
Interested in seeing how SharpSpring, one of the HubSpot top competitors, compares? In this article, you’ll find an in-depth comparison of SharpSpring and HubSpot pricing, reviews and features like email marketing, social media software, tech support, and software integration.

HubSpot Reviews

Get an overview of SharpSpring and HubSpot reviews, features, and pricing.


	10K Contacts Plan	Enterprise	Pro	Starter
Features	Comparable
Reviews	4.4/5 G2 4.47/5 Software Advice	4.3/5 G2 4.48/5 Software Advice	4.3/5 G2 4.48/5 Software Advice	4.3/5 G2 4.48/5 Software Advice
Terms	Annual and Monthly Options	Annual Contract Paid Up Front
Annual Cost*	$10,200	$50,400	$15,300	$4,680

Reviews	4.4/5 G2 4.4/5 Software Advice 4.3/5 G2 4.5/5 Software Advice
Terms	Annual and Monthly Options Annual Contract Paid Up Front
Annual Cost*	$10,200 Enterprise $50,400 Pro $15,300 Starter $4,680

* 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 Review

SharpSpring launched in 2014 to deliver powerful and affordable marketing automation. It’s a flexible platform that integrates easily with other tools. SharpSpring has annual and monthly payment options and is a fraction of the cost of competitors.

HubSpot Review

Founded in 2006, HubSpot launched the inbound concept. It’ s a powerful platform that provides a high volume of content. HubSpot’s pricing is on the high end of the spectrum, and annual payment up-front is required.

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HubSpot Pricing

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.


	10,000 Contacts Plan	Enterprise	Pro	Starter
Total
PRICING
Get started cost	$3,589 (As little as)	$59,400	$19,300	$4,680
Monthly cost (Based on Annual Terms)	$850/mo.	$4,200/mo.	$1,275/mo.	$390/mo.
Onboarding (Based on Annual Terms)	$1,999	$9,000	$4,000	Not Available
LICENSING
Contacts included	10K	10K	10K	10K
Additional contacts	Next Plan	$8 per 1K/mo.	$38 per 1K/mo.	$15 per 1K/mo.
Emails included per month in base plan	50K	100K	100K	50K
Users	Unlimited	10	5	1

HubSpot’s pricing is on the high end

HubSpot’s Enterprise plan matches up with SharpSpring, but is more than three times the cost, with SharpSpring including the same number of contacts with a much lower onboarding fee.

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HubSpot Alternatives for Sales Platforms

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.


	All Plans	Enterprise	Pro	Starter
Total	9/11	9/11	9/11	5/11
Built-in CRM	✔	✔	✔	✔
Sales Automation	✔	✔	✔
IMAP Syncing	$	✔	✔	✔
Custom Analytics and Dashboards	✔	$	$
Report Scheduling	✔	$	$	$
Advanced Lead Scoring	✔	✔	✔
Book Meetings	✔	✔	✔	✔
Outbound Dialing/Call Tracking	✔	✔	✔
Custom Notifications	✔	✔	✔	✔
Salesforce Integration	$	✔	✔
Shopping Cart Integration	✔	✔	✔	✔

Similarity in sales-focused features, edge to SharpSpring.

Providing a free CRM that’s optional (i.e., we play nice with other CRMs) is something that sets both SharpSpring and HubSpot apart from competitors. HubSpot Pro falls short by charging additional fees for some aspects of reporting.

SharpSpring Automation Features Comparison

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HubSpot Email Software Comparison

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.


	10,000 Contacts Plan	Enterprise	Pro	Starter
Total	7/8	8/8	8/8	6/8
Drag-And-Drop Designer	✔	✔	✔	✔
WYSIWYG Interface	✔	✔	✔	✔
Dynamic Content	✔	✔	✔
Responsive Templates	✔	✔	✔	✔
After-The-Click Tracking	✔	✔	✔	✔
Render Testing	$	✔	✔	✔
A/B Testing	✔	✔	✔
RSS Email Syndication	✔	✔	✔	✔

SharpSpring and HubSpot are comparable

Email marketing is at the core of all marketing automation platforms. Both vendors excel in this area by offering features that help businesses use email as an effective campaign tool. Options are much more limited with Hubspot Starter.

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HubSpot Alternatives for Automation Platforms

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.


	10,000 Contacts Plan	Enterprise	Pro	Starter
Total	11/11	11/11	11/11	4/11
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	✔	✔	✔

Feature parity in automation capabilities

SharpSpring and HubSpot Enterprise and Pro match up nicely here, both offering a number of core marketing automation capabilities. These features allow marketers to target leads with personalized content based on their interests and actions and where they are in the buying process. Again, Hubspot Starter offers more limited features.

HubSpot Alternatives for Form Building

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.


	10,000 Contacts Plan	Enterprise	Pro	Starter
Total	12/12	11/12	11/12	3/12
Drag-And-Drop Form Builder	✔	✔	✔	✔
Dynamic Forms	✔	✔	✔	✔
Use CSS To Match Your Site	✔	✔	✔	✔
Customized fields	✔	✔	✔
Custom Calls To Action	✔	✔	✔
Auto-Complete	✔	✔	✔
Progressive profiling	✔	✔	✔
Form analytics	✔	✔	✔
Third-Party Forms Supported	✔	✔	✔
Third-Party Post-Back	✔	✔	✔
GoToWebinar Native Integration	✔	✔	✔
WebEx Native Integration	✔

Major form functionality compares

Forms help you convert website anonymous visitors to leads, and the major form building features with Hubspot and SharpSpring compare. SharpSpring’s WebEx and GoToWebinar native integrations makes video conference registration easy, giving you a seamless connection with the most popular web conference platforms.

HubSpot Contacts and Tracking Platform Comparison

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.


	10,000 Contacts Plan	Enterprise	Pro	Starter
Total	5/5	5/5	5/5	2/5
Identify Anonymous Site Visitors	✔	✔	✔
Track Behavior History Of Known Leads	✔	✔	✔	✔
Timeline Of Lead Interactions	✔	✔	✔	✔
Daily Email Of Site Visitors	✔	✔	✔
Important Page Visit Tracking	✔	✔	✔

Both help you turn anonymous visitors into leads

Both Hubspot and SharpSpring provide additional information on anonymous site visitors. This includes names, titles, and contact details of prospects working in the areas most relevant to your business. SharpSpring’s Life of the Lead sets it apart, featuring a timeline of interactions between the lead, your website, your communications, and any events or changes made to the record in SharpSpring.

HubSpot Alternatives to Landing Page Software

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.


	10,000 Contacts Plan	Enterprise	Pro	Starter
Total	7/7	6/7	6/7	0/7
Drag-and-Drop Designer	✔	✔	✔
WYSIWYG Interface	✔	✔	✔
Dynamic Content	✔	✔	*✔
Library Of Responsive Templates	✔	✔	✔
Optimize For Mobile	✔	✔	✔
Build Single Landing Pages	✔	✔	✔
Build Landing Page Funnels	✔

SharpSpring’s funnels win big here

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. HubSpot Pro requires you to use the HubSpot CMS in order to target visitors with dynamic web content.

SharpSpring Landing Page Builder Comparison

* Must use HubSpot CMS for full functionality. $50-$200/mo. fee

HubSpot Alternatives to Blogging Tools

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.


	10,000 Contacts Plan	Enterprise	Pro	Starter
Total	7/8	8/8	8/8	0/8
Drag-and-Drop Designer	✔	✔	✔
WYSIWYG Interface	✔	✔	✔
Dynamic Content	✔	✔	*✔
Library Of Responsive Templates	✔	✔	✔
RSS Email Syndication	✔	✔	✔
Advance Post Scheduling	✔	✔	✔
Social Sharing Widget	✔	✔	✔
Blog SEO recommendations		✔	✔

Two powerful blogging tools

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. The blog builder is not available with Hubspot Starter.

* Must use HubSpot CMS for full functionality. $50-$200/mo. fee

HubSpot Social Media Software Comparison

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.


	10,000 Contacts Plan	Enterprise	Pro	Starter
Total	8/8	6/8	6/8	0/8
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	✔

Edge to SharpSpring in social features

SharpSpring and Hubspot’s Enterprise and Pro plans offer social media profiling and the ability for the sales team to interact with leads through social channels, and all three 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.

SharpSpring Social Media Features Comparison

HubSpot Alternatives for Software Integrations

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.


	10,000 Contacts Plan	Enterprise	Pro	Starter
Total	6/7	6/7	6/7	3/7
CMS Compatibility	Universal	Must use HubSpot CMS for full functionality. $50-$200/mo. fee
Open API	✔	✔	✔	✔
Zapier Connections	✔	✔	✔	✔
PieSync Integration	✔	✔	✔
Multiple Device Tracking	✔	✔	✔
Third-Party/Native Form Compatibility	✔	✔	✔	✔
Native Salesforce Integration	$	$	$

Edge to SharpSpring for more compatibility

Both 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. HubSpot requires use of its CMS for full functionality and charges customers more to use it.

SharpSpring Platform Features Comparison

HubSpot Alternatives for Platform Support

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.


	All Plans	Enterprise	Pro	Starter
Total	6/6	4/6	4/6	2/6
Phone, Email Support	✔	✔	✔	Email only
Ongoing Training	✔	✔	✔	✔
Platform Migration Support	✔	$	$	$
Dedicated Account Manager	✔	$	$	$
Live Chat	✔	✔	✔	✔
Library of On-Demand Training Resources	✔	✔	✔

SharpSpring leads in customer support

Both platforms offer ongoing training and support, but HubSpot Starter users only have access to email support. Similarly, HubSpot charges for a dedicated account manager, while SharpSpring includes this as part of the overall package.