BuddyCRM vs. Hubspot
Is your CRM holding you back? With BuddyCRM, you’ll have access to all the tools you need: contacts, users, security, automation, and custom fields, without contact limits.
BuddyCRM
BuddyCRM is an intuitive, cost-effective CRM designed for sales, support, and marketing teams. It’s easy to set up, easier to use and provides the core features you need on all plans.
Hubspot
HubSpot is a polished all-in-one platform with one of the most generous free CRMs around, which makes it an easy place to start. The cost and the complexity arrive later. The sales tools a team actually relies on – sequences, automation and proper reporting – sit behind the Professional tier at £85 per seat per month, which carries a mandatory one-time onboarding fee when bought direct. Quoting is a paid add-on at every tier, and the bill climbs as you add Hubs, seats and contacts.
| BuddyCRM | Hubspot | |
|---|---|---|
| Dedicated CRM manager | ✔️ on all plans above entry | ❌ onboarding via a paid fee or a partner |
| Setup & onboarding | Free, done for you (worth £10,000) | Mandatory paid onboarding fee on Pro & Enterprise |
| Sales automation & sequences | ✔️ included on every plan | Gated to Professional (£85/seat) and above |
| Quoting | ✔️ included | Paid add-on at every tier |
| Features included | Everything, on every plan | Spread across tiers, Hubs and add-ons |
| Contact limits | None | Marketing features priced by contact volume |
| Support | UK-based, included | Fee- or partner-led; free tier hosted on US servers |
| Built for | Sales teams of five or more | Large, complex enterprises |
| Ownership | Family-owned business | Publicly listed (NYSE: HUBS), US |
5 reasons BuddyCRM is the best alternative to Hubspot
The ‘three click’ rule
BuddyCRM is designed with a ‘three-click ‘ rule in mind. All tasks are designed to take a maximum of three clicks, from setting appointments, calls, tasks, and emails to finding contacts, email building and opportunity management in your pipeline.
Simple to use, but with all the features you need, BuddyCRM makes selling easier with reduced admin time. Everything is there from day one, with no tier to climb before the useful tools switch on.
Designed to grow your business
BuddyCRM was designed to help businesses grow. You aren’t limited in the number of contacts you can add to your database, and BuddyCRM actively encourages you to convert leads into sales.
With BuddyCRM, your sales team can focus on their daily tasks while you use trustworthy data to get precise insights into your business and adjust your strategy as needed. With accurate budgeting and targets, you’ll have a better-performing sales team working to a best-practice sales process that rewards success. Your bill doesn’t grow every time your contact list does.
Easy setup
Easily migrate your data to BuddyCRM with our free setup and configuration worth £10,000. We’ll import your data, set up your custom fields, and customise BuddyCRM to work for your business, the way you want it to. There’s no mandatory onboarding fee to budget for, and no need to bring in a partner agency to get going.
UK support
BuddyCRM Support is just a quick e-mail or phone call away and handled by the people who know and work with the product daily. Our team are based in Walsall, in the UK and understand the environment your company works in. Your data is held in the UK, not parked on US servers by default.
Dedicated account manager
For all packages above entry level, you get a dedicated CRM Manager to take the pain out of managing software and let you manage sales. With HubSpot, hands-on help comes through a paid onboarding fee or a third-party partner, charged on top of your seats.
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Spend more time selling
Reduce your admin time and get your day back. BuddyCRM’s users tell us they save up to a 1/3rd of their time by using the CRM. That’s because it is designed to speed up your admin and get you back to doing what you do best – talking to customers, prospecting, and following up.
No feature limitations
We know that the basic requirements of a CRM are to get your data in, keep it updated, and keep all your people in the loop. We don’t limit the number of contacts, users, or custom fields you can have, so you can keep growing and customising to keep on top of your business. No paid add-on to send a quote, and no Professional tier to reach before automation works.
Don’t compromise
HubSpot is very good at being everything to everyone, and you pay for that breadth. By the time you’ve moved up to the tier with real sales automation, paid the onboarding fee, added quoting and watched the bill grow with every Hub and contact, the free CRM you started on is a distant memory. BuddyCRM gives a UK sales team the full toolkit on every plan – quotes, automation, reporting, the lot – set up for you and supported from Walsall, with no onboarding invoice and no contact limits. When you want a sales CRM rather than a platform to manage, choose a buddy to help you – BuddyCRM.
Here’s what you say
Kelltontech
BuddyCRM sends me useful little reminders so that I don’t miss any leads in my pipeline. I would be lost without it helping me manage the sheer volume of leads I have on the go.
Acorn Training
It was critical for the BuddyCRM team to understand the complexities of our propositions and they did just that.
JSR Genetics Testimonial
BuddyCRM is web-based software that is visually clean, easy to use and with its intuitive ticked box layout, we had faith it could deliver something simple.