HubSpot
Free plan
The inbound suite that became a CRM — free to start, pricey once you grow up.
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Inbound CRM for leads and marketing handoff
The job is inbound leads landing in a CRM your sales team will actually work — not a marketing cloud with a contact object taped on. Afterstack filters to products whose inbound use case or marketing-automation flag matches the CRM quiz. Affiliates never change the order.
18 products in this job, filtered from the CRM catalog with the same use-case signals as the quiz. Affiliate programs are not an input. Specialists stay outside the software rank.
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Inclusion criteria
A shallow job inside a live category — not a sprawling directory taxonomy. Paid placement cannot buy a row.
- Live CRM catalog products with an inbound use case or marketing automation flagged the way the CRM quiz scores inbound.
- Incumbents people leave when the handoff became a second CRM, plus substitutes whose briefing is actually about inbound.
- If the product is a full platform that also does inbound, it can appear — we do not invent a separate marketing-suite tree here.
- Agencies and implementation partners stay in Services.
Incumbents people leave
Start from the system you already pay for. These are not quiz winners — they are leave-candidates that still match this job.
HighLevel
From $97/mo
The agency operating system — CRM, funnels, and conversations in one login.
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Dynamics 365 Sales
From $65/user/mo
Microsoft’s enterprise CRM — Copilot on a platform that still feels like Dynamics.
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Oracle Sales
From $25/user/mo
Enterprise CX sales cloud — accounts, quotes, and Oracle gravity.
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Pipedrive
From $14/user/mo
The visual pipeline CRM salespeople actually update.
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Salesforce
From $25/user/mo
The default enterprise CRM — and the one most teams are trying to leave.
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SAP Sales Cloud
Custom pricing
Enterprise sales on SAP — accounts, quotes, and a services army.
View profileCheck fitAI-native crop for this job
Editorial AI-native score 8+, not an incumbent, and not already owned by an incumbent in this category. A pending acquisition stays here and is labeled on the card.
AI revenue orchestration — warm inbound, not another empty pipeline.
Agreement to be acquired by HubSpot (not recorded as closed).
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AI customer intelligence for community-led and product-led revenue.
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Listed substitutes for this job that sit outside the independent AI-native crop, including products an incumbent already owns.
ActiveCampaign
From $29/mo
Automation-first CRM for teams that already think in sequences.
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Keap
From $199/mo
Small-business automation CRM — formerly Infusionsoft.
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Nutshell
From $16/user/mo
Small-business CRM plus email marketing in one lid.
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Vtiger
From $12/user/mo
Open-core CRM suite — sales, support, and marketing at a mid-market price.
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Zoho CRM
Free plan
A full CRM suite at a price that makes Salesforce look theatrical.
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Bitrix24
Free plan
Free-to-start collaboration suite with a CRM attached.
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Creatio
Custom pricing
Low-code CRM and workflow studio for mid-market process teams.
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Insightly
From $29/user/mo
CRM plus projects for teams that close work, then have to deliver it.
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Odoo CRM
Free plan
Open-source ERP that happens to include a decent pipeline.
View profileCheck fitOther jobs in CRM
High-intent jobs only, mapped to live quiz dimensions. We do not sprawl this list.
Replace an incumbent
Scored alternatives for incumbents that match this job.
- Replace Dynamics 365 SalesMicrosoft’s enterprise CRM — Copilot on a platform that still feels like Dynamics.
- Replace HighLevelThe agency operating system — CRM, funnels, and conversations in one login.
- Replace HubSpotThe inbound suite that became a CRM — free to start, pricey once you grow up.
- Replace Oracle SalesEnterprise CX sales cloud — accounts, quotes, and Oracle gravity.
- Replace PipedriveThe visual pipeline CRM salespeople actually update.
- Replace SalesforceThe default enterprise CRM — and the one most teams are trying to leave.
- Replace SAP Sales CloudEnterprise sales on SAP — accounts, quotes, and a services army.
Questions teams actually ask
What counts as inbound CRM here?+–
The CRM quiz’s inbound job: leads and marketing handoff into the system of record. Not a full marketing-automation encyclopedia — that lives on the Marketing category.
Why is HubSpot on a CRM inbound page?+–
Because teams leaving or choosing inbound CRM still shop that name as the system of record. This page is a job filter inside CRM, not a paid module.
Will a claimed profile boost inbound rank?+–
No. Claimed profiles and affiliates never move a software list, including this job page and the CRM quiz.
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