What is the best alternative to Attio?

SalesCrew, if you want outbound and the pipeline in one database with no per-seat bill. Core costs $299 a month with unlimited seats, and cadences, suppression and the inbox sit beside your deals. folk and HubSpot are the next picks for relationship-led and inbound-led teams.

Attio sells per-seat plans with a free tier, and record limits rise with each tier, as of September 2026. Current prices are on attio.com/pricing. Your bill grows with each person you add.

Does SalesCrew work with Claude and ChatGPT like Attio does?

Yes. Every action in the SalesCrew app is also an MCP tool, with 140+ tools in total. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any MCP client can connect with a per-user token, and every external send waits in one approval queue by default.

How do I move from Attio to SalesCrew?

Export your people, companies and deals from Attio as CSV. Contacts import into the SalesCrew Data Bank with column mapping, matched on email and never overwritten. Deals and companies come across through the MCP tools, and a standard import completes within 7 business days.

Why is Salesforce not on this list?

Teams leaving Attio rarely move up to an enterprise suite. Salesforce has its own alternatives page if that is the move you're weighing.

Attio alternatives

Six CRMs ranked on seat cost, outbound and AI approvals. SalesCrew puts cadences and the pipeline in one database for $299 a month, any team size.

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Pipeline with weighted forecast and stage breakdown

Teams leaving Attio usually compare SalesCrew, folk, HubSpot, Close, Pipedrive and Airtable. SalesCrew leads on the criteria below: unlimited seats for $299 a month, cadences and suppression in the same database as your deals, and an approval queue in front of every AI send.

The short answer

Attio sells per-seat plans with a free tier, and each tier raises the record limit (attio.com/pricing, September 2026).
SalesCrew charges one price per instance with unlimited seats. Core is $299 a month and includes the CRM, the inbox, the Data Bank and multi-step cadences.
Attio, Close, Pipedrive and folk all publish MCP pages. SalesCrew makes every UI action an MCP tool and holds each AI-written send in one approval queue.
Each SalesCrew client gets its own Postgres database, with a full export any time.

How we ranked the field

Each tool was read on its own pricing and product pages in September 2026. Review sites and listicles were left out, because their numbers drift and rarely name a source.

Evaluated from Attio's own documentation and pricing, September 2026.

Four questions set the order. What happens to the bill when you hire? Can your team run outbound in the same system as the pipeline? How does an AI client connect, and who approves what it sends? And who owns the database? You'll find the answers in the table, then one card per tool.

Attio and six alternatives

Read on each vendor's own pricing and product pages.

Tool	How you pay	Outbound	MCP	Built around
Attio	Per seat; free tier; record limits by tier	Pairs with sending tools	Hosted server, attio.com/platform/mcp	A flexible data model with custom objects
SalesCrew (our product)	One price per instance, unlimited seats	Cadences from your own mailbox pool, suppression at freeze and send	140+ tools, each with a UI twin, sends held for approval	Pipeline, inbox and outbound in one database
folk	Per member; two-week trial	Messages counted per member	MCP server and guides on folk.app	Relationship-led selling
HubSpot	Per seat; free tier	Sequences on sales tiers	MCP server, developers.hubspot.com/mcp	Inbound marketing and sales in one suite
Close	Per user; 14-day trial	Email sequences and built-in calling	Server at close.com/integrations/close-mcp	Calling and email for small sales teams
Pipedrive	Per seat	Campaigns add-on	Server at pipedrive.com/features/mcp-server	Deal stages and pipeline discipline
Airtable	Per editor; free plan	Pairs with sending tools	MCP server listed on airtable.com	A shaped database you build yourself

Checked on each vendor's own pricing and product pages, September 2026. Disclosure: SalesCrew is our product.

The field, ranked for a team leaving Attio

1. SalesCrew

Disclosure: SalesCrew is our product. One flat price with unlimited seats, from $299 a month. Cadences, suppression and the multi-mailbox inbox sit beside the pipeline in a Postgres project you own. Every action is an MCP tool behind one approval queue. Best for: teams who run a CRM and a sending tool today and want one system.

2. folk

A light, contact-first CRM priced per member, with a two-week trial and an MCP server. Best for: relationship-led teams who liked Attio's feel.

3. HubSpot

A broad suite with a free tier, marketing tools and an MCP server. Best for: teams where marketing and sales share one funnel.

4. Close

Built around calling and email, priced per user, with an MCP server split into read, safe-write and destructive-write scopes. Best for: small teams whose day is phone calls.

5. Pipedrive

The classic stage-by-stage pipeline CRM, priced per seat, with its own MCP server. Best for: teams who want deal-stage discipline.

6. Airtable

A flexible database that bills per editor and lists an MCP server. Best for: teams whose real need was Attio's data model, not a sales workflow.

What to check before you switch

Price your team at the size you'll be next year. Attio bills per seat, so each hire adds a line. SalesCrew's $299 Core price covers five people or fifty, because seats are unlimited on every tier.

Map your custom objects. Write down each object and relationship you use in Attio, then match it to a SalesCrew record, custom field or deal stage. Export people, companies and deals as CSV. Contacts go into the Data Bank with column mapping, and deals and companies come across through the MCP tools.

Connect your mailboxes last. SalesCrew connects Gmail, Outlook and cPanel mail over IMAP/SMTP, and the first sync backfills the last 90 days of threads. Migration help is included on every tier, and your 14-day trial runs on your real data.

Questions

What is the best alternative to Attio?: SalesCrew, if you want outbound and the pipeline in one database with no per-seat bill. Core costs $299 a month with unlimited seats, and cadences, suppression and the inbox sit beside your deals. folk and HubSpot are the next picks for relationship-led and inbound-led teams.
How is Attio priced?: Attio sells per-seat plans with a free tier, and record limits rise with each tier, as of September 2026. Current prices are on attio.com/pricing. Your bill grows with each person you add.
Does SalesCrew work with Claude and ChatGPT like Attio does?: Yes. Every action in the SalesCrew app is also an MCP tool, with 140+ tools in total. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any MCP client can connect with a per-user token, and every external send waits in one approval queue by default.
How do I move from Attio to SalesCrew?: Export your people, companies and deals from Attio as CSV. Contacts import into the SalesCrew Data Bank with column mapping, matched on email and never overwritten. Deals and companies come across through the MCP tools, and a standard import completes within 7 business days.
Why is Salesforce not on this list?: Teams leaving Attio rarely move up to an enterprise suite. Salesforce has its own alternatives page if that is the move you're weighing.