What are Copper's contact limits?

Basic is listed at $23 per seat per month billed annually, or $29 monthly, and caps at 2,500 contacts and 25 companies, as of September 2026. Professional raises the contact ceiling to 15,000. Those company limits on Basic are unusually tight and are the thing most likely to force a tier move early.

Does Copper have an MCP server?

No. Copper offers Copper GPT, a read-only ChatGPT application available on its Professional and Business tiers, which cannot create, edit or delete records. There is no Model Context Protocol server on its site. In a field where nine of the eleven CRMs we checked ship one, that is a real gap rather than a minor omission.

Is Copper still the best CRM for Google Workspace?

It is the one built most deliberately around it, living inside Gmail and Google Calendar rather than syncing with them. Whether that beats a general CRM with a good Gmail integration depends on how much of your selling actually happens in the inbox. If the answer is most of it, Copper's design is doing something the others are not.

What usually triggers a move off Copper?

The 2,500-contact ceiling arriving sooner than expected, or a team deciding they want an AI assistant able to write to the CRM. The first is a tier problem with a price attached. The second is not solvable within Copper today.

Copper CRM alternatives

Copper lives inside Google Workspace, caps Basic at 2,500 contacts, and ships no MCP server. Six alternatives compared on ceilings and AI access.

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Switch if you want an AI assistant that can write to your CRM, or if 2,500 contacts and 25 companies is a ceiling you can see from here. Stay if your selling genuinely happens inside Gmail, because nothing else is built that way.

The short answer

Copper Basic is $23 per seat per month billed annually and caps at 2,500 contacts and 25 companies. That 25-company limit is the tightest entry-tier constraint in this whole comparison.
Copper ships no MCP server. It offers a read-only ChatGPT application on Professional and Business, which cannot create, edit or delete records. Nine of the eleven CRMs we checked publish a proper MCP server.
Its real strength is genuine and narrow: it lives inside Gmail and Google Calendar rather than syncing with them. If your team sells from the inbox, that is a different experience from an integration.

How we compared these

Prices, ceilings and AI-access details come from each vendor's own site, checked in September 2026, including Copper's own pages describing Copper GPT and its read-only scope. Nothing here comes from a review site. Two cells carry no figure: Pipedrive's pricing pages return a 403 to automated requests and Zoho's serve rupees rather than dollars.

Evaluated from Copper's own documentation and pricing, September 2026. We have not run it in production. The limits and the MCP position below are checkable against its site; there is no account of daily use here.

The table is organised around ceilings and AI access rather than features, because those are the two axes where this decision is actually made. On day-to-day contact and deal management, everything in this comparison is adequate.

Copper and its alternatives, compared

	Copper	Streak	HubSpot	Attio	folk	Close	SalesCrew
Entry paid price	Basic $23 per seat/mo annual, $29 monthly	Pro $49 per user/mo monthly	$20 per seat/mo annual, $7 monthly	Plus $35 per seat/mo annual, $44 monthly	Standard $24 per member/mo annual, $30 monthly	Solo $9 per user/mo annual, $19 monthly	$299/mo flat, unlimited seats
Record ceiling on entry	2,500 contacts and 25 companies	No stated record cap on paid plans	Free tier 1,000 contacts; Starter not stated	250,000 records on Plus	No stated cap; quotas on messages and enrichment	10,000 leads; contacts unlimited	Your own Postgres project. No vendor row cap
Lives inside Gmail	Yes, by design	Yes, entirely	Via integration	No	Syncs one account per member	No	No. Multi-mailbox inbox inside the CRM
Official MCP server	No. Read-only ChatGPT app on Professional and Business	Yes, free on all tiers	Yes, read and write	Yes, hosted with OAuth	Yes, hosted with OAuth	Yes, three permission scopes	Yes. Every UI action has an MCP twin
Can an AI write to it	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes, with scoped permissions	Yes, behind an approval queue you control
Outbound cadences	No	Mail merge, 50/day on the free tier	Sequences, not on purchased lists	No	Message quotas per member	Yes, with calling	Yes, with suppression enforced at freeze and at send
Free tier	No. Trial with no card	Yes, email tools only	Yes, 2 users, 1,000 contacts	Yes, 3 seats, 50,000 records	No. 2-week trial, no card	No. 14-day trial, no card	No. 14-day trial, card required

Figures checked on vendor pricing pages, September 2026.

The field, ranked for a team leaving Copper

1. HubSpot

The broadest replacement and cheaper per seat at $20 annually, with a free tier for two users, a solid Gmail integration and an MCP server with read and write access. Best for: teams who want the Google connection without the ceiling. Not for: cold outbound, which its acceptable-use policy restricts.

2. Streak

The most direct answer if living in Gmail was the point: Streak is a CRM inside the inbox rather than beside it, and it gives its MCP server away free on every tier including the free one. Best for: teams who want Copper's premise done more thoroughly. Not for: anyone who wants a system that works outside Gmail.

3. Attio

250,000 records on Plus against Copper's 2,500, a free tier holding 50,000, and a hosted MCP server with OAuth. Best for: teams leaving because of the ceiling. Not for: teams over ten seats on Plus, and it has no Gmail-native experience.

4. Close

$9 a user annually with 10,000 leads, calling built in, and the best-scoped MCP server in this group. Best for: small teams who spend the day contacting people rather than filing them. Not for: Google-centric workflows.

5. SalesCrew

Unlimited seats at one flat price, your own Postgres project with no vendor row cap, a multi-mailbox inbox rather than a Gmail plug-in, and every action available to an AI client behind an approval queue you control. Best for: teams leaving specifically because an AI cannot write to Copper. Not for: small teams, where $299 against $23 a seat is hard to justify, and not for anyone whose workflow is genuinely Gmail-native. New product, no third-party reviews, no mobile app. Disclosure: SalesCrew is our product.

6. folk

$24 a member annually with no seat cap and no record ceiling, syncing one mail account per member. Best for: relationship-led teams who want something light. Not for: high-volume sending, given the per-member message quotas.

When to stay on Copper

Stay if your team genuinely sells from Gmail. Copper is built into Google Workspace rather than connected to it, which means the CRM appears where the work already happens instead of asking people to leave the inbox and go update something. That difference sounds small and it decides whether a CRM gets used, which decides whether its data is any good.

Stay if your book of business is small and stable. Twenty-five companies on Basic is a hard limit, but plenty of teams sell to a handful of large accounts and will never test it. Copper is also mature and stable in a way several newer entries on this page are not, ours included, and reliability in the tool your reps open every hour is worth real money.

Stay if AI operability is not on your list. The missing MCP server is the sharpest criticism here and it is entirely irrelevant if nobody at your company intends to point Claude or ChatGPT at the CRM. Copper GPT gives you read-only questions on the upper tiers, which for many teams is the whole of what they actually wanted.

Questions

What are Copper's contact limits?: Basic is listed at $23 per seat per month billed annually, or $29 monthly, and caps at 2,500 contacts and 25 companies, as of September 2026. Professional raises the contact ceiling to 15,000. Those company limits on Basic are unusually tight and are the thing most likely to force a tier move early.
Does Copper have an MCP server?: No. Copper offers Copper GPT, a read-only ChatGPT application available on its Professional and Business tiers, which cannot create, edit or delete records. There is no Model Context Protocol server on its site. In a field where nine of the eleven CRMs we checked ship one, that is a real gap rather than a minor omission.
Is Copper still the best CRM for Google Workspace?: It is the one built most deliberately around it, living inside Gmail and Google Calendar rather than syncing with them. Whether that beats a general CRM with a good Gmail integration depends on how much of your selling actually happens in the inbox. If the answer is most of it, Copper's design is doing something the others are not.
What usually triggers a move off Copper?: The 2,500-contact ceiling arriving sooner than expected, or a team deciding they want an AI assistant able to write to the CRM. The first is a tier problem with a price attached. The second is not solvable within Copper today.