What is a good alternative to Freshsales?

HubSpot, Zoho CRM, Close and Attio are the usual per-user picks. If you want to stop paying per user, SalesCrew charges one price per instance with unlimited seats, and Core is $299 a month with cadences, a shared inbox and an MCP server.

How is Freshsales priced?

Freshsales charges per user per month across its Growth, Pro and Enterprise plans, with a discount for annual billing. Sales sequences start on Pro, and the Freddy AI Agent is a paid add-on sold by sessions, per freshworks.com/crm/pricing in September 2026.

Which Freshsales alternative includes email sequences on the entry plan?

SalesCrew includes multi-step cadences on Core, its entry tier, at $299 a month. Cadences send from your own mailbox pool, and suppression is applied at audience freeze and checked again at send.

How do I migrate from Freshsales to SalesCrew?

Export contacts, accounts and deals from Freshsales to CSV. SalesCrew brings contacts, companies, deals, notes and tasks across, matching contacts on email and never overwriting them. Migration help is included on every tier, and a standard import completes within 7 business days.

Freshsales alternatives

Four per-user CRMs ranked, plus our pick for teams done paying per seat: SalesCrew at $299 a month with unlimited seats.

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Teams leaving Freshsales usually compare HubSpot, Zoho CRM, Close and Attio, all priced per user. SalesCrew is the pick outside that model: one price of $299 a month for the whole team, with cadences on the entry tier and every AI send waiting for approval.

The short answer

Freshsales prices per user across Growth, Pro and Enterprise. Sequences start on Pro and the Freddy AI Agent is a paid add-on (freshworks.com/crm/pricing, September 2026).
HubSpot and Zoho CRM both start with a free tier for a small team, then charge per user.
Close includes calling, email and SMS on every plan. Attio has a free plan and puts sequences on Pro.
SalesCrew charges per instance, not per user. Core is $299 a month, and Outbound at $699 adds the Campaign and LinkedIn agents.

How we ranked the field

Every fact below was read on the vendor's own pricing page in September 2026. Review aggregators were left out.

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

Freshsales buyers usually care about three things: the per-user bill, where sequences start, and whether phone is built in. The ranked list scores the per-user CRMs on those. SalesCrew sits outside the list because it isn't priced per user at all, so the same scale doesn't fit.

Freshsales and five alternatives

From each vendor's own pricing page.

Tool	How you pay	Free entry	Sequences	Phone and messaging
Freshsales	Per user, three paid plans	Free trial	Pro and up	Chat, email and phone from Growth
HubSpot	Per seat on paid plans	Free tier for a small team	Basic on free; more on paid plans	Email sends with daily limits per user
Zoho CRM	Per user, several editions	Free edition for a small team	Listed per edition on zoho.com	Part of the wider Zoho suite
Close	Per user, plus usage for calls	Free trial, no card	Workflows on Growth and up	Calling, email and SMS on every plan
Attio	Per seat	Free plan	Pro and up	Email and calendar sync
SalesCrew (our product)	One price per instance, unlimited seats	14-day trial, card required	Multi-step cadences on Core	Mailbox pool, shared inbox, LinkedIn queue

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

The per-user alternatives, ranked

1. HubSpot

A free tier to start, then per-seat Sales Hub plans with sequences and HubSpot Credits for AI agents. Best for: teams that want marketing and sales in one suite.

2. Close

Per-user plans with calling, email and SMS included everywhere, AI credits each month and a free trial with no card. Best for: inside sales teams on the phone all day.

3. Zoho CRM

A free edition for a small team, then per-user editions inside the Zoho suite. Best for: businesses already running other Zoho apps.

4. Attio

Per-seat plans with a free plan, a flexible data model and sequences from Pro. Best for: teams that want to shape their own objects.

Our pick: SalesCrew, if you're done paying per seat

Disclosure: SalesCrew is our product. It charges one price per instance with unlimited seats, from $299 a month. Cadences, a shared inbox, the Data Bank and 140+ MCP tools come on Core, and every AI-written send waits in one approval queue. See the pricing page for every tier.

What to check before you switch

Count the people who need a login a year from now, then price each option at that number. Per-user bills climb with every hire, so the gap between plans grows as you do.

List your sequences and the plan they need. On Freshsales they start on Pro, so note which reps run them today. In SalesCrew, every rep can run cadences on Core.

Then move the data. SalesCrew imports contacts, companies, deals, notes and tasks from a CSV export. Connect each mailbox over IMAP and the first sync backfills 90 days of email threads.

Questions

What is a good alternative to Freshsales?: HubSpot, Zoho CRM, Close and Attio are the usual per-user picks. If you want to stop paying per user, SalesCrew charges one price per instance with unlimited seats, and Core is $299 a month with cadences, a shared inbox and an MCP server.
How is Freshsales priced?: Freshsales charges per user per month across its Growth, Pro and Enterprise plans, with a discount for annual billing. Sales sequences start on Pro, and the Freddy AI Agent is a paid add-on sold by sessions, per freshworks.com/crm/pricing in September 2026.
Which Freshsales alternative includes email sequences on the entry plan?: SalesCrew includes multi-step cadences on Core, its entry tier, at $299 a month. Cadences send from your own mailbox pool, and suppression is applied at audience freeze and checked again at send.
How do I migrate from Freshsales to SalesCrew?: Export contacts, accounts and deals from Freshsales to CSV. SalesCrew brings contacts, companies, deals, notes and tasks across, matching contacts on email and never overwriting them. Migration help is included on every tier, and a standard import completes within 7 business days.