Why does this page not list Pipedrive's price?

Because we could not verify it from Pipedrive's own site. Every pricing URL we tried returned a 403 to an automated request, and Pipedrive's own help articles deliberately omit figures. Rather than copy a number from a review site that may be stale or wrong, this page leaves it out and says why. Open the pricing page in a browser and read it yourself before comparing.

What are Pipedrive's current plans called?

Its own knowledge base confirms the plan names are Lite, Growth, Premium and Ultimate. That rename is worth knowing about, because a good deal of third-party comparison content still refers to the older Essential, Advanced, Professional and Enterprise ladder and maps prices to tiers that no longer exist under those names.

Does Pipedrive support AI assistants?

Yes. Pipedrive launched a native MCP server in June 2026 and it has been in Claude's official connector marketplace since August 2026. That means an AI client can read and act on your Pipedrive data without a custom integration, which is now common across this category rather than unusual.

What is the usual reason for leaving Pipedrive?

Two, in our reading of what people ask about. Either the team needs marketing, forms and attribution beside the pipeline, which Pipedrive keeps deliberately light, or it needs outbound sending at volume, which is a different product category entirely and not something a pipeline CRM should be expected to do.

Pipedrive alternatives

Six CRMs a pipeline-first team actually considers, priced from each vendor's own page, with an honest note about the one price we could not verify.

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Pipeline with weighted forecast and stage breakdown

Switch if you need marketing and forms beside the pipeline, or outbound sending in the same system as the deals. Stay if a clean deal board is the whole requirement, which is precisely what Pipedrive is built to be.

The short answer

We could not verify Pipedrive's current pricing from its own site: every pricing URL returns a 403 to automated requests. Its plan names are confirmed as Lite, Growth, Premium and Ultimate. Check the number in a browser before you compare anything.
Pipedrive ships a native MCP server, live since June 2026 and listed in Claude's connector marketplace since August. On the AI-access question it is ahead of most of this field, not behind.
The alternatives split cleanly. Cheaper and narrower (Close), broader with marketing (HubSpot, Zoho), or a different architecture where outbound and pipeline share one database. Pick by which of those three describes your actual problem.

How we compared these

Every figure in the table comes from the vendor's own pricing page, checked in September 2026, and nothing comes from a review site or comparison directory. Two cells are deliberately empty of numbers: Pipedrive, for the 403 reason above, and Zoho CRM, whose own pricing page served rupees rather than dollars when we checked it. Guessing either would be worse than leaving the gap visible.

Evaluated from Pipedrive's own documentation and pricing, September 2026. We have not run it in production. This page is built on what its site and knowledge base state, not on experience of using it, and the sections below are written to that limit.

The comparison is organised around seat cost, record ceilings and AI access, because those are the three that change over time and the three most third-party content gets wrong. Deal-management features are broadly comparable across this whole category, and a table of them would separate nobody.

Pipedrive and its alternatives, compared

	Pipedrive	HubSpot	Close	Attio	Zoho CRM	Monday CRM	SalesCrew
Entry paid price	Not published to automated checks; every pricing URL returns 403	$20 per seat/mo annual, $7 monthly	Solo $9 per user/mo annual, $19 monthly	Plus $35 per seat/mo annual, $44 monthly	Its own page serves rupees only; no dollar figure confirmable	Basic $12 per seat/mo annual, 3-seat minimum	$299/mo flat, unlimited seats
Plan names	Lite, Growth, Premium, Ultimate	Starter, and tiers above	Solo, and tiers above	Free, Plus, Pro	Standard, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate	Basic, Standard, Pro	Core, Local, Outbound, Agency
Record ceiling on entry	Not published to automated checks	Free tier 1,000 contacts	10,000 leads; contacts unlimited	250,000 records on Plus	Not confirmable in dollars	1,000 contacts and deals	Your own Postgres project. No vendor row cap
Cost of the eleventh user	Another seat	Another seat	Another user	Another seat; Plus caps at 10	Another user	Another seat	Nothing
Marketing and forms	Light	Yes, its main strength	No, by design	No	Yes, across the wider suite	Via the wider Monday platform	Marketing collectors and channel economics on Agency
Outbound cadences on your own mailboxes	Not confirmable	Sequences, not on purchased lists	Yes, with calling	No	Yes	Not on Basic	Yes, with per-account and per-domain daily caps
Official MCP server	Yes, native since June 2026	Yes, read and write	Yes, three permission scopes	Yes, hosted with OAuth	Yes, four servers	Yes, two servers	Yes. Every UI action has an MCP twin

Figures checked on vendor pricing pages, September 2026.

The field, ranked for a team leaving Pipedrive

1. HubSpot

The move when the reason is marketing. $20 a seat annually, a permanent free tier for two users, and forms, email and attribution designed alongside the deal record rather than bolted to it. Best for: teams whose next constraint is inbound. Not for: cold outbound, which its acceptable-use policy restricts.

2. Close

Cheaper and narrower: $9 a user annually with calling built in and the best-scoped MCP server in this group. Best for: teams who want less product, not more. Not for: large lists, since Solo caps at 10,000 leads.

3. Attio

The flexible-data-model option at $35 a seat annually, with 250,000 records on Plus and a free tier holding 50,000. Best for: teams whose business does not fit a standard deal object. Not for: teams heading past ten seats on Plus.

4. SalesCrew

A different architecture rather than a better deal board: pipeline, inbox, data bank and cadences in one Postgres project you own, unlimited seats at one flat price, and every action available to an AI client behind an approval queue. Best for: teams maintaining a sync between a CRM and a sending tool. Not for: small teams happy with a pipeline, where the per-seat tools are far cheaper. New product, no third-party reviews, no mobile app, fewer native integrations. Disclosure: SalesCrew is our product.

5. Zoho CRM

The broadest suite at the lowest end of the market, with four MCP servers and a free edition for three users. Its pricing page served rupees when we checked, so confirm your own currency first. Best for: cost-driven teams wanting breadth. Not for: teams who want less to configure.

6. Monday CRM

$12 a seat annually with a three-seat minimum and 1,000 contacts on Basic, so the practical entry is $36 a month with a tight ceiling. Best for: teams already running Monday. Not for: anyone who will pass a thousand records this year.

When to stay on Pipedrive

Stay if the deal board is the product you wanted. Pipedrive has spent years making one thing clear and fast: where every deal is, what stage it sits in, and what happens next. Broader platforms bury that view under marketing modules and configuration screens, and teams who switch for breadth often report that the thing they used every day got worse.

Stay because reps actually use it. Pipedrive's adoption is high for a reason that is easy to dismiss and hard to replicate: it asks for little and shows a lot. A CRM with more features and less use produces worse data than a simple one that gets updated, and data quality is what every downstream report depends on.

Stay because it is not behind on AI access. A native MCP server since June 2026, listed in Claude's connector marketplace, means an assistant can read and act on your pipeline without a custom build. If AI operability was your reason for shopping around, that reason may already be satisfied where you are.

Questions

Why does this page not list Pipedrive's price?: Because we could not verify it from Pipedrive's own site. Every pricing URL we tried returned a 403 to an automated request, and Pipedrive's own help articles deliberately omit figures. Rather than copy a number from a review site that may be stale or wrong, this page leaves it out and says why. Open the pricing page in a browser and read it yourself before comparing.
What are Pipedrive's current plans called?: Its own knowledge base confirms the plan names are Lite, Growth, Premium and Ultimate. That rename is worth knowing about, because a good deal of third-party comparison content still refers to the older Essential, Advanced, Professional and Enterprise ladder and maps prices to tiers that no longer exist under those names.
Does Pipedrive support AI assistants?: Yes. Pipedrive launched a native MCP server in June 2026 and it has been in Claude's official connector marketplace since August 2026. That means an AI client can read and act on your Pipedrive data without a custom integration, which is now common across this category rather than unusual.
What is the usual reason for leaving Pipedrive?: Two, in our reading of what people ask about. Either the team needs marketing, forms and attribution beside the pipeline, which Pipedrive keeps deliberately light, or it needs outbound sending at volume, which is a different product category entirely and not something a pipeline CRM should be expected to do.