Breakcold vs HubSpot

Breakcold

• Agencies, startups and consultants who sell through LinkedIn and messaging apps
• Teams that want Claude or ChatGPT to work on CRM data through MCP
• Small sales teams, since each extra seat adds $10 a month

HubSpot

• Small teams that want to start on a free CRM and add paid tools later
• Companies that want marketing, sales and service working from one customer database
• Startups and nonprofits that qualify for HubSpot's discount programs

Breakcold

• There is no free plan: after a 14-day trial the base plan is $99 a month, which includes only 1 seat and 2 connected accounts.
• AI features, email and phone enrichment and call recording consume tokens; the plan includes 1,500, and usage beyond that is billed as overage.
• The vendor says it is not a LinkedIn automation or lead generation tool; it is meant for nurturing leads and closing deals.
• The vendor's own comparison describes its calling features as basic.

HubSpot

• The free tools stop at 2 users and 1,000 contacts, and free live chat and marketing emails carry HubSpot branding.
• Sales Hub Professional and Enterprise each require a one-time onboarding fee ($1,500 and $3,500) on top of the seat price.
• Paid tiers are split across a Starter bundle, Smart CRM and separate hubs, so the total depends on which products and how many seats you buy.
• The $7 Starter price is a limited-time offer for new customers; the list price shown beside it is $20 per seat a month.

Breakcold

Multichannel inbox

Conversations from LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram, Gmail and Outlook sync automatically into one inbox and onto the matching contact and deal records.

Kanban sales pipelines

Pipelines are Kanban views on the Deals page, and AI can generate the stages. Pipelines, contacts, custom objects and custom fields are unlimited.

MCP server for AI assistants

An MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT and other AI clients read and update records, send inbox messages and create tasks, with granular access to each area.

Data enrichment

Person and company enrichment fills in 50+ data points such as job title and company details and uses no tokens. Finding missing emails and phone numbers draws on tokens.

Meeting recorder

A recorder bot joins calls, then transcribes and summarizes them and stores action items and decisions in the CRM. Pre-meeting briefs pull context from past conversations.

Roles, permissions and workspaces

Roles and permissions can keep a user's personal email and social conversations hidden from teammates. One account can hold several workspaces for different businesses or clients.

HubSpot

Free CRM tools

Contact management, deal pipelines, task and activity tracking, CRM import and reporting dashboards are free for up to 2 users and 1,000 contacts, with no expiry date.

Sales email and meeting tools

Email tracking, templates and a meeting scheduler work inside HubSpot or from the inbox, through a Chrome extension for Gmail and an Office 365 add-in for Outlook.

Workflows and sales automation

Workflows automate follow-ups and record updates. Sales Hub Professional allows up to 300 fully customizable workflows; lower tiers have fewer triggers and actions.

Breeze AI and HubSpot Credits

Breeze Assistant answers questions from CRM data, and agents run on HubSpot Credits. Paid tiers include 500, 3,000 or 5,000 credits a month, and unused credits do not roll over.

Calling and conversation tools

Calls can be placed and logged from the CRM, with a monthly allowance of calling minutes that grows by tier. Sales Hub Professional adds call transcription and playbooks.

Connected hubs and integrations

The CRM shares one customer database with HubSpot's marketing, service, content and data hubs, and HubSpot lists more than 2,000 integrations.

Breakcold

• The Only Plan$79.20

  per month, billed annually at $950.40 ($99 billed monthly)

  1 seat, 2 connected accounts, 3,000 AI CRM actions and unlimited person and company enrichment. Extra seats and accounts are $10 a month each.

HubSpot

• Free Tools$0

  Up to 2 users and 1,000 contacts, with contact management, deal pipelines, live chat and reporting dashboards. No credit card required.

• Starter$20

  per seat / month; new customers from $7, billed annually

  A bundle of the Starter editions of the marketing, sales, service, content and data hubs. Removes HubSpot branding and includes 500 HubSpot Credits.

• Smart CRM Professional$45

  per seat / month, annual commitment ($50 billed monthly)

  CRM-only tier with up to 100 pipelines, 100 custom reports, 75 dashboards and 3,000 HubSpot Credits.

• Smart CRM Enterprise$75

  per seat / month

  CRM-only tier with up to 350 pipelines, 500 custom reports, 200 calculated properties and 5,000 HubSpot Credits.

• Sales Hub Professional$90

  per seat / month, annual commitment ($100 billed monthly)

  Sales Hub only: up to 300 customizable workflows, call transcription and playbooks. A one-time $1,500 onboarding fee is required.

• Sales Hub Enterprise$150

  per seat / month

  Sales Hub only: adds forecasting across team hierarchies and more advanced automation. A one-time $3,500 onboarding fee is required.

Breakcold

• Annual discount

  Save 20% with annual billing, 10% quarterly

  Annual billing costs $950.40 a year, equal to $79.20 a month against $99. Quarterly billing is $267.30 every 3 months, equal to $89.10 a month. Add-on prices are unchanged.

HubSpot

• Other savings

  New-customer Starter offer: from $7 per seat

  For a limited time, new customers pay $7 per seat a month billed annually, or $10 billed monthly, instead of the $20 list price for Starter. HubSpot gives no end date.

• Annual discount

  Lower seat price with an annual commitment

  Sales Hub Professional is $90 per seat a month on an annual commitment versus $100 paid monthly. Smart CRM Professional is $45 versus $50.

• Startups

  HubSpot for Startups: up to 90% off

  Startups with pre-seed to Series A funding can get 90% off in year one, 50% in year two and 25% in year three. Others tied to an approved partner get 30%, then 15%. Professional and Enterprise products only.

• Nonprofit

  40% off for eligible nonprofits

  New customers registered as nonprofits in North America, Australia or New Zealand get 40% off Professional and Enterprise products on a one-year contract. Starter is excluded.