Cut down costs, not features

EngageBay’s Free Plan offers 1,000 branded emails a month at no cost. So you have enough resources to leverage email marketing for growth in those early days.

You also get a landing page.

HubSpot gives you 500 emails per day for free, but these come with HubSpot branding, not yours. Yes, they let you import up to 1 million contacts, but you can only store them. There is no email marketing or ad targeting in HubSpot’s Forever Free plan. This makes EngageBay one of the best Hubspot alternatives.

At EngageBay, we have identified mis-communication between the marketing and sales team as the biggest productivity killer.

We divided the two sections as both teams perform a largely different set of tasks. A combined interface would create more complications and result in a steeper learning curve. At EngageBay, we like to keep things simple!

Though we have different sections for marketing, sales, and customer service, the unified CRM ensures that everyone has access to the same data. This reduces and almost nullifies the effect of mis-communication between the teams.

On top of astronomical prices, HubSpot also charges an onboarding fee; they train you and your team for this fee. Depending on the plan you buy, HubSpot’s onboarding fee could be anywhere 12,000, depending on your plan.

We don’t serve the same set of customers like HubSpot. Our pricing and design are optimized for smaller, younger business that aspire to be million-dollar, multinational corporations one day.

Unlike HubSpot, EngageBay has no mandatory on-boarding fee. If you get stuck anywhere, our support associates are there to help you. No other Hubspot competitor gives you these features. This is one of the reasons why EngageBay is widely regarded as one of the top alternatives to HubSpot.

Even with their $50/month Starter plan, HubSpot’s email marketing features are limited:

• You cannot send more than 5 emails per month to each contact.
• List segmentation is included but its criteria are limited.
• No landing pages, no calls-to-action, no social media integration, no a/b testing, no triggers, no marketing automation in HubSpot $50/month plan. For using any of these functionalities, you will have to invest in extra tools.

On HubSpot, all these functions will cost $800/month paid yearly. There is also a mandatory on-boarding fee of $3000 that you can’t skip. It takes over $15,000 of initial payment to get started - and that’s even before adding the taxes.

You need landing pages, A/B testing, detailed segmentation, and marketing automation to have a growth-enabling ecosystem. It helps your marketing team thrive and achieve or even exceed your marketing goals.

At EngageBay, you can enjoy all these features for just $99.99/month. Your payment goes down even further to just $84.99/month if you purchase a yearly contract. No onboarding fees, no hidden charges, and guaranteed phone support included in this plan.

If you go with Hubspot, you need to pay a one-time mandatory onboarding fee of up to $12,000 in addition to the astronomical plan cost. What’s more, you must commit annually, meaning you have to pay for the whole year even if you decide to stop using the software.

For more advanced features, you need to go for the Professional plan that starts at $1,600 a month. You also need to pay a mandatory onboarding fee of $3,750, bringing the one-year cost to around $23,000 – and that’s before taxes!

In contrast, EngageBay offers:

• All the features of each plan along with onboarding sessions and email/chat support at no additional cost.
• Affordable plans for growing businesses. Our Pro plan costs less than $100 a month. You also get a 15% discount on annual subscriptions, bringing the cost down to $84.99 a month.

In a nutshell, Hubspot’s one-month cost is more expensive than EngageBay’s yearly subscription. You can use the money saved to give your employees a well-deserved bonus!

For more details, check our pricing page.

List creation and management, email sequences,and email support – all these features cost at least $50/month with HubSpot. EngageBay understands the budget constraints for small businesses.

All these features are included in our Basic plan starting from $11.99/month for annual billing and $14.99/month for monthly billing.

Need more features? Our Growth plan offers more features for less than $50 per month. If you need all the features, you can go for the Pro plan, which costs only $99 a month.

Your budget isn’t unlimited, nor is your time. By trying to learn and integrate several other programs or software into your current system, you waste time.

Our founders are owners of startups and small businesses just like you. We understand that money is tight in those early days. We also know how important it is to successfully market your new company. Hubspot’s users are larger establishments and Fortune 500 companies with almost unlimited budgets.

That’s why we’re here. EngageBay is made for small businesses who want all the marketing features of HubSpot but without the hefty price tag.

We have aligned our pricing with budgets of most growing companies. Our most expensive package, the Pro plan costs less than $100 a month. With this plan, you get priority support, account-based marketing, thousands of emails, unlimited web forms, and unlimited contacts.

EngageBay is one of the best HubSpot alternatives for small business.