For agencies, local businesses and course creators
Know what your software will really cost before you sign up.
The plan price is only the start. We add up the whole monthly bill, with the seats, texts, contacts and add-ons you will actually need, from each vendor's own pricing page, and a script re-reads those pages every Monday.
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Sticker price against the real bill
Each vendor's cheapest paid plan, next to what a small team pays once the plan, seats, usage and add-ons it needs are counted. The basis of each bill is under it.
GoHighLevel
List price from $97/mo (Starter)
Real bill, small team: $125.42/mo
Small team, 3 users, 5,000 contacts, 1,000 texts a month
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Sell · Funnels, courses and email marketing platformSysteme.io
List price from $17/mo (Startup)
Real bill, small team: $47/mo
Small team, $30,000/month in sales, 3 staff accounts
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Run · CRM and marketing automationHubSpot
List price from $20/mo per seat (Marketing Hub Starter)
Real bill, small team: $1,100/mo
Small team, 5,000 contacts with SMS, on Marketing Hub Professional
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Cost guides
The costs a pricing page leaves out, worked through from each vendor's own published rates.
The tools we cover most closely
CRMs, funnel builders, course platforms and email tools. Each card shows the real monthly bill for a small team, sized for the job the tool does.
ActiveCampaign
Email marketing automation with a built-in CRM. Starter/Plus/Pro/Enterprise pricing scales with contact-list size; the public pricing page bills annually only.
Small team: $149/mo · ActiveCampaign score 3.6
ClickFunnels
Funnel, store, course and email platform sold in four tiers priced by workspaces, team seats and contacts, with no percentage-of-sales fee.
Small team: $197/mo · ClickFunnels score 3.6
GoHighLevel
CRM, funnel and website builder, email/SMS marketing and workflows with unlimited users, from $97/mo plus metered texts, calls, email and AI.
Small team: $125.42/mo · GoHighLevel score 3.2
HubSpot
CRM with free tools and paid hubs; Marketing Hub runs from per-seat Starter to Professional, which adds contact tiers and a required onboarding fee.
Small team: $1,100/mo · HubSpot score 3.3
Kajabi
Course, coaching, community, email and checkout platform priced as three contact-tiered plans (Basic/Growth/Pro) with 0% revenue share and built-in payments.
Small team: $249/mo · Kajabi score 3.5
Pipedrive
Sales-pipeline CRM billed per seat across four plans, with paid add-ons for lead capture, email marketing, web-visitor ID, projects and e-signatures.
Small team: $189/mo · Pipedrive score 3.4
Systeme.io
Sales funnels, email marketing, online courses, communities and a store in one account, with 0% transaction fees and a free plan for up to 2,000 contacts.
Small team: $47/mo · Systeme.io score 3.9
Zoho CRM
Per-user CRM billed flat across five editions (Free through Ultimate); every paid edition costs 20-34% less per seat when billed annually instead of month-to-month.
Small team: $150/mo · Zoho CRM score 3.5
Head-to-head comparisons
Latest price changes
- WooCommerce: Smart Coupons by StoreApps, one of the ten WooCommerce Essentials extensions, now costs $99 a year per site, down from $129. The Essentials bundle stays at $753 a year, so buying its eight paid extensions separately now totals $843 and the bundle saves $90.
- Klaviyo: Social Marketing's 25% introductory discount, advertised through 30 September 2026, has ended: it now costs $50 a month at its smallest tier (up to 10,000 active profiles), up from $38. Customer Hub stayed at $20 a month for up to 10,000 profiles, now shown with no discount and no $30 list price.
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CinchStack's editor, Rohail Nisar, sets up CRMs, moves contacts, builds automations and AI assistants for small businesses, at the same price whichever tool you choose. Packages start at $200, after a free 30-minute call. It is separate from our reviews.
How we check a price
We open the vendor's pricing page, save a copy of what it says, and record each plan, add-on and usage fee with the date. Every monthly bill on this site is worked out from those records for a stated team size, so you can see exactly what is counted. A script re-reads the pages every Monday, and any change is logged publicly. Read the full method.
Some links on this site may earn us a commission. Commissions are kept out of how prices are recorded, how scores are set and how picks are chosen: a tool that pays us gets the lower of its two AI scores, its paid links are labeled, and on alternatives pages it appears beside the highest-scored option, never ahead of it. Every program we have joined is listed here.