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Freshsales vs Pipedrive

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 7 November 2026.

Compared on
Freshsales

Free trial · from $9/user/mo

Pipedrive

Free trial · from $14/seat/mo

What it isSales CRM from Freshworks with three paid plans and a 21-day trialPipeline-based sales CRM for tracking leads and deals
Free planNoNo
Cheapest paid plan$9/user/mo billed annually (Growth)Freshsales pricing$14/seat/mo billed annually (Lite)Pipedrive pricing
What it coversBilled annually; monthly figures were not visible on the page.Annual option is one payment of US$168 per seat per year.
Free trial21-day trial with full CRM access; afterwards a plan must be paid by credit card or the account is suspended14-day free trial, no credit card required
PlatformsWebWeb, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)Not stated500+ integrations
Open sourceNoNo
Good for
  • Small sales teams that want an entry price under $10 a seat
  • Teams already using other Freshworks products
  • Tracking a small team's deals from first contact to close
  • Automating follow-up emails and activity reminders
  • Forecasting revenue from the sales pipeline
Watch out for
  • Growth has only basic workflows
  • Branded documents ($19/user/month) and the AI agent ($49 per 100 sessions) cost extra
  • No free plan among the three listed plans
  • No free plan; a 14-day free trial is offered
  • Lite has no automations, sequences or two-way email sync
  • Leads and deals are capped per seat (Lite: 2,500 per seat, up to 300,000 per company)
Made byFreshworks Inc.Pipedrive Inc.

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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