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Nutshell 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
Nutshell

Free trial · from $13/user/mo

Pipedrive

Free trial · from $14/seat/mo

What it isSmall-business CRM with five tiers and AI outcome allowancesPipeline-based sales CRM for tracking leads and deals
Free planNoNo
Cheapest paid plan$13/user/mo (Foundation)Nutshell pricing$14/seat/mo billed annually (Lite)Pipedrive pricing
What it coversLimited to 100 open leads; annual price not confirmed.Annual option is one payment of US$168 per seat per year.
Free trial14-day free trial, no credit card required14-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 businesses that want a mid-priced CRM with built-in forms
  • Teams that want to add marketing tools later
  • 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
  • Foundation limits open leads to 100
  • Marketing ($49/month), engagement ($16/user/month) and proposals ($79/month) are paid add-ons
  • Annual per-user prices are unclear
  • 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 byNutshell, 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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