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    Best Copper CRM alternatives in 2026

    Copper is a CRM that lives in Gmail, which is its whole appeal and its whole limit. This page compares the alternatives for Google Workspace teams on current pricing, with a named read on each.

    Tiago Ferreira
    Tiago F.
    Writer · 2 September 2026
    8
    alternatives to Copper
    $194 to $720
    per month at 8 seats, billed annually
    From $7
    per seat, entry tier
    31 August 2026
    pricing last checked
    On this page

    Why teams leave Copper in 2026

    Living in Gmail means living inside a side panel. It is genuinely convenient for editing a record mid-thread and genuinely cramped for anything else: a pipeline review, a report, a bulk update. Teams grow out of the panel before they grow out of the CRM.

    One vendor, one ecosystem. Copper is Google-shaped by design, so a firm that acquires an Outlook-based team, or gets a client who insists on Microsoft, inherits an awkward problem the product was never meant to solve.

    Reporting is basic against the field. Copper covers the pipeline and the activity view. Questions about revenue per client across years, or about which service line renews, tend to end in an export.

    Price has drifted up over the years while the product stayed roughly where it was, which is what usually starts a review rather than any single missing feature.

    What to check before you switch

    • Whether the whole team is really on Google Workspace, today and next year
    • How much work happens outside the inbox: reviews, reports, bulk edits
    • Whether email and calendar sync is native or an integration you maintain
    • What the reporting has to answer beyond pipeline and activity
    • Whether the client record needs to hold anything after the sale
    • How the data comes out if you leave, including notes on records

    Compare 8 Copper alternatives on price

    Every row on the same billing basis, at the same seat count, from each vendor own professional-band plan. Switch the basis to see how annual commitment changes the total, or use the CRM cost calculator at your own seat count.

    7 of 8 priced
    Best forFreePro / seat
    Lumenbase
    Complete
    $49.17 base, 2 seats included
    		Relationship-led B2B service firms$24.17$24.17$194
    Capsule
    Growth
    		Simple and neutral$14$28$224
    folk
    Premium
    		Contacts and network first$24$48$384
    Pipedrive
    Professional
    		Leaving the inbox on purpose$14$49$392
    Salesflare
    Pro
    		Zero manual entry$29$49$392
    NetHunt
    Business
    		The closest thing to Copper$60$60$480
    HubSpot
    Professional
    		The platform option$7$90$720
    Streak
    Pro
    		Pipelines as Gmail labelsn/an/a

    8 users, USD, list price, cheapest professional-band plan, pricing checked 31 August 2026. A vendor with no published price for that plan on this basis shows “Not published” rather than a price borrowed from a cheaper plan. Verify on the vendor own pricing page.

    The 8 alternatives, one by one

    What each one is, the kind of team it fits, what it costs to start, and the one thing that will annoy you. Cheapest first.

    Lumenbase

    From $24.17 per seat, $194 per month at 8 seats

    Our product. A full-funnel CRM that captures email, meetings, and LinkedIn on its own, ranks who needs attention with a reason attached, and carries a won deal into delivery and invoicing on the same client record.

    Fits: agencies, consultancies, and software firms where clients come back and referrals matter more than lead volume.

    The drawback: we are young. The app marketplace is small next to the platform vendors, and we do not do resource planning.

    Capsule

    From $14 per seat, $224 per month at 8 seats

    A small CRM with contacts, a pipeline, and projects, working equally with Google and Microsoft.

    Fits: teams that want out of the single-ecosystem bet without much migration pain.

    The drawback: light on automation and reporting as the team grows.

    folk

    From $24 per seat, $384 per month at 8 seats

    A contact-first CRM with a LinkedIn extension and shared lists, built for relationship-led work.

    Fits: agencies and consultancies where the network matters more than the pipeline.

    The drawback: shallow deals and reporting, so it runs out of room with several sellers.

    Pipedrive

    From $14 per seat, $392 per month at 8 seats

    A standalone pipeline CRM with solid two-way Gmail sync and a large app marketplace.

    Fits: teams who decided the CRM should be its own place with the inbox connected to it.

    The drawback: nothing after the sale, and the Gmail experience is a sync rather than a home.

    Salesflare

    From $29 per seat, $392 per month at 8 seats

    A CRM that builds its records from email and calendar traffic, with a Gmail sidebar of its own.

    Fits: small teams that liked Copper for the automatic capture more than for the panel.

    The drawback: built for a handful of users. Thin permissions and reporting above that.

    NetHunt

    From $60 per seat, $480 per month at 8 seats

    A CRM built inside Gmail, with a deeper feature set than Copper and the same in-the-inbox model.

    Fits: teams whose only complaint about Copper is depth, not the Gmail approach.

    The drawback: the highest entry seat price in this group, and it inherits the same single-ecosystem limits.

    HubSpot

    From $7 per seat, $720 per month at 8 seats

    One record across marketing, sales, and service, with a good Gmail extension and the largest app ecosystem here.

    Fits: Google Workspace teams whose next constraint is demand generation.

    The drawback: the seat minimum on Sales Hub Professional, and hub pricing that steps up quickly.

    Streak

    Price not published on this basis

    The lightest Gmail CRM: pipelines rendered inside the inbox, with very little to learn.

    Fits: a small team that wants tracking without a second application at all.

    The drawback: it is an inbox tool. Reporting, permissions, and anything team-scale are limited.

    Getting your data out of Copper

    Copper exports people, companies, opportunities, and activities as CSV. Two things to check on a sample before committing: that custom fields came across with their values rather than their internal ids, and that email threads stored against records are represented somewhere, because the thread history is often the reason the CRM was worth having.

    Moving to Lumenbase runs through Portage, which scans the source, maps fields and owners, shows you a preview with record counts, then imports in the background with rollback. It comes with the plan rather than as a paid service.

    How we compared

    Prices come from each vendor's own pricing page, on whichever basis the table is set to: annual-billed or month-to-month. A basis is never calculated from the other, so a vendor publishing only one shows a dash on the other rather than an estimate. The 8-seat column always uses the cheapest plan in a vendor's professional band, and a vendor with no published price for that plan is left blank instead of being quoted from a cheaper tier. This page lists 8 CRMs, 7 of them priced on the default basis. Pricing was refreshed 31 August 2026. See the CRM feature comparison for the full method, capability data, and treatment of flat and quote-only plans.

    Frequently asked questions

    Copper is a trademark of Copper CRM, Inc. Google Workspace and Gmail are trademarks of Google LLC. Lumenbase is independent of the vendors named here.

    Lumenbase, Capsule, folk, Pipedrive, Salesflare, NetHunt, HubSpot, Streak, and other names are trademarks of their respective owners. Lumenbase is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by them. Prices describe the vendors as of 31 August 2026; products, pricing, and features change and vary by plan, so verify on each vendor's pricing page before deciding.

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