Alternatives
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.
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.
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.
Copper benchmark: Professional, $472 per month for 8 seats (billed annually). Vendor pricing
| Best for | Free | Compared / seat | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Premier Source record: 15 September 2026 | A small team with a simple pipeline | $7 | $12 | $96 | |
Complete Source record: 7 September 2026 | Relationship-led B2B service firms | $24.17 | $24.17 | $193 | |
Growth Source record: 15 September 2026 Priced in EUR, converted | Simple and neutral | $16.30 | $30.43 | $243 | |
Growth Source record: 15 September 2026 | Leaving the inbox on purpose | $14 | $39 | $312 | |
Pro Source record: 15 September 2026 | Sales teams using Freshworks | $9 | $39 | $312 | |
Premium Source record: 5 October 2026 | Contacts and network first | $24 | $48 | $384 | |
Pro Source record: 15 September 2026 | Pipelines as Gmail labels | $49 | $49 | $392 | |
Pro Source record: 15 September 2026 | Zero manual entry | $29 | $49 | $392 | |
Professional Source record: 12 October 2026 | Sales linked to project delivery | $29 | $49 | $392 | |
Sales Hub Professional Source record: 15 September 2026 Free CRM: up to 2 users and 1,000 contacts | The platform option | $7 | $90 | $720 | |
Business Source record: 15 September 2026 | The closest thing to Copper | n/a | n/a |
8 users, USD, list price, cheapest professional-band plan, pricing source dates 20 July 2026 to 12 October 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.
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.
Recorded from $7 per seat; $96 per month at 8 seats
Zoho's lightweight pipeline CRM, with a free plan for one user and 500 records.
Fits: solo sellers and small teams that want fewer configuration choices than a broad CRM suite.
The drawback: record limits count more than contacts. Check automation, reporting and integrations before growing into a paid plan.
Recorded from $24.17 per seat; $193 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.
Recorded from $16.30 per seat; $243 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.
Recorded from $14 per seat; $312 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.
Recorded from $9 per seat; $312 per month at 8 seats
A sales CRM with email, calling and pipeline management from Freshworks.
Fits: teams that want sales alongside their existing Freshworks tools.
The drawback: AI, automation and reporting vary by tier. Check calling usage and whether you need Freshsales or the broader suite.
Recorded 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.
Recorded from $49 per seat; $392 per month at 8 seats
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.
Recorded 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.
Recorded from $29 per seat; $392 per month at 8 seats
A CRM with relationship links, pipelines and project management.
Fits: service businesses that need to carry sales context into delivery.
The drawback: Marketing and Service are separate products. Compare the CRM plan rather than a bundle headline price.
Recorded 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: required Sales Hub Professional onboarding and separate hub charges. Sales Hub has no seat minimum.
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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.
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.
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 11 CRMs, 10 of them priced on the default basis. Pricing source records span20 July 2026 to 12 October 2026. See the CRM feature comparison for the full method, capability data, and treatment of flat and quote-only plans. Plan bands are our categories and do not guarantee equal features. Taxes, onboarding, usage charges and add-ons are excluded.
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.
Bigin by Zoho CRM, Lumenbase, Capsule, Pipedrive, Freshsales, folk, Streak, Salesflare, Insightly, HubSpot, NetHunt, and other names are trademarks of their respective owners. Lumenbase is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by them. Pricing source records span 20 July 2026 to 12 October 2026; products, pricing, and features change and vary by plan, so verify on each vendor's pricing page before deciding.
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