Close vs OnePageCRM
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentOnePageCRM compared with Close
Close builds the CRM around the phone, with a power dialer, native calling and SMS, and call recording in the seat price at a much higher cost per user. OnePageCRM has no native dialer and costs a fraction as much. If your team makes dozens of dials a day, Close pays for itself; if selling happens over email and meetings with follow-up as the failure point, OnePageCRM is the better-shaped tool.
Choose Close if
SMB inside sales teams (2 to 50 reps) that live on the phone and follow up across calls, email, and SMS: lending, insurance, home services, logistics, agencies, and any high-velocity B2B or B2C motion where speed-to-lead and volume of conversations decide revenue.
Choose OnePageCRM if
Small B2B sales teams of one to about twenty people who sell through conversations and follow-up rather than through marketing funnels, and who need a CRM that tells them who to contact today instead of asking them to maintain records.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Close | OnePageCRM |
|---|---|---|
| Category | CRM | CRM |
| Starting price | $9/user/mo (Solo, billed annually; $19 monthly) (14 days trial) | $8.95 per user per month on annual billing (Professional) (free trial) |
| Pricing model | Per-seat subscription across four tiers with steep annual discounts, plus usage-based billing for calling minutes, phone numbers, SMS, and enrichment, and metered AI credits for Chloe and AI features. | Per-seat subscription on three tiers, billed monthly or annually, with unlimited contacts on every plan and email, automation, and pipeline features gated by tier. |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | 14 days, no credit card required, with $5 of calling and enrichment credit included; 30-day money-back guarantee after purchase | Free trial on all plans with no credit card required up front |
| Best for | SMB inside sales teams (2 to 50 reps) that live on the phone and follow up across calls, email, and SMS: lending, insurance, home services, logistics, agencies, and any high-velocity B2B or B2C motion where speed-to-lead and volume of conversations decide revenue. | Small B2B sales teams of one to about twenty people who sell through conversations and follow-up rather than through marketing funnels, and who need a CRM that tells them who to contact today instead of asking them to maintain records. |
| Setup time | Days, not weeks: importing leads, connecting email, and provisioning numbers is self-serve, and a small team can be making tracked calls the first afternoon. Porting existing phone numbers and tuning workflows adds a week or two. | Under an hour to a working system: import contacts, define pipeline stages, and assign next actions. The discipline of assigning a next action to every existing contact is the only laborious part of the first day. |
| Learning curve | Low for reps; the interface is opinionated and queue-driven. Managers need modest ramp on Smart View logic, workflow design, and AI-credit governance. | The lowest in this batch. The Action Stream is a to-do list, so reps need one short walkthrough. Administration is light because there is little to configure beyond fields, stages, and sequences. |
| Platforms | Web app, Desktop apps (Mac and Windows), iOS and Android apps, REST API | Web, iOS, Android, Browser extension, Gmail and Outlook add-ins |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR (controller and processor obligations), CCPA | GDPR, EU-based data processing with a published data processing agreement |
| Founded | 2013 | 2010 |
| Headquarters | Fully remote (US-incorporated); no central office | Galway, Ireland |
| Ownership | Bootstrapped, founder-owned, profitable | Founder-led and effectively bootstrapped |
Strengths and limitations
Close
Strengths
- Native calling, SMS, and email in one timeline remains the best-executed communication stack in the SMB CRM category, with power and predictive dialers that genuinely raise rep throughput.
- Smart Views turn the CRM into a prioritized work queue, an operational model built by people who ran sales teams themselves.
- Bootstrapped, profitable, and thirteen years old: no pivot risk, no acquisition-driven roadmap whiplash, and pricing that has to make unit-economic sense.
- Chloe is one of the more concrete AI-agent implementations in the category, doing bounded jobs (qualify, book, summarize, update) inside the existing workflow engine rather than as a demo feature.
Limitations
- The simple schema cuts both ways: no custom objects and limited data-model flexibility make Close a poor fit once a business needs to model more than leads, contacts, and opportunities.
- Real costs stack: seats plus calling minutes plus SMS plus AI credits plus add-ons make the effective per-rep price meaningfully higher than the sticker for heavy users.
- Workflows gated to the $99 Growth tier leaves the two cheaper plans without the automation most buyers now expect at entry level.
- Not a marketing platform: no landing pages, nurture campaigns, or attribution, so marketing-led orgs need a second system.
OnePageCRM
Strengths
- The Next Action mechanic genuinely changes rep behaviour, which is the single hardest thing for a CRM to do and the reason adoption is high.
- Unlimited contacts on every tier including the $8.95 entry plan, so database growth never triggers a forced upgrade.
- Bootstrapped and stable since 2010, with none of the packaging churn that follows private-equity ownership elsewhere in the category.
- A genuinely good mobile experience, including AI business-card scanning, which makes it one of the better options for field sales.
Limitations
- The entry tier is missing email scheduling, open tracking, history fetching, and sequences, which makes the headline price unrepresentative for teams.
- One pipeline until the MAX tier, which is a hard constraint for businesses selling more than one product line.
- No marketing automation, landing pages, or forms beyond basic lead capture, so a marketing-led company needs a second platform.
- The data model is contacts, deals, and pipelines with custom fields, not custom objects, so unusual businesses will hit its edges.
Pricing compared
Close
Per-seat subscription across four tiers with steep annual discounts, plus usage-based billing for calling minutes, phone numbers, SMS, and enrichment, and metered AI credits for Chloe and AI features.
- Solo$9
- Essentials$35
- Growth$99
- Scale$139
Judged as CRM plus dialer plus SMS platform, Close is priced fairly: replacing a generic CRM, an Aircall-style phone system, and an outreach tool with one $99-per-user Growth seat is competitive even before counting the integration work saved. Judged purely as a CRM against Attio's $29 Plus tier or folk's $24 Standard, it looks expensive, which is the point: you are paying for the conversation infrastructure. The value case therefore rises and falls with call volume; teams that dial all day get their money's worth, teams that do not are overpaying for a phone they rarely pick up.
OnePageCRM
Per-seat subscription on three tiers, billed monthly or annually, with unlimited contacts on every plan and email, automation, and pipeline features gated by tier.
- Professional$8.95
- Business$17.95
- MAX$25.95
Business at $17.95 annually is the fair comparison point, and against Pipedrive Growth at $39 or HubSpot Sales Hub Professional at $90 it is very good value for a team whose problem is follow-up discipline rather than process complexity. Professional at $8.95 is excellent for a solo seller and misleading for a team, because email tracking and sequences sit one tier up. What you do not get at any price is marketing automation, custom objects, or native telephony, so compare it against focused CRMs rather than platforms. Judged on the narrow job of making sure nobody is forgotten, the price-to-outcome ratio is among the best here.
Editorial verdict on each
Close
Close is the best CRM you can buy for a team whose revenue scales with conversations: the dialer stack, unified timeline, and queue-driven workflow remain unmatched in the SMB bracket, and thirteen bootstrapped, profitable years mean it will still be here, unpivoted, in five more. Chloe makes the AI story concrete rather than cosmetic, though credits and telephony usage mean the true per-rep cost sits well above the sticker. If your team does not live on the phone, cheaper and more flexible CRMs like Attio will serve better; if it does, Close is the shortlist and probably the answer.
Read the full Close profileOnePageCRM
OnePageCRM has spent fifteen years being good at one thing, and that thing is the thing most small sales teams actually fail at: contacting people when they said they would. The Action Stream is not a gimmick, it is a behavioural design that keeps a database current without a manager enforcing it, and unlimited contacts on every tier plus a four-months-free annual discount make the pricing honest. Buy Business at $17.95 if you are a team, not Professional at $8.95, because tracking and sequences live there. Do not buy it if you need marketing automation, custom objects, a native dialer, or more than one pipeline for under $26 a seat. Within its scope it is one of the most quietly reliable products in this category, and the bootstrapped Galway ownership makes it a low-risk fifteen-year bet.
Read the full OnePageCRM profileClose profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; OnePageCRM last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.