Heybase vs Trumpet
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
Both sides assessedHeybase compared with Trumpet
This comparison is only worth stating because Heybase license holders keep asking where to go. Trumpet is everything Heybase was not: a funded, roughly forty-person London company shipping monthly, with a widget library of 70 plus blocks, per-viewer analytics, mutual action plans, native e-signature from the Scale tier, and real HubSpot and Salesforce sync. Its free plan (unlimited users, 10 Pods) covers most of what a Heybase lifetime license actually delivered, at the same price of nothing. The trade is per-seat cost as you grow: $45 rising quickly to $100 per user against a one-time $69 to $179 that no longer buys anything. For any small business choosing today, Trumpet is the serious option and Heybase is not an option at all; the only people with a real decision are existing Heybase license holders, and for them the free Trumpet tier is the natural landing spot to test before paying.
Trumpet compared with Heybase
Heybase was the budget end of this category, a bootstrapped room builder sold through $69 to $179 AppSumo lifetime deals, and as of 2026 it is effectively gone: its marketing site returns a 404 on every page, support has been unresponsive by consistent user report since mid-2025, and no official statement exists. There is no live purchasing decision here. For former Heybase users, Trumpet's free plan (unlimited users, 10 Pods, mutual action plans included) covers most of what the lifetime license actually delivered, on a funded company that ships monthly, with the trade-off that growing past it means real per-seat money at $45 and then $100. The episode is also the argument for weighting vendor durability in this category: a deal room holds live pipeline, and Trumpet's forty-person, venture-backed footing is part of what you are paying for.
Choose Heybase if
Nobody today. Historically it fit solo founders, consultants, and micro sales teams who wanted a personalized deal microsite with engagement tracking for a one-time price instead of a per-seat subscription, and who could tolerate rough edges in exchange for that price.
Choose Trumpet if
B2B sales and customer success teams of roughly five to fifty reps running multi-stakeholder deals over weeks rather than days, who want one shared, tracked space per deal and are already on HubSpot or Salesforce.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Heybase | Trumpet |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Sales Rooms | Sales Rooms |
| Starting price | Not purchasable as of August 2026; historically $69 one-time on AppSumo, with third-party listings citing subscriptions from $19 to $29 per month (free plan available) | Free for up to 10 Pods; paid plans from $45 per user per month (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Historically a hybrid: AppSumo lifetime deals ($69 for tier 1, up to $179 for tier 2 and 3 licenses) carried most distribution, alongside a subscription with a 14-day free trial. From at least November 2024 the public pricing page listed four tiers (Essential, Growth, Advance, Enterprise) with no prices shown, all behind Talk to sales. As of August 2026 no pricing page exists at all, the AppSumo deal is marked sold out, and there is no published way to buy the product. | Per user, per month, billed monthly or annually, with annual paid up front at ten times the monthly rate (roughly two months free). A permanently free plan is capped at 10 Pods per account. Capability, not volume, is the axis: e-signature, proposals, and video recording start at Scale, and the AI Copilot plus SSO and SCIM start at Elite. |
| Free plan | Third-party listings (GetApp) reported a free version existed, but the vendor's own archived pricing page never described one, and no plan of any kind can be signed up for today | Unlimited users, 10 Pods per account, mutual action plans, basic analytics, version control, and the integration library |
| Free trial | 14 days on paid plans, per the vendor's own FAQ while the site was live; not currently obtainable | No fixed-length public trial is advertised; the free plan (no card required) serves that purpose, with demos arranged for paid tiers |
| Best for | Nobody today. Historically it fit solo founders, consultants, and micro sales teams who wanted a personalized deal microsite with engagement tracking for a one-time price instead of a per-seat subscription, and who could tolerate rough edges in exchange for that price. | B2B sales and customer success teams of roughly five to fifty reps running multi-stakeholder deals over weeks rather than days, who want one shared, tracked space per deal and are already on HubSpot or Salesforce. |
| Setup time | Not applicable for new buyers, since no signup path exists. Historically, first room live in about 15 minutes by user report, with template setup for a small team taking an afternoon. | A first Pod takes under an hour. A team rollout takes one to two weeks: connecting the CRM, building three or four templates per motion, uploading the content library, and agreeing which widgets are mandatory. The templates are the real work, and skipping them is the most common reason a rollout stalls. |
| Learning curve | Low. The drag-and-drop editor was the product's best-reviewed quality and required no training; the ceiling was equally low, since there was no admin, governance, or analytics layer to master. | Low for reps who only fill in a template, moderate for whoever owns the templates and the content library. The widget library is broad enough that discovering what exists takes longer than learning to use any single piece. |
| Platforms | Web application (app.heybase.io), Mobile-responsive buyer view; third-party catalogs also listed Android and iOS access | Web application, Chrome extension, Gmail and Outlook plugins, Mobile-responsive buyer view |
| Compliance | GDPR, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 | |
| Founded | 2022 | 2021 |
| Headquarters | Presented as Austin, Texas in its AppSumo listing, with the founding team based in Pune, India; the company never published a formal HQ page | London, United Kingdom |
| Ownership | Bootstrapped and independent; no acquisition, funding, or dissolution has been announced | Independent, venture-backed |
Strengths and limitations
Heybase
Strengths
- Fast, genuinely easy room building: the drag-and-drop editor and premade blocks were the most consistently praised part of the product across AppSumo (4.2 average over 138 reviews) and G2 (4.6) while it was maintained.
- Magic-link access with unlimited free external collaborators, so buyer-side adoption never depended on signups or per-guest fees.
- Session replays on buyer visits, a level of engagement detail some far more expensive rivals do not expose.
- Video narration built in, covering the asynchronous walkthrough use case without a separate Loom subscription.
Limitations
- The product is effectively dead. Every page of heybase.io returned HTTP 404 when SaaSTracker checked on 31 August 2026, the vendor community's most visible 2025 thread is titled Heybase is closing down, and AppSumo reviews from June 2025 through February 2026 uniformly report vanished support. No official statement exists either way, which is itself the most damning fact.
- No official shutdown, refund, or data-export communication has been published, leaving thousands of lifetime license holders in limbo with content inside app.heybase.io.
- Disclosure was always thin: no published team page beyond the founders, no funding or customer numbers beyond an unverifiable 10k+ users claim, no security certifications, and from late 2024 not even prices.
- Even at its best, the feature set was shallow next to category leaders: no mutual action plans, no native e-signature workflow (contracts were embeds), no HubSpot two-way sync, and CRM integration gated to the upper tiers.
Trumpet
Strengths
- The widget library is deep and the editor is fast, which is why customization is the most praised thing in user reviews of the product.
- Per-viewer engagement data with new stakeholder detection answers the question a rep actually has: who else is looking, and are they serious.
- Mutual action plans on the free plan, which most competitors gate behind a paid tier.
- Buyers need no account, so adoption on the other side of the deal does not depend on a signup.
Limitations
- Pro caps at five users, so the pricing model forces a jump from $45 to $100 per seat on the sixth hire regardless of feature need.
- E-signature, proposals and quotes, and video recording are all Scale-tier, which makes the advertised entry price misleading for a full deployment.
- SSO and SCIM are Elite-only, an expensive gate for a company whose IT policy simply requires SAML.
- Zapier and Make coverage is thin next to the native CRM connectors, so automation outside HubSpot or Salesforce usually needs custom work.
Pricing compared
Heybase
Historically a hybrid: AppSumo lifetime deals ($69 for tier 1, up to $179 for tier 2 and 3 licenses) carried most distribution, alongside a subscription with a 14-day free trial. From at least November 2024 the public pricing page listed four tiers (Essential, Growth, Advance, Enterprise) with no prices shown, all behind Talk to sales. As of August 2026 no pricing page exists at all, the AppSumo deal is marked sold out, and there is no published way to buy the product.
- AppSumo License Tier 1$69 one-time
- AppSumo License Tier 2up to $179 one-time
- AppSumo License Tier 3$179 one-time
- Essential / Growth / Advance / EnterpriseNever published
At $69 to $179 once, Heybase was, for a while, the cheapest real digital sales room you could own, and buyers who closed even one deal with it got their money back. But the ending is the lesson: total cost of ownership on a lifetime deal includes the migration you do when the vendor disappears, and Heybase buyers are now doing that migration with no support and no export tooling. Against that, Trumpet's genuinely free 10-Pod tier or Dock's entry plans cost nothing to start and sit on funded, staffed companies. Capability per dollar is no longer a meaningful question here, because the dollar cannot be spent.
Trumpet
Per user, per month, billed monthly or annually, with annual paid up front at ten times the monthly rate (roughly two months free). A permanently free plan is capped at 10 Pods per account. Capability, not volume, is the axis: e-signature, proposals, and video recording start at Scale, and the AI Copilot plus SSO and SCIM start at Elite.
- Free$0
- Pro$45
- Scale$100
- Elite$160
For a five-rep team on Scale, roughly $6,000 a year buys the room, the signals, e-signature, and the CRM sync, which is defensible if deals are worth five figures and stall in internal silence. The awkward zone is the middle: Pro is cheap but withholds e-signature and proposals, and its five-user cap means the moment you hire a sixth rep the bill goes from $225 to $600 a month before anyone uses a new feature. Elite at $160 per seat is priced against enterprise sales enablement platforms, and the AI layer there is new enough in 2026 that it should be evaluated in a pilot rather than bought on the datasheet. The free plan is the strongest signal of confidence in the category: it is real, it includes mutual action plans, and it is enough to prove whether your buyers will actually use a room.
Editorial verdict on each
Heybase
Heybase was a real product with a real constituency: solo sellers and micro teams who got a personalized, tracked deal microsite for a one-time $69 to $179 when every alternative wanted $45 or more per seat per month. The editor was quick, buyers needed no account, and session replays gave more visibility than the price had any right to include. But as of August 2026 it cannot be recommended to anyone. The marketing site returns a 404 on every page, support has been silent by consistent user account since mid-2025, the vendor's own forum carries an unanswered thread announcing the closure, and no official statement, refund, or export path exists. New buyers should choose Trumpet, Aligned, Dock, or GetAccept depending on shape and budget. Existing license holders should treat the still-running application as borrowed time: save your content, move your live deals, and take the durable lesson with you, which is that in this category the vendor's staying power is part of the product.
Read the full Heybase profileTrumpet
Trumpet is the most fully built product in the digital sales room category and, unusually for a category leader, it starts free with mutual action plans included. The widget library is deep, the buyer experience needs no login, and the per-viewer engagement data answers the one question a rep cannot answer any other way: who else is reading this, and do they care. The problems are all in the pricing shape rather than the software. Pro at $45 is a teaser capped at five users with no e-signature or proposals, which means the real product is Scale at $100 per seat, and a SAML requirement pushes you to $160. It remains a young, forty-person, venture-backed company shipping fast, so evaluate the 2026 AI layer in a pilot rather than buying it on the datasheet. Start on the free plan, prove your buyers actually open the room, and budget for Scale from the beginning.
Read the full Trumpet profileHeybase profile last reviewed 2026-08-31; Trumpet last reviewed 2026-08-23. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.