Is Mixmax or Streak cheaper?

Mixmax starts at $29/user/mo (single copilot, billed annually) (free plan available). Streak starts at $0 (free email tools), then $49 per user per month billed annually (free plan available).

Mixmax vs Streak

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 assessment

Streak compared with Mixmax

Mixmax is the more powerful Gmail engagement platform, with deeper sequence rules, workflow automation, and Salesforce integration, but it assumes you have a CRM elsewhere. Streak assumes you do not. Teams with Salesforce should look at Mixmax; teams whose CRM ambition ends at a pipeline in the sidebar should look at Streak.

Choose Mixmax if

Gmail-based sales, success, and recruiting teams (and solo operators) who want sequences, tracking, scheduling, and AI assistance inside the inbox with near-zero setup, rather than a separate platform reps must be forced to log into.

Choose Streak if

Small Google Workspace teams that run their entire business out of Gmail and want a CRM plus light outbound campaigns without adopting a separate platform, especially agencies, recruiters, and deal-flow businesses where the email thread is the record.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Mixmax	Streak
Category	Engagement	Engagement
Starting price	$29/user/mo (single copilot, billed annually) (free plan available)	$0 (free email tools), then $49 per user per month billed annually (free plan available)
Pricing model	Per-user subscription sold as three individually priced AI copilots or a discounted Suite bundle, with a custom-priced Teams plan for 5+ users; a free tier and metered add-ons (extra sequence recipients, dialer, SMS, branding) sit around the core plans.	Per-seat subscription with a permanently free email-tools tier, three paid CRM tiers, a roughly 20 percent annual discount, and AI usage metered as monthly credits per user.
Free plan	20 tracked emails/month, 50 sequence recipients/month, and basic features, usable indefinitely.	A free forever tier covering the email power tools only: email and link tracking, snippets, mail merge limited to 50 a day, Streak Share, and the thread splitter. No CRM features are included.
Free trial	14 days of the full Suite, no credit card; downgrades to the Free plan automatically	14 days on Pro+
Best for	Gmail-based sales, success, and recruiting teams (and solo operators) who want sequences, tracking, scheduling, and AI assistance inside the inbox with near-zero setup, rather than a separate platform reps must be forced to log into.	Small Google Workspace teams that run their entire business out of Gmail and want a CRM plus light outbound campaigns without adopting a separate platform, especially agencies, recruiters, and deal-flow businesses where the email thread is the record.
Setup time	Minutes for an individual (install the Chrome extension, connect Gmail); a few hours to a few days for a team rollout with CRM sync, shared templates, and workflow rules. Mixmax markets 10-minute setup against multi-week enterprise implementations, and for the core product that claim is credible.	Under an hour to a working pipeline. Install the extension, grant Gmail permission, and either build a pipeline manually or describe one to the AI pipeline creator. Importing existing contacts and mapping fields is the only part that takes real time.
Learning curve	Low. The UI extends familiar Gmail patterns, and the copilots reduce configuration rather than adding it. Workflow rules and Salesforce sync tuning are the only areas needing real admin attention.	Low for the CRM basics because everything is in a familiar interface, moderate for the parts that reward configuration: permissions per pipeline, magic and formula columns, and automations on Pro+. The concept that a thread is a record takes about a day to internalise.
Platforms	Web app, Chrome extension (Gmail), API	Gmail and Google Workspace via Chrome extension, iOS and Android apps, iPad app, Gmail mobile add-on
Compliance	SOC 2, GDPR	GDPR, Google Workspace security review for Gmail API access
Founded	2014	2011
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, US	San Francisco, California, United States
Ownership	Venture-backed	Venture-backed and independent

Strengths and limitations

Mixmax

Strengths

Genuinely inbox-native: reps adopt it because it appears inside Gmail rather than demanding a second workspace, which is the single biggest failure mode of heavier engagement platforms.
Setup measured in minutes, not weeks; no implementation project, admin certification, or onboarding consultants required.
Scheduling is best-in-class for the category: embedded availability inside the email body still beats sending a booking link.
The copilot packaging lets buyers pay only for the job they have (inbox triage, meetings, or outreach) instead of one monolithic seat price.

Limitations

Gmail is the center of gravity; Outlook support exists but the product is visibly built Google-first, making it a poor standard for Microsoft shops.
Multichannel depth is thin: calling and SMS are add-ons and LinkedIn steps are shallow next to platforms that treat phone and social as first-class sequence channels.
Sequence recipient caps make it structurally wrong for high-volume cold outbound; it is engagement tooling for real relationships, not a volume sender.
Teams-plan pricing is opaque (quote-only), so comparing true multi-seat cost against Outplay or Reply.io requires a sales conversation.

Streak

Strengths

The CRM is inside Gmail rather than synced to it, which solves the data-hygiene problem that defeats most small-team CRM rollouts.
A permanently free tier with tracking, snippets, thread splitting, and 50 daily mail merges is one of the most useful free offerings in the category.
Thread splitter and out-of-office detection are small, specific features that show the product was built by people who actually run outreach.
Mobile coverage is strong for a company this size: iOS, Android, iPad, a Gmail mobile add-on, and caller ID.

Limitations

Gmail only. There is no Outlook support, no standalone desktop app, and no path for a team on any other mail client.
Sending runs through your own Gmail account with no relay, no inbox rotation, and no secondary domains, so real cold volume is off the table and risky to attempt.
Email is the only channel it executes. No automated LinkedIn steps, no SMS, no dialer, no call tasks in a sequence.
Pricing is high relative to Gmail-native engagement tools, and there is no intermediate tier between free and $49.

Pricing compared

Mixmax

Per-user subscription sold as three individually priced AI copilots or a discounted Suite bundle, with a custom-priced Teams plan for 5+ users; a free tier and metered add-ons (extra sequence recipients, dialer, SMS, branding) sit around the core plans.

Inbox Copilot$29
Meeting Copilot$29
Engagement Copilot$49
Mixmax Suite$89
Mixmax for TeamsCustom

Priced per copilot, Mixmax is cheap to start and easy to right-size: a founder can get real value at $29, and $89 for the Suite undercuts typical per-seat pricing at Outreach or Salesloft by a wide margin while covering most of what an SMB team actually uses. The economics thin out at volume, though: metered sequence recipients plus paid dialer, SMS, and recipient packs mean an outbound-heavy team can assemble a total cost that approaches mid-market platforms that bundle those channels, and at that point the buyer is paying inbox-native convenience prices for platform-scale work.

Streak

Per-seat subscription with a permanently free email-tools tier, three paid CRM tiers, a roughly 20 percent annual discount, and AI usage metered as monthly credits per user.

Free$0
Pro$49
Pro+$69
Enterprise$129

Judge Streak as a CRM and $49 is defensible; judge it as an engagement tool and it is expensive. A solo founder pays nothing for tracking and mail merge on the free tier and $588 a year the moment they want pipelines. A five-rep team on Pro+ is about $4,140 a year, which is more than Klenty or Outplay would charge for a product with automated LinkedIn steps and a dialer. What justifies the premium is adoption: the CRM records itself because it is made of the email, and a CRM that reps actually keep current is worth more than a cheaper one they ignore. If you already have a CRM you like, Streak is a poor value; if Streak would replace one, it is a fair price.

Editorial verdict on each

Mixmax

Mixmax remains the strongest argument that most teams never needed a sales engagement platform, they needed their inbox to do more. For Gmail-based SMB and mid-market teams, founders, and recruiters, it delivers the daily 80 percent (sequences, tracking, scheduling, follow-through, CRM hygiene) with adoption that happens by default and pricing that starts at $29. The 2026 copilot packaging sharpened that story rather than diluting it. But the same architecture that makes it frictionless caps its ceiling: metered sequence volume, add-on channels, and Gmail-first design mean volume outbound shops, Microsoft orgs, and enterprises wanting revenue intelligence should look at Outplay, Reply.io, or the enterprise incumbents instead. Buy Mixmax for follow-through, not firepower.

Read the full Mixmax profile

Streak

Innovation

Streak solves the hardest problem in small-team CRM, which is not features but whether anyone uses the thing. By making the pipeline out of the mailbox, it removes the logging step that kills adoption everywhere else, and the free email tools are good enough to run early outbound on their own. The catch is scope and price. Email is the only channel it executes, Gmail is the only client it supports, sending is capped by your own Google account, and $49 a seat is three to six times what a pure Gmail engagement tool costs. Buy it when it is replacing a CRM nobody updates and you are a Google Workspace shop; skip it if you already have a CRM you like, if anyone is on Outlook, or if your outbound plan involves volume.

Read the full Streak profile

Mixmax profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Streak last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.