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Kill HubSpot CRM

Replace HubSpot CRM with Claude and Twenty CRM (self-hosted)

$15-890+/mo

HubSpot cut its free plan from 1 million contacts to 1,000. Paid plans start at $890/month with a mandatory $3,000 onboarding fee. Twenty is the open source CRM alternative - contact management, deal pipelines, email sync, custom objects. Self-host it on Railway for $5/month and own your data.

Why Replace HubSpot CRM?

  • ×The free plan went from 1 million contacts to 1,000 in September 2024 - a 99.9% reduction designed to force upgrades
  • ×Professional starts at $890/month for 3 seats with a mandatory $3,000 onboarding fee before you've sent a single automated email
  • ×March 2024 pricing restructuring introduced roughly 5% annual renewal uplifts - prices go up every year by default
  • ×Most small teams use HubSpot for a contact database, deal pipeline, and email logging - you don't need a $890/month platform for that

What People Use HubSpot CRM For

Contact database you can search and filter
Deal pipeline to track where prospects are
Notes and activity history per contact
Basic email logging
Meeting scheduler links

Replacement Stack

Twenty CRM (self-hosted)

Open source CRM built as a direct alternative to Salesforce and HubSpot. GPL-licensed. Contact and company management with custom fields, deal pipeline with kanban and table views, activity timeline, email sync (Gmail and Outlook), custom objects, and open API. Clean, fast interface with dark mode.

Free (self-hosted)Get Started

Railway

Hosts the full Twenty stack - server, worker, PostgreSQL, Redis, and S3 bucket for file storage. Requires the Hobby plan ($5/month) since Twenty needs more than 512MB RAM per service.

$5/moGet Started

Kill Checklist

1

Export all HubSpot data

~15 mins

Go to HubSpot > Settings > Data Management > Import & Export > Export all data. Download the full export (contacts, companies, deals, notes). This is your backup. Do this before anything else.

2

Create a Railway account

~5 mins

Sign up at railway.com and upgrade to the Hobby plan ($5/month) - required for Twenty's memory needs. The free plan won't work since Twenty requires more than 512MB RAM per service.

https://railway.com?referralCode=killyoursaas →
3

Deploy Twenty on Railway

~10 mins

Use the one-click template. Railway provisions 5 services: Twenty server, Twenty Worker, PostgreSQL, Redis, and S3 bucket for file storage. The template has 1,116 total projects and 368 currently active, with 96% deployment success rate. The template prompts for environment variables - most are pre-filled. Supply APP_SECRET (Railway can generate this). Leave email variables blank initially if you just want the CRM running first.

https://railway.com/new/template/nAL3hA?referralCode=killyoursaas →
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Get the full kill plan for HubSpot CRM

Sign up to unlock 7 more steps, a customizable Claude Code prompt tailored to the features you actually use, and a checklist to track your progress.

  • ✓Pick which HubSpot CRM features you care about - skip the rest
  • ✓Get a Claude prompt customized to your exact setup
  • ✓Track your kill progress across all your SaaS tools

Free account. No credit card required.

Part of the Kill HubSpot Series

HubSpot has seven ways to charge you. Here's how to replace each one. View full series →

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