Best CRM with Email Marketing (2026): 5 All-in-One Tools Compared

HubSpot is the most complete answer to “one tool for sales and marketing”. The free CRM already includes email marketing, a form builder, landing pages, ad management, live chat and a meeting scheduler. Because everything writes to the same contact record, a salesperson can see which newsletter a lead clicked, and a marketer can exclude everyone with an open deal from a promotion.

The Starter Customer Platform adds the Starter edition of each HubSpot product, including marketing email without HubSpot branding, sales pipelines, ticketing and a website builder.

Which plan to pick: start free. Move to Starter when you need more users, want to remove branding or need simple automation.

Watch out for: limits. Starter has caps on contacts, seats and email sends, and exceeding them moves you to Professional. Check HubSpot’s product and services catalog for the current Starter limits against your list size before you commit.

Brevo, formerly Sendinblue, started as an email platform and has added a sales CRM on top. Every plan, including the free one, comes with built-in sales tools: 50 open deals and one pipeline, meeting scheduling, live chat, task reminders and sales reports, plus one connected calendar and mailbox.

The free plan is unusually generous for email: 300 sends a day and room for up to 100,000 contacts. Paid plans are priced by monthly email volume, starting at $9 per month on Starter and $18 on Standard. Standard adds unlimited automated workflows, A/B testing and one landing page, and removes the Brevo logo.

Which plan to pick: Standard plus Sales Essentials ($31 per month) for a small team that needs multiple users, unlimited deals and pipelines, and sales automation. Brevo says multi-user access in Sales Essentials is only available on Standard, Professional and Enterprise, and its help center lists extra sales seats at $31 a month each, so price the seats you need.

Watch out for: automatic upgrades. On the first tiers of Starter and Standard, the email volume you choose also sets a contact storage limit, and Brevo automatically moves you to the next tier if you exceed it.

ActiveCampaign is an email and marketing automation platform first, built for automated sequences: welcome series, lead nurturing, re-engagement and ecommerce follow-ups. Plus removes the cap on automation actions and adds landing pages. Pro adds advanced segmentation, predictive and conditional content, and attribution and conversion tracking.

The sales side comes from two paid add-ons. Pipelines adds pipeline management and sales automation. Sales Engagement includes everything in Pipelines plus extra email and AI tools for salespeople.

Which plan to pick: Plus with the Pipelines add-on for a small business that wants automation and a deal pipeline in one place. Starter limits each automation to 5 actions, so it only suits simple email programs.

Watch out for: the total price. ActiveCampaign prices by contact count and billing term, and the CRM add-on is extra. Its pricing page loads prices in a calculator that we could not read, so enter your real list size there before you compare it with HubSpot or Brevo.

Keap sells the whole platform at one price instead of splitting it into feature tiers. Contact management, lead scoring, email broadcasts and automated emails, landing pages and sales funnels, a sales pipeline, appointment scheduling, quotes, invoices, checkout forms and payments are all included, along with text marketing for U.S. users with 500 messages and 100 voice minutes a month.

That breadth suits service businesses where the same client is marketed to, booked, invoiced and followed up for a review, all without leaving one system.

Which plan to pick: there is one platform price, which rises with contact count. Ask about the implementation package cost before you sign, since Keap requires it.

Watch out for: commitment. Keap is the most expensive option here, the implementation package is mandatory, and cancelling an annual contract early costs $299. The free trial is limited to 25 emails and cannot process payments or send texts.

Pipedrive is a sales CRM first. If your team already lives in its pipeline and you only need a monthly newsletter or a product announcement, the Campaigns add-on is the least disruptive way to add email marketing. It uses the same contact list as sales, with marketing automations, scheduling, double opt-in, custom templates and real-time engagement reports.

Campaigns comes in Standard and Premium tiers. Premium adds comparative insights. You choose the number of subscribers when you buy, and Pipedrive says the more contacts you add, the less you pay per subscriber.

Which plan to pick: Growth for the CRM, since it adds full email sync and automations, plus Campaigns Standard sized to your subscriber count.

Watch out for: the combined cost. You pay per CRM seat and separately for Campaigns by subscriber count, so compare the total with HubSpot Starter or Brevo before you buy.