Team Size

CRM // customer relationship management
HubSpot
Free tier
Contact management, deals, basic pipeline. Free forever up to 1M contacts.
Free
HubSpot Starter
$15/user/mo (annual)
Email marketing, forms, chat, ad management. Good for small teams.
Pipedrive
$14/user/mo
Sales-focused pipeline CRM. Clean interface, strong automations.
Salesforce Starter
$25/user/mo
Entry-level Salesforce. Full platform but steep learning curve.
Zoho CRM
$14/user/mo
Feature-rich, affordable. Good Salesforce alternative for cost-conscious teams.
Project Management // task tracking & collaboration
Linear
Free tier
Up to 250 issues. Fast, opinionated, loved by engineering teams.
Free
Linear Basic
$10/user/mo
Unlimited issues, cycles, roadmaps, integrations. Best-in-class for dev teams.
Notion
$10/user/mo
Docs, wikis, and project tracking combined. Flexible but can get disorganized.
Jira
$7.53/user/mo
Industry standard for larger engineering orgs. Powerful but heavyweight.
Monday.com
$12/user/mo
Visual project boards. Popular with non-engineering teams.
Team Communication // messaging & video
Slack
Free tier
90 days of message history, 10 integrations. Works for small teams getting started.
Free
Slack Pro
$7.25/user/mo
Full message history, unlimited integrations, group calls. Standard for most teams.
Microsoft Teams
$6/user/mo (→ $7 July 2026)
Included with Microsoft 365 Business Basic. Best value if you already pay for Office.
Discord
Free
Voice, video, and text. Unusual for business but used by some dev-first startups.
Free
Monitoring & Observability // logs, metrics, alerts
Datadog
$15/host/mo (Infra Pro)
Full-stack observability. Powerful but expensive at scale. Per-host fees add up.
New Relic
$49/user/mo (Core users)
Core user type — IDE integration, Errors Inbox, Logs UI. Free tier: 1 full user + 100GB/mo.
Grafana Cloud
Free tier
10k metrics, 50GB logs/traces, 3 users free. Best open-source-friendly option.
Free
Grafana Cloud Pro
$19/mo + usage
$19/mo platform fee + $8/user/mo + usage beyond free tier. 30-day log retention.
PagerDuty
$21/user/mo
Incident management and on-call scheduling. Standard for ops-heavy teams.
AWS CloudWatch
~$10/mo (usage-based)
Native AWS monitoring. No per-seat fee but charges per metric, log GB, and alarm.
Business Email // company email hosting
Google Workspace
$7/user/mo (annual)
Gmail, Drive, Docs, Meet, Gemini AI included. The default for most startups and small teams.
Microsoft 365 Business
$6/user/mo
Outlook, Teams, Office apps. Better fit for Windows-centric organizations.
Fastmail
$3/user/mo
Privacy-focused email only. No office suite. Good for lean teams who use other tools.
Zoho Mail
$1/user/mo
Business email at a fraction of Google's price. No frills, gets the job done.

Pricing verified April 2026 — CRM & HR: Apr 13 2026 · Project Mgmt: Apr 13 2026 · Communication: Apr 13 2026 · Monitoring: Apr 13 2026 · Email: Apr 13 2026. Annual billing assumed where applicable. Prices in USD. Verify before committing.

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