HighLevel alternatives
By Joris van Huët · each comparison from the vendors' own pricing and help pages, prices dated on the page
The short answer: 9 tools are compared with HighLevel on this site, and the line under each one is the verdict from its comparison: who should pick which, with the figures that decide it on the comparison itself. Read the one that names your job. What HighLevel costs and who it suits is in its entry, and how to use HighLevel walks through one job with it.
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ClickFunnels
Choose ClickFunnels if your job is selling your own offer through a checkout, an order bump and an upsell. Choose HighLevel if your job is running lead capture and booking for client businesses, and certainly from the eleventh client, where ClickFunnels moves to Dominate, $5,997 a year on annual billing only.
ClickFunnels vs HighLevel: Your Own Offer or Client Accounts
Close
If you run one inside-sales team whose reps phone every new lead, choose Close: its Growth plan, $99 per user a month billed annually on the Close pricing page, adds workflows and the power dialer.
HubSpot
If you run an agency with twelve local-service clients, you are choosing a business model more than a CRM, and HighLevel's Unlimited plan, $297 a month for unlimited sub-accounts, contacts and users, is built for it, per HighLevel's pricing page.
Kajabi
If you are a coach or course creator selling your own programmes to a list of up to 2,500 contacts, Kajabi Basic puts courses, a community, checkout and unlimited email sends in one plan for $143 a month billed annually, or $179 monthly, on the Kajabi pricing page.
Kartra
Choose Kartra if your job is a membership run by one expert, with video hosted in the account, a helpdesk from Growth and no meter on sends. Choose HighLevel if your job is client accounts, or leads who expect a text or a call back within the hour.
Keap
If you own a service business with two people and about 1,500 contacts, and you want an expert to build the automations with you, Keap fits: $299 a month billed monthly on its pricing page, plus a required implementation package listed at $500 on its implementation page.
Ontraport
If you sell your own courses, memberships or services online and want order forms, members and automation on one record per customer, choose Ontraport: Plus costs $99 a month, or $83 a month when paid yearly, and Pro $149 or $124, on its pricing page.
Salesforce
A service business or agency whose ten staff all need logins, and whose leads arrive through forms, calls and texts, pays HighLevel $97 or $297 a month in total, users unlimited, on its pricing page.
Systeme.io
Choose Systeme.io if your job is selling. Choose HighLevel if your job is following up for other businesses.
Systeme.io vs HighLevel: Built to Sell or Built to Follow Up
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