Stop Overpaying for Salesforce Complexity
Your Salesforce renewal shouldn’t feel like a battle. Every year, costs rise, complexity grows, and your admin workload expands, yet your CRM still holds you back.
What if you could cut your CRM Admin costs by up to 90% and actually enjoy using your platform?
We're Inbound AV, a two-time HubSpot Impact Award winner and Platinum Partner. We've helped many companies simplify their CRM, cut costs by up to 90%, and move forward with confidence, without losing a single record.
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The Hidden Costs of Salesforce
(and How HubSpot Solves Them)
Your Salesforce invoice only tells part of the story. The true cost is hiding in plain sight — buried in salaries, contractor hours, and endless maintenance.Let’s break it down.
|
What You're Actually Paying For |
Salesforce Reality |
HubSpot Truth |
|
Platform Licenses |
$150–$500+/user/month |
$45–$100/user/month |
|
Admin Staff |
$$$$ |
$ to $$ |
|
Developer Hours |
$15,000+/month for customizations |
Minimal — Custom Dev retainer & projects are 50%-70% lower than Salesforce |
|
Integration Maintenance |
Constant breakage, custom code debt |
Native connections that just work |
|
Training time |
Weeks per new hire |
Hours with intuitive UI |
|
Hidden Add-Ons |
CPQ, Pardot, extra storage, API calls |
Included in Marketing & Sales Hub |
|
|
5–15% every renewal |
Transparent, predictable pricing |
Real Math for a 50-Person Sales Team
Salesforce
Annual Cost
~$285,000
- Licenses: $150,000
- Admin/Dev: $120,000
- Add-ons & Integrations: $15,000
HubSpot
Annual Cost
~$108,000
- Licenses: $72,000
- Monthly Admin/Dev Retainer: $36,000
Your Savings on Software: $177,000
40+% savings
That's not a projection. That's what our clients actually save.
Sound Familiar? These Salesforce Frustrations Hold Teams Back…
Be honest. How many times this month have you thought:
❌ "I need to submit a ticket to make a simple field change"
(And then wait 3–5 days for the admin to get to it)
❌ "Why did that workflow break AGAIN after the last update?"
(And now you need to find budget for a contractor to fix it)
❌ "We can't implement that until Q3 when dev has time"
(While your competitors are moving at lightning speed)
❌ "I'm scared to click anything — I might break the whole org"
(Because one wrong move cascades into chaos)"
❌"My team spends more time complaining about the CRM than using it"
(And you're paying six figures for the privilege)
This isn’t enterprise efficiency — it’s enterprise overload.
There's a better way.
You chose Salesforce because it’s what leading companies use — but over time, it’s become more burden than benefit. And now you’re managing a system that requires specialists just to keep it running.
Your sales reps avoid it. Your admin is overwhelmed. Your CFO questions the ROI. And your renewal email just arrived with another 12% increase.
There's a better way.
HubSpot gives you back what Salesforce took: control, speed, and simplicity.
- Your ops team can make changes in minutes, not weeks
- Your reps can actually enjoy using the CRM (yes, really)
- Your CFO can redirect savings toward growth, not maintenance
Real Companies. Real Savings. Real Results.
We've migrated enterprise-level companies from Salesforce to HubSpot, and every one of them wishes they'd done it sooner.
Average cost reduction
in Year 1
Faster workflow changes
(days → hours)
Increase in CRM adoption rates
Data migration success rate
Reduction in admin hours needed
User satisfaction
increase
Average migration timeline
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Frequently Asked Questions
There’s no catch as it’s more about efficiency, not shortcuts. Salesforce typically requires a full-time admin or developer just to manage customizations and maintenance. HubSpot is built to be self-sufficient. Most admin tasks like data updates, workflow edits, reporting etc. can be handled directly by your RevOps or marketing team, without writing a single line of code. When you factor in lower license costs, no required developers, and fewer maintenance hours, total admin overhead drops by up to 90%.
You won't. We've been doing Salesforce migrations for 7+ years with a 100% data integrity rate. We migrate to a test environment first, validate everything with your team, then go live only when you approve. Plus, you keep your Salesforce data as a backup during the transition period.
Probably better than Salesforce does. We’ve migrated complex orgs with deep custom logic, layered automation, and multiple integrations into cleaner, more maintainable HubSpot setups. HubSpot’s native tools cover 97–99% of what most businesses need, and for the rest, we build reliable custom integrations.
That said, for about 1–3% of enterprise businesses, HubSpot may not provide all third-party integrations that the business may need, and we’re upfront about that from the start. Our process always includes a technical review to confirm compatibility before you commit to migration.
