Campaign Monitor vs HubSpot

Trying to choose between Campaign Monitor vs HubSpot as your email marketing software? Here's when to choose each tool – and the pros and cons to know about.

Campaign Monitor vs HubSpot comparison
  • 4.6 TrustPilot
  • 4.6 Capterra
  • 4.1 G2

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Campaign Monitor

Campaign Monitor is a global technology company that provides an email marketing platform that’s easy to use yet extremely powerful. It powers media moguls, tech giants, nonprofits, and other industries.

Pricing

From $9 to $989 a month depending on the tariff and the contact list size

Key features

  • No-code email editor
  • Automated sequence builder
  • List management and segmentation
  • Personalization
  • Analytics
  • A/B testing

Support

Online support with limited working hours, the Help center on the website, video tutorials, courses

  • 3.4 TrustPilot
  • 4.5 Capterra
  • 4.4 G2

Average 4.1 / 5

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HubSpot

A CRM platform that offers email marketing, content management, marketing automation, and customer service capabilities.

Pricing

Marketing tools only start at $18 a month for 1,000 marketing contacts

Key features

  • Email automation, reporting, etc.
  • Landing pages and forms
  • Marketing automation
  • Website builder and hosting
  • CRM platform
  • B2B commerce tools
  • Customer service software
  • Sales and operations software
  • Integrations with various services

Support

24/7 support via email and chat on paid plans, phone support on professional and Enterprise plans. Community support only on the Free plan.

General info about company

Campaign Monitor

Founded in 2004 by Ben Richardson, based in Nashville. Belongs to CM Group, along with other marketing software companies like Sailthru and LiveClicker.

HubSpot

HubSpot was founded by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah in 2006. Headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Difficulty

Campaign Monitor

The email editor is WYSIWYG and the platform provides users with a great choice of templates and an automated email builder for your brand — no coding or design skills are required. Campaign analytics come in the form of digestible graphs that are easy to interpret for junior marketers.

HubSpot

The software may seem complex and even overwhelming. However, newcomers get service demos and tutorials for a smooth start. Overall, the interface is user-friendly and approachable.

Best for

Campaign Monitor

Marketing agencies, small organizations, publishers

HubSpot

Medium to big e-commerce companies that want an integrated software package with marketing, CRM, customer service, and website hosting all in one.

Free plan

Campaign Monitor

No free plan, free trial only.

The free trial only allows sending test campaigns to 5 people or less, importing contact lists, and creating customer journeys without sending them

HubSpot

A free plan for 2,000 email sends per month. Available email templates and features are limited. No customer support, only the access to HubSpot Community.

Pricing

Campaign Monitor

Dynamic, depends on the contact list size and the tariff type:

  • Basic: $9–$299/month
  • Unlimited: $30–$699/month
  • Premier: $158–$989/month

All tariffs are limited to 50000 contacts.

HubSpot

Billed monthly:

  • Starter: $20 for up to 1,000 marketing contacts
  • Professional: $890 for up to 2,000 marketing contacts (the starting price is $3,890 with a mandatory paid onboarding)
  • Enterprise: $3,600 for up to 10,000 marketing contacts (the starting price is $6,000 with a mandatory paid onboarding)

Other pricing features:

  • Users are only billed for their “marketing” contacts (actively in use) and can have many more inactive contacts
  • Even if a user cancels the subscriptions, they will be billed for the rest of their commitment period duration

Support

Campaign Monitor

An in-app Digital Assistant tool. Support agents around the world are available in the following hours:

  • America: Mon to Fri 6 am to 5 pm PST/PDT
  • Australia and Asia: Mon to Fri 9 am to 5 pm AEST/AEDT
  • Europe: Mon to Fri 9 am to 5 pm BST/GMT

Limited support (unspecified working hours) is available on weekends and during holidays. Support phone numbers are only available for Premier users.

Aside from online support, Campaign Monitor offers:

  • Video tutorials for newbies and experienced users
  • A 30-minute Getting Started course
  • Email Academy — an email marketing course
  • Resources for developers
  • The in-app Help Center with documentation

HubSpot

  • Service demo for new users
  • Technical support is available on paid plans only
  • Access to the HubSpot Community on the Free plan
  • Chat and email support on all paid plans
  • Phone support only on Professional and Enterprise plans
  • Mandatory paid assisted onboarding on Professional and Enterprise plans
  • Advanced and Premier additional onboarding options
  • Customer training
  • Various courses with certifications
  • HubSpot user groups

Features

Campaign Monitor

  • Supports SMS notifications
  • Advanced segmentation — available for Premier users
  • Link Review — checks for broken links
  • Free email template builder
  • Campaign analytics
  • CAN-SPAM compliance checker
  • Integrations with CRM systems and more

HubSpot

  • Email automation
  • Dynamic list segmentation based on various criteria
  • Email reputation reporting and tracking
  • Custom reporting dashboards
  • Integrations with popular services
  • Drag-and-drop email builder and pre-made templates
  • Landing pages
  • Live chat with website visitors
  • A CRM app for iOS and Android

Templates

Campaign Monitor

108 free mobile-friendly templates available without signing up, templates sorted by email types from announcements to transactional.

If you don’t like templates, you can build emails from scratch using blocks in the email builder.

Recently launched their own stock with free images.

Campaign Monitor also has an automated custom template builder where you fill in the questionnaire and get a bunch of email templates with the logo of your business and custom design.

HubSpot

15+ email templates
Only 5 email templates on the free plan

Templates for:

  • Welcome messages
  • Sales
  • Newsletter
  • Event invitations
  • Announcements
  • Ebook emails

Integrations

Campaign Monitor

  • Data for marketing: Salesforce, WordPress, Shopify +
  • List growth: Intercom, OptinMonster, Unbounce +
  • CRM: Raiser’s Edge NXT, Lexer, Qgiv +
  • Advertising: AdRoll, Facebook Lead Ads, Rungopher+

More than 100 integrations are available for CRM, list management, surveys, and more

HubSpot

1,495 integrations including WordPress, Zapier, Canva, Facebook, Salesforce, Shopify, Stripe, and more.

Devices

Campaign Monitor

  • A web app accessible from phones
  • No mobile app

HubSpot

  • Website
  • A mobile app for iOS and Android to manage the CRM
  • Chrome extension for Gmail or G Suite
  • Office 365 add-in and desktop add-in for Office 365

 

  • No installable solution.

Languages

Campaign Monitor

English English

HubSpot

English English Chinese (traditional) Chinese (traditional) Danish Danish Dutch Dutch Finnish Finnish French French German German Italian Italian Polish Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Brazil) Spanish Spanish Swedish Swedish

Automation

Campaign Monitor

The drag-and-drop interface for creating automated email sequences that includes:

  • Triggers — subscribers’ actions that start or continue the sequenc
  • Yes/No rules for personalization
  • Timers — for example, you can send emails 3 or more days after a certain subscriber’s action or the previous email in the sequence

The sequence is visualized like an activity diagram where every element is customizable.

HubSpot

Many pre-built automations (called workflows) triggered by:

  • Contacts
  • Companies
  • Deals
  • Tickets (for support purposes)
  • Quotes
  • Conversations
  • Feedback submissions

Pros

Campaign Monitor

  • Good WYSIWYG email editor interface
  • Easy and simple email automation
  • Easy-to-understand campaign reports with good infographics

HubSpot

  • An all-in-one solution for e-commerce businesses: email marketing, CRM, CMS, and more
  • 1,482 integrations
  • Thorough onboarding and courses
  • A strong global community
  • Ability to store many contacts for free

Cons

Campaign Monitor

  • No live chat support + no 24/7 support
  • All of the tariffs are limited to 50000 contacts
  • No functional free trial you can actually use for work
  • Contact importing is difficult when matching custom fields
  • Split testing only allows 2 email versions
  • No landing page builder

HubSpot

  • Steep prices
  • Complicated feature system may cause additional spendings
  • Overwhelming amount of functions
  • Support isn’t accessible enough
  • Email templates aren’t sophisticated

Reviews from experts

Campaign Monitor

“Feature-wise, there’s not really much to fault it on, but ‘power’ email marketing users will find the A/B testing feature a bit basic and will notice the absence of a fully fledged landing page creator.”

Chris Singleton

Chris Singleton

CEO of Style Factory

“It’s easy to find all features, which means you can get up and running quickly and get the most out of the solution without having to spend days playing around with it. If you sell products online, you’ll love the focus on optimizing transactional emails and tracking their performance so you can understand what works in terms of customer engagement.”

Karen McCandless

Karen McCandless

Content marketer and strategist, writer for The Next Web, Softonic, Business2Community, Business.com, and Microsoft Europe.

HubSpot

The fact that it’s so user-friendly is a big advantage to using HubSpot’s CRM platform. Its guided set-up wizard, demos and intuitive interface make it a great tool for all levels of experience. It’s still a huge software with a lot of bells and whistles, but taking all that into account, its usability is still outstanding. You’ll be particularly impressed with its lead management features.
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Anything above Starter gets very expensive and requires you to pay a high onboarding fee. In the case of the HubSpot Marketing Professional plan, this is $3,000 on top of the $890/month.
Surprisingly, HubSpot’s templates aren’t quite what you’d expect from such a popular, modern tool. I’d like to see some more design options for email and landing pages.

Roberta Phillips

Roberta Phillips

Marketing Manager, and Inka Wibowo, Senior Content Manager

Overall: I'm 50-50 with HubSpot. I see it as a compromise and middle step until we are able to get more specialized solutions for each one of their offerings.
Pros: HubSpot is a good solution for organizations at their early steps. It provides all the necessary tools for website management and marketing activities. The contacts' management is good too.
Cons: It doesn't go in-depth on anything. For everything that HubSpot does there is a platform that does it better. But we would need many different tools so we stay with all in one but shallow approach (for now). It is also very expensive for what it is.

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*This information is current as of 02/13/2024. While we regularly update our articles, it`s possible that this article may not contain some of the latest information.