Clianta vs Pipedrive
Pipedrive tracks your pipeline. Clianta works it.
Pipedrive earned its place: a clean, focused pipeline tracker that a small team can actually adopt. But it's still a tracker: reps type in what happened, and the AI features that help are metered through credits on the higher tiers. Clianta starts where Pipedrive stops: the record fills itself in, and AI Jobs act on what lands.
Where Pipedrive is genuinely better
- Simplicity: one of the easiest manual CRMs to learn.
- Maturity: a decade of polish, solid mobile apps.
- A cheaper entry point ($14/seat Essential) if manual tracking is genuinely all you need.
What a 5-seat team actually pays
Line item
Pipedrive
Clianta
Seats (monthly, annual billing)
Professional: ~$295/mo (5 × $59) · Power: ~$345/mo (5 × $69)
Starter: $145/mo (5 × $29) · Pro: $395/mo (5 × $79)
AI
AI assistant/summaries/drafts metered via credits, concentrated in higher tiers
Included, agentic AI Jobs + Co-Pilot with 750–3,000 credits/mo
Automation caps
Active-automation limits per tier
Workflows on all plans; 7 active on Starter, 25 on Pro
Non-selling teammates
Seats
Viewer seats free
Pipedrive pricing as published July 2026 (annual billing). Verify against pipedrive.com/pricing.
Dimension
Clianta
Pipedrive
Data entry
Auto-captured: emails, meetings, forms land on the right records by themselves.
Manual at the core; the famous UI is a nicer place to type.
Follow-up
AI Jobs notice the quiet deal, draft the nudge, and queue it for your approval.
Reminders and scheduled activities, you still notice, write, and send.
AI
Event-driven agent with human-in-the-loop approval, included in the plan.
Assistant-style AI (summaries, drafts) consuming credits.
Best for
Teams whose pipeline goes stale because everyone is busy doing the actual work.
Teams that genuinely maintain a manual tracker and want nothing more.
Switch to Clianta if
- Your Pipedrive is three weeks stale because nobody has time to update it.
- You keep hitting automation caps or watching AI credits meter up.
- You want follow-ups drafted for you, not another reminder to write them.
Stay with Pipedrive if
- Your team reliably updates it and manual tracking honestly works for you.
- You need the cheapest possible seat and $14 Essential covers your needs.
- Mobile-first field sales is your primary workflow.
Bring your pipeline and compare a week of both.
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