// MARKETING
HubSpot vs Mautic
HubSpot's marketing tiers get expensive fast and meter you on contacts. Mautic runs the same campaigns — email, automation, lead scoring — on your own server with no contact caps.
RENTED
HubSpot
From ~$800/mo (Pro)
OWNED
Mautic
Free + your hosting
// AT A GLANCE
How they compare
HubSpot
Mautic
Pricing model
Tiered subscription, billed by contacts
Free, open-source license
Contact limits
Overages and tier jumps
Unlimited contacts
Who owns the site
HubSpot's cloud
Your server, your lists
Automation & nurturing
Yes (tier-gated)
Yes, fully featured
Lock-in
Proprietary, costly to leave
Open data, leave anytime
* Pricing is illustrative of published list rates and scales with seats/usage; open-source figures reflect license cost only.
// THE CATCH
Where HubSpot starts to hurt
X
Contact metering
Your bill grows with your list — success literally costs you more every month.
X
Tier gating
The automation and reporting you want sit behind the next pricing tier up.
X
Onboarding fees
Required onboarding packages can add thousands before you send a single email.
// THE ALTERNATIVE
Mautic does the same job — and you own it
Mautic is a mature marketing-automation platform — email campaigns, drip sequences, landing pages, lead scoring, and segmentation — self-hosted with no per-contact pricing.
Email campaigns with no contact caps
Visual automation & drip sequences
Lead scoring and segmentation
Landing pages and forms
Full ownership of your subscriber data
// THE MATH
What it costs over three years
HubSpot · 3-YEAR LICENSE
$28,800+
Based on Marketing Hub Professional; price scales with marketing contacts and jumps sharply at Enterprise.
Mautic · LICENSE FEES
$0
No per-seat or usage fees ever. You pay only for the hosting you already run — plus our flat build & maintenance.
// WHY BUILTSTEAD, NOT DIY
Open-source is only free if your time is.
Mautic is powerful but notoriously fiddly to install, configure deliverability for, and maintain. We install it, secure it, move your data over, connect it to the rest of your tools, and keep it running — all set up in your name. You get the savings of open-source without becoming your own IT department.
01
We host it for you
Deployed on reliable infrastructure, configured, secured, and monitored — no servers for you to babysit.
02
We migrate your data
Your existing records, contacts, and history moved over cleanly, so nothing is lost in the switch.
03
We connect your stack
Wired into your other tools so data flows automatically instead of being re-entered by hand.
04
We maintain & update
Updates, backups, and security patches handled on an ongoing basis — it just keeps working.
05
Set up in your name
Everything is titled to your company on your domain. No lock-in, no markup — the keys are yours.
06
Real people to call
When something needs attention, you reach us directly — not a ticket queue in another time zone.
Ready to drop HubSpot?
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// GROWTH
// FINANCE
// OPERATIONS