NEXIOS CRM against the real alternative — a place to log leads, or a separate tool to go find them.
Every major CRM assumes you already have the lead and just wants somewhere to put it. Finding new business is a different product, a different line item, or both — Pipedrive’s own documentation confirms its lead-finder is locked behind a higher tier and sold in credit top-ups; HubSpot’s prospecting agent isn’t in the starter plan either. NEXIOS CRM puts discovery, audit, and pipeline management in one place, at one quoted price.
NEXIOS CRM’s own listing reads “quoted per business.” Nothing on this page states a confirmed NEXIOS price beyond what the live product page already publishes.
Two tools, two bills, and still no lead-finding in either
A small team chasing new business today typically stitches together a CRM for the pipeline and a separate prospecting tool for finding who goes into it — or skips the second tool and works from whoever happens to find them.
CRMs (HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive)
Built to manage contacts, deals and pipeline once a lead already exists. Lead discovery is either absent, a separate paid add-on, or gated behind a higher tier.
- Pipedrive’s own docs: Prospector credits are “Available from: Premium plan” ($49/seat/mo), sold as capped top-ups on top of that
- HubSpot’s prospecting agent sits above the Starter tier
- Good for: managing a pipeline you’re already filling some other way
Standalone lead-finders (Apollo, ZoomInfo)
Built to find and enrich contacts at scale — genuinely strong at that one job — but neither gives you a real deal pipeline, tasks, or marketing suite. Most teams sync their output into a separate CRM.
- Apollo: real prospecting, but deal management is secondary
- ZoomInfo: enterprise data platform, $15K–$40K+/year, quote-only, no pipeline of its own
- Good for: high-volume outbound teams who already have (or don’t need) a CRM
NEXIOS CRM
Search by category and area, audit each listing for a live and current website before it reaches your pipeline, then work the deal — contacts, tasks, marketing, reporting — without switching tools or paying a second vendor.
- Lead discovery and audit built into the base product, not a credit top-up
- A real “find email” lookup against what’s actually published, not a guessed info@
- Good for: a small team that wants one CRM, not a CRM plus a prospecting subscription
A CRM seat, a prospecting seat, or both
Every CRM price below is its own published starting tier. Where lead-finding needs a higher plan or a separate product, that’s called out — it’s the actual gap, not a rounding error.
To match what NEXIOS CRM does in one quoted price with a traditional stack, a team typically pays for a CRM seat and a prospecting seat separately — e.g. Pipedrive Premium ($49/seat/mo) to even unlock Prospector credits, or a CRM plus Apollo ($49–119/seat/mo) running alongside it. Figures above are each vendor’s own published starting price as of 2026-10-24; Salesforce and HubSpot both have higher tiers this doesn’t reflect. ZoomInfo’s range is reported/negotiated pricing, not a vendor-published number — ZoomInfo doesn’t publish fixed pricing at all.
Real vendors, two different categories
HubSpot
The default CRM for a lot of small teams — free tier plus a wide ladder of paid add-ons. Prospecting is handled by a separate “agent” product, not included at the entry tier.
from ~$20/seat/moSalesforce
The enterprise standard. Starter Suite covers core CRM; AI (Einstein) and advanced automation sit in higher, separately-priced tiers.
from $25/user/moPipedrive
Pipeline-first CRM, popular with small sales teams. Its own support documentation states Prospector (lead-finding) credits are available starting at the Premium plan only.
from $14/seat/moApollo.io
A genuinely strong, purpose-built prospecting and enrichment tool with its own AI assistant. Most teams run it alongside a separate CRM rather than in place of one.
$49–119/seat/moZoomInfo
Enterprise sales-intelligence data platform. No fixed published pricing, no CRM pipeline of its own — firms license it as a data source feeding into Salesforce or HubSpot.
quote-only, $15K–40K+/yrNEXIOS CRM
Search, audit, and a full CRM — contacts, deals, tasks, marketing, reporting — in one product. A Claude-powered assistant on your own API key works alongside the pipeline, not bolted on as a separate paid agent.
quoted per businessSide by side
Vendor claims from their own pricing and product pages. “Not disclosed” means genuinely not stated, not assumed absent.
| Feature | NEXIOS CRM | HubSpot | Salesforce | Pipedrive | Apollo.io | ZoomInfo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lead discovery built into base pricesearch + audit, not just capture | ✓ | ×separate prospecting agent | × | ×Premium tier + credits | ✓this is its core product | ✓data, not an audited pipeline |
| Real email-findervs. a guessed info@ address | ✓ | add-on tools | add-on tools | add-on tools | ✓ | ✓ |
| Website-liveness audit before a lead reaches the pipeline | ✓ | not disclosed | not disclosed | not disclosed | not disclosed | not disclosed |
| AI assistant | ✓BYOK, never shared across accounts | ✓vendor-hosted, gated by tier | ✓Einstein, paid tier | ~limited | ✓included even on free tier, capped | ~“Copilot,” Elite tier only |
| Six-stage deal pipeline with win-probability tracking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ×not a pipeline tool | ×not a pipeline tool |
| Marketing suite built incampaigns, sequences, segments, landing forms | ✓ | ✓higher tiers | ✓higher tiers | ~add-ons | × | × |
| No-code custom fields + workflow automation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | not disclosed | not applicable |
| Published pricing | quoted per business | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ×reported/negotiated only |
| Target buyer | a small team that wants one tool, not two | SMB through enterprise, wide ladder | enterprise, scalable down | small sales-first teams | outbound-heavy sales teams | enterprise sales/marketing data buyers |
Built to go find business, not just file it
Every item below is a shipped, documented feature of the live NEXIOS CRM — not a roadmap item.
Search by category and location, pull real business listings, and audit each one for a live, current website before it ever reaches your pipeline.
A genuine lookup against what’s actually published on a lead’s own site — not a template-guessed info@ address.
Draft outreach, summarize a deal’s history, or ask a question about your own pipeline — bring your own Anthropic API key, never shared across accounts.
The core of a CRM, done plainly — every record scoped to your account, every route checked, not assumed.
Win-probability tracking per stage, with sales-ops reporting that reflects what’s actually in the pipeline.
Campaigns, sequences, A/B subject tests, saved segments, and lead-capture landing forms — sent from your own SMTP settings, encrypted at rest.
Shape the CRM to your own pipeline without engineering help, with workflow automation on top.
An export/import round trip that can’t leak into — or overwrite — another account’s data, even on a hand-edited file.
Sources
- HubSpot Sales Hub pricing page (hubspot.com/pricing/sales), read 2026-10-24.
- Salesforce Sales Cloud / Small Business pricing pages (salesforce.com/sales/pricing, salesforce.com/small-business/pricing), read 2026-10-24.
- Pipedrive’s own pricing page and knowledge-base article on how pricing works, including the Prospector-credits “Available from: Premium plan” statement (support.pipedrive.com), read 2026-10-24; third-party pricing summaries (Method CRM, Capsule CRM) cross-checked for current tier amounts.
- Apollo.io pricing page (apollo.io/pricing), read 2026-10-24.
- ZoomInfo pricing roundups (factors.ai, salesgenie.com) — ZoomInfo does not publish fixed pricing itself; figures are reported/negotiated ranges, read 2026-10-24.
- NEXIOS CRM’s own live product page (polyapps-ai.com/nexios-pursuit), including its existing mini-comparison and full feature list, read 2026-10-24.