Frappe CRM

Frappe CRM tracks leads, deals, and every conversation around them, with one difference from the SaaS incumbents that matters: pricing is per server, not per seat. The software is AGPL and complete, no feature gating, from the same team behind ERPNext. Calls, emails, notes, and tasks land on one activity page per deal instead of scattered tabs.

Self-hosting means operating a full Frappe stack: MariaDB, Redis, background workers, a scheduler. Docker Compose gets you running, but upgrades go through Frappe's bench tooling and you're pinned to matching framework versions. Fine with someone who does ops; not a drop-a-binary situation. Frappe Cloud hosts it from $5/mo with unlimited users, which is the number to hold against HubSpot's per-seat math.

Solo: overkill unless you're already in the Frappe ecosystem. Small sales teams: this is where per-seat SaaS pricing hurts most and where the switch pays off fastest. Teams already on ERPNext: the integration is native, use it.

The catch: you're adopting a framework, not just a CRM. Customization means learning Frappe's DocType model, and AGPL needs a legal read if you're embedding it in something you sell.