Bitrix24 vs Close

Bitrix24 is an all-in-one business suite that combines CRM, task and project management, team chat and video calls, an intranet, a website and store builder and HR tools. It launched in 2012 from the team behind Bitrix, a web software company founded in 1998 in Kaliningrad, Russia, and the company says more than 15 million organizations have chosen it. Its core job is to give an SMB one workspace for selling, collaborating and running internal processes.

The CRM covers leads, deals, pipelines, invoices, estimates, web forms and a contact center that pulls in email, telephony, WhatsApp and messengers. Tasks support Kanban, Gantt and time tracking, and CoPilot adds AI across CRM, tasks, chat and calls. Pricing is per organization, not per user: a free plan for 1-2 users, then Basic (5 users), Standard (50), Professional (100) and Enterprise from 250 users. A self-hosted on-premise edition is sold separately.

Bitrix24 fits cost-conscious SMBs that want many tools for one flat price. The trade-offs are a crowded interface with a steep learning curve and modules that are shallower than best-of-breed tools. HubSpot has a cleaner CRM and stronger marketing automation, Zoho CRM offers deeper customization inside a wider app suite, and monday.com is easier for project-centric teams.

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Close is a sales CRM designed for inside sales teams whose day revolves around calls, emails and text messages. Originally known as Close.io and co-founded by sales author Steli Efti, the company is fully remote and largely bootstrapped. Its central idea is that reps should not need a separate dialer, sequencing tool and CRM: calling, SMS, email and meeting notes live on the lead record, and every interaction is logged automatically.

Built-in telephony covers local numbers in many countries, power and predictive dialers, call recording, voicemail drops and call coaching with listen, whisper and barge. Workflows, formerly called sequences, combine automated and manual email, call and task steps, and AI features generate call summaries and help draft emails. Smart views, custom activities and multiple pipelines organize the work, and reporting focuses on activity and funnel metrics. Plans are priced per user, with calling and email included in every tier and call minutes billed on usage.

Close suits SDR and account executive teams of roughly 3 to 50 people doing high-volume outbound or fast inbound follow-up, plus agencies and recruiters who live on the phone. It deliberately omits marketing automation, service desks and deep custom reporting, so companies wanting one customer platform usually prefer HubSpot. Pipedrive is cheaper and more visual for deal management but needs add-ons for calling; Salesforce suits complex enterprise processes; Attio appeals to teams wanting a flexible, data-model-first CRM.