Short answer: Pipedrive is a pipeline-first sales CRM. AICRM is a proactive CRM built around what needs your attention today. AICRM costs $29, $79, $149 a month with no per-seat charge. Pipedrive costs $19 (£14) to $106 (£79) (USD, converted from GBP, billed annually, per seat per month, excluding VAT). Choose Pipedrive if you run a structured sales team on deal stages and want mature pipeline tooling and a large integration list. Choose AICRM if your work is relationships and follow-ups more than deal stages, and you want a CRM that prompts you.
Prices quoted in pounds are converted to dollars at £1 = $1.34 (approximate, October 2026) with the vendor's own figure in brackets.
USD per month, no per-seat charge. 7-day free trial, card required.
USD, converted from GBP, billed annually, per seat per month, excluding VAT
Free plan: No. Trial: 14 days, no credit card. AI: AI report creation and Pipedrive Nova meeting intelligence from Lite; AI email writing tools from Premium.
| Feature | AICRM | Pipedrive |
|---|---|---|
| Daily brief of what needs attention | Yes Daily Brief on the dashboard and emailed at 7am on weekdays: follow-ups due, unanswered emails, new signals, returning visitors, open tasks, customers gone quiet. | Not found Not found on the vendor pages we checked. |
| Flags emails nobody replied to | Yes Flags one-to-one emails sent from AICRM with no reply after 3 to 14 days, cleared when an email, call or meeting comes in. Covers email sent through AICRM only. | Partial No native feature. Users build it with an automation that creates a follow-up task. Source |
| Alerts when a known contact returns to your site | Yes Known contacts back on your site appear in the Daily Brief with pages viewed and a suggested action. Prospects also identifies companies visiting (reverse-IP). | Partial Web Visitors is a paid add-on, from $55 (£41) a month per company. Source |
| Do things by voice | Yes Voice agent with tools that read and write CRM data: find contacts, add contacts and tasks, reassign owners, build segments, draft campaigns. | Not found No native voice assistant found. Third-party voice products connect to it. |
| Finds new leads for you | Partial Lead Finder searches public LinkedIn profiles for your ideal customer, gives a fit reason for each, and adds only the ones you approve. 10 candidates per run, included in every plan, usable by voice. No email addresses are found yet, so it drafts LinkedIn connection notes rather than emails. | Partial Prospector searches a database of 400 million profiles, as part of the LeadBooster add-on at $39 a month per company (10 monthly credits included, more bought separately). Source |
Yes = offered as described. Partial = something related is offered, see the note. No = confirmed not offered. Not found = we did not find it on the vendor pages we checked on 2026-10-09; that is not proof the feature is missing.
AICRM is a full CRM underneath. Here is how the fundamentals compare with Pipedrive.
| Feature | AICRM | Pipedrive |
|---|---|---|
| Contacts, tasks and activity history | Yes Contacts with notes, tasks and an activity timeline, CSV import and export. Caps: 2,000 / 5,000 / 20,000 contacts by plan. | Yes Leads, deals, contacts and calendar events in one workspace. No contact cap listed. Source |
| Sales pipeline for deals | No No deal pipeline today. Contacts move through lifecycle stages (lead, customer) instead, and the Daily Brief tells you who to follow up. | Yes Pipeline management is the core product, with forecasting from Growth. Source |
| Email campaigns to a segment | Yes AI audience segments (behaviour, inactivity, lifecycle stage, lead score, industry, source) with campaigns sent straight to them. Included in every plan. | Partial Bulk email from Growth. Campaigns is a paid add-on from $18 (£13.33) a month. Source |
| Automations | Yes Lifecycle and segment-triggered emails, nurture and re-engagement. No usage limit on automations. | Yes Automations and nurturing sequences from Growth. Source |
| Forms that create contacts | Yes Embeddable forms and website visitor tracking that links page views to submissions. Included in every plan. | Partial LeadBooster add-on, from $44 (£32.50) a month. Source |
| Calendar and booking pages | Yes Google Calendar sync and public booking pages. | Yes Meeting scheduler from Growth. Source |
| Integrations | Partial Google Calendar, CSV import and export, and BCC email logging. A much shorter list than the platforms alongside. | Yes 500+ integrations including Zapier, Zoom and Lemlist. Source |
| Free plan | No No free plan. 7-day free trial with full features, card required up front. | No No free plan. 14-day trial, no card. Source |
Yes = offered as described. Partial = something related is offered, see the note. No = confirmed not offered. Not found = we did not find it on the vendor pages we checked on 2026-10-09; that is not proof the feature is missing.
you run a structured sales team on deal stages and want mature pipeline tooling and a large integration list.
your work is relationships and follow-ups more than deal stages, and you want a CRM that prompts you.
AICRM is $29, $79 or $149 a month with no per-seat charge, limited by voice minutes and contacts. Pipedrive is Lite $19 (£14), Growth $52 (£39), Premium $79 (£59), Ultimate $106 (£79) (USD, converted from GBP, billed annually, per seat per month, excluding VAT). Prices read from https://www.pipedrive.com/en/pricing on 2026-10-09. Currencies differ, so check the vendor page before deciding.
Free plan: No. Trial: 14 days, no credit card. AICRM has no free plan; it has a 7-day free trial with full features and a card required up front.
Choose Pipedrive if you run a structured sales team on deal stages and want mature pipeline tooling and a large integration list.
Choose AICRM if your work is relationships and follow-ups more than deal stages, and you want a CRM that prompts you.