Replace HubSpot. Stop Stacking Hubs.
HubSpot's pricing model bundles you into multiple "Hubs" — Sales Hub, Marketing Hub, Service Hub, Operations Hub, CMS Hub — each billed at $50-1500 per seat, per month, on top of per-Hub and per-contact tiers. A 100-seat company easily lands in Enterprise pricing at $300K-1M/year. Aeion CRM, Marketing, Helpdesk, Content, and BI replace all 5 Hubs, each at a flat per-module rate (or bundle them under the optional All-Access plan), with the same functionality, stronger native AI, and no per-contact tax.
Aeion Module ↔ HubSpot Hub Mapping
Sales Hub → Aeion CRM
AI lead scoring blends demographic and behavioral signals — email opens, clicks, downloads — computed directly in the database so scores update continuously instead of on a nightly batch. Email sequences run on real cadence logic with A/B tested subject lines and auto-un-enrollment the instant a contact replies, and deal rooms give prospects a secure, audited space to review documents and sign. Read CRM →
Marketing Hub → Aeion Marketing
Wilson Score A/B testing rejects a "winner" until the result is statistically real, not just a lucky small sample. RFM segmentation flags at-risk customers automatically, and DMARC/SPF/DKIM pre-flight checks catch deliverability problems before a campaign ever lands in spam — with no per-contact tax. Read Marketing →
Service Hub → Aeion Helpdesk
An AI Copilot drafts replies grounded in your knowledge base, Auto-Resolution reads the customer's mood before ever attempting a bot reply, and Smart Reply Guard keeps "thanks!" messages from reopening closed tickets — all at a flat per-workspace price that doesn't climb every time you add an agent. Read Helpdesk →
CMS Hub → Aeion Content
A rich block editor with 30+ block types — the same one powering every module's content — replaces HubSpot's CMS Hub and its HubL templating language entirely. SEO fields, XML sitemaps, and structured data generate automatically, and every edit gets one-click rollback to any prior version. Read Content →
Operations Hub → Aeion Blueprint + Workspace
Describe an automation in plain English and Blueprint's AI generates the full workflow — trigger, steps, and error handling — from 50+ built-in actions spanning every Aeion module, while Workspace covers the internal docs and runbooks Operations Hub never really solved.
Commerce Hub → Aeion Commerce
Native payments, subscriptions, and invoicing for both B2B and B2C — no separate commerce platform to bolt on and reconcile against your contact records.
HubSpot AI → AeionClaw
Nine supported LLM providers with per-persona auto-routing, so a sales question is handled by the CRM-scoped persona and a support question by the Helpdesk-scoped one — never the wrong context loaded into the wrong conversation. Spend caps stop a runaway AI bill before it happens. Read Claw →
Single Audit Trail
One identity across every Hub equivalent — a contact is the same record whether it shows up in a deal, a support ticket, or a campaign — backed by one immutable audit log and one SOC 2 report, not five Hub-specific compliance packets.
The HubSpot Math
HubSpot Enterprise stack for 100-seat mid-market (typical):
- Sales Hub Enterprise: $150/user/month × 50 = $90K/year
- Marketing Hub Enterprise: $3,600/month + per-contact tiers = $80-200K/year
- Service Hub Enterprise: $150/user/month × 30 = $54K/year
- Operations Hub Enterprise: $2,000/month = $24K/year
- CMS Hub Enterprise: $1,200/month = $14K/year
- Per-contact overages (~50K extra contacts): $14-28K/year
- Per-add-on (Sales Hub Pro Add-Ons, etc.): $10-50K/year
- Total: $300K-450K/year for mid-market 100-seat HubSpot Enterprise
Per-contract enterprise haggling can land $250-350K but the structure is per-Hub × per-seat × per-contact — every growth lever (more users, more contacts, more Hubs) raises the bill.
Aeion replacement (same 100 seats, same multi-Hub functionality):
- Aeion platform tier (Enterprise): $80-200K/year for mid-market
- LLM inference: $5-30K/year
- Migration: $30-100K one-time (Singularity)
- Total Year-1: $115-330K
Year-1 savings: $80-300K vs HubSpot Enterprise. 3-year TCO savings: $500K-1.5M.
The bigger story: flat pricing for growth. Adding 50 more seats or 200K more contacts doesn't change your Aeion bill. HubSpot would bill another $90K-300K for the same growth.
The Migration Playbook
Phase 1 — Discovery (Weeks 1-2):
- HubSpot portal audit via Singularity connector
- Per-object schema mapping (contacts, companies, deals, tickets, properties)
- Per-workflow + per-automation mapping
- Per-template mapping (emails, landing pages, forms)
- Custom property + custom object mapping
- App marketplace dependency audit
Phase 2 — Parallel Build (Weeks 3-6):
- Aeion environment configured (CRM + Marketing + Helpdesk + Content)
- Workflows rebuilt in Aeion Marketing automations
- Templates re-created
- Custom objects → become native Aeion collections, no schema hacks
- App-marketplace deps replaced (Aeion modules or Singularity connectors)
- SSO + user provisioning
Phase 3 — Data Migration (Weeks 7-8):
- Contacts + companies + deals → CRM
- Tickets + customers → Helpdesk
- Email lists + automations → Marketing
- Website + blog → Content (or keep on HubSpot CMS for SEO continuity)
- Files + assets → Aeion Files
- Per-team workflows preserved
Phase 4 — Cutover (Weeks 9-10):
- Per-team graduated rollout (sales → marketing → service → ops)
- HubSpot kept read-only for 60-90 days
- DNS cutover for forms + landing pages (if migrated)
- Reports + dashboards rebuilt in Aeion BI
Typical timeline: 10-12 weeks for 100-seat HubSpot Enterprise migration.
Why Replace HubSpot
$80-300K Year-1 savings
A flat per-module rate replaces per-Hub, per-seat, and per-contact pricing that punishes every dimension of growth.
Growth-friendly pricing
Add seats or contacts without triggering a new pricing tier — the bill doesn't move.
One identity
Contact, lead, deal, ticket, and visitor are the same record, not five reconciled systems.
Native AI
Nine LLM providers with per-persona routing, built into every module instead of bolted on as an add-on.
Better data model
Relational SQL instead of HubSpot's flat CRM-property soup.
Customer-owned data
Your database, fully exportable — never locked behind a vendor's export limits.
One SOC 2 report
Not five Hub-specific compliance documents to track separately.