Every paid plan below is half its standard price for founding customers.
The CRM is free either way.
- Every CRM feature — accounts, contacts, pipeline, tasks, calendar
- Quote builder, invoicing, POC plans, account plans, org charts
- Team sharing for up to 5 people
- 2 GB of files
- 14-day full AI trial — starts the first time you click an AI button
- JOAN, Notes AI & the voice assistant
- AI task and email drafting
- Fast model, everyday volume
- Flat price — no usage charges
- Everything AI, at full power
- 10 hrs/month meeting recording + transcription
- Decks, RFP responder, account plans, MEDDPICC, briefings, POC readouts
- Semantic search across your whole book
- AI Pro for every seat
- Admin console, roles, territories, manager roll-up
- Org backups, pooled AI budgets, one invoice
- Human support
All AI tiers are flat-price, fair-use: no meters, no per-action charges. On an unusually heavy month AI switches to a faster model until your cycle resets — nothing ever stops working.
POC Planner, on its own
Sales engineers and solutions architects don’t get to pick the CRM. They do get to pick how they run an evaluation. POC Planner is the evaluation half of Ergentor as a standalone product.
- Full checklist, Gantt and scored criteria
- Word / Excel round-trip
- Invite the customer to score it themselves
- Unlimited POC plans
- All free-plan features — checklist, Gantt, scoring, Word / Excel, customer invite
- Readout deck built from your scorecard
- AI readout deck with speaker notes
- AI success-criteria drafting
- MEDDPICC analysis
What “free” actually means here
Not a trial. Not a three-user cap. Not a contact list with a paywall on the useful parts. The whole sales cockpit, for as long as you want it.
Free, for everyone
- Accounts, contacts & people
- Opportunity pipeline & board
- Tasks, calendar & reminders
- Quote builder (1-tier, 2-tier, direct)
- Invoicing
- POC & account plans
- Org charts
- Notes with pasted images
- Search, CSV import/export
- Deep links & .ics export
- Team sharing (up to 5)
- Knowledge Base
What costs money, and why
- AI features — they have a real cost every time they run
- Meeting recording — per-minute transcription cost
- Roles, territories, roll-ups — management features; management pays
- Org backups & governance — a compliance requirement is a budget line
- Human support — free accounts get the Support Assistant and docs
Against the usual suspects
Monthly totals at published 2026 prices, annual billing where the vendor requires it. None of the competitor figures include AI comparable to AI Pro.
| Team size | Ergentor | Salesforce Enterprise | HubSpot Sales Pro | Zoho Enterprise | Pipedrive Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 rep | $0 – $15 | $175 | $90 | $40 | $49 |
| 5-person team | $125 | $875 | $450 | $200 | $245 |
| 25-person team | $625 | $4,375 | $2,250 + onboarding | $1,000 | $1,225 |
| 100-person org | $2,500 | $17,500 | $9,000 + onboarding | $4,000 | $4,900 |
Ergentor figures use founder’s pricing: Business at $25 for teams and AI Pro at $15 for the individual. Salesforce’s AI tier, Agentforce 1 Sales, is $550 per user per month — twenty-two times Business. Competitor prices from each vendor’s published 2026 pricing, August 2026.
Questions people ask
Is the CRM really free?
Yes. No seat cap, no record cap, no expiry. If you never want AI, you never pay. The intelligence is the product we sell; the CRM is what it runs on.
What does “fair use” mean?
Use AI as much as you like. On a month that is far heavier than typical, AI quietly switches to a faster model until your cycle resets. Nothing is refused and nothing is charged extra.
How does the trial work?
14 days of full AI, starting the first time you click an AI button — not at signup, so it isn’t used up while you import your data. When it ends, the CRM keeps working exactly as before.
Can I expense this myself?
That is what it is priced for. $5 or $15 on a personal card, under any expense threshold, with no procurement and no conversation with anyone. Share a plan with a colleague and they can use the CRM free.