Leave Nutshell. End the marketing tier creep.
Nutshell ships a competent SMB CRM, then sells marketing as a separate per-contact tier on top. Combined, the bill ends up matching mid-market CRMs without matching their depth.
3-year savings (50 seats)
$48,000
vs Nutshell effective $75/seat
Why teams leave Nutshell
The four reasons we hear most often.
Reason 01
Marketing module priced like an email tool
Nutshell Marketing is a per-contact-tier add-on. It's effectively Mailchimp tied to your CRM, billed at email-tool prices.
Reason 02
Power AI tier upcharge
AI summaries, lead scoring, and copilot features sit behind Power AI ($79/seat). Most teams want the AI but not the tier-lock.
Reason 03
Reporting limits at lower tiers
Custom reports and advanced dashboards are gated. Sales-ops needs hit the ceiling well before headcount does.
Reason 04
Integration ecosystem narrow
Beyond the natives, anything custom relies on Zapier or webhooks. The 'CRM as data hub' play requires gluing together.
The math
What Nutshell actually costs.
Public list pricing plus the add-ons most teams end up buying. Implementation and admin overhead extra.
| Line item | Cost |
|---|---|
Sales tier | $49 / seat / mo |
Power AI tier | $79 / seat / mo |
Nutshell Marketing | $5–$$ per 100 contacts |
Zapier (typical) | $50+ / mo |
| Real all-in | ~$75 effective per seat all-in |
What we migrate
Every record.
Every field.
Specifically, from Nutshell. Nothing is left behind to "migrate later."
- People, Companies, Leads, Opportunities
- Pipelines, stages, custom fields
- Email sequences, templates, sends
- Nutshell Marketing audiences and campaigns
- Activity history, calls, notes
- Reports, leaderboards, custom views
- Zapier-mediated integration data
Our recommendation
Replace Nutshell with Twenty (open source).
Twenty covers the sales side cleanly. We wire Resend or Postmark for marketing email — the same audience-and-campaign model Nutshell uses, but priced by send volume on infrastructure (cents per thousand) instead of per stored contact.
Not the right fit?
We also build fully bespoke CRMs, deploy Twenty / EspoCRM / NocoBase to other variants, and integrate with whatever you're keeping. The audit covers the choice.
Nutshell migration FAQ
Specific to Nutshell.
Other questions? Email us — that's a real address.
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