Close vs Copper
Close's Solo Plan Costs $19 Monthly and $9 Annually — The Steepest Discount on the Page
Copper's Basic Plan Holds 2,500 Contacts But Only 25 Companies
The short answer
- Entry price
- Close starts at $19/month; Copper starts at $23/month. Close is $4 a month cheaper to start. Entry price is not total cost — check the limit that binds first on each.
- Our rating
- 4.4/5 against 4/5. That gap is inside our own margin, so treat these as rated level and decide on the specifics below rather than on the score.
- Against the rest of the category
- Of the 8 crm sales automation tools we have reviewed that publish a starting price, Close is the 2nd cheapest to start and Copper the 3rd.
Close
from $19/monthSolo is $19 per user monthly but $9 annually — a 53% cut, far steeper than the 7% between Scale's two rates. Solo is also capped at 1 user and 10,000 leads. Every plan is per user, and calling is billed on usage at roughly $0.02 a minute on top.
What works
- ✓ Solo at $9/user on annual billing is a genuinely low entry price
- ✓ Essentials and above remove both the user cap and the lead cap
- ✓ AI credits are included on every tier, from 500 to 2,000 a month
- ✓ Calling costs are stated openly at around $0.02/minute
What does not
- ✗ Solo is limited to 1 user and 10,000 leads
- ✗ The annual discount shrinks sharply as you go up: 53% on Solo, 7% on Scale
- ✗ Calling and phone numbers are usage-billed on top of every plan
- ✗ Growth at $109/user monthly is where most sales teams actually land
Copper
from $23/monthBasic is $29 a seat monthly or $23 annually, and it caps at 2,500 contacts — but just 25 companies. Professional lifts contacts to 15,000 and companies only to 50. For B2B work the company limit runs out long before the contact limit does.
What works
- ✓ Annual billing is a real cut: Business drops from $134 to $99 a seat
- ✓ Business removes both the contact and the company ceiling entirely
- ✓ Contact allowances are published per tier rather than quoted
- ✓ Basic at $23 a seat annually is a low entry for a full CRM
What does not
- ✗ Basic allows only 25 companies; Professional only 50
- ✗ The company limit is far tighter than the contact limit on both lower tiers
- ✗ Every plan is per seat, so cost scales with headcount
- ✗ Minimum seat counts, storage limits and email-send limits are not stated
Who should pick which
Pick Close if this is the thing that matters most to you:
Solo at $9/user on annual billing is a genuinely low entry price.
What most often rules it out: Solo is limited to 1 user and 10,000 leads.
Pick Copper if this is the thing that matters most to you:
Annual billing is a real cut: Business drops from $134 to $99 a seat.
What most often rules it out: Basic allows only 25 companies; Professional only 50.
Figures come from our review of each product, checked against the vendor's own pricing page. We do not convert currencies or rank prices quoted on different billing periods — where that applies it is said above, not quietly resolved.
A third option, and what it is not
Bonfire Terminal is an AI agent that runs as a desktop app on your own machine — no cloud, nothing you type leaves your computer. It does not do what Close or Copper do, and we will not pretend it does. If either is doing its job for you, keep it.
What the $27 actually gets you→The way in is the AI Marketers Club — $27 one-time, including 21 days of access. Keeping it after that is a separate purchase; the vendor's FAQ states Bonfire Terminal starts at $5,000. We earn a commission at no extra cost to you, which is why both tools' drawbacks are printed in full above and the $5,000 is here rather than left for you to find later.