Close vs Less Annoying CRM
Close's Solo Plan Costs $19 Monthly and $9 Annually — The Steepest Discount on the Page
Less Annoying CRM Is $15 Per User With No Upgrade Tier — Here Is What That Costs You
The short answer
- Entry price
- Close starts at $19/month; Less Annoying CRM starts at $15/month. Less Annoying CRM 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 4.2/5. 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 Less Annoying CRM the 1st.
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
Less Annoying CRM
from $15/month$15 per user per month, one price, no tiers, and nothing locked behind an upgrade. That removes the pricing trap that defines this category — and it also removes the upgrade path, which is the part worth thinking about before you commit a team to it.
What works
- ✓ One price with no tiers: 'No features locked behind upgrades'
- ✓ Unlimited contacts, companies, pipelines and custom fields at the only price there is
- ✓ 25GB of file storage per user, which scales with the team rather than capping it
- ✓ 30-day trial with no credit card required
What does not
- ✗ There is no higher tier to grow into if you outgrow the feature set
- ✗ The flat rate is per user, so cost still scales linearly with headcount
- ✗ Add-on pricing is not stated on the pricing page
- ✗ Simplicity is a design commitment, not a stage — complex needs will not be met later
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 Less Annoying CRM if this is the thing that matters most to you:
One price with no tiers: 'No features locked behind upgrades'.
What most often rules it out: There is no higher tier to grow into if you outgrow the feature set.
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 Less Annoying CRM 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.