Pricing
The CRM is free — this page exists to show you the entire business model, so you don't have to wonder where the catch is.
AI assistant · $5 / workspace / month
Every person gets 100 free messages per calendar month, with CRM search, summaries, and drafts. Turn on paid AI for unlimited messages and CRM changes you review before applying. Cancel renewal anytime in Premium features.
Start with the free assistantCore CRM
Unlimited CRM records and team members.
- Unlimited contacts & companies
- Unlimited deals & pipelines
- Unlimited team members
- Tasks & follow-up reminders
- Activity timeline on every record
- Invoicing & online payments
- Lead capture forms
- Reports & dashboards
- Custom fields & tags
- CSV import and full export
- White-labeling with your logo & color
- Email-to-CRM (BCC) logging
- 100 AI messages per person each month (read-only CRM tools)
How we make money
Optional upgrades and a capped online payment fee.
When a client pays one of your invoices through the hosted payment page, crm-153 keeps 0.5% of the payment — never more than $5. Payments land in your own Stripe account. Mark an invoice paid offline and there's no fee at all.
| Client pays you | crm-153 keeps |
|---|---|
| $120 | $0.60 |
| $500 | $2.50 |
| $2,500 | $5 (capped) |
| $20,000 | $5 (capped) |
Stripe's standard card-processing fee applies separately and goes to Stripe. The crm-153 fee is snapshotted per invoice at checkout, so a later pricing change can never rewrite an old payment.
A per-seat CRM earns whether or not you close anything. crm-153 only earns when your clients pay you — so the only way we grow is if the product helps you collect more. Same side of the table.
Pricing questions, answered
- Is there a paid plan I'll eventually need?
- The core CRM is free. Optional AI assistant upgrades cost $5 per workspace per month for unlimited messages and reviewed CRM changes. The free assistant includes 100 messages per person per month with read-only tools.
- What if I never use invoicing?
- The core CRM stays free. You only pay if you enable an optional paid feature, or collect an online invoice payment.
- Does the fee replace Stripe's processing fee?
- No — it's separate and much smaller. Stripe charges its standard card-processing fee (paid to Stripe), and crm-153 adds its own capped platform fee on top. Both are taken from the payment automatically; there's never a bill to pay.
- Can you raise the fee after I've moved my business in?
- The fee applied to each invoice is locked in when your client pays, and your data is never hostage either way — full CSV export is available to every workspace at any time.
- Do I need a credit card to sign up?
- No. Signing up and using the free CRM and 100 monthly AI messages requires no card. You only add payment details when enabling a paid feature.