Pipedrive is a sales pipeline CRM that sales teams like. Standin is made for the solo pro who has to answer clients without leaving the job.
Comparison
A CRM centered on the sales pipeline, billed per user, designed for salespeople.
Comparison
Pipedrive
Standin
Starting price
Pipedrive: Billed per user per month, several plans (see their pricing page)
Standin: Free, then 49 € a month (Pro) or 149 € a month (Max)
Free plan
Pipedrive: No permanent free plan, a free trial
Standin: Yes, with no time limit
Setup
Pipedrive: You create your sales stages and fields
Standin: The CRM is generated for your trade from a few sentences
Client requests
Pipedrive: Deal and email tracking, automations depending on the plan
Standin: The copilot reads each request, creates the record and drafts the reply with your information
Phone
Pipedrive: Calling through integrations and add-ons
Standin: The copilot picks up: included in Max, a 39 € monthly add-on on Pro
Built for
Pipedrive: Salespeople and sales teams
Standin: Solo pros and small service businesses
A pipeline, yes, but for whom?
Pipedrive made the visual pipeline popular: each deal moves from column to column until it is signed. For a salesperson who spends the day following up with prospects, it is a precise and pleasant tool.
A tradesperson, a coach or a photographer does not work at that pace. Time spent at the screen is time that is not billed, and requests arrive precisely when you cannot look at them.
What Standin does for you
Standin keeps a pipeline, adapted to your trade, but its main work happens earlier: reading the incoming request, creating the record, drafting the reply with your information, and following up on a quote that got no answer.
You stay in control: every reply can be reviewed before it goes out, and the copilot alerts you as soon as a request goes beyond what it knows.
Choose Pipedrive if
Your job is selling, with many deals in parallel.
Several salespeople share the same pipeline.
You need many integrations with other sales software.
Choose Standin if
You sell your own work, not a product, and you do it alone.
You want to start for free, with no time limit.
You want incoming requests handled while you work.