HubSpot's Marketing Hub is an all-in-one inbound marketing engine that includes tools for email marketing, landing page creation, social media marketing, content management, reporting & analytics, search engine optimization (SEO), and more.
$50
per month
Pardot
Score 7.8 out of 10
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Pardot is a marketing automation platform. Its key features include lead management, lead generation, social selling, and email marketing.
$1,250
per month
Pricing
HubSpot Marketing Hub
Pardot
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
per month
Starter
$50
per month (includes 1,000 contacts)
Pro
$890
per month (includes 2,000 contacts)
Enterprise
$3,200
per month (includes 10,000 contacts)
Growth
$1,250
/month/up to 10,000 contacts billed annually
Plus
$2,500
/month/up to 10,000 contacts billed annually
Advanced
$4,000
/month/up to 10,000 contacts billed annually
Premium
$15,000
/month/up to 10,000 contacts billed annually
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HubSpot Marketing Hub
Pardot
Free Trial
Yes
No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
Required
No setup fee
Additional Details
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Salesforce Engage, an additional offering for sales and marketing alignment, is priced at $50 per month per user.
Hubspot is much more feature rich and covers all areas of marketing, which allows it to offer better insights on what's working well, and what's not working so well in your marketing efforts. Hubspot is also easier to use than Pardot. Support and training is far better with …
First just to note: Pardot is just marketing automation and does not include a CMS or something in which you can build and manage a website. In addition, at least when I used it, Pardot doesn't have a blog portion to it so you'd still have to have your blog in something like …
Hubspot seemed more intuitive than Pardot. Plus when I sat down with the sales team, they really helped me understand how Hubspot would fit our business as opposed to Pardot. Their sales pitch didn't cover any of the aspects I told them were important. It felt like they were on …
HubSpot is all around a more robust platform. It offers a lot more components to the marketing automation process and tracking needs. While many small business teams would benefit from products like Act-On and MailChimp, EMMA (who I also love), and Pardot, HubSpot is the clear …
Verified User
Professional
Chose HubSpot Marketing Hub
We previously had Pardot and struggled with some of their tools, like building new landing pages. We do not have an IT department and I only have basic coding knowledge so we had to pay for another software to build our landing pages. Hubspot allows us to do everything we need …
In the past, I've worked with companies that use both Marketo and Pardot. Pardot is an absolutely horrible solution, I don't know why anyone would ever buy it or use it. There are many way better options that are much cheaper than Pardot, so why even bother with their solution? …
We chose Hubspot over Pardot due to the all round functionality of Hubspot. Pardot specialises in Marketing Automation, but you get that and much more with Hubspot and the prices are comparable. We needed a solution that enabled the whole marketing team to improve their …
Verified User
Employee
Chose HubSpot Marketing Hub
HubSpot is more lightweight than Salesforce and Pardot, but also easier to use and manage. While I've found Pardot to be highly unreliable, HubSpot's performance never disappointed—for what it is. Again, it's a simpler tool, but sometimes that's all that's needed. For a small …
Verified User
Manager
Chose HubSpot Marketing Hub
HubSpot [Marketing Hub] hands down! From the user interface all the way down to programmatic details, HubSpot [Marketing Hub] is leaps ahead over Pardot. I mean, what kind of system can't handle prospect time-zone sending? Pardot, that's who. HubSpot [Marketing Hub] is …
Verified User
Professional
Chose HubSpot Marketing Hub
Better support. User experience. Friendly UI.
Verified User
Director
Chose HubSpot Marketing Hub
HubSpot is a middle of the road platform compared to other similar platforms that can be overly simple or overly complex. HubSpot is a great starting point for organizations wanting to invest in inbound marketing and/or marketing automation without having to invest heavily in …
HubSpot is by far the most user-friendly, which means it's more likely to be fully deployed by customers. We help people move from both of the mentioned competing platforms because the user experience is so difficult that the products aren't being used.
HubSpot does a number of marketing activities all in one, easy platform. We can do things like email, blog, lead nurturing, keyword research, reports, buyer personas, etc.
Hubspot is really well optimized and easy to manage. There is also a lot of [content in the] Learning Center to learn how to use the tool better. Hubspot has a great reputation in the industry. Hubspot was doing all the things we wanted such as lead qualification, landing …
There are many great marketing automation platforms and I am always interested in evaluating them. I often find, however, that the competitors' assumptions regarding Hubspot's capabilities (or lack thereof) are misinformed or simply wrong. I have seen interesting features in …
HubSpot is a better all-around automation solution for our small marketing department. It helps us function as a design team, social media managers, a copy writing team and campaign strategists when we need to have those hats on. It makes switching back and forth easy and helps …
HubSpot appeared to be the most user-friendly, with intuitive interfaces and comprehensive training. We also liked the level of support offered by HubSpot when setting up the system, as well as learning how to be good marketers.
Hubspot is more simple, and because it's a lot more simple and clear it's more professional. Hubspot also offers training as I mentioned in some other sections, the training is so useful in my every day work life and makes you a lot more valuable as a business person. Hubspot …
Reporting is much stronger and a lot more geared towards inbound marketing, rather than general marketing automation. It's a more complete solution with everything you need in regards to inbound marketing, whereas the others all miss some …
HubSpot competitors don't stand a chance against them. The immense amount of integrations the platform offers, the full circle marketing efforts it offers in the software, and its continuous improvements make it a worthwhile product. I'd suggest doing your research before …
The software seemed better up front and they have a have wealth of knowledge on marketing of all kinds, as well as sales. HubSpot makes themselves seem like real people doing something they are passionate about and want to continue to do better. They want to see you succeed, …
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Strategist
Chose HubSpot Marketing Hub
Eloqua, Pardot, and Marketo
Verified User
Analyst
Chose HubSpot Marketing Hub
We chose Hubspot because it was a simpler functioning software program than something like Eloqua, while still providing everything we needed. After seeing demos for a lot of marketing automation software, we came to the conclusion that many others bogged users down in order to …
Pardot
Verified User
Manager
Chose Pardot
If you use salesforce for your sales team, Pardot is the best option because it integrates the best. It allows you to notify sales team members more easily and reports in SalesForce are easier to create. HubSpot offers a better all-around marketing solution, but doesn't …
I haven't chosen Pardot over Eloqua, as i stand by my opinion that Pardot is better for database sizes of up to a million, which for Eloqua i would say goes to multiple millions of contacts. Their database set up is just a bit more intuitive and i believe offers more, which …
Verified User
Manager
Chose Pardot
Pardot is a better price point compared to some of the other B2B platforms.
Some of the functionality may be lacking compared to some of the other B2B, and definitely B2C platforms.
Verified User
Manager
Chose Pardot
Pardot is pretty much on the same level. We chose Pardot because it integrates directly with Salesforce. We already use Contentful for landing pages, so we weren't too worried about using Pardot's builder. I really liked the simplicity of the visual email workflows. Coming …
Verified User
Manager
Chose Pardot
Pardot is very similar to HubSpot in that it is easy to use and customize. They are also comparable in price. The main decision maker in this regard will be what you're using for a CRM. Pardot is much more intuitive than Microsoft products and, with unlimited users, makes it …
Pardot was less expensive than HubSpot or Marketo. Compared to Act-On, it was similar in price but had more features and the integration with Salesforce was better and natively supported. Compared to SharpSpring, it doesn't have the same strong features, but the integration …
Verified User
Administrative Assistant
Chose Pardot
As stated earlier, Pardot is definitely the leader in marketing automation. In comparison to other competitors, it's the most expensive, but it provides the most efficient data for larger organizations. While it can be difficult to onboard, the customer service is excellent and …
Pardot is a VERY flexible tool. Most have thought of it as a very adolescent tool, but it holds its own against Marketo in the VAST majority of areas. You DON'T need a near full-time developer to keep it working (unlike Marketo). Act-on was limited in what it could do, HubSpot …
As Salesforce users, Pardot's integration was native and, of course, much more aligned to the Salesforce. We have been able to improve our reporting and rely on our data more since the two are in the same tech platform. With the new Pardot Lightning App, we've been able to do …
Pardot out-ranks the competition in regards to the integration with Salesforce. It is hard to beat the ability to use your already-made customer profiles and contact information in your marketing campaigns. Where it is lacking is the usability. MailChimp is a much more user …
We selected Pardot primarily because it is native to Salesforce and we felt that long term it would be the better solution for our needs, based on our commitment to Salesforce. HubSpot seemed to be targeted more towards a small business, based on our experience using that …
Verified User
Manager
Chose Pardot
Have used Hubspot and it is 100% made for marketers. The email editor in Pardot is laughable. Have also looked at https://autopilothq.com/ which has a better user experience and more capabilities for the modern marketer.
Integrated Marketing - Demand Gen and Inside Sales
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I used Marketo and hated it. It was difficult to use, required too many steps to execute a program, and the customer service was terrible. I actually don't know why anyone would use it when options like Pardot and Hubspot are available. Pardot is exactly the opposite - easy to …
HubSpot: Pardot wins (by a huger margin) on both product and customer service.
Eloqua/Marketo/Silverpop - have used all three of these. They are solid solutions but integration with Salesforce is not as tight or reliable. In addition I found clients have a longer time to …
Pardot syncs more seamlessly with Salesforce so when new leads come in, my team better understands where they came from, which in turn allows us to better qualify them, manage them and nurture them. Pardot has a higher email deliverability rate than HubSpot which has lead to an …
We looked at Act-on and Hubspot .... Pardot seemed to be a great fit for our org. based on capabilities, price, integration into SFDC and reviews.
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Manager
Chose Pardot
For my current needs, Act-On outshined Pardot. But at my previous company, we picked Pardot over Marketo because at the time it outshined Marketo's abilities and the Salesforce connection made it a safer bet for support since the team was new to marketing automation. I have …
Verified User
Manager
Chose Pardot
I have used Marketo and it did not live up to most of its promises and the support was abysmal, Hubspot is good but hard to apply to enterprise systems across all channels, Silverpop was not as thought out and learning curve was a bit steeper, as is my experience with …
We used HubSpot before and it performed well. However, as we were planning to adopt NetSuite as our ERP, we needed a marketing solution that integrated well with it. That's where HubSpot fell short. Pardot had a built in integration with NetSuite via a Pardot connector. Also, …
I've used HubSpot for a brief period of time, but found the features and functionality to be less than ideal in comparison to Pardot's. Pardot's Salesforce sync, real-time prospect monitoring, automation rules, landing page builder, and chat support are some of the reasons I …
As I said previously, I was not a fan at the beginning because, like everyone, I don't take change so well. Once I started following leads through HubSpot Marketing Hub, I integrated it with my email and created templates for what I needed, I started to see the positives immediately. My time working was better spent as I eliminated time put in routine tasks. I was able to track all communication in HubSpot Marketing Hub, we created systems in the office assigning tasks to one another and, through HubSpot Marketing Hub, our leads were able to book meetings in my calendar automatically. To be honest, if you are in sales and marketing, I cannot think of scenarios where HubSpot Marketing Hub cannot help. All I would like to say is, when using templates, pay attention to where you send them - you may need some personalization. I would encourage the management of HubSpot Marketing Hub to create short tutorials for beginners like me who need to configure and start using various features: setting up deals, templates, and dashboards.
I want to start mentioning some features that make Pardot the best option on the market, I mainly recommend this tool because at present it is necessary that all the tools I use can work together, my use of Salesforce is of vital importance and I have the possibility Being using these two tools that have surprising integration for many people, I feel that it is my duty to recommend Pardot to everyone and I recommend it without thinking twice
Pardot enables you to set up different environments via the Pardot Business Unit feature, this is helpful for when decentralization is still needed, but you want all business units working with the same tool.
Pardot enables you to quickly and easily create automation rules that can clean the database retro-actively.
Pardot has the ability to have multiple lead scoring models run at the same time.
While Hubspot has added some collaborative tools, I think this could improve. I'd like to see more options to comment on emails and ways of being able to share out changes as well as approval channels.
The ability to update ads via the calendar is pretty cumbersome. There's no good way to bulk edit or update. You have go into each one individually.
Real time edits would be nice. If you have multiple people working on the same thing, you'll get kicked out and your changes might not be saved.
Email templates and drafts are really confusing. I trained various people to create their own templates, but they consistently got confused between publishing a template or just saving a draft, and where they needed to go back to find it.
Their help process is broken, at least for our particular use case. Because we have an enterprise license for Salesforce (even though we had a separate license for Pardot) whenever I needed help with something, I'd get stuck down a rabbit hole and couldn't submit a ticket.
Our business relies on the HubSpot platform to manage our marketing, sales and CRM processes. HubSpot marketing automation helps us define our activities and streamlines them in a cohesive and efficient way. Without HubSpot, we will have to revert to the 'old way' of doing everything with a variety of disparate systems.
As of right now we have not seen any other program that integrates as seamlessly into our Salesforce platform. We have barely scratched the surface of all the features and use cases. It would be irresponsible to make a move to another platform in the near future. We have not come up against any limitations that would prompt a need to switch
While there are some frustrating things that pop up unexpectedly ("wait... I can't do X?"), I have found HubSpot to be easy to use and extremely helpful to my daily work. The documentation is really good, and when it's not helpful, the support staff have been amazing.
The system has so many features that it does take a while to get spun up on what they all do and how they interact with each other. Once you dedicate the time to training to reach that crucial level of understanding however, it is easy to creatively apply the varied functionality of the program to address issues that would have previously seemed to mandate the use of another system.
They have had issues with system availability over the course of days. Sometimes the system is unusable, other times updates simply take a long time to show up. It's better now but, from a reliaibility standpoint, HubSpot is not Salesforce.com yet. Still great software though.
There have been a couple of service incidents over the past few months. I'm not sure if it has to do with Pardot integrating their infrastructure with ExactTarget. However, they responded well with proactive communication and a debrief as to what happened.
With all the new features in HubSpot, the system can get a tad slow sometimes... That said, most of the time it is lightning fast and I have no problems. Because most of the integrations are API, they silently work in the background. I have not had trouble with lag due to HubSpot integration
Though the make up of MA apps is not built this way today, it would be nice to see them become more real-time. The integration between Salesforce and Pardot is not a true real-time integration. If I modify something in Salesforce, those changes are not automatically reflected in Pardot immediately. There is a delay of about 15 minutes before the systems sync. This delay, although not long, is less than ideal We would love the systems to be integrated real time such that changes are propagated from one system to the other immediately.
During the few times I've needed it, HS support has been accessible, helpful and efficient. Often rolling up their sleeves to make changes for you as opposed to leaving you with a list of instructions to decipher on your own.
Pardot support is tremendous. The knowledge base and in-application targeted help articles and videos are thorough and straightforward. If those don't do it, Pardot has office hours every business day with members of the team available to answer anything. I've called twice and they are incredibly helpful.
I did the 2-day classroom at HubSpot's corporate office in Cambridge. First off, it was amazing to see their corporate office in general. They have such a cool office environment. But it was also great to have the ability to learn in a workshop format with other HubSpot users and meet my Account Manager/ Inbound Marketing Consultant in person.
The trainers at the Pardot user conference (Elevate and Connections) were very knowledgeable and presented the material well. Again, the content was targeted to more of a new user audience, and was not really relevant for folks who had been using the product for 2+ years.
I went through Inbound Marketing University in 2006. Great training and helped my transition from traditional (outbound) marketing to inbound marketing that I've been able to apply to a number of businesses from wastewater and water reuse, to professional services and SaaS. Share information of value to build awareness and trust. Answer customers' questions in a transparent way to generate more qualified leads. Understand the difference between a marketing qualified lead and a sales qualified lead and put together a lead nurturing program. Your sales and marketing efforts will see significant ROI.
Pardot's online training touches on all topics briefly and vaguely without much indepth exploration into how a final outcome could look, such as Nurturing Campaigns, Email templates, landing page templates, etc... The only true way to uncover Pardot's full capabilities is to have Front End design and coding experience. Without this key skill set, I would not recommend Pardot to another business.
My biggest piece of advice for those who are implementing Hubspot is that you need to devote the time up front and learn how to use the product. Once you learn how to use Hubspot, it will be much more effective as well as much easier to use in the long run
Love the tool, so much easier to see what our visitors are doing, creating campaigns etc. One recommendation about forms in campaigns etc is to make sure the form is not shared between countries. To send out notifications to responsible, you should have one form per country or question.
Other competing software such as Zoho and Boomtown may have more bells and whistles, but it is too cumbersome and has many parts that only advanced users can operate. With HubSpot, each function is within reach of the average agent. It doesn't overpromise and then makes you feel incompetent when you can't use it all...
We moved from Act-On to Pardot almost a year ago. The way Pardot integrates with Salesforce and is able to report on the communications really drew us to change. We enjoyed the customization of the emails and the easier set up of the emails. Both products are similar but as stated, the reporting and processes were positive to my organization. The upside of Act-On is the ability to make lists and learn the system on your own. Pardot requires much more training on the front end.
HubSpot is addressing this more and more. Currently you can assign tasks to designated sales teams, which grow as you grow. They've added free baseline products for those just getting started. These and more contribute to the scalability of HubSpot - so I gave it an 8 and am hoping for more in the future!
We spent several months and lots of money working with a outside integration partner, only to find out the journey we were trying to automate couldn't really be done and was better suited for Marketing Cloud. We ended up cancelling and switching to Marketing Cloud.