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HubSpot vs Marketo

Marketing teams that struggle to manage campaigns in Marketo love how powerful and intuitive HubSpot is.

Why choose HubSpot?

Shorten campaign timelines

19%

Customers rated HubSpot Marketing Hub 19% more effective in decreasing the time needed to launch campaigns compared to Marketo1

Manage the full customer lifecycle

20%

Customers rated HubSpot Marketing Hub 20% better at helping design, automate, and analyze multi-asset campaigns compared to Marketo1

Unify data & operations

25%

Customers rated HubSpot Marketing Hub 25% better at helping save time through automation compared to Marketo1

Customers who made the switch to HubSpot
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What makes HubSpot different?
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Shorten campaign timelines

Marketo is a well-known, powerful product. But it can feel dated, complex, and challenging to use. HubSpot, on the other hand, helps you helps you launch campaigns quickly with powerful tools that aren’t overpowering. HubSpot Marketing Studio helps you collaboratively plan, generate, and repurpose content across email, SMS, web, social, ads, podcast, video, and more using AI - all consistent with your brand voice. Plus, you can even create custom AI assistants to further streamline your work and launch campaigns quickly.

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Manage the full customer lifecycle

Marketo is great for nurturing leads and accounts, but it lacks tools to grow demand and acquire new customers. HubSpot is a complete, full-funnel marketing solution for attracting, nurturing, and engaging customers. Generate leads with HubSpot ads, social, websites, SEO, AI search optimization, customer agent, and more. Plus, HubSpot helps you convert those leads with tools like lead and company scoring, buyer intent, account-based marketing, and prospecting agent.

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Unify data & operations

Marketo is a strong marketing automation platform, but it’s not a CRM and does not include unified customer profiles. HubSpot Marketing Hub, on the other hand, includes a Smart CRM, which provides a single, unified view of the customer. This helps you drive deeper personalization and insights with tools like Personalization Agent, dynamic AI email personalization, and customer journey pathfinder. You can even bring in external datasets with Data Studio, and enrich your data further with Data Agent.

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HubSpot vs Marketo FAQ

HubSpot for Marketers is a complete marketing solution that unites the power of content marketing with world-class lead generation and marketing automation tools. It includes all the capabilities of HubSpot Marketing Hub and HubSpot Content Hub.

HubSpot was named the #1 Marketing Product for small business, mid-market, and enterprise companies on G2 in 2025. Some HubSpot advantages include:
  • AI-powered Smart-CRM included
    • Richer customer insight
    • Better segmentation and targeting 
    • Deeper personalization at scale
  • Better usability & value
    • Industry-leading usability
    • Support and training included
    • Faster time to activation
  • More complete marketing
    • More marketing channels supported natively
    • AI agents, features, and an assistant built in
    • Powerful analytics included

HubSpot's customer platform is purpose-built to fuel your business growth efficiently, with seamless onboarding, customization, and scalability. Its user-friendly interface, integration capabilities, automation features, and advanced analytics make it a comprehensive solution supporting your journey to success.

HubSpot helps teams attract more leads, better nurture prospects, and manage their customer relationships more effectively — all on one connected platform with transparent pricing.

Marketo pricing may look pretty straightforward, but there’s lots of add-ons and supplemental costs that can rack up fast.

HubSpot offers unique features like Marketing Studio, social media management, ad management, video, podcasts, messaging and shared inbox, websites, data enrichment, and more that Marketo does not have.

HubSpot’s offers extensive customization using custom objects, properties, and associations to align with your data needs. Create default spaces to fit your team's requirements, configure crucial elements like contact records, and use extensions to create new UI elements. This flexibility ensures HubSpot's platform meets your specific business demands. More info here.

Yes, HubSpot includes customizable reports, interactive dashboards, advanced analytics, attribution tracking, and marketing performance monitoring - all of which facilitate better data-driven decision making, strategy development, and marketing optimization.

HubSpot prioritizes customer data security with strong data encryption, compliance, regular audits, role-based permissions, and strict password policies. With a robust disaster recovery plan and secure cloud infrastructure, HubSpot provides ongoing monitoring and enhancement of its security measures.

HubSpot's marketplace of 2,000+ apps can connect your existing tools and help you find the right apps to grow your business (featured apps).

Similar to Marketo, HubSpot's Professional and Enterprise editions offer bi-directional syncing with Salesforce for automatic updates and selective record syncing. Get set up in minutes, send valuable lead intelligence to your sales team, and use the synced data in segmentation and automation.

Yes, HubSpot offers a variety of advanced AI features to help you save time across your entire front office. Automate tasks and uncover valuable insights with Breeze Assistant, Agents, and features like content assistant, content remix, conversation intelligence, predictive forecasting, guided actions, and more. From creating content to streamlining processes and improving data analysis, Breeze gives you the competitive edge you need in today’s rapidly changing business environment.

Customers adopt HubSpot quickly because it’s so easy to use and implement. In fact, 91% of HubSpot users say it took one month or less to learn.2

Because HubSpot is easier to implement and our plans generally include more, our total cost of ownership is typically lower. Marketo, on the other hand, is challenging to implement and often requires a variety of costly add-ons for things like reporting (ex: Marketo Measure), database encryption, customer support, training, and more.

HubSpot makes it easy to move from Marketo with migration tools and dedicated support. We’ll help you transfer your data, contacts, and workflows so you can get started quickly. Our team and partners offer guided services and automated tools to ensure your data transfers smoothly — so you can focus on growing your business, not managing a migration.

Attract more customers with HubSpot today!

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1. This information is based on the results of a 3rd party survey paid for by HubSpot. A total of 3,015 qualified respondents completed the survey. To qualify for the survey, respondents were software decision makers ages 18-65. Fieldwork was conducted Feb 21, 2024 - Mar 13, 2024.

2. HubSpot survey of 1,546 CRM users across the globe in August 2025