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HubSpot vs Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement

Frustrated trying to run marketing campaigns with Salesforce? With HubSpot, you can easily plan, launch, and analyze multi-channel campaigns from one application - no tool switching or customer data platform required.

Why choose HubSpot?

Launch campaigns quickly

76%

76% of marketers who use HubSpot AI tools say it helps them create content faster1

Personalize with ease

90%

90% of marketers report increased personalization with HubSpot2

Unify data & operations

83%

83% of customers say HubSpot is effective at unifying their company's data2

Customers who made the switch to HubSpot
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What makes HubSpot different?
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Launch campaigns quickly

Plan, launch, and iterate on full-funnel marketing campaigns fast with HubSpot’s Marketing Studio, Content Remix, and Breeze Agents. Easily generate and repurpose content across email, SMS, web, social, ads, podcast, video, and more using AI - all consistent with your brand voice. Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement, on the other hand, is primarily focused primarily on mobile messaging (email, SMS, and push notifications). It does not include marketing channels like social, ads, or messaging. And Agentforce Campaigns are more limited and are built on a separate product.

 

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Personalize with ease

Use Breeze to easily build, enrich, and activate segments using your marketing, CRM, web visitor, and external data with HubSpot Data Studio and Data Agent. Then, generate content variations by segment, analyze segment performance, and visualize customer journeys - all within HubSpot. With Salesforce, you need Marketing Cloud Next, Data Cloud, Personalization, and Marketing Intelligence - all separate products - for similar functionality. Even then, Salesforce doesn’t offer tools like HubSpot Data Enrichment or Customer Journey Pathfinder natively.

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Unify data & operations

HubSpot helps you manage the entire customer lifecycle from acquisition to retention across channels with powerful tools that work for customer- and account-based marketing. Plus, we’re innovating for emerging channels with built in tools for AI search optimization, podcast, video, social, and more. Salesforce, on the other hand, requires separate products and doesn’t support these emerging channels. Marketing Cloud Engagement is designed for B2C. Marketing Cloud Account Engagement is a separate product designed for B2B. And Marketing Cloud Next is yet another distinct product that is not yet ready to replace either.

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HubSpot vs Salesforce 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:
  • Full-funnel & emerging channel support
    • More marketing channels (like social, ads, video, and messaging)
    • Unique AI-powered content and marketing tools like Marketing Studio and Content Remix
    • Powerful analytics included like like Multi-Touch Revenue Attribution and Customer Journey Analytics
  • Easy personalization with unified data
    • Built integrated on a single code base - no separate products to integrate
    • Easy segmentation and targeting using marketing, CRM, web visitor, and external enrichment data
    • Fast to combine and activate data using Data Studio (compare to Salesforce Data Cloud) 
  • Better usability & value
    • Industry-leading usability
    • Support and training included
    • Quick and easy to onboard and launch campaigns

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.

Salesforce pricing may look pretty straightforward, but it’s layered with add-ons and supplemental costs for things like support, training, data & file storage, administration, segmentationad platform data sync, personalization, marketing analytics, and more!

HubSpot offers unique features like Marketing Studio, Content Remix, video, podcasts, social media management, ad management, SEO recommendations, multi-touch revenue attribution, and more that Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement 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 customized reports, interactive dashboards, advanced analytics, customer journey tracking, and marketing performance monitoring - all of which facilitate better data-driven decision making, strategy development, and marketing optimization.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement, on the other hand, requires the Intelligence Reports Advanced add-on for custom reports and dashboards.

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.

Salesforce requires add-ons for things like enhanced security, privacy, and encryption.

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).

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.3

Because HubSpot is easier to implement and we have fewer add-ons, our total cost of ownership is typically lower. Salesforce, on the other hand, is challenging to implement, requires specialized admins and developers, and has a variety of costly add-ons for things like reporting (ex: Intelligence Reports Advanced), segmentation, ad platform data sync, personalizationfile storage, customer support, training, and more.

HubSpot makes it easy to move from Salesforce 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!

Use HubSpot Marketing Hub to better generate leads, convert prospects, and nurture relationships today.

1. HubSpot survey of 3,103 business professionals conducted in March 2024

2. HubSpot ROI Report

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