Keap alternative

A better alternative than Keap

Keap consolidated to a single $299/mo plan and adds a $500 to $1,500 onboarding fee before you send a single email. Here is the same all-in-one with five agents included, modern UX, and no onboarding fee.

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Verified May 2026In March 2026, Keap parent Thryv launched AI Lead Flow, a cross-product feature that combines online visibility, AI lead scoring, and automated follow-ups across the Thryv and Keap portfolio. Thryv Holdings acquired Keap in October 2024 for about $80M, and Keap consolidated its earlier three-tier ladder into a single $299/mo plan in late 2025.

At a glance

Laureo vs Keap, in short

No onboarding fee to startKeap requires a one-time onboarding fee of $500 to $1,500 and routes new buyers through a sales call before they can use the product. Laureo is self-serve with a 14-day free trial of every feature, so you can import your data and send a first campaign the same day.
A full bundle vs a marketing coreKeap is strong on campaigns and e-commerce but ships no native tickets, knowledge base, surveys, team inbox, or in-app chat, so a customer-facing team buys those separately. Laureo bundles all of them with the CRM, campaigns, automation, invoicing, and five AI agents in one plan.
Flat pricing vs contact-tier meteringKeap charges one $299/mo plan that steps up in price as your contact list grows, plus $39 for each seat beyond the two included. Laureo prices per workspace with no per-contact charge, so a growing list never triggers a surprise bill.
Where Keap is aheadKeap ships e-commerce checkout and order forms, a built-in payment processor with recurring billing, native SMS and a mobile business line, free Zapier, a HIPAA agreement, and native mobile apps. Laureo has none of those today and connects a dialer through a calling provider.

Pricing

What you actually pay

One Laureo plan covers the whole stack. Here is how the entry price lines up against Keap.

Laureo

$58.33/mo

Pro, billed annually ($69.99 month-to-month)

One plan replaces the CRM, email campaigns, automation, support tickets, knowledge base, invoicing, booking, team chat, and five AI agents, with no onboarding fee.

Keap

$299/moto start

One plan includes two users and about 1,500 contacts ($249/mo billed annually). Extra seats are $39 each, the contact limit climbs the price as your list grows, and a one-time onboarding fee of $500 to $1,500 is required before you start.

Feature comparison

What is included, side by side

A check means it is on the plan. “Add-on” means it costs extra or lives on a higher tier. A line means it is not available.

Feature	Laureo	Keap
Autonomous AI agents on the base planKeap offers one SMS lead-qualification agent in preview	Included	Add-onAvailable as an add-on
AI included, no separate add-onKeap AI is content generation; the autonomous agent is in preview	Included	Add-onAvailable as an add-on
Predictable AI pricing (fixed monthly budget)	Included	Not available
Built-in team chatKeap has no in-app messaging; teams use a separate Slack subscription	Included	Not available
Deal Rooms (internal chat on the deal)	Included	Not available
Contact and company management	Included	Included
Pipeline management	Included	Included
Two-way email sync (Gmail and Outlook)	Included	Included
Email campaigns and sequencesKeap Campaign Builder is its 20-year-mature strength	Included	Included
Workflow automation	Included	Included
Support ticketsKeap has no native ticketing; teams add a separate help-desk tool	Included	Not available
Knowledge baseKeap has no customer knowledge base feature	Included	Not available
NPS and CSAT surveysKeap routes surveys to a separate Typeform subscription	Included	Not available
Shared team inbox	Included	Not available
Invoicing and quotes	Included	Included
Booking and scheduling pagesKeap Appointments is basic; Laureo adds round-robin and resources	Included	Included
Goals, quotas, and leaderboardsKeap describes itself as not a sales-team CRM	Included	Not available
Multi-currency supportKeap uses a single base currency per account	Included	Not available
Custom report builderReporting is a common Keap complaint; users add a third-party tool	Included	Not available
Contact enrichment includedKeap has no native enrichment; it relies on Zapier	Included	Not available
E-commerce checkout and order formsKeap ships checkout, order forms, cart, and promo codes; Laureo does not	Not available	Included
Native recurring billing and own payment processorKeap Pay is a built-in merchant account; Laureo connects your own payment account instead	Add-onAvailable as an add-on	Included
Native SMS and business phone lineKeap ships native SMS and a mobile business line in the US and Canada; Laureo connects a calling provider	Not available	Included
Free Zapier for customersKeap includes Zapier free; Laureo customers bring their own Zapier plan	Not available	Included

Why teams switch

Why teams move from Keap to Laureo

One plan, no onboarding feeCRM, campaigns, automation, support tickets, knowledge base, surveys, invoicing, booking, team chat, and five AI agents in one subscription, with nothing to pay before you start. Keap charges a one-time onboarding fee of $500 to $1,500 on top of its $299/mo plan.
Five working agents, not one in previewKeap offers a single SMS lead-qualification agent in preview, and the rest of its AI is content generation. Laureo ships five named agents that run every day: one flags stale deals, one finds leads that have gone quiet, one cleans duplicates, one watches for churn risk, and one triages your inbox.
The support stack is built inTickets, knowledge base, and CSAT surveys come with the plan. Keap has none of these natively, so a customer-facing team stitches together a separate help desk, a separate knowledge base tool, and a separate survey tool.
Modern, fast interfaceAnyone who has used Gmail or a chat app can pick Laureo up the same afternoon. Across more than a thousand reviews, the most common Keap complaint is that the interface feels dated and slow.
Flat pricing as your list growsSend to your whole database without the bill climbing. Keap meters by contact tier, so the same plan steps up in price as your list crosses 6,500 and then 11,500 contacts.
Built for a sales teamGoals, quotas, leaderboards, territories, weighted forecasting, and deal risk scoring ship on the plan. Keap describes itself as not a sales-team CRM and leaves those out.

What Keap does well

Where Keap is a strong choice

Keap is the right call if your core revenue runs through e-commerce checkout funnels, order forms, and recurring billing through its own payment processor, and you want one bill plus phone support for a one to three person shop.

Keap has e-commerce checkout, order forms, and a built-in payment processor.That is a real strength and the honest reason to choose Keap. If your revenue runs through one-click checkout funnels, order forms with upsells, promo codes, and recurring billing through Keap Pay, Keap was built for exactly that over more than twenty years. Laureo covers quotes, invoices, e-signature, and customer payments through your own connected account, which fits most service businesses, but it does not ship a storefront checkout layer.
Keap has a 20-year-mature Campaign Builder and deep email deliverability.True. Keap pioneered visual journey automation and has two decades of sending reputation behind it, which matters for high-volume marketers. Laureo includes a workflow builder, multi-step sequences, A/B testing, and sender authentication checks with bounce monitoring on every plan. For most teams that is plenty, but if your business lives or dies by a deeply branched drip engine, give Keap honest credit there.
Keap offers free Zapier, a HIPAA agreement, and 24/7 phone support with a dedicated contact.All three are genuine. Free Zapier saves a real monthly fee and reaches thousands of apps, Keap offers a HIPAA business associate agreement today for healthcare-adjacent work, and phone support with a named contact reassures non-technical buyers. Laureo does not offer a HIPAA agreement and supports customers through tickets rather than a 24/7 phone line. If those are hard requirements, weigh them honestly.
Keap ships native mobile apps with a business card scanner and a business phone line.It does, and for field and mobile-first users that matters. Laureo ships an installable web app that works on phones with push notifications and offline support, but it is not a native store build with a card scanner, and it has no built-in phone line. Teams that call heavily connect a calling provider instead.

AI agents

AI that works while you sleep

Five AI agents work in the background every day, so your team sells instead of typing. They come with every plan, with a monthly usage budget and no per-conversation fees.

Sales Agent flags stale deals and queues the next follow-up.
Outreach Agent surfaces leads that have gone quiet.
Data Steward cleans duplicates and fills missing fields.
Customer Success Agent watches accounts for churn risk.
Inbox Reviewer triages your inbox and drafts replies.

Hey Laureo, which deals went quiet this week, and what should I send?

Found 3 deals with no reply in 7+ days. Drafted a nudge for each.
Imported your pipeline from Keap. Mapped every field.
Cleaned 12 duplicate contacts overnight. Nothing to log.

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Laureo vs Keap FAQs

Common questions about choosing between Laureo and Keap

Yes. Laureo imports contacts, companies, deals, and activities from a Keap CSV with smart field mapping. Most migrations finish in under an hour. The highest-effort part is rebuilding Keap Campaign Builder journeys as Laureo workflows and sequences, and re-connecting your own payment account.

Both offer a 14-day free trial, but Keap caps its trial heavily, with a 25-email limit and no payment processing, texting, or phone line, so you cannot fully evaluate the product. Laureo gives you full access to every feature on its 14-day trial, including the five AI agents, and charges no onboarding fee, while Keap adds a one-time onboarding fee of $500 to $1,500 before you start in earnest.

Keap is a single plan at $299/mo for two users and about 1,500 contacts, plus $39 per extra seat, a contact-tier price climb as your list grows, and the one-time onboarding fee. Laureo prices per workspace with no per-contact charge and no onboarding fee, so a small team running the full stack usually pays a fraction of the first-year cost.

No. Keap ships checkout forms, order forms, a shopping cart, promo codes, and recurring billing through its own payment processor, and that is a genuine reason to choose Keap if you sell digital products or courses. Laureo handles quotes, invoices, e-signature, and customer payments through your own connected account, which fits most service businesses, but it does not ship a storefront checkout layer.

No. Five AI agents and a monthly AI usage budget come with every Laureo plan, and tickets, knowledge base, and surveys are built in. Keap offers one SMS agent in preview, and its native product has no tickets, knowledge base, or surveys, so a customer-facing team adds those as separate subscriptions.

Laureo is an AI-first CRM that cuts manual data entry. Email syncs both ways, calendar events sync on their own, and meeting notes attach to the right record, so there is almost nothing to log. On top of that, five agents work in the background every day to flag stale deals, surface leads that have gone quiet, clean up duplicate data, watch for churn risk, and triage your inbox. It all comes with the CRM, email campaigns, automation, support, invoicing, and team chat in one plan from $58.33/mo billed annually.

Pro starts at $58.33/mo billed annually ($69.99 month-to-month) for one user. Business is $108.33/mo billed annually for two users, and Ultra is $166.66/mo billed annually for advanced needs. Every plan includes the full toolset, the five AI agents, and a monthly AI usage budget. No per-contact email billing and no per-conversation AI fees.

Yes. Every plan comes with a 14-day free trial with full access to every feature, including the AI agents, email campaigns, support tickets, and invoicing.

Yes. Laureo imports from a CSV with smart field mapping for contacts, companies, deals, and activities, with presets for 25+ common CRMs. Most migrations finish in under an hour, and there are step-by-step guides for HubSpot, Salesforce, and Pipedrive.

Laureo is built for teams of 1 to 50. Pro fits freelancers and solo operators, while Business and Ultra add seats, shared pipelines, role-based permissions, and team chat as you grow.

Yes. Laureo syncs email both ways with Gmail and Outlook, so messages log to the right contact and deal automatically. Calendar events and meeting notes sync too, with no manual entry.

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