HubSpot vs Decipher: Save 43% & Avoid Contact Tiers
HubSpot charges for everything. Decipher CMS offers unlimited users, no contact tiers, and full ownership for a fraction of the price.
Everything HubSpot CMS does —
plus everything it doesn't.
HubSpot charges for everything.
Total cost savings up to 43%
No per-seat pricing model
Google Firebase
Complete platform ownership
AI Assistant
Bulk SEO Content Generation
Why teams outgrow HubSpot CMS
HubSpot CMS is powerful but notoriously expensive. It lures you in with free tools, but the costs explode as you scale.
You pay for 'Marketing Contacts', you pay for 'Seats', and you pay for 'Service Hub' add-ons. The proprietary HubL language creates 'Vendor Lock-in', making it hard to move your site if you ever want to leave.
For many companies, the CMS becomes a 'Golden Handcuff'—too expensive to keep, but too integrated to drop. Furthermore, while HubSpot has AI, it is often gated behind higher tiers or credit limits.
A content production engine — not just a database.
Decipher CMS offers 'Total cost savings up to 43%' by rejecting the contact-based pricing model. We offer 'No per-seat pricing model' on our enterprise plans.
You can have 100 users managing your content for the same flat fee. Decipher uses standard, portable technology ('Google Firebase', JSON, Markdown), giving you 'Complete platform ownership'.
If you leave, you take your data and infrastructure with you. Our 'AI Assistant' and 'Bulk SEO Content Generation' are included in the base price, not an upsell.
Stop paying a tax on your growth. Switch to the fair alternative: Decipher.
Enterprise-grade architecture —
without the enterprise complexity.
HubSpot hosts your site on their cloud. Decipher allows for 'Private Infrastructure' deployment on your own Google Cloud.
This is a game-changer for data sovereignty. You can keep your sensitive customer-facing content logs within your own VPC.
Security is handled via 'Identity Aware Proxy' (IAP) and 'Role-based permissions', offering a level of granular access control that often requires HubSpot Enterprise ($$$) to achieve.
Pricing that doesn't punish growth.
Transparent plans that scale with your content — not against you.
Individual
For creators & growing teams
- AI-powered content generation
- Built-in SEO optimization
- Unlimited content pages
- Custom domain & branding
- Priority support
Enterprise
For large teams & organizations
- Everything in Individual
- Dedicated account manager
- SSO & advanced security (IAP)
- Custom integrations & API
- SLA & premium support
- Data residency options
Total Cost of Ownership
HubSpot CMS Hub Professional is ~$400/month (plus onboarding fees). Decipher’s Enterprise License is ~$2,000/month for unlimited everything, or $19.99/month for individuals.
For a mid-sized team, Decipher often comes in at half the cost of HubSpot once you factor in the seat costs and add-ons. You get the 'Content Automation' without the 'Contact Tax'.
Build a better CMS experience —
without starting from scratch.
HubSpot charges for everything.