Coordinator vs Streak
Streak removed its free CRM and now charges $49 a user for pipelines in Gmail. Coordinator's pipelines are free, outside the inbox's performance tax — and connected to actual invoices and work.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.
Streak, side by side
The CRM inside Gmail — pipelines in your inbox, whose free CRM tier was quietly killed and whose entry price is now $49/user.
| What you're paying for | Coordinator | Streak |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 — everything | CRM from ~$49/user/mo |
| Free CRM tier | The whole product | Removed (2024–25) |
| Pipelines | Staged work, any kind, connected to money | In-Gmail boxes — simple and loved |
| Performance | Its own app | Everything loads inside Gmail; more deals = slower inbox |
| Beyond the inbox | Projects, invoices, calendar, records | Effectively browser-bound |
Streak pricing and plan limits are approximate, from their published plans as of August 2026 — check their site for current figures. Coordinator's column doesn't change: $0.
The Streak line on your P&L
Streak's free plan now includes only email power tools — the CRM starts at $49 per user per month (Pro), $69 for automations and real reports, $129 for Enterprise. The Reddit consensus that $10–30 is the fair price tells you how the $49 lands.
Users: Per-user; free tier has no CRM anymore.
What you get that Streak doesn't give you
Streak's free CRM was the on-ramp until it wasn't. Coordinator's free tier can't be revoked — it's the only tier.
A Streak pipeline tracks emails about the deal. Ours tracks the deal into a project, an invoice and a margin — the pipeline is the business.
No CRM payload inside Gmail, no slowdown as the pipeline grows.
What Streak users complain about — answered
Recurring themes from public reviews and forums (G2, Capterra, Reddit), paired with what changes here. We only list complaints Coordinator actually solves.
“They killed the free CRM plan — you lost me”
Structurally impossible here: free is the product, not a plan.
“$49 a user for a Gmail extension”
$0 for a whole business system.
“Gmail gets slower the more deals we track”
The pipeline lives in its own fast app; your inbox stays an inbox.
“Reporting falls over when decisions need data”
Workload, throughput and revenue reports — with the money real.
What they love about Streak — kept
Kept exactly: typed staged work runs any pipeline, with batch-create across a whole category.
Where Streak may still fit
No tool wins everything, and we'd rather you pick with open eyes.
For solo operators who live entirely in the inbox, Streak's no-second-app model is genuinely frictionless.
Tracking, mail merge and snippets remain free and excellent.
Export your boxes to CSV, import contacts here, rebuild pipelines as staged work — and keep Streak's free email tools if they spark joy; they're separate from the CRM you're leaving.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.
The free Streak alternative, summarized
If you're searching for a Streak alternative, the short version: Coordinator is free for unlimited users — no tiers, no usage meters, no renewal-day surprises — and it covers what Streak does for crm alongside the rest of a small business's operations: real accounting, projects with job costing, booking pages and staff scheduling, client records and forms, team chat, and a cross-company network where your invoice lands in your client's books. Streak still fits some buyers — see the fair print above — but if the complaints on this page sound familiar, switching is usually an afternoon.
Explore the crm side of Coordinator on free-crm, see everything it does, or read why it's free.
Keep the Streak money
Set up free in minutes, import what you have, and put the subscription line to better use.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.