Your Data.
Your Server.
Your Rules.
A CRM that runs on your metal — contacts, pipeline, automations, and RBAC in a single Docker Compose file. No per-seat pricing. No cloud bill. No API term changes at 3 AM.
The Cloud Bill
That Never Stopsvs.
The Server You Own
What They Say.
What You Get With Helm.
"We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or terminate API access at any time, with or without notice, including changes to rate limits, data access scopes, and third-party integration support."
You have perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free rights to use, reproduce, modify, and distribute this software. No one can revoke your license once granted. The source code is yours to fork, audit, and run on any infrastructure.
*Excludes scheduled maintenance windows, force majeure events, customer-induced incidents, third-party failures, and degraded performance periods. Compensation capped at 10 days of service credit.
Run on bare metal, VPS, or Kubernetes. Set your own SLA. Use your existing monitoring stack — Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty. When something breaks, you have root access to fix it in minutes, not tickets.
"Contact export is available on Professional and Enterprise tiers. Historical activity data, sequences, and deal associations require manual reconstruction. Bulk export may be rate-limited to 10,000 records per request."
Your data lives in a PostgreSQL database you own. `pg_dump` it, replicate it, query it with any SQL client. Build custom reports, connect BI tools, migrate anywhere. No export wizard, no tier restrictions, no waiting.
Salesforce Sales Cloud: $165/user/mo. HubSpot Sales Hub: $90/user/mo. Pipedrive: $49/user/mo. For a 50-person team at mid-tier: $4,500–$8,250 per month, every month, growing with every hire.
Helm has no per-seat pricing. Install it on a $80/month VPS and give access to your entire company, contractors, and partners. Hire 10 more salespeople next quarter — your CRM bill stays flat.
Click any card to reveal the Helm alternative — the data makes the argument.
Full Spec Comparison
Every feature, every limitation, every hidden cost. Helm in violet — the others in gray.
| Feature | Helm Self-Hosted | Salesforce Sales Cloud | HubSpot Sales Hub | Pipedrive Professional |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||||
| Per-seat pricing | ||||
| Starting cost (50 seats) | ~$80/mo | $8,250/mo | $4,500/mo | $2,450/mo |
| Cost after 3 years (50 seats) | ~$3,080 | $297,000 | $162,000 | $88,200 |
| Price increase risk | ||||
| Data Ownership | ||||
| Self-hosted option | ||||
| Direct DB access | ||||
| Full data portability | Partial | Paid tier | Partial | |
| On-premise deployment | ||||
| CRM Features | ||||
| Contact management | ||||
| Deal pipeline (Kanban) | ||||
| Workflow automations | Pro+ | Advanced+ | ||
| Role-based permissions | Enterprise | Professional | ||
| Custom fields (unlimited) | Capped | Capped | Capped | |
| Technical | ||||
| Docker Compose support | ||||
| Kubernetes Helm chart | ||||
| REST API (full) | ||||
| Webhook support | Enterprise | Pro+ | Advanced+ | |
| Open source (auditable) | ||||
| Support | ||||
| Community support | ||||
| Vendor lock-in risk | ||||
Pricing data as of Q1 2026. Competitor features verified against public documentation.
Running in
5 Minutes.
Not 5 business days.
curl -sSL https://get.helmcrm.io | bash -s -- \ --db-password "$(openssl rand -hex 16)" \ --domain your-domain.com \ --ssl-email admin@your-domain.com
Recommended for most setups. Runs Helm CRM + PostgreSQL + Redis in one command.