Free SaaS Plans: Check Limits Before Building Your Stack
Published April 16, 2026. Editorial correction: October 2, 2026.
Pricing records are dated snapshots, not current quotes. This editorial correction does not reverify vendor pricing.
A free tier can cover a small workflow, but eligibility, limits and data access matter more than the label. A trial has an expiry; a free tier may have ongoing limits and can still change.
Free plans recorded in our snapshots
CRM Software
Dataset dated 2026-04-21. Recorded free-plan products: HubSpot CRM, Salesforce, Zoho CRM, Freshsales.
Email Marketing
Dataset dated 2026-04-21. Recorded free-plan products: Kit (formerly ConvertKit), Mailchimp, GetResponse, Brevo, MailerLite.
Accounting Software
Dataset dated 2026-04-21. Recorded free-plan products: Wave, Zoho Books.
Password Managers
Dataset dated 2026-04-21. Recorded free-plan products: Bitwarden, NordPass, LastPass.
Project Management
Dataset dated 2026-04-21. Recorded free-plan products: Notion, Monday.com, Asana, ClickUp, Trello.
Check the boundary for your workflow
- CRM: confirm user and contact limits, email logging, automation and export.
- Email marketing: check both contacts and daily or monthly sends. Include sequences, not only broadcasts.
- Accounting: confirm the regional edition, eligibility, users, bank connections and transaction limits. Do not infer free-plan features from a product-level feature list.
- Password management: distinguish an individual vault from shared organization features. Confirm device, sharing, recovery and administration requirements.
- Project management: check collaborator, storage, automation and advanced-view limits before moving a team.
Price the first upgrade before importing data
Work out what happens when you add a user or exceed the included usage. Confirm the required tier, billing commitment and ability to export. The cheapest starting plan may not cover the workflow that prompted the upgrade.
Combining several free subscriptions does not prove that a business can operate at zero cost. Payments, domains, email delivery, required integrations and administrative work may sit outside those plans.
Build a small trial workflow
Use representative data to check one complete task before a full migration. These records identify plans to examine; they do not establish hands-on testing or that a particular free tier will remain available indefinitely.