Nermio next to Pipedrive
Of all the well-known packages, Pipedrive is closest to ours: there too the pipeline is the main screen, and it's about the next step rather than about reports. The difference isn't the thinking but the size — how much you can configure, how much sits around it, and whether you pay per person or per company.
The kind of difference
Two packages with the same conviction, built for a different kind of company.
Pipedrive is built around the idea that selling is a series of steps and that software should keep you on the next one. That is exactly what we bet on too, and it's why this comparison is more honest than most: we largely agree with them.
Where it parts company is the question of who that is built for. Pipedrive also serves sales teams that want more: several pipelines side by side, custom fields and stages, automations, integrations with dozens of other systems, reporting. All of that has to be configurable, and configurable means the decisions land with you.
Nermio takes those decisions away. Six stages, fixed fields, one screen that opens your day, one price for your whole company. For a company where three people make the calls that's an advantage; for a sales team of ten with two different routes to market it's a limitation.
The trade-off
The left-hand column is long, and so it should be: Pipedrive has been around for years and we haven't.
Where Pipedrive is stronger
- A phone app. Nermio has none; we assume you update it at a laptop in the evening.
- Several pipelines, custom stages and custom fields. If you sell two different things in two different ways, that works there and not here.
- Automations and integrations with other software, including a marketplace of add-ons.
- Reporting and revenue forecasts. We don't have a single chart.
- Years of track record, a large support operation and plenty of people who already know it. We're new, and that is a real risk you should weigh.
- Email as a full mailbox inside the package: your inbox synced in, saved templates, tracking who opens and clicks, and a whole list in one go. Nermio sends one message at a time from a company file, plus an invoice or reminder as a PDF; the rest stays in your own email programme.
Where Nermio is different
- One price for the whole company instead of per user. With four people talking to customers that's the biggest difference between these two.
- Nothing to configure: six fixed stages, so no decisions up front and nothing that can grow crooked.
- A lost deal requires a reason, so after six months you have a breakdown instead of a feeling.
- An audit log that can't be rewritten, including by us.
- Entirely in Dutch, built around how Dutch small businesses sell — the interface and the wording on an invoice included, so if your team doesn't read Dutch that's a cost rather than a feature.
- You can stop at the end of any month, with no annual contract.
When Pipedrive is the better choice
If you want to update records on the move and need a phone app for it. If your sales run through several routes that each need their own stages. If someone there steers on numbers. Or if you need integrations with other systems — then Nermio isn't a cheaper alternative but a step backwards.
And if you don't want to take the risk of a new product. That's a valid reason, and we're not going to pretend it isn't there.
When Nermio fits better
If three or more of you talk to customers and you're weighing up how many accounts to pay for. That isn't a theoretical difference: the colleague without an account records nothing, and then your pipeline is wrong.
And if you notice you're using a package as a list with stages and leaving the rest untouched. Then less is cheaper and quieter. What exactly is in it is on all features.
What this page doesn't claim
Four things you'd expect on a comparison page and deliberately won't find here, with the reason and where to get the answer instead.
Pipedrive's price levels. In this comparison especially, the shape of the price is our argument — one amount per company against an amount per user per tier — so this is exactly where we mustn't guess what the figure on the other side is. That's on Pipedrive's own pricing page; what we cost is on ours.
Which feature sits in which level. Whether automations, reporting or extra pipelines are in the entry plan shifts. A list we write down today won't hold next quarter.
A worked example of two companies. "Four people with them against four people with us" would be the clearest thing this page could show. It isn't here, because half of that sum is someone else's figure and we can't keep it current. Four people with us is €20 a month; the other side takes two minutes to look up.
What switching actually involves. We haven't moved data out of Pipedrive ourselves. We have a CSV import; whether their export drops into it without hand-editing is something we'll say once someone has tried. Email us and we'll work it out with you.
Two weeks side by side says more than this page
Put the same ten customers in both and see which one you still open after ten days. No credit card, and you're not tied to anything.