CRM & Sales · head to head
Affinity vs Keap

Affinity
CRM & Sales
Relationship intelligence platform for professionals
- From
- $49/month
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Each has a real cost: Affinity built specifically for private capital firms, so it is not a general purpose CRM; Keap the entry price is $299 a month and includes only 2 user licences, with each additional user at $39 a month
- They diverge on capability: Affinity covers Deal tracking, Keap covers Pipeline management.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Affinity and Keap actually diverge.
Identical on both: pricing model (subscription), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (CRM & Sales).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Affinity
- Deal tracking
- Intelligence engine
- Relationship mapping
- Integration aggregation
- Gmail
- Outlook
- Crunchbase
Only in Keap
- Pipeline management
- Email marketing
- Marketing automation
- Sales automation
- Reporting
- Zapier
- Slack
- Stripe
Both cover
- Contact management
- GDPR
- Cloud deployment
- Web support
- English language support
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Affinity
- Deal sourcing and pipeline management for venture capital and private equitynot Keap
- Automatic capture of email and meeting activity into relationship recordsnot Keap
- Finding warm introductions through existing relationship networksnot Keap
- Investor relations and fundraising trackingnot Keap
- Portfolio company support and reportingnot Keap
Keap
- CRM with built in marketing automation for small businessesnot Affinity
- Managing contacts, pipelines and follow up campaigns in one systemnot Affinity
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Affinity
- Built specifically for private capital firms, so it is not a general purpose CRM
- Pricing is not published and requires a demo
Keap
- The entry price is $299 a month and includes only 2 user licences, with each additional user at $39 a month
- Price varies with contact count, and the bands are only visible by entering a number into a calculator on the page
- Implementation services are described as required rather than optional
- Text marketing beyond the included 500 messages is a separate add on running from $24 to $279 a month
Pricing, plan by plan
Affinity
$49/month- Pro$49/month
- Contact management
- Deal tracking
- Intelligence
- Enterprise$undefined/month
- Everything in Pro
- Advanced customization
- Dedicated support
Keap
$29/month- Lite$29/month
- Contact management
- Email marketing
- Standard$59/month
- Everything in Lite
- Sales automation
- Pipeline management
- Professional$149/month
- Everything in Standard
- Advanced automation
- AI features
Which should you pick?
Choose Keap if
- You need pipeline management.
- You work on Web, Ios, Android.
- You also want email marketing.
Questions people ask
- Is Affinity or Keap better?
- Neither clearly leads. Affinity starts at $49/month and Keap at $29/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Affinity or Keap?
- Affinity starts at $49/month and Keap at $29/month.
- Does Affinity or Keap run on more platforms?
- Affinity runs on Web. Keap runs on Web, Ios, Android.
- What is Affinity best used for?
- Affinity is most often used for deal sourcing and pipeline management for venture capital and private equity, automatic capture of email and meeting activity into relationship records, finding warm introductions through existing relationship networks, investor relations and fundraising tracking. Of those, deal sourcing and pipeline management for venture capital and private equity and automatic capture of email and meeting activity into relationship records are not what Keap is typically brought in for.
- What can Affinity do that Keap cannot?
- Affinity covers Deal tracking, Intelligence engine, Relationship mapping, Integration aggregation. Keap covers Pipeline management, Email marketing, Marketing automation, Sales automation. Both handle Contact management, GDPR, Cloud deployment, Web support.
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