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Marketing automation and campaign management · November 2026 Edition

HubSpot Marketing Hub vs Mailchimp

Gane, the publisher, sells software in this category. Every product here is measured by the same method as in every other category. How the conflict is handled.

Fourteen of fourteen models named HubSpot Marketing Hub first on the direct prompt; zero named Mailchimp. Both were named by all fourteen models and HubSpot Marketing Hub carries 72 labels and Mailchimp 32, so the shares are not directly comparable.

HubSpot Marketing Hub

endorsed leader

By HubSpot, Cambridge, United States, founded 2006. Named in twenty-nine categories this edition.

Mailchimp

criticized challenger

Atlanta, United States, founded 2001. Named in fourteen categories this edition.

First-choice share65%4%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate18%34%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#3A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels7232A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, HubSpot Marketing Hub reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement was named alongside these two in twelve of the fourteen direct answers. HubSpot Marketing Hub vs Brevo · HubSpot Marketing Hub vs ActiveCampaign · Brevo vs Mailchimp

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the marketing automation and campaign management page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
HubSpot Marketing HubFirst choices, of fourteen modelsMailchimp
Direct140
Paraphrase140
Comparative110
Budget-constrained222 against HubSpot Marketing Hub · 1 against Mailchimp
Scale-constrained201 against Mailchimp
Negative1011 against HubSpot Marketing Hub · 9 against Mailchimp
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, HubSpot Marketing Hub and Mailchimp were named in the same answer 239 times, of the 1124 answers naming HubSpot Marketing Hub and the 390 naming Mailchimp. In those answers Mailchimp took the first choice eight times and HubSpot Marketing Hub fifty-eight.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where HubSpot Marketing Hub and Mailchimp stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
HubSpot Marketing Hub Mailchimp first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, HubSpot Marketing Hub on the left and Mailchimp on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where HubSpot Marketing Hub and Mailchimp stood in it.

HubSpot Marketing Hub first, Mailchimp not the choice

14 of 14 modelsMailchimp was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5HubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
GPT-5.4 miniHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Gemini 3.5 FlashHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Perplexity SonarHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Grok 4.20HubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Mistral SmallHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
DeepSeek V4 FlashHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: 6sense, ActiveCampaign, Adobe Marketo Engage, Demandbase
Llama 4 MaverickHubSpot Marketing Hub
Qwen 3.7 FlashHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Kimi K2HubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Act-On, ActiveCampaign, Adobe Marketo Engage, Brevo, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
GLM 4.7 FlashXHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Customer.io, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
MiniMax M2.5HubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: 6sense, ActiveCampaign, Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
GPT-6 LunaHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Muse Glimmer 30BHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
HubSpot Marketing Hub leads by thirty-three points.
HubSpot Marketing Hub37%#1 of 10
Mailchimp4%#4 of 10
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
HubSpot Marketing Hub leads by sixty-one points.
HubSpot Marketing Hub65%#1 of 12
Mailchimp4%#3 of 12
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
HubSpot Marketing Hub leads by twelve points.
HubSpot Marketing Hub12%#2 of 10
Mailchimp0%#10 of 10
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about HubSpot Marketing Hub

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.

“Mid-Market Best-of-Breed | HubSpot Marketing Hub, ActiveCampaign, Pardot (Account Engagement), Customer.io | Usually the sweet spot for 500-person companies” Kimi K2 · scale prompt · first choice

What the models said about Mailchimp

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.

“Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Sendinblue (Brevo), and AWeber are platforms that enterprises should generally avoid” Llama 4 Maverick · negative prompt · hard negative
“Automation caps at basic branching and triggers. No lead scoring. The pricing scales aggressively” Claude Haiku 4.5 · negative prompt · hard negative
“For the tightest budgets: Start with Mailchimp's free tier to learn the basics of automation without any cost.” MiniMax M2.5 · budget prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.