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Ecommerce marketing · October 2026 Edition

HubSpot Marketing Hub vs ActiveCampaign

Seven of fourteen models named HubSpot Marketing Hub first on the direct prompt; zero named ActiveCampaign. HubSpot Marketing Hub was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and ActiveCampaign by twelve and HubSpot Marketing Hub carries 39 labels and ActiveCampaign 32, so the shares are not directly comparable.

HubSpot Marketing Hub

endorsed leader

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

ActiveCampaign

accepted challenger

Chicago, United States, founded 2003. Named in seventeen categories this edition.

First-choice share38%4%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate5%6%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#5A position in a field of 13; printed, not drawn.
Labels3932A 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.BigCommerce B2B Edition was named alongside these two in eight of the fourteen direct answers. HubSpot Marketing Hub vs Omnisend · HubSpot Marketing Hub vs Klaviyo · HubSpot Marketing Hub vs Shopify

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 ecommerce marketing 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 modelsActiveCampaign
Direct70
Paraphrase1221 against ActiveCampaign
Comparative001 against HubSpot Marketing Hub
Budget-constrained001 against HubSpot Marketing Hub · 1 against ActiveCampaign
Scale-constrained00
Negative00
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 October 2026 Edition, HubSpot Marketing Hub and ActiveCampaign were named in the same answer 328 times, of the 987 answers naming HubSpot Marketing Hub and the 481 naming ActiveCampaign. In those answers ActiveCampaign took the first choice fifty-three times and HubSpot Marketing Hub 108.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where HubSpot Marketing Hub and ActiveCampaign 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 ActiveCampaign first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, HubSpot Marketing Hub on the left and ActiveCampaign on the right.

The direct prompt

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

HubSpot Marketing Hub first, ActiveCampaign an alternative

7 of 14 modelsActiveCampaign was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GPT-5.4 miniHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: BigCommerce, Bloomreach, Oracle Eloqua, Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Gemini 3.5 FlashHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, BigCommerce B2B Edition, OroCommerce, Shopify
Perplexity SonarBigCommerce B2B Edition, HubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Salesforce B2B Commerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Grok 4.20HubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign
Qwen 3.7 FlashHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Adobe Marketo Engage, BigCommerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Shopify
GPT-6 LunaHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Adobe Marketo Engage, Klaviyo
Muse Glimmer 30BHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: BigCommerce, Klaviyo, Omnisend, Shopify

Neither was the first choice, one was named

5 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Mistral SmallBigCommerce B2B Edition alternatives: HubSpot Marketing Hub, Klaviyo, Shopware
DeepSeek V4 FlashBigCommerce alternatives: HubSpot Marketing Hub, Klaviyo, Shopify, Shopware
Kimi K2BigCommerce B2B Edition alternatives: HubSpot Marketing Hub, Shopify
GLM 4.7 FlashXBigCommerce B2B Edition alternatives: Adobe Commerce, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Klaviyo, Shopify Plus with B2B Features
MiniMax M2.5BigCommerce B2B Edition alternatives: HubSpot Marketing Hub, Shopify

Neither was named

2 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5BigCommerce B2B Edition alternatives: OroCommerce, Shopify
Llama 4 MaverickBigCommerce B2B Edition, Shopware

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 twenty points.
HubSpot Marketing Hub28%#1 of 10
ActiveCampaign8%#4 of 10
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
HubSpot Marketing Hub leads by thirty-four points.
HubSpot Marketing Hub38%#1 of 13
ActiveCampaign4%#5 of 13
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
HubSpot Marketing Hub leads by nine points.
HubSpot Marketing Hub9%#4 of 11
ActiveCampaign0%#– of 11
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about HubSpot Marketing Hub

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about ActiveCampaign

No label in this category carried a quote.

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.