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Email marketing platforms · September 2026 Edition

ActiveCampaign vs HubSpot Marketing Hub

Nine of twelve models named ActiveCampaign first on the direct prompt; five named HubSpot Marketing Hub. Both were named by all twelve models and ActiveCampaign carries 56 labels and HubSpot Marketing Hub 49, so the shares are not directly comparable.

ActiveCampaign

endorsed leader

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

HubSpot Marketing Hub

accepted challenger

By HubSpot, Cambridge, United States, founded 2006. Named in fifteen categories this edition.

First-choice share40%27%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate14%14%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#2A position in a field of 13; printed, not drawn.
Labels5649A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, ActiveCampaign reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.ActiveCampaign vs Brevo · HubSpot Marketing Hub vs Brevo

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve 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 email marketing platforms page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
ActiveCampaignFirst choices, of twelve modelsHubSpot Marketing Hub
Direct95
Paraphrase56
Comparative102 against HubSpot Marketing Hub
Budget-constrained003 against ActiveCampaign
Scale-constrained41
Negative105 against ActiveCampaign · 5 against HubSpot Marketing Hub
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

The direct prompt

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

Both were the first choice

2 of 12 modelsThe answer named them together, and the judge labeled each a first choice.
Grok 4.1 FastActiveCampaign, HubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Adobe Marketo Engage, Brevo
Llama 4 MaverickActiveCampaign, HubSpot Marketing Hub

ActiveCampaign first, HubSpot Marketing Hub an alternative

7 of 12 modelsHubSpot Marketing Hub was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GPT-5.4 miniActiveCampaign alternatives: Braze, HubSpot Marketing Hub
Gemini 3.5 FlashActiveCampaign alternatives: Brevo, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Mistral SmallActiveCampaign alternatives: Brevo, HubSpot Marketing Hub
DeepSeek V4 FlashActiveCampaign alternatives: HubSpot Marketing Hub
Kimi K2ActiveCampaign alternatives: HubSpot Marketing Hub
GLM 4.7 FlashXActiveCampaign alternatives: Brevo, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Klaviyo
MiniMax M2.5ActiveCampaign alternatives: Adobe Marketo Engage, HubSpot Marketing Hub

HubSpot Marketing Hub first, ActiveCampaign an alternative

3 of 12 modelsActiveCampaign was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5HubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign
Perplexity SonarHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign
Qwen 3.7 FlashHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Customer.io

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
ActiveCampaign leads by twenty-six points.
ActiveCampaign36%#1 of 13
HubSpot Marketing Hub10%#5 of 13
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
ActiveCampaign leads by thirteen points.
ActiveCampaign40%#1 of 13
HubSpot Marketing Hub27%#2 of 13
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: HubSpot Marketing Hub leads at enterprise.
HubSpot Marketing Hub21%#2 of 13
ActiveCampaign4%#5 of 13
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about ActiveCampaign

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

“Avoid Mailchimp/ActiveCampaign/Constant Contact at larger list sizes” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“| ActiveCampaign | Locks advanced features behind expensive tiers |” Kimi K2 · negative prompt · hard negative
“For most mid-market B2B companies, ActiveCampaign offers the best balance of sophisticated email automation, reasonable pricing, and scalability.” Mistral Small · direct prompt · first choice

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.

“HubSpot is the dominant choice for mid-market B2B companies because it unifies marketing, sales, and service data in a single "System of Record."” Qwen 3.7 Flash · direct prompt · first choice
Also compared

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