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Email marketing platforms · October 2026 Edition

HubSpot Marketing Hub vs Klaviyo

Twelve of fourteen models named HubSpot Marketing Hub first on the direct prompt; zero named Klaviyo. HubSpot Marketing Hub was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Klaviyo by twelve and HubSpot Marketing Hub carries 52 labels and Klaviyo 26, 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.

Klaviyo

accepted challenger

Boston, United States, founded 2012. Named in thirteen categories this edition.

First-choice share35%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate8%15%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#6A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.
Labels5226A 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.ActiveCampaign was named alongside these two in twelve of the fourteen direct answers. HubSpot Marketing Hub vs ActiveCampaign · HubSpot Marketing Hub vs Brevo · HubSpot Marketing Hub vs MailerLite

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 email marketing platforms 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 modelsKlaviyo
Direct120
Paraphrase701 against Klaviyo
Comparative02
Budget-constrained00
Scale-constrained11
Negative014 against HubSpot Marketing Hub · 3 against Klaviyo
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 Klaviyo were named in the same answer 207 times, of the 987 answers naming HubSpot Marketing Hub and the 390 naming Klaviyo. In those answers Klaviyo took the first choice sixteen times and HubSpot Marketing Hub sixty-three.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where HubSpot Marketing Hub and Klaviyo stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
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 Klaviyo first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, HubSpot Marketing Hub on the left and Klaviyo on the right.

The direct prompt

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

HubSpot Marketing Hub first, Klaviyo an alternative

12 of 14 modelsKlaviyo was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5HubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Brevo, GetResponse
GPT-5.4 miniHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Gemini 3.5 FlashHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Customer.io, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Perplexity SonarHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Outreach, Salesloft, ZoomInfo Marketing
Grok 4.1 FastHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Adobe Marketo Engage
Mistral SmallActiveCampaign, HubSpot Marketing Hub
DeepSeek V4 FlashHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Klaviyo, Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Qwen 3.7 FlashHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, SharpSpring
Kimi K2ActiveCampaign, HubSpot Marketing Hub
GLM 4.7 FlashXHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Brevo, Klaviyo
GPT-6 LunaHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Muse Glimmer 30BActiveCampaign, HubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Adobe Marketo Engage

Neither was the first choice, one was named

1 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
MiniMax M2.5ActiveCampaign alternatives: HubSpot Marketing Hub, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement

Neither was named

1 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Llama 4 MaverickActiveCampaign alternatives: Dotdigital, Salesforce Email Marketing

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-four points.
HubSpot Marketing Hub24%#2 of 11
Klaviyo0%#9 of 11
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
HubSpot Marketing Hub leads by thirty-three points.
HubSpot Marketing Hub35%#1 of 14
Klaviyo2%#6 of 14
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
HubSpot Marketing Hub leads by twenty-seven points.
HubSpot Marketing Hub29%#1 of 13
Klaviyo2%#9 of 13
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. Three of three in this category shown.

“Recommending HubSpot to small businesses is irresponsible, and for everyone except B2B companies doing £1M+ in revenue, it's a trap.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · negative prompt · hard negative
“HubSpot and Salesforce Marketing Cloud (Avoid if you only need email marketing)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · hard negative
“If you're a B2B company with a complex sales cycle, HubSpot remains the most complete option — with caveats. ... Best for B2B Winner: HubSpot with significant cost caveats.” Muse Glimmer 30B · direct prompt · first choice

What the models said about Klaviyo

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

“Avoid tools like ... Klaviyo (ecommerce-focused) for serious B2B lead nurturing.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“Category A: The "Growth" Platform (Most Likely Fit) *Examples:* ActiveCampaign, Klaviyo (if E-commerce), Drip, Keap.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · scale 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.