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Marketing automation and campaign management · October 2026 Edition

HubSpot Marketing Hub vs Mailchimp

Thirteen of fourteen models named HubSpot Marketing Hub first on the direct prompt; zero named Mailchimp. HubSpot Marketing Hub was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Mailchimp by thirteen and HubSpot Marketing Hub carries 73 labels and Mailchimp 30, 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.

Mailchimp

criticized challenger

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

First-choice share63%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate15%43%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#4A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels7330A 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 ten 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
Direct130
Paraphrase1302 against Mailchimp
Comparative1201 against Mailchimp
Budget-constrained211 against HubSpot Marketing Hub · 2 against Mailchimp
Scale-constrained501 against Mailchimp
Negative0010 against HubSpot Marketing Hub · 7 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 October 2026 Edition, HubSpot Marketing Hub and Mailchimp were named in the same answer 205 times, of the 987 answers naming HubSpot Marketing Hub and the 388 naming Mailchimp. In those answers Mailchimp took the first choice ten times and HubSpot Marketing Hub forty-six.

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 4.1 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 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

13 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
GPT-5.4 miniHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Gemini 3.5 FlashHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Perplexity SonarHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: 6sense, ActiveCampaign, Adobe Marketo Engage, Customer.io, Demandbase
Grok 4.1 FastHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Adobe Marketo Engage, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Mistral SmallHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: Act-On, ActiveCampaign, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
DeepSeek V4 FlashHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Qwen 3.7 FlashHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign, Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement
Kimi K2ActiveCampaign, HubSpot Marketing Hub
GLM 4.7 FlashXHubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: ActiveCampaign
MiniMax M2.5HubSpot Marketing Hub alternatives: 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: ActiveCampaign, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement

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.
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice alternatives: Act-On, Adobe Marketo Engage, HubSpot Marketing Hub

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-seven points.
HubSpot Marketing Hub31%#2 of 10
Mailchimp4%#4 of 10
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
HubSpot Marketing Hub leads by sixty-two points.
HubSpot Marketing Hub63%#1 of 11
Mailchimp2%#4 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
HubSpot Marketing Hub leads by eighteen points.
HubSpot Marketing Hub18%#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. Three of three in this category shown.

“Most businesses shouldn't use HubSpot... For everyone else, it's a trap.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · negative prompt · hard negative
“1. HubSpot Marketing Hub - Best for: Mid-market companies and enterprises... Strong integration with other HubSpot tools and a user-friendly interface” Mistral Small · comparative prompt · first choice
“HubSpot Marketing Hub Professional — tight CRM integration, 4–6 week deployment, transparent pricing. The default for mid-market B2B.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · scale prompt · first choice

What the models said about Mailchimp

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.