Close vs Lever vs Affinity vs CustomerIQ

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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Close
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Lever
Competitor 2
Affinity
Competitor 3
CustomerIQ
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Close
close.com
Close is a sales CRM for teams that sell by phone, email and text.
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Competitor Lever
lever.co
Opening Lever drops you into a recruiting dashboard where candidate profiles stack up with AI-generated fit scores next to each name
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Competitor Affinity
affinity.co
A venture partner at a growth-stage fund spends hours each week digging through email threads to figure out who on the team knows the CEO at a promising Series B company
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Competitor CustomerIQ
getcustomeriq.com
Sales and service teams lose deals because they cannot keep up with the volume of client communications flooding their inboxes and phone lines
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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12.1Mvisits/mo
503.1Kvisits/mo
1.2Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 6.6%
▲ 11.6%
▼ 70.1%
6-month growth
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-6.4%
-7.2%
-50.5%
Global rank web
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#4,824
#79,937
#2,761,550
Avg. last 3 months
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11.7M
459.3K
2.4K
Bounce rate lower is better
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41%
31%
18%
Pages / visit
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3.3
6.6
6.4
Visit duration
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3m 37s
6m 04s
2m 35s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 61% · ● Referral 34%
● Direct 94% · ● Referral 4%
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CloseLeverAffinityCustomerIQ
03.5M6.9M10.4M13.8MLever · 10.5MLever · 13.8MLever · 12.9MLever · 13.5MLever · 12.7MLever · 11.8MLever · 11.3MLever · 12.1MAffinity · 571.2KAffinity · 542.3KAffinity · 612.8KAffinity · 513.9KAffinity · 424.1KAffinity · 450.9KAffinity · 503.1KCustomerIQ · 3.3KCustomerIQ · 4.3KCustomerIQ · 3.2KCustomerIQ · 2.5KCustomerIQ · 3KCustomerIQ · 2.4KCustomerIQ · 1.9KCustomerIQ · 4.2KCustomerIQ · 1.2K1K10K100K1M10M100MLever · 10.5MLever · 13.8MLever · 12.9MLever · 13.5MLever · 12.7MLever · 11.8MLever · 11.3MLever · 12.1MAffinity · 571.2KAffinity · 542.3KAffinity · 612.8KAffinity · 513.9KAffinity · 424.1KAffinity · 450.9KAffinity · 503.1KCustomerIQ · 3.3KCustomerIQ · 4.3KCustomerIQ · 3.2KCustomerIQ · 2.5KCustomerIQ · 3KCustomerIQ · 2.4KCustomerIQ · 1.9KCustomerIQ · 4.2KCustomerIQ · 1.2KDec '25Jan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Paid
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Starting price
$9per month
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$2,000per month
$50per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
Solo $9/moEssentials $35/moGrowth $99/moScale $139/mo
Custom Quote Custom
Essential $2,000/yrScale $2,300/yrAdvanced $2,700/yrEnterprise Custom
Free FreePlus $50/moPro $75/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
AudioData
DocumentsText
DataText
AudioText
Output
AudioText
Data
DataText
DataText
Skill level
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Categories
Business & MarketingAI CRMAI Sales
Business & MarketingAI Recruiting
Business & MarketingAI CRM
Business & MarketingProductivity & OfficeAI CRMAI Email Assistant+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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CRM
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Sales
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Candidate screening
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Recruiting
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Deal tracking
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Email follow-ups
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Email management
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Job recruitment
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Lead management
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Recruitment assistance
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Sales automation
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Voice agents
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Call summaries
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Call transcriptions
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Customer calls
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Customer retention
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Customer service emails
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Customer success
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Email automation
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Fraud detection
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Fraud prevention
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HR
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Lead generation
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Meeting scheduling
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Resumes
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Sales call assistance
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.