Streak is the Gmail tab CRM that runs as a Chrome extension. Breakcold is the AI native sales CRM for SMBs of 2 to 50 that actually sell on LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram and email, with a first party MCP and no per seat tax.
14-day free trial · 30-min migration from Streak CRM
Feature scoreboard
Every feature is a point. Here's how the match ends.
Where Breakcold and Streak CRM actually diverge
Not a feature list. The structural gaps that drive real switching decisions — written the way Arnaud explains them to prospects.
Sales in 2026 doesn't happen on email alone. Breakcold treats Email, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram and meetings as first-class channels — auto-synced, threaded next to the deal, and queryable by your AI agents.
Streak CRM doesn't natively support LinkedIn, WhatsApp or Telegram, so every conversation that happens there lives outside your CRM.
Breakcold ships 55 native MCP tools so Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and 14 other AI clients can actually mutate your CRM — move deals, create tasks, write notes, read multi-channel threads, score leads.
Streak CRM keeps AI inside the app — it stops at records and email, and can't read the LinkedIn, WhatsApp or Telegram threads where modern sales conversations actually happen.
Breakcold runs on one $59/mo plan. First seat is included, each extra seat is +$10/mo. LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram and AI agents aren't add-ons — they're the product.
Streak CRM bills $49/seat, so a team of 5 costs $245/mo — that's $1,752/year you don't have to spend.
One plan. Full power. Pay for usage, not headcount. The biggest problem with legacy CRM pricing is paying for seats AND for integrations AND for enrichment. Here a new seat is $10/mo, not $59/mo.
EASY CHOICEFirst seat included. +$10/mo per extra seat.
Streak Pro is $49 per seat per month on annual billing, or $59 monthly
Breakcold · team of 5
$99/month
Streak CRM · team of 5
$245/month
+$10/mo
per extra account
vs $39–$59/mo per integration on Streak CRM
$0
unlimited enrichment
vs ~$100/mo add-on
1 seat
included in base $59
solopreneurs get the full product
55 native MCP tools across email, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram and meetings — so Claude, ChatGPT and your agents act on the full conversation, not just records.
Catch me up on my top 3 accounts this week — last touch and where each deal stands.
Claudereads & writes your Breakcold CRM through MCP
Records · Tasks · Notes · Inbox (Email · LinkedIn · WhatsApp · Telegram) · CRM objects · Custom fields · Views
Breakcold, the AI native sales CRM alternative to Streak
Streak runs as a Chrome extension that puts a CRM directly inside your Gmail tab. The team in San Francisco built it for solopreneurs and very small teams that spend their entire workday in Gmail and want their pipeline to follow them into the inbox. Breakcold goes deeper on the actual sales work: native LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram and email auto sync into one unified inbox, multiple pipelines, custom objects, a first party MCP server and a flat base price instead of per seat fees.
5
channels in one workspace
50+
data points enriched
$0
metadata enrichment cost
| Name | Last interaction | Company | Deals | Job title | Location | Bio | Quick notes | Owner | Created | Updated | Service provider type | |||
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| - | - | - | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-lee | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| - | - | - | https://www.linkedin.com/in/casey-rivera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| - | - | - | https://www.linkedin.com/in/riley-chen | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| - | - | - | https://www.linkedin.com/in/avery-patel | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| - | - | - | https://www.linkedin.com/in/morgan-blake | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| - | - | - | https://www.linkedin.com/in/quinn-ellis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| - | - | - | https://www.linkedin.com/in/reese-parker | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| - | - | - | https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-hart | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| - | - | - | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-quinn | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| - | - | - | https://www.linkedin.com/in/harper-stone | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| - | - | - | https://www.linkedin.com/in/rowan-kim | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| - | - | - | https://www.linkedin.com/in/skyler-brooks | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Drop in the packaged Agent Skill and your AI inherits six production-grade playbooks, with no prompt engineering required.
Follow up Katy — pricing concerns
Re-engage Orbit Labs
Send recap to Marie
Auto follow-up tasks
Example
Follow up Katy: Pricing concerns around multi-seat plan
Cypress
Acme Inc.
Maven HQ
Pipeline auto-movement
Example
Acme Inc. → Meeting Booked (3 LinkedIn replies + 1 calendar accept this week)
Q2 pipeline report
+24%Visual sales reports
Example
Q2 closed-won by source, win-rate by stage, stalled deals
Acme Inc.
Company · 142 employees
Signals
Angle: lead with multichannel + migration speed.
Prospect research
Example
Prospect research: Acme Inc. (company, people, signals)
Inbox → CRM
Scanned 142 messagesJordan Lee
Priya Shah
info@webinar.io
5 created · 2 below 95% threshold
Inbox → CRM detection
Example
Found 7 new people in your inbox this week. Created 5, skipped 2 below threshold.
CRM setup from a URL
Example
Built from breakcold.com: 4 objects, 18 fields, 7 stages, 5 views.
Streak is the well loved Gmail tab CRM but it has not really pushed into the AI native wave and lives only inside Gmail. Breakcold is the AI native sales CRM with native LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Telegram inboxes, a first party MCP and a flat $59 base price instead of per seat fees.
Streak was founded in 2011 in San Francisco by Aleem Mawani and Andrew Eye as a Y Combinator company. The idea was simple and clever: rather than build another standalone CRM, build the CRM directly inside Gmail as a browser extension. Pipelines, deals and contacts all live in the same tab as the inbox.
The audience is solo founders, agencies and very small teams that already spend their entire workday in Gmail and do not want to leave it. Streak is well known in that lane for the Gmail first UX.
The honest split is that Streak has stayed inside the Gmail tab and not really pushed into the AI native CRM wave or beyond email. Their core promise in 2026 looks a lot like their core promise in 2014, pipelines and tracking inside your inbox. Breakcold is the AI native sales CRM for SMB sales teams of 2 to 50 that run multichannel sales every day.
We auto sync LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram, email, calls and meetings into one unified inbox. Streak has the Gmail integration but no native LinkedIn inbox, no WhatsApp inbox, no Telegram inbox, and no real app outside Gmail. If your team does not run on Gmail or wants to reply to a LinkedIn DM inside the CRM, Streak is not the fit.
On the AI side, Streak added a 20 AI credit allowance per user per month on Pro for things like deal summaries and autofill. Breakcold went much further with a first party MCP server that gives Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor the same control surface as a human user, an AI native CRM built around autonomous workflows, lead scoring and auto task creation, and a packaged agent Skill for Claude Code, with no per credit ceiling.
Streak Pro is $49 per seat per month on annual billing, or $59 monthly, with 20 AI credits per user per month. Pro+ jumps to $69 annual ($89 monthly) for 150 credits, and Enterprise is $129 annual ($159 monthly) for 500 credits. Every teammate has to be on the same plan, no mixed tiers allowed. A team of 5 on Streak Pro annual runs $245 per month.
Breakcold is $59 per month for the base plan with one seat and one channel account included. Extra seats are $10 per month and extra channel accounts are $10 per month. A team of 5 on Breakcold is $59 + 4 x $10 = $99 per month with no per seat tax and no AI credit ceiling. The multichannel inbox, custom objects, multiple pipelines and the MCP are all in the base price.
If your team literally never leaves Gmail and a 20 credit AI allowance is enough for you, Streak is a fine pick. If you actually run sales across LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram and email and want AI agents to operate the CRM with you, Breakcold is the better fit. For more depth check the AI native CRM overview or the CRMs with MCP server roundup.
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