Salesforce vs Atomic-crm
Atomic CRM is the stronger fit for teams seeking a self-hostable, code-customizable CRM centered on contacts, follow-ups, and visual deal pipelines. Salesforce remains the better choice for organizations that need a broad, integrated platform spanning advanced sales automation, service, marketing, unified customer data, analytics, commerce, and business-facing AI agents. The main tradeoff is infrastructure and source
Decision guide
The practical reasons to choose either option, based on documented capabilities.
Choose Atomic-crm if
- Small sales teams managing contacts, tasks, notes, email history, and Kanban deal pipelines
- Organizations requiring self-hosting, database control, or source-level TypeScript customization
- Developer-supported teams that want to add custom fields, pages, themes, or replacement components
Stay with Salesforce if
- Customer-service, contact-center, omnichannel, self-service, or field-service workflows are required
- Marketing automation, personalization, loyalty, advertising, or campaign analytics are required
- Unified profiles assembled from multiple customer-data sources are required across departments or applications
Deployment and operations
Atomic CRM is MIT-licensed and can be self-hosted. Local installation requires Make, Node 22 LTS, and Docker; the documented setup starts a Vite frontend, local Supabase API, and Postgres database. Hosting can use Supabase or the organization's own infrastructure. Updates are available through a documented Shadcn Registry command, so self-managed deployments require technical ownership of installation, customization, updates, and infrastructure.
Migration considerations
Atomic CRM documents contact import and export, supporting transfer of contacts into and out of the system. The supplied sources do not document a Salesforce-specific importer, mapping process, or compatibility guarantee, so deals, activities, custom fields, automations, and other Salesforce data would require separate migration validation.
Feature fit
What Atomic-crm covers
- Contact and customer records
- Visual deal-pipeline tracking
- Tasks, reminders, and notes
- Captured email history
- Custom fields and UI customization
- API-based integrations
- Authentication and access control
What’s different or missing
- No documented service-operations suite
- No documented marketing-automation suite
- No documented multi-source unified profiles
- No documented CRM analytics or reporting suite
- No documented commerce or order management
- No documented CPQ or revenue-lifecycle operations
- No documented business-workflow AI agents
Project snapshot
- GitHub stars
- 1,199
- Contributors
- 22
- Language
- TypeScript
- Last commit
- Jul 27, 2026
- Latest release
- Mar 10, 2026
Categories: Marketing Automation, Customer Support, Content Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, Customer Data Platforms, Workflow Automation, Business Intelligence, Data Integration
Sources and editorial review11 linked sources
Public documentation supports this comparison. Automation assists collection and classification; editorial standards and corrections remain the responsibility of Kris.
To run this project locally... Docker (required by Supabase).
readme · github.comYou can then access the app via [http://localhost:5173/].
readme · github.comA full-featured CRM built with React, shadcn/ui, and Supabase.
repository description · github.comAtomic CRM is free and open-source. You can test it online.
readme · github.comOrganize Contacts: Keep all your contacts in one easily accessible place.
readme · github.comManage Deals: Visualize and track your sales pipeline in a Kanban board.
readme · github.comTrack Activity History: View all interactions in aggregated activity logs.
readme · github.com- 📊 **Manage Deals**: Visualize and track your sales pipeline in a Kanban board.
shared feature · github.com- 🔄 **Import & Export Data**: Easily transfer contacts in and out of the system.
migration · github.comTo run this project locally, you will need the following tools installed on your computer: - Make - Node 22 LTS - Docker (required by Supabase)
deployment · github.comThis project is licensed under the MIT License, courtesy of [Marmelab](https://marmelab.com). See the [LICENSE.md](./LICENSE.md) file for details.
deployment · github.com
