CRM · replacement recipe

Go from folk to Attio

The job: Sales CRM (People and companies, Pipeline management, Reminders and notes, Email and calendar sync). Pick where you are today and where you want to land; the move below follows your pick.

From · what you pay for now
folk
folk Standard · $30/mo
Year one+$310modeled
To · your pickBest fit
Attio
Free plan · $0 a month
Change where you land

The money

$30/mo today , then $0/mo

folk Standard

Year one, net+$310
Pays back in1.7 months

Modeled from public list prices, with your time at $50 an hour. Show the math

Does it do the job? 4 of 4 covered

  • Covered: People and companies
  • Covered: Pipeline management
  • Covered: Reminders and notes
  • Covered: Email and calendar sync

The work

Setup
About 1 h
Upkeep
None
Watch out
Check first: You only rely on: People and companies, Pipeline management, Reminders and notes, Email and calendar sync

Make the move in four steps

  1. Export from folk

    Contacts and notes in each group's view. Format: CSV

    Export steps
  2. Set up Attio

    Suits teams of up to 3 who want synced email, automatic enrichment and a pipeline for free; no email campaigns or LinkedIn capture.

    Details
  3. Switch links and integrations

    Point links, embeds and integrations at Attio, then send a test through every one.

  4. Cancel folk

    Turn off renewal before your renewal date, once the new setup works. Access runs until: The end of the billing period.

    How to cancel folk
Open AttioHow to cancel folk
Modeled, not measured. Savings use public prices and planning assumptions: the bill you stop paying, minus the new tool, your upkeep time and your setup time at $50/hour, over the first 12 months. Paths marked Tested by Stackcut were run end to end by us on our own products. They're our tests, not customer results. Check the must-haves in each recipe before you switch.

The whole recipe: 4 ways out, best first

What you use

  • People and companies
  • Pipeline management
  • Reminders and notes
  • Email and calendar sync

Not covered

  • Email campaigns
  • Contact enrichment
  • LinkedIn capture (folkX extension)
  • Dashboards (Premium)

Check before switching

  • You only rely on: People and companies, Pipeline management, Reminders and notes, Email and calendar sync
  • Export your data from folk before canceling

Agents: get_recipe("replace-folk") on the Stackcut MCP server.

4 ways out, best first

Switch vendorAttio (free tier)Saves $310 in year one
$30/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $360/yr · payback 1.7 mo
If your use fits the free tier (Up to 3 seats, 3 objects, 50,000 records, 3 reports, 200 emails a month, 1 synced email account per user; automatic enrichment; 100 credits per user a month).
Covers 100% of the core features
Suits teams of up to 3 who want synced email, automatic enrichment and a pipeline for free; no email campaigns or LinkedIn capture.
How we got this
You pay now: folk Standard$30/user/mo × 1 user$30/mo
New cost: Attio (free tier)free plan$0/mo
Difference each month$30 − $0+$30/mo
Over 12 months+$30 × 12+$360
Setup, once1 h × $50/h−$50
Year one+$360 − $50+$310
  • Not counting your time (1 h in year one): saves $360 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Switch vendorBiginSaves $202 in year one
$30/mo today → $9/mo · setup 1 h · then $252/yr · payback 2.4 mo
Covers 100% of the core features
Suits small teams that want pipelines, email sync and mass emails for $9 a user monthly; no enrichment on Express.
How we got this
You pay now: folk Standard$30/user/mo × 1 user$30/mo
New cost: Bigin$9/user/mo × 1 user$9/mo
Difference each month$30 − $9+$21/mo
Over 12 months+$21 × 12+$252
Setup, once1 h × $50/h−$50
Year one+$252 − $50+$202
  • Not counting your time (1 h in year one): saves $252 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Switch vendorTwentySaves $166 in year one
$30/mo today → $12/mo · setup 1 h · then $216/yr · payback 2.8 mo
Covers 100% of the core features
Suits teams that want a CRM with email sync and dashboards at $12 a user monthly ($9 yearly); no campaigns or enrichment.
How we got this
You pay now: folk Standard$30/user/mo × 1 user$30/mo
New cost: Twenty$12/user/mo × 1 user$12/mo
Difference each month$30 − $12+$18/mo
Over 12 months+$18 × 12+$216
Setup, once1 h × $50/h−$50
Year one+$216 − $50+$166
  • Not counting your time (1 h in year one): saves $216 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Open sourceTwentyCosts $1,100 more in year one
$30/mo today → $5/mo + 2 h upkeep · setup 4 h
Covers 100% of the core features
Suits a team with someone to run a small server who wants contacts, pipelines and email sync free.
License: open_source
How we got this
You pay now: folk Standard$30/user/mo × 1 user$30/mo
New cost: Twentya small server (modeled)$5/mo
Your upkeep time2 h/mo × $50/h$100/mo
Difference each month$30 − $5 − $100−$75/mo
Over 12 months−$75 × 12−$900
Setup, once4 h × $50/h−$200
Year one−$900 − $200−$1,100
  • Not counting your time (28 h in year one): saves $300 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

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