The quick version
Pipedrive is a mature, sales-first CRM. It is strongest when your team lives in a pipeline, runs outbound activity, and wants sales-specific tooling around deals.
Vigdis is broader. It handles records, custom fields, saved views, deals, tasks, forms, inbox, comments, quotes, orders, integrations, and dashboards. Calling is available by request, and workflows are coming soon, but the core product is not trying to be a full outbound sales suite.
Pick Pipedrive if you want a refined sales pipeline system. Pick Vigdis if you want an efficient CRM that covers customer work beyond pipeline management.
Pricing
Pipedrive pricing is tiered and often shaped by plan limits and add-ons. If you need lead generation, email campaigns, documents, automation, or reporting depth, check which plan and add-ons are required before comparing cost.
Vigdis core CRM is free during early access, with simple per-seat pricing planned. Advanced AI and calling modules are handled by request.
Features
Contacts and companies
Both products handle contacts, companies, custom fields, and activity. Pipedrive has a mature sales activity model. Vigdis gives you flexible CRM records, related data, saved views, duplicate detection, comments, and tasks tied closely to each record.
Deals and pipeline
Pipedrive's pipeline is deep: sales stages, activities, forecasting, rotting deals, and years of sales-process polish. Vigdis has kanban and list views, stage actions, bulk updates, saved filters, follow-up tasks, quotes, orders, and pipeline stats. Less sales-methodology machinery, more direct work.
Email and communication
Pipedrive wins on outbound email tooling: sync, templates, tracking, and sequences depending on plan. Vigdis has inbox, comments, mentions, and notifications. It keeps communication connected to records, but it is not trying to replace an outbound email platform.
Calling
Pipedrive has call logging and sales activity tooling. Vigdis calling is available by request for teams that need click-to-call, campaign calling, review, or monitoring. It is an advanced setup, not part of the default free core CRM.
Automation
Pipedrive has useful workflow automation. Vigdis workflows are coming soon, focused on practical CRM triggers like record updates, stage moves, forms, and integration events.
Reporting
Pipedrive has mature sales reporting. Vigdis dashboards cover CRM data more broadly: records, fields, stages, tasks, orders, activity, and custom panels.
Where Pipedrive wins
- Pipeline depth. It was built around sales pipeline management and still shows it.
- Sales activity tooling. Email sequences, activities, and deal follow-up are mature.
- Automation. Existing workflow automation can save time today.
- Integrations. Pipedrive has a larger native integration ecosystem.
- Maturity. It has been refined for sales teams for a long time.
Where Vigdis wins
- Broader CRM scope. Vigdis is not only a sales board. It handles relationship data, tasks, forms, quotes, orders, integrations, and dashboards.
- Less sales baggage. You do not need to adopt a sales methodology to get value.
- Flexible records. Custom entities, fields, relationships, saved views, and filters are central.
- Fast daily work. Lists, views, filters, keyboard flow, and dashboards are built for repeated use.
- Clear packaging. Core CRM stays separate from advanced AI and calling modules.
The bottom line
Pick Pipedrive if your team is sales-led, pipeline-first, and needs mature outbound tooling today.
Pick Vigdis if you want a CRM that covers the whole customer workflow without becoming a sales-tooling cockpit.
Pipedrive is a good sales CRM. Vigdis is for teams whose customer work is bigger than a pipeline board.