Mixmax vs. Streak: a CRM in Gmail, or follow-ups that send themselves
Streak puts pipelines and deal stages inside Gmail. Mixmax is a lightweight outreach tool inside Gmail: write your follow-ups once, and if they don't reply, Mixmax sends them from your Gmail and stops the moment they do.
- Built as a CRM first: pipelines, stages and fields come before follow-ups.
- Automatic follow-ups come with its mail merge, which is built for sending one email to a list.
- The free email tools cap mail merge at 50 emails a day.
- Paid plans start at $49 per user a month, billed yearly ($59 monthly).
- Zapier and automations start on Pro+, at $69 per user a month billed yearly.
- Write your follow-ups once. If they don't reply, Mixmax sends them from your Gmail, in the same thread.
- Follow-ups stop the moment they reply.
- Add follow-ups to one email you're writing, or to a list from a CSV, Salesforce or HubSpot.
- "Remind me if no reply" brings the email back to the top of your inbox when someone goes quiet.
- See who opened your email and clicked your links.
- Free plan: 50 sequence recipients and 20 tracked emails a month.
What can you do with Mixmax vs. Streak?
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Does Streak send follow-ups automatically?
Yes, through its mail merge. Streak can send follow-ups as replies in the same thread, and by default they stop when the person replies (Streak's help article on advanced mail merge settings).
Mixmax does the same for a list, and it also lets you add follow-ups to a single email you're writing. That fits someone who follows up with people one at a time, not only in batches.
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What does Streak do well?
Streak is a full CRM that lives inside Gmail. You can track deals, hiring, fundraising or any other process in pipelines, and share them with your team. It shares email history across a team automatically, has custom fields that update themselves (like last reply and time in stage), and has mobile apps.
Its free email tools are useful on their own: email and link tracking, snippets, and mail merge up to 50 emails a day.
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Is Mixmax cheaper than Streak?
Both have a free option. On paid plans, Mixmax starts at $29 per user a month billed yearly ($34 monthly). Streak Pro starts at $49 per user a month billed yearly ($59 monthly), per Streak's pricing page in November 2026.
They're priced for different jobs. Streak's price is mostly for the CRM. Mixmax's price is for the follow-ups, tracking and scheduling.
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Do I need a CRM to use Mixmax?
No. Mixmax works on its own inside Gmail, and it also syncs with Salesforce and HubSpot if you use them. If you want a CRM that lives in Gmail, Streak is built for that.
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Should I choose Streak or Mixmax?
Choose Streak if you want a CRM inside Gmail: a place to track every deal or candidate by stage and share that view with your team.
Choose Mixmax if your problem is that follow-ups don't get sent. You write them once, Mixmax sends them when people go quiet, and they stop when someone replies. Our guides on how to follow up after no response and on automated email follow-up tools walk through both approaches.
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