Twenty
The modern one — built to feel like software from this decade.
Twenty is an open-source CRM built with the design sensibility of a modern product: keyboard-first navigation, a clean data model, custom objects, and an interface that does not feel like enterprise software from 2012. Around 54k stars, which is the most of any CRM here by a wide margin and reflects genuine developer enthusiasm. The licence is mostly AGPL-3.0, with specific files marked `@license Enterprise` under a commercial licence — so it is AGPL-with-carve-outs. It is the youngest option, and the caveat is exactly that: excellent trajectory, short track record.
What it does well
- +By far the best interface of any open CRM
- +Custom objects and fields without touching code
- +Enormous community momentum for a young project
- +Keyboard-first workflow that salespeople genuinely like
Where it falls short
- −Youngest here — shortest production track record
- −Enterprise-marked files are carved out of the AGPL
- −Feature set still thinner than EspoCRM's
- −Fewer integrations than any established option
Twenty as an alternative to
Where Twenty shows up in our comparisons, and how it ranked.
Twenty head-to-head
Straight comparisons against the tools people weigh it against.