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Yes, both Salesforce Essentials and Freshsales offer a Free Trial.
Salesforce Essentials is designed for and Small Business.
Freshsales is designed for Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Medium Business and Small Business.
Pricing for Salesforce Essentials Starts at $25/User/Month when Billed Yearly whereas for Freshsales Starts at $9/user/month when yearly.
Some top alternatives to Salesforce Essentials includes Thryv, Salesforce Sales Cloud, monday sales CRM by monday.com, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, Vendasta, ClickUp, Freshsales, HubSpot CRM, SalesCRM, SimpleCRM, Efficy CRM, FreeCRM, Client Book CRM, Second CRM, Snapforce CRM, iEnterprise CRM and SalesPro CRM.
Some top alternatives to Freshsales includes Thryv, Salesforce Sales Cloud, monday sales CRM by monday.com, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, Vendasta, Salesforce, HubSpot CRM, Freshworks 360, Nutshell, Keap, SalesCRM, Zoho CRM Plus, webCRM and Pipeline CRM.