CiviCRM
Donor and member management software for nonprofits combining contact databases with fundraising and event coordination
- Also known as
- civicrm
Available worldwide
What is CiviCRM?
An open-source platform designed for nonprofit organizations to centralize supporter relationship management, membership administration, event handling, fundraising campaigns, and case tracking in a single integrated system.
CiviCRM pricing
We don't have CiviCRM's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
Core platform is free and open-source; commercial SaaS hosting (Spark) and professional implementation services available
What CiviCRM does
The capabilities that matter for membership management, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Deployment architecture
- Standalone saas
- Automated recurring dues billing and reminders
- ✓
- Integrated CMS website builder and hosting
- ✗
- Gated member portal and searchable directory
- ✓
- Event registration and member discount ticketing
- ✓
- Chapter and committee hierarchical management
- ✓
- Job board and career center hosting
- ✗
- Certification and continuing education tracking
- ✗
- Email marketing and newsletter broadcasts
- ✓
- Donation and fundraising campaign management
- ✓
- SOC2 type ii
- ✗
- PCI DSS payment gateway compliance
- ✓
- Pricing model
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- Self-hosted
Integrations (9)
Independently observed- Authorize.Net
- Bitpay
- Smart Debit
- TSYS
- eWay
- Twingle
- SparkPost
- WordPress
- betterplace.org
CiviCRM alternatives
Other membership management we track, ranked by the same independent score.
Compare CiviCRM
Side by side against other membership management, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for CiviCRM, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price level | 80 | 0.05 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 87 | 0.05 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.08 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 20 | 0.07 | 1.5 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 29 | 0.04 | 1.2 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Soc2 type ii: No · Deployment architecture: standalone_saas · Pci dss payment gateway compliance: Yes · Job board and career center hosting: No · Email marketing and newsletter broadcasts: Yes · Integrated cms website builder and hosting: No | mediumsource · 2026-08-24 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 9 | mediumsource · 2026-08-24 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-24 · 75% |