Orbit vs Streak
Streak is a CRM that lives entirely inside Gmail: pipelines, boxes, and mail merge right in your inbox. Orbit is a free standalone CRM run by 16 AI agents that call new leads back in about 90 seconds, draft follow-ups for quiet threads, and chase invoices, with you approving every card. If your whole business is email, Streak feels native. If your business also runs on calls, meetings, proposals, and invoices, Orbit covers the rest.
What is Streak great at?
Streak solved the most common CRM failure: nobody opens the CRM. It puts the pipeline inside Gmail itself, so deals are columns above your inbox and every email thread files into a box for its deal. There is no second tab to forget, which is exactly why busy one-person businesses stick with it.
The email tooling is the other half. Mail merge from your own address, snippets, and tracking turn Gmail into a light outreach machine. A free personal plan is well known and genuinely usable for an individual, and teams can share pipelines on paid per-user tiers. Check their site for current limits and pricing.
Orbit vs Streak at a glance
One lives where your email lives. The other works so you can leave the inbox.
| Orbit | Streak | |
|---|---|---|
| Built-in AI agents that work the pipeline | 16 named agents, approval-gated | No agent team |
| AI voice calls and speed-to-lead | Remy calls new form leads back in about 90 seconds | No calling features |
| Human approval gates on AI output | Approve, edit, or dismiss every card | Not applicable |
| Built for one person | Yes, solo-first | Yes, individuals and small teams in Gmail |
| Invoices, proposals, and booking pages included | Included, even on free | No, email-focused |
| On-device meeting transcription | Free and private, audio stays on your machine | |
| MCP server to connect Claude | Built in, revocable per-workspace keys | Check their site |
| Free plan | Free forever, no credit card | Free personal plan, check their site |
| Pricing model | Free plan, your own API keys at provider cost, Pro coming soon | Per-user paid tiers, check their site |
Where does Orbit fit instead?
Honesty first: if inbox-native is the whole point for you, Streak wins that today. Orbit is a standalone app, and its Gmail inbox with open and click tracking belongs to the upcoming Pro plan, not the free one. What the free plan gives you instead is a staff. Tess scans your inbox each morning and drafts bumps for threads quiet 3 or more days, plus replies you forgot you owed.
Then Orbit goes where Gmail cannot. Remy answers your inbound line and calls new form leads back in about 90 seconds on your own Vapi number. Mia hands you a one-page brief 75 minutes before each meeting. The meeting recorder transcribes on your device, free, with audio that never leaves your machine, and Theo turns recorded calls into recap emails and action items grounded only in the transcript.
The money side is built in too: proposals that Wes nudges on day 3 and day 7, invoices that Ray chases politely on day 3 and firmly on day 14, booking pages, and a simple ledger. Every agent action waits as a card for your approval, so the volume of help never turns into noise you did not sign off on.
Pick Streak if
- You live in Gmail and refuse to open another tab, ever.
- Your pipeline is light and mostly tracks email conversations.
- You want mail merge and tracking from your own address today.
- The free personal plan covers your one-person email workflow, check their site for limits.
- Your team already collaborates inside shared Gmail pipelines.
Pick Orbit if
- Leads reach you by form and phone, not just email, and callback speed wins deals.
- You want proposals, invoices, and booking pages living with the pipeline.
- You want meeting briefs before calls and transcripts after them, without paying for either.
- You want Monday numbers from Ava: calls made, meetings booked, money collected.
- You want Claude connected to your CRM through a built-in MCP server.
Streak keeps the CRM inside your inbox. Orbit makes sure your business does not live or die by it.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Orbit better than Streak for a solo founder?+
It depends on where your business happens. If everything is email, Streak inside Gmail is hard to beat. If leads also arrive by form and phone, Orbit is stronger: it is free, and its AI agents call leads back in about 90 seconds, draft follow-ups, chase proposals and invoices, and brief you before meetings, all with your approval.
Does Orbit work inside Gmail like Streak?+
No. Orbit is a standalone CRM app. A Gmail inbox with open and click tracking is part of Orbit's upcoming Pro plan, not the free plan. The free plan focuses on the agent team, pipelines, booking pages, invoices, and proposals, and a Chrome extension can save anyone from LinkedIn in one click.
Is Streak free?+
Streak is known for a free personal plan that works for individuals, with paid per-user tiers for teams and heavier use. Check their site for current limits. Orbit's free plan is free forever with no credit card and includes all 16 AI agents with your own API keys.
How does Orbit handle email follow-up?+
Tess, Orbit's email chaser, scans your inbox each morning and drafts bumps for threads that have been quiet 3 or more days, plus replies you forgot to send. Drafts land as cards you approve, edit, or dismiss. Nothing is sent automatically.
What happens to my meeting recordings in Orbit?+
Orbit's meeting recorder transcribes on your device, so the audio stays on your machine and the feature is free. Theo, the scribe agent, then drafts a recap email and action items based only on what the transcript actually says.
Let the follow-up leave the inbox
Free forever, no credit card. Tess drafts the bumps, Remy works the phone, and every card waits for your yes.
Free forever plan. No credit card. No spam.