Krayin CRM

What is Krayin?

Krayin CRM is a free, open source CRM (customer relationship management) platform built on the Laravel (PHP) framework, with a Vue.js front end. It gives sales teams one place to capture leads, track contacts and organizations, send quotes, and move deals through a pipeline — all on infrastructure you own. It’s released under the permissive MIT license and maintained by Webkul, so you can fork it, customize it, or even ship it inside a commercial product with no per-user fees.

What is Krayin best for?

Krayin is best for small and mid-sized sales teams — and especially Laravel/PHP shops — that want a customizable CRM without Salesforce-style per-seat pricing or data lock-in. It fits teams that value data sovereignty, run their own servers, and have (or can hire) the basic ops skills to deploy and maintain a self-hosted app. If your developers already write Laravel, extending Krayin feels native because it uses the same patterns and packages they already know.

What can Krayin do?

• Capture and nurture leads, and move them through a customizable sales pipeline with stages
• Manage contacts (persons) and organizations with a full activity and communication history
• Create and send quotations, backed by a product catalog
• Automate routine work with a no-code workflow builder (triggers and actions)
• Add custom attributes to entities without writing code, thanks to a modular architecture
• Control who can do what with role-based access permissions
• Parse and log incoming email (for example via SendGrid) and track calls, meetings, and activities
• Extend it with premium marketplace add-ons — WhatsApp, VoIP, Google Workspace, and a Multi-Tenant SaaS module

Where does Krayin fall short?

• It ships with fewer built-in third-party integrations than Salesforce or HubSpot, so for things like telephony, WhatsApp, or VoIP you’ll lean on paid marketplace add-ons or build your own.
• It’s really only a comfortable choice if you live in Laravel/PHP. Outside a PHP team, customizing and maintaining it is harder, and you lose the main reason to pick it.

Is Krayin free?

Yes — Krayin’s core CRM is fully free and open source under the MIT license, and self-hosting costs only your own server. Webkul makes money from optional extras: managed cloud hosting, premium marketplace extensions (WhatsApp, VoIP, Multi-Tenant SaaS, Google Workspace), and professional services like custom development and migration. None of that is required to run the CRM.

What does Krayin replace?

Krayin is most often used as a self-hosted Salesforce alternative, and it also stands in for HubSpot for teams that want lead, contact, and pipeline management without escalating per-seat or per-contact pricing. You trade some integration breadth and polish for full ownership of your data and code. If you’d rather have CRM bundled inside a broader business suite, open source ERPs like Odoo and ERPNext include CRM modules too.

FAQ

Is Krayin open source? Yes, genuinely. Krayin is released under the permissive MIT license, so the full code is public and free to self-host, fork, modify, and even ship inside a commercial product — there are no source-available restrictions.

Can I self-host Krayin for free? Yes. The complete CRM is free to self-host; you pay only for the server it runs on. Managed cloud hosting and premium extensions are optional paid add-ons, not requirements.

Is Krayin a good Salesforce alternative? For small and mid-sized teams — especially Laravel shops — yes: you get core CRM features with no per-seat fees and full data ownership. For large enterprises that need Salesforce’s vast integration ecosystem, it’s a lighter, more hands-on option.

What do I need to run Krayin? A server (Apache or NGINX) with PHP 8.2+, Composer 2.5+, and MySQL 8.0.32+, plus around 3 GB of RAM. Webkul also offers managed hosting if you’d rather not run it yourself.