HockeyStack is a good product. It’s built for a real problem. enterprise B2B SaaS teams trying to attribute revenue across long, complex, multi-touchpoint sales cycles, with sales-assisted motions and revenue ops teams.
HockeyStack does not publish pricing. Plans are demo-gated, so there is no verified public figure. It’s also heavy to implement (weeks, not minutes), and assumes you have a revenue ops function. None of that applies to a small business spending $3-10K/month on ads. That business is trying to figure out which sources produced customers.
The honest framing. HockeyStack is the right tool when the question is “what does our multi-channel marketing mix actually contribute to enterprise revenue?” Lead Source is the right tool when the question is “which of these Google Ads campaigns produced paying customers last month?”
Where the line actually is
It’s not about features. It’s about your size.
Pick HockeyStack if
You’re an enterprise revenue team.
- 10+ person marketing team with a dedicated revenue ops function
- $100K+/year in ad spend
- 6+ month sales cycles with sales-assisted demos, then BANT qualification, and deal stages
- Multi-touch attribution modelling is part of your reporting
- You need MQL scoring, and opportunity influence, then pipeline attribution dashboards for your CMO and CRO
- You can absorb an enterprise quote and a multi-week implementation
Pick Lead Source if
You’re an SMB that just wants to know what worked.
- 1-3 person marketing function (often: the founder, the founder’s spouse, an agency)
- $3-30K/month in ad spend
- Sales cycle measured in days or weeks, not months
- You want to know “which ad produced this customer?” in one click, not a dashboard
- You want $19/month, not a quote you have to book a demo to see
- You want to be live in 5 minutes, not 5 weeks
Capability and cost, honestly compared
Same product category. Completely different scale and audience.
| What you get | HockeyStack | Lead Source |
|---|---|---|
| Core attribution | ||
| Capture source on every form submission | Yes | Yes |
| Per-lead source detail with full journey | Yes | Yes |
| Write attribution into CRM contact | Yes | Yes |
| Enterprise features (you probably don’t need) | ||
| Multi-touch attribution modelling | Yes | No |
| MQL scoring & qualification rules | Yes | No |
| Opportunity / pipeline influence dashboards | Yes | No |
| Account-based attribution (ABM) | Yes | No |
| Revenue attribution with deal-stage modelling | Yes | No |
| Custom event tracking & SDK | Yes | No |
| Setup & commitment | ||
| Install time | Multi-week implementation | ~5 minutes |
| Requires revenue ops / dev resources | Typically yes | No |
| Contract | Annual, typically | Month-to-month |
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | No | free tier |
| Entry price | Demo-gated, not published | $19/month |
| Pricing transparency | Quote-based | Public, fixed |
What you actually need at SMB scale
At $100K+/year in ad spend with a six-month sales cycle, attribution modelling matters. Because the question gets genuinely complex. Which of the six touchpoints across the buying committee actually moved the deal?
Attribution modelling is overkill, at $5K/month in ad spend with a one-week sales cycle. You don’t need a model. You need to know. this person submitted a form, and they came from this source. They bought, so you should run more of that source.
That’s the entire job. A quote-based enterprise tool that does it via a multi-touch model isn’t better than a $19/month tool that does it directly. It’s just more expensive and more complicated.
See the marketing attribution software comparison, for how both tools sit in the wider market.