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    <periodOfReport>2024-02-16</periodOfReport>

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    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0001404655</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>HUBSPOT INC</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>HUBS</issuerTradingSymbol>
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    <reportingOwner>
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            <rptOwnerCik>0001741660</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>Bueker Kathryn</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>C/O HUBSPOT, INC.</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>2 CANAL PARK</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>CAMBRIDGE</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>MA</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>02141</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
        <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isDirector>0</isDirector>
            <isOfficer>1</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
            <officerTitle>Chief Financial Officer</officerTitle>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

    <aff10b5One>0</aff10b5One>

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            <securityTitle>
                <value>Common Stock</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2024-02-16</value>
            </transactionDate>
            <deemedExecutionDate></deemedExecutionDate>
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                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
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            <transactionTimeliness>
                <value></value>
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            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>11037</value>
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                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>0.00</value>
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                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>A</value>
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                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>44217</value>
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                    <value>D</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
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            <securityTitle>
                <value>Common Stock</value>
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            <transactionDate>
                <value>2024-02-16</value>
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            <deemedExecutionDate></deemedExecutionDate>
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                <value></value>
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                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>608.96</value>
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                    <value>D</value>
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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Represents shares underlying performance-based restricted stock units (&quot;PSUs&quot;) granted on March 1, 2023. One-third of the PSUs vested following the Compensation Committee's certification on February 16, 2024 of applicable financial performance results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023. The remaining two-thirds of these PSUs vest
in eight equal quarterly installments over the next two years, subject to the Reporting Person's continued employment with the Issuer on each such vesting date. The PSUs were awarded under the Issuer's 2014 Stock Option and Incentive Plan, as amended.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Shares withheld by Issuer to cover taxes associated with settlement of PSUs.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <remarks></remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Alyssa Harvey Dawson, attorney-in-fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2024-02-20</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
