Zoho CRM - Top Competitors (Mar 2023)

Zoho CRM Review
ITQlick Score: 98/100
ITQlick Rating:
Pricing: 2/10 - low cost
Category: CRM -> Zoho CRM review -> Zoho CRM competitors
Ranking:Ranked 3 out of 605 CRM systems
Company: Zoho
Pricing: starts at $14 per user/month
Typical customers: Small, medium and large size businesses
Platforms: Desktop, Cloud
Links: Zoho CRM review, Zoho CRM pricing guide
Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / updated: Mar 07, 2023

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Zoho CRM vs. Alternatives in 2023

Zoho competes with some of the best CRM in the industry, below is a brief of how it competes with Zendesk Sell, Salesforce sales cloud, and Monday.com.
  • Functionality: Zoho, when compared to its alternatives is highly rated in functions, compared to Salesforce and Zendesk sell it has all the same features, but when compared to monday.com Zoho has all its features plus an extra; Internet chat Integration.
  • Customers/Industries: Compared to alternatives, Zoho ranges high on industry targets. The Zoho software has a great customer relationship, as it globally empowers over 250,000 businesses in about 180 countries while still engaging its customers. Zoho targets every business type, and thus is gaining the upper hand amongst its alternatives. With its higher adoption, faster implementation and better Roi, Zoho has far gained its industry and customer target than all of its listed alternatives except Salesforce who targets more Industries than Zoho.
  • Cost: Zoho is considered very expensive when compared to close alternatives like; Zendest with pricing at $19, and monday.com which pricing ranges from $10. However, not all of its competitors offer free versions to their clients like Zoho and monday.com does. Cloud-Based/On-premise: In comparison to alternatives, Zoho CRM has all of its data cloud-based.
  • Popularity: Zoho is also quite popular amongst its competitors, having about 250,000 enterprises using its services in about 180 different countries. Zoho has been in existence since 1996 and has grown beyond expectations.
  • Support: Zoho CRM support knowledge base, email/help desk, phone support and live chat.

Zoho CRM vs. Alternatives (pricing table)

Software

Pricing

Free Trial

Zoho CRM 

$14 to $52 per user per month

15 days

Keap

$169 to $249 per user per month

14 days

Nutshell

$19 to $49 per user per month

14 days

HubSpot Sales Hub

$23 to $1200 per user per month

Free Forever Access

Salesforce Sales Cloud

$25 to $300 per user per month

30 days

Zoho CRM's Free Alternative

Daylite and Insightly CRM are free alternatives to Zoho CRM. They can include a maximum of 2 and 3 users in the free plans.

Zoho CRM alternatives - for small & large Business

Here are the top 4 alternatives to Zoho CRM that are worth checking out: Pipedrive for SMBs, Salesforce for large size business, Nimble for growing companies, and JobNimbus for low budget organizations.

ITQlick rating ITQlick Rating is based on the software score (below) and aggregated online reviews
Score ITQlick Score is a 1 to 100 score, based on pricing, and functionality Vs. alternative solutions
Pricing pricing Score is a 1 to 10 score, based on the TCO (cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
License pricing license pricing (if provided by the software vendor)
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Zoho CRM
ITQlick rating
4.2/5
Score
98/100
Pricing
2/10
License pricing
$14 per user/month
Functionality
36
Best for SMBs
Pipedrive
ITQlick rating
4.6/5
Score
99/100
Pricing
2/10
License pricing
$9.90 per user/month
Functionality
19
Best for Enterprise
Salesfor...
ITQlick rating
4.4/5
Score
98/100
Pricing
3/10
License pricing
$25 per user/month
Functionality
28
Growing
Nimble
ITQlick rating
2.8/5
Score
97/100
Pricing
2/10
License pricing
$19 per user/month
Functionality
31
Review
Free version
JobNimbu...
ITQlick rating
4.6/5
Score
94/100
Pricing
2/10
License pricing
$99 per month
Functionality
35


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