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Zoho CRM vs Pipedrive

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 7 November 2026.

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Zoho CRM

Free plan

Pipedrive

Free trial · from $14/seat/mo

What it isCRM with a free plan for three users and four paid editionsPipeline-based sales CRM for tracking leads and deals
Free planFree for 3 users; contact management, workflow automation, standard reports, mobile apps; up to 10 custom email templates, 10 data exports, 5,000 API calls/dayNo
Cheapest paid planNot publishedZoho CRM pricing$14/seat/mo billed annually (Lite)Pipedrive pricing
What it coversNot statedAnnual option is one payment of US$168 per seat per year.
Free trialFree trial offered on the paid editions (length not stated)14-day free trial, no credit card required
PlatformsWebWeb, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)Not stated500+ integrations
Open sourceNoNo
Good for
  • Very small teams that want a free starting CRM
  • Teams that expect to add process automation as they grow
  • Tracking a small team's deals from first contact to close
  • Automating follow-up emails and activity reminders
  • Forecasting revenue from the sales pipeline
Watch out for
  • Free plan is limited to 3 users and 5,000 API calls a day
  • Paid prices were not visible on the pricing page when fetched
  • No free plan; a 14-day free trial is offered
  • Lite has no automations, sequences or two-way email sync
  • Leads and deals are capped per seat (Lite: 2,500 per seat, up to 300,000 per company)
Made byZoho CorporationPipedrive Inc.

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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