Zoho CRM (Zia AI)
CRM with Zia, an AI assistant providing lead/deal scoring, forecasting, and workflow suggestions, priced well below HubSpot's professional tiers.
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How the product is positioned
CRM with Zia, an AI assistant providing lead/deal scoring, forecasting, and workflow suggestions, priced well below HubSpot's professional tiers.
Our summary of the vendor’s positioning — verbatim claim not yet recordedWhat we found
Level 1 · assistive
Seeded at the rubric default. No independent evidence of end-to-end task completion has been reviewed yet, so the lowest grade applies until it is.
Any human checkpoint here is a product setting, not a regulatory requirement — confirm how it is configured for your deployment.
Graded 2026-08-01 · re-check 2026-11-01
Procurement detail
- Deployment
- saasvendor documentation
- Compliance
- SOC 2report dates not disclosed — request before signing
- Integrations
- Zoho ecosystem (Books, Desk, Campaigns) claim unverifiedGoogle Workspace claim unverified
- Pricing
- per-seatBigin (micro-CRM entry point) ~$7/user/mo; Standard ~$14/user/mo (basic Zia lead scoring); Professional ~$23/user/mo; full Zia functionality requires Enterprise/Ultimate at ~$40-52/user/mo (all annual pricing).
- Human checkpoint
- Requiredproduct setting
Will they still be here?
- Funding
- Private, bootstrapped (Zoho Corporation)
- Founded
- 1996
- HQ
- Chennai, India / Austin, USA
- Ownership
- Private, bootstrapped (Zoho Corporation)
Sources
Logo retrieved 2026-08-01from the vendor’s own site · trademark of Zoho Corporation
- lovable.devIndependent · retrieved 2026-08-01
- sparrowcrm.comIndependent · retrieved 2026-08-01
Where it’s weak
Full Zia AI capability is gated behind the priciest tiers ($40+/user/mo) — the affordable entry tiers only get basic lead scoring, not the full AI feature set marketed.
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