Zoho CRM is cheap. Matching what Blob does takes five more Zoho apps.
Zoho pricing verified against zoho.com on 17 July 2026. Annual-billing rates throughout.
Of the CRMs we compare ourselves against, Zoho is the one that genuinely competes on price — and at small team sizes it wins. Zoho CRM Standard is $14 per user per month. For five people that's $840 a year against Blob's $1,535. If a pipeline and contact management is all you need, Zoho is cheaper and we're not going to argue.
The catch is what Zoho CRM doesn't include. No bookings, no e-signatures, no campaigns, no live chat, no forms. Each is a separate Zoho product with its own interface, its own admin, and its own sync relationship to the CRM. Zoho's own bundled answer is CRM Plus at $57 per user per month — $3,420 a year for five people, against Blob's $1,535.
So the real question isn't price per seat. It's whether you'd rather run one application or six.
| Zoho CRM Standard × 5 | $840 |
| Zoho CRM Professional × 5 | $1,380 |
| Blob Medium Blob | $1,535 |
| Zoho CRM Enterprise × 5 | $2,400 |
| Zoho One All-Employee × 5 | $2,220 |
| Zoho CRM Plus Enterprise × 5 — the bundle that matches Blob | $3,420 |
| Zoho One Flexible User × 5 | $5,400 |
Zoho CRM Standard and Professional genuinely undercut us. We've put them at the top of the table rather than burying them, because you'd find out anyway and it's the sort of thing that makes you distrust everything else on a page like this.
Zoho One is remarkable value on paper — more than 50 applications at $37 per user per month, which is cheaper than Zoho CRM Enterprise alone at $40. That is not an accident; Zoho is buying suite lock-in and says so.
The catch is contractual. That $37 rate is All-Employee pricing, and Zoho's licensing agreement requires a licence for every employee on your payroll — not just the people who use the CRM. From their own FAQ:
"Your business will have to commit to purchase Zoho One licenses for ALL employees on payroll." And: "If we see that not all of your employees are licensed, then we will notify you to either purchase remaining licenses or switch to Flexible User Pricing. As per our licensing agreement we reserve the right to take further action, including termination of service."
Licensing only some staff means Flexible User pricing at $90 per user — a 143% premium. That ratio is the commercial lever: Zoho prices the option of licensing only part of your business at nearly two and a half times the rate.
If you have twelve staff and four of them need a CRM, that arithmetic matters.
| Blob | Zoho | |
|---|---|---|
| Apps to learn and administer | One | Up to six |
| CRM pipeline | Included | Zoho CRM |
| Bulk email campaigns | Included | Zoho Campaigns — separate app |
| E-signatures | Included | Zoho Sign — separate app |
| Booking pages | Included | Zoho Bookings — separate app |
| Live chat widget | Included | Zoho SalesIQ — separate app |
| Web forms | Included | Zoho Forms — separate app |
| One customer record across all of it | Yes | Sync between apps |
| Stripe billing intelligence | Yes | Not available |
| MCP connector for AI agents | Yes | Not available |
| Isolated client workspaces | Yes | Not available |
The cost that doesn't appear on either invoice is the one you pay in admin: six products to configure, six permission models, six places a customer record can go stale, and a sync relationship between each pair.
Zoho CRM Standard at $14 and Professional at $23 per user undercut Blob for small teams. If pipeline management is all you need, take it.
Zoho One spans accounting, HR, project management, help desk, inventory and more. If you want one vendor for the whole business rather than the whole sales function, Blob isn't competing for that job.
A more mature customisation layer, a scripting environment, and territory management. Blob has custom fields, custom roles and a REST API.
Zoho has been around since 1996 and serves a very large customer base. Blob is newer.
Not always, and we'd rather say so. Zoho CRM Standard at $14 per user per month is cheaper than Blob for a small team — $840 a year for five people against Blob's $1,535. Zoho CRM Professional at $23 is also slightly cheaper. Blob wins from Zoho CRM Enterprise upward, and wins decisively against CRM Plus, which is the bundle you actually need to match Blob's feature set: $3,420 a year for five people against Blob's $1,535.
Zoho CRM alone doesn't include bookings, e-signatures, campaigns, live chat or forms. Those are Zoho Bookings, Zoho Sign, Zoho Campaigns, Zoho SalesIQ and Zoho Forms — separate products with separate interfaces. Zoho's own bundled answer is CRM Plus at $57 per user per month on annual billing. For five users that's $3,420 a year against Blob's $1,535.
Zoho One's headline $37 per user rate is 'All Employee' pricing, and Zoho's licensing agreement requires you to buy a licence for every employee on your payroll — not just CRM users. Their FAQ states that if not all employees are licensed they reserve the right to take further action including termination of service. Licensing only some staff means Flexible User pricing at $90 per user, a 143% premium.
Breadth, overwhelmingly. Zoho One spans more than 50 applications covering accounting, HR, project management, help desk and much more. Zoho CRM itself has a more mature customisation layer, a scripting environment, and territory management. If you want one vendor for the whole business, Zoho is a serious answer and Blob is not competing for that job.
Yes, via CSV. Blob's eight-tab import wizard covers contacts, organisations, deals, activities, notes, lead sources, custom fields and templates. A native Zoho API importer is on the roadmap.
Zoho pricing and licensing terms verified against zoho.com on 17 July 2026, annual-billing rates. Vendors repackage regularly — if a figure here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.
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