Bonsai vs Zoho CRM Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Basic
- Time tracking
- Task management
- Unlimited projects
- CRM
- Service library
- iOS & Android app
- Unlimited clients
Essentials
- Invoices & Payments
- Proposals & Contracts
- All templates
- Forms & Questionnaires
- Scheduling
- Client portal
- Expense tracking
- Income tracking
Premium
Popular- Project insights
- Workload management
- Gantt view
- Deals pipeline
- Custom fields & properties
- Client tasks & messaging
- Profit & Productivity reports
- Remove Bonsai branding
- Integrations (QuickBooks, Zapier, Calendly, Google)
Elite
- Custom permissions
- Timesheet locking
- Add markup to expenses
- Xero integration
- Custom data import
Free
- Contact management
- Follow-up reminders
- Workflow automation
- Custom email templates
- Tasks, meetings & calls
- Data import and export
- Standard reports
- APIs
- Mobile apps
Standard
- Email integration & mass emails
- Built-in calling
- Multiple sales pipelines
- Calendar integration
- Data capture via forms
- Sales forecasting
- Data enrichment
- Custom modules
- HIPAA compliance
- Gmail and Outlook integration
- Slack, Zoom, Teams integration
Professional
Popular- AI agents
- Process management
- Inventory management
- Predictive intelligence
- Unlimited reports
- Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
- Custom portals
- Customer journeys
- Web-to-case forms
- Customer portals
- Google Ads integration
Enterprise
- Multi-team management
- Reporting hierarchy
- Custom buttons and functions
- Extended field types
- Sequential data collection
- Approval process
- Account Based Marketing
- Developer sandbox
- Field-level encryption
- Extended AI capabilities
- QuickBooks integration
Ultimate
- Enhanced feature limits
- Consulting
- Migration assistance
- Custom AI/ML
- Data preparation
Bonsai vs Zoho CRM FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Zoho CRM is the cheaper option, starting at $14/mo vs $15/mo for Bonsai.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Zoho CRM has a free plan. Bonsai doesn't — though they do offer a free trial.
- How do they charge?
- Both use a per-seat model, so the comparison is straightforward — it comes down to features and limits at each price point.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Bonsai: Bonsai sits in the mid-market of freelancer and agency management tools — not the cheapest option out there, but not trying to compete with enterprise project management platforms either. They're going after independent professionals and boutique agencies who've outgrown spreadsheets but don't need the complexity of something like HubSpot or Teamwork. Zoho CRM: Zoho is clearly gunning for the SMB and mid-market teams who find Salesforce overkill and HubSpot's per-seat costs hard to justify — $14 to $52 is aggressive value for the feature depth on offer. They're not trying to win enterprise deals; they're trying to be the obvious choice for cost-conscious buyers who still want a full-featured CRM.
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