LeadSquared vs Zoho CRM comparison

LeadSquared and Zoho are both solutions in the CRM category. LeadSquared is ranked #36 with an average rating of 7.5, while Zoho is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.3. LeadSquared holds a 0.5% mindshare in CRM, compared to Zoho’s 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of LeadSquared users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Zoho users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Zoho CRM and LeadSquared are two products in the customer relationship management category. LeadSquared has the upper hand in feature capabilities, offering a comprehensive toolset despite Zoho's competitive pricing and support.

Features: Zoho CRM offers advanced automation, extensive customization, and integrated social capabilities, standing out with its breadth of integrations. LeadSquared provides strong lead scoring, marketing automation, and seamless workflow automation with robust marketing tools.

Room for Improvement: Zoho CRM could improve in its user interface, providing more intuitive designs and refining its reporting tools. Additionally, while its integration capabilities are broad, deeper integrations with third-party apps would provide more value. LeadSquared could enhance its mobile app features, offer more detailed analytics and reporting, and improve its user interface for better navigation and usability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zoho CRM provides straightforward cloud-based deployment and responsive customer support. LeadSquared offers a simple deployment process yet its customer service is occasionally seen as less accessible than Zoho’s despite being commendable.

Pricing and ROI: Zoho CRM is highlighted for its competitive pricing and attractive ROI, enabling scalability with low setup costs. LeadSquared, despite its higher price point, justifies the investment with superior features that deliver substantial returns.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

LeadSquared

Ranking in CRM

36th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Marketing Automation (10th)

Zoho CRM

Ranking in CRM

4th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Opportunity Management (3rd), Sales Force Automation (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the CRM category, the mindshare of LeadSquared is 0.5%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zoho CRM is 1.8%, down from 3.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

CRM Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Zoho CRM	1.8%
LeadSquared	0.5%
Other	97.7%

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Kauhslendra Singh

Business Development Manager at Drishti IAs

Has an easy-to-understand user interface

We started using LeadSquared's basic functions. Currently, we are using the solution's features, such as automation, reports, automated emails, and marketing sections, which have increased our efficiency. LeadSquared has helped streamline our marketing campaigns. We initially didn't have marketing strategies or a platform with landing pages, but this changed after we started using LeadSquared. LeadSquared is a SaaS based solution. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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NaveenKumar S

Software Engineer at Maximus

Zoho CRM improves lead conversion with AI assistance but could have better technical support

Zoho Zia has helped our lead conversion process by serving as a private AI of Zoho CRM that assists in boosting lead conversation by analyzing customer data, predicting outcomes, and automating workflow follow-ups. Regarding how Zia helps with lead conversion, there's lead scoring and conversion predictions, sentiment analysis, and workflow suggestions. For lead scoring, Zia analyzes past lead conversation patterns and assigns scores to new leads, and high score leads get prioritized for faster follow-up. In terms of conversation predictions, Zia predicts the probability of lead conversion based on demographics and engagements, helping the sales team focus on the most promising leads. Another point is sentiment analysis, where Zia scans customer emails, chats, and notes to detect tones such as positive, negative, or neutral, guiding us on how to approach the leads better. For workflow suggestions, it recommends automated workflows such as sending emails and assigning tasks to agents, improving our engagements. Additionally, the conversational AI feature through Zia chatbot can interact with leads via website chat or capture details and push them into Zoho CRM automatically. The analytics and reporting features in Zoho CRM helped me understand sales patterns and customer behavior through standard reports that include pre-built reports for leads, deals, sales activities, and campaigns. We can customize reports as well, creating reports based on any module fields, and we can integrate with Zoho Analytics for direct capture of reports from our modules. We can merge leads reports to contact reports using SQL, allowing for effective sales funnel tracking to identify drop-offs and optimize conversation strategies. Auto-generated reports are also available for daily scheduling, ensuring that admin receives daily basis reports through automation. With advanced BI features such as drag-and-drop dashboards and predictive analysis using pivot tables, we can create insightful dashboards while pulling CRM and external data from sources such as Google Ads and Facebook Ads for unified analytics. The automation capabilities in Zoho CRM have helped streamline our organization's sales and marketing tasks by handling repetitive tasks such as sending follow-up emails, assigning leads, and updating fields. For example, if a lead score is greater than 80, it automatically assigns that record to the senior sales representative. There are also blueprint options to define the step-by-step sales process, ensuring every sales representative follows the same process. Automation includes assignment rules, lead scoring, priority load options, sales signals, macros, and territory management, which automatically routes leads based on geography, revenue, and industries. Additionally, deal stage automations trigger actions when a deal moves stages, such as sending a contract when it moves to negotiation. For marketing, there are tools for email campaign automation, behavior-based triggers, campaign to lead sync, and social media automations. The overall benefits I have seen from using Zoho CRM include centralized customer data, where all customer interactions are visible in one place, providing a 360-degree view. Improved lead conversations through AI-powered scoring and automation helps us focus on the right leads, with end-to-end sales automation managing tasks from lead capture to deal closure, thereby saving time on repetitive tasks. This leads to better marketing ROI, as we can track campaigns, ad spend, and lead sources, connecting marketing efforts to revenue. Enhanced collaboration through shared notes, tasks, and role-based access enables teamwork within our internal users and sales teams, contributing to customer satisfaction. Moreover, Zoho CRM is scalable and customizable, adapting to startups, SMBs, and enterprises with its flexible modules and fields. Lastly, it is cost-efficient compared to Salesforce and HubSpot while including a wide range of features.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature of LeadSquared is an easy-to-understand user interface."

"LeadSquared's most valuable features are it comes equips with all the basic features of a CRM. It integrates well with our existing systems and is user-friendly."

"The most valuable feature of LeadSquared is the customization."

"The initial setup is very easy."

"I like the solution's reminder feature which is helpful for big projects. There are many tasks that run at the same time. The reminder feature makes things easy for me since I use Zoho's mobile version as well."

"Zoho CRM is flexible due to its integrations, like with Zoho Campaign, helping integrate marketing efforts with CRM processes."

"What I appreciate about Zoho CRM is the customization."

"Zoho CRM's automation capabilities have helped to streamline my organization's sales and marketing tasks."

"The most valuable feature I have found in Zoho CRM is custom functions—you can achieve anything with it, from integrations with other applications to automating complex tasks that the inbuilt features may not handle."

"Its initial setup process for the cloud-based version is straightforward."

"Zoho CRM's best feature is its reporting."

"We can customize the solution the way we want to."

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Cons

"The notifications and workflow management can be improved in LeadSquared."

"The solution can get quite expensive, especially as you add more users."

"The solution's report section is not very capable and could be improved."

"The solution’s UI could be more user-friendly."

"I'm not sure that there is scalability potential for enterprises."

"The solution's feature for forecast has limitations."

"It does require some technical background before starting to do anything with Zoho CRM."

"In Creator, you can do calculations and change another field immediately after you enter any value. If you add the quantity or price in any field, you can immediately change the total in Creator. The same functionality is not directly available in CRM because it is prebuilt."

"Zoho CRM could benefit from predictive analysis based on historical trends to forecast future performance over the next two to three years, particularly from a sales pipeline perspective."

"There are at least two big pieces. One is just the ability to reorganize the data and clean it up to eliminate duplicates and things like that. It is very manual at the moment. It only gives us certain fields that we can check on. Because of our particular database, it creates a problem. We deal with hospitals, and there are 50 hospitals. It is tough to figure out which one is which. Is it this one or the other one? So, trying to clean things up is very difficult. I'd like to have more ability to share data fields. The data is structured into different buckets, and I frequently have to create the same field in two different buckets. It would be nice if I could just do a view-only field in another bucket. In my contact bucket, I would like to be able to have just a view-only of the account information so that I don't need to enter it again, which is what I have to do currently."

"I'd like the solution to offer more integrations with other products."

"The process of creating reports is not very user-friendly - it takes time, and it's confusing."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I am not sure about the cost of the solution overall, but with their SMS notifications services, there is an extra cost."

"The license is paid yearly, and it is about 30 euros per month per user."

"We have an annual renewable license for LeadSquared."

"LeadSquared is not as costly as other CRM solutions."

"The solution is cost-effective."

"Professional plans cost $35 per user in the USA and EUR 35 in Europe."

"Its price is lower than the other software."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price and ten is a low price, I rate the pricing a five. However, the pricing is fine because we chose the enterprise plan as a private limited company."

"The tool started out quite cheap. It's had some changes with small and medium business subscriptions, but it's still worth the price. I'd say it's priced a bit below the medium range."

"Zoho CRM is available at a fairly average price"

"I rate the product a four out of ten. The cost for Zoho CRM is not fixed; different editions are available, and the features depend on the edition chosen. Some capabilities, such as integrating with workflows, might incur additional costs, but these are well-documented and not hidden."

"The solution has standard pricing plans."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Media Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

10%

University

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	44
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	10

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about LeadSquared?

The most valuable feature of LeadSquared is the customization.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for LeadSquared?

Since we use the enterprise solution, a lot of costs are involved. However, we use it because it helps us with our use case. We have an annual renewable license for LeadSquared.

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What needs improvement with LeadSquared?

The solution’s UI could be more user-friendly.

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What do you like most about Zoho CRM?

Zoho CRM integrates easily with customer service workflows.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zoho CRM?

Zoho CRM and all of Zoho's software are quite affordable because they are specifically designed for small and medium businesses.

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What needs improvement with Zoho CRM?

The main improvement needed for Zoho CRM is introducing SQL code for reports, similar to what's in Zoho Analytics. Zoho CRM's support can improve significantly, although it's designed to require mi...

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Overview

LeadSquared is a complete customer acquisition platform for businesses. It combines the features offered by both CRMs as well as Marketing Automation software, and thus brings your Sales and Marketing teams on the same page. It lets you :- 1. Automate lead capture from all sources 2. Run email, SMS and drip marketing campaigns 3. Prioritize amongst leads using quality and engagement scoring 4. Track lead activity on your website, landing pages, emails and calls, and 5. Access deep analytics about your sales and marketing activities. It is best fit for businesses in the Education, Real Estate, Financial Services, Health & Wellness, Travel & Hospitality, and Software sectors.

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Zoho CRM empowers organizations with a complete customer relationship lifecycle management solution for managing organization-wide Sales, Marketing, Customer Support & Service and Inventory Management.

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Sample Customers

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