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Zoho People pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for Zoho People. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the hr tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, Zoho People pricing is free, then $1.25/month. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free, then $1.25/month
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The Zoho People catalogue entry carries a starting price of $1.25/month, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the Zoho People review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full Zoho People feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Employee Database
- Time Off
- Time Tracking
- Attendance
- Performance
- Onboarding
- Self-Service
Integrations
- Zoho CRM
- Zoho Books
- Slack
- Microsoft 365
- Google Workspace
Platform
- Web support
- Ios support
- Android support
People bring Zoho People in for automating recruitment workflows from application through onboarding, managing performance evaluations and compensation decisions centrally, tracking employee time, attendance, and leave in real-time, generating hr analytics to measure employee satisfaction and retention. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Zoho People are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in HR
Too few hr tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zoho People (this page) | Free, then $1.25/month | - | - | |
| Talkspace for Business | On request | quote | - | vs Zoho People |
| Spring Health | On request | quote | - | vs Zoho People |
| Unmind | On request | quote | - | vs Zoho People |
| Guild | On request | quote | - | vs Zoho People |
| Humaans | On request | quote | - | vs Zoho People |
| Sesame HR | On request | quote | - | vs Zoho People |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Zoho People badges page.
Before you pay for Zoho People
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: not published on the record we hold. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Zoho People runs on web, and is published by Zoho Corporation of Chennai, India. The full record is on the Zoho People review, and the rest of the category is under best hr tools.
Zoho People pricing questions
- How much does Zoho People cost?
- Zoho People starts at $1.25/month. No tier-by-tier breakdown is published on the record we hold.
- Does Zoho People have a free plan?
- Yes, Zoho People is recorded as free, so it can be used without paying.
- What am I actually paying for with Zoho People?
- The record lists 15 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for automating recruitment workflows from application through onboarding, managing performance evaluations and compensation decisions centrally, tracking employee time, attendance, and leave in real-time.
- Does Zoho People charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Zoho People prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Zoho People against before paying?
- The closest hr tools in this directory are Talkspace for Business, Spring Health, Unmind, Guild. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Zoho People covering price, platforms and features.