Zoho Marketing Automation

Contact-count marketing automation priced well below the mainstream platforms, tightest with Zoho CRM

As of 31 August 2026, Zoho Marketing Automation starts at $19/month. Zoho Marketing Automation does journeys, lead scoring and multichannel campaigns from about $19 a month for 1,000 contacts, roughly a fifth of what HubSpot or Marketo charge at the same list size. Softwr lists it under Marketing. Zoho Marketing Automation is made by Zoho Corporation, available on Web, iOS, Android.

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Overview

What Zoho Marketing Automation does

Zoho Marketing Automation is a lead nurturing and campaign platform in the Zoho suite. It covers email campaigns, journey building, lead scoring, signup forms and landing pages, web behaviour tracking, social campaigns, and SMS and WhatsApp as add-ons. Pricing is by contact count, from 1,000 contacts up to 500,000, across Standard, Professional and Enterprise tiers, with a 25 per cent discount for annual billing and unlimited email sends on all plans. The pricing structure is the fact that changes a shortlist. Marketing automation at this level is normally sold at several hundred dollars a month minimum, and unlimited sends at any contact tier is rare; most rivals meter emails as well as contacts. If your programme is high-frequency to a moderate list, that difference compounds every month. Zoho also publishes genuine local pricing in Indian rupees and other currencies rather than converting a dollar price, which materially lowers cost for buyers in those markets. Who it suits: small and mid-sized B2B teams already using Zoho CRM, where lead handover, scoring writeback and attribution work without middleware. Outside that, the product is competent but the integration surface is thinner than ActiveCampaign or HubSpot, deliverability tooling and support depth are more basic, and the Enterprise plan caps user seats at 25. Buyers should also note that Zoho separates Campaigns, Marketing Automation and MarketingPlus, and it is easy to buy the wrong one.

What people use it for

A B2B team already on Zoho CRM that wants scoring and nurture without paying for a separate platform and an integration
A business emailing its list frequently, where unlimited sends beats a competitor metering both contacts and emails
An Indian or emerging-market marketing team that would otherwise pay a US-dollar list price plus card forex fees
A small team upgrading from plain newsletter sending to behaviour-triggered journeys without a five-figure annual commitment

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Zoho Marketing Automation.

Pricing is by contact count, so an inactive or unengaged list costs the same as an active one, and nobody in the business has an incentive to prune it until the next tier boundary arrives.
The Enterprise plan caps users at 25, which is a hard ceiling for larger marketing organisations rather than an upgrade path.
Its value depends heavily on running Zoho CRM; used alongside Salesforce or HubSpot the integration is shallower and much of the scoring and attribution advantage disappears.
Zoho sells Campaigns, Marketing Automation and MarketingPlus as separate products with overlapping function, and buyers regularly purchase the wrong one and then migrate lists between them.
Support and deliverability tooling are basic next to dedicated senders, so sender reputation problems on a large list get less expert help than a specialist provider would give.

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What people choose instead of Zoho Marketing Automation

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

Zoho Marketing Automationvs
ActiveCampaign
ActiveCampaign: If you want deeper automation logic and a much wider integration catalogue outside the Zoho suite
Zoho Marketing Automationvs
Brevo
Brevo: If you would rather be billed by emails sent than by contacts stored
Zoho Marketing Automationvs
Mailchimp
Mailchimp: If you want the largest ecosystem and template library and mostly send campaigns rather than run journeys

Pricing

What Zoho Marketing Automation costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Standard

$19 /mo

Priced for 1,000 contacts, billed annually
Unlimited email sends
Unlimited social campaigns and signup forms
Free onboarding
Scales by contact tier up to 500,000+

Professional

$29 /mo

Priced for 1,000 contacts, billed annually
Contact scoring
Journey builder with reports
Landing pages
A/B testing and advanced segmentation

Enterprise

$59 /mo

Priced for 1,000 contacts, billed annually
Lead attribution and X-RAY journey tracing
Landing page personalisation
Custom roles and webhooks
Up to 25 users
Local currency pricing published in India and other markets

Capabilities

Features

Journey builder
Multi-step nurture journeys with branching and reporting on journey performance
Lead scoring
Behaviour and attribute scoring that writes back to Zoho CRM
Unlimited email sends
Send volume is not metered; only contact count determines the tier
Landing pages and forms
Hosted pages and signup forms feeding directly into contact lists
Web behaviour tracking
Page-level visitor tracking tied to known contacts
Social campaigns
Unlimited social campaigns included on all plans
SMS and WhatsApp
Available as paid add-ons rather than bundled
Lead attribution and X-RAY
Journey tracing and attribution reporting on the Enterprise tier

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

How does it differ from Zoho Campaigns?

Campaigns is email sending and newsletters. Marketing Automation adds journeys, lead scoring, web tracking and CRM writeback. Buying Campaigns and outgrowing it is the common mistake.

Are email sends limited?

No, sends are unlimited on all plans. Only contact count determines your tier, which is unusual at this price level.

Is there a user limit?

Yes, up to 25 users on Enterprise, with lower limits below that. It is not designed for large marketing departments.

Can I pay in local currency?

Yes, Zoho publishes real local pricing in several markets including India rather than converting the US dollar figure at checkout.

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