A better alternative than Zoho CRM

Yes. Laureo imports contacts, companies, deals, and activities from a Zoho CSV export with a Zoho field-mapping preset and a review screen before anything commits. Most migrations finish in under an hour.

With Zoho, yes. Its agents, scoring, and assistant unlock only at the $40/user Enterprise tier, with generative use metered on top. Laureo includes five agents and the assistant on every plan, with no per-seat AI charge.

The shapes differ. Zoho bills per user, and the AI sits at the $40/user Enterprise tier with prepaid AI credits on top. Laureo is priced per plan with the AI and a monthly AI budget in the price, and one plan covers the campaigns, support, invoicing, and scheduling that Zoho spreads across separate apps.

Not in Zoho CRM itself. A/B testing and segmentation live in the separate Zoho Campaigns app, which you connect and pay for on its own. Laureo ships broadcast campaigns with A/B and segmentation, plus outbound sequences on the same engine, in one plan.

Pick Zoho if you want one vendor for the whole company beyond CRM (accounting, HR, e-sign, BI), or if you need data residency outside North America, built-in GST and VAT handling, or native mobile apps for heavy field sales. Those are real strengths.

Laureo is an AI-first CRM that cuts manual data entry. Email syncs both ways, calendar events sync on their own, and meeting notes attach to the right record, so there is almost nothing to log. On top of that, five built-in agents work in the background to flag deals that have gone quiet, clean up duplicate data, chase overdue invoices, draft your inbox replies, and write your morning brief. It all comes with the CRM, email campaigns, automation, and invoicing in one plan from $83.33/mo billed annually.

Pro starts at $83.33/mo billed annually ($99.99 month-to-month) for one user. Business is $166.66/mo billed annually for two users, and Ultra is $249.99/mo billed annually for advanced needs. Business and higher include the full toolset apart from the Ultra-only support AI agents; Pro covers the everyday CRM workflow, with seven of the more advanced tools (support, knowledge base, surveys, team chat, goals, deal rooms, and multi-step follow-up sequences) reserved for Business+. Cold Outreach, the dedicated cold-outbound module with its own sending mailboxes and managed ramp, and the autonomous AI resolution agent are exclusive to Ultra, and the embeddable AI Customer Support Agent is a paid add-on available on Ultra. Every plan includes the five built-in agents and a monthly AI usage budget. No per-contact email billing and no per-conversation AI fees.

Yes. Every plan comes with a 14-day trial with full access to every feature, including the AI agents, email campaigns, support tickets, and invoicing.

Yes. Laureo imports from a CSV with smart field mapping for contacts, companies, deals, and activities, with presets for 25+ common CRMs. Most migrations finish in under an hour, and there are step-by-step guides for HubSpot, Salesforce, and Pipedrive.

Laureo is built for teams of 1 to 50. Pro fits freelancers and solo operators, while Business and Ultra add seats, shared pipelines, role-based permissions, and team chat as you grow.

Yes. Laureo syncs email both ways with Gmail and Outlook, so messages log to the right contact and deal automatically. Calendar events and meeting notes sync too, with no manual entry.