# Affinity vs Zoho CRM (slim)

> Zoho CRM scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Affinity's 63.4 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Affinity leads on schema & documentation. Both do crm records. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Zoho CRM scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Affinity's 63.4 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Affinity leads on schema & documentation. Both do crm records.

- Affinity: B 63.4, rank #311 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/affinity.min.md
- Zoho CRM: BB 70.8, rank #128 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-crm.min.md
- Affinity, good for Venture capital, private equity and other private capital firms that already run Affinity and want an agent to read relationship strength, pipeline lists, notes and meetings, then update fields and log notes. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 91 against 81. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine.
- Zoho CRM, good for Teams already on Zoho who want an agent to read and write leads, contacts, deals and activities with narrow scopes, and small teams that want a free edition with API access. Ahead on Reliability, 72 against 64; Agent ergonomics, 81 against 66; Payments & pricing, 40 against 10; Maintenance & community, 77 against 70; Transparency & trust, 75 against 70. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Affinity | Zoho CRM |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 64 | 72 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 91 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 66 | 81 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 66 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 70 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 70 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Affinity | Zoho CRM |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Project Affinity, Inc. | Zoho |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.affinity.co/v2` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Affinity's master subscription agreement. The `affinity-mcp` package on PyPI is MIT | Proprietary service under Zoho's Terms of Service. The server-side SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 75 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-09-21 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2022-03-02 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-01 | 2025-12-22 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 268 PyPI/wk | 830 npm/wk, 6.1k PyPI/wk |