{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "relaticle", "name": "Relaticle", "vendor": "Relaticle, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://relaticle.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "crm", "summary": "Relaticle is an open-source CRM under AGPL-3.0 for companies, people, opportunities, tasks and notes, run on Relaticle Cloud or self-hosted. Agents use its REST API and an MCP server with OAuth or scoped tokens.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/relaticle", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/relaticle.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/relaticle.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/relaticle.json", "dns": "relaticle.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/relaticle/relaticle", "license": "AGPL-3.0", "transports": [ "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.relaticle.com", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Personal access tokens from Settings \u003e Access Tokens are tied to one workspace, take an expiry and carry chosen permissions (read, create, update, delete for REST, plus read, draft and send email for MCP). MCP clients can also use OAuth 2.1 through Laravel Passport and choose one workspace on the consent screen; the source says the OAuth scope `mcp:use` authorises the whole toolset.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Self-hosting is free under AGPL-3.0. Relaticle Cloud is priced per workspace with unlimited users: Cloud Pro $19 a month billed yearly ($24 monthly) and Cloud Scale $49 ($59 monthly), Enterprise from $20,000 a year. A 14-day Cloud Pro trial needs no card. Scale has three times the API and MCP throughput.", "priceSummary": "$19 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI spec, the developer docs or the source (checked 2026-11-06). Over-limit Cloud calls return 402 for plan limits without payment requirements.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 50, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1811, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://relaticle.com/developers/rest-api", "llmsTxt": "https://relaticle.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://relaticle.com/openapi.json", "registryName": "com.relaticle/crm", "capabilities": [ "crm.records", "crm.pipeline", "crm.activities", "crm.search", "email.send", "email.threads" ], "tags": [ "official", "open-source", "agpl", "self-hosted", "hosted", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "mcp-registry", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "freemium", "trial", "no-card", "php", "eu-hosting" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59.6, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 697, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1510, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 30, "reliability": 40, "schema": 86, "security": 57, "transparency": 73 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Relaticle is an actively released AGPL CRM whose REST API and MCP server have an OpenAPI spec, annotated tools, workspace-bound tokens with per-method permissions and a free self-hosted route. MCP writes apply at once with no server-side confirmation, OAuth grants the whole toolset, and Cloud has no status page, SLA or certification.", "bestFor": "Small teams who want an open-source CRM they can self-host and let an agent write to.", "strengths": [ "AGPL-3.0 source, free to self-host, with tagged releases about twice a week", "Tokens are bound to one workspace with an expiry and per-method permissions, so a read-only token is possible", "OpenAPI 3.1 spec, llms.txt and MCP tools with readOnly, destructive and idempotent hints", "Filter grammar with $and, $or and $not, cursor paging and upserts by unique field", "Cloud providers listed with what each receives, hosting at Hetzner in Germany" ], "weaknesses": [ "Writes over MCP apply immediately, and OAuth's single `mcp:use` scope authorises every tool", "No status page or SLA for Relaticle Cloud was found", "No SOC 2 or ISO 27001, which the security page says plainly", "No changelog page beyond GitHub tags, and no deprecation policy", "50 MCP tools by default, with no toolsets or read-only subset" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use a personal access token with only the read permission unless the task writes, since OAuth grants every tool", "Ask the user before create, update, delete or send tools; the server applies them at once", "Call `get-crm-schema-tool` for an entity before filtering on custom fields, which differ by workspace", "Use `POST /v1/people/upsert` or `/v1/companies/upsert` with a unique field to avoid duplicates on retry", "Keep MCP calls under 120 a minute per user and REST writes under 60 a minute per token on Cloud Pro" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 30, "reliability": 40, "schema": 86, "security": 57, "transparency": 72 }, "provenanceScore": 74, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.relaticle.com/v1/companies -H \"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN\" -H \"Accept: application/json\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http relaticle https://mcp.relaticle.com", "config": { "mcpServers": { "relaticle": { "url": "https://mcp.relaticle.com" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/crm.records", "tool": "https://letme.dev/relaticle" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Cloud Pro workspace", "unit": "month", "usd": 19, "note": "Billed yearly at $228; $24 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Cloud Scale workspace", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "Billed yearly at $588; $59 billed monthly" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Relaticle, Inc.", "domain": "relaticle.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://relaticle.com/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://relaticle.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/relaticle/relaticle/releases", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "Terms of service effective 26 August 2026 and privacy policy effective 4 November 2026; the footer names Relaticle, Inc. No clause on automated access to the website was found.", "relaticle.com/robots.txt allows all crawlers and names ClaudeBot as allowed.", "security.txt names security@relaticle.com and expires 6 May 2027. The security page asks for reports by email and aims to acknowledge within 48 hours.", "status.relaticle.com did not connect and no status page is linked. relaticle.com/changelog is 404; releases are tagged on GitHub.", "The press page says Relaticle was founded in 2024 and lists 1,811 GitHub stars, verified 26 September 2026. Domain registration date not checked." ], "score": 74 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/relaticle.json", "live": { "slug": "relaticle", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.relaticle.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:29.462221932Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 164, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 174, "p95ms24h": 294, "samples24h": 210, "samples30d": 210, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 13, "ok": 13 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 197, "ok": 197 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "relaticle/relaticle", "version": "v3.8.2", "released": "2026-11-04", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T00:00:54.651079547Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "com.relaticle/crm", "version": "3.8.2", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T18:16:28.95801333Z" } ], "githubStars": 1811, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://relaticle.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-05-07T16:01:18Z", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:18.554359358Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://relaticle.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:33:44.579905089Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://relaticle.com/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:18:13.002922035Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6e701d3eab86" }, { "url": "https://relaticle.com/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:18:15.26331735Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1e5fff279d1d" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.relaticle.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:47:13.278550358Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:47:13.278550358Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:29.462221932Z" } }, "answer": "Zoho CRM scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Relaticle's 59.6 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Relaticle leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "zoho-crm", "name": "Zoho CRM", "vendor": "Zoho", "vendorUrl": "https://www.zoho.com/crm/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "crm", "summary": "Zoho CRM is a hosted sales CRM from Zoho. Agents reach it through the REST API v8, with record, search, query, bulk and notification endpoints behind OAuth 2.0, or through four pre-built remote MCP servers.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-crm", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-crm.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-crm.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zoho-crm.json", "dns": "zoho-crm.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/zoho/crm-oas", "license": "Proprietary service under Zoho's Terms of Service. The server-side SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@zohocrm/nodejs-sdk-8.0" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "zohocrmsdk8-0" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 only. A person registers a client in the Zoho API console (a web application, or a self client for one organisation) and approves scopes, which narrow to one module and one operation. The access token lasts one hour and goes in `Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken \u003ctoken\u003e`. The refresh token lasts until revoked. Each data centre has its own accounts host and API domain. Registration is self-serve, with no app review or sales approval for use inside one's own organisation.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free edition for three users with 5,000 API credits a day and no card at signup. Paid editions cost $14 to $52 a user a month billed yearly ($20 to $65 monthly) and have a 15-day trial. API calls draw on a daily credit allowance set by edition and user licences. Extra credits are pay as you go from $0.14 per 1,000 a day (https://www.zoho.com/crm/zohocrm-pricing.html, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$14 / seat-mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the OpenAPI files or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 830, "pypiWeekly": 6148, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.zoho.com/crm/developer/docs/api/v8/", "openapi": "https://github.com/zoho/crm-oas/tree/main/v8.0", "capabilities": [ "crm.records", "crm.pipeline", "crm.activities", "crm.search", "crm.webhooks" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "oauth", "openapi", "mcp", "webhooks", "free-tier", "no-card", "python", "nodejs", "java", "status-page", "bug-bounty", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 70.8, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 187, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1510, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 81, "maintenance": 77, "payments": 40, "reliability": 72, "schema": 81, "security": 67, "transparency": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A public OpenAPI 3.1 description of 644 operations and OAuth scopes down to one module and one operation suit agent use, and the Free edition includes 5,000 API credits a day. The documented token refresh puts the client secret in the URL, and no SLA, deprecation policy or dated API changelog was found.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.1 files for 103 resources and 644 operations are public on GitHub, with a Markdown page per operation", "OAuth scopes narrow to one module and one operation, such as `ZohoCRM.modules.leads.READ`", "The `fields` parameter is mandatory on list calls, so responses carry only the fields requested (50 at most)", "Upsert matches on duplicate check fields, so a repeated create updates the record", "Free edition for three users with 5,000 API credits a day and no card at signup" ], "weaknesses": [ "The documented refresh and revoke calls put the refresh token and client secret in the URL query string", "No SLA, API deprecation policy or dated API changelog found in the reviewed pages", "429 is documented without a Retry-After header or backoff guidance", "Access tokens last one hour and hosts differ by data centre, so setup needs a token exchange and the right domain", "Sub-processor directory loads by script and the DPA is sent on request by email" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use the `api_domain` returned with the token, since each data centre has its own host (zohoapis.com, zohoapis.eu, zohoapis.in and others)", "Send `Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken \u003ctoken\u003e` and refresh hourly. Put refresh parameters in the POST body, not the URL", "Pass `fields` on every list call. Page with `page` up to 2,000 records, then `page_token` up to 100,000", "Create through `/{module}/upsert` so a retry updates instead of duplicating", "Budget credits. Convert Lead costs 5, Send Mail 20, a bulk read 50, and calls through the MCP servers draw on the same allowance" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 70.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 81, "maintenance": 77, "payments": 40, "reliability": 72, "schema": 81, "security": 67, "transparency": 54 }, "provenanceScore": 95, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-01", "maintenance": "2026-11-01", "payments": "2026-11-01", "reliability": "2026-11-01", "schema": "2026-11-01", "security": "2026-11-01", "transparency": "2026-11-01" }, "last": "2026-11-01", "oldest": "2026-11-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install zohocrmsdk8-0", "http": "curl \"https://www.zohoapis.com/crm/v8/Leads?fields=Last_Name,Email\u0026per_page=5\" \\\n -X GET -H \"Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken $ZOHO_ACCESS_TOKEN\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "zoho-crm-data-insights": { "url": "https://zoho-crm-data-insights-60065097786.zohomcp.in/mcp/d17dfe13292e0414a929516bb8f8e797/message" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/crm.records", "tool": "https://letme.dev/zoho-crm" }, "sameCompany": [ "zoho-books", "zoho-zeptomail", "zoho-desk", "zoho-recruit", "zoho-people", "zoho-mail" ], "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Standard", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 14, "note": "billed yearly; $20 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Professional", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 23, "note": "billed yearly; $35 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Enterprise", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 40, "note": "billed yearly; $50 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Ultimate", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 52, "note": "billed yearly; $65 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Add-on API credits, first 25,000 a day", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.00014, "note": "$0.14 per 1,000 credits per 24 hours, falling to $0.025 per 1,000 above 250,000; billed for credits used" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Zoho Corporation Private Limited", "domain": "zoho.com", "domainRegistered": "2004-01-16", "domainNote": "API calls go to www.zohoapis.com and its regional equivalents, and the MCP servers to zohomcp.in hosts, both Zoho domains other than zoho.com.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.zoho.com/terms.html", "privacy": "https://www.zoho.com/privacy.html", "statusPage": "https://status.zoho.com", "changelog": "https://www.zoho.com/crm/developer/docs/api/v8/whats-new.html", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (last updated 2 March 2022) are the service agreement for Zoho's online services. The contracting entity depends on the customer's region, Zoho Corporation Private Limited for India and Zoho Corporation for the United States (https://www.zoho.com/legal/zoho-contracting-entities.html).", "A separate Zoho Developer Agreement at https://www.zoho.com/developer/terms.html covers the developer tools and names Zoho Corporation Private Limited and its affiliates.", "The privacy policy was last updated on 22 December 2025 and covers Zoho's websites and the products on them.", "security.txt at www.zoho.com gives a bug bounty contact, security@zohocorp.com, a policy link and an expiry of 30 June 2028.", "What's New in V8 lists the additions in v8 without dates. No dated API changelog was found.", "RDAP for zoho.com gives a registration date of 2004-01-16." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-crm.json", "live": { "slug": "zoho-crm", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.zoho.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T04:49:02.370996141Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@zohocrm/nodejs-sdk-8.0", "version": "5.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T00:19:18.091876924Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "zohocrmsdk8-0", "version": "7.0.0", "released": "2026-07-24", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T00:19:18.896985807Z" } ], "githubStars": 20, "npmWeekly": 1635, "pypiWeekly": 5280, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://zoho.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2028-06-30T23:59:59.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:50.941776064Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "zoho.com", "registered": "2004-01-16", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/zoho.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:25:40.832306171Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.zoho.com/crm/developer/docs/api/v8/whats-new.html", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:38:04.990630305Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1ebe95070909" }, { "url": "https://www.zoho.com/crm/zohocrm-pricing.html", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:38:09.19950006Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-13T20:34:10.906952615Z", "fingerprint": "8e0cd953b037" }, { "url": "https://www.zoho.com/privacy.html", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:32:02.487387166Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "08dac5e34d5e" }, { "url": "https://www.zoho.com/terms.html", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:32:04.479029194Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "05eeda99f291" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://zoho-crm-data-insights-60065097786.zohomcp.in/mcp/d17dfe13292e0414a929516bb8f8e797/message", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:49:31.460645459Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:49:31.460645459Z" }, "github": { "repo": "zoho/crm-oas", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T09:40:47.36183487Z", "stars": 20, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-09-02T13:12:59Z", "openIssues": 0, "openPRs": 1, "issuesOpened90d": 0, "issuesClosed90d": 0, "prsMerged90d": 1 }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:50.941776064Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 32, "category": "reliability", "leads": "zoho-crm", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Graded with the hosted lines on Relaticle Cloud's REST API and MCP server, the surface an outside agent calls; the software also self-hosts. No status page is linked and status.relaticle.com did not connect (0). With no readable history the incident line scores 5. Limits have numbers: 600 a minute per workspace and 300 reads or 60 writes a minute per token in the source, and 120 MCP calls a minute per user in the docs (15). 429 is in the OpenAPI responses and upserts by unique field give a safe retry for creates, but the backoff guidance sits on a docs section we read only as a heading (10 of 15). No SLA (0). Version 3.8, not labelled beta (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 40.", "b": "Graded on the REST API v8, read as a hosted service. status.zoho.com redirects to us.zohostatus.com, which has a Zoho CRM component and incident history back to December 2025 (20). From 3 August to 1 November the history lists 21 incidents across Zoho services, most of them a few minutes long. One touches CRM: on 24 October a multi-service outage (\"Qntrl and a few other components\") ran 16 minutes 16 seconds, and the status feed shows the Zoho CRM component returning to Operational at 18:12 IST within it. On 3 September a Zoho Deluge outage ran 2 hours 34 minutes, and the CRM component's state changed when it ended. Both read as partial, so minor incidents only (20 of 30). Only the US page was read. Daily credits and concurrency are published with numbers per edition (15). 429 is documented and `X-API-CREDITS-REMAINING` appears once half the allowance is used, but no Retry-After or backoff guidance was found. Upsert and `If-Unmodified-Since` make writes safer to retry (7 of 15). No SLA found (0). v8 is the current documented version (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 40, "b": 72 } }, { "by": 22, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "zoho-crm", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "50 MCP tools, six schema resources and a prompt, with no toolsets or read-only subset (5). Filters combine native fields, custom fields and linked records with $and, $or and $not, plus sort, include, `per_page` (MCP maximum 25) and cursors (20). Errors come back as HTTP codes and inline MCP error responses such as `Invalid ability provided.`; no error catalogue was read (12 of 20). Base tool classes set readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint, and upserts by unique field make creates safe to retry (17 of 20). One URL with OAuth or a token; no official SDK (5 of 15). 5 + 20 + 12 + 17 + 5 = 59.", "b": "Graded on the REST API. `fields` is mandatory on list calls with at most 50 names, and COQL selects columns, so responses can be kept small (22 of 25). `per_page` up to 200, `page` to 2,000 records and `page_token` to 100,000, plus search by criteria, email, phone or word, custom views and COQL (20). Errors carry a code, a message and details naming the field or the existing record, each documented with a resolution (18 of 20). Upsert on duplicate check fields and `If-Unmodified-Since`, with no idempotency key (10 of 20). Official SDKs in six languages, but the one-hour token, the refresh step and per-data-centre hosts add setup (11 of 15)." }, "scores": { "a": 59, "b": 81 } }, { "by": 13, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "relaticle", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "v3.8.2 tagged on 5 November 2026 and commits on 6 November (30). Thirteen tags between 9 October and 5 November alone (20). More than 2,500 commits since 1 August and merged pull requests numbered past 1,100; the GitHub API did not answer, so open issues and reply times were not counted (15 of 25). Verified com.relaticle/crm namespace in the official MCP registry with the hosted remote (15). CI, tests, security-audit and Dependabot workflows, PHP 8.5 and Laravel 13 (10). 30 + 20 + 15 + 15 + 10 = 90.", "b": "The Node.js SDK for v8 reached 5.0.0 on 15 October 2026 (30). Three dated changes from 3 August to 1 November, the OpenAPI files on 2 September, Node.js SDK 4.0.0 on 21 September and 5.0.0 on 15 October. Python SDK 7.0.0 of 24 July has left the window (20). No dated API changelog. The docs link to community posts on help.zoho.com, which we did not test for replies (8 of 25). Current official SDKs for Java, Python, PHP, Node.js, C# and Ruby (15). The SDK repositories show no public CI, and the Java SDK was last released on 7 January 2026 and the Ruby SDK on 16 April 2025 (4 of 10)." }, "scores": { "a": 90, "b": 77 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "security", "leads": "zoho-crm", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Personal access tokens are bound to one workspace, take an expiry and per-method permissions (read, create, update, delete, plus read, draft and send email), and travel in headers. OAuth 2.1 through Passport is also offered, but the source says its single `mcp:use` scope authorises the whole toolset (25 of 30). A read-only token is possible; the docs say MCP writes apply immediately and leave confirmation to the client (10 of 20). Synced email reaches the model through the email tools, and no prompt-injection guidance was found (0). Each record has an activity log of field changes and who made them, and admins see it across the workspace (12 of 15). security.txt valid to May 2027, a disclosure address with a 48-hour acknowledgement target and security-audit workflows in CI; the security page says there is no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 (10 of 20). 25 + 10 + 0 + 12 + 10 = 57.", "b": "OAuth 2.0 with scopes down to one module and one operation, one-hour access tokens and revocable refresh tokens (30). Less 10 because the documented refresh and revoke calls carry the refresh token and client secret in the URL query string (20 of 30). READ-only scopes per module and a read-only Data Insights MCP server. Calls are also bound by the user's CRM role. No approval step for deletes, and mass delete exists (14 of 20). Records hold text from outside parties and no prompt-injection guidance was found (3 of 15). Audit Logs in paid editions, and an API dashboard of credits by application (10 of 15). security.txt valid to 30 June 2028, a bug bounty, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001, 27701 and 27017 (20)." }, "scores": { "a": 57, "b": 67 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "payments", "leads": "zoho-crm", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Cloud prices are public per workspace with nothing per call (10). A 14-day Cloud Pro trial with no card, and self-hosting is free (20). A person signs up in a browser behind a Cloudflare check, or deploys a server (0). 0 + 10 + 20 + 0 = 30.", "b": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Edition prices are public, $14 to $52 a user a month billed yearly, and extra API credits have a published unit price from $0.14 per 1,000 a day (20). The Free edition covers three users with 5,000 API credits a day and needs no card at signup (20). A person signs up in a browser, registers an OAuth client in the API console and approves scopes (0)." }, "scores": { "a": 30, "b": 40 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "schema", "leads": "relaticle", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "OpenAPI 3.1 at /openapi.json and /openapi.yaml with 34 operations (25). llms.txt with a when-to-use and when-not section, and developer pages (10). The llms.txt and MCP docs say what the API is for and what it doesn't do (no email over REST, no meetings), while only 5 of 34 operations carry a description (14 of 20). 114 required lists and typed MCP inputs, but few enums (11 of 15). 661 examples and responses for 401, 402, 403, 404, 409, 422 and 429 (14 of 15). /v1 and frequent tagged releases, with no changelog page (relaticle.com/changelog is 404) (12 of 15). 25 + 10 + 14 + 11 + 14 + 12 = 86.", "b": "zoho/crm-oas on GitHub holds OpenAPI 3.1 files for 103 resources and 644 operations (25). No llms.txt at zoho.com, but the same repository carries a compressed Markdown page and examples per operation, written for Zoho's CRM agent skills (7 of 10). Operation descriptions state the purpose and name the call that supplies each ID, with little on when not to use one (15 of 20). Parameters carry enums, patterns and length limits. Record bodies accept any property because modules have custom fields, and search criteria are a string grammar (11 of 15). Each reference page has curl samples and a Possible Errors list with a resolution per code (15). The version is in the path, and What's New in V8 lists changes without dates. No dated changelog found (8 of 15)." }, "scores": { "a": 86, "b": 81 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Relaticle, Inc.", "b": "Zoho", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://mcp.relaticle.com", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "AGPL-3.0", "b": "Proprietary service under Zoho's Terms of Service. The server-side SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "50", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "com.relaticle/crm", "b": "not listed", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-11-05", "b": "2026-10-15", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-08-26", "b": "2022-03-02", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-11-04", "b": "2025-12-22", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "1.8k stars", "b": "830 npm/wk, 6.1k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.3/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Zoho CRM scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Relaticle's 59.6 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Relaticle leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Relaticle or Zoho CRM?" }, { "answer": "Relaticle takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Zoho CRM uses an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Relaticle and Zoho CRM need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Relaticle has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.relaticle.com. No hosted endpoint is listed for Zoho CRM.", "question": "Can an agent call Relaticle and Zoho CRM without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Relaticle is open source (AGPL-3.0). No open-source release is listed for Zoho CRM.", "question": "Are Relaticle and Zoho CRM open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 86 against 81", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 90 against 77" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Small teams who want an open-source CRM they can self-host and let an agent write to.", "slug": "relaticle", "watchFor": "Writes over MCP apply immediately, and OAuth's single `mcp:use` scope authorises every tool" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 72 against 40", "Agent ergonomics, 81 against 59", "Security \u0026 auth, 67 against 57", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "zoho-crm", "watchFor": "The documented refresh and 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Relaticle leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do crm records.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "relaticle": "Relaticle is an actively released AGPL CRM whose REST API and MCP server have an OpenAPI spec, annotated tools, workspace-bound tokens with per-method permissions and a free self-hosted route. MCP writes apply at once with no server-side confirmation, OAuth grants the whole toolset, and Cloud has no status page, SLA or certification.", "zoho-crm": "A public OpenAPI 3.1 description of 644 operations and OAuth scopes down to one module and one operation suit agent use, and the Free edition includes 5,000 API credits a day. The documented token refresh puts the client secret in the URL, and no SLA, deprecation policy or dated API changelog was found." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/relaticle-vs-zoho-crm", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/relaticle-vs-zoho-crm.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/relaticle-vs-zoho-crm.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/relaticle-vs-zoho-crm.min.md" }, "markdown": "Zoho CRM scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Relaticle's 59.6 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Relaticle leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do crm records.\n\n- Relaticle: grade C, 59.6/100, rank #697 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/relaticle.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/relaticle.json\n- Zoho CRM: grade BB, 70.8/100, rank #187 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-crm.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zoho-crm.json\n- Best CRM and customer-platform tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/crm/index.md\n- All 190 crm comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crm/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Relaticle (C)\n\nGood for: Small teams who want an open-source CRM they can self-host and let an agent write to.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 86 against 81\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 90 against 77\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Writes over MCP apply immediately, and OAuth's single `mcp:use` scope authorises every tool\n\n### Zoho CRM (BB)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 72 against 40\n- Agent ergonomics, 81 against 59\n- Security \u0026 auth, 67 against 57\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: The documented refresh and revoke calls put the refresh token and client secret in the URL query string\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: Zoho CRM +32\n\n- Relaticle (40): Graded with the hosted lines on Relaticle Cloud's REST API and MCP server, the surface an outside agent calls; the software also self-hosts. No status page is linked and status.relaticle.com did not connect (0). With no readable history the incident line scores 5. Limits have numbers: 600 a minute per workspace and 300 reads or 60 writes a minute per token in the source, and 120 MCP calls a minute per user in the docs (15). 429 is in the OpenAPI responses and upserts by unique field give a safe retry for creates, but the backoff guidance sits on a docs section we read only as a heading (10 of 15). No SLA (0). Version 3.8, not labelled beta (10). 0 + 5 + 15 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 40.\n- Zoho CRM (72): Graded on the REST API v8, read as a hosted service. status.zoho.com redirects to us.zohostatus.com, which has a Zoho CRM component and incident history back to December 2025 (20). From 3 August to 1 November the history lists 21 incidents across Zoho services, most of them a few minutes long. One touches CRM: on 24 October a multi-service outage (\"Qntrl and a few other components\") ran 16 minutes 16 seconds, and the status feed shows the Zoho CRM component returning to Operational at 18:12 IST within it. On 3 September a Zoho Deluge outage ran 2 hours 34 minutes, and the CRM component's state changed when it ended. Both read as partial, so minor incidents only (20 of 30). Only the US page was read. Daily credits and concurrency are published with numbers per edition (15). 429 is documented and `X-API-CREDITS-REMAINING` appears once half the allowance is used, but no Retry-After or backoff guidance was found. Upsert and `If-Unmodified-Since` make writes safer to retry (7 of 15). No SLA found (0). v8 is the current documented version (10).\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Zoho CRM +22\n\n- Relaticle (59): 50 MCP tools, six schema resources and a prompt, with no toolsets or read-only subset (5). Filters combine native fields, custom fields and linked records with $and, $or and $not, plus sort, include, `per_page` (MCP maximum 25) and cursors (20). Errors come back as HTTP codes and inline MCP error responses such as `Invalid ability provided.`; no error catalogue was read (12 of 20). Base tool classes set readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint, and upserts by unique field make creates safe to retry (17 of 20). One URL with OAuth or a token; no official SDK (5 of 15). 5 + 20 + 12 + 17 + 5 = 59.\n- Zoho CRM (81): Graded on the REST API. `fields` is mandatory on list calls with at most 50 names, and COQL selects columns, so responses can be kept small (22 of 25). `per_page` up to 200, `page` to 2,000 records and `page_token` to 100,000, plus search by criteria, email, phone or word, custom views and COQL (20). Errors carry a code, a message and details naming the field or the existing record, each documented with a resolution (18 of 20). Upsert on duplicate check fields and `If-Unmodified-Since`, with no idempotency key (10 of 20). Official SDKs in six languages, but the one-hour token, the refresh step and per-data-centre hosts add setup (11 of 15).\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Relaticle +13\n\n- Relaticle (90): v3.8.2 tagged on 5 November 2026 and commits on 6 November (30). Thirteen tags between 9 October and 5 November alone (20). More than 2,500 commits since 1 August and merged pull requests numbered past 1,100; the GitHub API did not answer, so open issues and reply times were not counted (15 of 25). Verified com.relaticle/crm namespace in the official MCP registry with the hosted remote (15). CI, tests, security-audit and Dependabot workflows, PHP 8.5 and Laravel 13 (10). 30 + 20 + 15 + 15 + 10 = 90.\n- Zoho CRM (77): The Node.js SDK for v8 reached 5.0.0 on 15 October 2026 (30). Three dated changes from 3 August to 1 November, the OpenAPI files on 2 September, Node.js SDK 4.0.0 on 21 September and 5.0.0 on 15 October. Python SDK 7.0.0 of 24 July has left the window (20). No dated API changelog. The docs link to community posts on help.zoho.com, which we did not test for replies (8 of 25). Current official SDKs for Java, Python, PHP, Node.js, C# and Ruby (15). The SDK repositories show no public CI, and the Java SDK was last released on 7 January 2026 and the Ruby SDK on 16 April 2025 (4 of 10).\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Zoho CRM +10\n\n- Relaticle (57): Personal access tokens are bound to one workspace, take an expiry and per-method permissions (read, create, update, delete, plus read, draft and send email), and travel in headers. OAuth 2.1 through Passport is also offered, but the source says its single `mcp:use` scope authorises the whole toolset (25 of 30). A read-only token is possible; the docs say MCP writes apply immediately and leave confirmation to the client (10 of 20). Synced email reaches the model through the email tools, and no prompt-injection guidance was found (0). Each record has an activity log of field changes and who made them, and admins see it across the workspace (12 of 15). security.txt valid to May 2027, a disclosure address with a 48-hour acknowledgement target and security-audit workflows in CI; the security page says there is no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 (10 of 20). 25 + 10 + 0 + 12 + 10 = 57.\n- Zoho CRM (67): OAuth 2.0 with scopes down to one module and one operation, one-hour access tokens and revocable refresh tokens (30). Less 10 because the documented refresh and revoke calls carry the refresh token and client secret in the URL query string (20 of 30). READ-only scopes per module and a read-only Data Insights MCP server. Calls are also bound by the user's CRM role. No approval step for deletes, and mass delete exists (14 of 20). Records hold text from outside parties and no prompt-injection guidance was found (3 of 15). Audit Logs in paid editions, and an API dashboard of credits by application (10 of 15). security.txt valid to 30 June 2028, a bug bounty, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001, 27701 and 27017 (20).\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Zoho CRM +10\n\n- Relaticle (30): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Cloud prices are public per workspace with nothing per call (10). A 14-day Cloud Pro trial with no card, and self-hosting is free (20). A person signs up in a browser behind a Cloudflare check, or deploys a server (0). 0 + 10 + 20 + 0 = 30.\n- Zoho CRM (40): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Edition prices are public, $14 to $52 a user a month billed yearly, and extra API credits have a published unit price from $0.14 per 1,000 a day (20). The Free edition covers three users with 5,000 API credits a day and needs no card at signup (20). A person signs up in a browser, registers an OAuth client in the API console and approves scopes (0).\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Relaticle +5\n\n- Relaticle (86): OpenAPI 3.1 at /openapi.json and /openapi.yaml with 34 operations (25). llms.txt with a when-to-use and when-not section, and developer pages (10). The llms.txt and MCP docs say what the API is for and what it doesn't do (no email over REST, no meetings), while only 5 of 34 operations carry a description (14 of 20). 114 required lists and typed MCP inputs, but few enums (11 of 15). 661 examples and responses for 401, 402, 403, 404, 409, 422 and 429 (14 of 15). /v1 and frequent tagged releases, with no changelog page (relaticle.com/changelog is 404) (12 of 15). 25 + 10 + 14 + 11 + 14 + 12 = 86.\n- Zoho CRM (81): zoho/crm-oas on GitHub holds OpenAPI 3.1 files for 103 resources and 644 operations (25). No llms.txt at zoho.com, but the same repository carries a compressed Markdown page and examples per operation, written for Zoho's CRM agent skills (7 of 10). Operation descriptions state the purpose and name the call that supplies each ID, with little on when not to use one (15 of 20). Parameters carry enums, patterns and length limits. Record bodies accept any property because modules have custom fields, and search criteria are a string grammar (11 of 15). Each reference page has curl samples and a Possible Errors list with a resolution per code (15). The version is in the path, and What's New in V8 lists changes without dates. No dated changelog found (8 of 15).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Relaticle | Zoho CRM | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 72 | Zoho CRM +32 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 81 | Relaticle +5 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 59 | 81 | Zoho CRM +22 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 57 | 67 | Zoho CRM +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | Zoho CRM +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 90 | 77 | Relaticle +13 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 75 | Zoho CRM +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **59.6 · C** | **70.8 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Relaticle | Zoho CRM |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Relaticle, Inc. | Zoho |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.relaticle.com` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | Proprietary service under Zoho's Terms of Service. The server-side SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 50 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | `com.relaticle/crm` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-11-05 | 2026-10-15 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-26 | 2022-03-02 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-11-04 | 2025-12-22 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 1.8k stars | 830 npm/wk, 6.1k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Relaticle.** Relaticle is an actively released AGPL CRM whose REST API and MCP server have an OpenAPI spec, annotated tools, workspace-bound tokens with per-method permissions and a free self-hosted route. MCP writes apply at once with no server-side confirmation, OAuth grants the whole toolset, and Cloud has no status page, SLA or certification.\n\n**Zoho CRM.** A public OpenAPI 3.1 description of 644 operations and OAuth scopes down to one module and one operation suit agent use, and the Free edition includes 5,000 API credits a day. The documented token refresh puts the client secret in the URL, and no SLA, deprecation policy or dated API changelog was found.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Relaticle\n\n1. Use a personal access token with only the read permission unless the task writes, since OAuth grants every tool\n2. Ask the user before create, update, delete or send tools; the server applies them at once\n3. Call `get-crm-schema-tool` for an entity before filtering on custom fields, which differ by workspace\n4. Use `POST /v1/people/upsert` or `/v1/companies/upsert` with a unique field to avoid duplicates on retry\n5. Keep MCP calls under 120 a minute per user and REST writes under 60 a minute per token on Cloud Pro\n\n### Zoho CRM\n\n1. Use the `api_domain` returned with the token, since each data centre has its own host (zohoapis.com, zohoapis.eu, zohoapis.in and others)\n2. Send `Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken \u003ctoken\u003e` and refresh hourly. Put refresh parameters in the POST body, not the URL\n3. Pass `fields` on every list call. Page with `page` up to 2,000 records, then `page_token` up to 100,000\n4. Create through `/{module}/upsert` so a retry updates instead of duplicating\n5. Budget credits. Convert Lead costs 5, Send Mail 20, a bulk read 50, and calls through the MCP servers draw on the same allowance\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Relaticle or Zoho CRM?\n\nZoho CRM scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Relaticle's 59.6 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Relaticle leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Relaticle and Zoho CRM need an API key?\n\nRelaticle takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Zoho CRM uses an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Relaticle and Zoho CRM without installing anything?\n\nRelaticle has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.relaticle.com. No hosted endpoint is listed for Zoho CRM.\n\n### Are Relaticle and Zoho CRM open source?\n\nRelaticle is open source (AGPL-3.0). No open-source release is listed for Zoho CRM.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/relaticle-vs-zoho-crm.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/relaticle-vs-zoho-crm.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"relaticle\", \"b\": \"zoho-crm\"}`. 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