# Salesflare vs Zoho CRM (slim)

> Zoho CRM scores 70.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Salesflare's 48.5 (D), and leads in every scored category. 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 Salesflare's 48.5 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do crm records.

- Salesflare: D 48.5, rank #721 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/salesflare.min.md
- Zoho CRM: BB 70.8, rank #140 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-crm.min.md
- Salesflare, good for Small B2B sales teams on Salesflare who want an agent to read and update accounts, contacts, opportunities and tasks through REST or the hosted MCP server. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- 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 63; Schema & documentation, 81 against 57; Agent ergonomics, 81 against 49; Security & auth, 67 against 44; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Maintenance & community, 77 against 25; Transparency & trust, 75 against 58. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.

| Category | Salesflare | Zoho CRM |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 63 | 72 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 57 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 49 | 81 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 44 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 25 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 58 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Salesflare | Zoho CRM |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Salesflare BVBA | Zoho |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.salesflare.com` | no (local only) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Salesflare's Terms of Service | Proprietary service under Zoho's Terms of Service. The server-side SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-21 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2022-03-02 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2025-12-22 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 830 npm/wk, 6.1k PyPI/wk |