Historical September 2026 source comparison, not a current quote. Zoho CRM is mature, deep, cheap and free for three users: $14, $23 and $40 a user a month on Standard, Professional and Enterprise. It is the most direct answer to the same question Relate asks, and pretending otherwise would be silly. Our argument is fewer, deeper tools and a record that fills itself because the signature and the invoice are the same company; theirs is twenty years of features and an ecosystem we cannot match. Both of those are honest arguments and you may well pick theirs.
Product design preview · Relate has not shipped. All features, screens and prices are proposals.
Relate is not available yet. These are proposed screens, features and prices—not a beta or live CRM. All console actions affect fictional data in this page only.
List prices as published on the vendor's public pages in September 2026. Check their page for today's figure and tell us if we are out of date.
Historical comparison imported from Fable’s September 2026 source research, not a current vendor quote. Product scope, currency and billing periods differ. Confirm current provider terms before deciding; Relate remains unbuilt.
| Centilio Relate | Zoho CRM | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free (2 selling seats); Pro $19; Business $39 a selling seat | Free (3 users); Standard $14; Professional $23; Enterprise $40; Ultimate $52 a user |
| Free plan | 2 selling seats, unlimited readers, 1,000 contacts, full export | 3 users, 5,000 records — more generous on people than ours |
| Someone who only looks | Free, unlimited, every plan | Verify current view-only licensing |
| Feature depth | Deliberately narrow: the record, deals, conversations, quote to cash | Very deep, after twenty years |
| Ecosystem | A proposed shared record across Centilio tools as they launch | Forty-plus apps, and Zoho One |
| Quote, signature and invoice | Sign and Bill, sharing the record rather than syncing to it | Zoho Sign and Zoho Books, same suite, separate products |
| India | Billed in rupees at an Indian price; GST invoicing through Bill | Rupee pricing, WhatsApp, IndiaMART, GST — all mature |
| AI | Celia, included, drafting and scoring with a person approving | Zia |
| Availability | Not shipped — wave 2, in design | Shipped and very mature |
Historical comparison imported from Fable’s September 2026 source research, not a current vendor quote. Product scope, currency and billing periods differ. Confirm current provider terms before deciding; Relate remains unbuilt.
You want depth, maturity and a low price today, you are happy inside a large suite, and you need WhatsApp, IndiaMART and Indian tax handled now rather than after a launch. This is a good decision and we would make it too, in your position, this year.
You want fewer tools that go deeper, you value a record that fills itself over a feature list, you have people who only need to look, and you can wait for wave 2.
For a small business that wants a CRM, yes, at a fraction of the price and with no onboarding fee. For marketing automation at scale, no — HubSpot's marketing side is genuinely strong and Pulse is a separate tool that is also not built yet.
For businesses of two to two hundred, yes. For an enterprise sales operation with a RevOps team, territory rules, CPQ and a custom object model, no, and we would rather say so than sell you a year of disappointment.
Yes, and Pipedrive is good — Lite at $14 does one job cleanly. The difference is what surrounds the deal: the signature, the invoice and the files are ours, so they arrive on the record without an integration.
It is aimed at the same business, and Zoho is mature, deep and cheap, with a free tier of three users. Our argument is fewer, deeper tools and a record that fills itself; theirs is twenty years of features and an enormous ecosystem. Both are honest arguments.
List prices seen on the vendors' public pricing pages in September 2026. Check their page for today's figure and tell us if we are out of date.
The tools Relate sits between. Check each product’s current stage while Relate is built.
The proposed shared record connects these products as they launch. Follow each product page for its current stage.
Historical comparison imported from Fable’s September 2026 source research, not a current vendor quote. Product scope, currency and billing periods differ. Confirm current provider terms before deciding; Relate remains unbuilt.
The quote on the record, signed in minutes
The signed quote, invoiced without retyping
Every file about this customer, filed
Who may see which customers, set once
Outreach whose replies land on the record
The meeting the next step needs
Wave 2 is the next build after the currently available tools. Leave your name and you will hear before the announcement — and tell us what your CRM actually has to do while it is still being designed.