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Zoho Projects
Project management from Zoho with tasks, Gantt charts, time tracking, and team collaboration.
FindThatSoftware verdictEditorial ruling
A cost-effective fit for Indian SMBs, especially Zoho users, that want structured project tracking with Gantt and time logging. Standalone teams should compare UX against Asana/ClickUp. Verify current per-user pricing on Zoho's India site.
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Should you use Zoho Projects?
Use it if indian SMBs using the Zoho suite. Avoid it if teams that need single sign-on and two factor authentication, because both sit on Enterprise at 630 rupees per user per month rather than Premium.
Spec sheet
- Starting price
- ₹280/mo₹280/user/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Available
- Free trial
- Available
- Status
- Source checked 29 Jul 2026
- Source trail
- 2 public sources
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Zoho Projects is a commerce & operations / project management for Indian buyers. It costs about ₹280/mo before GST, billed in rupees. It issues an India GST invoice, so you can claim input credit. FindThatSoftware rates it best for indian SMBs using the Zoho suite, and a poor fit if teams that need single sign-on and two factor authentication, because both sit on Enterprise at 630 rupees per user per month rather than Premium.
The trade-off, weighed
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- The free plan carries up to 5 users and 3 projects with no time limit, which is enough for a two person agency to run real work.
- Premium costs 280 rupees per user per month on yearly billing, and Zoho publishes rupee prices rather than converting from a dollar list.
- Unlimited projects, timesheets, project budgets and task blueprints all arrive at the Premium tier rather than being held back for Enterprise.
The catch
- Two factor authentication, single sign-on and a custom domain are Enterprise only at 630 rupees per user per month, more than double Premium.
- Read only users cost 490 rupees per user per month on yearly billing, which approaches a full Enterprise seat just for view access.
- Monthly billing costs 350 rupees per user on Premium against 280 yearly, so paying month to month adds 25 percent to the seat price.
- The free plan gives 5 GB of storage across the whole portal and Premium raises it only to 100 GB for the entire organisation.
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹280
Zoho Projects is billed in rupees at ₹280/mo, so there is no forex markup. A registered business reclaims GST, so that is roughly the cost (₹3,360/yr). Without reclaim, add 18% for about ₹330 a month.
- Sticker price
- ₹280/mo
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹280
- Registered per year
- ₹3,360
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹330
- Try first
- Has a free plan, so you can start without a card.
- Watch for
- Zoho Projects is free for up to 3 users; paid Premium starts from ₹280/user/mo, with Enterprise priced higher (billed annually; +18% GST). Confirm current India pricing on Zoho's site.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
Full India pricing breakdownIndia readiness
How well Zoho Projects fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✓GST invoice
Issues a GST-compliant invoice, so a registered business can reclaim input tax.
- ✓Bills in INR
Priced in rupees, so there is no forex conversion or card markup on top.
- ✓India HQ
India-headquartered, so support, timezone, and context are local.
How Zoho Projects compares
Against the 4 other project management toolswe list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Also in most alternatives
Recorded for at least half of the 4 others, and for Zoho Projects.
This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything — roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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What is Zoho Projects?
Zoho Projects is the project-management product in the Zoho suite, offering task management, Gantt charts, milestones, time tracking, and issue tracking, integrated with the wider Zoho ecosystem and billed in INR.
Best for
- Indian SMBs using the Zoho suite
- Teams needing Gantt + time tracking
- Businesses wanting affordable PM
Who should avoid it
- Teams that need single sign-on and two factor authentication, because both sit on Enterprise at 630 rupees per user per month rather than Premium.
- Organisations with many view only stakeholders, because read only users are absent below Enterprise and then cost 490 rupees per user per month.
What we verified about Zoho Projects
Read from Zoho Projects’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
Features we confirmed41
- AI assistant
- Zia provides summary, translate, task creation and insights
- Two factor authentication
- Two-factor authentication is an Enterprise feature
- Time tracking
- Time logs and timesheets are Premium and above
- Task management
- Task management with subtasks is a core feature on all plans
- Task dependencies
- Dependencies run finish-to-start on Free up to all four types
- Sso saml
- Single sign-on appears on the Enterprise plan
- Sandbox
- Sandbox is available on the Enterprise plan
- Recurring tasks
- Premium includes recurring tasks and task reminders
- Project templates
- Templates run 20 on Premium to 50 on Ultimate
- Portfolio dashboard
- Enterprise adds a portfolio dashboard across projects
- Mcp server
- MCP server connects AI models to Zoho Projects data and actions
- Custom statuses
- Custom statuses are a core feature across plans
- Custom fields
- Custom fields appear on Enterprise and Ultimate
- Custom domain
- Enterprise offers a branded custom domain for the portal
- Custom dashboards
- Ultimate offers unlimited custom dashboards
- Blueprint process automation
- Blueprints are available from the Premium plan
- Activity feeds
- Feeds appear in the core features list
- AI chatbot querying
- Ask Zia chat bot is listed across the Zia section
- Business calendars and holidays
- Calendars run 1 on Premium, 3 Enterprise, 20 Ultimate
- Critical path analysis
- Critical Path is an Enterprise and Ultimate feature
- Cross project dependencies
- Enterprise and Ultimate support dependencies across projects
- Custom profiles and roles
- Enterprise adds custom profiles, roles and fields
- Digital adoption guidance
- Ultimate DAP integration gives contextual walkthroughs
- Document sharing
- Document sharing is a core feature on all plans
- Earned value management
- Premium plan lists Project Budget & EVM together
- Gantt charts
- Gantt chart appears in the charts and reports section
- Global custom modules
- Global custom modules are an Enterprise feature
- Issue and bug tracking
- Issue Tracker section covers business rules and linked issues
- Layout rules
- Layout rules appear on Enterprise and Ultimate
- Milestones and phases
- Lite users can view Tasks, Bugs and Phases modules
- Multi user multi project timesheets
- Ultimate adds multi-user and multi-project timesheets
- Project baselines
- Baseline comparison appears on Enterprise and Ultimate
- Project budgeting
- Project Budget and EVM appear from the Premium plan
- Resource tracking addon
- Resources add-on tracks equipment used in project activities
- Timesheet multi level approval
- Premium includes timesheet multi-level approvals
- User hierarchy
- User hierarchy is listed among Enterprise features
- Web tabs embedding
- Web tabs embed external URLs inside Zoho Projects
- Web to issue form
- Issue tracker includes a web to issue form
- Workflow automation with execution quota
- Workflow actions run 5,000 to 500,000 executions monthly
- Workload reporting
- Workload report runs project-specific or across projects
- Zia search
- Zia Search appears on higher Zoho Projects plans
What people use it for3
- Track software bugs
- Issue tracker with web-to-issue forms handles defects
- Manage projects and tasks
- Timesheets, budgets and templates suit agency project delivery
- Bill clients from time logs
- Time logs and timesheets underpin project budget tracking
Works with6
- Zoho workdrive
- Hybrid platform bundle includes Zoho WorkDrive
- Zoho sprints
- Hybrid platform bundle includes Zoho Sprints for agile
- Zoho analytics
- Hybrid platform bundle packages Zoho Analytics with Projects
- Power BI
- Power BI integration is listed on the Enterprise plan
- Zoho learn
- Hybrid platform bundle includes Zoho Learn
- Zoho notebook
- Hybrid platform bundle includes Zoho Notebook
Terms, compliance and how you buy20
- Liability capped at 50000 INR
- Zoho India terms cap liability at ₹50,000 or twelve months fees
- Customer owns their data
- Zoho terms state you own content created or stored by you
- Chennai jurisdiction
- Zoho India terms settle disputes exclusively in Chennai courts
- Auto renewal default
- Zoho terms auto-renew unless you notify seven days prior
- Annual discount
- Toggle states Yearly - Save over 15%
- Four tier ladder including ultimate
- Free, Premium, Enterprise and Ultimate editions exist
- Free plan 5 users 3 projects
- Free tier allows up to 5 users and 3 projects
- GST charged on top
- Zoho invoices GST in addition to listed subscription fees
- GST invoice for input credit
- Zoho India terms promise invoices formatted for input tax credit
- India headquartered vendor
- Zoho Corporation Private Limited contracts from Chennai for India
- INR billed
- Zoho publishes rupee per-user pricing for Projects in India
- Lite user addon on ultimate
- Lite User is sold as an add-on only on the Ultimate plan
- Org wide storage caps
- Storage is 5GB free, 100GB Premium, 120GB Enterprise
- Per user pricing
- Plans are quoted per user per month
- Per user storage on top tier
- Ultimate gives 15 GB per user with a 150 GB org minimum
- Quote only hybrid platform bundle
- Hybrid project management platform bundle says Contact us
- Read only users are paid seats
- Our research records read-only users at ₹490 per user monthly
- Read only users enterprise only
- Read-only users are absent on Free and Premium
- Sso and 2fa enterprise only
- SSO and two-factor authentication start at Enterprise
- Unlimited projects on paid
- Premium and above allow unlimited projects
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Zoho Projects is free for up to 3 users; paid Premium starts from ₹280/user/mo, with Enterprise priced higher (billed annually; +18% GST). Confirm current India pricing on Zoho's site.
Zoho Projects pricinghttps://www.zoho.com/projects/pricing.htmlZoho Projects (official site)https://www.zoho.com/projects/
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Does Zoho Projects give a GST invoice in India?
Zoho Projects issues an India GST invoice, so a GST-registered business can claim input tax credit on it directly.
Is Zoho Projects good for Indian small businesses?
Zoho Projects is worth evaluating for Indian buyers, but the final fit depends on pricing limits, support, integrations, and setup effort.
Does Zoho Projects have a free plan?
Zoho Projects lists a free plan, but check the official pricing page for current usage limits before choosing it.
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