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Zoho Projects
Project management from Zoho with tasks, Gantt charts, time tracking, and team collaboration.
Spec sheet
All-in India price
₹280/user/mo
For a registered business, billed yearly
- Free plan
- Available
- Free trial
- Available
- Status
- Source checked 12 Nov 2026
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Shortlist Zoho Projects if you are an Indian agency, services firm or SMB that wants Gantt planning, timesheets and issue tracking in one tool, especially if you already run Zoho CRM or Books. Billing is in rupees from an Indian company that issues GST invoices, which keeps input tax credit simple compared with dollar billed rivals.
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Before paying, check whether you need single sign-on, custom roles or many view only stakeholders, because those push you from Premium to Enterprise at roughly double the seat price. Against Asana or ClickUp the trade-off is a busier interface and a smaller outside ecosystem in exchange for lower rupee pricing and close links to Zoho's accounting and CRM apps. Run the 15 day trial on the plan you actually intend to buy, since the free plan hides most of what makes the paid tiers useful.
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In short
Zoho Projects is listed under Project Management, reviewed for Indian buyers. It costs about ₹280/user/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; a poor fit for small teams that need single sign-on or custom roles on a tight budget, because both sit on Enterprise rather than Premium.
What Zoho Projects costs in India
The rupee price a business actually pays, after the card forex markup, with GST shown both ways.
True India price
Registered business, per user per month, billed yearly
₹280
Zoho Projects is billed in rupees at ₹280/user/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/user/mo
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per user per month
- ₹280
- Registered per user 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 bills per user in rupees, monthly or annually, and annual billing works out to about a fifth less per seat on Premium.
More
Listed prices exclude GST, which Zoho adds on the invoice, and both cycles renew automatically until you cancel. Zoho refunds in full within the first 30 days of a monthly plan or 45 days of an annual one, but after an automatic renewal you have only five business days (monthly) or 15 days (annual) to claim it.
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.
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Audit your spendWho Zoho Projects fits
What it is, what you gain, what you give up, and who should look elsewhere.
What is Zoho Projects?
Zoho Projects is the project management product of Zoho Corporation Private Limited, the Chennai company behind the Zoho suite. It covers tasks and subtasks, milestones and phases, Gantt charts with task dependencies, time logs and timesheets with approval flows, project budgets and a built in issue tracker. It runs in the browser with iOS and Android apps, and connects to other Zoho apps such as CRM, Books and Desk as well as Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub and Zapier. Indian customers sign up under Zoho's India terms and are billed in rupees. The free plan stops at five users and three projects, and single sign-on, custom roles, critical path and baselines only arrive on the Enterprise plan.
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.
- Zoho publishes rupee prices for India and bills through its Indian company under India specific terms, with GST invoices that support input tax credit.
- Unlimited projects, timesheets, project budgets and task blueprints all arrive at the Premium tier rather than being held back for Enterprise.
The catch
- Single sign-on, custom roles and a custom domain only come with Enterprise, which costs more than double the Premium seat, and the pricing page also lists two factor authentication as an Enterprise feature.
- View only stakeholders get expensive: Premium has no read only users at all, and Enterprise includes 10 before you buy more in paid packs of five.
- Paying month to month costs a quarter more per seat than annual billing on Premium, and the refund window after an automatic renewal is short.
- The free plan gives 5 GB of storage across the whole portal and Premium raises it only to 100 GB for the entire organisation.
Best for
- Indian SMBs using the Zoho suite
- Teams needing Gantt + time tracking
- Agencies and services firms that bill clients from timesheets
Who should avoid it
- Small teams that need single sign-on or custom roles on a tight budget, because both sit on Enterprise rather than Premium.
- Organisations with many view only stakeholders, because Premium has no read only users and Enterprise sells extra ones in paid packs.
- Software teams wanting a deep agile sprint tool, since Zoho sells sprint planning as a separate product, Zoho Sprints.
India 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.
Compare Zoho Projects
How it stacks up on what we verified, the tools buyers weigh it against, and where it appears in our guides.
How Zoho Projects compares
Against the 7 other project management tools we list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Less common among the other project management tools
Recorded for Zoho Projects and for at most a third of the 7 others we list.
- Blueprint process automation
- Custom dashboards
- Custom domain
- MCP server
- Portfolio dashboard
- Sandbox
- Custom statuses
- Task dependencies
Also in most alternatives
Recorded for at least half of the 7 others, and for Zoho Projects.
- Custom fields
- Task management
- Time tracking
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 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.
What Zoho Projects does
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
- Manage projects and tasks
- Timesheets, budgets and templates suit agency project delivery
- Track billable time
- Time logs and timesheets underpin project budget tracking
- Track software bugs
- Issue tracker with web-to-issue forms handles defects
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
Source trail
Pricing and free-plan claims can change. FindThatSoftware keeps source URLs visible so users can verify before buying.
- Zoho Projects plan comparison and add-on priceshttps://www.zoho.com/projects/pricing-comparison.html
- Zoho Projects pricinghttps://www.zoho.com/projects/pricing.html
- Zoho Projects featureshttps://www.zoho.com/projects/features.html
- Zoho Projects (official site)https://www.zoho.com/projects/
- Zoho refund policyhttps://help.zoho.com/portal/en/kb/common-faqs/articles/what-is-your-refund-policy
- Zoho Terms of Service (India, Zoho Corporation Private Limited, GST invoicing)https://www.zoho.com/terms.html
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Zoho Projects questions
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?
- It suits Indian SMBs using the Zoho suite. It bills in rupees and issues a GST invoice, so a registered business claims the GST back. It is not the right pick for small teams that need single sign-on or custom roles on a tight budget, because both sit on Enterprise rather than Premium.
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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