Short answer: for a whole team, only flat-priced CRMs stay under ₹1,000 a month. Salesvora Pro covers up to 5 people for ₹499 and Max covers up to 15 for ₹999, with call tracking, WhatsApp and IndiaMART included. Per-user plans such as Bigin or Zoho CRM look cheap for one person but cross ₹1,000 as soon as you add a second or third.
The honest version of this list
Most "cheap CRM" articles compare per-user prices with team prices and let you draw the wrong conclusion. A ₹400-per-user CRM and a ₹999-per-team CRM are not in the same category, even though the first number looks smaller.
So this guide does the maths at four team sizes.
What under ₹1,000 a month buys, by team size
Monthly cost on annual billing, as of October 2026. Competitor prices are approximate and exclude GST; Salesvora's are final, with no GST applicable. Check vendor sites.
| CRM | 1 user | 3 users | 5 users | 10 users |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salesvora Pro (flat, up to 5) | ₹417 | ₹417 | ₹417 | — |
| Salesvora Max (flat, up to 15) | ₹833 | ₹833 | ₹833 | ₹833 |
| Bigin Express (~₹400/user) | ₹400 | ₹1,200 | ₹2,000 | ₹4,000 |
| Zoho CRM Standard (~₹800/user) | ₹800 | ₹2,400 | ₹4,000 | ₹8,000 |
| Freshsales Growth (~US$9/user) | ~₹800 | ~₹2,300 | ~₹3,800 | ~₹7,700 |
| HubSpot Sales Hub Starter (~US$20/seat) | ~₹1,700 | ~₹5,100 | ~₹8,500 | ~₹17,000 |
Salesvora's annual prices are ₹4,999 (Pro) and ₹9,999 (Max), shown here per month; monthly billing is ₹499 and ₹999.
Read the columns, not the first row. At one user, several options qualify. At five or ten users, only the flat plans do.
That is why people search "CRM under ₹1000": they are usually small teams who have discovered per-seat maths the hard way.
The options that stay under ₹1,000 for a team
Salesvora Max: ₹999/month, up to 15 members
The only plan here that keeps a 6-to-15-person team under ₹1,000 a month, and it is the top tier rather than a stripped entry plan.
Included: everything in Pro, plus all six AI agents (answering WhatsApp questions from your FAQs, quoting from your catalogue, qualifying leads, booking appointments and following up with quiet leads), the automations playbook, the knowledge base, unlimited campaigns and templates, a 500-item catalogue and priority support. ₹9,999 a year on annual billing.
Salesvora Pro: ₹499/month, up to 5 members
For a team of up to five that does not need the full AI suite: unlimited leads, unlimited call tracking, the WhatsApp inbox, IndiaMART, Facebook and Instagram lead ads, Google lead forms, unlimited web forms, 4 campaigns a month, the FAQ AI agent with 50 replies a month and a 50-item catalogue. ₹4,999 a year on annual billing.
Salesvora Free: ₹0, one user
Call tracking through the Android app, pipeline, follow-up reminders, reports, one web form and CSV import, up to 50 new leads a month (150 lifetime).
Bigin Express: about ₹400 per user per month
A good, simple CRM for one or two people, from a trusted Indian company. Crosses ₹1,000 at three users.
Where "cheap" becomes expensive
1. GST. Most Indian SaaS prices exclude 18% GST, so a ₹999 plan can bill around ₹1,179. Salesvora's prices are final, with no GST applicable, so ₹999 means ₹999.
2. WhatsApp message charges. Meta charges for some WhatsApp messages separately from any CRM: in India, marketing templates cost under ₹1 each and utility templates about 12 paise, paid to Meta directly, while customer-initiated chats are free. A vendor implying unlimited free WhatsApp messaging is absorbing the cost, marking up elsewhere or not using the official API.
3. Add-ons. Calling, WhatsApp, IndiaMART connections and extra forms are paid add-ons on some platforms. Compare the all-in price for what you will actually use.
Is a sub-₹1,000 CRM good enough?
For 1 to 15 people, comfortably. Everything that brings in orders is available in this range: automatic call capture, WhatsApp, lead capture from IndiaMART and ads, renameable pipeline stages, follow-up reminders, source reports and, increasingly, AI agents.
What you give up is enterprise machinery: territories, forecasting, complex approval chains and implementation projects. Small teams rarely use them.
The failure mode for small businesses is never "our CRM lacked forecasting". It is "nobody updated the CRM". That is solved by capturing calls and chats automatically, not by more features.
The maths that makes this simple
A ₹999/month plan is ₹11,988 a year, or ₹9,999 on annual billing.
If your average order is ₹25,000, a single recovered order pays for about two and a half years of the subscription. If it is a ₹65,000 coaching admission or a brokerage on a flat, it pays back faster still. The subscription is not the number worth optimising; adoption is.
How to choose in ten minutes
- Solo? Salesvora Free (₹0), with call tracking included.
- 2 to 5 people? Salesvora Pro at ₹499/month.
- 6 to 15 people, or want the AI agents? Salesvora Max at ₹999/month.
- More than 15, or complex B2B? You are outside this bracket; look at Zoho CRM or a Salesvora Enterprise plan.
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