Nubo SuiteNubo Suite or Zoho: a plain comparison
Zoho Workplace Standard is cheaper per user than Nubo Pro, and Zoho is far more mature. Choose Zoho if India-hosted data is a requirement, if you already use Zoho CRM or Books deeply, or if you want the Zoho One catalogue. Choose Nubo Suite if one price that includes CRM, invoicing, help desk and projects is more useful to you than assembling separate Zoho products.
The short answer
Choose Nubo Suite if
- You want CRM, invoicing, help desk, projects and documents in one plan at one price per person.
- You prefer one account and one bill over a bundle of separate products.
- You work in the browser and want creative and engineering apps in the same plan.
Choose Zoho if
- You need your data hosted in India.
- You use Zoho CRM, Books or Desk deeply and your processes are built around them.
- You want the Zoho One catalogue and can license all employees.
- You need Zoho’s scale, partner network and third-party integrations today.
Side by side
| Feature | Nubo Suite | Zoho |
|---|---|---|
| Plans compared | Pro and Business (Free also available) | Workplace Standard and Professional; Zoho One as the full catalogue. |
| Price per user per month | Pro ₹499, Business ₹999 per user per month, billed monthly. GST (18%) is added. | Workplace Standard ₹99 billed annually or ₹129 monthly; Professional ₹399 annual or ₹489 monthly. Tax extra. |
| Zoho One | Not applicable: every Nubo plan includes all the apps. | ₹1,250 per employee per month billed annually (₹1,800 on monthly billing). Zoho One must cover all employees. |
| Storage | Pro 100 GB, Business 1 TB, shared across all apps; extra 100 GB for ₹299 a month | Standard: 30 GB mail plus 10 GB WorkDrive per user. Professional: 100 GB mail plus 1 TB team WorkDrive. |
| In the cheapest plan | Pro includes mail, documents, chat, meetings, CRM, accounting, invoicing, help desk and projects. | Standard includes mail, Writer, Sheet, Show, Cliq chat and Meeting. CRM, Desk, Projects and Books are sold as separate Zoho products. |
| Hosting | Ask us where your data is hosted. We answer in writing before you sign up. | Zoho describes its products as made and hosted in India. |
Zoho prices read on 21 October 2026 from zoho.com/en-in/workplace/pricing.html and zoho.com/one/pricing (India, tax extra). Nubo prices come from this site’s pricing page. Plans and prices change; check each vendor’s page before you decide.
What moves, and how
File formats that carry over. Nubo has no migration tool; this is what you do by hand, and we can help.
| You have | Move it as | Nubo app | What to know |
|---|---|---|---|
| Documents from Zoho Writer | .docx | Write | Download as an Office file where the Zoho app offers it, then open it in Write. |
| Spreadsheets from Zoho Sheet | .xlsx | Sheets | Download as .xlsx where offered. Sheets reads and writes .xlsx. |
| Presentations from Zoho Show | .pptx | Slides | Download as .pptx where offered. Slides edits the native file. |
| Calendar | iCalendar (.ics) | Calendar | Import an .ics file or a JSON backup. |
| Contacts | vCard (.vcf) version 3.0 | Contacts | Contacts imports .vcf. For CRM records, the CRM imports CSV. |
| Invoices and customers | CSV | Invoices | Invoices imports CSV with column mapping and a preview. |
| Mailbox | Not importable | Nubo has no mail import tool. Keep your Zoho mailbox and forward new mail while you switch. |
Where Nubo falls short today
The honest limits, so nothing surprises you after you sign up.
- There is no mail import tool and no one-click migration. Files move as the formats listed above, and we help you plan the rest by hand.
- Nubo is a young company with a smaller catalogue of third-party add-ons and integrations than the large suites.
- The AI assistant is text only. Nubo does not generate images, video or speech, and it does not read text from scans.
- Reminders and scheduled sends in some apps run only while the app is open in a browser. The app says so where it matters.
- Nubo does not offer a published data-region choice today. Ask us in writing where your data is hosted before you decide.
Sources and trademarks
- Zoho Workplace pricing (India), read on 21 October 2026
- Zoho One pricing, read on 21 October 2026
- Zoho Workplace (made and hosted in India statement), read on 25 October 2026
Zoho, Zoho Workplace, Zoho One and the Zoho app names are trademarks of Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd. Nubo Suite is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the owner of the Zoho brand.
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