# Zoho CRM — AI Connector

Zoho CRM publishes 41 MCP tools to Claude and is listed in the ChatGPT apps directory. Marketplace availability, tool surface, verification tier, and what Node8 measured against the live endpoint.

Source: https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/zoho-crm/

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# Zoho CRM

Sales record lookups and CRM automation by prompt

Listed in ChatGPT and Claude · 41 published tools · Verified partner

[ChatGPT listing](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/zoho?open_in_app) [Claude connector docs](https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/kb/mcp/getting-started/articles/zoho-mcp-help-documentation-29-9-2025) [zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/mcp/)

Overview

## What Zoho CRM does

Zoho CRM is sales software for managing pipeline and customer records, with sales force automation, workflow rules, analytics, and customisation options for businesses of different sizes. Zoho presents this connection as a way to extend what the CRM does by prompting from Codex.

The sample requests lean toward reading and summarising: pulling open deals due to close in the current quarter and identifying which look most at risk, finding contacts at a given account together with their recent activity, or gathering organisation settings and user records for an access audit.

### Who it is for

Sales operations staff and managers on Zoho CRM who want record questions answered without building a report first.

### What stands out

The connection runs through Codex, framing CRM work as prompting against an existing account rather than a standalone chat product.

Availability

## Where Zoho CRM is listed

Zoho ships this on both marketplaces: Zoho CRM is listed in the Claude connectors directory and in the ChatGPT apps directory, under the same publisher domain.

Only 392 of the 3,150 products in this directory are listed in both marketplaces. One MCP server can serve both surfaces; what differs is each platform's listing and review process.

ChatGPT listing

## In the ChatGPT apps directory

Developer

Zoho

Filed under

Business & Operations

Listed since

June 2026

Authentication

Authenticates when installed

Website

[zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/en-in/crm/)

Policies published

Privacy policy · Terms of service

Official listing

[Open in ChatGPT](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/zoho?open_in_app)

Snapshot

August 2026

### Example prompts from the listing

-   Search Zoho CRM for open deals closing this quarter and summarize the highest-risk opportunities.
-   Find Zoho CRM contacts at an account and summarize recent activities.
-   Pull Zoho CRM organization settings and users needed to audit access.

Claude listing

## In the Claude connectors directory

Zoho CRM publishes 41 tools to Claude, deeper than 88% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors.

The median Claude-listed connector filed under Productivity publishes 12, so this one runs 29 tools above its bucket's median and ranks 57th of 462 by tool count.

It falls in the 21-50 tools band, which holds 20% of the Claude directory.

Zoho CRM's Claude listing does not publish an endpoint URL. 48 of the 1,253 Claude listings are in the same position: real listings with documentation but no URL in the directory record, so the endpoint has to come from the publisher's own docs.

Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.

Publisher

Zoho

Verification

Verified partner (37.8% of the Claude directory)

Filed under

Productivity

Endpoint

Not published in the listing

Documentation

[Publisher setup docs](https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/kb/mcp/getting-started/articles/zoho-mcp-help-documentation-29-9-2025)

Published tools

41 · 21-50 tools band

Depth rank in Productivity

57 of 462

Snapshot

August 2026

Zoho CRM carries partner verification in the Claude directory, which 474 of 1,253 listings do (37.8%). That is a review step past self-publishing, not an Anthropic-built server.

In the publisher's words

## How Zoho describes it

> Enable MCP to automate Zoho CRM leads, deals, and contacts using actions.

Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.

Same company

## More from Zoho

### [Vani by Zoho](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/vani-by-zoho/)

Build diagrams, boards and Spaces in Vani by describing them

Claude

### [Zoho Books](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/finance/zoho-books/)

Zoho Books billing and finance operations over MCP

Claude

### [Zoho Desk](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/zoho-desk/)

Codex connector for the Zoho Desk help desk

Claude · ChatGPT

### [Zoho Projects](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/zoho-projects/)

Task and project operations against Zoho Projects

Claude

Nearby

## Other Productivity connectors

### [Vani by Zoho](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/vani-by-zoho/)

Build diagrams, boards and Spaces in Vani by describing them

Claude

### [Avoma](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/avoma/)

Meeting transcripts, scorecards and CRM context from Avoma

Claude

### [Zite](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/zite/)

Private workspace databases queried and edited

Claude · ChatGPT

### [AnyConversion- Imperial/Metric](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/anyconversion-imperial-metric/)

Unit conversion across nine measurement categories

ChatGPT

### [AppFolio Realm-X](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/appfolio-realm-x/)

Property portfolio work across leasing, maintenance and accounting

Claude

### [Azadea One](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/azadea-one/)

Governed business intelligence for approved Azadea users

ChatGPT

[All 760 Productivity connectors](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/)

This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Zoho CRM's public marketplace listings as they stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Zoho, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.

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