Zoho Sites
Drag-and-drop website builder priced per site rather than per user.
What is Zoho Sites?
Zoho Sites is a drag-and-drop website builder for small business marketing sites, priced per site rather than per user. It covers pages, blogging, forms, SEO basics and a member portal, with native embedding of other Zoho products such as Bookings, CRM forms and SalesIQ.
Best known for: Cheap per-site website building with native Zoho embeds
Key features
- Drag-and-drop page builder with premium elements
- Unlimited blog posts on every plan
- Native Zoho CRM, Bookings, SalesIQ and Survey embeds
- Member portal with password protection on Pro
- Automatic sitemap, schema generator and 301 redirects
- Custom domain with SSL hosting included
Who Zoho Sites is best for
- Small businesses needing a simple brochure site without ongoing developer cost
- Zoho customers wanting forms, bookings and CRM embedded natively
- Agencies building straightforward client sites at a low per-site cost
Ideal team: Small businesses and agencies that need a functional marketing site with blogging and forms, and value low cost and Zoho integration over design ceiling.
Zoho Sites pricing
Starter
$5/per site / mo (billed annually)
- 5 pages, 500 MB storage, 10 GB bandwidth
- Custom domain, SSL and ad-free hosting
- Unlimited blog posts and 5 forms
Pro
$17/per site / mo (billed annually)
- 50 pages, 100 GB storage, unmetered bandwidth
- 3 contributors and page versions
- Member portal, access control and dynamic content
Costs to watch before you commit
- Starter's 5-page limit is very tight — most real business sites need Pro
- Nearly everything scales through paid add-ons: 200 extra pages US$60/yr, contributors US$24/yr each, subsites US$40/yr
- SEO tools are a US$20/yr add-on rather than included
- Portal members cost US$60/yr per 1,000, and mega menu is a further US$50/yr
- Listed prices assume annual billing; monthly costs more, with local taxes on top
Zoho Sites pros and cons
Pros
- Priced per site, not per user, so a team of ten pays the same as a solo operator
- Starter at $5 per month is among the cheapest hosted site builders with a custom domain and SSL
- Unlimited blog posts on every plan, including the $5 tier
- Native embeds for Zoho Bookings, CRM forms, SalesIQ and Survey without integration work
- Member portal with password protection and access control on Pro
- SEO fundamentals included — automatic sitemap, schema generator, 301 redirects, custom 404
Cons
- Starter's 5-page limit is very tight — most real business sites exceed it immediately
- Almost everything scales through annual add-ons: 200 extra pages $60/yr, contributors $24/yr each, subsites $40/yr
- SEO tools are a $20/yr add-on rather than being included outright
- Design ceiling is well below Squarespace or Webflow; templates look competent rather than distinctive
- Only 63 third-party reviews, modest for a website builder
- Listed prices assume annual billing; monthly costs more, with local taxes on top
Zoho Sites review: a closer look
What Zoho Sites is
Zoho Sites is a hosted drag-and-drop website builder aimed at small business marketing sites — pages, a blog, forms, a member area — with hosting, SSL and a custom domain included. Its distinguishing choice is per-site pricing rather than per-user, which matters for agencies building client sites and for businesses where several people contribute. It is competing on cost and on Zoho integration, not on design ambition.
The five-page limit decides your tier
Starter costs $5 a month and allows five pages. Home, about, services, contact, and one more — that's the whole site. Any business with several service pages, a location page, or a few landing pages is over the limit before launch. Pro at $17 lifts this to fifty, which is comfortable, and adds the member portal, access control, dynamic content, and three contributors. Treat Starter as suitable for a genuinely minimal presence or a single-page site, and assume Pro is the real price for a working business website. The gap between them is where the honest comparison against competitors starts.
The add-on model is where costs accumulate
Zoho Sites unbundles more aggressively than most builders, and the extras are billed annually rather than monthly, which disguises them. Two hundred additional pages is $60 a year. Each extra contributor beyond the included three is $24. Subsites are $40 each. Portal members run $60 per thousand. SEO tools — which most competitors simply include — are $20. Individually trivial; collectively they mean a Pro site with a few extras lands meaningfully above $17 a month equivalent. Add up the ones you'll actually need before concluding this is the cheap option.
Where the Zoho integration earns its place
The strongest reason to choose this over a better-known builder is if you already run Zoho. Booking widgets from Zoho Bookings, lead capture straight into CRM, SalesIQ chat, and Survey embeds all work natively rather than through third-party scripts or Zapier. For a service business whose site's primary job is capturing enquiries and appointments into a system you already use, that removes a genuine class of integration fragility. Outside the Zoho ecosystem that advantage evaporates and you're comparing purely on price and design.
How it compares
Against Squarespace and Wix, both are considerably better-looking with far larger template libraries and stronger design tooling, at roughly double the price or more. Against WordPress, WordPress offers unlimited flexibility and the largest plugin ecosystem in exchange for hosting, updates and security being your problem. Against SITE123 and Strikingly, the comparison is closest on price, with Zoho winning on the CRM and Bookings integration. Against Carrd, that's cheaper still for genuinely single-page sites. The pattern: Zoho Sites wins on price and integration, loses on design ceiling.
Who should use Zoho Sites?
A good fit
Zoho Sites fits small businesses and solo operators who need a functional marketing site with a blog and enquiry forms, and who value low cost over design distinctiveness. It's a natural choice for existing Zoho customers whose site mainly exists to feed CRM and Bookings, and for agencies building simple client sites where per-site pricing beats per-seat.
Look elsewhere if…
Businesses where the website is a primary brand asset should pay for Squarespace or Webflow — the design gap is real and visible to visitors. Anyone needing deep customisation or a specific plugin should use WordPress. Single-page sites are cheaper on Carrd. And anyone tempted by the $5 Starter tier should count their pages first, because five goes quickly.
The verdict
Zoho Sites is a competent, inexpensive website builder whose real argument is integration rather than craft: if your site's job is to capture enquiries into Zoho CRM and appointments into Zoho Bookings, doing that natively is worth something, and per-site pricing suits teams and agencies. Be realistic about two things. The $5 tier's five-page cap means Pro at $17 is the practical starting price for a business site, and the add-on model — pages, contributors, subsites, SEO tools, portal members, all billed annually — accumulates quietly. If design matters to your brand, spend more elsewhere; if the site is plumbing, this does the job cheaply.
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