Alternatives to Zoho Mail in India
We list 8 alternatives to Zoho Mail. 7 have a free plan. The lowest price we state is ≈ ₹1,056 a month for MailerLite.
Why people look for an alternative to Zoho Mail
- Bills in rupees: “The pricing page's own price data file lists INR prices for each plan”.
Zoho Mail and 8 alternatives at a glance
| Tool | From, a month | Free plan or tier | Our score | Bills in ₹ | Built in India |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zoho Mail (the one you are replacing) | ₹59 a month | Yes | 60 / 100 | Yes | – |
| Zoho Campaigns | Free plan; paid price not stated | Yes | 60 / 100 | Yes | – |
| GetResponse | Free plan; paid price not stated | Yes | 40 / 100 | Not checked | – |
| Kit (formerly ConvertKit) | ≈ ₹2,904 a month | Yes | 40 / 100 | No, dollars | – |
| MailerLite | ≈ ₹1,056 a month | Yes | 40 / 100 | Not checked | – |
| Postmark | ≈ ₹1,430 a month | Yes | 40 / 100 | Not checked | – |
| Resend | ≈ ₹1,906 a month | Yes | 30 / 100 | Not checked | – |
| ActiveCampaign | ≈ ₹1,430 a month | No | 30 / 100 | Not checked | – |
| Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) | Free plan; paid price not stated | Yes | 20 / 100 | No, dollars | – |
The alternatives, one by one
Zoho Campaigns
Best for: Email marketing automation software to engage customers. Suits startups.
Free plan; paid price not stated. Bills in rupees: “the pricing page shows rupee prices when you pick INR”. Gives a GST invoice. Our score: 60 out of 100 (5 of 8 checks read). Vendor pricing page.
GetResponse
Best for: Email marketing, automation and landing pages. Suits startups.
Free plan; paid price not stated. Our score: 40 out of 100 (3 of 8 checks read).
Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
Best for: Email newsletters and automation for creators. Suits startups.
From ≈ ₹2,904 a month (converted from dollars). Has a free plan. Bills in dollars: “Prices are the vendor’s list prices, before tax, in the currency the vendor showed us (USD)”. Our score: 40 out of 100 (4 of 8 checks read).
MailerLite
Best for: Email newsletters, automations and landing pages, with a free plan for 250 subscribers. Suits newsletter creators and solo founders.
From ≈ ₹1,056 a month (converted from dollars). Has a free plan. Our score: 40 out of 100 (3 of 8 checks read).
Postmark
Best for: Email delivery service for sign-up, receipt and password-reset emails. Suits SaaS teams and developers.
From ≈ ₹1,430 a month (converted from dollars). Has a free plan. Our score: 40 out of 100 (3 of 8 checks read).
Resend
Best for: Developer-first transactional email engine with React Email support review. Suits startups.
From ≈ ₹1,906 a month (converted from dollars). Has a free plan. Our score: 30 out of 100 (4 of 8 checks read). Vendor pricing page.
ActiveCampaign
Best for: Email marketing and automation platform priced by contacts. Suits SaaS growth teams and e commerce brands.
From ≈ ₹1,430 a month (converted from dollars). Our score: 30 out of 100 (3 of 8 checks read).
Amazon SES (Simple Email Service)
Best for: AWS's transactional and bulk email-sending service. Suits startups.
Free plan; paid price not stated. Bills in dollars: “Priced at $0.10 per 1,000 outbound emails ($0.0001/email) in 2026”. Our score: 20 out of 100 (5 of 8 checks read). Vendor pricing page.
Before you switch
- Billing: ask each vendor whether it invoices in rupees with GST. Where we have not read the answer, the table says “Not checked”, not “No”.
- Data: exports differ. Try one real export from Zoho Mail into the new tool on a free plan before you pay for a year.
- Price: a monthly figure is for one seat or the entry plan. Work out your own number of users, and read the vendor page linked under each tool.
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How this page is made
This page is built by a script from the same files as our tool pages, so it changes when a price, a score or an India-fit answer changes. Alternatives are picked by what we list for Zoho Mail (its curated alternatives, the same use case and sub-category, shared tags and the compare pages we have), then ordered with Indian-built tools first, then by our score. A tool is left out when we have fewer than five real matches. Prices come from each vendor's own pricing page as read on our tool pages; the dates above are the days we read them. We may earn a commission on some vendor links elsewhere on the site; it does not change the order here. How the score works.