- The short answer
- Side by side
- What a small team pays
- Why DevReply for mobile apps
- Where Zoho SalesIQ is stronger
- Which one to pick
The short answer
Zoho SalesIQ is a live chat and visitor-tracking platform for sales, marketing and support, with a mobile SDK called Mobilisten for iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter and Cordova. It's priced per operator, has a free plan for three operators, and is cheap for a small team. DevReply does one job: a native “message the developer” chat inside your app, one inbox to answer from, and an MCP server so your own AI agent works that inbox. It has no per-seat fees, so it gets cheaper than SalesIQ as your team grows. If you want website visitor tracking, chatbots and Zoho CRM in one place, SalesIQ is the stronger pick.
Side by side
List prices from each company's own pricing page, in USD, before tax. Checked October 2026; prices change, so check the sources below before you decide.
| DevReply | Zoho SalesIQ | |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Flat monthly or yearly plan. No per-seat fees | Per operator, per month |
| Free plan | $0: unlimited apps, users and teammates; 50 conversations a month; history kept forever; 500 MB of files, kept 90 days | $0: 3 operators, 100 operator chat sessions a month, 10K tracked visitors a month, no chatbot |
| Paid plans | Pro $49/mo or $490/yr (500 conversations). Scale $199/mo or $1,990/yr (5,000 conversations) | Basic $10 per operator per month ($7 billed yearly), 1,000 operator chat sessions. Professional $17 ($12.75 yearly) and Enterprise $25 ($20 yearly), unlimited operator chat sessions. 15-day trial |
| AI answers | No per-answer fee: on Pro, your own agent reads, sorts, drafts and replies over MCP | Chatbots from Basic, with a monthly bot-session limit; Zia agents from Basic; the generative Answer Bot on Enterprise. Bring your own AI vendor, Claude included |
| Mobile SDK | Every plan, Free included: native SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose, React Native and Flutter packages that open the same native screens, a web script | Mobilisten on every plan, Free included: iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter and Cordova; in-app voice calls from Basic |
| Built for | Developers answering their own app's users | Sales, marketing and support teams engaging website visitors, apps and messaging channels |
Sources: zoho.com/salesiq/pricing, Mobilisten iOS docs, Mobilisten on GitHub, Zoho MCP services, and our own pricing. Checked October 2026. SalesIQ counts chat sessions, which end when the visitor leaves or goes idle; DevReply counts a conversation once a month when a user writes in it, so the limits aren't directly comparable. DevReply prices are in USD, with VAT added where it applies. Scale's webhooks and in-app nudges are coming, not built yet.
What a small team pays
Take a team of three answering one app for a year, at the list prices above:
- DevReply: $0 on Free while you stay under 50 conversations a month. Pro is $490 a year for the whole team, with your agent working the inbox.
- Zoho SalesIQ Free: $0 for exactly three operators and 100 operator chat sessions a month.
- Zoho SalesIQ Basic: $252 a year billed yearly (3 × $7 × 12), or $360 paid monthly.
- Zoho SalesIQ Professional: $459 a year billed yearly (3 × $12.75 × 12).
For three people, SalesIQ costs less. The difference is the head count: the fourth person doesn't fit SalesIQ's free plan, and at ten people Professional is $1,530 a year billed yearly while DevReply Pro is still $490.
Why DevReply for mobile apps
- Made for an app's users, not a website's visitors. SalesIQ is built around tracking and engaging website visitors: visitor lists, lead scoring, proactive messages. DevReply is just the chat between your app's users and the people who build it, so there's less to set up and less to ignore.
- No seats, ever. Add the whole team, support and engineers alike, on any plan. On SalesIQ, every operator beyond the free three is a paid license.
- Your own agent works the inbox. On Pro, the AI agent you already use connects to DevReply's MCP server (OAuth, listed in the official MCP Registry), reads conversations with their context, tags and sorts them, drafts replies for your approval or sends them, as each app allows. SalesIQ's AI is chatbots and Zia, configured inside Zoho; Zoho MCP lists SalesIQ among its services.
- Context made for app bugs. Each message arrives with device, OS, app version and language, plus anything your app passes. Open the chat from a paywall with a draft and an error code, and the conversation shows them as “Opened with”.
- Native SwiftUI and Compose screens. The chat follows the phone's language, 34 of them including Hebrew and Arabic right to left, and lets users be deleted from the app, the inbox or your backend, as Apple requires. Your coding agent can install it from the app's setup guide.
See the guides for SwiftUI, Expo and React Native and Flutter.
Where Zoho SalesIQ is stronger
- Price for a small, fixed team. Three operators are free, and paid plans start at $7 per operator per month billed yearly.
- More platforms. Mobilisten also covers Cordova and Mac Catalyst, and adds in-app voice calls from Basic.
- Bots and AI built in. Codeless and programmable chatbots, Zia agents, and a generative Answer Bot on Enterprise, with your choice of AI vendor. DevReply has no bot of its own: you bring your agent, and webhooks for round-the-clock answers are still coming.
- Many channels. WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, LINE and WeChat from Basic, plus audio and video calls and screen sharing with website visitors. DevReply is the in-app chat only.
- FAQs, articles and the Zoho suite. SalesIQ has FAQs and articles from Basic and connects to Zoho CRM and the rest of Zoho. DevReply has no help center.
- Years in production. DevReply is new, made by Code Axolot for our own apps first.
Which one to pick
- Pick DevReply if your users are mostly in an iOS or Android app, more than three people may answer them, and you want your own coding agent to help without paying per seat or per answer.
- Pick Zoho SalesIQ if you also chat with website visitors, want chatbots and messaging channels, already use Zoho CRM, or three operators on the free plan is all you'll need.
Try DevReply free with your own app: no card, unlimited teammates, and the native SDKs on the free plan. Coding agents can read everything about it in llms.txt.