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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Zoho Recruit: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/zoho-recruit/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/zoho-recruit/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/zoho-recruit.md",
  "title": "Zoho Recruit: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Zoho Recruit is on the AI hiring software map. We record 6 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated October 2026.",
  "period": "July 17, 2025 to October 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "name": "Zoho Recruit",
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    "site": "https://www.zoho.com/recruit/",
    "summary": "\"Say hello to your AI-powered, automation-friendly and all-things-recruitment tool - Zoho Recruit.\" Zoho's ATS and recruitment CRM serves corporate HR teams and staffing agencies, with a free trial and paid tiers. Its assistant Zia, built on Zoho's own Zia LLM, matches candidates and jobs, writes profile summaries, generates assessments, runs a screening bot, and transcribes and summarises one-way and live video interviews. Zoho lists \"AI agents\" for Recruit as coming soon.",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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    "category_names": [
      "Applicant tracking systems"
    ]
  },
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  "dated_product_launches": 0,
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  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
  "count": 0,
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  "launch_list": false,
  "indexed": true,
  "summary": {
    "text": "\"Say hello to your AI-powered, automation-friendly and all-things-recruitment tool - Zoho Recruit.\" Zoho's ATS and recruitment CRM serves corporate HR teams and staffing agencies, with a free trial and paid tiers. Its assistant Zia, built on Zoho's own Zia LLM, matches candidates and jobs, writes profile summaries, generates assessments, runs a screening bot, and transcribes and summarises one-way and live video interviews. Zoho lists \"AI agents\" for Recruit as coming soon.",
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    },
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      "map": "hiring-software",
      "title": "The AI hiring software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-zoho-recruit",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Zoho Recruit",
      "site": "https://www.zoho.com/recruit/",
      "category": "Applicant tracking systems",
      "what": "\"Say hello to your AI-powered, automation-friendly and all-things-recruitment tool - Zoho Recruit.\" Zoho's ATS and recruitment CRM serves corporate HR teams and staffing agencies, with a free trial and paid tiers. Its assistant Zia, built on Zoho's own Zia LLM, matches candidates and jobs, writes profile summaries, generates assessments, runs a screening bot, and transcribes and summarises one-way and live video interviews. Zoho lists \"AI agents\" for Recruit as coming soon.",
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        "name": "zoho.com",
        "url": "https://www.zoho.com/recruit/"
      },
      "price": "Free plan plus Standard and Enterprise; the pricing page did not render per-recruiter prices when opened. AI Candidate Matching is listed under Enterprise; Zoho says its 2025 agentic features carry no extra cost on paid plans.",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Named agents",
          "AI assessments",
          "Candidate chat",
          "Assistant",
          "Job posts and ads",
          "Screening and ranking",
          "MCP and agent APIs",
          "Interview notes",
          "AI outreach",
          "AI sourcing"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Owned by Zoho Corporation, private and profitable with 18,000+ employees and 130M+ users; Zoho Recruit claims over 800,000 recruiters. Revenue not disclosed on pages opened.)",
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        },
        {
          "name": "zoho.com",
          "url": "https://www.zoho.com/recruit/ai-feature-roadmap.html"
        },
        {
          "name": "zoho.com",
          "url": "https://www.zoho.com/news/zoho-brings-ease-to-struggling-industry-ai-adoption-with-free-agentic-tools-across-multiple-key-functions.html"
        },
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    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/zoho-recruit/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-10-01",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "Zoho Recruit ships Enhanced Zia Matches and live interview insights",
      "summary": "Zoho Recruit added Enhanced Zia Matches, an LLM-based model weighing skills, title variations and experience, extended Interview Insights to live video interviews, and added Assessment Summary and Compare Applications with Zia Insights (beta).",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-zoho-recruit"
      },
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        "name": "Vendor changelog",
        "url": "https://www.zoho.com/recruit/whats-new.html"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/zoho-recruit/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-02-20",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Zoho Recruit mobile app adds Ask Zia and Zia Search",
      "summary": "The Zoho Recruit mobile app added Ask Zia for questions about a record, plain-language Zia Search, Zia Candidate Matching and AI profile and notification summaries.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-zoho-recruit"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://blog.zoho.com/recruit/ai-powered-hiring-mobile-app.html"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/zoho-recruit/#event-3",
      "on": "2025-11-01",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "Zoho Recruit launches AI Interview Insights",
      "summary": "AI Interview Insights produces transcripts and AI-generated summaries for one-way video interviews.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-zoho-recruit"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor changelog",
        "url": "https://www.zoho.com/recruit/whats-new.html"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-4",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/zoho-recruit/#event-4",
      "on": "2025-10-16",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Zoho adds free agentic matching tools to Zoho Recruit",
      "summary": "Zoho said Recruit \"now has agentic AI features to match the right candidate to the right role,\" with Zia-powered Candidate Matches and Job Matches and AI-assisted assessment generation, at no extra cost on paid plans.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-zoho-recruit"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://www.zoho.com/news/zoho-brings-ease-to-struggling-industry-ai-adoption-with-free-agentic-tools-across-multiple-key-functions.html"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-5",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/zoho-recruit/#event-5",
      "on": "2025-09-01",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "Zoho Recruit moves AI assessments onto its own Zia LLM",
      "summary": "Zoho Recruit introduced AI-powered assessment generation running on Zoho's native LLM, Zia, by default.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-zoho-recruit"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor changelog",
        "url": "https://www.zoho.com/recruit/whats-new.html"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-6",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/zoho-recruit/#event-6",
      "on": "2025-07-17",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Zoho launches Zia LLM, agents and an MCP server, including Candidate Screener",
      "summary": "Zoho launched its Zia LLM, the Zia Agent Studio builder, an MCP server and 25+ pre-built Zia Agents, among them Candidate Screener, which \"identifies and ranks the most suitable candidates for a specific job opening\".",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-zoho-recruit"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://zstatic.zohostatic.com/news/zoho-takes-strides-in-ai-launches-proprietary-llm-and-asr-models-mcp-server-prebuilt-ai-agents-and-no-code-agent-builder.html"
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