# Zoho Recruit: what it sells, price and AI features URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/zoho-recruit/ Covers: July 17, 2025 to October 2026 Updated: 2026-11-11 License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: Newsprint, "Zoho Recruit: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/zoho-recruit/, updated 2026-11-11 > Zoho Recruit is on the AI hiring software map. We record 6 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated October 2026. "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. Source: [zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/recruit/). ## Facts - Site: [zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/recruit/) - Category: Applicant tracking systems - Status: Active ## On the research maps ### [The AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-zoho-recruit) "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. Source: [zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/recruit/). - Category: Applicant tracking systems - 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. - AI capabilities: Named agents, AI assessments, Candidate chat, Assistant, Job posts and ads, Screening and ranking, MCP and agent APIs, Interview notes, AI outreach and AI sourcing - 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.) Sources: [zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/recruit/), [zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/recruit/pricing.html), [zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/recruit/whats-new.html), [zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/recruit/ai-feature-roadmap.html), [zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/news/zoho-brings-ease-to-struggling-industry-ai-adoption-with-free-agentic-tools-across-multiple-key-functions.html), [prezohoweb.zoho.com](https://prezohoweb.zoho.com/news/zoho-brings-ease-to-struggling-industry-ai-adoption-with-free-agentic-tools-across-multiple-key-functions.html) and [6 more on the map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-zoho-recruit). ## Launches and dated events, newest first ### Zoho Recruit ships Enhanced Zia Matches and live interview insights Launch, October 2026. 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). Source: [Vendor changelog](https://www.zoho.com/recruit/whats-new.html). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-zoho-recruit). ### Zoho Recruit mobile app adds Ask Zia and Zia Search Launch, Feb. 20, 2026. 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. Source: [Vendor blog](https://blog.zoho.com/recruit/ai-powered-hiring-mobile-app.html). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-zoho-recruit). ### Zoho Recruit launches AI Interview Insights Launch, November 2025. AI Interview Insights produces transcripts and AI-generated summaries for one-way video interviews. Source: [Vendor changelog](https://www.zoho.com/recruit/whats-new.html). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-zoho-recruit). ### Zoho adds free agentic matching tools to Zoho Recruit Launch, Oct. 16, 2025. 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. Source: [Vendor release](https://www.zoho.com/news/zoho-brings-ease-to-struggling-industry-ai-adoption-with-free-agentic-tools-across-multiple-key-functions.html). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-zoho-recruit). ### Zoho Recruit moves AI assessments onto its own Zia LLM Launch, September 2025. Zoho Recruit introduced AI-powered assessment generation running on Zoho's native LLM, Zia, by default. Source: [Vendor changelog](https://www.zoho.com/recruit/whats-new.html). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-zoho-recruit). ### Zoho launches Zia LLM, agents and an MCP server, including Candidate Screener Launch, July 17, 2025. 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". Source: [Vendor release](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). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-zoho-recruit). ## Methodology and corrections How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology