Zoho Recruit: what it sells, price and AI features
Zoho Recruit is on the AI hiring software map. We record 6 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated October 2026.
Updated . Launches and events from July 17, 2025 to 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.
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- zoho.com
- Category
- Applicant tracking systems
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- Active
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The AI hiring software map
"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.
- 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.)
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Launches and dated events, newest first
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Zoho Recruit ships Enhanced Zia Matches and live interview insights
Launch, . 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. From the AI hiring software map.
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Zoho Recruit mobile app adds Ask Zia and Zia Search
Launch, . 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. From the AI hiring software map.
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Zoho Recruit launches AI Interview Insights
Launch, . AI Interview Insights produces transcripts and AI-generated summaries for one-way video interviews.
Source: Vendor changelog. From the AI hiring software map.
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Zoho adds free agentic matching tools to Zoho Recruit
Launch, . 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. From the AI hiring software map.
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Zoho Recruit moves AI assessments onto its own Zia LLM
Launch, . Zoho Recruit introduced AI-powered assessment generation running on Zoho's native LLM, Zia, by default.
Source: Vendor changelog. From the AI hiring software map.
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Zoho launches Zia LLM, agents and an MCP server, including Candidate Screener
Launch, . 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. From the AI hiring software map.
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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