ATS, in an agency and an in-house edition
Primary sources checkedZoho Recruit
Applicant tracking system sold as two separate editions, one for staffing agencies and one for in-house teams, priced per recruiter with a cap on how many jobs each licence may run.
The short answer
- Best for
- Small teams already inside the Zoho ecosystem
- Not ideal for
- Recruiters carrying more open roles than their licence's active-job cap
- Price
- Free, then from EUR 25 per user / month on annual billing
- Closest alternative
- ManatalCompetes at the same low seat price without splitting into two editions or capping active jobs
At a glance
- Recruitment fitStrong
- Ease of useUnknown
- ImplementationFair
- Price transparencyStrong
- Value for moneyFair
- ScalabilityWeak
Why these assessments
- Recruitment fitStrong
- A full applicant tracking system, sold in a separate agency and in-house edition rather than one product bent both ways.
- Ease of useUnknown
- We have not used it, and we found no independent account of day-to-day work in either edition.
- ImplementationFair
- You can start on the free edition without a sales call, but the ecosystem it assumes is a larger commitment than the price suggests.
- Price transparencyStrong
- Both ladders are published per user and the add-ons carry their own prices, though the euro figures are shown before tax.
- Value for moneyFair
- The lowest real entry price of any full ATS here, provided you read the job cap; the add-ons are a second bill.
- ScalabilityWeak
- Each licence runs a capped number of active jobs — one, ten or twenty — so volume is bought in licences rather than in usage.
Our reading of the evidence on this page. No score, no formula.
Where it sits
- Discover
- Apply
- Screen
- ATS
- Interview
- Hire
The SourcrLab bottom line
Cheap, complete enough, and more complicated to price than it looks. Two editions carry different ladders under one product name, so a quoted EUR 25 means different things depending on which page you landed on. The number that actually constrains you is active jobs per recruiter licence, not features. Add-ons sit outside the plan, and the free edition cannot buy them at all.
Best fit
A small agency or in-house team that wants a working ATS at the bottom of the market, and that already runs other Zoho products, where the shared login and the marketplace are worth real money.
Think twice if
Anyone reading the price without the job cap. A licence is not unlimited: the free edition runs one active job, Standard ten and Enterprise twenty. Recruiters who carry more open roles than that pay for licences they do not staff.
SourcrLab assessment
Everything on this page comes from the vendor's own pages, checked on the dates below. SourcrLab has not used this product in real recruitment work, so you will not find a first-hand opinion here.
Why choose Zoho Recruit?
The lowest real entry price of any full ATS here
EUR 25 per user per month on an annual commitment buys candidate sourcing, resume management, premium job boards, a branded careers site and a hiring pipeline. Most ATS products in this catalogue start at a multiple of that or refuse to publish a price at all.
A free edition that is a product, not a demo
Candidate management, email management and interview scheduling on the free plan, for one active job per recruiter licence. That covers a first hire completely, which very few ATS vendors offer.
Two editions, and the agency one is real
The staffing edition runs its own ladder to EUR 75 and is written around client work rather than being an in-house ATS with a client field bolted on. That distinction matters more than most vendors admit.
It is a door into an ecosystem you may already pay for
The vendor points at a marketplace of more than 200 applications, and Zoho's own CRM, People and Mail sit next to it. For a company already on Zoho, that is a genuinely lower total cost than adding a standalone ATS.
You can try it before anyone calls you
A 15-day trial with full Enterprise features, and a 45-day money-back guarantee on paid plans. Both are published, which is more than most ATS vendors in this catalogue do.
Main trade-offs
The licence is capped on active jobs
One active job per recruiter licence on Free, ten on Standard, twenty on Enterprise. This is the constraint that decides the bill, and it is not a feature difference: a recruiter running thirty roles needs a bigger plan even if they never touch an Enterprise feature.
One name, two price ladders
The staffing edition tops out at EUR 75 with a Professional tier at EUR 50; the corporate edition has no Professional tier and tops out at EUR 50. Comparing a Zoho quote against another ATS means first establishing which edition you were quoted.
The add-ons are a second bill, and Free cannot buy them
Employee licences at EUR 10 per month, sold only in packs of ten; a vendor portal at EUR 6; video interviews at EUR 12 per job opening. The page states plainly that add-ons are not supported in the free edition, so a free plan cannot grow into them.
Video interviews are priced per opening
EUR 12 per job opening is cheap for one role and awkward to forecast across a hiring year. It also means the cost lands on the roles you struggle to fill, which are the ones already costing you most.
The prices we read are euro prices, and taxes are extra
The page served EUR from Belgium and states that local taxes are charged on top. It also offers USD, INR and GBP, so a figure quoted in one currency is not a conversion of another.
Pricing and buying reality
Free, then from EUR 25 per user / month
- Staffing agency edition: Free EUR 0, Standard EUR 25, Professional EUR 50, Enterprise EUR 75 per user / month billed annually
- Corporate HR edition: Free EUR 0, Standard EUR 25, Enterprise EUR 50 per recruiter / month billed annually
- Active jobs per recruiter licence: 1 on Free, 10 on Standard, 20 on Enterprise
- Add-ons: employee licence EUR 10 per month in packs of ten, vendor portal EUR 6 per month, video interviews EUR 12 per job opening. Not available on the free edition
- 15-day free trial with Enterprise features, 45-day money-back guarantee on paid plans
- Euro prices served from Belgium; USD, INR and GBP also offered. Local taxes are charged on top
What we do not know
- The monthly billing prices, since both pages quote the annual rate
- What an active job means in practice, and whether archiving frees a slot immediately
- Which features differ between the staffing Professional tier and the corporate Enterprise tier
- Where candidate data is hosted for European customers
Checked on the vendor's pricing page, August 2026. Zoho Recruit corporate HR pricing, euro prices from Belgium
How it fits your stack
Works with
- The rest of Zoho, including CRM, People and Mail
- A marketplace the vendor describes as more than 200 applications
- Premium job boards and a branded careers site, from the Standard plan
Likely replaces
- A spreadsheet pipeline plus a separate careers page
- A more expensive ATS whose extra features you do not use
May overlap with
- Recruit CRM and Manatal, which sell the same job to the same agency buyer
- Breezy HR and Workable on the in-house side
Check before buying
- How many roles one recruiter runs at once, against the 1 / 10 / 20 job caps
- Which edition you are being quoted, because the ladders differ
- Whether you need the video interview add-on, priced per opening
- Whether the free edition is a starting point or a dead end, since add-ons are blocked there
Zoho Recruit vs alternatives
Products a buyer would genuinely put next to this one, with the reason you would pick each instead.
Choose Recruit CRM when the client side of agency work has to be as strong as the candidate side, and you accept a higher seat price for it.
Compare Manatal directly: it competes at the same low seat price without splitting into two editions.
Consider Breezy HR if you are hiring in-house and want a per-company price with unlimited users instead of paying per recruiter.
Consider Workable when job distribution and sourcing reach matter more than the lowest seat price.
Zoho Recruit head to head
Pairs SourcrLab has looked at as a single buying decision, with the trade-offs written out.
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Evidence
- Staffing edition prices: Free / 25 / 50 / 75 EUR — checked against a primary source: Zoho Recruit staffing agency edition pricing
- Corporate edition prices: Free / 25 / 50 EUR — checked against a primary source: Zoho Recruit corporate HR pricing, euro prices from Belgium
- Active job caps of 1, 10 and 20 per recruiter licence — checked against a primary source: Zoho Recruit corporate HR pricing, euro prices from Belgium
- Add-on prices and their exclusion from the free edition — checked against a primary source: Zoho Recruit corporate HR pricing, euro prices from Belgium
- 15-day trial and 45-day money-back guarantee — checked against a primary source: Zoho Recruit corporate HR pricing, euro prices from Belgium
- Euro prices served from Belgium, taxes extra — checked against a primary source: Zoho Recruit corporate HR pricing, euro prices from Belgium
- A marketplace of more than 200 applications — vendor claim, not independently verified: Zoho Recruit staffing agency edition pricing
- Monthly billing prices — not enough evidence
- How an active job is counted and released — not enough evidence
- Hosting location for European candidate data — not enough evidence
Last reviewed: August 2026. How SourcrLab verifies information
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