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Applicant tracking systems · September 2026 Edition

Breezy HR vs Zoho Recruit

Zero of twelve models named Breezy HR first on the direct prompt; zero named Zoho Recruit. Breezy HR was named by eleven of the twelve models and Zoho Recruit by twelve and Breezy HR carries 19 labels and Zoho Recruit 25, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Breezy HR

accepted challenger

Named in eight categories this edition.

Zoho Recruit

accepted challenger

Named in seven categories this edition.

First-choice share18%9%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate5%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#3A position in a field of 13; printed, not drawn.
Labels1925A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Breezy HR reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Greenhouse was named alongside these two in eleven of the twelve direct answers. Greenhouse vs Breezy HR · Greenhouse vs Zoho Recruit

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the applicant tracking systems page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Breezy HRFirst choices, of twelve modelsZoho Recruit
Direct00
Paraphrase00
Comparative00
Budget-constrained84
Scale-constrained00
Negative001 against Breezy HR
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Breezy HR and Zoho Recruit stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

1 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
MiniMax M2.5Greenhouse, Lever alternatives: Pinpoint, Workable, Zoho Recruit

Neither was named

11 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice
GPT-5.4 miniGreenhouse alternatives: Lever, SmartRecruiters, Workable
Gemini 3.5 FlashAshby alternatives: BambooHR, Greenhouse, Lever, Rippling
Perplexity SonarGreenhouse alternatives: Ashby, Pinpoint, Workable
Grok 4.1 FastGreenhouse alternatives: Lever, Workable
Mistral SmallGreenhouse, Pinpoint alternatives: Lever, Workable
DeepSeek V4 FlashGreenhouse, Workable alternatives: Ashby
Llama 4 MaverickPinpoint alternatives: Greenhouse, JazzHR, Lever, Workable
Qwen 3.7 FlashGreenhouse alternatives: Lever, Pinpoint, Workable
Kimi K2Greenhouse alternatives: Ashby, Pinpoint, Workable
GLM 4.7 FlashXGreenhouse alternatives: Ashby, BambooHR, Lever, Workable

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Breezy HR leads by thirty points.
Breezy HR41%#1 of 11
Zoho Recruit11%#3 of 11
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Breezy HR leads by nine points.
Breezy HR18%#2 of 13
Zoho Recruit9%#3 of 13
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Breezy HR0%#– of 8
Zoho Recruit0%#– of 8
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Breezy HR

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of five in this category shown.

“Breezy HR (owned by LTG) - a clean, affordable SMB system with a genuinely free plan, but it narrowly misses the list on AI depth.” Llama 4 Maverick · negative prompt · soft negative
“Breezy HR's "Bootstrap" plan is permanently free... one of the most intuitive, visual Kanban-style drag-and-drop pipelines on the market.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“Breezy HR offers the best balance of simplicity, automation, and value \u2014 with a free tier and paid plans from $157 per month.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · budget prompt · first choice
“The best applicant tracking system for a company with a limited budget is Breezy HR, which offers a free Bootstrap plan” Llama 4 Maverick · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about Zoho Recruit

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.

“Zoho Recruit offers a Forever Free plan ... making it the strongest free option for bootstrapped startups.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · budget prompt · first choice
“The Best Overall Free Option: Zoho Recruit ... widely considered the king of free recruitment software” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
Also compared
Greenhouse vs Breezy HRGreenhouse vs Zoho RecruitThe full applicant tracking syste standing

Comparisons are drawn for the top three products in each category. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.