Zoho Recruit vs Lever
Zero of twelve models named Zoho Recruit first on the direct prompt; one named Lever. Both were named by all twelve models and Zoho Recruit carries 25 labels and Lever 43, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in seven categories this edition.
Named in nine categories this edition.
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
Zoho RecruitFirst choices, of twelve modelsLever
Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, Zoho Recruit and Lever were named in the same answer thirty-two times, of the 177 answers naming Zoho Recruit and the 255 naming Lever. In those answers Lever took the first choice four times and Zoho Recruit one.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | | ||||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | | | | ||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | | | | | |
| Perplexity Sonar | | | | |||
| Grok 4.1 Fast | | | | | ||
| Mistral Small | | | | |||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | | | | |||
| Llama 4 Maverick | | | | |||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | | | | | | |
| Kimi K2 | | | | | | |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | | | | | ||
| MiniMax M2.5 | | | | |
Zoho Recruit Lever first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Zoho Recruit on the left and Lever on the right.The direct prompt
Lever first, Zoho Recruit an alternative
1 of 12 modelsZoho Recruit was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
7 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
4 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.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
Zoho Recruit11%#3 of 11Lever2%#9 of 11Zoho Recruit9%#3 of 13Lever7%#4 of 13Zoho Recruit0%#– of 8Lever0%#7 of 8What 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
What the models said about Lever
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.
“avoid these on a limited budget” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“Cons: Analytics are historically less robust than Ashby; since acquisition by Employ Inc., some users report slower product development cycles.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · soft negative
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.