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Recruiting CRM and sourcing · September 2026 Edition

Zoho Recruit vs Pin

Zero of twelve models named Zoho Recruit first on the direct prompt; zero named Pin. Zoho Recruit was named by six of the twelve models and Pin by six and both carry 11 labels, so the shares below are directly comparable.

Zoho Recruit

accepted challenger

Named in seven categories this edition.

Pin

accepted challenger

Named in seven categories this edition.

First-choice share7%7%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#4#5A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels1111Equal, which is what makes the shares comparable.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Zoho Recruit reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.SeekOut was named alongside these two in nine of the twelve direct answers. Lever vs Zoho Recruit · Lever vs Pin · Gem 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 Recruiting CRM and sourcing page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Zoho RecruitFirst choices, of twelve modelsPin
Direct00
Paraphrase10
Comparative00
Budget-constrained23
Scale-constrained00
Negative00
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.

Every model, every framing

The seventy-two answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Zoho Recruit and Pin stood in it.
ModelDirectPIParaphrasePIComparativePIBudget-constrainedPIScale-constrainedPINegativePI
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 FlashPI
Perplexity SonarPI
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 FlashPI
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5PI
Zoho RecruitPI Pin first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Zoho Recruit on the left and Pin on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Zoho Recruit and Pin 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.
GPT-5.4 miniLinkedIn Recruiter alternatives: SeekOut, Workable, Zoho Recruit

Neither was named

11 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5Gem, hireEZ alternatives: Jobvite, Loxo, SeekOut
Gemini 3.5 FlashGem alternatives: Fetcher, SeekOut, ZoomInfo Talent, hireEZ
Perplexity SonarGem alternatives: Fetcher, SeekOut, Workable, hireEZ
Grok 4.1 FastLever alternatives: LinkedIn Recruiter, Workable
Mistral SmallGem, Lever alternatives: Juicebox, SeekOut, hireEZ
DeepSeek V4 FlashGem alternatives: LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, hireEZ
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
Qwen 3.7 FlashLinkedIn Recruiter alternatives: Gem, Gorilla Search, SeekOut
Kimi K2hireEZ alternatives: Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter
GLM 4.7 FlashXGem alternatives: Juicebox, Manatal, SeekOut, hireEZ
MiniMax M2.5Lever, SeekOut alternatives: Findem, Gem, hireEZ

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
Pin leads by thirteen points.
Pin23%#1 of 13
Zoho Recruit11%#3 of 13
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Level: the same share of first choices.
Zoho Recruit7%#4 of 11
Pin7%#5 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Zoho Recruit is not named for this buyer.
Zoho Recruitnot named
Pin0%#– of 6
The full enterprise standing →

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.

“start with: Zoho Recruit's free plan to manage applicants and build a career site” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · first choice
“the best candidate sourcing tool is usually Zoho Recruit or 100Hires” GPT-5.4 mini · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about Pin

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared

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.