Every category where a model named Zoho Recruit for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Applicant tracking systems	Talent acquisition	9%	3 of 50	0%	25	accepted challenger
Recruiting CRM and sourcing	Talent acquisition	7%	4 of 88	0%	11	accepted challenger
AI recruiting assistants	Talent acquisition	2%	9 of 84	9%	11	accepted challenger
Recruitment marketing and career sites	Talent acquisition	2%	13 of 81	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Teamtailor at 16%
HR AI assistants	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	42 of 119	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Workativ Assistant at 12%
Talent intelligence	Performance and talent management	0%	35 of 77	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Pin at 17%
Job advertising and distribution	Talent acquisition	0%	76 of 109	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by JobTarget at 21%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Zoho Recruit yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Zoho Recruit across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	1	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	3	2	1	0	6
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	3	0	0	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	4	1	0	5
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	6	3	0	9
Mistral Small	0	3	2	0	5
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	1	1	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	0	0	2
Kimi K2	2	2	1	0	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	5	0	0	7
MiniMax M2.5	0	5	0	0	5

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct19 labels1

Paraphrase38 labels6

Comparative33 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained69 labels18

Scale-constrained6 labelsNone

Negative12 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative177 labels in all, every segment counted; 25 of the 28 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Zoho Recruit offers a Forever Free plan ... making it the strongest free option for bootstrapped startups.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Applicant tracking syste · budget prompt · first choice

“The Best Overall Free Option: Zoho Recruit ... widely considered the king of free recruitment software” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Applicant tracking syste · budget prompt · first choice

“start with: Zoho Recruit's free plan to manage applicants and build a career site” Kimi K2 · Recruiting CRM · budget prompt · first choice

“the best candidate sourcing tool is usually Zoho Recruit or 100Hires” GPT-5.4 mini · Recruiting CRM · budget prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“The free tier is limited to 1 active job and no AI features” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI recruiting assistants · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Zoho Recruit, over the 177 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Zoho Recruit was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Breezy HR98 of 17736Compare →

Manatal86 of 17724Not in the top three

Workable83 of 17711Not in the top three

JazzHR67 of 1775Not in the top three

Greenhouse44 of 17710Compare →

Lever32 of 1774Not in the top three

Pin30 of 17713Not in the top three

100Hires27 of 1775Not in the top three

BambooHR26 of 1770Not in the top three

Teamtailor18 of 1773Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Zoho Recruit. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 153 of the 177 answers that named Zoho Recruit and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com104

pin.com65

peoplemanagingpeople.com64

capterra.com63

hiretruffle.com59

g2.com45

ventureharbour.com43

zapier.com37

100hires.com32

theundercoverrecruiter.com32

544 of the 544 domain citations in answers naming Zoho Recruit came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/applicant-tracking-systems41

ventureharbour.com/applicant-tracking-systems41

capterra.com/resources/best-applicant-tracking-system38

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-applicant-tracking-system-for-small-business28

pin.com/blog/best-ai-recruiting-tools-small-teams25

sparkhire.com/guides/the-best-applicant-tracking-system-for-small-business24

uschamber.com/co/run/human-resources/best-small-business-applicant-tracking-systems24

zapier.com/blog/best-applicant-tracking-systems24

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Zoho Recruit

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Zoho Recruit; a claim can dispute any of them.

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