# Greenhouse vs Zoho Recruit

> Greenhouse scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against Zoho Recruit's 59.8 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Zoho Recruit leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do recruiting candidates. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-08

Greenhouse scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against Zoho Recruit's 59.8 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Zoho Recruit leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do recruiting candidates.

- Greenhouse: grade B, 64.8/100, rank #271 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/greenhouse.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/greenhouse.json
- Zoho Recruit: grade C, 59.8/100, rank #421 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-recruit.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zoho-recruit.json

## Which one, for what

### Greenhouse (B)

Good for: An agent working inside a company that already runs hiring on Greenhouse and needs to read pipelines, move applications, schedule interviews or draft offer records under scoped OAuth.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 79 against 46
- Security & auth, 85 against 65
- Maintenance & community, 65 against 48

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for: No public price, free tier or trial. Pricing is customised through sales, and the sandbox is a Pro-tier feature

### Zoho Recruit (C)

Good for: Small businesses and staffing agencies on Zoho that want an agent to read and write candidates, job openings, applications and interviews with narrow scopes, and teams that want a free edition with API access.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 76 against 71
- Payments & pricing, 35 against 0

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: No OpenAPI description found. The public repository zoho/recruit-oas is empty


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Greenhouse | Zoho Recruit | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 71 | 76 | Zoho Recruit +5 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 46 | Greenhouse +33 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 64 | Zoho Recruit +1 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 85 | 65 | Greenhouse +20 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 35 | Zoho Recruit +35 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 48 | Greenhouse +17 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 77 | Greenhouse +2 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **64.8 · B** | **59.8 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Greenhouse | Zoho Recruit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Greenhouse Software, Inc. | Zoho |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://harvest.greenhouse.io/v3` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Greenhouse's Master Subscription Agreement. The docs repository for the older APIs on GitHub is Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under Zoho's Terms of Service |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | none |
| Terms last updated | 2026-02-01 | 2022-03-02 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-28 | 2025-12-22 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |

## Verdicts

**Greenhouse.** Harvest v3 pairs per-endpoint OAuth scopes with Markdown docs that embed an OpenAPI 3.1 definition for each call, and the beta MCP server blocks every DELETE. Access needs a paying customer account, with no public price, trial or self-serve sandbox, and no numeric rate limit or idempotency key was found in the reviewed documentation.

**Zoho Recruit.** OAuth scopes narrow to one module and one operation, the docs have an llms.txt index with a Markdown page per endpoint, and the Free edition includes 5,000 API credits a day. No OpenAPI description, official SDK, SLA or dated API changelog was found, and the documented token refresh puts the client secret in the URL.

## Before you call either

### Greenhouse

1. Request a token from https://auth.greenhouse.io/token with client credentials, then send it as a Bearer token to https://harvest.greenhouse.io/v3. Tokens expire, so repeat on 401
2. Put filters and `per_page` on the first list request only. A `cursor` must be the only query parameter, or the call returns 422
3. Send the current stage as `from_stage_id` when moving an application. It guards against stale moves. Other writes have no idempotency key, so check before retrying
4. Read `X-RateLimit-Remaining` on every response and wait for `Retry-After` on 429. The window is 30 seconds
5. Expect empty list results or 403 unless the token's user is a Site Admin with the needed permissions

### Zoho Recruit

1. Use the `api_domain` returned with the token, or the regional host (recruit.zoho.com, recruit.zoho.eu, recruit.zoho.in and others). Tokens from one data centre fail on another
2. Send `Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken <token>` and refresh hourly. Put refresh parameters in the POST body, not the URL
3. Pass `fields` on list calls and page with `page` and `per_page` (200 at most) until `more_records` is false
4. Create through `/{module_api_name}/upsert` with `duplicate_check_fields` so a retry updates instead of duplicating
5. Move a candidate with `PUT /{module_api_name}/status`, not upsert. Pass `trigger: []` on writes to skip workflows, approvals and blueprints

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Greenhouse or Zoho Recruit?

Greenhouse scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against Zoho Recruit's 59.8 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Zoho Recruit leads on reliability and payments & pricing.

### Do Greenhouse and Zoho Recruit need an API key?

Both use an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call Greenhouse and Zoho Recruit without installing anything?

Greenhouse has a hosted endpoint at https://harvest.greenhouse.io/v3. No hosted endpoint is listed for Zoho Recruit.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/greenhouse-vs-zoho-recruit.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/greenhouse-vs-zoho-recruit.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "greenhouse", "b": "zoho-recruit"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare greenhouse zoho-recruit`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/greenhouse.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zoho-recruit.json

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