# Lever vs Zoho Recruit (slim)

> Zoho Recruit scores 59.8 (C) on agent readiness against Lever's 53.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Lever leads on schema & documentation. Both do recruiting candidates. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Zoho Recruit scores 59.8 (C) on agent readiness against Lever's 53.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Lever leads on schema & documentation. Both do recruiting candidates.

- Lever: D 53.6, rank #541 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lever.min.md
- Zoho Recruit: C 59.8, rank #421 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-recruit.min.md
- Lever, good for An agent working inside a company that already runs Lever, for reading the pipeline, adding candidates, moving stages, writing notes and feedback and scheduling externally managed interviews. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 55 against 46. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Zoho Recruit, 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 Security & auth, 65 against 60; Payments & pricing, 35 against 5; Maintenance & community, 48 against 21. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Lever | Zoho Recruit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 73 | 76 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 55 | 46 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 60 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 5 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 21 | 48 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 75 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Lever | Zoho Recruit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Employ, Inc. | Zoho |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.lever.co/v1` | no (local only) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Lever's terms of service. The postings-api and integrator-resources repositories on GitHub hold documentation and example code | Proprietary service under Zoho's Terms of Service |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-04-30 | none |
| Terms last updated | 2023-08-25 | 2022-03-02 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-09-25 | 2025-12-22 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |