{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "smartrecruiters", "name": "SmartRecruiters", "vendor": "SmartRecruiters, Inc. (an SAP company)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.smartrecruiters.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "recruiting", "summary": "Applicant tracking and recruiting platform from SmartRecruiters, an SAP company. Its Customer API covers jobs, candidates, applications, interviews, offer records, reports and webhooks over REST, with API key or OAuth 2.0 access for customers and approved partners.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartrecruiters", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartrecruiters.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartrecruiters.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/smartrecruiters.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the SmartRecruiters Master Subscription Agreement", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.smartrecruiters.com", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is granted by a paying customer's administrator, who creates an API key or an OAuth client ID in Credential Manager. The API key goes in the `X-SmartToken` header, has full access to company data and doesn't expire. OAuth 2.0 client credentials are limited by 49 scopes, a system role and an optional access group, and their access tokens last 1,799 seconds. Partners distributing an app to all customers use the authorisation code grant, and new partner integrations are managed through the SAP PartnerEdge Build programme. The Posting API needs no credential.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No free tier, trial or self-serve signup found, so an agent can't start without a customer contract. The pricing page lists Essential \"starting at $14,995\" with no billing period stated, and Professional, High Volume and Complete on request. No separate API charge is published. Sandbox Management is listed as a product and Advanced Sandbox sits in the Complete plan. Only the Posting API, which returns published jobs, works without an account.", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, llms.txt or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-07).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-07" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.smartrecruiters.com", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.smartrecruiters.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developers.smartrecruiters.com/page/swagger", "capabilities": [ "recruiting.candidates", "recruiting.jobs", "recruiting.applications", "recruiting.interviews", "recruiting.offer-letters" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "enterprise", "oauth", "api-key", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "sales-led", "status-page", "soc2", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.4, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 403, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 51, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 8, "reliability": 78, "schema": 75, "security": 65, "transparency": 79 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-07" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "OAuth client credentials limited by 49 scopes, a system role and an access group, with per-operation OpenAPI definitions, llms.txt and a dated changelog. Access needs a paid SmartRecruiters account, with the lowest plan starting at $14,995, and no free tier, official SDK or idempotency key was found.", "bestFor": "An agent working inside a company that already runs SmartRecruiters, for reading jobs and candidates, adding candidates, moving applications between stages, creating interviews and pulling reports.", "strengths": [ "OAuth 2.0 client credentials with 49 scopes, a system role and an optional access group. Access tokens last 1,799 seconds", "Every reference page is served as Markdown with an OpenAPI 3.0.1 definition, indexed by a 511-line llms.txt", "Limits are published. 10 requests a second and 8 concurrent per credential, with X-RateLimit headers on every response", "Written policy of at least 10 months' notice before an endpoint is sunset, and 24 months of support for earlier versions", "Audit API with at least 26 months of retention, and 54 webhook events with optional HMAC SHA256 signatures" ], "weaknesses": [ "No free tier, trial or self-serve signup found. The Essential plan starts at $14,995 and the other three plans are quoted on request", "No idempotency keys in the reference pages we read, so a create retried after a timeout can duplicate a candidate or interview", "No official SDK, and the vendor's MCP page says the MCP server isn't supported for the public API", "An API key has full access to company data with no scopes and no expiry", "Offer endpoints are read-only, and new partner apps now go through the SAP PartnerEdge Build programme" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask the customer's admin for an OAuth client ID with only the scopes needed. An API key reads and writes all company data and never expires", "Exchange the client ID and secret at https://api.smartrecruiters.com/identity/oauth/token and refresh every 30 minutes", "Stay under 10 requests a second and 8 concurrent. `GET /candidates` allows 1 concurrent request, and job publication 2 a second", "Move a candidate with `PUT /candidates/{id}/jobs/{jobId}/status`. The variants without `jobId` act on the most recently updated application", "Page with `limit` (maximum 100, default 10) and `pageId` from `nextPageId`. Use the Reporting API for bulk reads, which returns CSV" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 51, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 8, "reliability": 78, "schema": 75, "security": 65, "transparency": 75 }, "provenanceScore": 82 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.smartrecruiters.com/identity/oauth/token \\\n -X POST \\\n -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \\\n -d \"client_id=$SMARTRECRUITERS_CLIENT_ID\" \\\n -d \"client_secret=$SMARTRECRUITERS_CLIENT_SECRET\" \\\n -d 'grant_type=client_credentials'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/recruiting.candidates", "tool": "https://letme.dev/smartrecruiters" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "SmartRecruiters, Inc.", "domain": "smartrecruiters.com", "domainRegistered": "2005-11-20", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.smartrecruiters.com/legal/terms-and-conditions/", "privacy": "https://www.smartrecruiters.com/legal/general-privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.smartrecruiters.com", "changelog": "https://developers.smartrecruiters.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-07", "notes": [ "The privacy notice names SmartRecruiters, Inc. as owner and data controller and was last updated on 2 March 2026. The site footer reads \"SmartRecruiters, part of SAP SuccessFactors\".", "The Master Subscription Agreement is version 15 November 2024 and is governed by Delaware law where the contracting entity is SmartRecruiters, Inc. Earlier versions back to 2017 are archived on the legal page.", "The sub-processor list gives SmartRecruiters GmbH's address as c/o SAP SE, Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16, Walldorf.", "www.smartrecruiters.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and the same path on developers.smartrecruiters.com returns a docs page.", "Domain registration date from Verisign RDAP. The API answers at api.smartrecruiters.com." ], "score": 82 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartrecruiters.json", "live": { "slug": "smartrecruiters", "probe": { "target": "https://api.smartrecruiters.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:34.168890474Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 431, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 527, "p95ms24h": 916, "samples24h": 71, "samples30d": 71, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 71, "ok": 71 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.smartrecruiters.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:58:14.614814901Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://smartrecruiters.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:41.34049374Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.smartrecruiters.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:00.750311713Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b7e88795862c" }, { "url": "https://www.smartrecruiters.com/legal/general-privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:31.713164865Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "95c7ac886657" }, { "url": "https://www.smartrecruiters.com/legal/terms-and-conditions/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:33.808646421Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "65267278e615" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:58:14.614814901Z" } }, "answer": "SmartRecruiters and Zoho Recruit score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.4 (C) and 59.8 (C). Zoho Recruit leads on agent ergonomics and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "zoho-recruit", "name": "Zoho Recruit", "vendor": "Zoho", "vendorUrl": "https://www.zoho.com/recruit/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "recruiting", "summary": "Zoho Recruit is a hosted applicant tracking system from Zoho for in-house HR teams and staffing agencies. Agents reach it through the REST API v2 and asynchronous bulk read and write APIs, behind OAuth 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-recruit", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-recruit.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-recruit.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zoho-recruit.json", "license": "Proprietary service under Zoho's Terms of Service", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 only. A person registers a client in the Zoho API console (a web application, or a self client for one organisation) and approves scopes, which narrow to one module and one operation. The access token lasts one hour and goes in `Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken \u003ctoken\u003e`. The refresh token lasts until revoked. Each data centre has its own accounts host and API host. Registration is self-serve, with no app review or sales approval for use inside one's own organisation.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free edition with 5,000 API credits a day, and the home page says no credit card is required. Paid editions cost $25 to $75 a recruiter licence a month billed yearly ($30 to $90 monthly) and a 15-day trial of Enterprise comes first. API calls draw on a daily credit allowance set by edition and user licences. Extra API calls are an add-on at $11.50 per 250 calls billed monthly (https://www.zoho.com/recruit/pricing.html and the price file it loads, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$25 / seat-mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.zoho.com/recruit/developer-guide/apiv2/", "llmsTxt": "https://www.zoho.com/recruit/developer-guide/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "recruiting.candidates", "recruiting.jobs", "recruiting.applications", "recruiting.interviews", "recruiting.offer-letters" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "oauth", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "free-tier", "no-card", "status-page", "bug-bounty", "soc2" ], "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59.8, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 421, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 48, "payments": 35, "reliability": 76, "schema": 46, "security": 65, "transparency": 77 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "OAuth scopes narrow to one module and one operation, such as `ZohoRecruit.modules.candidates.READ`", "`https://www.zoho.com/recruit/developer-guide/llms.txt` indexes 79 API pages, each with a Markdown twin", "Free edition with 5,000 API credits a day, and the home page says no credit card is required", "Upsert matches on `duplicate_check_fields`, so a repeated create updates the record", "Daily credits and concurrency limits are published per edition, with no per-minute cap" ], "weaknesses": [ "No OpenAPI description found. The public repository zoho/recruit-oas is empty", "No official SDK for the Recruit API found in the docs, on PyPI under three likely names or under five likely repository names", "The documented refresh and revoke calls put the refresh token and client secret in the URL query string", "429 is documented without a Retry-After header or backoff guidance, and no SLA was found", "The limits page, the What's New page and the Corporate HR plan comparison give different daily API allowances" ], "agentNotes": [ "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", "Send `Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken \u003ctoken\u003e` and refresh hourly. Put refresh parameters in the POST body, not the URL", "Pass `fields` on list calls and page with `page` and `per_page` (200 at most) until `more_records` is false", "Create through `/{module_api_name}/upsert` with `duplicate_check_fields` so a retry updates instead of duplicating", "Move a candidate with `PUT /{module_api_name}/status`, not upsert. Pass `trigger: []` on writes to skip workflows, approvals and blueprints" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 48, "payments": 35, "reliability": 76, "schema": 46, "security": 65, "transparency": 59 }, "provenanceScore": 95 }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://recruit.zoho.com/recruit/v2/Candidates?fields=Last_Name,Email\u0026per_page=5\" \\\n -X GET -H \"Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken $ZOHO_ACCESS_TOKEN\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/recruiting.candidates", "tool": "https://letme.dev/zoho-recruit" }, "sameCompany": [ "zoho-books", "zoho-zeptomail", "zoho-crm", "zoho-people" ], "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Corporate HR Standard", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 25, "note": "per recruiter licence, billed yearly; $30 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Corporate HR Enterprise", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 50, "note": "per recruiter licence, billed yearly; $60 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Staffing Agency Standard", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 25, "note": "billed yearly; $30 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Staffing Agency Professional", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 50, "note": "billed yearly; $60 billed monthly" }, { "item": "Staffing Agency Enterprise", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 75, "note": "billed yearly; $90 billed monthly" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Zoho Corporation Private Limited", "domain": "zoho.com", "domainRegistered": "2004-01-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.zoho.com/terms.html", "privacy": "https://www.zoho.com/privacy.html", "statusPage": "https://status.zoho.com", "changelog": "https://www.zoho.com/recruit/whats-new.html", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (last updated 2 March 2022) are the service agreement for Zoho's online services. The contracting entity depends on the customer's region, Zoho Corporation Private Limited for India and Zoho Corporation for the United States (https://www.zoho.com/legal/zoho-contracting-entities.html).", "A separate Zoho Developer Agreement at https://www.zoho.com/developer/terms.html covers the developer platform and names Zoho Corporation Private Limited and its affiliates.", "The privacy policy was last updated on 22 December 2025 and covers Zoho's websites and the products on them.", "security.txt at www.zoho.com gives a bug bounty contact, security@zohocorp.com, a policy link and an expiry of 30 June 2028.", "API calls go to recruit.zoho.com and its regional equivalents, or to the `api_domain` returned with the token (www.zohoapis.com). An unauthenticated request to https://recruit.zoho.com/recruit/v2/Candidates answered 401 with a JSON error on 8 October 2026.", "The changelog link is the product's What's New page, dated by month. No dated API changelog was found.", "RDAP for zoho.com gives a registration date of 2004-01-16." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-recruit.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "SmartRecruiters, Inc. (an SAP company)", "b": "Zoho", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.smartrecruiters.com", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under the SmartRecruiters Master Subscription Agreement", "b": "Proprietary service under Zoho's Terms of Service", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-05", "b": "none", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2022-03-02", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2025-12-22", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "SmartRecruiters and Zoho Recruit score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.4 (C) and 59.8 (C). Zoho Recruit leads on agent ergonomics and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, SmartRecruiters or Zoho Recruit?" }, { "answer": "SmartRecruiters takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Zoho Recruit uses an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do SmartRecruiters and Zoho Recruit need an API key?" }, { "answer": "SmartRecruiters has a hosted endpoint at https://api.smartrecruiters.com. No hosted endpoint is listed for Zoho Recruit.", "question": "Can an agent call SmartRecruiters and Zoho Recruit without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 46", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 58 against 48" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "An agent working inside a company that already runs SmartRecruiters, for reading jobs and candidates, adding candidates, moving applications between stages, creating interviews and pulling reports.", "slug": "smartrecruiters", "watchFor": "No free tier, trial or self-serve signup found. The Essential plan starts at $14,995 and the other three plans are quoted on request" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 64 against 51", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 8" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "zoho-recruit", "watchFor": "No OpenAPI description found. The public repository zoho/recruit-oas is empty" } ], "job": { "capability": "recruiting.candidates", "name": "Recruiting candidates" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ashby-vs-smartrecruiters.json", "title": "Ashby vs SmartRecruiters", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ashby-vs-smartrecruiters" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ashby-vs-zoho-recruit.json", "title": "Ashby vs Zoho Recruit", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ashby-vs-zoho-recruit" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bullhorn-vs-smartrecruiters.json", "title": "Bullhorn vs SmartRecruiters", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bullhorn-vs-smartrecruiters" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bullhorn-vs-zoho-recruit.json", "title": "Bullhorn vs Zoho Recruit", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bullhorn-vs-zoho-recruit" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gem-vs-smartrecruiters.json", "title": "Gem vs SmartRecruiters", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gem-vs-smartrecruiters" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gem-vs-zoho-recruit.json", "title": "Gem vs Zoho Recruit", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gem-vs-zoho-recruit" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/greenhouse-vs-smartrecruiters.json", "title": "Greenhouse vs SmartRecruiters", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/greenhouse-vs-smartrecruiters" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/greenhouse-vs-zoho-recruit.json", "title": "Greenhouse vs Zoho Recruit", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/greenhouse-vs-zoho-recruit" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lever-vs-smartrecruiters.json", "title": "Lever vs SmartRecruiters", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lever-vs-smartrecruiters" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lever-vs-zoho-recruit.json", "title": "Lever vs Zoho Recruit", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lever-vs-zoho-recruit" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pinpoint-vs-smartrecruiters.json", "title": "Pinpoint vs SmartRecruiters", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pinpoint-vs-smartrecruiters" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pinpoint-vs-zoho-recruit.json", "title": "Pinpoint vs Zoho Recruit", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pinpoint-vs-zoho-recruit" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recruitee-vs-smartrecruiters.json", "title": "Recruitee vs SmartRecruiters", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recruitee-vs-smartrecruiters" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recruitee-vs-zoho-recruit.json", "title": "Recruitee vs Zoho Recruit", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recruitee-vs-zoho-recruit" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smartrecruiters-vs-workable.json", "title": "SmartRecruiters vs Workable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smartrecruiters-vs-workable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/workable-vs-zoho-recruit.json", "title": "Workable vs Zoho Recruit", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/workable-vs-zoho-recruit" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 2, "edge": "smartrecruiters", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "smartrecruiters": 78, "weight": 16, "zoho-recruit": 76 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 29, "edge": "smartrecruiters", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "smartrecruiters": 75, "weight": 13, "zoho-recruit": 46 }, { "by": 13, "edge": "zoho-recruit", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "smartrecruiters": 51, "weight": 13, "zoho-recruit": 64 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "smartrecruiters": 65, "weight": 14, "zoho-recruit": 65 }, { "by": 27, "edge": "zoho-recruit", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "smartrecruiters": 8, "weight": 10, "zoho-recruit": 35 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "smartrecruiters", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "smartrecruiters": 58, "weight": 7, "zoho-recruit": 48 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "smartrecruiters", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "smartrecruiters": 79, "weight": 7, "zoho-recruit": 77 } ], "summary": "SmartRecruiters and Zoho Recruit score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.4 (C) and 59.8 (C). Zoho Recruit leads on agent ergonomics and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do recruiting candidates.", "verdicts": { "smartrecruiters": "OAuth client credentials limited by 49 scopes, a system role and an access group, with per-operation OpenAPI definitions, llms.txt and a dated changelog. Access needs a paid SmartRecruiters account, with the lowest plan starting at $14,995, and no free tier, official SDK or idempotency key was found.", "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smartrecruiters-vs-zoho-recruit", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smartrecruiters-vs-zoho-recruit.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smartrecruiters-vs-zoho-recruit.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smartrecruiters-vs-zoho-recruit.min.md" }, "markdown": "SmartRecruiters and Zoho Recruit score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.4 (C) and 59.8 (C). Zoho Recruit leads on agent ergonomics and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do recruiting candidates.\n\n- SmartRecruiters: grade C, 60.4/100, rank #403 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartrecruiters.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/smartrecruiters.json\n- 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\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### SmartRecruiters (C)\n\nGood for: An agent working inside a company that already runs SmartRecruiters, for reading jobs and candidates, adding candidates, moving applications between stages, creating interviews and pulling reports.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 46\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 58 against 48\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No free tier, trial or self-serve signup found. The Essential plan starts at $14,995 and the other three plans are quoted on request\n\n### Zoho Recruit (C)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 64 against 51\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 8\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No OpenAPI description found. The public repository zoho/recruit-oas is empty\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | SmartRecruiters | Zoho Recruit | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 78 | 76 | SmartRecruiters +2 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 46 | SmartRecruiters +29 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 51 | 64 | Zoho Recruit +13 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 65 | 65 | even |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 8 | 35 | Zoho Recruit +27 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 48 | SmartRecruiters +10 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 77 | SmartRecruiters +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.4 · C** | **59.8 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | SmartRecruiters | Zoho Recruit |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | SmartRecruiters, Inc. (an SAP company) | Zoho |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.smartrecruiters.com` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the SmartRecruiters Master Subscription Agreement | Proprietary service under Zoho's Terms of Service |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-05 | none |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2022-03-02 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-12-22 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**SmartRecruiters.** OAuth client credentials limited by 49 scopes, a system role and an access group, with per-operation OpenAPI definitions, llms.txt and a dated changelog. Access needs a paid SmartRecruiters account, with the lowest plan starting at $14,995, and no free tier, official SDK or idempotency key was found.\n\n**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.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### SmartRecruiters\n\n1. Ask the customer's admin for an OAuth client ID with only the scopes needed. An API key reads and writes all company data and never expires\n2. Exchange the client ID and secret at https://api.smartrecruiters.com/identity/oauth/token and refresh every 30 minutes\n3. Stay under 10 requests a second and 8 concurrent. `GET /candidates` allows 1 concurrent request, and job publication 2 a second\n4. Move a candidate with `PUT /candidates/{id}/jobs/{jobId}/status`. The variants without `jobId` act on the most recently updated application\n5. Page with `limit` (maximum 100, default 10) and `pageId` from `nextPageId`. Use the Reporting API for bulk reads, which returns CSV\n\n### Zoho Recruit\n\n1. 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\n2. Send `Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken \u003ctoken\u003e` and refresh hourly. Put refresh parameters in the POST body, not the URL\n3. Pass `fields` on list calls and page with `page` and `per_page` (200 at most) until `more_records` is false\n4. Create through `/{module_api_name}/upsert` with `duplicate_check_fields` so a retry updates instead of duplicating\n5. Move a candidate with `PUT /{module_api_name}/status`, not upsert. Pass `trigger: []` on writes to skip workflows, approvals and blueprints\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, SmartRecruiters or Zoho Recruit?\n\nSmartRecruiters and Zoho Recruit score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.4 (C) and 59.8 (C). Zoho Recruit leads on agent ergonomics and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do SmartRecruiters and Zoho Recruit need an API key?\n\nSmartRecruiters takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Zoho Recruit uses an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call SmartRecruiters and Zoho Recruit without installing anything?\n\nSmartRecruiters has a hosted endpoint at https://api.smartrecruiters.com. 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