Does Zoho Recruit publish its pricing?

Yes: £20 per recruiter a month billed annually for Standard (£24 monthly), £40 for Professional (£48 monthly) and £60 for Enterprise (£72 monthly) on the Staffing Agency edition; a free edition with one active job; the client portal on Enterprise only, with extra portal licences and video interviews as add-ons; the Corporate HR edition has Standard and Enterprise only, at £20 and £40 billed annually. Vayora: every price on the page.

Does Zoho Recruit run contract pay and bill?

Partner: temp timesheets, client approval, invoicing and payroll export run in Zoho Workerly, a separate product, with invoices through Zoho Books; placement invoicing from job openings through Zoho Books and Invoice since July 2026; margin and self-billing not described. Vayora runs it natively, to the self-bill and the client invoice; the pay and bill glossary entry explains the terms.

How long does moving from Zoho Recruit to Vayora take?

An import rather than a project on our side. On Zoho Recruit's side, its own guidance: paid Jumpstart packages of 20, 30 or 40 hours at £800, £1,600 and £2,400; 'Data migration is not part of the Jumpstart plans' and is priced separately; 15-day trial.

Comparison

Vayora vs Zoho Recruit

The budget all-in-one from the Zoho suite, priced from £20 a recruiter, with the contract desk in a separate product.

Zoho Recruit is a real product with real customers, so this is structural rather than a hatchet job: the budget all-in-one from the Zoho suite, priced from £20 a recruiter, with the contract desk in a separate product. The table is checked against Zoho Recruit’s own pages and dated.

At a glance

	Vayora	Zoho Recruit
Built around	Your own database, with one agent in every workflow	The budget all-in-one from the Zoho suite, priced from £20 a recruiter, with the contract desk in a separate product.
Company	London, UK; founded 2026	Zoho Corporation, Chennai, India and Austin, Texas; UK office in Milton Keynes; founded 1996 (as AdventNet); private and self-funded; 'we have never taken money from investors'
Built for	Small and mid-sized UK agencies, perm and contract	Staffing agencies and HR teams; a Staffing Agency edition from 'small boutique firms to large enterprise staffing operations'
Pricing	Published: Core £65, Pro £129 a seat a month, plus VAT; annual £55 and £109	Published: £20 per recruiter a month billed annually for Standard (£24 monthly), £40 for Professional (£48 monthly) and £60 for Enterprise (£72 monthly) on the Staffing Agency edition; a free edition with one active job; the client portal on Enterprise only, with extra portal licences and video interviews as add-ons; the Corporate HR edition has Standard and Enterprise only, at £20 and £40 billed annually
Getting live	An import you run; no fee; 30-day trial, no card	Paid Jumpstart packages of 20, 30 or 40 hours at £800, £1,600 and £2,400; 'Data migration is not part of the Jumpstart plans' and is priced separately; 15-day trial
Contract pay and bill	Native: timesheets, self-bill, invoicing, margin and pay runs (limited-company contractors)	Partner: Temp timesheets, client approval, invoicing and payroll export run in Zoho Workerly, a separate product, with invoices through Zoho Books; placement invoicing from job openings through Zoho Books and Invoice since July 2026; margin and self-billing not described
AI	Kit, one agent through the whole desk, in the Pro price and not metered: reads calls, email and notes and keeps the records current; ranks your own book with the evidence per candidate; drafts outreach, chase-ups, replies, client updates, briefs and packs in your voice; sorts replies by intent; opens the day with a brief; watches for business development signals; runs enrichment, scorecards and reference checks; sets the fee from signed terms on placement; four autonomy lanes, logged, one tap to undo	Zia: two-way candidate and job matching, application comparison with ratings, drafting assistant, summaries, interview insights, generated assessments, sourcing and screening bots, Ask Zia, and an MCP connector; included on paid plans at no additional cost
UK and data	UK company, GBP, hosted in Ireland, never trains shared models	UK office in Milton Keynes and GBP pricing; EU data centres in Amsterdam and Dublin, with a UK data centre announced for 2026; GDPR controls stated; UK GDPR and IR35 not mentioned
Integrations	About 24 named plus signed webhooks	'50+ integrations' on the Standard tier, 75+ job boards and 200+ marketplace extensions; UK boards such as Reed and CV-Library are not listed

Zoho Recruit column checked 22 October 2026; sources below.

Where Zoho Recruit is strong

The price and a free edition: published GBP pricing from £20 a recruiter a month on annual billing, with a large review base behind it.
The Zoho ecosystem around it: Books and Invoice for invoicing, Sign, Workerly for temps, and 200+ marketplace extensions.
Zia, the AI assistant, included on paid plans at no extra cost: matching, summaries, assessments, chatbots and an MCP connector.

Where we are built differently

Temp timesheets, client approval, invoicing and payroll export live in Zoho Workerly, a second product, with invoices through Zoho Books. Ours runs perm and contract to paid on one desk.
Onboarding is a paid Jumpstart package of 20 to 40 hours, with data migration priced separately. Ours is an import you run, with duplicates merged on the way in.
Zia is a suite assistant that works across dozens of Zoho products. Kit is built for the recruitment desk alone, and ranks your own book with the reason behind every score.

AI-native or bolted on

Where the AI sits

Zia is Zoho's suite assistant, included on paid plans across dozens of products: matching, summaries, chatbots and assessments. Kit is built for one desk and goes further into it: the note taker, the daily brief, replies sorted by intent, the chase-up drafted from the thread, the fee set from signed terms, the contract desk to paid, inside four lanes of control.

When Zoho Recruit is the right choice

If you are a small agency on a tight budget, already in the Zoho suite, and perm-only or happy to run temp in Workerly. For that firm the price and the free edition are genuinely hard to beat.

To see where Zoho Recruit sits against everything else a UK agency is likely to shortlist, read our ranking of fourteen systems.

The cases where you should not pick us at all, whoever you are comparing, are on the comparisons hub.

What Zoho Recruit users say they would change

From public reviews and Zoho Recruit’s own stated scope, sourced below.

'Slow and inconsistent customer support' is the leading negative in Capterra's summary, and support is for paid users only.
'Limited field customization and clarity' and a UI that 'can feel a bit clunky'; one reviewer found the AI scored the same CV differently on repeat.
Temp timesheets, invoicing and payroll export require the separate Workerly product; migration is excluded from Jumpstart and priced separately.

Questions

Does Zoho Recruit publish its pricing?: Yes: £20 per recruiter a month billed annually for Standard (£24 monthly), £40 for Professional (£48 monthly) and £60 for Enterprise (£72 monthly) on the Staffing Agency edition; a free edition with one active job; the client portal on Enterprise only, with extra portal licences and video interviews as add-ons; the Corporate HR edition has Standard and Enterprise only, at £20 and £40 billed annually. Vayora: every price on the page.
Does Zoho Recruit run contract pay and bill?: Partner: temp timesheets, client approval, invoicing and payroll export run in Zoho Workerly, a separate product, with invoices through Zoho Books; placement invoicing from job openings through Zoho Books and Invoice since July 2026; margin and self-billing not described. Vayora runs it natively, to the self-bill and the client invoice; the pay and bill glossary entry explains the terms.
How long does moving from Zoho Recruit to Vayora take?: An import rather than a project on our side. On Zoho Recruit's side, its own guidance: paid Jumpstart packages of 20, 30 or 40 hours at £800, £1,600 and £2,400; 'Data migration is not part of the Jumpstart plans' and is priced separately; 15-day trial.

Sources, read 22 October 2026

Not verifiable from public pages on that date: whether the UK data centre has opened; margin reporting in Workerly.

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