Side by side, including where they win.

Zoho Recruit is a mature, broad ATS with a free tier and hundreds of integrations. HireZeta is narrower and newer: an end-to-end hiring OS for Indian companies with free hiring-manager seats, email-in for every role and HRMS on the same record.

• Interviewers never need a seat or a login
• Email-in address for every role, on every plan
• Interview scorecards with nudges when a card is missing

Best for Zoho Recruit: Teams that want a free starting point or already run Zoho CRM, Mail and Books.

Keka is one of India's best-known HRMS platforms, and Keka Hire is its ATS module. If you already run payroll and attendance on Keka, Hire is the natural add-on. HireZeta starts from hiring instead, with a deeper pipeline, email-in and free seats for everyone who interviews.

• Hiring-first product: match scores, SLAs per stage, scorecard nudges, boolean search
• Email-in for every role and a per-organisation inbox
• Unlimited free interviewers, invited by email with no login

Best for Keka: Companies already on Keka HRMS who want hiring in the same suite today.

greytHR is a widely used Indian payroll and HR platform with a Recruit add-on. HireZeta is a hiring OS first. The choice comes down to whether hiring is a side feature of your payroll tool or a team's daily workspace.

• Recruiter seats included in the plan, everyone else free
• Pipeline with SLAs, match scores and a Today briefing
• Email-in for every role

Best for greytHR: Small and mid-size companies on greytHR payroll who hire occasionally.

Zimyo is an HR and payroll suite for mid-sized Indian companies with a Recruit add-on priced per recruiter. HireZeta is a dedicated hiring OS with recruiter seats included in the plan, free interviewers who need no login, and email-in on every plan.

• Per recruiter seat with no minimum seat count on Starter
• Everyone who interviews is free
• Email-in per role, boolean search, SLAs and scorecard nudges

Best for Zimyo: Mid-sized companies buying HR, payroll and hiring together with a 50-seat minimum.

Recruit CRM is a well-regarded ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies, priced in US dollars per user. HireZeta serves companies first and agencies second, is priced in rupees, and gives agencies free recruiter logins inside their clients' accounts.

• Priced in rupees, invoiced with GST, a fraction of the per-user cost
• Built for companies too: interviewers free, HRMS on the same record
• Email-in per mandate and per organisation

Best for Recruit CRM: Agencies that sell recruitment services and want CRM, sequencing and AI outreach in one tool.

Freshworks stopped selling and renewing Freshteam in 2026, pointing customers to Freshservice for Business Teams. If you used Freshteam for hiring, you need a new home for your candidates. HireZeta imports your export in an afternoon and gives you a deeper pipeline than Freshteam had.

• Actively developed, with HRMS on the same record
• Import your Freshteam CSV export with automatic column mapping
• Email-in for every role, AI parsing, SLAs, scorecards

Best for Freshteam: Former Freshteam customers who need an ATS with Indian pricing and support.

UKG Pro Recruiting is the hiring module of UKG Pro, a full HR, payroll and workforce management suite built for mid-size and large enterprises, sold with implementation on a custom quote. HireZeta is a hiring OS for Indian companies that you can switch on in a day, priced per recruiter seat, with HRMS on the same record when you want it.

• Priced by your candidate database, not per employee across the company; recruiter seats included, interviewers free
• Live in a day: import your Excel or Naukri export, forward CVs to a role's email address, done
• Built for Indian hiring: CTC in LPA, notice periods, duplicate checks on email and phone, GST invoices from an Indian entity

Best for UKG: Enterprises of several hundred to thousands of employees that want HR, payroll, scheduling and recruiting from one global vendor and have a team to implement it.