iCIMS Alternatives: 9 ATS Picks for Hiring Teams

iCIMS Talent Cloud covers applicant tracking, candidate relationship management, text recruiting, video screening, and onboarding in one suite. Large employers use it to run many open roles at once, with approval chains for jobs and offers, structured workflows, and integrations with HR systems and job boards. The cost side is the main limit.

• iCIMS publishes no price, and every product page routes to a demo or a sales conversation.
• First-year costs can include implementation and add-on modules.
• Choose iCIMS when hiring volume and compliance needs justify an enterprise system.

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Greenhouse sells three plans called Core, Plus, and Pro. Core covers sourcing and CRM, interview kits and scorecards, scheduling, reporting, and single sign-on. Plus adds texting, sourcing automation, a business intelligence connector, and AI report filters.

• Pro adds an audit log, a developer sandbox, and unlimited CRM events.
• The focus is structured hiring, where each role has defined criteria and each interviewer works from the same kit.
• Pricing is quote only, and every plan card leads to a demo request.
• Cost depends on the plan, hiring volume, organisational complexity, and the features you need.

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Workable combines an applicant tracking system with AI sourcing, job posting to more than 70 job boards, core HR, onboarding, time off, and payroll preparation. Standard costs $299 per month billed annually, or $3,588 per year, for 1 to 20 employees, and $360 per month when billed monthly. Premier costs $599 per month billed annually, and Enterprise costs $719 per month billed annually.

• Pricing is per company, not per seat, and it rises by employee band up to 1,000 employees.
• On Standard, texting costs $89 per month, video interviews $109 per month, and assessments $59 per month for the 1 to 20 employee band, so add those f

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Lever, now part of Employ Inc. alongside JazzHR and Jobvite, was one of the first mainstream systems to merge an applicant tracker with a candidate relationship manager. That matters for teams that source passive candidates, run nurture campaigns, and keep warm pipelines for future roles.

• Every plan includes the core applicant tracking system, candidate relationship management, advanced reporting and analytics, and key integrations.
• Lever publishes no price.
• Its pricing page asks for a custom quote based on team size and hiring needs.
• Implementation is usually measured in weeks rather than months.

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SmartRecruiters sells a talent acquisition suite that covers applicant tracking, CRM, job distribution, dynamic scheduling, candidate messaging, analytics, and an AI hiring companion with talent matching. SAP completed its purchase of SmartRecruiters in September 2025, and the product is now available in SAP SuccessFactors, which makes it a natural fit for employers that already run SAP for HR. The pricing page opened on 12 November 2026 shows no figure for any plan.

• Earlier listings showed an Essential plan starting at $14,995, but that figure no longer appears on the live page, so do not budget on it.

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JazzHR prices by open jobs, not by headcount or seats, and every plan includes unlimited users. Hero costs $1,000 per year billed annually and covers 3 open jobs a month, with extra jobs at $9 per job per month. Plus costs $3,480 per year billed annually and covers up to 200 active jobs, with AI candidate matching, structured interviews, and assessments.

• Pro costs $5,508 per year billed annually and adds offers, e-signatures, and advanced reporting.
• The Hero plan has no monthly billing option, so the entry cost is $1,000 up front for the year.
• Candidate texting costs $39 per month as an add-on on the lower plans.
• JazzHR is owned by Employ Inc., the same parent company as Lever and Jobvite.

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Breezy HR has four plans. Startup costs $157 per month billed annually, or $189 billed monthly, and covers job posting to more than 50 job boards, a branded careers site, interview self-scheduling, and video interviews. Growth costs $273 per month billed annually, or $329 billed monthly, and adds multiple hiring pipelines, scorecards, referrals, reference checks, and e-signatures.

• Business costs $439 per month billed annually, or $529 billed monthly, and adds offer management, approvals, custom roles, and HRIS integrations.
• Breezy Intelligence, the AI scoring tool, runs on credits starting at $30 per 100,000 credits, with about 500 credits per applicant score, so 100,000
• Every trial starts with 100,000 credits, and credits never expire.

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Ashby sells one all-in-one recruiting product on three plans. Foundations covers companies up to 100 employees and is priced by headcount in five bands: $300 per month for 1 to 10 employees, $400 for 11 to 25, $500 for 26 to 50, $700 for 51 to 75, and $900 for 76 to 100, with a 10 percent discount for annual commitments. Plus covers 101 to 1,000 employees, and Enterprise covers 1,000 or more, and both are priced by quote.

• Foundations includes 1,500 AI credits per month, 200 sourcing email lookups, and 1,000 outbound text messages per month.
• Extra text messages cost $90 per 1,000, and single sign-on costs $100 per month on Foundations.

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Zoho Recruit comes in two editions, Staffing Agency and Corporate HR, and the figures below are for the Corporate HR edition that most in-house teams use. The Forever Free plan costs $0 and covers 1 active job. Standard costs $25 per user per month billed annually, or $30 billed monthly, and covers 10 active jobs per recruiter.

• Enterprise costs $50 per user per month billed annually, or $60 billed monthly, and covers 20 active jobs per recruiter.
• The Staffing Agency edition has a wider ladder, with Standard at the same $25 per user per month billed annually for 100 active jobs, Professional at
• A 15-day free trial covers Enterprise features, after which the account drops to the free plan.

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