Best Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) in 2026

SmartRecruiters is a cloud talent acquisition platform for large employers that hire both specialist and high-volume roles. SAP announced the completed acquisition on 11 September 2025 and said the platform would be integrated with the SAP SuccessFactors Human Capital Management suite, while existing customers could continue to run it alongside SAP or other HCM systems. At the time of the deal SAP stated that more than 4,000 organisations used SmartRecruiters, naming Amazon, Visa and McDonald's. The product range includes the core platform and an add-on called Winston Chat for conversational AI; both are listed as available inside SAP SuccessFactors. The pricing page shows no prices and directs buyers to a sales conversation.

Greenhouse is an applicant tracking system built around structured hiring: defined interview plans, scorecards and approval workflows that aim to make candidate evaluation consistent across interviewers. It is sold by Greenhouse Software, Inc. in three cumulative plans, Core, Plus and Pro, each including the features of the one below. Greenhouse does not publish prices; its pricing page states that cost is customised to the buyer's hiring needs and depends on the plan, hiring volume, organisational complexity and required features, and that plans can be upgraded at any time. The vendor is a common choice for technology companies with formal interview processes, but the absence of list prices makes cost comparison difficult before a sales demo.

iCIMS sells an enterprise recruiting suite whose applicant tracking module includes role-specific workflow automation, AI candidate matching, one-to-one and bulk text recruiting, onboarding portals tailored by role and location, and configurable reporting dashboards. A hiring agent for Microsoft Teams lets hiring managers review candidates and approve steps without leaving Teams, though the vendor notes this requires the applicable Teams integration and subscription. Return-on-investment figures on the product page, including a 282% ROI claim, are attributed in footnotes to a commissioned Total Economic Impact study and are described as potential figures rather than guaranteed outcomes. No prices are shown; every call to action leads to a demo or sales contact.

Workable is a recruiting platform that publishes its prices. For organisations of 1 to 20 employees, the Standard plan is listed at US$299 per month, or US$3,588 per year with annual billing (a 20% saving); Premier is US$599 per month and Enterprise US$719 per month, both paid annually. Prices rise with employee count up to a 1,000+ band, and add-ons such as texting (US$89 per month) and video interviews (US$109 per month) are sold separately. The company lists offices in Boston, Athens and London and states that more than 35,000 companies have used the platform, making 2.1 million hires across more than 100 countries.

Teamtailor combines an applicant tracking system with a career-site builder intended for employer branding. The company is registered as Teamtailor AB at Östgötagatan 16 in Stockholm, lists 18 office locations across Europe, Canada and the United States, and says its software is used by more than 13,000 companies. Pricing is quote-based: buyers submit company details and receive a price. Every plan includes unlimited job postings and unlimited users, while features such as requisition and approval flows and multi-brand management are labelled Premium. Because the vendor publishes no tier names or prices, buyers cannot compare cost against list-price competitors without contacting sales.

Lever combines applicant tracking with a candidate relationship management (CRM) layer for sourcing and nurturing. It was founded in 2012 by Nate Smith, Brian Noguchi, Sarah Nahm and Randal Truong, and on 5 August 2022 it joined Employ Inc., the K1 Investment Management-backed parent of JazzHR, Jobvite and NXTThing RPO; the brands continue to operate separately. At the time of the deal Lever supported more than 5,000 companies and Employ more than 18,000 customers across its brands. Lever does not publish prices: the core platform and add-ons, including Candidate Insights, Onboarding and AI Screening by VONQ, are all quote-based, with pricing that scales by team size and hiring needs.

Recruitee is a collaborative hiring tool now marketed as Tellent Recruitee. Recruitee merged with Javelo and KiwiHR under the Tellent name in 2022; at that time Tellent stated that Recruitee, launched in 2015, served more than 5,000 customers in over 75 countries. The pricing page lists four plans: Start (up to five active job posts), Advance (unlimited job posts, automation, referrals and advanced reporting), Optimize (adds SSO, a dedicated customer success manager and a testing environment) and Agencies. No amounts are published; price depends on plan, employee count and billing period, contracts carry a one-year minimum commitment, and annual payment earns a 20% discount.

Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting product that bundles applicant tracking, candidate CRM, interview scheduling and analytics. Its entry plan, All-In-One Foundations, for companies of up to 100 employees, is listed at US$400 per month, with a 10% discount for annual commitments. The Plus plan (101 to 1,000 employees), Enterprise plan (more than 1,000 employees) and a standalone Ashby Analytics product for companies using another ATS are priced on request, based on company size, usage and commitment. Ashby announced a US$50 million Series D on 22 July 2025, led by Alkeon, and stated at that time that it had more than 2,700 customers.

Pinpoint is an applicant tracking system for in-house talent teams. Its pricing is quoted on request and tailored to organisation size and hiring needs; the vendor does not charge per hiring-manager seat and does not cap the number of users. Customer data is stored in UK and European data centres, and the company states certification to ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and SOC 2 Type II. Implementation is quoted as a few weeks for smaller or simpler deployments and three to six months for complex enterprise rollouts, with a dedicated implementation manager assigned from contract signature to go-live. The model suits organisations that want many hiring managers in the system without seat-based costs.

Manatal is a recruitment platform used by both in-house HR teams and agencies, with offices in Singapore and Bangkok. It is one of the few vendors on this list to publish per-user prices: Professional costs US$15, Enterprise US$35 and Enterprise Plus US$55 per user per month when billed annually, with higher rates shown for monthly billing and a Custom plan on request. Prices exclude tax. The company says it has more than 10,000 active recruiting teams, reach in over 135 countries and over 900,000 recruitment processes managed. Per-user pricing makes it inexpensive for small teams but means cost grows linearly as more recruiters are added.

Breezy HR is an applicant tracking system for small and mid-size businesses, sold at flat monthly rates rather than per user. Plans are Startup (US$157 per month billed annually or US$189 monthly), Growth (US$273 or US$329) and Business (US$439 or US$529), plus a quote-based Custom Pro plan; annual billing includes two months free. Add-ons are priced separately, including SMS credits from US$41 per month and an onboarding module from US$49 per month. Breezy announced on 16 April 2019 that it had joined Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG), which also owns PeopleFluent; the site lists an address in Raleigh, North Carolina.

JazzHR is an applicant tracking system aimed at small businesses and is a sister brand of Lever within Employ Inc., which also owns Jobvite and NXTThing RPO. It publishes three annual plans: Hero at US$1,000 per year, Plus at US$3,480 per year and Pro at US$5,508 per year, all billed annually. The pricing page offers a monthly option and states that yearly payment saves up to 24%, but does not list the monthly amounts. The Hero plan's annual price is the lowest flat entry point among the vendors reviewed here, which makes JazzHR relevant for employers making only a handful of hires a year.