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We’ve pulled together a comprehensive list of all the available tools/products and companies in the recruiting and hiring space. While we can’t make recommendations for what will work for your team and needs, this is a resource that can help you with research and comparison.
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| Name | Description | Maturity of product/company | Price | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adaptilab | ML-specific assessments. | New (startup < 50 ppl) | Custom pricing | Sourcing |
| Aevy | Similar to Nettrons and Fetcher (Sweden based) | New (startup < 50 ppl) | Subscription | Sourcing |
| Agave | Lower-priced ATS | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $15–$30/seat; Custom pricing | ATS/CRM/Database |
| Airtable | Database and spreadsheet tool, wide variety of uses | Mature (wider market) | Free; Subscription | General tooling |
| AngelList | Comprehensive offerings for companies and candidates, largely (but not exclusively) focused on startups | Ubiquitous (must know about) | A-List Paid: 20% of each hire; Source: $99+/month | Multi-use platform |
| Avature | Enterprise ATS company | Established niche | Custom pricing | ATS/CRM/Database |
| Bamboo | HR tech | Mature (wider market) | $6.19–$8.25/seat per month | HR Tech |
| Beamery | Talent Relationship Management (TRM) (UK based) | Established niche | $75/seat per month | Engagement |
| BetterWorks | HR tech | Established niche | Custom pricing | HR Tech |
| Boon | Tool to manage and encourage in-house referrals. | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $99/month | Referrals |
| Bullhorn | For multiple recruiting sources to pull together a single view | Established niche | $99/month; Custom pricing | ATS/CRM/Database |
| CareerBuilder | Larger scale job site, better for accounting, clerical, retail, etc. Not well suited to tech hiring. Caters to a more Midwestern audience. | Mature (wider market) | $219-499/month; $375 per job | Sourcing |
| Clara Labs | Interview scheduling tool | Young (team <100 ppl or not established) | Unknown | General tooling |
| ClearCompany | TRM solution | Mature (wider market) | Custom pricing | ATS/CRM/Database |
| Code Pilot | General-purpose AI company with an assessment tool where companies can choose any environment, language, database, etc. | New (startup < 50 ppl) | Custom pricing | Assessment |
| Code Signal | (Formerly Code Fights) Similar to Kaggle in terms of having a competitive angle. | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $22.50–$67.50/seat per month; Custom pricing | Assessment |
| CoderPad | Shared coding tool for watching candidates code | Mature (wider market) | General tooling | |
| Codility | Automatically scored reports | New (startup < 50 ppl) | Custom pricing | Assessment |
| Connectifier | Plugin exclusively for LinkedIn Recruiter that gives e-mail addresses. | Ubiquitous (must know about) | Free option; Recruiter: $100–$1000/month | Engagement |
| Connery | HR consulting firm | Ubiquitous (must know about) | Custom pricing | Multi-use platform |
| ContactOut | LinkedIn email address finder. Competitor to Connectifier. | New (startup < 50 ppl) | Unknown | Engagement |
| Criteria Corp | Psychometric evaluation | Mature (wider market) | Custom pricing; Subscription | Assessment |
| Culture Amp | HR tech | Established niche | Custom pricing | HR Tech |
| Discover.ly | Browser extension for social media profile information | New (startup < 50 ppl) | Free | Dataset |
| Divine Group | Psychometric evaluation | Mature (wider market) | Custom pricing | Assessment |
| Domo | Data platform | Mature (wider market) | Custom pricing | Analytics |
| Drafted | Tool to manage and encourage in-house referrals. | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $10+/seat per month | Referrals |
| Dux-Soup | Automated LinkedIn connection tool | Established niche | $11.25–$41.25/user per month; Free option | Engagement |
| Eightfold | ATS mining for larger enterprises. | Young (team <100 ppl or not established) | Unknown | Sourcing; Internal Hiring |
| Entelo Envoy | Talent Relationship Management (TRM). Competing product to Beamery. | Established niche | Unknown | Engagement |
| Excel | Longstanding data entry, spreadsheet, analysis tool | Ubiquitous (must know about) | $5–$12.50/user per month (business); $99–$149/year (personal); Free | Multi-use platform |
| Fetcher | Automated research tool that researches additional profiles based on ones you tag. | New (startup < 50 ppl) | Subscription | Sourcing |
| Find Emails | (Formerly Toofr) Contact info dataset | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $19/month (up to 500); $9/month (up to 2500); $99/month (up to 10K) | Dataset |
| Findem | Managed service for outbound sourcing, they run the campaign for you. Don’t promise hires, offers, etc. | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $60K/year | Sourcing |
| FindThat | Email address dataset | Established niche | Free | Dataset |
| Gem | (Formerly ZenSourcer) Integrates with Greenhouse. Competitor to TopFunnel. Any company that can afford a sourcing team is a potential customer. | Young (team <100 ppl or not established) | Custom pricing | Engagement |
| GitHub | Source of record for anyone who does open source. | Ubiquitous (must know about) | Free | Multi-use platform |
| Glassdoor | Company reviews for candidates, job postings, salary research, culture marketing and branding for a company. | Ubiquitous (must know about) | $199–$699/month | Multi-use platform |
| Gmelius | Gmail integration | New (startup < 50 ppl) | Free; $9 per user/month; $19 per user/month; $49 per user/month | General tooling |
| GoodTime | Interview scheduling tool. | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $1250–$2500/month; Custom pricing | General tooling |
| Greenhouse | Top ATS platform. Competitor to Lever. | Established niche | Custom pricing | ATS/CRM/Database |
| Gusto | HR tech | Mature (wider market) | $6–$12/seat per month (plus $39–$149 “base price”) | HR Tech |
| HackerEarth | Assessment tool | Established niche | $119–$275/month per seat; Custom pricing | Assessment |
| HackerRank | Largest company in this category in terms of customers, revenue | Established niche | $249/mo–$7188/year; Custom pricing | Assessment |
| Handshake | University recruiting | New (startup < 50 ppl) | Custom pricing; Free option | University Hiring |
| Hire by Google | ATS integrated with GSuite (retired in 2020) | Mature (wider market) | $2400–$12K/year | ATS/CRM/Database |
| Hired | Marketplace matching employers and candidates | Mature (wider market) | Custom pricing | Marketplace |
| Hiretual | Managed service for outbound sourcing. | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $89/month; Custom pricing | Sourcing |
| Hiretual | Job site, sourcing, contact dataset, and engagement offerings | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $890/year (up to 200 contacts); Custom pricing | Sourcing; Dataset |
| HireVue | Assessment platform and ATS | Established niche | Custom pricing | ATS/CRM/Database; Assessment |
| HumanPredictions | ML-based candidate marketplace | Young (team <100 ppl or not established) | $5K–$30K/year | Sourcing |
| Hunter | Email address dataset | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $49–$399/month; Free | Dataset |
| iCIMS | High volume enterprise solution | Mature (wider market) | Custom pricing | ATS/CRM/Database |
| Indeed | Larger scale, lower-skilled job site. Not typically used for tech hiring | Ubiquitous (must know about) | 10% salary of hired canddiates; Free option; Pay per click | Sourcing |
| interviewing.io | Anonymity and feedback is the real selling point here. | New (startup < 50 ppl) | Per hire or subscription pricing | Assessment |
| InterviewSchedule | Interview scheduling tool. | General tooling | ||
| Jazz | ATS with lots of integration to other tools | Established niche | $39–$309/month | ATS/CRM/Database |
| JobJet | Dataset of resume, contact, social, and demographic information | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $29–$59/seat per month | Dataset |
| Jobvite | Longstanding ATS company | Mature (wider market) | $4K–$100K/year | ATS/CRM/Database |
| Jopwell | Hiring URM knowledge worker candidates. Target the high end universities. | Young (team <100 ppl or not established) | Subscription | Sourcing |
| Jumpstart | University recruiting | New (startup < 50 ppl) | Custom pricing | University Hiring |
| Kaggle | Largely data science-specific, with competitions where recruiters can see the results | Established niche | Free | Assessment |
| Lattice | HR tech | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $9–$12/seat per month; Custom pricing | HR Tech |
| LeadIQ | Dataset of resume, contact, social, and demographic information (largely targeted at sales professionals) | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $60/month (up to 300 prospects); Custom pricing | Dataset |
| Lever | Top ATS platform. Competitor to GreenHouse. | Established niche | Custom pricing | ATS/CRM/Database |
| Lever Nurture | Talent Relationship Management (TRM). Competing product to Beamery. | Established niche | Unknown | Engagement |
| Important and comprehensive platform for research and profiles in existence. | Ubiquitous (must know about) | Free option; Premium: $50–$100/month; Recruiter: $100–$1000/month | Multi-use platform | |
| LinkedIn Recruiter | The must-have outbound channel for recruiters and hiring managers. | Ubiquitous (must know about) | Recruiter: $100–$1000/month | Sourcing |
| Looker | BI and visualization tool | Established niche | Custom pricing | Analytics |
| Loxo | AI-based ATS. | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $79–$99/month | ATS/CRM/Database |
| Lusha | Dataset of resume, contact, social, and demographic information | Established niche | $149/month (300 credits); $75/month (120 credits); Custom pricing; Free option | Dataset |
| MixMax | General scheduling tool | General tooling | ||
| Monster | Larger scale job site, better for accounting, clerical, retail, etc. Not well suited to tech hiring. | Ubiquitous (must know about) | $249–$999/month; Free option | Sourcing |
| Nettrons | Semantic automation research tool. Extracts intent from semantic analysis, pairs companies with selected candidates for “pitch” sessions. | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $99/month per role; Custom pricing | Sourcing |
| Newton | Similar to ThriveTRM, a lightweight ATS, more for search than running a team. | Established niche | Custom pricing | ATS/CRM/Database |
| People Data Labs | Dataset of resume, contact, social, and demographic information | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $0.10 per match after 1K; Custom pricing; First 1K free | Dataset |
| Pipl | People search and contact data | Established niche | $.02–$0.40 per match | Dataset |
| Predictive Index | Psychometric evaluation | Established niche | Custom pricing | Assessment |
| Prevue | Psychometric evaluation | Mature (wider market) | Custom pricing | Assessment |
| Py (Hired Assessments) | Assessment platform | Young (team <100 ppl or not established) | Custom pricing | Assessment |
| Qualified.io | Assessment platform | New (startup < 50 ppl) | Custom pricing | |
| Radford | HR consulting firm that also provides salary and compensation data | Mature (wider market) | Custom pricing | Dataset |
| Recruiter Flow | ATS startup | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $59–$129/month | ATS/CRM/Database; Sourcing |
| Recruitifi | A crowdsourcing recruiting platform that provides employers a way to source talent by letting them select and post jobs privately to up to 250 “expert” recruiters. | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $50/posting; 14% of first-year salary | Sourcing |
| Reflektive | HR tech | Established niche | Custom pricing | HR Tech |
| Remote.com | For hiring remote talent. | Established niche | $295/posting; 10% of project cost per successful hire; Custom pricing,Free | Sourcing |
| Resource.io | Outbound sourcing and TRM | New (startup < 50 ppl) | Sourcing | |
| RocketReach | Email and phone dataset | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $79–$349/month | Dataset |
| Searchlight | Focused on back-channel reference checking | New (startup < 50 ppl) | Custom pricing | Referencing |
| SignalHire | Browser extension for collecting email addresses, phone numbers, and social media profiles for candidates | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $79–$99/month; Custom pricing; Free | Sourcing |
| Simppler | Employee referrals product | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $3–$5/seat per month; Custom pricing; Implementation fees | Referrals |
| SkillSurvey | Sourcing, referrals, and references | Established niche | Custom pricing; Subscription | Sourcing; Referrals; Referecing |
| Smart Recruiters | Enterprise ATS company. | Established niche | Custom pricing | ATS/CRM/Database |
| Snov.io | Cold outreach (email find/verify and send) | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $49–$139/month; Custom pricing | Dataset |
| Sourceress | Managed service to do outbound. The most human-heavy of outbound managed services (A/B testing content to see what works). | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $120-150K/year | Sourcing |
| Sourcing.io | Searchable database of engineers with proprietary taxonomy. Also scrapes company employee graphs for referral purposes. | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $199/seat per month | Referrals; Internal Hiring |
| SuccessFactors | (SAP) Full enterprise HR suite with recruiting modules. | Mature (wider market) | Custom pricing | ATS/CRM/Database |
| Tableau | Data analysis and visualization tool | Mature (wider market) | $12/seat per month (100 seats); $22.50–$67.50/seat per month; $35/seat per month (5 seats); Custom pricing | Analytics |
| Takehome.io | Startup working on timeboxing for takehome problems. | Young (team <100 ppl or not established) | Free option; $20/candidate; $20/month (unlimited) | Assessment |
| Talent.io | European-based marketplace that matches employers to candidates | Young (team <100 ppl or not established) | 15% of annual salary on start date or 1% of monthly salary for 18 months | Sourcing |
| TalentWall | Project management and visualization | New (startup < 50 ppl) | Unknown | General tooling |
| Taleo | (Oracle) Full enterprise HR and recruiting suite. | Mature (wider market) | Custom pricing | ATS/CRM/Database |
| Teamable | Tool to manage and encourage in-house referrals. | New (startup < 50 ppl) | Unknown | Referrals |
| Thrive TRM | Built by recruiters (True Search) for their recruiting use case. | Young (team <100 ppl or not established) | Custom pricing | ATS/CRM/Database |
| TopFunnel | Automated engagement, managed sourcing service similar to Findem. | New (startup < 50 ppl) | Custom pricing | Engagement |
| TripleByte | Largely focused on YCombinator companies and growth-stage startup ecosystem. | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $7+ per hire; Tiered pricing by targets | Assessment |
| Research and networking | Ubiquitous (must know about) | Free | Multi-use platform | |
| Uncommon | AI-based inbound sourcing startup | New (startup < 50 ppl) | $100–$400/seat; Custom pricing | Sourcing |
| Underdog.io | Curated recruiting marketplace | New (startup < 50 ppl) | Subscription | Sourcing; Marketplace |
| Vettery | AI-based marketplace matching employers and candidates | New (startup < 50 ppl) | 15% of the hire’s first year base salary | Marketplace |
| Who’s Hiring? (HackerNews monthly thread) | Companies can post short descriptions here each month—Hacker News has a large and dedicated developer following | Established niche | Free | Sourcing; Engagement |
| Workable | ATS platform | Established niche | $99/job per month; Custom pricing | ATS/CRM/Database |
| Zip Recruiter | Large platform that’s been around for a long time. | Mature (wider market) | $249–$1569/month | Sourcing |
| Zoho Recruit | Enterprise software company. Easy to implement and modularize. | Mature (wider market) | $22.50–$67.50/seat per month | ATS/CRM/Database |
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