Ashby vs Lever

Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform from a San Francisco startup founded in 2018. It combines an applicant tracking system, a candidate CRM with sourcing, automated interview scheduling and a recruiting analytics engine in a single product. Fast-growing technology companies adopted it because it removed the need for separate tools for scheduling (such as GoodTime), sourcing outreach (such as Gem) and reporting.

Hiring teams get structured pipelines with scorecards, approvals for jobs and offers, email sequences to passive candidates, self-scheduling and panel coordination across interviewer calendars, and AI-assisted application review and interview notes. Analytics are the main differentiator: recruiting ops teams can build custom reports on funnel conversion, time to hire, source quality and interviewer load without exporting data. Pricing scales with company size: the Foundations plan for companies up to 100 employees starts at $400 a month, larger tiers are quoted, and advanced analytics, scheduling and CRM capabilities sit in higher tiers.

Ashby fits companies where hiring is continuous and a dedicated recruiting team exists. Configuration takes effort, and the price is hard to justify for a business hiring a handful of roles a year, where Workable, Homerun or Teamtailor are simpler. Against Greenhouse, Ashby offers stronger built-in analytics and scheduling, while Greenhouse has the larger integration marketplace and a longer enterprise track record. Lever is the other common comparison, with similar ATS plus CRM scope but slower recent innovation.

Lever is a recruiting platform that combines an applicant tracking system with candidate relationship management, sold together as LeverTRM. Founded in San Francisco in 2012, it became part of Employ Inc. in 2022 alongside Jobvite and JazzHR, and it is used mainly by mid-size companies with in-house recruiting teams.

The product lets recruiters manage active job pipelines and nurture passive candidates in the same database: a browser extension captures profiles from LinkedIn and other sites, nurture campaigns send personalized email sequences, and past applicants such as silver medalists can be rediscovered for new roles. Interview scheduling, structured feedback forms, offer approvals and reporting support the hiring process, with native Gmail, Outlook and calendar sync and integrations with HRIS systems and job boards. Pricing is quote-based, and capabilities such as advanced analytics, nurture and onboarding are sold as add-ons.

Lever fits sourcing-heavy recruiting teams at companies with roughly a hundred to a few thousand employees that value having CRM and ATS in one tool. Product innovation has slowed since the Employ consolidation, and its analytics trail Ashby. Greenhouse is stronger on structured hiring and has a bigger integration marketplace, Ashby leads on analytics and automation, and SMB-oriented tools such as Workable or Teamtailor are simpler and more transparently priced for smaller companies.