Workable Alternatives

Breezy HR is the closest like-for-like swap for a Workable Standard customer: a customizable recruiting pipeline, a branded careers site, posting to more than 50 job boards, candidate questionnaires and interview self-scheduling, all on the entry plan. The pricing logic is the opposite of Workable's. Every plan includes unlimited users and unlimited open positions, and the price does not move when your company grows. Startup costs $157 a month billed annually, or $189 billed monthly. Growth, at $273 a month annually or $329 monthly, adds several hiring pipelines, scorecards, interview guides, employee referrals and e-signatures. Business, at $439 annually or $529 monthly, adds offer management, approvals, custom roles and HRIS integrations.

How the price reads against Workable: Startup on annual billing comes to $1,884 a year, against $3,588 for Workable Standard on the same billing, and you never pay a supplement for one more hiring manager. The catch is AI. Breezy Intelligence, the scoring that ranks applicants, runs on credits bought separately from $30 per 100,000, and scoring one applicant uses about 500 credits: a role that draws 400 applicants burns about $60 of credits if you score them all. Credits never expire, so you can buy a block before a hiring push. Breezy has no free plan; the 14-day trial includes 100,000 credits, enough for about 200 applicant scores. Tip: post one live role during the trial and count the applications from each board before you sign for a year; paying monthly is possible on every plan if you are not sure yet.

Manatal is a per-user ATS that adds AI to the basics at a low entry price. Professional costs $15 per user per month on yearly billing, or $19 on monthly billing, and covers up to 15 jobs per account and 10,000 candidates. Enterprise, at $35 yearly or $39 monthly, removes both limits and adds workflow automation; Enterprise Plus, at $55 yearly or $59 monthly, adds user groups, SSO, API access and priority support. Every plan recommends candidates from the job description, enriches profiles with public social data such as LinkedIn and GitHub, and shares jobs on free and premium channels. The trial lasts 14 days and needs no card.

How the price reads against Workable: three users on Professional cost $540 a year on yearly billing, less than a sixth of Workable Standard. The limit that matters is the job cap: 15 jobs per account, not per user, so a team of five shares the same 15. An agency with 20 open mandates goes straight to Enterprise, where three users cost $1,260 a year on yearly billing, still about a third of Workable Standard. Watch how the cap counts: archived jobs still count toward the 15, and only an Admin's permanent deletion frees a slot, so export what you need from a filled job before you delete it. To connect it to the rest of your stack, see our Manatal Zapier integration guide.

Ashby is the pick when Workable feels too light rather than too expensive. It bundles an ATS, a sourcing CRM, interview scheduling, offers and approvals and deep reporting in one all-in-one product. Foundations, its plan for companies of up to 100 employees, has a published price for each headcount band: $300 a month for 1 to 10 employees on monthly billing, $400 for 11 to 25, $500 for 26 to 50, $700 for 51 to 75 and $900 for 76 to 100, with a 10% discount for annual commitments. Foundations includes 200 sourcing email lookups, 1,000 outbound candidate texts a month (US and Canada numbers) and 1,500 AI credits a month. Plus, for 101 to 1,000 employees, and Enterprise, above 1,000, are quoted on company size, usage and commitment.

How the price reads against Workable: a 60-person company pays $700 a month on monthly billing for Foundations, against $800 for Workable Standard in its 51 to 100 employee band, so at that size Ashby costs less and includes more. The pricing unit is the same as Workable's, a headcount band, which means the bill also climbs as you grow, and Foundations stops at 100 employees. Two add-ons to budget: SSO costs $100 a month, and extra candidate texts are $90 per 1,000. Tip: pick yearly billing only after the first quarter, once you know which band you will sit in at renewal, and connect it to the rest of your stack with our Ashby Zapier integration guide.

Zoho Recruit prices the people who recruit, not the size of your company. A recruiter license costs US$25 a month billed annually on Standard, or US$30 billed monthly, and US$50 annually or US$60 monthly on Enterprise. The free plan keeps one active job per recruiter license, with candidate management, email and interview scheduling, which is enough for a founder who hires once or twice a year. Standard raises the cap to 10 active jobs per recruiter license and adds premium job boards, a branded careers site and assessments; Enterprise allows 20 active jobs per license and adds AI candidate matching, candidate and staffing portals, and SMS. There is no forced contract, a 15-day free trial that drops you to the free plan when it ends, and a 45-day money-back guarantee.

How the price reads against Workable: two recruiters on Standard cost US$600 a year on annual billing, against $3,588 for Workable Standard. Watch the second unit, though: hiring managers who only review candidates need an employee license, sold in packs of 10 at US$8.34 each a month on annual billing, so the pack adds about US$83 a month. Count your interviewers before you count your recruiters. Tip: active jobs are counted per license, so close filled roles at once; a role left open on the careers page keeps one of your 10 slots busy. To push new hires into your other apps, our Zoho Recruit Make integration guide shows the scenarios.

JazzHR is a US-built ATS for small and mid-sized businesses, sold in three plans with a yearly and a monthly price. Hero costs $1,000 a year, or $110 a month on monthly billing, with job postings starting at 3 a month. Plus costs $3,480 a year, or $350 a month, and allows up to 200 active jobs, with AI-powered candidate matching, structured interviews and configurable task automation. Pro costs $5,508 a year, or $549 a month, and adds workflow reports and offers with e-signatures. Paying yearly saves up to 24%. Job posting and syndication depend on eligibility criteria and on job board partner limits, and some add-ons are billed by consumption. Read the small print before you sign: the standard prices do not apply to staffing or recruiting agencies, franchises, multi-location businesses or organizations with over 250 employees.

How the price reads against Workable: Hero on yearly billing costs less than a third of Workable Standard, which makes JazzHR the budget line for a company with a handful of hires a year. The trade-off is the posting cap on Hero, which starts at 3 job postings a month. Plus is the plan that compares with Workable Standard on scope, and it costs $3,480 a year against $3,588. Tip: Hero monthly costs $110, so the yearly $1,000 bill only wins if you would keep the plan ten months or more ($1,100 at ten months, $990 at nine).

100Hires prices by plan and by company size, and is built for small businesses that hire in waves. For 1 to 20 employees, Start costs $49 a month billed annually, or $99 a month on monthly billing, and covers up to 3 jobs, 100 candidates and 1 user, with 100 monthly AI credits for candidate scoring, resume parsing and job descriptions. Advanced costs $199 a month annually or $249 monthly and unlocks unlimited jobs, candidates and users, automated emails, knockout questions, a custom domain for your careers site and phone calling and texting. From 21 employees the grid moves up: Advanced costs $299 a month annually or $369 monthly for 21 to 50 employees. Pro costs $399 annually or $499 monthly, adds sourcing with contact enrichment and onboarding support, and includes free data migration on annual contracts. Monthly plans can be cancelled from the billing settings, and you keep access until the end of the paid period.

How the price reads against Workable: Advanced on annual billing comes to $2,388 a year, and texting is part of the plan, where Workable charges $89 a month for it. Start is cheap but tight: 100 candidates fill up after one busy role, and a job that hits its candidate cap moves to draft and stops taking applicants until you upgrade. 100Hires also says it does not offer refunds, so start monthly before you prepay a year. The free trial needs no card, and only 10 candidates from external job boards can come in across all jobs during it, so test with direct applications. Tip: if you sign Pro yearly, ask for the free migration of your Workable data before you cancel; our 100Hires Zapier integration guide covers the automations.