Recruitee is a collaborative ATS that gives hiring managers and team members a real role in the process — structured scorecards, shared pipelines and automated outreach in one tool.
Recruitee is a Dutch-built applicant tracking system owned by Tellent, focused on collaborative hiring for small and mid-sized companies. We picked it because the core ATSes (Greenhouse, Lever, Workable) tend to be priced and designed around full-time recruiters, while Recruitee is designed around the realistic mid-market situation where a hiring manager, two interviewers and a finance reviewer all need to act inside the same tool. Structured kanban pipelines, scorecards, and Slack and email feedback flows are built for that workflow, not bolted on.
You set up a careers site (Recruitee hosts it on your subdomain), create a job with a custom pipeline, and invite hiring team members with role-based permissions. Candidates flow through the kanban; reviewers leave 1-to-5 scorecard ratings, comments and shortlist tags. Recruitee posts to 1,500+ free and paid job boards (LinkedIn, Indeed, Stack Overflow Jobs, GitHub Jobs and many country-specific boards), pulls applications back into a single inbox, and supports referrals, video assessments via Spark Hire and Willo, and an AI-assisted candidate sourcer extension for LinkedIn. Reporting is solid for time-to-hire, source quality and pipeline conversion.
Recruitee runs three tiers (Start, Grow, Optimise), all priced by number of active job slots, all billed annually. Start is around 224 EUR/month for 5 jobs, Grow is around 322 EUR/month with custom pipelines, careers-site customisation and EEOC reporting, and Optimise is custom for large teams adding SSO, audit logs and dedicated CSM. Unused job slots roll over so seasonal hiring spikes are not punitive. Note: pricing is per job, not per user, so unlimited team members can join at no extra cost — a meaningful structural difference from per-recruiter ATSes that may otherwise look cheaper at the headline.
| ATS | Pricing | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Recruitee | From 224 EUR/mo | 10-500 person teams running collaborative hiring |
| Greenhouse | From ~$6,000/year | Series B+ companies with dedicated TA teams |
| Lever | Custom enterprise | Sourcing-heavy outbound recruiting at scale |
| Workable | From $169/mo | SMBs needing AI-assisted job description and sourcing |
| Teamtailor | From ~250 EUR/mo | Employer-brand-led careers sites with strong design |
18-day free trial, no credit card. Use the link below to start a trial and import your existing pipeline.
Founders hiring for engineering, sales, and ops roles simultaneously struggle to track who interviewed whom and what feedback was given. Recruitee centralizes candidate pipelines so co-founders and department leads see the same candidate status, reducing duplicate interviews and conflicting feedback.
Agencies juggle dozens of open positions across clients and need to share candidate progress with hiring managers without exposing internal notes. Recruitee's permission controls and client portals let agencies organize candidates by job order and grant clients visibility into their own pipeline.
HR teams enforce consistent interview stages, feedback templates, and approval workflows so hiring doesn't vary wildly between marketing and engineering. Recruitee's stage customization and bulk actions help ops teams scale repeatable processes as headcount grows.
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| Feature | Recruitee |
|---|---|
| Free trial | 14 days |
| Cheapest paid plan | $0/mo |
| Annual discount | Up to 25% |
| Refund window | 30 days |
| Setup time | < 1 hour |
| Best for | Founders |
“Right tool for SMB collaborative hiring, not enterprise ATS”
“1,500+ job board syndication saves hours of manual posting”
“Got our hiring managers actually using the ATS”
