Lever
Lever combines applicant tracking and recruiting CRM tools in one hiring platform.
What Lever is
Lever combines applicant tracking and recruiting CRM tools in one hiring platform. It supports candidate sourcing, application management, interview scheduling, hiring-manager collaboration, workflow automation, and hiring-performance measurement. Career-site tools, resume parsing, and job-board distribution are included. Dashboards and customizable reports cover hiring activity, pipeline health, and business impact. AI matching, insights, and signals help prioritize candidates, with listed goals of improving accuracy, reducing candidate-loss risk, and increasing transparency. The Core Platform plan includes ATS and CRM functions, reporting and analytics, AI screening, unlimited AI interview transcripts and summaries, and AI fraud-prevention signals; pricing is by custom quote. Add-ons include Candidate Insights, AI Screening by VONQ, and Onboarding. Marketplace integrations include BambooHR, Justworks, LinkedIn, ADP, HiBob, and Indeed, across several HR categories. Lever runs on the web and through an API.
Good
- Applicant tracking and recruiting CRM together
- Workflow automation and interview scheduling
- Customizable hiring reports and dashboards
- AI screening and interview summaries
- Web and API availability
Watch out
- Pricing requires a custom quote
- Some capabilities are listed as add-ons
- Implementation guidance is personalized rather than self-described
Who it suits
Lever is intended for small, mid-sized, and enterprise organizations scaling hiring across departments or locations. It suits teams needing recruiting workflows, reporting, integrations, and career-site support.
Verdict
Lever covers recruiting operations from sourcing through reporting, with CRM, ATS, automation, and integrations. Organizations should request a quote to understand the Core Platform and add-on costs.
Plans and prices
From Lever's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Core Platform | Priced on request | ATS & CRM · reporting and analytics · AI screening · unlimited AI interview transcripts and summaries · AI fraud prevention signals · Custom quote; contact Lever for pricing |
The facts
Each one read from Lever's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Add-ons
- Listed add-ons include Candidate Insights, AI Screening by VONQ, and Onboarding.checked 9 Oct 2026
- AI screening
- AI-powered matching, insights, and signals are used to prioritize candidates, and the pricing page says these are intended to improve accuracy, reduce candidate loss risk, and increase transparency.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Career site
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Data protection
- The security page says data in transit uses HTTPS with TLS 1.2 and stored customer information is protected with AES-256-bit encryption.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Data retention
- Application and system logs have a rolling six-month retention period, and customers can configure personal-data retention policies in the platform.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Hiring workflows
- The platform supports sourcing candidates, managing applications, scheduling interviews, collaborating with hiring managers, automating workflows, and measuring hiring performance.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Implementation
- Lever says most customers are fully implemented within weeks, with personalized guidance.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Integration categories
- Marketplace categories include assessments, background checks, communications, HRIS and payroll, scheduling, sourcing, video interviews, and single sign-on.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Lever's marketplace lists integrations and providers including BambooHR, Justworks, LinkedIn, ADP, HiBob, and Indeed.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Interview scheduling
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Job board distribution
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Privacy compliance
- Lever says its security parameters comply with GDPR and CCPA and are intended to support customers' compliance with those laws.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Product
- Lever combines applicant tracking and recruiting CRM tools in one hiring platform.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Reporting
- The core platform includes out-of-the-box dashboards and customizable reports for hiring activity, pipeline health, and business impact.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Resume parsing
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Security certifications
- Lever's security page says an independent auditor issued its SOC 2 Type 2 report and Employ's ISO/IEC 27001 certificate.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Support
- Lever directs existing customers to customer support and provides separate support routes for job seekers and sales inquiries.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Who it serves
- Lever says it is built for small, mid-sized, and enterprise organizations scaling hiring across departments or locations.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Workflow automation
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Denver, Colorado, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
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