Applicant Tracking System (ATS) Pricing in 2026

The short answer

ATS pricing splits in two. Vendors that publish self-service pricing run roughly $1,000 to $9,000 a year for small-to-mid teams: Breezy HR from free up to $529/mo, JazzHR $1,000 to $5,508/yr, Workable $299 to $719/mo (by employee headcount), Ashby Foundations $400/mo (up to 100 employees). Quote-only majors (Greenhouse, Lever) publish no price and negotiate annual contracts, usually five figures a year at mid-market and up. The pricing model, per headcount, flat tier, or per seat, matters more than the headline. As of June 2026, verified against each vendor’s published pricing page.

The two pricing models that decide your bill.

Before comparing headline numbers, understand the model. The same company can pay wildly different amounts depending on whether the ATS bills by employee headcount, by flat plan tier, or by negotiated seats. This is the single most important thing to get right when budgeting.

By employee headcount

Workable and Ashby price by total company headcount. Your bill rises as the company grows even if your recruiting team does not. Crossing a tier boundary (e.g. 20 to 21 employees) can jump the price. Punishes large companies that hire slowly.

Flat tier, unlimited users

JazzHR and Breezy charge a flat price per plan with unlimited users. Team size does not change the cost; the plan’s feature set does. Rewards small teams that hire heavily and large hiring teams on a fixed budget.

Negotiated / quote-only

Greenhouse and Lever publish no price and structure annual contracts around seats, active requisitions, and modules. Flexible but opaque: the only way to know your cost is a sales conversation, and quotes vary by quarter and discovery call.

ATS that publish self-service pricing (2026).

These four vendors list prices publicly, so you can budget without a sales call. Every figure here is verified against the vendor’s own pricing page as of June 2026.

Vendor	Entry plan	Top published plan	Pricing model
Breezy HR	Free (1 position)	Business $529/mo ($439/mo annual)	Flat tier, unlimited users
JazzHR	Hero $1,000/yr	Pro $5,508/yr	Flat tier
Workable	Standard $299/mo	Enterprise $719/mo	By employee headcount
Ashby	Foundations $400/mo (to 100 employees)	Plus / Enterprise (custom)	By employee headcount

Breezy HR publishes the most accessible ladder: Bootstrap free (1 active position, unlimited users and candidates), Startup $189/mo ($157/mo billed annually), Growth $329/mo ($273/mo annual), Business $529/mo ($439/mo annual), Custom Pro by quote. Annual billing includes two months free, and pricing is per plan tier, not per seat.

JazzHR is flat-rate and small-business-focused: Hero $1,000/yr, Plus $3,480/yr, Pro $5,508/yr billed annually, with up to 24 percent saved by paying yearly. Workable bills by employee headcount with unlimited active jobs: Standard $299/mo, Premier $599/mo, Enterprise $719/mo, 20 percent off annual. On Standard, video interviews, texting, assessments, and performance reviews are $39 to $109/mo add-ons each, so the real Standard cost is often above the $299 headline. Ashby publishes only its Foundations tier ($400/mo for up to 100 employees, 10 percent off annual); Plus (101 to 1,000 employees) and Enterprise (1,000+) are custom-quoted.

The quote-only majors: Greenhouse and Lever.

The two best-known enterprise ATS publish no list pricing. Both are sold as annual contracts structured around seat count, active requisitions, and module selection, and both negotiate. The honest statement about their cost is that it is bespoke.

Greenhouse is quote-only. Third-party procurement aggregators put the starting point in the mid four figures to around $6,500/yr and a roughly 200-employee company in the mid-teens of thousands per year, but those are aggregates of negotiated deals, not list prices; your quote depends on size, modules, and timing. Lever is similarly opaque, with annual commitments built from customised bundles and no public number. For either, budget a five-figure annual line at mid-market and plan for separate implementation and integration fees on top.

What the headline price leaves out.

The plan price is rarely the whole bill. Three costs sit outside the headline on most mid-market and enterprise ATS deployments, and they routinely add 20 to 60 percent to year-one spend.

→Add-on modules. Texting, video interviewing, assessments, advanced reporting, and AI features are frequently priced separately. Workable charges $39 to $109/mo each for these on its Standard tier.
→Implementation and migration. Mid-market and enterprise ATS take 60 to 120 days to configure, and data migration plus integration with your HRIS, calendar, and background-check vendor often involves paid professional services.
→Tier-boundary jumps. On headcount-priced ATS, a single new hire can push you across a pricing band. Budget for the band above your current headcount, not the one you sit in today.

Where the ATS sits in cost-per-hire.

The ATS is the largest single line in most recruiting tool stacks, but amortised across a year of hiring it is rarely the dominant cost-per-hire driver; interviewer time and agency fees are. A $5,000/yr ATS across 50 hires is $100 per hire; a $40,000 enterprise ATS across 300 hires is about $133 per hire. Both are small next to the loaded interviewer hours a single onsite loop consumes. Size the ATS to your real hiring volume and team shape, then put the saved budget where the per-hire cost actually concentrates.

For the full picture of where tooling fits against interviewer time, recruiter fees, and the rest of the five-component model, see the cost-per-hire breakdown and run your own numbers in the calculator.

Cross-references.

For the broader recruiting-tooling category guide (sourcing, scheduling, async video), see the tooling cost page. For the assessment and live-coding platforms that integrate with your ATS, see the HackerRank, CodeSignal, and CoderPad cost pages.

Run your own numbers.

Add your ATS cost amortised per hire to the five-component calculator scenario.

Run the calculator

Frequently asked questions

How much does an applicant tracking system cost in 2026?

It splits two ways. The vendors that publish self-service pricing land roughly $1,000 to $9,000 per year for small-to-mid teams: Breezy HR from free (1 position) up to $529 per month, JazzHR $1,000 to $5,508 per year, Workable $299 to $719 per month by employee headcount, and Ashby Foundations $400 per month for up to 100 employees. The enterprise majors (Greenhouse, Lever) do not publish pricing and are quote-only, typically negotiated in the five figures per year for mid-market and up. Verified against each vendor's published pricing page as of June 2026.

Which ATS publish their pricing and which are quote-only?

Publish self-service pricing: Breezy HR, JazzHR, Workable, and Ashby (Foundations tier only). Quote-only with no public list price: Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby's Plus and Enterprise tiers. As a rule, SMB-focused ATS publish flat prices while enterprise-focused platforms route everything through sales. A published price is not automatically cheaper, but it is far easier to budget against.

Is ATS pricing per recruiter seat, per employee, or flat?

All three models exist, and the model matters more than the headline number. Workable and Ashby price by total employee headcount, so your bill rises as the company grows even if your recruiting team does not. JazzHR and Breezy charge a flat price per plan tier with unlimited users, so team size does not change the cost. Greenhouse and Lever negotiate bespoke contracts that are usually tied to seats and active requisitions. Match the model to your shape: a large company hiring slowly is punished by headcount pricing; a small team hiring heavily is rewarded by flat-tier pricing.

What does Workable cost and how is it priced?

Workable publishes three tiers priced by employee headcount, all with unlimited active jobs: Standard $299 per month, Premier $599 per month, and Enterprise $719 per month, with a 20 percent discount for annual billing. The catch is the headcount model and add-ons: video interviews, texting, assessments, and performance reviews are bundled into Premier and Enterprise but cost $39 to $109 per month each on Standard, so the real Standard cost is often higher than the $299 headline. Verified against workable.com/pricing as of June 2026.

What does Greenhouse cost?

Greenhouse does not publish list pricing; it is quote-only and structured as an annual contract tied to company size, modules, and seats. Third-party procurement aggregators put the starting point in the mid four figures to around $6,500 per year and a roughly 200-employee company in the mid-teens of thousands per year, but treat any single figure as an aggregate of negotiated deals rather than a price you can quote. The only reliable way to know your Greenhouse cost is a sales conversation.

What is the cheapest credible ATS?

Breezy HR runs a genuinely free Bootstrap plan (one active position, unlimited users and candidates, branded career site, 50+ job-board distribution), which is the cheapest credible starting point for a very small team. Among paid plans, JazzHR Hero at $1,000 per year and Breezy Startup at $189 per month ($157 per month billed annually) are the lowest published entry points. For a single open role, Breezy free is hard to beat; once you run multiple concurrent reqs, JazzHR Hero or Breezy Startup are the cheapest verified options.

Applicant tracking system (ATS) pricing in 2026.