Lever vs. SmartRecruiters: Why Choose Lever for Smart Hiring
Mid-market companies often struggle with having too many or too few features for their hiring needs. With Lever, you don’t have to worry—unlike SmartRecruiters, our system prioritizes agility, flexibility, and customization so companies of any size can future-proof their hiring practices and acquire top talent.
Lever vs. SmartRecruiters: Who has the edge?
Lever vs. SmartRecruiters: FAQ
What are the main differences between Lever and SmartRecruiters?
Lever is the leading ATS for companies looking to scale their hiring without stacking tools or adding complexity. With native CRM capabilities, robust automation, and flexible workflows built into the platform, Lever helps teams leverage opportunities, stay aligned, and deliver standout candidate experiences. Unlike SmartRecruiters, which leans towards an enterprise user base, Lever gives midmarket companies everything they need in one place.
How do we migrate our legacy solution to Lever?
If you’re ready to supercharge your hiring, we’re here to help! We’ll guide you step-by-step through the processes of migrating your data, onboarding your team, and ensuring you leverage every feature that could improve your results.
How much does Lever cost?
As a flexible solution, Lever offers custom pricing for each customer.
Workflow
Flexibility
Every hiring team operates differently, and as an enterprise-level solution, SmartRecruiters isn’t the best choice for all companies. On the other hand, Lever provides fully customizable workflows, supporting diverse hiring structures across departments and regions.
- Customizable work cadences. Lever allows organizations to tailor pipelines, hiring stages, and approval processes to their unique hiring needs.
- Facilitate cross-team collaboration. Automate task handoffs between recruiters, hiring managers, HR, and more with smart triggers and tagging abilities.
Analytics and
reporting
You shouldn’t need a separate analytics platform just to understand your hiring funnel. Lever’s built-in reporting gives you deep visibility at every stage—whether you’re tracking five metrics or twenty-five.
- Visual Insights dashboards. With the configurable Visual Insights dashboard, you can view all of your most important data in one convenient place.
- Customizable role-based analytics. Empower your entire team to track recruiting metrics across the hiring cycle, from the first touchpoint to offer acceptance.
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Whether you have 100 reqs or just one hard-to-fill role, Lever gives you adaptable, Al-powered hiring software that flexes as your team grows, your roles change, and your priorities shift.
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AI and Automation
Why waste hours on tasks that our platform can handle for you? Lever’s integrated Automation Hub takes care of the tedious work so your team can put more energy into making great hires.
- Streamline the hiring process. Efficiently move candidates through the hiring funnel by automatically reviewing resumes, distributing assessments, and communicating next steps.
- Hands-off logistics. Easily work interviews into your schedule, plan emails, and even re-engage candidates at the ideal time with AI triggers.
Scalability
Don’t get locked into an overwhelming solution like SmartRecruiters. Whether you’re hiring 50 or 500, Lever is designed for growth-oriented mid-market teams who need flexibility without sacrificing structure.
- Scale systems as you grow. If your hiring needs change, Lever has you covered. You can choose all of the Lever systems you need—and none of the ones you don’t—for a truly customizable experience.
- Built to handle what’s next. From bulk actions and hiring templates to scalable permissions and centralized oversight, Lever makes it easy to scale up without switching systems.
Candidate
relationship management
Connecting with candidates from afar has never been easier. Lever makes hiring more human with its native CRM capabilities.
- Multi-channel communication. Reach candidates where they are by automatically communicating via their channel of choice, like email and SMS.
- Monitor engagement. Jump on opportunities and quickly adjust your approach by monitoring real-time engagement metrics, like click-through tracking, reply rates, and more.
Praised by the People Who Matter Most
“The integrations with Lever are fantastic. They’ve helped us cut time to hire by 7 business days, which is amazing. Our leadership team was blown away by this because it used to take 15 more days to get somebody hired.”
“We e.l.f.ing LOVE Lever!”
“I’ve used Workday, Greenhouse, and even Breezy. I’ve tried a lot of ATS software, but Lever is the best. It’s the most user-friendly and it offers a wide range of integrations.”
“Our old applicant tracking system was not good for what Hopper needed it to do. I’m a two-time Lever customer and super psyched about it. So I knew that Lever was the solution for our scheduling, reporting, and pipeline management challenges.”
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