Lever vs. Ashby: Why Hiring Teams Choose Our Leading ATS
Your hiring team’s efforts are only as good as your tech stack. Choosing between Lever vs. Ashby can seem like a big decision, but you can rest assured that Lever is the best bet for hiring teams that don’t mess around.
Lever vs. Ashby: Who has the edge?
| Feature | Lever | Ashby |
| Automation | ✔ Enterprise-grade workflow management | ✘ Limited flexibility |
| Scalability | ✔ Proven success with teams of any size | ✘ Primarily made for small to mid-size teams |
| Candidate Engagement | ✔ Multi-channel support for email campaigns, SMS, drip workflows, and more | ✘ Less available variety and customization across channels |
| Candidate Relationship Management | ✔ Full-funnel talent CRM tools | ✘ Limited long-term engagement tools |
| Integration Ecosystem | ✔ 300+ seamless integrations that fit your hiring needs | ✘ Relies heavily on manual configuration with Zapier for integrations |
| AI-Powered Features | ✔ In-platform AI for interview transcription, smart summaries, job matching, and ROI insights | ✘ Recruitment-limited AI tools |
Lever vs. Ashby: FAQ
What are the main differences between Lever and Ashby?
Lever is the best talent acquisition software for mid-market to enterprise-level businesses. Here are some of Lever’s advantages over Ashby:
- Enterprise workflows: Lever has configurable multi-stage approvals, requisition management, and robust permission controls; Ashby workflows are simpler and best suited to smaller teams.
- Scalability: Lever is proven to scale with global enterprises, while Ashby primarily serves mid-market and smaller organizations.
- CRM Capabilities: Lever includes a unified ATS + CRM, making it easier to manage talent pipelines. Ashby has limited long-term CRM engagement tools.
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. Typical migrations take about six weeks, but we’ll work with you to make switching as quick and painless as possible.
How much does Lever cost?
As a flexible solution, Lever offers custom pricing for each customer.
Automation
Unlike Ashby, Lever is built to support scalable operations. Need to manage hundreds of candidates at a time across multiple hiring stages? Lever has you covered.
- Multi-stage approvals. Seamlessly tailor workflows and processes across finance, HR, and hiring departments.
- Automated next actions. Keep everyone on track with automated emails that are sent out when they need to complete a task.
Scalability
Ashby is designed primarily for small HR teams or single-member recruiting functions that need rigid processes. Meanwhile, Lever lets you level up your hiring workflows with enterprise-level power while maintaining flexibility in workflow design.
- Centralized system configuration. Allow admins to set workflows, permissions, and templates that automatically scale across teams and locations.
- Bulk actions. From automated pipeline progression to high-volume requisition management, you can focus on the most important tasks on your plate as your hiring function grows—Lever will handle the rest.
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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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Candidate Engagement
While Ashby offers only basic single-channel sequences and lacks detailed engagement analytics, Lever users can keep candidates engaged across numerous channels with data-driven insights.
- Native SMS, email, and drip campaign management. Reach out and connect with candidates via their communication channels of choice.
- Communication tracking. Save specific interactions with ease in each candidate’s profile so you can better tailor your approach.
Candidate
relationship management
While Ashby prioritizes active recruiting, it lacks long-term engagement capabilities and nurturing workflows for passive talent. Lever’s CRM features help you build and maintain valuable, long-lasting relationships.
- Deliver personalized communication at scale. Enterprise-level hiring operations can still create a personal candidate experience with the right messaging. Send the right messages to the right candidates at the right time with Lever’s segmentation abilities.
- AI-powered rediscovery recommendations. Repurpose existing relationships and strengthen your passive talent pools for long-term success.
Integration
ecosystem
Ashby relies heavily on Zapier to deliver integrations, decreasing user-friendliness with cumbersome manual processes. With Lever’s intuitive native integrations, you can connect your systems in a fraction of the time.
- 300+ integrations. Whether you have workflow management tools, an HRIS, or job board aggregators, you can conveniently connect the tech you love.
- Consistently updated integration ecosystem. Even if a solution isn’t currently in our ecosystem, we’re constantly adding new integrations and can develop them with many types of systems.
AI-Powered
Features
Lever’s AI features offer powerful, in-platform capabilities like interview transcription, smart summaries, and candidate-job matching—all included with your ATS subscription—giving teams actionable insights without needing extra tools. Unlike Ashby, Lever delivers enterprise-grade AI that’s easy to adopt and built for immediate impact across every stage of hiring.
- AI Interview Companion. Lever’s AI Interview Companion automatically records, transcribes, and summarizes interviews, allowing recruiters and hiring managers to focus on the conversation rather than note-taking.
- ROI Dashboard with AI Recommendations. Lever’s ROI Dashboard provides AI-powered insights into hiring performance, highlighting areas to improve efficiency, such as reducing excessive interview steps. This enables teams to accelerate hiring processes and maximize impact.
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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