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Ashby pricing: Ashby ATS pricing band by band, and how much Ashby costs at your headcount
Ashby does publish a price, and that alone puts it ahead of most of this market. Checked on August 25, 2026, the All-In-One Foundations plan on ashbyhq.com/pricing carries a working calculator: pick a company size band and a payment term, and it returns a monthly total. Foundations serves companies up to 100 employees and runs from $300 to $900 a month depending on which band you fall into. Plus and Enterprise publish nothing.
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Here is the part worth reading carefully, because it is where nearly every article about Ashby pricing goes wrong. The calculator loads with the 11 to 25 employee band already selected, so the figure the page shows on arrival is $400 a month. That number has been copied into article after article as though it were the entry price or a flat rate for the whole plan. It is neither. It is the second band of five. The actual entry rate is $300 a month for 1 to 10 employees, and a 90-person company on the same plan pays $900.
We pulled every band from the calculator itself rather than from the displayed total, and published all five below. You will also find articles asserting that Ashby does not publish prices at all and that a sales call is the only way to get a number. That was true once. It is not true now, and it is checkable in about ten seconds.
The other half of Ashby pricing is metered rather than fixed. AI-assisted application review, fraud detection and talent rediscovery all draw from one shared pool of AI credits, and the size of that pool changes unit as you move up the plans: Foundations counts credits per month, Plus and Enterprise count them per seat per year. That change of unit hides an arithmetic trap that can leave an upgrading team with fewer annual credits than it started with, and we work through it below.
Why it works
What flat, published screening pricing gets your team
A rate that does not meter
Ashby charges by headcount and then meters the AI on top. Our rates are flat and published, so the number you approve in a budget is the number you pay when a requisition spikes.
Screening that is not on a credit clock
Ashby credits are shared across application review, fraud detection and talent rediscovery. Prescreener reads every inbound application as it arrives, with no pool to run down.
Keep Ashby if you like it
Ashby analytics and scheduling are genuinely strong. Prescreener runs in front of your ATS rather than replacing it, so nothing migrates and no data moves.
What it handles
Parsed, scored and ranked on autopilot
Prescreener reads every inbound resume, applies your knockout and eligibility criteria, asks the screening questions you set, scores role-fit against consistent criteria, and ranks the applicant pile so your recruiters review the top matches first.
- Published flat pricing, with no headcount band to true up mid-contract
- Reads 100 percent of inbound applications, with no credit meter to run down
- Runs alongside Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever or Workable, so nothing migrates
- Applies your knockout and eligibility rules identically to every applicant
- Returns the pile ranked, with written evidence behind each placement
- Never auto-rejects: it ranks and flags, and a recruiter decides
- Bias-audited to support EEOC standards and NYC Local Law 144
Why Prescreener
One step that screens the whole inbound pile
Not a full ATS, not a six-figure assessment suite, and not a staffing agency. Parse, score, rank and hand off in one place, shaped to the criteria you already hire on.
Reads every resume
Prescreener parses every inbound application, applies your knockout and eligibility criteria, and asks the screening questions you set. Applicants consent and are told AI is screening their application, so no qualified person sits in a backlog for days.
Scores role-fit consistently
Every applicant is scored against the same criteria, with a transparent reason on each candidate, so the pile is compared consistently and the scoring stays bias-audited to support EEOC standards and NYC Local Law 144.
Ranks the pile
The strongest matches rise to the top of a ranked pile your recruiters review first. Prescreener never auto-rejects, it ranks and flags candidates for review, and your team makes every decision.
In depth
Ashby pricing, band by band and line by line
How much does Ashby cost?
Ashby costs $300 to $900 a month on the All-In-One Foundations plan, priced by company size in five bands, for companies up to 100 employees. The Plus plan covers 101 to 1,000 employees and the Enterprise plan covers 1,000 and above, and neither publishes a rate. Ashby offers a 10 percent discount for annual commitments and advertises no free trial: every plan CTA is Get in Touch.
The five bands below come straight from the pricing calculator on August 25, 2026. This is the table most Ashby pricing articles do not contain, because reading it means changing the dropdown rather than copying the number the page happens to load with.
Notice the shape of the curve. It is not linear. The step from 1 to 10 up to 11 to 25 costs an extra $100 a month, and so does the step to 26 to 50, but the next two steps cost $200 each. A company at 51 employees pays $700 while a company at 50 pays $500, so crossing a single band boundary is a 40 percent increase. If you are close to a threshold, that is worth modelling before you sign, and worth asking about directly: a company hiring hard enough to justify an ATS is a company whose headcount is about to move.
The annual figures in the last two columns are our arithmetic on Ashby's published monthly rate, not numbers Ashby prints. Ashby states that a 10 percent discount for annual commitments is available, which is a phrase that leaves room, so treat the discounted column as the best case rather than a quote.
| Company size | Published monthly rate | Monthly x 12 | With 10% annual commitment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to 10 employees | $300 a month | $3,600 a year | $3,240 a year |
| 11 to 25 employees | $400 a month | $4,800 a year | $4,320 a year |
| 26 to 50 employees | $500 a month | $6,000 a year | $5,400 a year |
| 51 to 75 employees | $700 a month | $8,400 a year | $7,560 a year |
| 76 to 100 employees | $900 a month | $10,800 a year | $9,720 a year |
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Ashby pricing plans: Foundations, Plus, Enterprise and Ashby Analytics
Ashby sells three All-In-One plans and one separate analytics product. Foundations is the only one with a published rate. Plus is described as priced on company size, usage and commitment, which is three variables and therefore not something you can estimate from outside. Enterprise is pitched on predictability rather than price.
The fourth product is the one buyers miss. Ashby Analytics is sold for your existing ATS, aimed at companies over 100 employees, and priced on usage. If your objection to Ashby is that you do not want to migrate your system of record, that product exists specifically for you, and it is a different purchase from the All-In-One plans above.
One structural note for US buyers comparing this to the rest of the market: Ashby prices on employee headcount, not on recruiter seats or job slots. That is unusual. Bullhorn and Manatal charge per user, BambooHR charges per employee, CVViZ charges by active job count, and Workable charges a flat rate that steps through nine employee bands. Whether headcount pricing favors you depends entirely on your recruiter-to-employee ratio: a 90-person company with one recruiter pays the same $900 as a 90-person company with six.
| Plan | Published rate | Built for | How it is priced |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-In-One Foundations | $300 to $900 a month | Up to 100 employees | Five published company-size bands |
| All-In-One Plus | Not published | 101 to 1,000 employees | Company size, usage and commitment |
| All-In-One Enterprise | Not published | 1,000+ employees | Quoted, positioned as predictable and consolidating |
| Ashby Analytics | Not published | 100+ employees, keeping their current ATS | Based on usage |
| Free trial | None advertised | n/a | Every plan CTA is Get in Touch |
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What Ashby AI credits pay for, and the seat math that catches people out
Ashby includes AI credits on every plan, and those credits power three separate features from one shared pool: AI-assisted application review, candidate fraud detection, and AI talent rediscovery. Foundations includes 1,500 credits a month. Plus includes 2,500 credits per seat per year. Enterprise includes 12,500 credits per seat per year. Additional credits can be purchased on all three.
Read those units again, because they are not the same unit. Foundations is per month for the whole account. Plus and Enterprise are per seat per year. Convert Foundations to an annual figure and it is 18,000 credits a year, flat, regardless of how many recruiters you have. A Plus customer with five seats gets 12,500 credits a year. That is a third fewer credits than Foundations, on a more expensive plan.
The break-even is 7.2 seats. A team upgrading from Foundations to Plus with seven recruiters ends up with 17,500 credits a year against the 18,000 it had before. You need eight seats before the Plus allowance overtakes the Foundations allowance. Nothing about this is hidden, but nothing about this is flagged either, and the unit change between rows is very easy to read past when you are comparing plans in a hurry.
There is one thing Ashby does not publish that would make all of this calculable: how many credits a single application review consumes. Without that number you cannot turn any of these allowances into a cost per resume, and you cannot tell whether 18,000 credits is a year of screening or a month of it. If you are evaluating Ashby for screening specifically, that is the first question to ask on the call, and ask for it in writing.
The shared pool matters as much as the size of it. Because application review, fraud detection and talent rediscovery all draw down the same credits, a burst of fraudulent applications on one requisition consumes budget that would otherwise have screened real candidates. Metered AI is fine when volume is predictable. Inbound application volume is the least predictable thing in recruiting.
| Plan | Included AI credits | Credits a year, 5 seats | Credits a year, 10 seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundations | 1,500 per month, account-wide | 18,000 | 18,000 |
| Plus | 2,500 per seat per year | 12,500 | 25,000 |
| Enterprise | 12,500 per seat per year | 62,500 | 125,000 |
| What they pay for | Application review, fraud detection, talent rediscovery, from one shared pool | Shared | Shared |
| Credits per application review | Not published by Ashby | Unknown | Unknown |
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Ashby add-on pricing: the costs that sit outside the subscription
Two add-on rates are published outright in Ashby's feature matrix and both are easy to miss. Single sign-on costs $100 a month on Foundations and is included on Plus and Enterprise. Extra candidate text messages cost $90 per 1,000 on every plan.
The SSO line deserves a moment. A $100 a month add-on against a $300 a month base is a 33 percent increase for the smallest customers, and SSO is not a luxury for most US companies with an IT function. If your security review requires SAML or OIDC, the real Foundations entry price for you is $400 a month, not $300, which is a pleasing coincidence given how many articles quote $400 for the wrong reason.
The AI Notetaker and Advanced Scheduling are both marked as paid add-ons on all three plans, with no rate published for either. Candidate data enrichment and additional sourcing email lookups are also paid add-ons. Every plan includes exactly 200 sourcing email lookups a month, Foundations through Enterprise, which is one of the few allowances Ashby does not scale by tier.
None of this makes Ashby expensive relative to its market. It is a good deal more transparent than Greenhouse, which publishes nothing at all, and cheaper at the entry point than SmartRecruiters, whose one published figure is $14,995. It does mean the sticker price and the invoice are different documents, and the gap between them is larger for small teams than for large ones.
| Line item | Foundations | Plus | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| SSO (SAML or OIDC) | $100 a month | Included | Included |
| Candidate texting included | 1,000 messages a month | 2,000 per seat per year | 3,000 per seat per year |
| Extra candidate texting | $90 per 1,000 | $90 per 1,000 | $90 per 1,000 |
| AI Notetaker | Paid add-on, rate not published | Paid add-on | Paid add-on |
| Advanced Scheduling | Paid add-on, rate not published | Paid add-on | Paid add-on |
| Sourcing email lookups | 200 a month included | 200 a month included | 200 a month included |
| Candidate data enrichment | Paid add-on | Paid add-on | Included |
| Custom permission roles | Limited to 3 | Limited to 3 | Unlimited |
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Does Ashby screen resumes, and is it included at the published rate?
Yes. Ashby AI Assisted Application Review is available on all three plans, including Foundations at $300 a month. Ashby describes it as defining criteria for your jobs and using AI to analyze matches against that criteria across inbound applications. It draws on the AI credit pool described above.
That puts Ashby in a genuinely good position relative to most of this market, and it is worth saying plainly. A lot of applicant tracking systems publish a low headline rate and then gate the AI screening upward into a quote-only tier. Bullhorn publishes $99 and $165 per user per month and puts Amplify AI on the quote-only Pro and Max tiers. SmartRecruiters publishes $14,995 for Essential, which has no AI at all, and screening does not appear until the High Volume edition. Lever sells AI screening as a separate paid add-on. JazzHR gates AI candidate matching to the $3,480 a year Plus plan. Ashby includes application review at its entry rate, which is the exception rather than the rule.
The caveat is the meter, not the tier. You get the capability at $300 a month, and then how much of it you get depends on a credit pool whose per-review consumption is not published. Ashby also includes fraudulent candidate detection, auto-reject rules, fast application review and AI talent rediscovery on all three plans, and three of those four draw from the same credits.
Where a dedicated screening layer differs is scope and pricing model rather than capability. Prescreener reads every inbound application automatically, applies your knockout and eligibility gates identically to all of them, and ranks the pile with the written evidence behind each placement, at a flat published rate with no credit pool and no headcount band. It runs in front of Ashby rather than replacing it, so if the analytics and scheduling are why you bought Ashby, you keep them.
Ashby pricing compared with other applicant tracking systems that publish a rate
Most of this market does not publish anything. Greenhouse, Lever, iCIMS, Workday, Harver, Paradox, Ceipal and Pinpoint all quote privately, and Pinpoint's own pricing page returns a 404. Against that backdrop, the platforms below are the ones you can actually budget against without a discovery call, checked in August 2026.
The comparison is not apples to apples and it is worth being honest about why. Ashby prices on employee headcount, Bullhorn and Manatal on recruiter seats, BambooHR on employees, CVViZ on active job slots, and Workable on a flat rate that steps through employee bands. A 40-person company with two recruiters and a 40-person company with eight will get very different answers from the same table.
The last column is the one that usually decides the shortlist. Publishing a low rate is easy if the capability you were shopping for is not in it.
| Platform | Published entry rate | Pricing unit | AI resume screening at that rate? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashby | $300 a month | Employee headcount band | Yes, credit-metered |
| Prescreener | $199 a month | Flat plan | Yes, this is the product |
| Manatal | $15 per user per month | Recruiter seat | Yes, on all three tiers |
| Bullhorn | $99 per user per month | Recruiter seat | No, Amplify AI starts on quote-only Pro |
| TestGorilla | $142 a month (Core) | Flat plan plus credits | Yes, free on every tier |
| Breezy HR | $157 a month (Startup) | Flat plan | No, Breezy Intelligence is a paid add-on |
| Workable | $299 a month (Standard) | Flat, steps by employee band | Yes, Screening Assistant included |
| Spark Hire | $335 a month (Recruit Pro) | Flat, by employee count | Yes, capped at 6,000 reviews a year |
| CVViZ | $99 a month (Starter) | Active job slots | Yes, on all plans |
| JazzHR | $1,000 a year (Hero) | Flat plan | No, matching starts on Plus at $3,480 |
| SmartRecruiters | $14,995 (Essential) | Not stated by vendor | No, screening starts at High Volume |
| Greenhouse | Nothing published | Quoted | Yes, Talent Matching, rate unknown |
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