Lever
Lever · Denver, Colorado, United States
What it is
Lever combines applicant tracking and recruiting CRM tools in a hiring platform for organizations scaling recruitment across departments or locations. 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, while the listed Core Platform includes AI screening, AI fraud-prevention signals, and unlimited AI interview transcripts and summaries. Add-ons include Candidate Insights, AI Screening by VONQ, and Onboarding. Its marketplace lists providers such as BambooHR, Justworks, LinkedIn, ADP, HiBob, and Indeed across assessment, background-check, communications, HRIS and payroll, scheduling, sourcing, video interview, and single sign-on categories. Lever is available through web and API. Pricing is by request, and implementation is described as taking weeks with personalized guidance.
For and against
For
- Combines applicant tracking and recruiting CRM
- Provides career-site and job-board distribution tools
- Offers customizable hiring and pipeline reports
- Includes AI screening and fraud-prevention signals
- Supports integrations across HR and recruiting categories
Against
- Pricing requires a custom quote
- Some capabilities are listed as add-ons
- Implementation is described as taking weeks
- AI features are part of a paid platform
The verdict
Lever covers the main stages of recruiting, from sourcing through reporting, in one web and API platform. Its integrations and AI options broaden the workflow, while pricing and add-on scope require a sales discussion.
Who it suits
It suits small, mid-sized, and enterprise organizations recruiting across multiple teams or locations. Hiring teams needing ATS, CRM, reporting, and workflow tools can use its combined platform.
Plans and prices
Core Platform
ATS & CRM · reporting and analytics · AI screening · unlimited AI interview transcripts and summaries
Read 9 Oct 2026 · lever.co
On the record
- Add-ons
- Listed add-ons include Candidate Insights, AI Screening by VONQ, and Onboarding.lever.co · read 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.lever.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Career site
- Yeslever.co · read 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.lever.co · read 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.lever.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Hiring workflows
- The platform supports sourcing candidates, managing applications, scheduling interviews, collaborating with hiring managers, automating workflows, and measuring hiring performance.lever.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Implementation
- Lever says most customers are fully implemented within weeks, with personalized guidance.lever.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Integration categories
- Marketplace categories include assessments, background checks, communications, HRIS and payroll, scheduling, sourcing, video interviews, and single sign-on.marketplace.lever.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Lever's marketplace lists integrations and providers including BambooHR, Justworks, LinkedIn, ADP, HiBob, and Indeed.marketplace.lever.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Interview scheduling
- Yeslever.co · read 20 Sep 2026
- Job board distribution
- Yeslever.co · read 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.lever.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Product
- Lever combines applicant tracking and recruiting CRM tools in one hiring platform.lever.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Reporting
- The core platform includes out-of-the-box dashboards and customizable reports for hiring activity, pipeline health, and business impact.lever.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Resume parsing
- Yeslever.co · read 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.lever.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Support
- Lever directs existing customers to customer support and provides separate support routes for job seekers and sales inquiries.lever.co · read 9 Oct 2026
- Who it serves
- Lever says it is built for small, mid-sized, and enterprise organizations scaling hiring across departments or locations.lever.co · read 9 Oct 2026
