Top 10 Workable Alternatives for 2026

Quick Summary

Cercli ranks among the top workable alternatives for teams that want AI sourcing from Orin and AI screening from Cera. Your team makes every hiring decision. Ashby suits teams that outgrew Workable’s reporting. Zoho Recruit suits one recruiter on a tight budget.

The shortlist below shows who each tool suits and its key feature.

10 Best Workable Alternatives

The table below compares all ten tools. HR platforms come first and the sourcing tool comes last.

1. Cercli

Cercli is an AI-native ATS and HRIS built for HR and talent teams at growing companies. Its screening agent, Cera, reads every CV and scores each applicant against your criteria. You get a ranked shortlist with strengths and gaps. Cera recommends, and your team makes the final call on every hiring decision.

To find candidates who haven’t applied, use Orin, Cercli’s AI sourcing agent. Describe the role in plain English with no Boolean strings, and Orin searches 900M+ profiles. It shows its reasoning for every candidate and connects to Claude through MCP. Outreach goes out over LinkedIn and email, and only when you send it.

Offers get e-signed inside the ATS. Hired candidates sync into the HRIS, so nobody retypes them. Switching from another ATS? You can import your active pipelines and hiring history, including resumes and interviewer notes.

Key Features

• Natural-language sourcing: Describe your target candidate in plain English, with no Boolean strings.
• Orin MCP: Connect Orin directly to Claude.
• Cera screening: Score applicants against your criteria and make every call yourself.
• Job posting: Draft a job post and distribute it in one click.
• One-click distribution: Post a role to your connected job channels, including LinkedIn and Indeed.
• Feedback and interview kits: Give every interviewer the same guidelines, then collect their scores with in-built feedback tools.
• Candidate self-scheduling: Let candidates book their own interview slot, with automatic reminders.
• Live analytics: Track candidate quality and drop-offs on live dashboards.

Pros

• One platform takes a hire from sourcing to the HRIS.
• You can also add Orin or Cera to the ATS you already use.
• Every override is logged with the reviewer’s name and a timestamp.

Cons

• Cercli doesn’t offer recorded video interviews.
• Cercli’s ATS and Cera launched in May 2026, so check your must-have integrations during the demo.

Best For

Teams that want hiring and HR in one platform.

2. Ashby

Ashby is an ATS with sourcing and reporting in one platform. It suits teams that have outgrown basic reports. Its AI checks applicants against your criteria.

Key Features

• Reporting: Build hiring reports without leaving Ashby.
• Interview plans: Automate structured interview plans.
• 250+ integrations: Connect your other tools through the integration marketplace.

Pros

• Every plan includes AI credits, with 1,500 a month on Foundations.
• Sourcing is included, with 200 email lookups on every plan.

Cons

• There’s no HRIS, so you’ll need a separate HR system for new hires.
• The AI Notetaker costs extra on every plan.

Best For

Teams that need deeper hiring analytics inside their ATS.

3. Greenhouse

Greenhouse is a recruiting platform built around structured hiring, and 7,500+ companies use it. Its Talent Matching sorts applicants by fit and never advances or rejects anyone for you.

Key Features

• Interview kits: Give every interviewer the same questions and scoring attributes.
• Talent Matching: Sort applicants by how well they match your criteria.
• Sourcing and CRM: Nurture passive candidates.

Pros

• An AI Notetaker comes on every plan.
• It offers pre-built integrations and an open API.

Cons

• There’s no HRIS, and Onboarding is a separate product.
• Basic reporting can feel unintuitive and ancient.

Best For

Mid-size and larger teams that run structured interviews.

4. Teamtailor

Teamtailor is a recruitment platform centered on career sites and employer branding, and 13,000+ companies use it. Teamtailor AI assesses applicants against your criteria and summarizes resumes and video interviews.

Key Features

• Career sites: Publish branded career pages for every role.
• Talent pools: Keep past applicants on hand for new roles.
• 450+ integrations: Connect your other tools, plus an open API.

Pros

• AI usage is unlimited.
• Every quote includes unlimited users.

Cons

• Requisition approvals and multi-brand management are labeled Premium features.
• There’s no HRIS, so employee records live in another system.

Best For

Teams that hire through a branded career site.

5. Recruitee

Recruitee is Tellent’s ATS, built for companies with 50 to 1,000 employees. Candidates can apply and message you on WhatsApp. The AI you get depends on your plan. Advance gets 100 screening credits a month, and Optimize includes full screening.

Key Features

• AI screening: Screen applicants against your criteria for each job.
• WhatsApp hiring: Message candidates on WhatsApp from the ATS.
• Offers: Send e-signed offers and start pre-onboarding.

Pros

• The free trial doesn’t need a credit card.
• The Tellent Marketplace offers 200+ integrations.

Cons

• The Start plan caps you at 5 active job posts.
• Tellent HR, its HRIS, is a paid add-on.

Best For

Mid-size teams that hire over WhatsApp.

6. Pinpoint

Pinpoint is an ATS for running several hiring streams at once, across desk-based and deskless roles. Its AI Candidate Match Score helps you prioritize applicants.

Key Features

• AI Match Score: Prioritize applicants against your criteria.
• Anonymized screening: Redact personal details from resumes.
• Agency portal: Let agencies submit candidates directly.

Pros

• Pinpoint’s onboarding features include background and reference checks.
• One-way video interviews support high-volume hiring.

Cons

• Customization leans on templates
• Pinpoint has no HRIS, so hires move to a separate HR system.

Best For

Teams running several hiring streams at once, including deskless roles.

7. BambooHR

BambooHR is an HR platform with an ATS on every plan. It fits teams that put HR first and hire lightly. Candidates can self-schedule interviews, and offers go out with e-signature.

Key Features

• Talent pools: Save candidates into searchable pools.
• Background checks: Order, track, and review checks in one place.
• Funnel reports: See where applicants come from and where they drop off.

Pros

• Hires transfer automatically into employee records.
• You can pay month to month.

Cons

• Open jobs are capped at 5 on Core, 25 on Pro, and 50 on Elite.
• There’s no AI candidate screening.

Best For

Teams that mainly want an HRIS and hire a few roles a year.

8. Zoho Recruit

Zoho Recruit is an ATS and recruitment CRM for HR teams and staffing agencies. Each has its own edition and price list. Since it’s priced per recruiter, your bill doesn’t go up just because your company grows.

Key Features

• Job board posting: Publish openings to 75+ job boards.
• Blueprint automation: Automate the steps between hiring stages.
• AI Candidate Matching: Get recommended candidates for each job on Enterprise.

Pros

• The 15-day trial includes Enterprise features, and it needs no card.
• Its AI, Zia, drafts job descriptions and emails.

Cons

• Active jobs are capped at 10 on Standard and 20 on Enterprise.
• Video interviews cost extra for each job opening.

Best For

One-recruiter teams on a tight budget.

9. Manatal

Manatal is AI recruitment software for HR teams and agencies, and 10,000+ recruiting teams use it. Its AI scores candidates against your job.

Key Features

• AI Copilot: Ask questions about a candidate and see their fit and gaps for the role.
• Job board posting: Push openings to 2,500+ job boards.
• Profile enrichment: Pull candidate data from 10+ platforms like LinkedIn and GitHub.

Pros

• AI scoring comes on every paid plan, including the cheapest.
• You can assign weights to each requirement to tune the ranking.

Cons

• Professional caps you at 15 jobs and 10,000 candidates.
• Sourcing searches are capped at 10 a month below Enterprise Plus.

Best For

Small teams and agencies that want AI scoring at a low price.

10. Juicebox

Juicebox is an AI sourcing platform for outbound recruiting, with no pipelines or job posting. You describe who you want in plain language, and it searches 800M+ profiles and explains each match.

Key Features

• Natural-language search: Describe the person and let the AI search.
• Autopilot: Set a daily number of leads for the AI to review.
• Email sequences: Send multi-step outreach to candidates.

Pros

• The free plan lets you test search quality before you pay.
• You keep your current ATS, so there’s nothing to migrate.

Cons

• ATS integration, including Workable, is only on the Business plan.
• Contact credits are capped on every plan below Business.

Best For

Recruiters whose biggest gap is outbound sourcing.

Why Look for Alternatives to Workable?

Limited Flexibility and Costly Add-Ons

A systems administrator listed Workable’s limited flexibility and extra costs for advanced features and add-ons as its primary drawbacks.

The pricing page shows what that means. Standard starts at $299 a month on annual billing. Texting adds $89 a month, and video interviews add $109.

Workable’s AI tool, Workable Agent, runs on credits. Screening a candidate costs 1 credit, and a chat costs 10. Each paid plan starts with 3,000 free credits, and the smallest bundle after that is 5,000 for $600.

Reporting Metrics Need Clearer Definitions

A director found the reporting features easy to use, but said the definitions and calculations are “a little gray,” which makes the numbers hard to rely on across many jobs. Metrics like time to hire and time to fill still need some work.

Support and Usability Gaps Show Up Too

One reviewer called post-integration support a drawback. They had to escalate multiple times through the ticketing system because their account manager would disappear.

Another reviewer said jobs are automatically archived when not in use, which can make them “less accessible” when you want to quickly reference past postings.

How to Choose the Right Workable Alternative

Start with why you’re leaving Workable. Each reason points to a different shortlist.

Cost and Add-Ons

Request the full price from every vendor, including the add-ons you need. Zoho Recruit charges extra for video interviews on each job opening, and Ashby sells its AI Notetaker as an add-on.

Check whether AI is included or metered. Teamtailor includes it with unlimited usage. Every Ashby plan comes with monthly AI credits, 1,500 on Foundations.

Pricing models differ too. Zoho Recruit and Manatal price per recruiter or user, which stays cheap for one recruiter and grows with your team. Ashby and Recruitee price by company size, so headcount drives the bill.

Reporting

Have each vendor build your leadership’s favorite report live on the demo. Next, find out how it defines time to hire and time to fill. Ashby is built around reporting, so start there.

Support

Get the support SLA in writing, plus the name of your post-launch contact. One Workable reviewer escalated through the ticketing system multiple times because their account manager disappeared.

AI Accuracy

Test the AI on your own data. Ask each vendor to run anonymized past applicants through its screening. Compare the shortlist with the people you interviewed. That shows what AI screening can and can’t do on your roles.

HR Handoff

Want hiring and HR in one system? Count how often someone retypes a new hire’s details after the offer. Cercli syncs hired candidates into its HRIS, and BambooHR transfers them into Employee Records. Ashby, Greenhouse, Teamtailor, and Pinpoint have no HRIS, so hires move to a separate HR system.

For more criteria, see the buyer’s guide to choosing an ATS.

See Cercli on Your Next Open Role

Bring one open role to a Cercli demo. You’ll see Orin source candidates for it and Cera screen the applicants against your role’s criteria. Then check how hired candidates sync into the HRIS. Your team makes every call.