Lever pricing and what a year costs next to a flat priced AI recruiter
Lever shows no prices and asks for a quote. Here is what the platform includes, what to get in writing before you sign, and how a published price AI recruiter compares for a small team.
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The short answer
Lever pricing is not published. The Lever pricing page lists one core platform, three add ons and a form to request a quote, and the FAQ says pricing scales with team size and hiring needs. RecruitingBot Starter costs 1,788 USD a year billed yearly (299 USD if you pay monthly) and finds, contacts and screens candidates. Lever is an applicant tracking system with AI screening, so the two solve different problems and many small teams need to price both.
What the Lever page lists
The core platform is described as an AI powered hiring platform. It lists AI screening that prioritizes top candidates, unlimited AI interview transcripts and summaries, and fraud prevention signals.
Three add ons appear with no price: Candidate Insights, AI Screening by VONQ for agent based screening on the career site, and Onboarding for tasks and documents. Because no amounts are shown, any number you see on a third party site is an estimate. Treat it as a starting point for negotiation, not a budget.
| Item | Published price | What the page says |
|---|---|---|
| Lever core platform | Not published | Quote request, price scales with team size and hiring needs |
| Candidate Insights | Not published | Skills, fit and signals in candidate profiles |
| AI Screening by VONQ | Not published | Agent based screening on the career site |
| Onboarding | Not published | Workflow, task and document automation |
| RecruitingBot Starter | 1,788 USD billed yearly (299 USD monthly) | 3 active roles, 1,500 candidates analyzed, 600 outreach emails, 50 skills tests a month, 2 seats |
| RecruitingBot Growth | 3,588 USD billed yearly (599 USD monthly) | 8 active roles, 5,000 candidates analyzed, 2,000 emails, 200 skills tests, 5 seats |
What to get in writing before you sign
A quote only helps if it is complete. Send every vendor the same brief and ask for a written answer.
- The total for year one including every add on you expect to use, not just the core platform.
- How the price changes if headcount or the number of open roles grows during the term.
- Whether AI screening and the VONQ add on are included or billed separately.
- The contract length, the renewal uplift and the notice needed to cancel.
- Implementation or onboarding fees and what data migration covers.
- How many users and hiring managers are included and what an extra seat costs.
An ATS and a sourcing tool do different jobs
An applicant tracking system collects applications, stores resumes and moves people through stages. Lever adds AI that ranks the people who already applied. It does not go out and find a passive engineer, write to them from your mailbox and chase a reply.
If your roles draw plenty of inbound applicants, the tracking system is the right first purchase. If your roles are hard to fill, the queue is thin and the work is outreach, which is what a flat priced recruiter covers. Automated resume screening handles the inbound pile, and AI candidate screening explains how scoring against a rubric works.
Setting an ATS up properly also takes time. If you hire your first few people through it, your new teammate still needs a plan for week one, and an AI mentor for the new hire can cover the questions that never reach a manager.
Year one cost for a small team
Take a 30 person company hiring six salaried roles in a year. Lever will quote an amount we cannot publish for you. RecruitingBot Starter at 1,788 USD covers three active roles at once with sourcing and screening. Put the Lever quote beside it and add the hours your people spend on sourcing and first screens.
If a person spends ten hours per role finding and screening candidates, six roles is sixty hours. Value your own time and compare. Our cost per hire guide for startups walks through that math.
| Setup | Year one subscription | Covers |
|---|---|---|
| Lever only | Quote required | Tracking, AI screening of applicants, interview summaries. You source |
| RecruitingBot Starter only | 1,788 USD billed yearly | Sourcing, outreach, screening, skills tests, booking. Keep a spreadsheet or ATS for records |
| Both | Lever quote plus 1,788 USD | Inbound tracking plus outbound sourcing and screening |
Who should choose which
Choose Lever when you receive many applications, run structured interview loops and need a system of record. Choose RecruitingBot when the work you want removed is finding people, getting replies and reaching a reviewed shortlist. RecruitingBot imports Lever data on Growth and Agency but is not an ATS.
See the best AI recruiting software comparison for the wider market and RecruitingBot pricing for capacity limits on each plan.