Ashby Pricing and Ashby ATS Cost for Every Foundations Band, Plus and Enterprise

Ashby costs $300 to $900 a month on its Foundations plan, depending on which of five headcount bands your company falls in, or $3,240 to $9,720 a year with the 10% yearly discount. Companies over 100 employees are quoted on Plus or Enterprise, where Vendr reports a median of $22,896 a year. These are the bands in the company-size menu on Ashby's pricing page, read on 2 October 2026.

The $400 most guides quote is the 11 to 25 band, which is simply where the menu starts when the page loads. A 70-person company reading those guides budgets $4,800 a year, and the same menu charges it $8,400. Ashby also notes that emerging market pricing is available, which does not apply to a US company.

Foundations is a cut-down version of the product: on Ashby's own plan table it leaves out 57 of the 133 listed features, against 8 for Plus and none for Enterprise. The core ATS, sourcing sequences, scheduling links, offers and standard dashboards are all there. What is missing is mostly the admin and control layer a company needs once several managers hire at the same time.

Three lines decide most purchases. If finance wants every offer approved in the system, Foundations cannot do it, so you are buying Plus whatever your headcount. SSO is $100 a month on top, so the 11 to 25 band really costs $500 a month, not $400, if your security policy requires single sign-on. And the AI Notetaker is an add-on on every plan with no published price, so get it quoted before you compare Ashby with Greenhouse, whose Core plan includes a notetaker.

A company that grows from 20 to 60 employees over three years pays about $17,280 for Ashby Foundations billed yearly, or $20,880 with SSO, because each band it crosses raises the price. A company that crosses 100 employees leaves the published price list entirely. Ashby prices on total headcount, not recruiter seats, so hiring is what makes the bill grow.

The Foundations rows use the published bands. The quoted rows use Vendr's median and the 5 to 10% yearly increases Vendr reports for Ashby contracts. The fourth row is the one to plan for if you expect to pass 100 employees: Vendr puts companies of 50 to 150 employees at $20,000 to $50,000 a year, against $9,720 for the last Foundations band, so the step from Foundations to Plus can double or triple the bill in a single renewal. Ask for the Plus price in writing before you sign Foundations if you are already near 100.

To see the ATS line next to the rest of what a hire costs, run your numbers through our cost per hire calculator. At Foundations prices, the software is rarely the largest line.

For a company under 100 employees, Ashby is usually the cheapest of the three because it is the only one with a published price, at $3,240 to $9,720 a year. Above 100 employees the gap closes: buyers report medians of $22,896 for Ashby, about $27,000 for Greenhouse and $15,400 for Lever.

The medians come from different samples and different company mixes, so treat them as rough. What is solid is the structure. Ashby shows its small-company price; Greenhouse and Lever do not show any price. Greenhouse renamed its plans to Core, Plus and Pro in early 2026, and our Greenhouse pricing page sorts its buyer-reported numbers by source. Lever is quote-only, and its parent company also sells a cheaper ATS with published prices, which our Lever pricing breakdown covers. If you want a published price with no sales call at all, Workable pricing starts at $299 a month for 1 to 20 employees, which is close to Ashby's $300 band for 1 to 10. Cheaper still are JazzHR pricing, one flat price per plan from $1,000 a year, and Zoho Recruit pricing at $25 per recruiter a month.

Price is rarely the deciding factor between these three. Ashby's case is that sourcing, CRM, scheduling and analytics are one product, so you are not buying a scheduling tool and a reporting tool on top. If you would otherwise pay for those separately, the comparison is Ashby against the stack, not Ashby against an ATS alone.

On Foundations the only discount is the 10% for a yearly commitment. On Plus and Enterprise, Vendr reports buyers save about 21% on average, mostly through competing quotes, longer terms and timing.

1. Pick the right band before you talk to anyone. Count employees the way your contract will, and check whether you will cross a band within the term. A move from 50 to 51 employees raises Foundations from $500 to $700 a month.

2. Take the yearly discount only if the headcount is stable. It saves $360 to $1,080 a year across the bands, which is real money, but it is a commitment.

3. Bring a competing quote to a Plus negotiation. A Greenhouse or Lever quote, or Workable's published Premier price, gives the rep a reason to move.

4. Get the add-ons priced at the same time. AI Notetaker, Advanced Scheduling and extra email lookups have no published prices. Agree them in the same contract rather than after go-live, when you have less leverage.

5. Ask for a written renewal cap. Vendr reports 5 to 10% yearly increases on Ashby contracts, and SpendHound measured SMB prices up 19% year over year across 112 customers. A cap in the order form is the only protection.

For a startup that hires steadily and wants sourcing, scheduling and reporting without buying three tools, Ashby Foundations at $3,240 to $9,720 a year is fairly priced, and cheaper than most quoted alternatives. For a company that hires two or three people a year, it is more system than the job needs.

Signals for Ashby: several roles open at once, hiring managers who want to see their own pipeline, outbound sourcing as part of how you hire, and an interest in funnel data. Signals against: one person does all the hiring, roles are similar, and the real bottleneck is getting enough good applicants, which no ATS solves.

That last point is where remote hiring differs. A fully-remote role can draw several times the applicants of an on-site one, as our numbers on how many applicants a job posting gets show, so screening tools earn more of their price. If you are hiring in other states, read hiring remote employees in another state too, because payroll registration shapes the process as much as the software does.

Post the role where remote candidates look, then let each application arrive in Ashby as a candidate. A listing here costs $199 a month for one live remote role, with the salary range shown at the top and applicants delivered as they apply.

On our Enterprise plan, every application is created in your Ashby account through Ashby's candidate.create API under your own API key, with the candidate's name, email and link, and LatestRemote set as the source so your Ashby source reports count them correctly. The same connection works for Greenhouse and Lever. If Ashby rejects or does not answer a delivery, it is marked as failed, you get an email, and the applicant stays in your dashboard, so nobody is lost between systems. Teams on Starter or Growth get the same applicants by email and in the dashboard. For what other boards charge for the same reach, see our remote job posting sites comparison.