Workable Review
All-in-one hiring and HR platform priced by your company's total headcount, not by recruiter seats
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Workable is a combined applicant tracking system and light HR platform: sourcing and pipeline management on the recruiting side, plus onboarding, time off, and payroll prep once someone's hired. It's built for teams that want one system covering both hiring and the basic HR work that follows, rather than stitching an ATS to a separate HRIS.
Pricing is tiered and public, which is unusual in this category, but it's charged against your total company headcount rather than the number of people actually recruiting. A company with 200 employees and two recruiters pays the 200-employee rate. The cheapest tier, Standard, also strips out texting, video interviews, and assessments as paid add-ons, so the advertised price understates what most teams end up paying.
Workable has pushed hard into AI in 2026 with the Workable Agent, which sources and screens candidates against a job spec and hands recruiters a shortlist, plus a free MCP server that lets tools like Claude query live hiring data.
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Who it's for
- ✓ Small and mid-size companies that want one system for both recruiting and basic HR tasks like onboarding and time off
- ✓ Teams that hire steadily enough to justify a monthly platform fee rather than paying per job posting
- ✓ Buyers who want to see real prices before talking to sales
Who should look elsewhere
- ✗ Very small teams or infrequent hirers, since pricing is based on total company headcount and there's no cheap entry tier for new customers anymore
- ✗ Teams that want video interviews, texting, and assessments included without paying extra, unless they're ready to jump to Premier
- ✗ Companies that need deep, configurable structured-hiring workflows on the level of Greenhouse or Ashby
Pros
- + Public, tiered pricing you can see without booking a sales call
- + Combines ATS and basic HR (onboarding, time off, payroll prep) in one system
- + 15-day free trial with no credit card and the full Standard feature set
- + Free MCP server lets you query and act on hiring data from AI assistants like Claude, on every plan
Cons
- – Priced by total company headcount, not by recruiter or ATS-user seats, so bills grow with the whole company
- – Standard plan's advertised $299/month excludes texting, video interviews, and assessments, which run $59-$109/month each as add-ons
- – The old lower-cost Starter plan is closed to new customers, so the effective entry price for new buyers is higher than it used to be
- – Reviewers and buyer surveys report annual renewal increases in the 8-9% range that often need to be negotiated down
Workable pricing
At about $299/month to start, it sits mid-pack on price in ATS & Recruiting Software.
| Plan | Price | Highlights |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | $299/mo | Unlimited active jobs · Candidate sourcing and ATS · Onboarding, time off, payroll prep · Texting, video interviews, and assessments cost extra |
| Premier | $599/mo | Everything in Standard · Texting, video interviews, assessments, and performance reviews included · No add-on fees for those features |
| Enterprise | $719/mo | Everything in Premier · Built for larger headcounts · More admin and security controls |
Prices shown are for companies with 1-20 employees, billed annually ($3,588/$7,188/$8,628 per year); paying monthly costs more and annual billing saves about 20%. Pricing scales up with your total company headcount, not just the number of people using Workable, so the same tier costs more as your company grows past 20 employees. On Standard, texting, video interviews, and assessments are paid add-ons ($59-$109/month each); Premier and Enterprise bundle those in. Every plan includes 3,000 AI credits for the Workable Agent; more credits are sold in bundles (5,000 for $600, 10,000 for $1,000, 50,000 for $4,750) and expire a year after purchase.
Pricing verified July 7, 2026 · source
How Workable's pricing compares
Workable next to its closest alternatives on entry price, billing, and whether pricing is public.
| Tool | Starting price | Billing | Free option | Pricing disclosed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workable | $299/employee/mo | tiered | Trial (15 days, no credit card required, full Standard plan feature set) | Public |
| Ashby | $400/mo | tiered | No | Partly public |
| Greenhouse | Custom / quote | quote-only | No | Not disclosed |
| Lever | Custom / quote | quote-only | No | Not disclosed |
| Recruitee | Custom / quote | quote-only | Trial (Free trial available, no card required, length not stated) | Not disclosed |
| Bullhorn | $99/seat/mo | tiered | No | Partly public |
Is Workable still actively developed?
Last significant update: May 2026. Workable became a certified connector in IBM watsonx Orchestrate, letting joint customers query pipeline and candidate data from inside the IBM environment. This followed a May 13 launch of a Workable MCP server that connects Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP-compatible AI assistant directly to live Workable data (jobs, candidates, pipelines, offers, employees, time off) through 38 tools, included free on every plan.
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Workable FAQ
How much does Workable cost?+
Standard starts at $299/month billed annually for 1-20 employees, Premier is $599/month, and Enterprise is $719/month. Prices scale up as your company headcount grows past 20.
Is there a free version of Workable?+
No permanent free plan. There's a 15-day free trial with no credit card required, covering the full Standard plan feature set.
Does Workable pricing include texting and video interviews?+
Only on Premier and Enterprise. On Standard they're paid add-ons, roughly $59-$109/month each, which can push the real monthly cost well above the advertised $299.
Does Workable's price go up when you renew?+
Buyer feedback compiled by industry surveys points to typical renewal increases around 8-9%, with some customers negotiating that down to 3-5%.