Workable pricing in 2026 and what you'll actually pay

Workable is one of the few applicant tracking vendors that actually shows you a price before a sales call. That alone makes it feel refreshing. The trouble is that a lot of what’s written about Workable’s pricing, including older versions of this article, still quotes a $149-a-month Starter plan and a $99-per-job option as if you can sign up for them today.

You can’t. Workable closed the Starter plan to new customers and folded the per-job option out of its normal signup flow, and both are still closed as of this update. Search around and you’ll find pages published this year repeating the old $149 number anyway, along with add-on prices that no longer match what Workable’s own pricing page shows. If you’re evaluating Workable fresh today, the number on the page is $299 a month, not $149, and that’s before you turn on the features most teams expect from a modern hiring tool.

Two questions matter more than the headline number: what can you actually sign up for today, and how does that stack up against Lever and Greenhouse, neither of which will tell you a price at all. Here’s how the current plans break down, what the add-ons run, and how Workable’s list price compares to what Lever and Greenhouse buyers actually pay.

What is Workable?

Workable is a recruiting and HR platform built mostly for small and mid-market companies. It started as an applicant tracking system and has grown into something closer to an all-in-one tool, covering sourcing, hiring workflows, onboarding, light HR record-keeping, and an AI agent that works across the whole process.

If you’re a 30-person company hiring a handful of roles a quarter and you want one place to post jobs, collect candidates, and move people through stages, Workable fits that shape well. It’s less aimed at large enterprises with deep customization needs, and less aimed at high-volume screening teams who live in the resume-review part of the funnel.

Applicant tracking and sourcing

The core of Workable is its ATS. You post a job, it syndicates to a long list of free and paid boards, and candidates flow into a single pipeline you can move them through. The sourcing suite adds a candidate database and people-search tools so you can reach passive candidates instead of waiting for inbound. For most teams this is the part they use every day.

Workable Agent

Workable’s AI layer, Workable Agent, runs on its own credit system rather than being bundled free into every task. It screens candidates, sources matches from Workable’s database, and handles chat-style interactions with candidates, at 1, 2, and 10 credits per action respectively. Every paid account starts with 3,000 free AI credits, and Premier and Enterprise renew that allowance monthly. Extra credits are sold in packs from $0.095 to $0.12 each depending on volume, and unused credits expire after a year.

Assessments and video interviews

Workable offers skills assessments and one-way video interviews as part of its hiring toolkit. The important detail, which we’ll get to in the pricing section, is that on the Standard plan these are still paid add-ons rather than included features. They come bundled only once you reach Premier.

Workable pricing

Workable sells three plans to new customers, and all three scale by employee headcount, not by how many roles you’re hiring for.

Plan	Price	What’s included	Best for
Standard	$299/month ($3,588/year)	Core ATS, sourcing suite, unlimited active jobs, custom reporting, HR features	Growing teams that want the base platform
Premier	$599/month ($7,188/year), annual only	Everything in Standard, plus video interviews, assessments, texting, referrals, and performance tools included, plus 3,000 Workable Agent credits a month	Teams that want the full toolset bundled
Enterprise	$719/month ($8,628/year), annual only	Everything in Premier, plus advanced enterprise support	Larger organizations that need more support

A few things worth reading carefully here.

The old Starter and per-job options are gone for new customers. Workable’s help center confirms the $149-a-month Starter plan is a legacy plan, “no longer available to new customers,” capped at two active jobs and 20 users for existing holders, and it can’t be repurchased once cancelled. Workable’s own documentation on purchasing a plan lists only Standard, Premier, and Enterprise for new customers, states plainly that “it is not currently possible to purchase individual jobs for a period shorter than one month,” and confirms Premier and Enterprise are annual-only, with no monthly option at all. Standard is the only plan you can still pay for month to month.

Pricing still scales with employees, not jobs. Your monthly cost is tied to how many employees your company has, not how many roles you’re hiring for. Workable’s pricing page shows nine employee bands, from 1-20 up through 1,000+, with the price climbing as you move up a band. Only the base rate for the 1-20 band is published, so budget for an increase as your headcount grows, even if your hiring volume stays flat.

Annual billing is cheaper, where you have the choice at all. Standard is billed monthly or annually, with roughly a 20% saving for annual billing. Premier and Enterprise, as noted above, only come as annual commitments, so there’s no month-to-month version of the bundled feature set at any price.

What you’ll actually pay

• Video interviews run $109 a month as a paid add-on on Standard.
• Texting (SMS to candidates) runs $89 a month, also an add-on on Standard.
• Assessments run $59 a month as an add-on on Standard.
• Performance and engagement tools, if you want the HR side, run $39 a month on Standard.
• Workable Agent credits, once you’re past the free monthly allowance, are billed separately from your plan price.
• Background checks run through integrations like Checkr at their own cost, and implementation or data migration for larger setups are quoted separately.

Put concretely: a team on Standard ($299) that turns on video interviews and texting alone is looking at $497 a month, not $299. Add assessments and you’re past $550. That’s the gap between the advertised price and the working price, and there’s no cheaper Starter plan left to soften it for smaller teams.

Pros and cons of Workable

Pros

• It publishes real prices. In a category where most vendors hide everything behind “request a demo,” Workable shows you actual plan costs up front.
• It’s a genuine all-in-one. Sourcing, ATS, onboarding, and light HR live in one place, which suits small teams who don’t want to stitch tools together.
• The sourcing database is deep. The candidate search and people-finder tools are a real strength if you do outbound recruiting.
• The job-board syndication is wide. One post reaches a long list of boards without extra clicks.
• The AI Agent is priced transparently. Even as a separate credit system, the per-credit cost is published, not hidden behind a quote.

Cons

• The affordable entry point is gone. With Starter closed to new customers and no per-job option, Standard at $299 a month is now the floor.
• Per-employee billing punishes growth. Your cost rises as you add headcount even if hiring stays flat, and Workable doesn’t publish what each of its nine employee bands costs.
• The features you expect are add-ons. Video interviews, assessments, and texting cost extra on Standard, so the advertised price understates the real one.
• Premier and Enterprise lock you into annual billing. If you want the bundled feature set, there’s no month-to-month option at any price.
• It’s broad, not deep, on screening. As a generalist ATS, it doesn’t go as far on resume scoring or interview analysis as tools built specifically for screening.

Who should use Workable

Small teams that want one tool for everything

If you’re under 50 people and you’d rather run sourcing, hiring, and onboarding from a single login than buy three separate products, Workable is a sensible default, as long as $299 a month fits your budget as the starting point.

Teams that can commit to a subscription

Without the old Starter plan or a per-job option, Workable now assumes an ongoing subscription. That’s a fair trade if you hire steadily. If you hire once or twice a year, there’s no low-commitment plan built for you anymore.

Outbound-heavy recruiters

If a lot of your hiring is proactive sourcing rather than inbound applications, Workable’s candidate database and search tools earn their keep.

Who might want an alternative

If your real bottleneck is screening, sorting a large pile of candidates down to the few worth talking to, a broad ATS can feel thin. You’ll be paying for onboarding and HR features you don’t use while the resume-review and interview parts stay shallow. Teams in that spot often pair or replace a generalist ATS with a tool built specifically for screening, or look at the wider field of Workable alternatives built for a narrower job. The same goes for owners who don’t love the idea of their hiring software bill rising every time they add an employee, or who want to try something before committing to a $299-a-month floor.

Workable integrations

Workable connects to the usual stack a small or mid-market team runs, plus a marketplace of partner apps for the rest.

Category	Examples
Background checks	Checkr, and other screening providers
Assessments	Built-in assessments plus third-party testing partners
HRIS and payroll	Common payroll and HR record systems
Calendar and email	Google Workspace, Microsoft 365
Job boards	Indeed, LinkedIn, and a wide set of free and paid boards
Single sign-on	SSO support on higher plans

The integration list is broad enough that most small teams won’t hit a wall, though deep two-way syncs with enterprise systems are more limited than what you’d get from a tool aimed at larger companies.

Alternatives to Workable

Workable is a fine generalist, and its floor is real money for a business with no recruiter. But the honest comparison isn’t Workable’s sticker price against Lever’s or Greenhouse’s, because those two don’t have one. It’s Workable’s published $299 against what Lever and Greenhouse buyers actually end up paying once the quote lands.

Feature	Workable	Truffle	Greenhouse	Lever
Resume screening	Basic, ATS-level	Scores resumes against your criteria	Structured, rubric-based	Pipeline-focused, with an AI screening add-on
One-way video interviews	Paid add-on ($109/mo on Standard)	Included	No (via partners)	No (via partners)
AI video analysis and highlights	No	Yes, transcripts and Candidate Shorts	No	No
Talent assessments	Paid add-on ($59/mo on Standard)	Included	Via integrations	Via integrations
Published price	Yes, but entry plan is closed to new customers, from $299/mo	Yes, from $49/mo, credit-based	No, quote-only (Vendr median: $26,600/yr)	No, quote-only (Vendr median: $15,400/yr)
Setup time	Days	About 10 minutes	Weeks	Weeks
Best for	All-in-one for small teams that hire steadily	Screening the pile when you have no recruiter	Structured enterprise hiring	Relationship-driven sourcing

Truffle

Truffle is a candidate screening platform that combines resume screening, one-way video interviews, and talent assessments. Where Workable is a full ATS that treats video and assessments as paid extras, Truffle bundles all three into one credit-based price, with plans from $49 a month, a 7-day free trial, and no credit card to start.

The difference is focus. Truffle scores resumes against the criteria you set, transcribes and analyzes one-way interviews, and surfaces Candidate Shorts, the short clips that show the most relevant moments from each response, so you review a stacked, side-by-side view of your pipeline instead of opening 200 files. Truffle is the screening layer, not a full ATS, and it connects to Workable directly, so most teams run it alongside the system they already track candidates in rather than replacing it.

Setup takes about 10 minutes. AI surfaces the evidence behind every ranking, and the decision on who to hire is still yours. You can see the full picture and pricing without a sales call, or read a direct Workable comparison.

Greenhouse

Greenhouse is a structured-hiring ATS aimed at mid-market and enterprise teams who care about consistent, rubric-based interviews and strong reporting. It sells three tiers, renamed in 2025 from Essential, Advanced, and Expert to Core, Plus, and Pro, and none of them show a price on the page. You talk to sales and get a custom quote scaled to headcount and hiring volume, and Vendr’s procurement data, based on 866 tracked purchases, puts the median negotiated contract at about $26,600 a year, more than eight times Workable’s Standard list price.

For the full plan-by-plan breakdown, see our Greenhouse pricing guide or the wider applicant tracking system roundup.

Lever

Lever blends an ATS with a CRM, which makes it strong for teams that nurture relationships with candidates over time rather than just processing inbound applications. Lever’s own pricing page doesn’t list a number either, only a form for a custom quote, and Vendr’s data on 318 reported purchases puts the median negotiated contract at $15,400 a year, roughly five times what Workable’s Standard plan costs. Lever has also added its own AI screening add-on (AI Screening by VONQ) in 2026, priced separately and unpublished, the same paid-add-on pattern Workable uses for video and assessments. Our Lever pricing breakdown has the full contract range and what drives it.

How to choose between Workable and alternatives

The right answer depends less on the sticker price and more on where your hiring actually hurts. Run through these:

• Is your bottleneck volume or process? If you’re drowning in candidates and need to screen fast, a focused screening tool beats a broad ATS. If you need disciplined, repeatable interviews across many hiring managers, lean toward a structured ATS like Greenhouse, and budget for its quote-only pricing.
• Can you commit to an ongoing subscription? Without Workable’s old low-commitment options, budget $299 a month as an ongoing cost, not a per-role expense, and remember Premier and Enterprise mean an annual contract either way.
• Will your headcount grow fast? Per-employee billing means a growing company pays more for the same hiring work over time, and Workable doesn’t publish exactly where the next price jump lands.
• Do you actually need a demo call to find out the price? Workable will tell you the number today. Lever and Greenhouse won’t, and the median contracts run 5 to 8 times higher once you get there.
• Do you want everything in one tool, or the best tool for the job? All-in-one breadth versus depth in the part that’s slowing you down is the real trade.

The teams that get this right price out the working cost, not the headline cost, for every vendor on the list, including the ones that won’t show you a number until you’ve sat through a call.

See what you’d actually pay before you sign

Before you fill out a form to learn what Lever or Greenhouse charges, it’s worth seeing what a screening-first alternative costs upfront. If the bottleneck is the pile of candidates rather than tracking or sourcing, you probably don’t need to replace Workable, Lever, or Greenhouse at all. You can put a screening layer built for small business hiring in front of whatever ATS you’re already on. See Truffle’s plans, starting at $49 a month with every feature included, a 7-day free trial, and no credit card required.

Frequently asked questions about Workable pricing

How much does Workable cost in 2026?

For new customers, Workable’s current published plans run from $299 a month for Standard, to $599 a month for Premier, to $719 a month for Enterprise. Standard can be billed monthly or annually. Premier and Enterprise are annual-only. The older $149-a-month Starter plan is a legacy plan closed to new signups, so it’s not something a new customer can buy today.

Are the $149 Starter plan or a pay-per-job option still available?

No, not for new customers. Workable’s help center describes Starter as a legacy plan that’s “no longer available to new customers”: existing subscribers can keep it as long as they don’t change it, but once cancelled, it can’t be repurchased. Workable’s own documentation on purchasing a plan also lists only Standard, Premier, and Enterprise as current options, with no per-job plan, and states you can’t buy a job slot for less than a month. If a $149 or per-job price shows up in an older article, treat it as outdated.

Does Workable have a free trial?

Yes. Workable offers a 15-day free trial with no credit card required, and it’s more generous than the plan you’ll actually buy: the trial gives you Enterprise-level Recruiting and HR features, not just Standard. AI search is included but capped at 75 credits, and the full Workable Agent isn’t part of the trial.

Is Workable’s video interviewing included or an add-on?

On the Standard plan, one-way video interviewing is a paid add-on, running $109 a month. It’s included at no extra cost once you reach Premier. By contrast, Truffle bundles one-way video into every plan, with no add-on fee.

How does Workable’s pricing compare to Lever and Greenhouse?

Workable is the only one of the three that publishes a price, starting at $299 a month. Lever and Greenhouse both require a sales call and a custom quote. Vendr’s procurement data puts Lever’s median negotiated contract at $15,400 a year and Greenhouse’s at $26,600 a year, both well above what a year of Workable’s Standard plan costs at list price.

What is Workable Agent, and what does it cost?

Workable’s AI layer for screening, sourcing, and candidate chat, billed on its own credit system separate from your plan price. Every paid account starts with 3,000 free credits, and Premier and Enterprise renew that allowance monthly. Extra credits run $0.095 to $0.12 each depending on volume.

Why does my Workable price go up if I’m not hiring more?

Because Workable bills by employee headcount, not by hiring volume. As your company crosses each of Workable’s nine employee bands, your plan cost rises even if you post the same number of jobs.