# Ashby vs Lever (slim)

> Ashby scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against Lever's 53.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lever leads on agent ergonomics. Both do recruiting candidates. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Ashby scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against Lever's 53.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lever leads on agent ergonomics. Both do recruiting candidates.

- Ashby: C 61.3, rank #369 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ashby.min.md
- Lever: D 53.6, rank #541 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lever.min.md
- Ashby, good for Companies already on Ashby that want an agent to read pipelines, add candidates, move applications between stages, schedule interviews and pull reports with a narrowly scoped key. Ahead on Reliability, 79 against 73; Schema & documentation, 82 against 55; Payments & pricing, 10 against 5; Maintenance & community, 64 against 21.
- Lever, good for An agent working inside a company that already runs Lever, for reading the pipeline, adding candidates, moving stages, writing notes and feedback and scheduling externally managed interviews. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 65 against 59.

| Category | Ashby | Lever |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 79 | 73 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 82 | 55 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 59 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 5 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 64 | 21 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Ashby | Lever |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Ashby, Inc. | Employ, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.ashbyhq.com` | `https://api.lever.co/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Ashby Customer Terms of Service | Proprietary service under Lever's terms of service. The postings-api and integrator-resources repositories on GitHub hold documentation and example code |
| Tools exposed | 17 | none |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-04-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-29 | 2023-08-25 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-24 | 2023-09-25 |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |