# Ashby vs SmartRecruiters (slim)

> Ashby and SmartRecruiters score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61.3 (C) and 60.4 (C). Both do recruiting candidates. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Ashby and SmartRecruiters score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61.3 (C) and 60.4 (C). Both do recruiting candidates.

- Ashby: C 61.3, rank #328 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ashby.min.md
- SmartRecruiters: C 60.4, rank #356 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartrecruiters.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 Schema & documentation, 82 against 75; Agent ergonomics, 59 against 51; Maintenance & community, 64 against 58.
- SmartRecruiters, good for An agent working inside a company that already runs SmartRecruiters, for reading jobs and candidates, adding candidates, moving applications between stages, creating interviews and pulling reports.

| Category | Ashby | SmartRecruiters |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 79 | 78 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 82 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 59 | 51 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 8 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 64 | 58 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 79 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Ashby | SmartRecruiters |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Ashby, Inc. | SmartRecruiters, Inc. (an SAP company) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.ashbyhq.com` | `https://api.smartrecruiters.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Ashby Customer Terms of Service | Proprietary service under the SmartRecruiters Master Subscription Agreement |
| Tools exposed | 17 | none |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-29 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-24 | no date given |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |