# Bullhorn vs Gem (slim)

> Gem scores 53.3 (D) on agent readiness against Bullhorn's 46.7 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Bullhorn leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance & community. Both do recruiting candidates. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Gem scores 53.3 (D) on agent readiness against Bullhorn's 46.7 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Bullhorn leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance & community. Both do recruiting candidates.

- Bullhorn: D 46.7, rank #644 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bullhorn.min.md
- Gem: D 53.3, rank #546 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gem.min.md
- Bullhorn, good for An integration built for a staffing agency that already runs on Bullhorn, with Bullhorn's permission for AI use in writing, and needs candidates, job orders, submissions and placements. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 64 against 58; Maintenance & community, 56 against 42.
- Gem, good for Teams already on Gem ATS or Gem CRM that want an agent to read pipelines, add candidates, move applications, schedule interviews and file scorecards, or to query hiring data through MCP as a signed-in user. Ahead on Reliability, 69 against 53; Schema & documentation, 65 against 55; Security & auth, 48 against 31; Payments & pricing, 15 against 5.

| Category | Bullhorn | Gem |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 53 | 69 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 55 | 65 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 64 | 58 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 31 | 48 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 5 | 15 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 56 | 42 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 67 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Bullhorn | Gem |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Bullhorn, Inc. | Gem Software, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://rest.bullhornstaffing.com/rest-services` | `https://api.gem.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under a Bullhorn customer or partner agreement that is not published, with a public API Fair Use Policy. The `sdk-rest` Java library and the `@bullhorn/taurus` and `@bullhorn/bullhorn-types` packages are MIT per npm and the repositories | Proprietary service under Gem's Software Service Agreement |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-08-04 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2025-03-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-20 | 2025-08-26 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 13 stars, 1.7k npm/wk | none |