# Gem vs Greenhouse (slim)

> Greenhouse scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against Gem's 53.3 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Gem leads on payments & pricing. Both do recruiting candidates. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Greenhouse scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against Gem's 53.3 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Gem leads on payments & pricing. Both do recruiting candidates.

- Gem: D 53.3, rank #546 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gem.min.md
- Greenhouse: B 64.8, rank #271 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/greenhouse.min.md
- 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 Payments & pricing, 15 against 0.
- Greenhouse, good for An agent working inside a company that already runs hiring on Greenhouse and needs to read pipelines, move applications, schedule interviews or draft offer records under scoped OAuth. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 79 against 65; Agent ergonomics, 63 against 58; Security & auth, 85 against 48; Maintenance & community, 65 against 42; Transparency & trust, 79 against 64.

| Category | Gem | Greenhouse |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 69 | 71 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 65 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 58 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 48 | 85 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 15 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 42 | 65 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 64 | 79 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Gem | Greenhouse |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Gem Software, Inc. | Greenhouse Software, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.gem.com` | `https://harvest.greenhouse.io/v3` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Gem's Software Service Agreement | Proprietary service under Greenhouse's Master Subscription Agreement. The docs repository for the older APIs on GitHub is Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-08-04 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-03-07 | 2026-02-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-26 | 2026-05-28 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |