# Gem vs Lever (slim)

> Lever and Gem score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 53.6 (D) and 53.3 (D). Gem leads on schema & documentation, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do recruiting candidates. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-08

Lever and Gem score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 53.6 (D) and 53.3 (D). Gem leads on schema & documentation, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do recruiting candidates.

- Gem: D 53.3, rank #546 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gem.min.md
- Lever: D 53.6, rank #541 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lever.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 Schema & documentation, 65 against 55; Payments & pricing, 15 against 5; Maintenance & community, 42 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 58; Security & auth, 60 against 48; Transparency & trust, 75 against 64.

| Category | Gem | Lever |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 69 | 73 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 65 | 55 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 58 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 48 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 15 | 5 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 42 | 21 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 64 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Gem | Lever |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Gem Software, Inc. | Employ, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.gem.com` | `https://api.lever.co/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Gem's Software Service Agreement | Proprietary service under Lever's terms of service. The postings-api and integrator-resources repositories on GitHub hold documentation and example code |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-08-04 | 2026-04-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-03-07 | 2023-08-25 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-26 | 2023-09-25 |