# Greenhouse vs Lever (slim)

> Greenhouse scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against Lever's 53.6 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Lever leads on payments & pricing. 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

Greenhouse scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against Lever's 53.6 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Lever leads on payments & pricing. Both do recruiting candidates.

- Greenhouse: B 64.8, rank #248 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/greenhouse.min.md
- Lever: D 53.6, rank #478 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lever.min.md
- 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 55; Security & auth, 85 against 60; Maintenance & community, 65 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 Payments & pricing, 5 against 0.

| Category | Greenhouse | Lever |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 71 | 73 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 55 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 85 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 0 | 5 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 65 | 21 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Greenhouse | Lever |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Greenhouse Software, Inc. | Employ, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://harvest.greenhouse.io/v3` | `https://api.lever.co/v1` |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Greenhouse's Master Subscription Agreement. The docs repository for the older APIs on GitHub is Apache-2.0 | 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 | 2026-10-07 | 2026-04-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-02-01 | 2023-08-25 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-28 | 2023-09-25 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |