{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "greenhouse", "name": "Greenhouse", "vendor": "Greenhouse Software, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.greenhouse.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "recruiting", "summary": "Applicant tracking system from Greenhouse Software in New York. The Harvest v3 REST API reads and writes jobs, candidates, applications, interviews, scorecards and offer records, and a hosted MCP server in open beta exposes a subset of it.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/greenhouse", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/greenhouse.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/greenhouse.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/greenhouse.json", "repo": "https://github.com/grnhse/greenhouse-api-docs", "license": "Proprietary service under Greenhouse's Master Subscription Agreement. The docs repository for the older APIs on GitHub is Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://harvest.greenhouse.io/v3", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "Access is granted inside a paying customer's account. For a customer's own integration, a user with the developer permission creates Harvest V3 (OAuth) credentials under API Credentials, picks scopes, and exchanges the client ID and secret at https://auth.greenhouse.io/token for a Bearer token. An optional `sub` names the Greenhouse user the token works for, and all list endpoints need a Site Admin. Partners use the OAuth 2.0 authorisation code grant after signing a partnership agreement, with credentials and scope changes issued by partner support. The MCP server uses OAuth 2.0 with PKCE and dynamic client registration, per user.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public prices. greenhouse.com/pricing names three tiers (Core, Plus and Pro) and says pricing is customised to hiring needs, through a demo or sales contact. No free tier or trial was found. A sandbox is a Pro-tier feature, so an agent can't start without a customer contract. The MCP article says access and pricing for the beta come from the account team, and the Audit Log API is a paid add-on (checked 2026-10-07).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Harvest v3 docs, the MCP articles or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-07).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-07" }, "docsUrl": "https://harvestdocs.greenhouse.io", "llmsTxt": "https://harvestdocs.greenhouse.io/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "recruiting.candidates", "recruiting.jobs", "recruiting.applications", "recruiting.interviews", "recruiting.offer-letters" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "enterprise", "oauth", "mcp", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "sales-led", "status-page", "bug-bounty", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.8, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 248, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 629, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 65, "payments": 0, "reliability": 71, "schema": 79, "security": 85, "transparency": 79 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-07" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Harvest v3 pairs per-endpoint OAuth scopes with Markdown docs that embed an OpenAPI 3.1 definition for each call, and the beta MCP server blocks every DELETE. Access needs a paying customer account, with no public price, trial or self-serve sandbox, and no numeric rate limit or idempotency key was found in the reviewed documentation.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "OAuth 2.0 with per-endpoint scopes such as `harvest:applications:move`, and secret rotation that keeps the old secret for up to a week", "Every Harvest v3 reference page has a Markdown twin with an OpenAPI 3.1 definition, indexed by llms.txt", "The MCP server blocks every DELETE endpoint and asks for human confirmation on five actions, including reject, hire and merge", "Cursor pagination with `per_page` up to 500 and `created_at` or `updated_at` filters on list endpoints", "Audit Log API records `harvest_access`, `mcp_access` and `mcp_tool_call` events with the OAuth client and user" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public price, free tier or trial. Pricing is customised through sales, and the sandbox is a Pro-tier feature", "The v3 rate limit is a 30-second window with no published number. The limit arrives in `X-RateLimit-Limit`", "No idempotency keys found, and reference pages list 401, 403 and 422 without error body examples", "All list endpoints need a Site Admin as the authorising user, per the authentication guide", "No official SDKs found, and the MCP server is in open beta and absent from the official MCP registry" ], "agentNotes": [ "Request a token from https://auth.greenhouse.io/token with client credentials, then send it as a Bearer token to https://harvest.greenhouse.io/v3. Tokens expire, so repeat on 401", "Put filters and `per_page` on the first list request only. A `cursor` must be the only query parameter, or the call returns 422", "Send the current stage as `from_stage_id` when moving an application. It guards against stale moves. Other writes have no idempotency key, so check before retrying", "Read `X-RateLimit-Remaining` on every response and wait for `Retry-After` on 429. The window is 30 seconds", "Expect empty list results or 403 unless the token's user is a Site Admin with the needed permissions" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 65, "payments": 0, "reliability": 71, "schema": 79, "security": 85, "transparency": 67 }, "provenanceScore": 90 }, "connect": { "http": "curl --location 'https://harvest.greenhouse.io/v3/job_posts' \\\n --header 'Authorization: Bearer \u003c\u003cACCESS_TOKEN\u003e\u003e'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add greenhouse --transport http https://mcp.us.greenhouse.io/mcp" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/recruiting.candidates", "tool": "https://letme.dev/greenhouse" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Greenhouse Software, Inc.", "domain": "greenhouse.com", "domainRegistered": "1997-07-30", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.greenhouse.com/master-subscription-agreement", "privacy": "https://www.greenhouse.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.greenhouse.io", "changelog": "https://harvestdocs.greenhouse.io/changelog", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-10-07", "notes": [ "The Master Subscription Agreement, last updated 1 February 2026, names Greenhouse Software, Inc. and is governed by New York law.", "The API answers at harvest.greenhouse.io, token requests at auth.greenhouse.io and the MCP server at mcp.greenhouse.io. Docs and status also sit on greenhouse.io, which the vendor's pages link to. We did not look up the registration of greenhouse.io.", "https://www.greenhouse.com/.well-known/security.txt lists security@greenhouse.io and a HackerOne policy link, with an Expires line of 2026-02-01, so it had expired when read.", "RDAP for greenhouse.com gives a registration date of 1997-07-30.", "The privacy policy is dated May 28, 2026. The SLA at greenhouse.com/service-level-agreement was last updated 1 February 2026." ], "score": 90 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/greenhouse.json", "live": { "slug": "greenhouse", "probe": { "target": "https://harvest.greenhouse.io/v3", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T19:08:48.290224768Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 465, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 291, "p95ms24h": 363, "samples24h": 42, "samples30d": 42, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 42, "ok": 42 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.greenhouse.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:06:40.99947895Z" }, "githubStars": 141, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://greenhouse.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "expired", "expires": "2026-02-01T04:59:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:47.213641717Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://harvestdocs.greenhouse.io/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:48.376020909Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "de13976c1b65" }, { "url": "https://www.greenhouse.com/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:28:08.264000017Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "2ae182cde941" }, { "url": "https://www.greenhouse.com/master-subscription-agreement", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:28:06.187813013Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6de5c365ccc0" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:08:48.290224768Z" } }, "answer": "Greenhouse scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against SmartRecruiters's 60.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SmartRecruiters leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "smartrecruiters", "name": "SmartRecruiters", "vendor": "SmartRecruiters, Inc. (an SAP company)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.smartrecruiters.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "recruiting", "summary": "Applicant tracking and recruiting platform from SmartRecruiters, an SAP company. Its Customer API covers jobs, candidates, applications, interviews, offer records, reports and webhooks over REST, with API key or OAuth 2.0 access for customers and approved partners.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartrecruiters", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartrecruiters.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartrecruiters.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/smartrecruiters.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the SmartRecruiters Master Subscription Agreement", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.smartrecruiters.com", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is granted by a paying customer's administrator, who creates an API key or an OAuth client ID in Credential Manager. The API key goes in the `X-SmartToken` header, has full access to company data and doesn't expire. OAuth 2.0 client credentials are limited by 49 scopes, a system role and an optional access group, and their access tokens last 1,799 seconds. Partners distributing an app to all customers use the authorisation code grant, and new partner integrations are managed through the SAP PartnerEdge Build programme. The Posting API needs no credential.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No free tier, trial or self-serve signup found, so an agent can't start without a customer contract. The pricing page lists Essential \"starting at $14,995\" with no billing period stated, and Professional, High Volume and Complete on request. No separate API charge is published. Sandbox Management is listed as a product and Advanced Sandbox sits in the Complete plan. Only the Posting API, which returns published jobs, works without an account.", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, llms.txt or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-07).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-07" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.smartrecruiters.com", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.smartrecruiters.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developers.smartrecruiters.com/page/swagger", "capabilities": [ "recruiting.candidates", "recruiting.jobs", "recruiting.applications", "recruiting.interviews", "recruiting.offer-letters" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "enterprise", "oauth", "api-key", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "sales-led", "status-page", "soc2", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.4, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 356, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 629, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 51, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 8, "reliability": 78, "schema": 75, "security": 65, "transparency": 79 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-07" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "OAuth client credentials limited by 49 scopes, a system role and an access group, with per-operation OpenAPI definitions, llms.txt and a dated changelog. Access needs a paid SmartRecruiters account, with the lowest plan starting at $14,995, and no free tier, official SDK or idempotency key was found.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "OAuth 2.0 client credentials with 49 scopes, a system role and an optional access group. Access tokens last 1,799 seconds", "Every reference page is served as Markdown with an OpenAPI 3.0.1 definition, indexed by a 511-line llms.txt", "Limits are published. 10 requests a second and 8 concurrent per credential, with X-RateLimit headers on every response", "Written policy of at least 10 months' notice before an endpoint is sunset, and 24 months of support for earlier versions", "Audit API with at least 26 months of retention, and 54 webhook events with optional HMAC SHA256 signatures" ], "weaknesses": [ "No free tier, trial or self-serve signup found. The Essential plan starts at $14,995 and the other three plans are quoted on request", "No idempotency keys in the reference pages we read, so a create retried after a timeout can duplicate a candidate or interview", "No official SDK, and the vendor's MCP page says the MCP server isn't supported for the public API", "An API key has full access to company data with no scopes and no expiry", "Offer endpoints are read-only, and new partner apps now go through the SAP PartnerEdge Build programme" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask the customer's admin for an OAuth client ID with only the scopes needed. An API key reads and writes all company data and never expires", "Exchange the client ID and secret at https://api.smartrecruiters.com/identity/oauth/token and refresh every 30 minutes", "Stay under 10 requests a second and 8 concurrent. `GET /candidates` allows 1 concurrent request, and job publication 2 a second", "Move a candidate with `PUT /candidates/{id}/jobs/{jobId}/status`. The variants without `jobId` act on the most recently updated application", "Page with `limit` (maximum 100, default 10) and `pageId` from `nextPageId`. Use the Reporting API for bulk reads, which returns CSV" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 51, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 8, "reliability": 78, "schema": 75, "security": 65, "transparency": 75 }, "provenanceScore": 82 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.smartrecruiters.com/identity/oauth/token \\\n -X POST \\\n -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \\\n -d \"client_id=$SMARTRECRUITERS_CLIENT_ID\" \\\n -d \"client_secret=$SMARTRECRUITERS_CLIENT_SECRET\" \\\n -d 'grant_type=client_credentials'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/recruiting.candidates", "tool": "https://letme.dev/smartrecruiters" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "SmartRecruiters, Inc.", "domain": "smartrecruiters.com", "domainRegistered": "2005-11-20", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.smartrecruiters.com/legal/terms-and-conditions/", "privacy": "https://www.smartrecruiters.com/legal/general-privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.smartrecruiters.com", "changelog": "https://developers.smartrecruiters.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-07", "notes": [ "The privacy notice names SmartRecruiters, Inc. as owner and data controller and was last updated on 2 March 2026. The site footer reads \"SmartRecruiters, part of SAP SuccessFactors\".", "The Master Subscription Agreement is version 15 November 2024 and is governed by Delaware law where the contracting entity is SmartRecruiters, Inc. Earlier versions back to 2017 are archived on the legal page.", "The sub-processor list gives SmartRecruiters GmbH's address as c/o SAP SE, Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16, Walldorf.", "www.smartrecruiters.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and the same path on developers.smartrecruiters.com returns a docs page.", "Domain registration date from Verisign RDAP. The API answers at api.smartrecruiters.com." ], "score": 82 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartrecruiters.json", "live": { "slug": "smartrecruiters", "probe": { "target": "https://api.smartrecruiters.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T19:08:58.683275756Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 590, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 541, "p95ms24h": 916, "samples24h": 42, "samples30d": 42, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 42, "ok": 42 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.smartrecruiters.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:06:59.236666314Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://smartrecruiters.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:41.34049374Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developers.smartrecruiters.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:00.750311713Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b7e88795862c" }, { "url": "https://www.smartrecruiters.com/legal/general-privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:31.713164865Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "95c7ac886657" }, { "url": "https://www.smartrecruiters.com/legal/terms-and-conditions/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:33.808646421Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "65267278e615" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:08:58.683275756Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Greenhouse Software, Inc.", "b": "SmartRecruiters, Inc. (an SAP company)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://harvest.greenhouse.io/v3", "b": "https://api.smartrecruiters.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Greenhouse's Master Subscription Agreement. The docs repository for the older APIs on GitHub is Apache-2.0", "b": "Proprietary service under the SmartRecruiters Master Subscription Agreement", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-07", "b": "2026-10-05", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-02-01", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-28", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Greenhouse scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against SmartRecruiters's 60.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SmartRecruiters leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Greenhouse or SmartRecruiters?" }, { "answer": "Greenhouse uses an OAuth sign-in. SmartRecruiters takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Greenhouse and SmartRecruiters need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Greenhouse has a hosted endpoint at https://harvest.greenhouse.io/v3 and SmartRecruiters at https://api.smartrecruiters.com.", "question": "Can an agent call Greenhouse and SmartRecruiters without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 63 against 51", "Security \u0026 auth, 85 against 65", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 65 against 58" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "greenhouse", "watchFor": "No public price, free tier or trial. Pricing is customised through sales, and the sandbox is a Pro-tier feature" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 78 against 71", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 8 against 0" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "smartrecruiters", "watchFor": "No free tier, trial or self-serve signup found. The Essential plan starts at $14,995 and the other three plans are quoted on request" } ], "job": { "capability": "recruiting.candidates", "name": "Recruiting candidates" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ashby-vs-greenhouse.json", "title": "Ashby vs Greenhouse", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ashby-vs-greenhouse" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ashby-vs-smartrecruiters.json", "title": "Ashby vs SmartRecruiters", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ashby-vs-smartrecruiters" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/greenhouse-vs-lever.json", "title": "Greenhouse vs Lever", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/greenhouse-vs-lever" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/greenhouse-vs-workable.json", "title": "Greenhouse vs Workable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/greenhouse-vs-workable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lever-vs-smartrecruiters.json", "title": "Lever vs SmartRecruiters", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lever-vs-smartrecruiters" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smartrecruiters-vs-workable.json", "title": "SmartRecruiters vs Workable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smartrecruiters-vs-workable" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 7, "edge": "smartrecruiters", "greenhouse": 71, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "smartrecruiters": 78, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 4, "edge": "greenhouse", "greenhouse": 79, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "smartrecruiters": 75, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 12, "edge": "greenhouse", "greenhouse": 63, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "smartrecruiters": 51, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "greenhouse", "greenhouse": 85, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "smartrecruiters": 65, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "smartrecruiters", "greenhouse": 0, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "smartrecruiters": 8, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 7, "edge": "greenhouse", "greenhouse": 65, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "smartrecruiters": 58, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "greenhouse": 79, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "smartrecruiters": 79, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Greenhouse scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against SmartRecruiters's 60.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SmartRecruiters leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do recruiting candidates.", "verdicts": { "greenhouse": "Harvest v3 pairs per-endpoint OAuth scopes with Markdown docs that embed an OpenAPI 3.1 definition for each call, and the beta MCP server blocks every DELETE. Access needs a paying customer account, with no public price, trial or self-serve sandbox, and no numeric rate limit or idempotency key was found in the reviewed documentation.", "smartrecruiters": "OAuth client credentials limited by 49 scopes, a system role and an access group, with per-operation OpenAPI definitions, llms.txt and a dated changelog. Access needs a paid SmartRecruiters account, with the lowest plan starting at $14,995, and no free tier, official SDK or idempotency key was found." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/greenhouse-vs-smartrecruiters", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/greenhouse-vs-smartrecruiters.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/greenhouse-vs-smartrecruiters.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/greenhouse-vs-smartrecruiters.min.md" }, "markdown": "Greenhouse scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against SmartRecruiters's 60.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SmartRecruiters leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do recruiting candidates.\n\n- Greenhouse: grade B, 64.8/100, rank #248 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/greenhouse.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/greenhouse.json\n- SmartRecruiters: grade C, 60.4/100, rank #356 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartrecruiters.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/smartrecruiters.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Greenhouse (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 63 against 51\n- Security \u0026 auth, 85 against 65\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 65 against 58\n\nWatch for: No public price, free tier or trial. Pricing is customised through sales, and the sandbox is a Pro-tier feature\n\n### SmartRecruiters (C)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 78 against 71\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 8 against 0\n\nWatch for: No free tier, trial or self-serve signup found. The Essential plan starts at $14,995 and the other three plans are quoted on request\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Greenhouse | SmartRecruiters | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 71 | 78 | SmartRecruiters +7 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 75 | Greenhouse +4 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 51 | Greenhouse +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 85 | 65 | Greenhouse +20 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 8 | SmartRecruiters +8 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 58 | Greenhouse +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 79 | even |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.8 · B** | **60.4 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Greenhouse | SmartRecruiters |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Greenhouse Software, Inc. | SmartRecruiters, Inc. (an SAP company) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://harvest.greenhouse.io/v3` | `https://api.smartrecruiters.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| 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 the SmartRecruiters Master Subscription Agreement |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-05 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-02-01 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-28 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Greenhouse.** Harvest v3 pairs per-endpoint OAuth scopes with Markdown docs that embed an OpenAPI 3.1 definition for each call, and the beta MCP server blocks every DELETE. Access needs a paying customer account, with no public price, trial or self-serve sandbox, and no numeric rate limit or idempotency key was found in the reviewed documentation.\n\n**SmartRecruiters.** OAuth client credentials limited by 49 scopes, a system role and an access group, with per-operation OpenAPI definitions, llms.txt and a dated changelog. Access needs a paid SmartRecruiters account, with the lowest plan starting at $14,995, and no free tier, official SDK or idempotency key was found.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Greenhouse\n\n1. Request a token from https://auth.greenhouse.io/token with client credentials, then send it as a Bearer token to https://harvest.greenhouse.io/v3. Tokens expire, so repeat on 401\n2. Put filters and `per_page` on the first list request only. A `cursor` must be the only query parameter, or the call returns 422\n3. Send the current stage as `from_stage_id` when moving an application. It guards against stale moves. Other writes have no idempotency key, so check before retrying\n4. Read `X-RateLimit-Remaining` on every response and wait for `Retry-After` on 429. The window is 30 seconds\n5. Expect empty list results or 403 unless the token's user is a Site Admin with the needed permissions\n\n### SmartRecruiters\n\n1. Ask the customer's admin for an OAuth client ID with only the scopes needed. An API key reads and writes all company data and never expires\n2. Exchange the client ID and secret at https://api.smartrecruiters.com/identity/oauth/token and refresh every 30 minutes\n3. Stay under 10 requests a second and 8 concurrent. `GET /candidates` allows 1 concurrent request, and job publication 2 a second\n4. Move a candidate with `PUT /candidates/{id}/jobs/{jobId}/status`. The variants without `jobId` act on the most recently updated application\n5. Page with `limit` (maximum 100, default 10) and `pageId` from `nextPageId`. Use the Reporting API for bulk reads, which returns CSV\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Greenhouse or SmartRecruiters?\n\nGreenhouse scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against SmartRecruiters's 60.4 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SmartRecruiters leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Greenhouse and SmartRecruiters need an API key?\n\nGreenhouse uses an OAuth sign-in. SmartRecruiters takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Greenhouse and SmartRecruiters without installing anything?\n\nYes. 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