# Lever vs NeverApply (slim)

> NeverApply scores 55.5 (C) to Lever's 45.1 (E) for recruiting applications. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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NeverApply scores 55.5 (C) on agent readiness against Lever's 45.1 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Lever leads on reliability and transparency & trust. Both do recruiting applications.

- Lever: E 45.1, rank #1209 of 1513 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lever.min.md
- NeverApply: C 55.5, rank #870 of 1513 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/neverapply.min.md
- 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 Reliability, 85 against 45; Transparency & trust, 71 against 57.
- NeverApply, good for Agents helping one job seeker search jobs, explain matches, tailor resumes and send applications the person approves one by one, on that person's own NeverApply account. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 57 against 22; Agent ergonomics, 66 against 48; Security & auth, 66 against 53; Payments & pricing, 45 against 5; Maintenance & community, 50 against 7. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Lever | NeverApply |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 85 | 45 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 22 | 57 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 48 | 66 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 53 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 5 | 45 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 7 | 50 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 71 | 57 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Lever | NeverApply |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Platform |
| Vendor | Employ, Inc. | Kasovy LLC |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.lever.co/v1` | `https://neverapply.co/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | Streamable HTTP, HTTP |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Price for recruiting applications | not published | $0.19 per transaction |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Lever's terms of service. The postings-api and integrator-resources repositories on GitHub hold documentation and example code | Proprietary hosted service under Kasovy LLC's terms (last updated 18 October 2026, Wyoming law). The public plugin repository of manifests, skills and an icon is MIT, copyright Kasovy LLC |
| Tools exposed | none | 15 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `co.neverapply/neverapply` |
| Last release | 2026-04-30 | 2026-10-31 |
| Terms last updated | 2023-08-25 | not read yet |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-09-25 | not read yet |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not read yet |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not read yet |

Why the edge:
- Maintenance & community, NeverApply +43: Lever 7 (The newest dated API change was on the updates page at hire.lever.co, which now answers robots.txt with a redirect to its sign-in page, so the 7 October reading…); NeverApply 50 (Closed service.)
- Reliability, Lever +40: Lever 85 (Graded on the hosted lines for the Data API and the Postings API.); NeverApply 45 (Hosted reading, for the MCP server at https://neverapply.co/mcp with the Jobs API described.)
- Payments & pricing, NeverApply +40: Lever 5 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0).); NeverApply 45 (No x402, MPP or L402 on the pricing page, llms.txt, auth.md or the MCP page; plans are Stripe subscriptions and the terms say MCP tools perform no financial tra…)
- Schema & documentation, NeverApply +35: Lever 22 (hire.lever.co, the developer documentation host, answers robots.txt with a redirect to its sign-in page, read as a refusal, so the 7 October readings from it ar…); NeverApply 57 (MCP reading, with the Jobs API described.)
- Agent ergonomics, NeverApply +18: Lever 48 (hire.lever.co, the developer documentation host, answers robots.txt with a redirect to its sign-in page, read as a refusal, so the 7 October readings from it ar…); NeverApply 66 (MCP reading.)
- Transparency & trust, Lever +14: Lever 71 (Closed service with public terms of service (25 August 2023), an SLA and Developer Sandbox Terms.); NeverApply 57 (Closed hosted service under terms (last updated 18 October 2026) naming Kasovy LLC, registered in Wyoming, with Wyoming law and a liability cap of 12 months' fe…)