{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "lever", "name": "Lever", "vendor": "Employ, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.lever.co", "kind": "http-api", "category": "recruiting", "summary": "Applicant tracking and candidate relationship system from Employ Inc. Its Data API reads and writes opportunities, postings, interviews, feedback and requisitions, and a separate Postings API serves published jobs.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lever", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lever.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lever.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lever.json", "repo": "https://github.com/lever/postings-api", "license": "Proprietary service under Lever's terms of service. The postings-api and integrator-resources repositories on GitHub hold documentation and example code", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.lever.co/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is granted by a paying customer or by Lever's partner team. A Super Admin of a Lever account creates an API key in Settings, sent as the Basic auth username with a blank password. Keys are limited to chosen endpoints, and access to confidential data can be granted only when the key is created. Partner integrations must use OAuth 2.0 (authorisation code grant at https://auth.lever.co/authorize, with a required `audience`). Lever staff create the OAuth app after a partner application and a registration form, first on the sandbox and then for production after a QA call. About 50 scopes follow the pattern `opportunities:read:admin` and `opportunities:write:admin`, with at most 20 per app. Access tokens last 1 hour and refresh tokens 1 year or 90 days idle. A Super Admin authorises an app for the whole organisation and can revoke it in settings. The Postings API reads published jobs without a key and takes applications with a key in the `key` query parameter.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public price. lever.co/pricing has a quote form and says pricing scales with team size and hiring needs, with no trial, free tier or self-serve signup found. Lever's partner FAQ says OAuth integrations work for all customers, while API key use needs the Data API feature, requisition endpoints need the TRM Enterprise package or Advanced HR, and the audit events endpoint is an add-on. A sandbox account is free to approved partners only, so an agent can't start without a customer contract or partner approval. Reading a company's published jobs through the Postings API needs no account (checked 2026-10-07).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer documentation, the Postings API README or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-07).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-07" }, "docsUrl": "https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation", "capabilities": [ "recruiting.candidates", "recruiting.jobs", "recruiting.applications", "recruiting.interviews", "recruiting.offer-letters" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "enterprise", "sales-led", "oauth", "api-key", "webhooks", "sandbox", "status-page", "sla", "soc2", "iso27001", "eu-region" ], "lastRelease": "2026-04-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 53.6, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 541, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 21, "payments": 5, "reliability": 73, "schema": 55, "security": 60, "transparency": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-07" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The Data API covers about 100 operations with read and write OAuth scopes per resource, field selection and a 99.9 per cent uptime commitment. Access depends on a paying customer or partner approval, with no public price, no OpenAPI file and no official SDK. The status page records three critical incidents between 14 July and 21 August 2026.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "About 100 documented operations on https://api.lever.co/v1, with writes for opportunities, stages, notes, feedback, interviews, postings and requisitions", "OAuth 2.0 authorisation code grant with around 50 scopes split into read and write per resource, and a separate scope for confidential data", "Every list endpoint takes `limit` (1 to 100), an opaque `offset` token, `include` for field selection and `expand` for linked objects", "Published SLA commits to 99.9 per cent monthly uptime with automatic service credits", "Sub-processor list dated 21 September 2025 names each vendor, purpose and location" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public price, free tier or self-serve signup. OAuth apps and sandbox accounts are issued by Lever staff after a partner application", "No OpenAPI file, llms.txt or official SDK. The reference is one HTML page and a Postman collection last changed in February 2025", "Three incidents marked critical on status.lever.co between 14 July and 21 August 2026, one with elevated API error rates for 14 minutes", "No idempotency keys, and 429 responses are documented without a Retry-After header", "The Postings API takes its key in the URL query string for application submissions", "Offer records are read-only, and interviews can be written only on panels marked `externallyManaged`" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `perform_as` with a Lever user id on creates and most updates. Opportunity, note, feedback, panel and interview writes reject requests without it", "Use the Opportunities endpoints. The Candidates endpoints were deprecated in 2020 and the old candidate id works as the opportunity id", "Stay under 10 requests a second per key and back off exponentially on 429 and 503. Application POSTs are limited to 2 a second", "Create interviews on a panel with `externallyManaged` true. Panels made in the Lever app can't be changed through the API", "Pass `include` to trim fields and follow `next` while `hasNext` is true. An `offset` must come from a previous response", "Send a full object on PUT to panels and interviews. Missing fields are deleted" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 53.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 21, "payments": 5, "reliability": 73, "schema": 55, "security": 60, "transparency": 63 }, "provenanceScore": 87 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -u \"$LEVER_API_KEY:\" \"https://api.lever.co/v1/opportunities?limit=10\u0026include=name\u0026include=stage\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/recruiting.candidates", "tool": "https://letme.dev/lever" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Employ, Inc.", "domain": "lever.co", "domainRegistered": "2010-07-20", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.lever.co/legal/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.employinc.com/privacy-notice-services/", "statusPage": "https://status.lever.co", "changelog": "https://hire.lever.co/developer/updates", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-07", "notes": [ "The terms of service (last updated 25 August 2023) and the Developer Sandbox Terms (21 September 2020) name Lever, Inc. The DPA (last updated 20 May 2025) and the sub-processor list name Employ, Inc., 20 North Meridian Street, Suite 300, Indianapolis, IN 46204, and page footers read Employ Inc.", "API endpoints answer at api.lever.co, with auth.lever.co for OAuth. An unauthenticated GET to https://api.lever.co/v1/opportunities returned 401 with `server: lever-data-api` on 7 October 2026.", "www.lever.co/.well-known/security.txt and www.employinc.com/.well-known/security.txt both return 404. A vulnerability disclosure policy with security@employinc.com is in SECURITY.md in Lever's GitHub repositories and says there is no bug bounty.", "RDAP at rdap.registry.co gives a registration date of 2010-07-20 for lever.co and NameCheap, Inc. as registrar.", "The SLA and DPA are published on employinc.com (https://www.employinc.com/lever-sla/ and https://www.employinc.com/dpa/)." ], "score": 87 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lever.json", "live": { "slug": "lever", "probe": { "target": "https://api.lever.co/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T23:26:35.481597724Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 568, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 608, "p95ms24h": 686, "samples24h": 87, "samples30d": 87, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 87, "ok": 87 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.lever.co", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T23:24:05.175743629Z" }, "githubStars": 200, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://lever.co/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:47.673975745Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://hire.lever.co/developer/updates", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:52.275745136Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "721e91eb9091" }, { "url": "https://www.employinc.com/privacy-notice-services/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:27:36.644757071Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "8a719a587b02" }, { "url": "https://www.lever.co/legal/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:28:40.54053301Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1e3f81b481ff" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T23:26:35.481597724Z" } }, "answer": "SmartRecruiters scores 60.4 (C) on agent readiness against Lever's 53.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lever leads on agent ergonomics.", "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": 403, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 5, "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": "2026-10-08T23:26:44.569470395Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 390, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 522, "p95ms24h": 916, "samples24h": 87, "samples30d": 87, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 87, "ok": 87 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.smartrecruiters.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T23:24:19.292138153Z" }, "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": "2026-10-08T23:26:44.569470395Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Employ, Inc.", "b": "SmartRecruiters, Inc. (an SAP company)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.lever.co/v1", "b": "https://api.smartrecruiters.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Lever's terms of service. The postings-api and integrator-resources repositories on GitHub hold documentation and example code", "b": "Proprietary service under the SmartRecruiters Master Subscription Agreement", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-04-30", "b": "2026-10-05", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2023-08-25", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2023-09-25", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "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": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "SmartRecruiters scores 60.4 (C) on agent readiness against Lever's 53.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lever leads on agent ergonomics.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Lever or SmartRecruiters?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Lever and SmartRecruiters need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Lever has a hosted endpoint at https://api.lever.co/v1 and SmartRecruiters at https://api.smartrecruiters.com.", "question": "Can an agent call Lever and SmartRecruiters without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 65 against 51" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "lever", "watchFor": "No public price, free tier or self-serve signup. OAuth apps and sandbox accounts are issued by Lever staff after a partner application" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 78 against 73", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 55", "Security \u0026 auth, 65 against 60", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 58 against 21" ], "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. 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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/lever-vs-smartrecruiters", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lever-vs-smartrecruiters.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lever-vs-smartrecruiters.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lever-vs-smartrecruiters.min.md" }, "markdown": "SmartRecruiters scores 60.4 (C) on agent readiness against Lever's 53.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lever leads on agent ergonomics. Both do recruiting candidates.\n\n- Lever: grade D, 53.6/100, rank #541 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lever.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lever.json\n- SmartRecruiters: grade C, 60.4/100, rank #403 of 722. 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### Lever (D)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 65 against 51\n\nWatch for: No public price, free tier or self-serve signup. OAuth apps and sandbox accounts are issued by Lever staff after a partner application\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 73\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 75 against 55\n- Security \u0026 auth, 65 against 60\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 58 against 21\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 | Lever | SmartRecruiters | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 73 | 78 | SmartRecruiters +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 75 | SmartRecruiters +20 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 51 | Lever +14 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 65 | SmartRecruiters +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 5 | 8 | SmartRecruiters +3 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 21 | 58 | SmartRecruiters +37 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 79 | SmartRecruiters +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **53.6 · D** | **60.4 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Lever | SmartRecruiters |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Employ, Inc. | SmartRecruiters, Inc. (an SAP company) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.lever.co/v1` | `https://api.smartrecruiters.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Lever's terms of service. The postings-api and integrator-resources repositories on GitHub hold documentation and example code | Proprietary service under the SmartRecruiters Master Subscription Agreement |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-04-30 | 2026-10-05 |\n| Terms last updated | 2023-08-25 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-09-25 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | 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 | yes | not found in the text |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Lever.** The Data API covers about 100 operations with read and write OAuth scopes per resource, field selection and a 99.9 per cent uptime commitment. Access depends on a paying customer or partner approval, with no public price, no OpenAPI file and no official SDK. The status page records three critical incidents between 14 July and 21 August 2026.\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### Lever\n\n1. Send `perform_as` with a Lever user id on creates and most updates. Opportunity, note, feedback, panel and interview writes reject requests without it\n2. Use the Opportunities endpoints. The Candidates endpoints were deprecated in 2020 and the old candidate id works as the opportunity id\n3. Stay under 10 requests a second per key and back off exponentially on 429 and 503. Application POSTs are limited to 2 a second\n4. Create interviews on a panel with `externallyManaged` true. Panels made in the Lever app can't be changed through the API\n5. Pass `include` to trim fields and follow `next` while `hasNext` is true. An `offset` must come from a previous response\n6. Send a full object on PUT to panels and interviews. Missing fields are deleted\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, Lever or SmartRecruiters?\n\nSmartRecruiters scores 60.4 (C) on agent readiness against Lever's 53.6 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lever leads on agent ergonomics.\n\n### Do Lever and SmartRecruiters need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Lever and SmartRecruiters without installing anything?\n\nYes. Lever has a hosted endpoint at https://api.lever.co/v1 and SmartRecruiters at https://api.smartrecruiters.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lever-vs-smartrecruiters.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lever-vs-smartrecruiters.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"lever\", \"b\": \"smartrecruiters\"}`. 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