# Lever vs SmartRecruiters (slim)

> 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- Lever: D 53.6, rank #478 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lever.min.md
- SmartRecruiters: C 60.4, rank #356 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartrecruiters.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 Agent ergonomics, 65 against 51.
- SmartRecruiters, good 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. Ahead on Reliability, 78 against 73; Schema & documentation, 75 against 55; Security & auth, 65 against 60; Maintenance & community, 58 against 21.

| Category | Lever | SmartRecruiters |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 73 | 78 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 55 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 51 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 60 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 5 | 8 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 21 | 58 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 75 | 79 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Lever | SmartRecruiters |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Employ, Inc. | SmartRecruiters, Inc. (an SAP company) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.lever.co/v1` | `https://api.smartrecruiters.com` |
| 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 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-04-30 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2023-08-25 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-09-25 | no date given |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |