# NeverApply vs Recruitee (slim)

> NeverApply scores 55.5 (C) to Recruitee's 50.6 (D) 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 Recruitee's 50.6 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Recruitee leads on reliability and transparency & trust. Both do recruiting applications.

- NeverApply: C 55.5, rank #870 of 1513 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/neverapply.min.md
- Recruitee: D 50.6, rank #1057 of 1513 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recruitee.min.md
- 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 44; Agent ergonomics, 66 against 43; Security & auth, 66 against 53; Payments & pricing, 45 against 20; Maintenance & community, 50 against 30. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Recruitee, good for Companies already on Tellent Recruitee that want an agent to add candidates, create jobs, move and disqualify applications, schedule interviews and send offer letters. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 45; Transparency & trust, 81 against 57.

| Category | NeverApply | Recruitee |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 45 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 57 | 44 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 66 | 43 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 66 | 53 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 45 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 50 | 30 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 81 |

| Fact (where they differ) | NeverApply | Recruitee |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Kasovy LLC | Tellent (Recruitee B.V.) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://neverapply.co/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP, HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | Token |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Price for recruiting applications | $0.19 per transaction | not published |
| Licence | 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 | Proprietary service under the Tellent Terms & Conditions |
| Tools exposed | 15 | none |
| MCP registry | `co.neverapply/neverapply` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-31 | 2026-08-12 |
| Terms last updated | not read yet | 2026-06-15 |
| Privacy policy last updated | not read yet | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | not found in the text |

Why the edge:
- Reliability, Recruitee +30: NeverApply 45 (Hosted reading, for the MCP server at https://neverapply.co/mcp with the Jobs API described.); Recruitee 75 (Graded on the ATS REST API with the hosted lines.)
- Payments & pricing, NeverApply +25: 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…); Recruitee 20 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0).)
- Transparency & trust, Recruitee +24: 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…); Recruitee 81 (Closed service with published terms, last modified 15 June 2026 and unchanged on 4 November, and a PDF copy (15).)
- Agent ergonomics, NeverApply +23: NeverApply 66 (MCP reading.); Recruitee 43 (List and search endpoints take `limit`, with defaults of 60 or 100, but no field selection, and candidate objects are large (10).)
- Maintenance & community, NeverApply +20: NeverApply 50 (Closed service.); Recruitee 30 (No readable dated source of Tellent's own shows an API change in the last 30 days.)
- Schema & documentation, NeverApply +13: NeverApply 57 (MCP reading, with the Jobs API described.); Recruitee 44 (Curated pages on docs.recruitee.com carry OpenAPI 3.1 fragments for 10 operations.)