# Recruitee vs SmartRecruiters (slim)

> SmartRecruiters scores 60.4 (C) on agent readiness against Recruitee's 52.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Recruitee leads on payments & pricing. 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 Recruitee's 52.9 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Recruitee leads on payments & pricing. Both do recruiting candidates.

- Recruitee: D 52.9, rank #557 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recruitee.min.md
- SmartRecruiters: C 60.4, rank #403 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smartrecruiters.min.md
- 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 Payments & pricing, 20 against 8. Also Free to start without a card.
- 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 Schema & documentation, 75 against 44; Agent ergonomics, 51 against 43; Security & auth, 65 against 53. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Recruitee | SmartRecruiters |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 75 | 78 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 44 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 43 | 51 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 53 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 8 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 60 | 58 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 79 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Recruitee | SmartRecruiters |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Tellent (Recruitee B.V.) | SmartRecruiters, Inc. (an SAP company) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.smartrecruiters.com` |
| Auth | Token | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Tellent Terms & Conditions | Proprietary service under the SmartRecruiters Master Subscription Agreement |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-15 | no date given |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |