5 Workable alternatives for small businesses in 2026

You searched for a Workable alternative, which means something about Workable already isn’t working for you. Maybe it’s the $299-a-month floor for new customers, before you’ve turned on video interviews or assessments. Maybe it’s a platform built to run requisitions and approvals for a hiring team you don’t have. Maybe you just want the part of Workable that helps you get through a pile of resumes, without the rest of the ATS wrapped around it.

Workable is a real applicant tracking system: job posting to 200+ boards, AI-powered sourcing, requisition approvals, offer letters, onboarding, and 270+ partner integrations. For a company with a hiring team that wants one tool to run the whole pipeline, that’s a fair trade for the price. For a small business with no recruiter, most of that platform sits unused while you’re still doing the same thing by hand.

That’s the gap these five alternatives fill in different ways. BreezyHR gives you a smaller, cheaper version of the same ATS shape. Manatal and Zoho Recruit undercut Workable on price, one with AI matching and one with a real free tier. Homerun trades ATS depth for stronger career-page branding. Truffle skips the ATS entirely and focuses on the part most small teams actually get stuck on: screening.

One thing worth saying up front: “alternative” doesn’t have to mean “replace.” If the only thing wrong with Workable is the screening step, you don’t have to rip out your ATS to fix that. More on that below.

What Workable costs, briefly

We’ve broken down Workable’s current pricing in full detail elsewhere, so here’s the short version: new customers start at $299/month for Standard, $599/month for Premier, and $719/month for Enterprise, all on annual billing. The old $149/month Starter plan is closed to new signups.

Standard doesn’t include everything. Video interviews run $109/month extra, assessments run $59/month extra, texting runs $89/month extra, and performance tools run $39/month extra, all as add-ons until you reach Premier. Turn on video and assessments alone and a “$299” plan is closer to $467 a month. Workable holds a 4.4-star rating on Capterra across roughly 660 reviews.

Compare Workable alternatives at a glance

	Workable	BreezyHR	Manatal	Zoho Recruit	Homerun	Truffle
Starting price	$299/mo (Standard)	Free (1 job) or $157/mo (Startup, annual)	$15/user/mo (Professional, annual)	Free (1 job) or ~$25/recruiter/mo (Standard, annual)	€89/mo (Light, annual)	$49/mo (Starter)
Video interviews	$109/mo add-on on Standard	Built-in video meetings	AI Interviewer add-on (extra credits)	Add-on (~$12/license/mo)	Not offered	Included on every plan
Assessments	$59/mo add-on on Standard	Add-on integrations (Business plan+)	Integration only (e.g. TestTrick)	Not offered	Not offered	Included on every plan
AI matching	Add-on credits (Workable Agent)	Not a focus	Built into every paid plan	Limited on Standard	Not offered	AI Match on every candidate, resumes and interviews
Free trial	15 days	Free tier, no time limit on 1 job	14 days	Free tier, no time limit on 1 job	15 days, no card	7 days, 30 credits, no card
Best for	Hiring team running a full pipeline	Small team that wants Workable’s shape at a lower price	AI resume matching on a tight budget	Zero-budget teams that can live with the free tier’s limits	Employer branding and career pages	Screening a high-volume pile, with or without a full ATS

1. BreezyHR for a smaller, cheaper version of the same shape

BreezyHR is the closest thing to Workable at a lower price. If what you actually like about Workable is the drag-and-drop pipeline and the job board reach, and what you don’t like is the bill, this is the direct swap.

BreezyHR pricing

• Bootstrap (free): 1 active position, unlimited users and candidates, career site, posting to 50+ job boards.
• Startup: $157/month (annual) or $189/month (monthly). Adds unlimited positions, automations, interview scheduling, mobile apps, and Slack integration.
• Growth: $273/month (annual) or $329/month (monthly). Adds reference checks, scorecards, referrals, and e-signatures.
• Business: $439/month (annual) or $529/month (monthly). Adds assessment integrations, HRIS integrations, and offer/approval workflows.

BreezyHR pros and cons

A free tier that isn’t a trial, a drag-and-drop pipeline, and a 4.5-star Capterra rating across roughly 1,400 reviews are the strengths. The catches: reporting stays basic until the top tier, assessments and deep HRIS integrations sit on the $439/month Business plan, and there’s no native video interview intelligence, just video meetings for live interviews.

BreezyHR is the right call if the thing slowing you down is really the price tag on an ATS, not the ATS itself. What you don’t get is a way to screen the pile before it hits your pipeline.

2. Manatal for AI matching on a tight budget

Manatal is the most AI-forward name on this list, and the cheapest per-seat entry point. If Workable’s per-employee pricing feels steep for a two- or three-person hiring team, Manatal’s per-user model can undercut it fast.

Manatal pricing

• Professional: $15/user/month (annual) or $19/user/month (monthly). Up to 15 jobs, up to 10,000 candidates, unlimited hiring managers, AI candidate recommendations.
• Enterprise: $35/user/month (annual) or $39/user/month (monthly). Unlimited jobs and candidates, workflow automation.
• Enterprise Plus: $55/user/month (annual) or $59/user/month (monthly). Adds an advanced report builder, LLM integration, open API access, and SSO.

Manatal pros and cons

The Professional plan is genuinely cheap for a team of two or three, and the AI recommendations sit on top of resume data without an enterprise price tag. The catches: the deeper functionality (custom permissions, priority support, advanced reporting) lives on the Enterprise tiers, so real usage tends to push you up the ladder, and native integrations outside the core stack can be thin.

One distinction worth keeping straight: Manatal’s core plan is resume matching built into an ATS. It reads a resume against a role and ranks who looks plausible on paper. Video screening exists as a separate AI Interviewer add-on with its own credits, and assessments aren’t native at all, just an integration with a third-party tool like TestTrick. So the base price gets you ranked resumes. Anything beyond that is another line item or another vendor.

3. Zoho Recruit for a team that can live inside the free tier

Zoho Recruit is the option for a hiring pile so small it doesn’t justify a subscription yet. It’s also the one with the most fine print, because the free tier and the per-recruiter paid tiers are two very different products.

Zoho Recruit pricing

• Free: $0. Capped at 1 active job and 256MB of storage, no resume parsing, no AI, no integrations.
• Standard: roughly $25/recruiter/month (Corporate HR edition, billed annually).
• Enterprise: roughly $50/recruiter/month (Corporate HR edition, billed annually).

Monthly billing runs about 20% higher than the annual rate on every paid tier. Add-ons like video interviews (roughly $12/license/month) and client portals (roughly $6/license/month) sit on top of the sticker price. We’ve broken down the full pricing picture, including the separate Staffing Agency edition, elsewhere.

Zoho Recruit pros and cons

The free tier is a real free tier, not a 14-day trial with a countdown, and it connects tightly to the rest of the Zoho suite if you already run Zoho CRM or Zoho People. The catches: the free plan has no AI and no resume parsing, so you’re reading raw applications by hand exactly the way Workable was supposed to save you from, and the pricing scales per recruiter, not per company, so it climbs faster than a flat-rate ATS once you add a second or third person to the account.

Zoho Recruit is the pick if the actual blocker is budget, full stop, and you can live with doing the first read yourself for now.

4. Homerun for career-page branding

Homerun makes a different trade than BreezyHR, Manatal, or Zoho Recruit. It gives up ATS depth and screening tools in exchange for a career page built to look and read like your brand.

Homerun pricing

• Light: €89/month. 3 job slots, 25 employee seats, €4/month per additional seat.
• Basic: €159/month. 6 job slots, 75 seats.
• Plus: €249/month. 10 job slots, 150 seats.

Monthly billing is available at a higher rate, and there’s a 15-day free trial with no card required.

Homerun pros and cons

Career pages are the actual product here: custom domains, version history, and full branding control. The catches: no native mobile app, thin native integrations (Slack and Intercom, plus a public API), and no video interviews or assessments built in.

Homerun earns its place for a specific reason: your careers page is often the first thing a candidate sees. But it doesn’t touch the actual screening problem. You still open every resume yourself.

5. Truffle for screening the pile Workable still leaves you to read

Truffle is a candidate screening platform that combines resume screening, one-way video interviews, and talent assessments. Where the four tools above are all still applicant tracking systems (or, in Manatal’s case, an ATS with AI matching bolted on), Truffle skips the ATS layer and focuses on figuring out who in the pile is worth your time.

Truffle pricing

Truffle runs on a shared monthly credit pool instead of feature tiers. Every plan gets resume screening, one-way video interviews, and talent assessments: a resume scored by AI Match is 1 credit, a completed assessment is 2, and a finished one-way interview is 5.

• Starter: $49/month, 200 credits.
• Core: $119/month ($99 billed annually), 600 credits, credits roll over up to 3x the monthly pool for 12 months.
• Team: $239/month ($199 billed annually), 1,500 credits.
• Scale: $599/month ($499 billed annually), 4,000 credits.

There’s a 7-day free trial with 30 credits and no credit card, and unlike Workable’s $109-a-month video add-on, there’s nothing extra to unlock.

Truffle pros and cons

All three screening layers on every plan, a Position Link live in about 10 minutes, and AI Match plus Candidate Shorts surfacing the evidence behind every score. The honest limits: not a full ATS (no requisition approval, no onboarding module), fewer third-party integrations than Workable’s 270+.

Truffle is the pick when the actual bottleneck is the resume pile itself, not where you store candidates once you’ve screened them. If you want the direct, feature-by-feature version of this comparison, the Workable alternative page walks through it.

You don’t have to leave Workable to fix this

Every one of the five options above assumes you’re replacing something. But not everyone who searches “Workable alternative” actually wants a new ATS. Some people just want Workable’s screening step to stop being the weak link.

Truffle connects to Workable, along with Greenhouse, Lever, BambooHR, JazzHR, and Breezy HR, through Zapier or a REST API. That means you can keep posting jobs, running your pipeline, and sending offers in Workable, and add Truffle on top to handle resume screening, one-way interviews, and assessments before candidates ever reach your Workable stages.

Ripping out an ATS mid-hiring-season is its own project. If Workable’s pipeline works fine for you and the $109 video add-on or the $59 assessment add-on is really the thing bothering you, connecting Truffle costs you an afternoon of setup, not a system migration.

What if you’re screening for more than one business?

If you run a small staffing or recruiting agency instead, the calculus changes. Tools built for a single company’s pipeline weren’t designed for a book of clients, and agency-grade platforms (Bullhorn and its peers) are priced and structured for a much bigger shop than yours.

None of the five tools above solve that particular problem, including Truffle, on its own. But screening is still the piece that eats the most time per role. We’ve written more specifically about screening for small staffing agencies and running multiple clients’ hiring without adding headcount.

How to choose between these five

• Is the problem the pipeline or the pile? If you like Workable’s ATS but not the price, BreezyHR replaces it directly. If your real problem is 200 resumes and no time to read them, an ATS swap doesn’t fix that, whether it’s BreezyHR, Manatal, or Zoho Recruit.
• Is budget the whole story, or just part of it? Manatal and Zoho Recruit are both cheaper than Workable on paper, but neither runs a one-way interview or an assessment. You’re still doing the first read by hand, just on a smaller bill.
• Does your careers page need to work harder? Homerun’s branding might matter more than any screening feature.
• Do you have a hiring team, or just yourself? Workable, at Premier and up, assumes multiple hiring managers and approval chains.
• Would resumes, interviews, or assessments tell you more? A thin, pre-vetted pool might only need ranked resumes. A big, loosely-qualified crowd is where a one-way interview and an assessment earn their keep.
• Do you actually need a new ATS, or just a better screening step? If Workable’s pipeline itself isn’t the complaint, connecting Truffle to it is a smaller change than switching platforms.

FAQs about Workable alternatives

Do I have to replace Workable to fix my screening problem?

No. Truffle connects to Workable through Zapier or a REST API, so you can keep your existing pipeline and add resume screening, one-way interviews, and assessments on top of it.

Is there a free Workable alternative?

BreezyHR and Zoho Recruit both have genuinely free tiers, not time-limited trials. BreezyHR’s free plan covers 1 active position with unlimited users and candidates. Zoho Recruit’s free plan caps you at 1 job and 256MB of storage, with no AI or resume parsing. Both are real options if the budget is zero, but neither replaces the screening step Workable’s add-ons (or Truffle) handle.

Can I migrate my candidate data out of Workable?

You can export candidates from Workable and bring them into a new ATS if you’re switching platforms outright. If you’re adding Truffle rather than replacing your ATS, there’s nothing to migrate: Truffle isn’t a system of record.

Is there a Workable alternative built for staffing agencies?

Not really, and that includes Truffle on its own. Generalist ATS platforms like Workable are built for a single company hiring for itself. Agency-grade ATS platforms exist (Bullhorn is the common one), but they’re priced and built for a bigger shop.

What’s the actual difference between an ATS and screening software?

An ATS stores candidates and moves them through stages. Screening software reads and ranks the pile before it gets that far. Workable does both. BreezyHR, Manatal, Zoho Recruit, and Homerun are all ATS-shaped in one way or another, and Truffle is the screening half only.

The bigger shift

Workable and the four ATS alternatives above are all built on the same assumption: that somewhere behind the tool, there’s a hiring team to run it. That assumption doesn’t hold for an owner running a small business who inherited hiring on top of the job they were actually hired to do.

That’s the gap Truffle is built for: not a bigger ATS, and not a nicer careers page, but the part of hiring that actually takes the time. Keep Workable for the pipeline if it’s working, or leave it behind if it isn’t. Either way, see what’s included at every price point, or start a 7-day free trial and screen your next pile of candidates before you decide anything about your ATS at all.