Kit vs Ashby: Reporting, pipelines and pricing
Ashby combines recruiting reports, sourcing and interview scheduling. Kit gives people who hire on top of their day job role templates and a candidate portal opened by email link.
Which fits your team?
Kit fits teams that need:
- Hiring run on top of a day job
- Candidate access by email link
- Hiring tools in Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT
- Scheduling included in the seat price
- Pipeline definitions they can version
Ashby fits teams that need:
- A dedicated recruiting operations workflow
- Custom recruiting reports
- HRIS, assessment and background check integrations
- A sourcing CRM with email sequences
- Interview loops across multiple days
- SOC 1 Type 2 or SOC 2 Type 2 attestations
What Ashby does well
Pipeline boards, custom reports and sourcing tools.
Pipeline board
Candidates appear in stage columns. Moving a candidate triggers the automations configured for that stage.
In practice: Recruiters can see where candidates are waiting across active roles.
Custom report builder
Choose candidate fields, add calculated metrics and drill into charts to build your own recruiting reports.
In practice: A recruiting lead can answer questions beyond the standard dashboard.
Browser extension and sourcing CRM
Save LinkedIn profiles to Ashby, check for duplicates and add prospects to email sequences.
In practice: Sourced prospects keep their contact history when they become applicants.
What Kit includes
From the candidate's first link to your team's feedback.
Use Kit from your assistant
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Copilot through MCP to read candidates and act on the hiring pipeline.
Tool labels show which actions read data, are destructive or contact someone.
A candidate portal without passwords
Candidates open an email link to book interviews, complete assignments and read offers.
Candidates have no password to remember and take no paid seat.
Candidates book their interviews
Candidates pick a slot from your team's Google Calendar availability. Kit creates the Google Meet link with the booking.
The calendar event and meeting link are ready when the candidate books.
A pipeline for each role
Start with a role template: a GitHub assignment for engineers, a portfolio review for designers or a recorded answer. Edit the stages as needed.
You start from a working process instead of designing one between meetings.
What Kit doesn't have
Check these limits before choosing Kit.
Sourcing and talent CRM
Ashby offers a LinkedIn browser extension, email sequences and talent pools. Kit has a talent pool and resume extraction, but no sourcing extension.
Will we add it? Some sourcing features are planned. A CRM matching Ashby's scope is not.
Custom reports
On Plus and Enterprise, Ashby lets you build custom reports and calculated fields. Kit's dashboard covers career page traffic, applications, conversion and referral sources.
Will we add it? No query builder is planned. Kit also lacks time-to-hire, time-to-fill and source-of-hire reports.
HRIS and screening integrations
Ashby connects to HRIS, assessment and background check providers. Kit has no connectors for those categories.
Will we add it? We may add individual connectors as customers need them.
Interview loops
Ashby schedules multi-day interviews and interviewer pools; some automation is a paid add-on. Kit assigns an available reviewer and creates a Meet link for each booking. A loop needs separate bookings.
Will we add it? Auto-assignment, holidays and reminders are supported. Booking an entire loop is not.
SOC 1 and SOC 2 reports
Ashby holds SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 attestations. Kit holds neither.
Will we add it? SOC 2 is on our security roadmap. SOC 1 is not currently planned.
How each works
The difference in day-to-day use.
Occasional hiring
Kit starts each role with a template. Candidates book their own interviews and submit assignments through an email link. It fits a small team whose hiring managers have other work to do.
Recruiting operations
Ashby gives recruiting teams custom reports, sourcing tools and configurable workflows. It fits a team that runs hiring continuously and has someone responsible for the process.
Plans and costs
Kit
$8/seat/month
$8/seat; Security and Compensation Research (beta) included; Outreach billed separately per account
- Hiring and security training
- Unlimited jobs and applications
- Interview booking and Google Meet links
- MCP access for your assistant
- Candidate portal with no paid candidate seats
- SAML SSO, passkeys and directory sync
Ashby
Foundations $400/month; Plus and Enterprise quoted
- Foundations: $400/month, up to 100 employees
- Plus and Enterprise: paid seats for recruiters and hiring managers
- Custom reports on Plus and Enterprise
- 250+ integrations
Plans and costs
Ashby lists Foundations at $400/month for companies up to 100 employees; Plus and Enterprise are quoted. Kit charges per seat; Security and Compensation Research (beta) are included; Outreach is billed separately per account.
Switching from Ashby?
Consider Kit for:
- Role templates for occasional hiring
- Published pricing for a small team
- Managing candidates from Claude or Cursor
Stay with Ashby if:
- Use its browser extension to source candidates
- Build custom recruiting reports
- Manage enough hiring to need a recruiting operations team
Data portability: Ashby exports candidates to CSV from a custom list report; resumes download one candidate at a time. Kit imports CSVs.
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