Kit vs Workable: Hiring tools or hiring and HR
Workable carries a candidate record into employee management, time tracking and payroll preparation. Kit covers the job posting through the offer, then leaves employee records to your HRIS.
Which fits your team?
Kit fits teams that need:
- Hiring run on top of a day job
- A workflow ending at the offer
- Hiring alongside an existing HRIS
- A candidate portal without passwords
- Published pricing per seat
Workable fits teams that need:
- Recruiting and HR in one subscription
- A candidate record that becomes an employee record
- Time tracking, payroll preparation and reviews
- Onboarding and ongoing HR administration
- A searchable sourcing database
- A mobile time clock for hourly staff
What Workable does well
Candidate sourcing, employee records and time tracking.
Sourcing and job distribution
Search Workable's database of more than 400 million profiles and distribute jobs to more than 200 boards.
In practice: Recruiters can source prospects and collect inbound applications in the same tool.
Candidate and employee records
A hired candidate becomes an employee profile. Workable HR then handles onboarding, time off and payroll preparation.
In practice: HR can continue the candidate's record after the hire.
Mobile time clock
Employees clock in from their phones with location checks. Workable also tracks attendance and prepares payroll reports.
In practice: Teams with hourly or field staff can manage attendance in their HR system.
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.
Employee management
Workable HR includes employee records, time off, time tracking and payroll preparation; performance reviews are included from Premier or sold as an add-on. Kit has performance reviews and holiday tracking, but no payroll preparation or time clock.
Will we add it? Not planned. Keep your HRIS for employee records.
Distribution to 200+ job boards
Workable distributes jobs to more than 200 boards, including Indeed and LinkedIn. Kit posts to three boards and supplies an XML feed for six others. Indeed and LinkedIn are not supported.
Will we add it? Individual boards may be added. Broad syndication is not available today.
A sourcing database
Workable offers a searchable database of more than 400 million profiles. Kit has a talent pool and resume extraction, with no comparable profile database.
Will we add it? Sourcing improvements are planned. A profile database of this scale is not.
Video and texting packages
Workable sells video and texting features separately or bundles them into higher tiers. Kit includes hiring features in the seat price.
Will we add it? No hiring tiers are planned. Security and Compensation Research (beta) remain included; Outreach remains the sole add-on.
Time clock and attendance
Workable has geofenced mobile time clock for hourly workers, PTO accrual tracking, and attendance reporting. Kit has none of this.
Will we add it? Not planned. These are employee management features.
How each works
The difference in day-to-day use.
Job posting through offer
Kit covers job postings, interviews, assignments and offers. Employee records, payroll and attendance stay in your existing HRIS.
Candidate to employee
Workable combines recruiting and employee management. A hired candidate becomes an employee record for onboarding, time tracking and other HR work.
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
Workable
From $299/month, billed annually (1–20 employees)
For 1–20 employees, billed annually: Standard $299/month, Premier $599/month, Enterprise $719/month
- Tiered plans (Standard/Premier/Enterprise)
- Video and texting: add-ons on Standard, included from Premier
- Recruiting and HR sold separately or bundled
- Scales by employee count
Plans and costs
Workable prices by employee count and plan, with separate add-ons. Kit is $8 per seat; Security and Compensation Research (beta) are included; Outreach is billed separately per account. Include your HRIS cost when comparing Kit with Workable's hiring and HR bundle.
Switching from Workable?
Consider Kit for:
- Hiring alongside an existing HRIS
- Role templates for a small team
- Candidate access by email link
- MCP tools for an existing assistant
Stay with Workable if:
- Use time tracking and payroll preparation
- Source candidates from its profile database
- Need a mobile time clock
- Manage employee records in Workable
- Have combined ATS and HRIS workflows there
Data portability: Workable exports candidate and employee data to CSV. Kit imports the candidate half, and your HRIS keeps the rest.
$8€6,9929,99 zł£5.99 per seat, per month
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