Kit vs Lever: Sourcing, approvals and pricing
Lever keeps applicants and sourced prospects in one recruiting pipeline. Kit gives smaller teams role templates and a candidate portal, with published pricing per seat.
Which fits your team?
Kit fits teams that need:
- Hiring run on top of a day job
- Published pricing per seat
- Candidate interview booking
- A candidate portal without passwords
- MCP access for an existing assistant
Lever fits teams that need:
- A workflow for a dedicated recruiting department
- EEO and OFCCP reports
- Enterprise HRIS connectors
- Sequential offer approvals
- A broad integration directory
- Sourcing campaigns alongside applicant tracking
What Lever does well
A sourcing CRM, integrations and pipeline automation.
Applicant tracking and CRM
Keep active applicants and sourced prospects together. Run email sequences and move prospects into interviews with their contact history attached.
In practice: Recruiters can continue the same record from first contact to application.
HR integrations
Lever's marketplace lists hundreds of integrations across HRIS, assessments, background checks and communications.
In practice: Check its directory for connectors to the tools your HR team already uses.
Pipeline automation
Move candidates between stages and run configured triggers when their stage changes.
In practice: Recruiters can automate repeated actions in an established hiring process.
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.
EEO and OFCCP reports
Lever collects EEO/OFCCP survey data, reports on it and supports data retention settings.
Will we add it? These report formats are not planned.
HR integrations
Lever's marketplace lists hundreds of integrations, including HRIS, assessment and background check providers. Kit has no HRIS connector.
Will we add it? We may add individual connectors as customers need them.
Offer approval chains
Lever supports multi-step offer approval chains. Kit does not offer the same approval controls.
Will we add it? These approval chains are not planned.
How each works
The difference in day-to-day use.
A smaller hiring workflow
Kit starts with role templates and a published seat price. Hiring managers review candidates while candidates book interviews and complete assignments in their own portal. Security and Compensation Research (beta) are included; Outreach is billed separately.
Sourcing through offer
Lever keeps sourcing, applicant tracking and offer approvals together. It fits a recruiting team that manages ongoing prospect outreach as well as active applications.
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
Lever
Custom quote by company size
Request a quote for your company size and required features
- Applicant tracking and sourcing CRM
- Visual Insights reporting
- LinkedIn Recruiter integration
- Workflow triggers
Plans and costs
Lever quotes by company size and hiring needs. Kit charges per seat, with Security and Compensation Research (beta) included and Outreach billed separately per account. Compare the full quote with the number of Kit seats your team would need.
Switching from Lever?
Consider Kit for:
- Published pricing per seat
- A small hiring team
- Candidate interview booking
- MCP tools for an existing assistant
- Role templates with assignments and scorecards
Stay with Lever if:
- Require EEO and OFCCP reports
- Use sequential offer approval chains
- Rely on enterprise HRIS integrations
- Run sourcing campaigns through Lever Nurture
Data portability: Lever's data export includes a candidates CSV and files; notes come as JSON and offers are not included. Kit imports CSVs.
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