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Alternatives to Bullhorn
22 recruitment tools sit alongside Bullhorn in this directory. Below is what separates each from Bullhorn on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 22
- With a free tier
- 4
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Bullhorn starts at
- On request
Why people look past Bullhorn
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Bullhorn entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Bullhorn carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 4 of the 22 alternatives below can be used without paying.
There is only one tier
Bullhorn publishes a single plan, Bullhorn ATS and CRM at On request. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Talent cloud for transformative hiring
- Publishes an entry price of $14500/year, where Bullhorn does not.
Talent acquisition suite for hiring success
- Publishes an entry price of $14995/year, where Bullhorn does not.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than quote.
- 4 tiers to Bullhorn's 1.
Recruitment and employee engagement platform
- Can be used without paying; Bullhorn cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of Free, where Bullhorn does not.
- Sold on a usage-based model rather than quote.
- 2 tiers to Bullhorn's 1.
Employer review and salary transparency app owned by Recruit Holdings, the same parent as Indeed
- Can be used without paying; Bullhorn cannot.
- Sold on a Free for job seekers, employers pay for branding and recruiting products model rather than quote.
Job search app aggregating listings, owned by Recruit Holdings, the same parent as Glassdoor
- Can be used without paying; Bullhorn cannot.
- Sold on a Free for job seekers, employers pay for sponsored listings model rather than quote.
AI notetaking and sourcing agents for recruiters, priced per agent rather than per platform
- Can be used without paying; Bullhorn cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $100/month, where Bullhorn does not.
- Sold on a Per user per month, per agent model rather than quote.
- 4 tiers to Bullhorn's 1.
Every Bullhorn alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bullhorn (this page) | On request | Quote | 1 | |
| iCIMSIf the need is enterprise in-house recruiting at scale rather than agency staffing | $14500/year | - | - | vs Bullhorn |
| SmartRecruitersA large in-house recruiting platform for corporate talent teams that have no client or margin concepts to manage | $14995/year | Subscription | 4 | vs Bullhorn |
| WorkableA far cheaper option for small firms doing permanent placement without a pay and bill chain | Free | Usage-based | 2 | vs Bullhorn |
| Glassdoor | Free | Free for job seekers, employers pay for branding and recruiting products | 1 | vs Bullhorn |
| Indeed | Free | Free for job seekers, employers pay for sponsored listings | 1 | vs Bullhorn |
| Metaview | Free, then $100/month | Per user per month, per agent | 4 | vs Bullhorn |
| Gem | On request | Per user per month, by company size and seat type | 2 | vs Bullhorn |
| Codility | On request | Per year by candidate invite volume, with platform user limits per tier | 3 | vs Bullhorn |
| Findem | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Bullhorn |
| HackerRank | On request | Per month by tier, with a metered annual candidate attempt allowance and per-attempt overage on Starter | 3 | vs Bullhorn |
| ZipRecruiter | On request | Per active job slot per month, quoted individually | 3 | vs Bullhorn |
| Fetcher | On request | Per user per month, tiered by lead volume and sourcer support | 4 | vs Bullhorn |
| hireEZ | On request | Quote, enterprise pricing set against the tool stack replaced | 2 | vs Bullhorn |
| Karat | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Bullhorn |
| Oracle Taleo | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Bullhorn |
| SeekOut | On request | Per user per month, self-serve entry tier then per seat by quote | 2 | vs Bullhorn |
| Checkr | On request | Per report, plus pass-through court and database fees | 3 | vs Bullhorn |
| Occupop | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Bullhorn |
| Recruitee | On request | Quote | 3 | vs Bullhorn |
| BrightHire | On request | Quote | 4 | vs Bullhorn |
| Comeet | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Bullhorn |
| JobAdder | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Bullhorn |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Bullhorn badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Bullhorn is most often brought in for a contract staffing agency that needs worked hours to become both a worker payment and a client invoice against one placement record, a recruitment firm where consultants sell to clients and manage candidates in the same working day, an agency consolidating several acquired offices onto one system of record, an executive search practice needing assignment-based workflow rather than requisition-based tracking. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Bullhorn is broadly right and the question is cost, the Bullhorn pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Recruitment category lists everything the directory holds, and best recruitment tools ranks them.
Bullhorn runs on web, ios, android. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Bullhorn alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Bullhorn?
- 22 other recruitment tools are listed in this directory, led by iCIMS, SmartRecruiters, Workable, Glassdoor. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Bullhorn?
- 4 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Workable, Glassdoor, Indeed, Metaview.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Bullhorn?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: there is no free tier; there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Bullhorn?
- Bullhorn is most often brought in for a contract staffing agency that needs worked hours to become both a worker payment and a client invoice against one placement record, a recruitment firm where consultants sell to clients and manage candidates in the same working day, an agency consolidating several acquired offices onto one system of record, an executive search practice needing assignment-based workflow rather than requisition-based tracking. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Bullhorn?
- None of the recruitment tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Bullhorn alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Recruitment, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Bullhorn against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Bullhorn covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every recruitment tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Recruitment category, 22 tools beside Bullhorn. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.