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Alternatives to Pilot
14 recruitment & ats tools sit alongside Pilot in this directory. Below is what separates each from Pilot on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 14
- With a free tier
- 4
- Cheaper to start
- 6
- Pilot starts at
- $29/month
Why people look past Pilot
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Pilot entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Pilot carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 4 of the 14 alternatives below can be used without paying.
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.
End-to-end recruiting software
- Can be used without paying; Pilot cannot.
- Starts $29 a month cheaper, at Free.
Global payroll and compliance made easy
- Can be used without paying; Pilot cannot.
- Starts $29 a month cheaper, at Free.
HR software that employees love
- Can be used without paying; Pilot cannot.
- Starts $29 a month cheaper, at Free.
Recruitment and employee engagement platform
- Can be used without paying; Pilot cannot.
- Starts $29 a month cheaper, at Free.
- Sold on a usage-based model rather than subscription.
All-in-one recruiting software
- Starts $371 a month dearer, at $400/month.
- 1 tier to Pilot's 2.
Talent cloud for transformative hiring
- Starts $14471 a year dearer, at $14500/year.
Every Pilot 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pilot (this page) | $29/month | Subscription | 2 | |
| Breezy HR | Free | Subscription | 2 | vs Pilot |
| Deel | Free | Subscription | 2 | vs Pilot |
| Factorial | Free | Subscription | 2 | vs Pilot |
| Workable | Free | Usage-based | 2 | vs Pilot |
| Ashby | $400/month | - | 1 | vs Pilot |
| iCIMS | $14500/year | - | - | vs Pilot |
| JazzHR | $1000/year | - | 3 | vs Pilot |
| Jobvite | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Pilot |
| Lever | On request | Quote | 2 | vs Pilot |
| Oracle HCM Cloud | $13/employee per month | - | - | vs Pilot |
| Rippling | $8/month | Subscription | 2 | vs Pilot |
| SAP SuccessFactors | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Pilot |
| SmartRecruiters | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Pilot |
| Teamtailor | $99/month | Subscription | 1 | vs Pilot |
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 Pilot badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Pilot is most often brought in for outsourced monthly bookkeeping for startups and small businesses, federal, state and delaware franchise tax filing for us companies, fractional cfo support for financial planning and fundraising. 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 Pilot is broadly right and the question is cost, the Pilot pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Recruitment & ATS category lists everything the directory holds, and best recruitment & ats tools ranks them.
Pilot runs on web. 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 Pilot alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Pilot?
- 14 other recruitment & ats tools are listed in this directory, led by Breezy HR, Deel, Factorial, Workable. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Pilot?
- 4 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Breezy HR, Deel, Factorial, Workable.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Pilot?
- Yes. 6 of the alternatives below start under Pilot's $29/month: Breezy HR at Free, Deel at Free, Factorial at Free, Workable at Free.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Pilot?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: there is no free tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Pilot?
- Pilot is most often brought in for outsourced monthly bookkeeping for startups and small businesses, federal, state and delaware franchise tax filing for us companies, fractional cfo support for financial planning and fundraising. 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 Pilot?
- None of the recruitment & ats 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 Pilot alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Recruitment & ATS, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored slot runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Pilot against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Pilot 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 & ats tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Recruitment & ATS category, 14 tools beside Pilot. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.