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Bullhorn vs hireEZ

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Bullhorn

Recruitment

Applicant tracking and CRM for staffing and recruitment agencies, including contract placement, timesheets and pay-bill

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On request
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite
hireEZ logo

hireEZ

Recruitment

AI sourcing and hiring platform priced against the recruiting tool stack it consolidates

From
On request
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Bullhorn pricing is per user on annual contracts with minimum seat counts, so agencies with seasonal consultants pay for licences that sit idle for months.; hireEZ the solo tier at $494/month is expensive relative to seat-priced competitors like SeekOut, so it is a poor fit for an individual recruiter comparison-shopping on price alone
  • They diverge on capability: Bullhorn covers Recruitment CRM, hireEZ covers Multi-platform sourcing.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Bullhorn and hireEZ actually diverge.

Attributes where Bullhorn and hireEZ differ
AttributeBullhornhireEZ
Pricing modelquotequote, enterprise pricing set against the tool stack replaced
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb, Chrome Extension

Identical on both: starting price (On request), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Recruitment).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Bullhorn

  • Recruitment CRM
  • Applicant tracking
  • Pay and bill
  • Bullhorn Automation
  • Analytics
  • Onboarding
  • Executive search
  • Salesforce edition

Only in hireEZ

  • Multi-platform sourcing
  • AI screening
  • Scheduling automation
  • ATS integration
  • Funnel analytics

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Bullhorn

  • A contract staffing agency that needs worked hours to become both a worker payment and a client invoice against one placement recordnot hireEZ
  • A recruitment firm where consultants sell to clients and manage candidates in the same working daynot hireEZ
  • An agency consolidating several acquired offices onto one system of recordnot hireEZ
  • An executive search practice needing assignment-based workflow rather than requisition-based trackingnot hireEZ

hireEZ

  • A talent acquisition organisation currently paying separately for sourcing, CRM, outreach, screening and scheduling tools that wants to consolidate spendnot Bullhorn
  • A Fortune 500-scale recruiting team wanting AI-assisted screening layered onto an existing ATS rather than a full ATS replacementnot Bullhorn
  • A hiring team that wants to trial consolidation claims for four weeks before signing an annual enterprise contractnot Bullhorn
  • A recruiter sourcing across many external platforms who wants one search interface instead of switching between LinkedIn, GitHub and other sources individuallynot Bullhorn

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Bullhorn

  • Pricing is per user on annual contracts with minimum seat counts, so agencies with seasonal consultants pay for licences that sit idle for months.
  • The product estate has been assembled through a decade of acquisitions, which leaves overlapping modules, inconsistent interfaces and more than one supported way to do the same task.
  • Implementation and data migration are multi-month projects requiring paid services, and agencies moving from another system routinely underestimate the effort of cleaning candidate and client records first.
  • The interface is dated relative to newer recruitment tools, and consultants coming from consumer-grade software need real training rather than picking it up unaided.
  • It is built for agency economics and is a poor fit for corporate in-house hiring, where the client and margin concepts are meaningless and the licence cost buys capability that will never be used.

hireEZ

  • The solo tier at $494/month is expensive relative to seat-priced competitors like SeekOut, so it is a poor fit for an individual recruiter comparison-shopping on price alone
  • Enterprise pricing is set against the stack it replaces rather than a flat number, which makes it hard to sanity-check a quote without first pricing out the alternative tools precisely
  • The four-week verification period is useful diligence but also a real time cost before a team gets to a signed, working system
  • Consolidating sourcing, screening and scheduling into one vendor increases dependency risk if a single tool in that bundle underperforms compared with a dedicated point solution
  • AI-assisted conversational screening still requires human oversight to avoid biased or inconsistent scoring, and hireEZ does not remove that compliance burden from the buyer
  • Cross-platform sourcing depends on external platforms continuing to allow this kind of data access, which is a policy risk outside hireEZ's control

Pricing, plan by plan

Bullhorn

On request
  • Bullhorn ATS and CRM$undefined/year
    • Priced per user per month on an annual contract
    • Minimum user counts apply
    • Implementation and data migration quoted separately

hireEZ

On request
  • Solo$494/month
    • AI sourcing
    • 7-day free trial
  • Enterprise$undefined/year
    • Priced against the stack hireEZ replaces
    • Four-week verification period before contract

Which should you pick?

Choose Bullhorn if

  • You need recruitment crm.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want applicant tracking.
Bullhorn review

Choose hireEZ if

  • You need multi-platform sourcing.
  • You work on Web, Chrome Extension.
  • You also want ai screening.
hireEZ review

Questions people ask

Is Bullhorn or hireEZ better?
Neither clearly leads. Bullhorn starts at On request and hireEZ at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Bullhorn or hireEZ?
Bullhorn starts at On request and hireEZ at On request.
Does Bullhorn or hireEZ run on more platforms?
Bullhorn runs on Web, iOS, Android. hireEZ runs on Web, Chrome Extension.
What is Bullhorn best used for?
Bullhorn is most often used 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. Of those, a contract staffing agency that needs worked hours to become both a worker payment and a client invoice against one placement record and a recruitment firm where consultants sell to clients and manage candidates in the same working day are not what hireEZ is typically brought in for.
What can Bullhorn do that hireEZ cannot?
Bullhorn covers Recruitment CRM, Applicant tracking, Pay and bill, Bullhorn Automation. hireEZ covers Multi-platform sourcing, AI screening, Scheduling automation, ATS integration.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Bullhorn: Is Bullhorn suitable for in-house corporate recruiting?

No. It is built around client relationships, margins and placements. Corporate teams should buy a requisition-based ATS instead.

hireEZ: Is there a flat published price for teams?

No, only the solo recruiter tier ($494/month) is published; team and enterprise pricing is quoted against the tools being replaced.

Bullhorn: Who owns Bullhorn?

Insight Partners has held a majority stake since 2012, and the company has grown substantially through acquisition since then.

hireEZ: Does hireEZ replace our ATS?

No, it integrates with more than 40 ATS platforms rather than replacing them.

Bullhorn: Does it handle temporary worker payroll?

It captures time, calculates pay and bill rates and produces payroll and invoicing outputs. Actual payroll processing is done by a payroll provider it exports to.

hireEZ: Is there a trial before committing to an annual contract?

Enterprise deals include a stated four-week verification period; the solo tier has a 7-day free trial.

Bullhorn: What does implementation involve?

Data migration, workflow configuration and training, typically several months for an established agency, with services charged on top of the licence.

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