Is Breezy HR or Recruitee cheaper?

Breezy HR starts at Free (Bootstrap, one active position); paid plans from $157 per month billed annually (free plan available). Recruitee starts at Quote only; no public price list. Third-party 2026 reports put the practical entry point in the low hundreds of dollars or euros per month for a small team (18 days trial).

Breezy HR vs Recruitee

An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.

The short answer

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Breezy HR compared with Recruitee

The closest structural match: both are pipeline-first, collaboration-oriented ATSs for mid-market employers, and both make it easy to involve hiring managers. Recruitee prices on the number of active job slots with a smaller entry point, which suits a company running two or three openings; Breezy prices flat per company with unlimited positions, which wins the moment you run several roles at once. Recruitee's reporting and its customizable careers-site editor are stronger; Breezy's screening stack (one-way video, questionnaires, reference automation) is more complete out of the box.

Recruitee compared with Breezy HR

Breezy HR competes on approachability and price transparency, including a free plan for a single position and published per-month tiers, with a visual pipeline that covers most of what a small team needs. Recruitee is a step up in careers site capability, referral and agency intake, automation depth, and European compliance, and a step down in ease of purchase. A ten-person company should start with Breezy; a hundred-person company hiring across departments will outgrow it in ways Recruitee anticipates.

Choose Breezy HR if

Small and mid-sized employers hiring on an ongoing basis (roughly 10 to 500 staff) who want a complete, self-serve ATS with the whole interview panel inside it, and who value flat per-company pricing with unlimited users over a cheap single-seat licence.

Choose Recruitee if

In-house hiring teams at companies of roughly 20 to 500 employees, especially in Europe, that hire steadily across departments, care about how the careers site looks, and need non-recruiters to participate in hiring decisions without training.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Breezy HR	Recruitee
Category	Hiring	Hiring
Starting price	Free (Bootstrap, one active position); paid plans from $157 per month billed annually (free plan available)	Quote only; no public price list. Third-party 2026 reports put the practical entry point in the low hundreds of dollars or euros per month for a small team (18 days trial)
Pricing model	Flat monthly subscription per company, not per user and not per open role. All plans include unlimited team members; the free Bootstrap plan is limited to one active position or candidate pool, and paid plans allow unlimited positions. Tiers gate capability rather than volume. Annual billing is advertised as two months free. AI credits, SMS, Onboard, and Perform are separate add-ons.	Annual subscription across three tiers (Start, Advance, and Optimize), quoted rather than published. The quote depends on the plan, the number of employees at the organization, and the billing period. Start caps active job posts at five; Advance and Optimize allow unlimited active jobs. AI features are metered in credits and searches, with the caps loosening on higher tiers. Paying annually rather than monthly saves 20 percent.
Free plan	Bootstrap: unlimited users and candidates, one active position or pool, career site, 50+ job board distribution, resume parsing, GDPR tools	No
Free trial	14 days on paid plans, no credit card required, including 100,000 Breezy Intelligence credits	18 days on the Advance plan, no credit card required, no automatic conversion
Best for	Small and mid-sized employers hiring on an ongoing basis (roughly 10 to 500 staff) who want a complete, self-serve ATS with the whole interview panel inside it, and who value flat per-company pricing with unlimited users over a cheap single-seat licence.	In-house hiring teams at companies of roughly 20 to 500 employees, especially in Europe, that hire steadily across departments, care about how the careers site looks, and need non-recruiters to participate in hiring decisions without training.
Setup time	A first job can be live in under an hour: create the position, connect a calendar and mailbox, publish to the career site and boards. A properly configured setup with pipeline templates, questionnaires, email templates, and scorecards is realistically a day of work spread over a week.	A working setup in one to two weeks: the careers site and first job in a day, then pipeline templates, evaluation forms, email templates, and automations over the following week. Migrating historical candidate data and connecting an HRIS extends this to three or four weeks.
Learning curve	Low for candidate reviewers, who mostly live in Slack, email, and the mobile app. Moderate for the administrator, since the value is in the automations and templates, and a pipeline configured without them is just a nicer inbox.	Low for hiring managers, who mostly review and evaluate, and moderate for the administrator who owns workflow templates, automations, and permissions. The concepts that take longest are the difference between pipelines and workflow templates, and getting retention rules right so GDPR automation deletes the correct records at the correct time.
Platforms	Web application, iOS app, Android app, Browser sourcing extension, Hosted career site	Web app, iOS app, Android app, Embeddable jobs widget, Hosted careers site
Compliance	GDPR, EEOC and OFCCP reporting, ISO/IEC information security certification, Candidate consent and data retention controls	GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, EU data residency
Founded	2014	2015
Headquarters	Jacksonville, Florida, United States	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ownership	Owned by Learning Technologies Group, which was taken private by General Atlantic in March 2025	Product unit of Tellent, backed by PSG Equity (Providence Strategic Growth)

Strengths and limitations

Breezy HR

Strengths

Unlimited users on every plan including the free one, which removes the usual tax on getting hiring managers into the ATS.
A free plan that is genuinely usable for one open role, complete with career site, job board distribution, resume parsing, and GDPR tooling.
Fully self-serve: a 14-day trial with no credit card and no mandatory demo, unusual in a category dominated by sales-led vendors.
The drag-and-drop pipeline with stage-triggered automation is the clearest implementation of the model in this price bracket, and non-recruiters understand it immediately.

Limitations

Reporting is the weakest area and the most consistent theme in user reviews: fixed dashboards, no report builder, and limited ability to slice pipeline data your own way.
The pricing has no rung between free and $157 per month, so a company that simply needs two concurrent openings faces a full-price decision.
API access is restricted to the quote-only Pro tier, which blocks custom integrations for anyone on the published plans.
Core collaboration features are tiered higher than buyers expect: scorecards, interview guides, and multiple pipelines are Growth, not Startup.

Recruitee

Strengths

One of the best careers site builders in any ATS at this level, with page layouts, a content library, an embeddable jobs widget, and job alerts.
Collaboration designed for people who are not recruiters: mentions, notes, quick evaluations, and a mobile app that hiring managers will actually open.
Strong European data posture, with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, EU-only hosting in Germany and Ireland, and GDPR consent, retention, and erasure handled as product features.
Automation covers the tedious middle of the process: stage-triggered tasks, evaluation requests, templated emails, and questionnaires.

Limitations

Pricing is quote only. The published tiers carry no prices, the quote is based on total employee count, and a one-year minimum applies even on monthly payment, so a small business cannot self-serve or price-compare without contacting sales.
No free plan, unlike several direct competitors, which removes the option of running a single role through the product before committing.
The Start tier caps concurrent active jobs at five, and because that counts open roles rather than annual hires it is a cap growing companies hit sooner than they expect.
AI metering is tight on the lower tiers: 100 screening credits and only 3 Matching searches per month, with 65 Matching searches reserved for Optimize.

Pricing compared

Breezy HR

Flat monthly subscription per company, not per user and not per open role. All plans include unlimited team members; the free Bootstrap plan is limited to one active position or candidate pool, and paid plans allow unlimited positions. Tiers gate capability rather than volume. Annual billing is advertised as two months free. AI credits, SMS, Onboard, and Perform are separate add-ons.

Bootstrap$0
Startup$157
Growth$273
Business$439
ProCustom

Per company rather than per seat is the right shape for small-business hiring, and at Startup the effective cost is well under what a single recruiter seat costs on several competitors once you have four or five people in the system. The value case is weakest at the two extremes. Below two concurrent roles the free plan is excellent and the paid plans are poor value; at the top, Business at $439 per month plus add-ons is real money for a company that still lacks a report builder and API access. The sweet spot is a 30 to 300 person employer running several openings at once with a distributed interview panel, where Growth at $273 per month replaces a spreadsheet, a scheduling tool, a video screening tool, and a reference-check habit nobody was keeping.

Recruitee

Annual subscription across three tiers (Start, Advance, and Optimize), quoted rather than published. The quote depends on the plan, the number of employees at the organization, and the billing period. Start caps active job posts at five; Advance and Optimize allow unlimited active jobs. AI features are metered in credits and searches, with the caps loosening on higher tiers. Paying annually rather than monthly saves 20 percent.

StartQuote only
AdvanceQuote only
OptimizeQuote only

Recruitee is priced as a mid-market European HR purchase rather than a self-serve tool, and the removal of public pricing is the clearest signal of that positioning. What you get for the money is a genuinely complete hiring system: careers site, distribution, pipeline, scheduling, offers, onboarding, and GDPR handling, with none of it bolted on from a partner. For a company hiring ten to fifty people a year that value holds up well, and the careers site alone displaces a web project. For a company hiring three people a year, an annual contract quoted against total headcount is poor value regardless of the number, and a monthly self-serve ATS will do the job. The unavoidable friction is that you cannot answer the question of whether it fits your budget without booking a call.

Editorial verdict on each

Breezy HR

Breezy HR is the most straightforward answer for a small or mid-sized employer that hires continuously and wants everyone who interviews to be inside the system. The unlimited-user, flat-per-company pricing is the right shape for that buyer, the drag-and-drop pipeline with stage automations is immediately legible to non-recruiters, and the screening stack (questionnaires, one-way video, scheduling, scorecards, references, e-signature) is more complete than the price suggests. The free Bootstrap plan is one of the few genuinely useful free tiers in recruiting software. Against that, reporting is thin and unlikely to satisfy anyone who wants to analyze their funnel, API access is locked behind a quote-only tier, several features buyers assume are core (scorecards, multiple pipelines, HRIS export) sit higher up the plan ladder than expected, and the leap from free to $157 per month leaves the two-jobs-a-year company with nowhere sensible to land. Buy it if you are running three or more openings at once with a distributed panel; stay on the free plan if you are not, and look at Workable or Ashby if analytics are the point.

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Recruitee

Recruitee is one of the better applicant tracking systems for a European company of 20 to 500 people that hires steadily and wants hiring managers involved without training them. The careers site builder is genuinely strong, the collaboration model fits teams where the recruiter is not the only participant, and the EU hosting with GDPR handling built into the product answers a question many competitors deflect to a policy page. The reservations are commercial as much as functional: there is no free plan, no published price, and a one-year minimum quoted against total headcount, which makes it a purchase that starts with a sales call rather than a credit card. Reporting is thinner than the rest of the product, the AI allowances on lower tiers are small, and bulk data export is awkward enough to plan for in advance. Take the 18-day trial, test the reports and an export during it, and negotiate the renewal uplift at signature.

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Breezy HR profile last reviewed 2026-08-23; Recruitee last reviewed 2026-08-23. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.