ClearCo vs SmartRecruiters

100Hires

CEIPAL ATS

ZipRecruiter

100Hires is an applicant tracking system that helps simplify recruitment. With resume parsing, customization, integrations, and a sourcing tool, it's a user-friendly, all-in-one platform for hiring top candidates. With the ATS, users will be able to attract, interview, and hire top talent faster than ever before.

CEIPAL ATS is an AI-based unified talent platform designed for staffing firms, corporate teams, healthcare organizations, and GCCs. The system combines applicant tracking system (ATS), vendor management system (VMS), and workforce management capabilities in a comprehensive solution. CEIPAL ATS lets stakeholders streamline the entire recruitment process through AI-driven candidate matching, automated workflows, and integration with major job boards and HR tools.

ZipRecruiter enables companies to post to multiple free job boards with a single submission and vet all applicants through simple-to-setup online interviews

Create best-in-class candidate experiences and efficient recruiting processes for hiring success. ClearCompany Applicant Tracking helps you find and hire more top talent with modern job posting, candidate management, and interviewing features that incorporate your job-specific requirements.

Application Management

Interview Scheduling

Background Screening

Job Management

Resume Storage

Careers Page

Resume Parsing

Some reviewers feel ClearCompany offers reasonable pricing and appreciate the flexible per-user cost model. Some users say it provides good value, but reviewers indicate concerns about extra costs and some users report confusion over included features.

Value for money

Reviews for ClearCompany come from a wide variety of industries, including management consulting (7% of reviewers), hospital & health care (6%), and medical practice (5%). The most frequent use case for ClearCompany cited by reviewers is applicant tracking (50% of reviewers).

Proprietary

ClearCo

Web-based

ADP Workforce Now

Greenhouse

SmartRecruiters

Paylocity

Workable

Oracle Taleo Cloud

BambooHR

UKG Ready

ClearRecruit

ClearTalent

TotalTalent

ClearGrow

Vice President

It allows me to complete my performance review without opening up 5 different apps.

I now have the ability to view the calendar and know who will be out before I plan my own vacation.

HR Data and Technology Manager

It does what we need it to do, is reliable, and provides a great platform for different team members to collaborate and productively add new employees to the company.

Computer Vision and AI Solutions Technical Leader

Its specialization in technical roles, integration capabilities, and advanced analytics enable us to optimize our human resources management strategies within our teams.

Senior IT Director

This solution includes a full range of functionalities for performance reviews, professional growth planning, equitable compensation, and retaining the most qualified employees.

The interface is intuitive and easy to navigate, offers tools to manage compensation and benefits efficiently, provides advanced analytics and customizable dashboards, and is accessible from any device with an internet connection.

In addition, I hate the monthly security code that you need to enter into your account.

Business Administrator

ClearCompany makes reviewing an employee for the hiring process very efficient and easy!

TalentComp is a comprehensive solution ranging from technical performance management to succession planning and compensation administration.

General Manager

I also like how easy it is to keep track of candidates as they move down the pipeline in the hiring process, how you can text and email them right from the website, etc.

HR Generalist

We can now easily email and text applicants. If you’re looking for a system that helps you organize and communicate with all of your applicants, I recommend trying ClearCompany.

HR Manager

Overall this is a clear concise applicant tracking system.

VP People Operations and Total Rewards

Starting with our implementation team (Erin & Kate) were super patient, knowledgeable and responsive during the implementation then it continued thru all of the launches since.

Director, Wellbeing & HR Systems

Not only does it accommodate salary planning in 12 countries, it is intuitive and allows managers to export their information to do their modeling offline and import it back into TalentComp, something they could not do with our prior system.  

Human Resource Associate

I like that we can assign hiring managers to their positions and empower them to review their resumes and make calls, this way they know what their program needs and being a non profit we have particular grants that have certain needs and the hiring managers know more about this.

I’d say overall it is worth the money, even though it is on the pricier side compared to other platforms.

Senior account executive

ClearCompany is a very good tool that needs to be used by every company regarding its employee's reviews.

The reporting is subpar and you would be better off with a different applicant tracking system.

Office Manager

We completely restructured our company, & just did a large amount of hiring in a short amount of time & Clear company shined like a star!!

There tends to be bugs occassionally (but I believe that's the case with most software so it's not uncommon).

Sr HR Generalist

Implementing TalentComp made managing our annual salary review exercise so much easier than sending a multitude of excel spreadsheets to managers for completion.  

These integrations have allowed our team to use the system more effectively.

I loved the overall experience and I will rate this as a 5/5 with utmost expectation and experience and I loved it !

The boss

Website is very clear and guides you to where and what you need to know.

HR Director

The TalentComp tool saved us a tremendous amount of time from constructing and managing our focal process with huge spreadsheets.

Recruiter

Not too much, we looked at several other ATSs when re-evaluating whether to continue with Clear Company, and none of the other products would have provided us any improvement or added value based on what our needs are.

Support staff is always available for questions or troubleshooting

The single sign-on continues to be an issue.

HR Compensation & Benefits Analyst

There are so many things that made the transition to TalentComp the best solution for our Salary Admin process, one of the top reasons is the ability to have managers route their recommendations through the hierarchy and have an audit trail.

Talent Acquisition Partner

We have a dedicated account manager whom we can contact when we have to escalate issues, and they also have an online chat feature with customer service.

Sr. Director, Talent Acquisition & Human Resources

We implemented both a performance management system (Noteworthy) and a compensation management system (TalentComp) so we could move from paper documents to an online system.  

The software's reporting capabilities was not complex and they were able to provide a template report to look exactly like our Excel version of the process.  

We looked at several systems to meet our global compensation planning needs and we felt TalentComp was the best fit.  

Director of Talent Acquisition

Director, HR

I can't recall any setbacks or let downs.

A few times my support requests didn't make it through, and some integrations we wanted couldn't be made.

Support from CWS was prompt and accurate.  

ease of use - managers required little to no training2) customizable rules for different groups3) can manage multiple currencies

We managed to come up with a workaround that aimed to go beyond the basics, although the outcome fell short of our expectations.

I also enjoy all the feature updates in their quarterly roundup videos.

Delivering Total Rewards Statements to employees presented some challenges.

Running our salary planning for the first time this year went surprisingly smoothly, thanks to the partnership in implementation.

The team is incredibly responsive and communicative.  

THe integration with the background check was difficult and took quite awhile.

Benefits & Compensation Manager

TalentComp is very user friendly.   If you run into any issues, support is always available with a quick response.

We also use it to send offer letters, initiate onboarding activities, and schedule interviews.

By using TalentComp, we were able to push decisions around salary and bonus out to managers who could then make recommendations directly.   Although a brief Q&A tutorial was given to introduce TalentComp, the system itself was intuitive and easy to use.  

Director, Human Resources

Inplementation was very smooth and allowed us to finalize our annual compensation review on time and on budget.

Contracts and Compensation

Payroll Integration

Candidate Management

Applicant Tracking

Integrations

Customer Support

Review and Feedback

Team Collaboration

Manager Experience

Mid-size Business

Large Enterprises

Some reviewers feel ClearCompany offers reasonable and competitive pricing, especially compared to larger vendors, and appreciate the flexible per-user cost model and ongoing software improvements at no extra charge. Some users say the platform provides good value for the features included and find it cost effective for their company’s needs. However, reviewers indicate concerns about additional costs for features like mobile access and extra user seats, and some users report confusion over what is included versus what requires extra payment. Some reviewers find the software pricey for smaller businesses and question its overall cost-effectiveness.

ClearCompany

SmartRecruiters is a web based solution that offers recruitment marketing features and allows hiring managers to collaborate for acquiring the best talent

Assessment Management

iPad

iPhone

Android

Workday HCM

Zoho Recruit

Paycor

Eploy

Rippling

Personio

Basic

Recruitment Business Partner

The data and insights provided, view of candidate pipelines, the integration with third party platforms.

Team lead

The platform's intuitive, making it simpler for hiring managers, recruiters, and even candidates to get on the same page. Plus, the flexibility to customize workflows for our complex business processes is a big win.

Operations Specialist

Some of the different task like creating reports and reviewing schedules/interviews could not be customized.

Human Resources Branch Manager

You could search for candidates, upload their profile information, send them emails and manage the onboarding process quite seamlessly.

HR Coordinator

SmartRecruiters gelped alot with our recruitment processes and our candidate profile was very easy to access

Web Developer

It's a great platform for tracking the application status and with a variety of resources for job seekers.

It's best to check the integrations library before deploying this tool across your company to see if you might have any data gaps.

Clinical diabetes consultant

It was ideal for our midsized organization, and needing to post our jobs widely.

Quality Manager

They deleted the account for all team members, the job post that we had and all the information about the applicants, while we still had the openings, so that meant we lost all follow-ups, CVs, all communications with almost 80% of the applicants, their customer service have not given a response yet, we called them, no one available, all day long, no one!

Used a trial period of this software but could get pricey based on team size.

One other drawback was that some candidates were rejected, and they were still able reapply reversing the first/last name.  

We didn’t have a dedicated account manager.

Human Resources Manager

SmartRecruiters is an easy to use applicant tracking solution.

Healthcare Recruiter

There were candidates that stood out and those who didn't, in the end, we found some good leads.

Human Resource

Smart recruiters is good for applicant tracking

I love the reliability and ease of implementation of SmartRecruiters.

Adding new employees was very simple and straight forward.  

Talent Acquisition Leader

It has a wide coverage and deeper functionalities which makes it unique.

It is easy to customize the tool and getting things done is instant and effective.

Senior Scientist

It was easy to correspond with HR using this application and self track my job application startus

The input is easy, it makes adding people easy to do and it just copies from their resume

Initially when I was looking for an ATS system I saw a number of options but after careful research SmartRecruiters stood out.

Executive Administrator

We purchased the software to have a system for our internal recruiters. Once you pay the $5,000+, it seems as though you have to keep paying to get your job posts seen by candidates.

HR Lead

The only thing, its SUPER minimal, I would say when posting you need to "add to cart" where you're going to post ?

HR Coordinator 

Allows for hiring teams to have full access to all candidates and share information with each other along the hiring process.  

Principal Consultant

User interface isn't as friendly, and found the set up process to be a bit clunky

Head of Marketing

It makes the whole recruitment process way more efficient and you have all the information you need in on single point of access.

This was supposed to be a system to help eliminate some of the job boards we've been using, and all it did was make us need those external job boards even more.

Fantastic recruitment tool for entry level positions in multiple locations.

Manager, Quality Engineering

A lot of times I had to leave the application and come back for the status to be accurately displayed.

Great for screening applications and setting up interviews quickly and easily.

Contract Administrator

It may be that it's not set up correctly since it has just launched a couple weeks ago, but I spent time referring my former colleague and it just didn't work.

I referred a former co-worker who completed his part of the app, and I did not see it under My Referrals.

exactly what we needed with all the features we were looking for !

Talent Acquisition Specialist

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It isn't as was discussed during our negotiation.

It appears easy to use on the surface, and in comparison to other ATS', it isn't so bad in that regard.

ClearCo vs SmartRecruiters Comparison (2026)

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