Reqcore vs Workable

Workable prices its ATS by how many people work at your company, in three tiers from $360 to $719 a month. Reqcore prices by how many roles you're actively hiring for, and charges nothing until you shortlist your first candidate on your first role.

• Workable: Standard from $360/month (billed monthly, 1–20 employees; $288/month billed annually), Premier $599/month, Enterprise $719/month — pricing scales up with your employee-headcount band. No free tier; a 15-day free trial.
• Reqcore: priced per active role, not per seat or per headcount. Free until your first shortlist — no card, no clock.
• Applicant limits: Workable does not publish per-plan applicant caps in its own pricing pages. Reqcore never meters applicants on any plan.
• Add-ons on Workable: texting, video interviews and candidate assessments are paid extras layered on top of the Standard tier, not included in the base price.
• Choose Workable if a flat, predictable headcount-based bill matters more than per-role cost control, and you're already the size where its Premier or Enterprise tier is a rounding error.
• Choose Reqcore if your applicant volume is spiky or unpredictable and you don't want your hiring-software bill to move for reasons that have nothing to do with hiring.

Workable bills you for existing employees; Reqcore bills you for open roles — so a company that grows headcount without opening new requisitions pays Workable more and Reqcore the same.

Disclosure: Reqcore is our product. The comparison below is written to be useful even if you pick Workable — plenty of teams should.

The pricing model is the actual difference

Workable's three tiers — Standard, Premier and Enterprise — are all billed per organization but scale by how many employees your company has, not by how many people you're hiring for or how many applicants come in (workable.com/pricing, verified 16 July 2026). Standard starts at $360/month month-to-month for the 1–20 employee band ($288/month if billed annually), rising to $599/month on Premier and $719/month on Enterprise. Texting, video interviews and assessments cost extra on top of Standard. The exact scaling at larger headcount bands, and the full add-on arithmetic, are broken down in what Workable actually costs at 5, 15 and 50 employees.

Reqcore's model doesn't ask how many employees you have. It asks how many roles are open. You can run the product for free through your first shortlist — no card required, no trial clock counting down — and once you're hiring for pay, the price tracks active roles, not company size. A 200-person company hiring for one role and a 20-person company hiring for five roles are not charged the same way Workable would charge them.

Neither model is objectively "cheaper" in the abstract — it depends on the shape of your hiring. A stable-headcount enterprise that hires rarely and wants one predictable annual number is well served by Workable's flat per-org tiers. A team whose applicant volume and open-role count swing month to month — seasonal hiring, a funding-driven hiring push, a hiring freeze followed by a burst — is the team for whom per-headcount pricing quietly punishes growth that has nothing to do with recruiting.

Unlimited applicants, not a metered resource

Workable does not publish applicant caps per plan on its own pricing pages, so exact limits require a direct vendor conversation. Reqcore's position is unambiguous by design: applicants are never metered, on any plan, at any price point. If a single job posting pulls in 3,000 applications, that volume does not trigger an upgrade prompt or a per-applicant charge. For teams that have been burned by an ATS that gets more expensive exactly when a job posting goes viral, that's the whole pitch in one sentence.

Switching without losing your pipeline

The practical fear when leaving any ATS mid-search is losing live candidates — the people already in your Workable pipeline, mid-interview, waiting on a decision. Reqcore is built to absorb that kind of import without penalty: because applicants aren't metered, pulling in an existing pipeline of any size doesn't change what you pay. See switching from Workable: migration guide for what to export, the two export paths Workable supports, and a realistic parallel-run timeline.

Who each one is actually right for

Workable is a legitimate choice for mid-market teams that want an all-in-one recruiting-plus-HR platform, have a stable headcount, and would rather budget one predictable monthly number than think about per-role cost at all. Its Standard and Premier tiers are well documented and its trial is long enough (15 days) to test the workflow properly.

Reqcore is the better fit when hiring volume is the variable that actually matters to your budget — startups scaling unevenly, agencies with spiky requisition counts, or any team that has watched a good job posting turn into an unexpectedly large applicant pool and didn't want that success to show up as a bigger invoice. Reqcore is also open source, which matters if self-hosting or auditing the code is a requirement for you — a secondary reason to look at it, not the headline one.

Both are reasonable defaults depending on which variable — headcount or role count — actually predicts your hiring cost. Start from that question rather than from a feature checklist, and the right answer here is usually obvious within a minute.