Ashby Pricing and Ashby Startup Pricing from $300 a Month by Company Size
Ashby is one of the few ATS vendors that prints a real number. The Foundations plan is priced by company size in five bands, not by seat, and everything above 100 employees goes to a quote. Every figure below was read on Ashby's own pricing page, including the price table inside the page code, on October 2, 2026.
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In one answer Ashby pricing starts at $300 a month, not $400. The All-in-One Foundations plan, for companies of up to 100 employees, is priced by company size in five bands read on ashbyhq.com on October 2, 2026: $300 a month for 1 to 10 employees, $400 for 11 to 25, $500 for 26 to 50, $700 for 51 to 75 and $900 for 76 to 100, on monthly billing. An annual commitment takes 10 percent off, so the year costs $3,240 to $9,720. Ashby says startup pricing is based on the size of the organization at purchase, not on seats or the size of the talent team, and is reassessed every year. Plus (101 to 1,000 employees) and Enterprise (1,000+) are quote only. One price covers the whole platform: ATS, sourcing, CRM, candidate email sequences, scheduling and analytics. SSO costs $100 a month extra on Foundations.
How much does Ashby cost?
For any company of up to 100 employees, Ashby tells you the price before you talk to anyone. The pricing page has two dropdowns on the Foundations card, company size and payment term, and a total that updates as you change them. We read the values behind those dropdowns in the page code, not just the default view, and there are five bands: 1 to 10 employees at $300 a month, 11 to 25 at $400, 26 to 50 at $500, 51 to 75 at $700 and 76 to 100 at $900. Switch the payment term to yearly and the page applies a flat 10 percent discount to whichever band you picked.
That puts a full year of Ashby between $3,240 and $9,720 on an annual commitment, or $3,600 to $10,800 if you pay month to month. The default the page loads with is the 11 to 25 band on monthly billing, which is why $400 is the number most people remember. It is not the floor.
Above 100 employees the numbers stop. Plus, which Ashby positions for 101 to 1,000 employees, and Enterprise, for 1,000 and up, both go to a sales conversation. Ashby says those prices depend on company size, usage and commitment. So of the three All-in-One plans, one carries a published price, which still makes Ashby more transparent than most of the other seventeen vendors on our recruiting software pricing comparison.
1 to 10 employees: $300 a month, or $270 a month on annual ($3,240 a year)
11 to 25 employees: $400 a month, or $360 on annual ($4,320 a year)
26 to 50 employees: $500 a month, or $450 on annual ($5,400 a year)
51 to 75 employees: $700 a month, or $630 on annual ($7,560 a year)
76 to 100 employees: $900 a month, or $810 on annual ($9,720 a year)
Plus (101 to 1,000) and Enterprise (1,000+): quote only
Is Ashby priced per seat or per employee?
Per employee band, at least below 100 people. Ashby's own FAQ answers the question "How does pricing work for startups?" directly: the startup model is based on the size of your organization at the point of purchase, "not on a seat or talent team basis." A ten person company pays the same $300 whether one founder logs in or every hiring manager does.
That matters because the most repeated Ashby number on page one of Google is a per seat figure for so called elevated seats. It does not appear anywhere on Ashby's pricing page, and the FAQ says the opposite for Foundations. It may describe how some Plus or Enterprise contracts are structured, and the Plus column does mention seats in two places: texting allowances of 2,000 outbound messages per seat per year and AI credits of 2,500 per seat per year. But no seat price is published, so treat any per seat dollar figure as a quote someone else got, not a list price.
The part buyers miss is the reassessment. Ashby says startup pricing is reassessed annually. A company that signs at 24 employees and has 30 by renewal moves from the $400 band to the $500 band, a 25 percent increase on the same contract with nothing new switched on. Budget the renewal at the band you expect to be in, not the one you are in today.
What happens to Ashby pricing when you hire the eleventh employee?
The bands are not evenly spaced, and the per employee cost swings a lot inside them. At the top of each band the monthly price works out to $30 per employee at 10 people, $16 at 25, $10 at 50, about $9.33 at 75 and $9 at 100. At the bottom of a band it is far higher: the eleventh employee moves a company from $300 to $400 a month, so that company is paying about $36 per head until it grows into the band.
The steps between bands are 33 percent (10 to 11 employees), 25 percent (25 to 26), 40 percent (50 to 51) and 29 percent (75 to 76). The biggest single jump is the one from the 26 to 50 band into 51 to 75, an extra $200 a month or $2,160 a year on annual billing. If your headcount plan crosses 50 during the contract year, that is the line to negotiate.
Past 100 employees there is no published step at all. A company that grows from 95 to 105 people during the year leaves the self serve price table entirely and renews on a Plus quote. Ask for that quote before you sign Foundations if you expect to cross 100 within twelve months, so the year two number is not a surprise.
What does Ashby Foundations not include?
Foundations is a full ATS, not a stripped down starter. Ashby's FAQ says it is one price for the whole platform across ATS, sourcing, CRM, scheduling and analytics, and the plan comparison bears that out. Automated multi-touch sequences over email and LinkedIn, shared sequences with bulk send and send on behalf of, the sourcing Chrome extension, AI outreach personalization, AI assisted reply tracking, agency collaboration, interview scheduling, offers with e-signature, API access and the 250+ integration marketplace are all checked on Foundations.
What moves you to Plus is governance and scale. We counted the rows in Ashby's own comparison table that are unchecked on Foundations and checked on Plus, and they cluster in four areas: compliance controls for outreach (Do Not Contact company lists, an outreach frequency policy and confidential sequences), structure (custom fields, openings and headcount management, approval workflows, multiple offer stages), reporting (custom saved reports, custom dashboards, the recruiting planner) and admin (SCIM directory sync, a sandbox, custom permission roles).
A few things cost money on every plan. Additional sourcing email lookups beyond the 200 a month that every plan includes are a paid add-on, the AI Notetaker is a paid add-on, extra candidate texts are $90 per 1,000 messages, and Advanced Scheduling is sold as an add-on to Plus. SSO is the one Foundations-specific charge: $100 a month, which adds $1,200 a year to the 1 to 10 band and is included from Plus up.
Included on Foundations: sequences, smart reply tracking, sourcing extension, API, 250+ integrations, scheduling, offers and e-signature
Plus only: Do Not Contact lists, outreach frequency policy, confidential sequences, custom fields, approval workflows, SCIM, sandbox
Enterprise only: newsletters, white-labeled URLs, Workday integration, Snowflake and S3 data sharing
Extra on every plan: email lookups past 200 a month, AI Notetaker, texts at $90 per 1,000
Extra on Foundations only: SSO at $100 a month
Is Ashby cheaper on an annual plan?
Yes, by exactly 10 percent. The pricing code applies the discount as a flat percentage of the monthly band, so the saving is $360 a year at 1 to 10 employees, $480 at 11 to 25, $600 at 26 to 50, $840 at 51 to 75 and $1,080 at 76 to 100. That is smaller than the discount most of the category offers. Breezy HR prices its annual plans about 17 percent below monthly, JazzHR 16 to 24 percent, and Manatal's annual saving runs from 7 to 21 percent depending on the tier.
The trade is flexibility for a modest saving. Because Ashby reassesses startup pricing every year anyway, monthly billing costs you the discount but lets you stop paying if the hiring plan collapses. For a seed stage company whose headcount plan is still a guess, that option is worth more than $360.
Ashby also notes that emerging market pricing is available. That does not apply to a US buyer, and we mention it only because it explains why a quote from a non US subsidiary can look lower than the table.
Why does every pricing guide say Ashby starts at $400?
Because $400 is what the page shows when it first loads. The company size dropdown defaults to 11 to 25 employees and the payment term to monthly, and most guides copied the default without opening the menu. The search summary for this query currently says Ashby "starts at $400/month," and one of the ranking guides headlines a range of "$4,800 to $250K," which takes the default as its floor. The real floor is $300 a month on monthly billing and $270 a month on annual, $3,240 a year.
The second recurring claim, a per seat price for elevated seats, is not on Ashby's page at all, and Ashby's FAQ says startup pricing is not seat based. The third, average contract values in the $17,000 to $22,000 range, comes from procurement databases that track negotiated contracts, mostly above the 100 employee line. Those figures are real data about other companies' deals. They are not Ashby's list price and they should not anchor a 30 person company's budget.
We hold every vendor on this site to the same rule. The figure has to come from the vendor's own page with the read date attached, and when we infer something, we say so.
Does Ashby include candidate outreach, and when do you still need an outreach tool?
Ashby includes it, and it is good. Foundations ships automated multi-touch sequences over email and LinkedIn stages, AI personalization tokens, and smart reply tracking that sets a sequence's reply status from the candidate's response. For a company recruiting its own employees, that covers candidate outreach, and buying a second tool for it would be paying twice.
Where a separate tool earns its place is outside the candidate pool. A startup on Ashby still has a founder or an early sales hire who needs to email buyers, not candidates, and Ashby is not built to run a sales pipeline. And if you run a staffing or search firm whose clients hire on Ashby, Ashby's agency collaboration feature gives you scoped access to their jobs, but it does nothing to win you the next client. Both of those are outreach to companies, and that is what ColdOutreach is for.
ColdOutreach researches each prospect before it writes, drafts a short sequence in your voice, and pauses the moment someone replies. It starts at $24 a month on annual billing for the whole workspace, and the composer at the top of this page shows what it writes for a real prospect before you pay anything. For agency teams, the recruitment outreach tool page shows how it sits next to an ATS, and founders running their own outbound can start from outreach for founders.
Ashby vs other ATS vendors on price
Against the other company-priced ATS vendors we have read at source, Ashby is mid table on price and at the top on what the price includes. Workable Standard is $299 a month on annual billing for 1 to 20 employees and lists no candidate sequences; the band detail is on Workable pricing. Breezy HR Startup is $157 a month for a whole company with unlimited users, but candidate nurture campaigns arrive only on Business at $439; see Breezy HR pricing. Teamtailor and Greenhouse publish no price at all, which you can read about on Teamtailor pricing and in our Ashby vs Greenhouse pricing comparison.
Among every vendor on our pricing pillar, Ashby Foundations at $270 a month on annual billing for 1 to 10 employees is the lowest published price for a plan with candidate sequences whose reply status updates automatically. For a three person talent team inside a 25 person company it also undercuts the per user agency tools that include sequences: Recruiterflow at $119 per user is $357 a month for three users, against Ashby's $360 for the whole company. The catch is fit. Ashby is an employer ATS. It has no client CRM or job orders by client, so for a staffing agency it is the wrong system of record whatever it costs.
| Company size | Monthly billing | Annual commitment, per month | Year, annual commitment | Year, monthly billing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to 10 employees | $300 | $270 | $3,240 | $3,600 |
| 11 to 25 employees | $400 | $360 | $4,320 | $4,800 |
| 26 to 50 employees | $500 | $450 | $5,400 | $6,000 |
| 51 to 75 employees | $700 | $630 | $7,560 | $8,400 |
| 76 to 100 employees | $900 | $810 | $9,720 | $10,800 |
| Plus, 101 to 1,000 | Quote | Quote | Quote | Quote |
| Enterprise, 1,000+ | Quote | Quote | Quote | Quote |
Common questions
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How much does Ashby cost per month?
Ashby Foundations costs $300 to $900 a month on monthly billing, set by company size: $300 for 1 to 10 employees, $400 for 11 to 25, $500 for 26 to 50, $700 for 51 to 75 and $900 for 76 to 100. An annual commitment takes 10 percent off. Companies above 100 employees get a quote for Plus or Enterprise.
Does Ashby charge per user?
Not on Foundations. Ashby's pricing FAQ says startup pricing is based on the size of the organization at purchase, not on seats or the size of the talent team, so adding hiring managers does not change the price. Plus lists texting and AI credit allowances per seat, but no seat price is published.
What is Ashby startup pricing?
Ashby startup pricing is the Foundations plan for companies of up to 100 employees, priced in five company-size bands from $300 to $900 a month, with 10 percent off for an annual commitment. It includes 200 email lookups a month and is reassessed every year, so a company that grows into a higher band pays more at renewal.
Does Ashby have a free trial?
Ashby does not publish a free trial. The Foundations card and the Plus and Enterprise cards all lead to a Get in Touch form, and the FAQ explains that Ashby asks for a short demo call first. It also says the price shown on the page will not change during the sales process.
Is Ashby cheaper than Greenhouse?
Nobody can say from public pricing, because Greenhouse publishes no price for Core, Plus or Pro. What you can compare is the published side: Ashby Foundations is $3,240 to $9,720 a year on an annual commitment for up to 100 employees, with email automation included, while Greenhouse Core leaves email automation out and adds it from Plus.
Does Ashby charge for implementation?
Not for most customers. Ashby says baseline onboarding resources and customer success support are included for every customer, implementation is priced as an Enterprise Implementation Service only for its largest customers, and optional professional services are quoted up front. Migration from Greenhouse or Lever runs through an API integration.
Is Ashby worth it for a staffing agency?
Usually not as the agency system of record. Ashby is an employer ATS without a client CRM or job orders by client, and its agency feature exists to let outside recruiters into a client's jobs. Agency platforms like Recruiterflow, Recruit CRM and Bullhorn publish per user prices, and winning new clients runs best in a dedicated outreach tool.
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