ATS & Suites
Napplied vs Ashby
A modern ATS tells you where every candidate is. Napplied helps you decide who is right: structured AI interviews, explainable ranking, and a trail behind every score.
How to choose
Why Napplied
Choose Napplied if
25–63% lowerversus the Foundations price Ashby shows by default
Higher Ashby employee bands are quoted or higher and are not in this figure. Napplied evaluation stays on usage or a base subscription beside the ATS.
- Engineering and security interviewers are the bottleneck, or you need an explainable evaluation before humans join the loop.
Choose Ashby if
- Ashby’s pipeline, analytics, scheduling, and AI features already give you the consistency you need.
Use both if
- Ashby remains the system of record. Napplied runs structured early rounds for selected roles. Ask us about an Ashby connection before you assume one is live.
Interview hours are the hidden cost.
Ashby’s State of Startup Hiring found about 21 interviewer hours per technical hire at the smallest startups and about 29 at startups of 100–300 people.
A structured AI first round puts a comparable evaluation earlier, without spending senior engineers on every screen. Napplied does not promise a measured hours saving.
Interviewer time for a technical hire is about 21 hours at startups under 25 people and about 29 hours at startups of 100–300. Ashby measured scheduled interview time, not take-home work. Ashby, State of Startup Hiring, 2026 Talent Trends
Verified 2026-10-01.Ashby’s research is worth citing, including here.
Ashby’s 2026 talent reports are primary data the market uses: application volume, interview intensity, and where AI shows up in job posts.
Napplied uses those reports as outside evidence. They are not an endorsement of Napplied, and they are not a savings claim.
Explainability still has to be designed.
Analytics show where the process is slow. They do not, by themselves, show a candidate why they were ranked.
Napplied’s trail records what was asked, answered, and evaluated against. Confirm Ashby’s own AI review features on ashbyhq.com before you treat any cell as a gap.
Only 26% of job applicants trust AI to fairly evaluate them. Gartner press release, 31 Jul 2025
Verified 2026-10-01.What you get back
What Ashby is built to return
Pipeline state, scheduling, scorecards, and recruiting analytics, plus AI-assisted application review where that feature is on. Confirm the current AI surface on ashbyhq.com.
What Napplied keeps
Illustrative
- Question asked
- Candidate answer excerpt
- Criterion evaluated
- Reviewer note
Sample fields only. Not a real candidate, score, or internal rubric.
Where each product works
Search
Screen
Interview
Rank
Ashby’s interview mark means scheduling and scorecards. Screen means application review and stage design, including AI-assisted review where enabled. Napplied is a layer alongside the ATS.
Comparison
| Feature | Napplied | Ashby |
|---|---|---|
| System of record, pipelines, scheduling, offers | NoNapplied is a layer | Yes |
| Recruiting analytics and published benchmarks | NoNapplied cites Ashby’s reports. It does not publish them. | Yes2026 Talent Trends reports |
| AI interview, same criteria for every candidate | Yes | Not confirmedAshby has AI-assisted review and notetaking. Confirm interview scope. |
| Explainable ranking with a reviewable trail | Yes | Not confirmedNot confirmed — check vendor |
| Works alongside Ashby | Not confirmedDesigned for the ATS you run. Ask about Ashby specifically. | Not applicable |
| Pricing published | YesOn /employer/pricing | PartialFoundations priced by company size; larger plans quoted |
| Pricing model | YesUsage-based or base subscription | YesBy employee count, not recruiter seats |
Unconfirmed cells are left open on purpose. Colour is paired with a text label.
Pricing
Ashby
Foundations (up to 100 employees) is priced by employee band and payment term through a calculator on Ashby’s pricing page: $400 a month was displayed at the page’s default setting on 8 Oct 2026, and a 7 Oct 2026 capture showed $900 a month for 76–100 employees on monthly billing. Annual commitments get 10% off. Plus (101–1,000 employees), Enterprise (1,000+), and Ashby Analytics are quoted. Plans scale by employee count, not recruiter seats. Ashby pricing page, checked 7–8 Oct 2026
Verified 2026-10-08.Napplied
Published on /employer/pricing. Flexible usage-based or base subscription pricing. Napplied employer pricing
Verified 2026-10-07.Ashby prices by company size; Napplied by usage or a base subscription. Compare on your headcount and hiring plan.
Where Ashby is stronger
An all-in-one recruiting system
ATS, CRM, scheduling, and analytics in one product is Ashby’s strength. Napplied does not try to be that system.
Benchmarks the market actually uses
Ashby’s talent reports are primary research. This page cites them. That research belongs to Ashby.
Interviewer time for a technical hire is about 21 hours at startups under 25 people and about 29 hours at startups of 100–300. Ashby measured scheduled interview time, not take-home work. Ashby, State of Startup Hiring, 2026 Talent Trends
Verified 2026-10-01.Is this you?
- Your ATS is in good shape, and engineer interview hours are the constraint.
- Specialist AI and security roles sit open while interviewers are fully booked.
- Early-round evaluation changes with whoever is free to interview.
- You cannot explain a shortlist to candidates or to leadership.
- You want AI evaluation without changing ATS.
- You already trust Ashby’s process data and want the evaluation itself to be as consistent.
Questions buyers ask
Is Napplied an alternative to Ashby?
No. It is a layer alongside Ashby. Ashby remains the system of record.
How is Napplied different from Ashby’s AI features?
Ashby offers AI-assisted application review and recruiting analytics. Napplied runs a structured AI interview against the same criteria and keeps a reviewable trail. Confirm Ashby’s current AI scope before you overlap the two.
How does pricing compare?
Napplied publishes flexible usage-based or base subscription pricing on /employer/pricing. Ashby prices by company size: its Foundations plan for up to 100 employees is priced on its site by size band, and Plus, Enterprise, and Analytics are quoted.
Does Napplied integrate with Ashby?
Napplied is designed to work with the ATS you run. An Ashby-specific connection should be confirmed with us before you plan on it.
Where do the benchmark numbers come from?
From Ashby’s own 2026 talent reports, linked in the sources on this page. They are Ashby’s measurements, not Napplied results.
How we compare
Every page has a section on where the other product is stronger. Cells we have not sourced say “Not confirmed” instead of a convenient no.
A Measured or Published chip means a named third party or the vendor’s own page. A Vendor-reported chip is the vendor’s own claim about its product or customers, which we have not audited. A Custom pricing chip means the vendor does not publish prices. A Buyer-reported chip is not a list price. A Modeled chip is an internal projection, not an independently measured Napplied result.
Napplied does not sell coding tests, proctoring, payroll, or campus recruiting, so those categories are not compared here.
- MeasuredInterviewer time for a technical hire is about 21 hours at startups under 25 people and about 29 hours at startups of 100–300. Ashby measured scheduled interview time, not take-home work. Ashby, State of Startup Hiring, 2026 Talent Trends · verified 2026-10-01
- MeasuredOnly 26% of job applicants trust AI to fairly evaluate them. Gartner press release, 31 Jul 2025 · verified 2026-10-01
- PublishedFoundations (up to 100 employees) is priced by employee band and payment term through a calculator on Ashby’s pricing page: $400 a month was displayed at the page’s default setting on 8 Oct 2026, and a 7 Oct 2026 capture showed $900 a month for 76–100 employees on monthly billing. Annual commitments get 10% off. Plus (101–1,000 employees), Enterprise (1,000+), and Ashby Analytics are quoted. Plans scale by employee count, not recruiter seats. Ashby pricing page, checked 7–8 Oct 2026 · verified 2026-10-08
- PublishedPublished on /employer/pricing. Flexible usage-based or base subscription pricing. Napplied employer pricing · verified 2026-10-07
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