Crelate review (2026): is it worth $85 a month per user, billed yearly?
Applicant tracking and recruiting CRM for staffing and search firms
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Crelate report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for ATS and CRM for staffing and search firms
Crelate is an applicant tracker and recruiting CRM for staffing and search firms, from $85 a user a month billed annually. Essentials is capped at 2 users and 20k contacts and is bought through sales. Email campaigns, texting, eSignature and enrichment cost extra.
Who Crelate is for
- Fits if you run a small search firm and want ATS and CRM in one
- Works for agencies that want a mobile app as well as the web
Who Crelate is not for
- Tight if you are bigger than 2 users, as Essentials stops there with 20k contacts
- Pricey if you send email campaigns or texts, as they cost extra
- Watch out: Business Plus has no published price
- Watch out: the page does not say if the $119 Business price is annual or monthly
Why Crelate gets a 2.2
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for money$85 a user a month annual on Essentials and $119 on Business, against a category middle of $85 and a dearer quarter from $149.
- CFree plan and trialA free trial is offered, but its length and whether a card is needed are not stated.
- CFeaturesATS, CRM, job portal, AI assistant and API. Email campaigns, texting and eSignature carry extra fees, and webhooks are not shown on Business.
- CEase of useNo rating on record. Recruiting software with portals and workflows to configure.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb, iPhone and Android, with Indeed, Dice, Zapier, Outlook and Gmail links. No desktop app.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Crelate's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Crelate's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 30 of the 48 other hiring and applicant tracking tools we grade, and level with 8.
It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 16 of 48) and worst on features (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $85 a month for each person, against a middle price of $84.17 for the category: 13 of the 25 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 4 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 49 hiring and applicant tracking tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Crelate’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 5 of 48, level with 35
- CFree plan and trialAbove 31 of 48, level with 14
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 48, level with 31
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 48, level with 47
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 16 of 48, level with 32
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 26 hiring and applicant tracking tools. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Crelate, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Crelate you would be making jobs posted to dozens of job boards at once, which takes an agreement with each board. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
It costs $1,020 a year.
What you could make
- Applicant tracking: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- Jobs posted to dozens of job boards at once, which takes an agreement with each board.
- A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- It plugs into other products, Indeed, Dice and CareerBuilder among them, and has an API.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
What this rests on. Crelate’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Crelate?
Crelate is a recruiting platform that combines an applicant tracking system, a recruiting CRM, a job portal, resume parsing and sourcing tools. It is aimed at staffing firms, search firms and in-house recruiting teams, and includes AI assistants for sourcing and data upkeep.
Worth knowing
- Essentials covers up to 2 users and 20k contacts, and is bought through sales.
- Email campaigns, text messaging, eSignature and contact enrichment carry an additional fee, per the plan table.
- Business Plus has no published price, and webhooks are not shown on the Business plan.
- The page does not say whether the $119 Business price is the annual or the monthly rate.
Key features
- Applicant tracking and CRM
- One system holds candidates, client contacts and placements, with full-text and Boolean search and resume parsing.
- Job portal and job distribution
- A branded job portal with custom application forms. The comparison table lists free job board distribution at 50 postings per user.
- Client and team portals
- Clients and hiring managers get a portal to review candidates. User limits per portal differ by plan, from 10 to 100 users.
- AI assistants
- An AI Assistant is on Business, with Discover Agent for finding talent, Insights Agent and Data Quality Agents listed as options.
- Mobile recruiting
- The plan table lists mobile recruiting on iOS and Android on every plan.
- API and webhooks
- The plan table lists API access at 60 requests per minute on Business and 120 on higher plans; webhooks are not shown on Business.
Crelate pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Crelate is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $85 per user / month, billed annually.
- Starts at
- $85 per user / month, billed annually
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- Free trial offered; its length is not stated on the pricing page.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials | $85per user / month, billed annually | Applicant tracking, recruiting CRM, job portal and resume parsing for up to 2 users and 20k contacts. Contact sales to buy. |
| Business | $119per user / month, annual or monthly | Adds the AI Assistant, client and team portals, reports and analytics, email connections and technical support. |
| Business Plus | Custom | Adds advanced AI Assistant, premium client portals, automation and sequences, full API and more storage. Billed annually. |
| Platform | Custom | Usage-based pricing on a user or site license, quoted by sales. |
Read from crelate.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Crelate before you buy.
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Common questions
Does Crelate have a Windows app?
No Windows app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Crelate is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Does Crelate have a macOS app?
No macOS app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Crelate is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Is Crelate open source?
Crelate is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Does Crelate have an API?
Yes. Crelate offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.