# iCIMS review (2026): is it worth it? > Enterprise recruiting software and applicant tracking system Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. iCIMS sells recruiting software to large employers. Its products cover an applicant tracking system, text recruiting, onboarding and high-volume hiring, with a separate candidate relationship tool, career sites and a recruitment chatbot. A marketplace of partner integrations connects it to other HR systems. - **Category:** Hiring & Applicant Tracking - **Made by:** iCIMS - **Website:** https://www.icims.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a published price, as none is shown. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing iCIMS's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Applicant tracking:** iCIMS Hire is described as a highly configurable enterprise ATS, with offer management and onboarding software alongside it. - **Text recruiting:** Lists text recruiting software as part of iCIMS Hire, for messaging candidates by text. - **High-volume hiring:** A newer product line aimed at employers who fill many similar roles, with a retail focus among its industry pages. - **Candidate relationship management:** iCIMS Engage builds automated sourcing and nurture campaigns for talent pools. - **Career sites and chatbot:** iCIMS Employer Branding covers career sites, a recruitment chatbot and employee testimonial videos. - **Integration marketplace:** The site cites 800+ technology and advisory partners and 10K+ active integrations across 18 technology categories. ## Good for - Large employers with dedicated talent acquisition teams - Retail, healthcare, manufacturing and finance hiring - Companies that need to connect hiring to other HR systems ## Worth knowing - No prices are published; every call to action on the site is a demo or sales request. - The product line is split into Hire, Engage and Employer Branding, so what a buyer needs may be several products. - The site offers US, UK and French versions, and no mobile or desktop app is listed on the pages read. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. iCIMS is enterprise recruiting software split into Hire, Engage and Employer Branding. No price is published and every call to action is a demo or sales request, so smaller teams get no self-serve plan. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published, so it sits at the ordinary grade until the vendor says. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial. Every call to action is a demo or sales request. - **Features: C.** A configurable ATS, text recruiting, CRM, career sites and a chatbot. The product line is split into three, so a buyer may need several. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. A configurable enterprise ATS that takes setup. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with a marketplace the site puts at 800+ partners and 10K+ integrations. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from iCIMS's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among hiring and applicant tracking tools - iCIMS's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 14 of the 48 other hiring and applicant tracking tools we grade, and level with 6. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 16 of 48) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/hiring ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace iCIMS 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. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 28 of the 48 other hiring and applicant tracking tools grade higher. - You could make: Applicant tracking: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Jobs posted to dozens of job boards at once, which takes an agreement with each board. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: A chatbot builder hooked into the messaging apps. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Applicant tracking, Job board posting, AI features, Chatbots, Workflow automation ## Alternatives - [SmartRecruiters](https://toolgpa.com/tools/smartrecruiters): Enterprise applicant tracking and hiring platform with AI features. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/icims-vs-smartrecruiters) - [Jobvite](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jobvite): Modular applicant tracking and recruiting software. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/icims-vs-jobvite) - [Greenhouse](https://toolgpa.com/tools/greenhouse): Structured-hiring ATS for growing and large companies, by quote. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/greenhouse-vs-icims) - [Lever](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lever): ATS and recruiting CRM in one for mid-sized teams, by quote. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/icims-vs-lever) - [Workable](https://toolgpa.com/tools/workable): Applicant tracking and HR software priced by company size. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/icims-vs-workable) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.icims.com - https://www.icims.com/products/integrations/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/icims Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).