Greenhouse vs Workable

Quick verdict

Greenhouse and Workable both target companies that have outgrown spreadsheets, but they sit at different price points and serve different stages of growth. Greenhouse is enterprise-tier: quote-only pricing, structured-hiring workflows, defined interview kits, and approval chains built for dedicated recruiting teams at 100-plus employee companies. Workable is mid-market: a published $299/month Standard base, a large 200-plus job-board network, and paid add-ons for texting, video interviews, and assessments. Greenhouse enforces a consistent, auditable process across many roles; Workable gets a growing company hiring quickly without a sales call. The right answer depends almost entirely on your company size and how much hiring process you actually need.

Choose Greenhouse if you have a recruiting team, hire across many roles at once, and need deep structured workflows, DEI reporting, and approvals — and you can absorb a four-figure monthly contract. Choose Workable if you want a faster self-serve setup, transparent public pricing, and its broad job-board network, and you hire often enough to justify $299 or more per month once the add-ons are switched on. Both platforms are capable and well-supported. Both are also heavy and expensive for a small business hiring fewer than ten people a month — if that describes you, neither is a natural fit, and the alternative below covers the same core hiring loop at a fraction of the cost.