Ashby
All-in-one recruiting platform combining ATS, sourcing, scheduling and analytics with built-in AI.
why this verdict
Keep paying — Microsoft has not replaced it
Microsoft's version overlaps, but does not finish the HR & recruiting job, so this one still earns its $400/mo.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- LinkedIn's own AI-powered sourcing and pipeline tools threatening to fold ATS work into the hiring network. Microsoft, June 9, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers not the job editorial call
- Parts of it. The job still needs the tool to get finished.
- Is there a free way to do it? paid only
- 3 replacements listed, all paid.
- What the call is worth $4,800/yr
- $400/mo at the entry paid tier — $4,800 a year per seat.
- Threatened by
- Microsoft
- Since
- June 9, 2025
- List price
- $400/mo
- Per year
- $4,800
The backstory
Ashby became the default ATS for fast-growing startups by unifying sourcing, interview scheduling and analytics with automation built in from day one. LinkedIn, which owns the graph most sourcing tools depend on, keeps adding its own AI-powered candidate matching that could squeeze standalone recruiting CRMs. Ashby's response was to build an AI interview notetaker and automation directly into its core product rather than wait to get disrupted, giving it a system-of-record moat that a sourcing feature alone cannot replace.