Greenhouse is the ATS that made structured hiring mainstream: define what good looks like before you interview, train interviewers, score candidates against the same criteria, and use data to improve. Many fast-growing tech companies run on it, and it is often the default choice once a company has a talent team.
Short version: Greenhouse is built for companies where recruiting is a function. Canvider is built for companies where recruiting is a task someone does alongside their real job.
How Greenhouse is priced
Greenhouse does not publish prices. It sells three plans, Core, Plus, and Pro, quoted mainly on company headcount. Third-party buyer guides from 2026 put small-company Core contracts at roughly $6,000 to $10,000 per year, mid-market Plus contracts higher, and Pro in enterprise territory, with implementation fees and add-ons on top. Treat those as rough market signals, not a quote.
Canvider publishes its prices:
- Simple: free, up to 2 listings per year, 1 user.
- Pro: about €80 per month, up to 10 listings per month, 5 users.
- Enterprise: from about €200 per month, unlimited.
Where Greenhouse genuinely wins
- Structured hiring as a system. Interview plans, kits, and scorecards per stage, with reporting on how interviewers score. If you want to train a company to hire consistently, this is Greenhouse’s core strength.
- Integrations. A very large partner ecosystem: assessments, background checks, sourcing tools, HRIS sync.
- Reporting and compliance depth. On higher tiers, features such as anonymised review and detailed audit trails matter to larger companies with legal and security teams.
- Scale. It holds up with dozens of recruiters and hundreds of open roles.
Where Canvider is the better fit
- Nobody owns the process full time. Greenhouse’s value comes from people maintaining it: building interview plans, chasing scorecards, reviewing reports. Without that owner, you pay for structure nobody runs.
- You need a shortlist today, not a programme. AI Score reads every application against the job description and ranks it with reasons, so the first review takes minutes. CriteriaMatch removes applicants who miss must-haves.
- Structured, but lighter. InterviewGen creates candidate-specific questions from the gaps between the CV and the role, and collaborative assessment keeps everyone’s feedback on one record. You get most of the discipline without designing a system first.
- Buying friction. A free tier means you can prove adoption with one real role before anyone signs a contract or schedules an implementation.
Side by side
| Greenhouse | Canvider | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Quote-led, by headcount | Published; free plan, Pro about €80/month |
| Setup | Implementation project | First job live in about 10 minutes |
| Strongest at | Structured hiring at scale, integrations | AI screening, fast shortlists, low admin |
| Best for | Companies with a talent team | SMBs where HR or a founder runs hiring |
A fair test
If you are choosing between the two, ask one question: who will maintain the process in six months? If the answer is a named recruiter or talent lead with time set aside, Greenhouse’s depth is worth paying for. If the answer is “whoever has time that week”, choose the tool that still works when nobody maintains it.
Then run one real role for two weeks and measure time to first structured review and how often you chased interview feedback.
For the wider market, see how Canvider compares with 50 other ATS tools and the best ATS for small business in 2026. If structured interviews are the draw, our interview scorecard template works in any ATS.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Greenhouse cost?
Greenhouse does not publish prices. Its plans (Core, Plus, and Pro) are quoted by company headcount. Third-party buyer guides in 2026 put small-company Core contracts at roughly 6,000 to 10,000 US dollars per year, with implementation fees on top. Canvider publishes its prices: a free Simple plan and Pro at about 80 euro per month.
Is Greenhouse too much for a small business?
It depends on who runs hiring. Greenhouse rewards a company that treats hiring as a discipline, with trained interviewers, scorecards, and someone maintaining the process. If hiring is one of several jobs for an HR generalist or founder, much of that structure goes unused.
Does Canvider support structured interviews like Greenhouse?
Yes, in a lighter form. InterviewGen builds role-specific interview questions from the gap between each CV and the job description, and collaborative assessment keeps every interviewer's feedback on the candidate record.