Free ATSA Free ATS With No Trial Clock and No Seat Count
Free here means free: no 14-day countdown, no card on file, no three-job ceiling and no upgrade prompt when you invite a colleague. The whole applicant tracking layer is free permanently. Only the AI that goes out and finds candidates costs anything.
- 60-second shortlist
- Email unlock — no card
- Used in 40+ countries
Try it before you sign up
Paste a job description and get 3 real candidate matches — no account needed.
Free forever, not free trial
No expiry date, no payment method, nothing switches off on day 15.
Unlimited jobs and applicants
Not three roles and fifty profiles — the free tier is the working product.
Unlimited users
Invite hiring managers, sourcers and clients. Permissions are per vacancy, not per licence.
How to tell a free ATS from a trial
Most products listed as free ATS software are one of three things: a time-limited trial, a single-user tier, or a volume-capped plan that stops being usable at the exact moment your process becomes real. Check these four questions first — FindHire's answers are in brackets.
- Does the free plan expire? (No.)
- Is a card required to start? (No.)
- How many open jobs and candidates are allowed? (Unlimited.)
- What does a second user cost? (Nothing.)
What is included at no cost
The tracking layer in full. Nothing here is a preview of a paid feature.
- Kanban pipeline with custom stages, hold status and full stage history
- Searchable candidate database with CV upload and skill tags
- A public apply page per role, plus Google Jobs, Indeed and LinkedIn feeds
- Collaborator roles: editor, commenter, viewer, sourcer — scoped per vacancy
- Hiring metrics: time to fill, cost per hire, offer acceptance, TPC, RI, SV
- A public recruiter portfolio backed by your real placement record
- CSV export of your candidate data, any time
What costs money, stated plainly
AI is the only paid surface, because AI has a real per-use cost. A candidate search costs 20 F&H tokens on Telegram or GitHub and 40 on LinkedIn or job boards. AI resume analysis costs 1 token. Constant monitoring costs 120 tokens per day, or 200 on scraping-based sources, and is entirely optional. Every account starts with free tokens.
Where a free ATS stops being the right answer
If you need HRIS and payroll integration, procurement-grade SSO, contractual SLAs or approval chains across hundreds of hiring managers, buy an enterprise ATS. FindHire is built for solo recruiters, boutique agencies and small in-house teams.
Frequently asked questions
Which ATS is actually free forever?
FindHire's applicant tracking layer is free permanently — unlimited jobs, candidates and users, pipeline, database, apply pages and hiring metrics — with no expiry and no card. Only AI consumes tokens.
Is a credit card required to sign up?
No. You can create an account, publish roles and run your whole hiring process without entering payment details.
Is there a limit on users or jobs?
No. There is no seat charge and no cap on open roles or candidates on the free plan.
What is the catch?
AI costs tokens. That is the entire catch. New accounts get free tokens, and if you never use AI sourcing or monitoring, you never pay.
Can I move my data out later?
Yes. Candidate data exports to CSV at any time and is not locked behind a paid tier.
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