Tellent Review (2026)Every Tier Ends in 'Get a Demo'
Tellent's modular shape is genuinely useful — you can buy just the ATS, or just the HRIS — but nothing is priced in public: every tier on tellent.com/pricing ends in 'Get a demo' (read in a browser on 9 September 2026), and recruitee.com/pricing carries no figures either. Throughout this review we weigh it against BambooHR.
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Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 26 Sep 2026
Tellent publishes no prices. Its pricing page (read in a live browser on 9 September 2026, and separately in the served HTML) lists three ATS tiers for Recruitee — Start, Advance and Optimize — and the two Tellent HR modules, Manage (HRIS) and Grow (performance), and every one of them ends in 'Get a demo' rather than a figure; agencies are told to ask for a custom quote.
Neither the rendered page nor the served HTML contains a single currency amount, and recruitee.com/pricing carries none either. What the page does state is scope: Start covers 5 active job posts and a single-page CareersHub; Advance adds unlimited posts, a multi-page branded careers site, ReferralsHub, 100 AI screening credits a month, 3 AI matching searches, workflow automations, candidate self-scheduling, offer-letter generation and up to 3 custom job fields; Optimize adds SSO, API support, a testing environment, requisition approval workflows, unlimited custom fields, 65 matching searches, onboarding support, a dedicated CSM and BI integrations.
SSO, Texting, Journeys, AgencyHub and WhatsApp Hiring are optional add-ons on the lower tiers. A free trial is offered on every tier and needs only a company account; the page states no trial length. Re-read 26 September 2026: still no currency amount anywhere on the page. The pricing FAQ now states three terms that bear on the quote: annual billing saves 20% against monthly, pricing increases with your employee count, and you can upgrade or downgrade at any time. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.
The honest knock
Ask for Start, Advance and Optimize quoted together with their renewal prices, because you have no anchor to check a single number against. And as with every ATS, workflow fit — approval chains, careers-site needs, integrations with your assessment tools — matters more than the feature list; the free trial is enough to run one real vacancy through, so do that.
What Tellent does
Modular people-management platform — applicant tracking (Recruitee), core HR and performance management with AI automation, for hiring and managing teams.
What buyers report about Tellent
Recurring themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We have not run Tellent ourselves, so this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.
- • Value for money is the recurring theme on GetApp and Capterra: reviewers keep coming back to the same point, a full recruiting feature set at a price their small business can carry.
- • The reviewers are predominantly small businesses rather than enterprise HR teams, so read the praise as coming from that audience.
- • Login and mobile view get messy once you are recruiting for many roles at once — reviewers ask for a simpler, better-fitting interface.
- • One reviewer objects strongly to the pricing changes. Tellent's position is that new pricing applies to new customers and existing ones keep their plan and features — worth confirming in writing if you are already a customer.
- • Cost is hard to judge before a sales call. Tellent publishes no figure on any tier, so the amounts reviewers quote are what they were personally quoted rather than a rate card.
No price is published, so scope is the only lever you have
Tellent publishes no prices. Read in a live browser on 9 September 2026, tellent.com/pricing lists three Recruitee ATS tiers — Start, Advance and Optimize — and two Tellent HR modules, Manage for HRIS and Grow for performance, and every one of them ends in 'Get a demo' rather than a figure. The served HTML contains no currency amount at all, and neither does recruitee.com/pricing. The euro figures this review used to quote were reviewers' recollections rather than anything Tellent publishes, and we have taken them out of the pricing section rather than treat a recollection as a rate card.
So the only lever you have before the call is scope, and the scope is stated plainly. Start is five active job posts and a single-page careers site. Advance adds unlimited posts, a multi-page branded careers site, employee referrals, 100 AI screening credits a month, workflow automations, candidate self-scheduling and offer-letter generation. Optimize adds SSO, API support, a testing environment, requisition approval workflows, unlimited custom fields and a dedicated CSM.
Read that list as a price map, because it is one. Nothing in Advance is a feature you grow into by accident — it is where a team that hires continuously ends up — and Optimize is bought by whoever needs single sign-on and an approval chain, which is a procurement requirement rather than a hiring one. Decide which of the three descriptions is actually you before anyone quotes you.
What upgrading will not fix is the thing you are most likely to be sold on. Moving up buys you unlimited job posts, more AI credits and more governance; it does not buy you a better fit between the tool and how your hiring managers already work. Approval chains, offer workflow and the integrations with your existing assessment tools are the parts that decide whether an ATS is used or worked around, and no tier upgrade changes them.
Ask for all three tiers quoted side by side with their renewal prices, because with nothing published you have no anchor to check a single number against — three numbers at least give you the shape of the ladder.
How to actually use Tellent
There is no public price, so do the two things that stand in for one. First, decide which tier you are before the call — five job posts and a one-page careers site, or unlimited posts with referrals and screening credits, or the SSO-and-approval-chain tier — then ask for all three quoted side by side with renewal prices. Three numbers at least give you the shape of the ladder. Second, run one real vacancy through the free trial rather than a test one.
It is offered on every tier and needs only a company account; neither the pricing page nor the sign-up form states a length, so ask what yours is first. Post the job, let candidates apply, and watch what goes wrong: how the careers page looks on a phone, whether applications reach your hiring manager, how much manual work a rejection takes. Then ask for a walkthrough of what a trial cannot reach — approval chains, offer workflow, assessment-tool integrations — and check which of SSO, Texting, Journeys, AgencyHub and WhatsApp Hiring are billed separately on your tier.
Distilled from tellent.com/pricing (which resolves to tellent.com/pricing-platforms) read in a live browser on 9 September 2026 — the three Recruitee ATS cards, the two Tellent HR module cards, their add-on lists and the full feature-comparison table, none of which carries a figure — checked against the served HTML of the same page and of recruitee.com/pricing the same day, neither of which contains a single currency amount, and against auth.tellent.com/sign-up, which states no trial length. Re-read 26 September 2026 by plain fetch of tellent.com/pricing (resolving to /pricing-platforms): the Start, Advance and Optimize cards (5 active job posts; 100 AI screening credits and 3 matching searches a month on Advance; 65 matching searches on Optimize) and the Manage and Grow cards are unchanged and carry no figure. The pricing FAQ on the same page is the source of the buyer questions: monthly or yearly billing with 20% off annually, modular purchase, plan changes at any time, pricing that rises with employee count, paid add-ons (SSO, Journeys, WhatsApp Hiring, AgencyHub), and live chat and local support on all plans.
The natural comparison is Greenhouse or Personio — Greenhouse is the ATS benchmark at higher cost; Personio bundles HR-first — Tellent sits between on price with EU roots. Weigh it against BambooHR on the job you actually need done.
Frequently asked questions
How is Tellent priced if there are no prices on the page?
By headcount, on a quote. Every tier on tellent.com/pricing still ends in 'Get a demo' (read 26 September 2026), but the pricing FAQ says the price increases with your employee count. So bring your employee number to the demo, and ask for Start, Advance and Optimize quoted at that number side by side, with renewal prices, so you can see the shape of the ladder.
Can I pay for Tellent monthly?
Yes. The pricing FAQ (read 26 September 2026) says you can pay monthly or yearly and that annual billing saves 20%. With no published rate you cannot check that figure against a list price, so ask for both quotes on the same call; the FAQ also says you can upgrade or downgrade at any time, which makes starting monthly on the lower tier a reasonable test.
Do I have to buy the whole Tellent platform?
No. The FAQ (read 26 September 2026) calls it modular: you can buy the Recruitee ATS, the Manage HRIS or the Grow performance module on its own, and Tellent HR sells Manage and Grow singly or together. SSO, Journeys, WhatsApp Hiring and AgencyHub are paid add-ons; SSO is only included on the top ATS tier, Optimize.
What should I weigh before buying Operations & Workflow software?
Usually it sits on top rather than replacing everything. Tools in this class tend to become the layer where work is tracked and handed off, while your existing systems stay the source of truth for their own data. Before you buy, map which tools it would replace outright and which it would merely sync with. If the answer is that it syncs with all of them, you are adding a layer rather than removing one.
Is this a hands-on review of Tellent?
This is a researched assessment, not a hands-on test — where we've used a tool ourselves, we say so explicitly. We name what each tool is good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.
- Buyer reviews on GetApp, Capterra and Software Advice, read August 2026.
- Tellent’s own published pricing page.
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