PageUp People vs SmartRecruiters comparison

PageUp People and SmartRecruiters are both solutions in the Talent Acquisition category. PageUp People is ranked #18, while SmartRecruiters is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.0. PageUp People holds a 1.8% mindshare in TA, compared to SmartRecruiters’s 2.6% mindshare. Additionally, 83% of PageUp People users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of SmartRecruiters users who would recommend it.

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83% willing to recommend

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93% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 5, 2024

PageUp People and SmartRecruiters are competing products in the talent acquisition software market. PageUp People appears to have stronger support and pricing advantages, while SmartRecruiters excels in features, providing a comprehensive recruiting platform that many consider worth the investment.

Features: PageUp People offers robust talent management capabilities with detailed analytics and a comprehensive set of recruitment tools. SmartRecruiters stands out for its modern recruitment marketing features, intuitive mobile app, and collaborative hiring capabilities, as well as more extensive third-party integrations, giving it an edge in features over PageUp People.

Room for Improvement: PageUp People's customization options are limited by its system constraints, and users may find it challenging to fully meet their unique needs. It may also benefit from enhanced configurability to streamline the recruitment process further. Meanwhile, SmartRecruiters could improve data analysis mechanisms to reduce manual efforts and enhance its reporting capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: PageUp People delivers a seamless deployment experience with commendable customer support, focusing on providing extensive training resources. SmartRecruiters offers a straightforward setup with responsive service, emphasizing automation in deployment, offering efficient self-service resources. Although both platforms offer effective deployment strategies, PageUp People is noted for its direct customer support.

Pricing and ROI: PageUp People typically requires a substantial initial setup cost but offers a high return on investment through its expansive management features and analytics. SmartRecruiters presents a more flexible pricing model, potentially leading to lower upfront costs and a better perceived ROI through its streamlined recruitment functionalities and emphasis on efficiency. SmartRecruiters tends to deliver a more balanced equation of cost and applicability, making it attractive for organizations focusing on immediate value realization.

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Categories and Ranking

PageUp People

Ranking in Talent Acquisition

18th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Talent Management (26th)

SmartRecruiters

Ranking in Talent Acquisition

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Applicant Tracking and Recruiting Software (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Talent Acquisition category, the mindshare of PageUp People is 1.8%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SmartRecruiters is 2.6%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Talent Acquisition Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SmartRecruiters	2.6%
PageUp People	1.8%
Other	95.6%

Talent Acquisition

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CarloGalati

Director at Edge HR

Has all-inclusive pricing and good talent acquisition and onboarding components, and is an excellent product for mid-sized to large organizations

They could probably add surveying, as in engagement surveys, to their product. That would be something that would be valued by their customers. For instance, Culture Amp is a product that does a lot of the engagement stuff. They're diversifying into other aspects of talent management. It is not yet at the same scale as PageUp People, but it is an excellent product as well.

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Anudeep Kamuni

Global Lead - TA ops & Analytics | Strategy Growth & Leadership at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees

Efficiently automates tasks but lacks certain features in terms of usability

There are a couple of areas of improvement. SmartRecruiter lacks certain features in terms of usability. For instance, we cannot move candidate profiles, interview feedback, notes, and activities related to one candidate when transitioning from one job to another. We have to manually copy and paste everything for that specific candidate. This is a significant drawback. Additionally, the filters are not accurate. The results are inaccurate when filtering multiple criteria, such as country and hiring manager. This level of inaccuracy is unexpected for an application, especially for smaller organizations. It should have been corrected easily. Moreover, the CRM module lacks video reporting capabilities. These are some the biggest improvement I would like to see.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The talent acquisition and the onboarding components of the system are most valuable."

"It is a really user-friendly tool, and its implementation is quite wide. It is very easy to manage users and build your workflows. Overall, it works very well for the customization of the workflows for us. The recruitment team has generally found the whole platform useful. We were looking to kind of expand it by using the CRM functions that it has. However, with COVID and recruitment being on the freeze, we weren't really able to make the most of the tool. They are, however, finding it useful to actually build up their talent pools and client candidates to be able to contact them when we kind of have this freeze off."

"SmartRecruiters is a candidate management system or ATS system that we use for recruitment purposes."

"What I really like about it is that it feels minimal, but is also dynamic. There aren't a lot of ways to get lost, which is good."

"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that amongst all the other ATS platforms that I have used, SmartRecruiters is the most user-friendly tool."

"The candidate experience was better because the whole process was there."

"I used the free version, which I found valuable."

"It has a lot of good features. We post all of our jobs through the system, and they have a marketplace where you can share the job post with the job boards they're working with. It is integrated with all the records about from where the applications are coming. We have all of our candidates gathered there. We can set up our own hiring processes depending on the type of job and then move them through the process there. It is also possible to involve hiring managers and give them access so that they can also track the candidates and have a look at TBE and interact in the system, which is very useful. We also use SmartRecruiters for job approvals before posting the job as well as for offer approvals before sending an offer. We have everything in the system itself, and everything is being tracked, which is very good for us. It is a reliable system, and you can use it for the full cycle of recruitment. You can really adapt it to your processes. When it comes to the configuration, it is easy to configure. Something that is good with SmartRecruiters is that they are always working on improvements. Every quarter, they have different enhancements or product releases, which is something that we appreciate."

"It has a neat functionality built in where it rates candidates. So, before you even look at the resume, you see a rating, and it is based on keywords. For example, it will tell you that an applicant is a frontend engineer and has used React, Angular, etc. It gives you a heads up so that you don't have to go through a hundred resumes on Monday morning eliminating applicants. It will tell you that this applicant's skills match 87%, which is pretty neat. You can skip the ones that are rated 25% or something."

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Cons

"They could probably add surveying, as in engagement surveys, to their product. That would be something that would be valued by their customers. For instance, Culture Amp is a product that does a lot of the engagement stuff. They're diversifying into other aspects of talent management. It is not yet at the same scale as PageUp People, but it is an excellent product as well."

"The solution needs to work on a single sign-on."

"One thing that has been a bit of a struggle is getting tech support. It is a little more difficult to get support from SmartRecruiters. They want you to have your own in-house person to help you with any issues, whereas with both Lever and Greenhouse, you can just click a button at the bottom of the screen and chat with someone almost instantly."

"There were problems with integrations around other systems and each one had to be custom-built, which took a little while to get set up and running."

"Around 2015 and into '17, I worked at a federal contractor. I had to switch to a different applicant system as I didn't know if SmartRecruiters was OFCCP compliant, which is something that, as a US-based federal contractor, you have to ensure. They should work to appeal to the contractor industry and get the product OFCCP compliant."

"The filters are not accurate. The results are inaccurate when filtering multiple criteria, such as country and hiring manager."

"I don't see the integration of SmartRecruiters with SAP happening quite seamlessly, making it an area where improvements are required."

"The solution's reporting feature could be improved because it is not very strong."

"The major improvement area is how it integrates with other systems. That's where we've had some sort of pain points. They've done a lot of work with their development team in setting up integrations with other types of software like SuccessFactors, which we use, but we have found some glitches there. This is probably where they need to do some work. Sometimes, when it refreshes or there is any sort of update in SmartRecruiters, it has a direct impact on the integrations that we have with other tools. We are not always notified when that takes place. We have had HR say to us, "We've just hired this guy. He is not there in our end board at all. What's going on?" That's when we realized that the integration is actually broken. When we have other solutions like SuccessFactors, it would be very helpful to have knowledge articles for such integrations. We have found some of the templates that we want to use and some of the customizations that we do around the offer letters and the contract letters to be a little bit more difficult, which hasn't made this process any more efficient than it was. We still have to do a bit of manual intervention there. I don't know if it is just our company, but we need to have different clauses and things in place. We have stopped using DocuSign as well, and we are trying to look at other ways of doing that. They are aware of this."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"PageUp has a different model from other organizations. As part of their pricing structure, they tend to work with you very closely and not charge you for the setup. So, there is one price all inclusive of setup, and for that reason, they become an attractive provider to work with. Here in Australia, the education sector has gravitated very heavily towards PageUp."

"They are pretty competitive. As the product matures, it has much more functionality and different pricing models. It can relatively cost a lot more if you want to use additional features, but, in general, it is competitive in the industry. We work on a yearly license agreement based on the company size. There are the support costs, which are a part of the additional cost based on the percentage of the licensing fee. So, it has a license plus support cost. Then, of course, there are other add-on options that we can purchase and procure whenever we want to based on certain negotiated arrangements."

"SmartRecruiters is an expensive solution."

"SmartRecruiters is much better than its competitors. Considering the type of features and services it provides, it is probably one of the best solutions in the market. Others may offer a similar price, but their services won't be that good or the user-friendliness won't be that great. The licensing works based on how many users are there in a company. If you are using other functionalities, like CRM and HRS, the price increases."

"Back in 2018, when I engaged with their sales, they wanted to charge around $10,000 for an annual subscription. Depending on your organization, that either could or couldn't be expensive. I personally think it's a fair price. However, I engaged them and negotiated a lower price with them. I think I got closer to $6,000. It came with a commitment of three years."

"I wasn't involved in its acquisition, but I would assume that SmartRecruiters is pretty pricey."

"There were implementation costs in the first year to get everything set up and running, and then they have various modules on top, which are optional and available at an extra charge."

"I haven't been so involved with pricing, so I don't have all details, but I know that we are paying per head when it comes to different countries. There is an additional fee for new features that they release. If it is something that we would like to use, we need to pay some extra for it."

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Comms Service Provider

11%

Healthcare Company

10%

Government

10%

Financial Services Firm

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	8

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Overview

SaaS tool that assists organizations in recruitment and on-boarding, performance management, leadership development, and succession planning.

PageUp People

SmartRecruiters social recruiting platform combines awesome free recruiting software with the best on-demand services to make hiring social, collaborative, and enjoyable. Social and mobile recruiting enablement platform that supports 1-click application submissions.

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