The Ashby Alternative for Teams That Don't Need to Pay Enterprise Prices

Treegarden is purpose-built for mid-size companies that need a powerful ATS combined with HR capabilities, without the enterprise complexity that Ashby brings. While Ashby focuses heavily on analytics and reporting for large-scale recruiting operations, Treegarden delivers the same core pipeline management, collaborative hiring, and candidate tracking features at a fraction of the cost. You get unlimited users on every plan, a built-in HR module for onboarding and employee management, and transparent pricing starting at $299 per month. Most mid-size teams find that Treegarden covers 100% of their recruiting workflow without requiring weeks of configuration or a dedicated ops person to maintain the system.

No, we do not offer a hands-on demo. Instead, we provide hands-on personalized demos where our team walks you through the entire platform using your actual recruiting workflow. This approach is far more valuable than a self-guided trial because you get to see exactly how Treegarden handles your specific use cases — from job posting and candidate pipeline management to interview scheduling and offer letters. During the demo, we can configure the system to match your hiring stages, show you integrations with your existing job boards, and answer every question in real time. Most companies find this gives them a much clearer picture of ROI than clicking around an empty trial account for 14 days.

Migrating from Ashby to Treegarden typically takes about two weeks from start to finish. Our dedicated migration team handles the entire process, including importing your candidate database, historical application data, interview records, and hiring pipeline stages. We map your existing Ashby workflows to Treegarden's flexible pipeline system, configure your job board integrations, and set up email templates so your team can hit the ground running. We also provide hands-on training sessions for your recruiting team to ensure everyone is comfortable with the new system before going live. There is zero downtime — we run both systems in parallel during the transition period so no candidate falls through the cracks.

Every Treegarden plan includes both a full ATS and an HR module at no additional cost. The ATS handles your entire recruiting lifecycle — job posting, candidate sourcing, pipeline management, interview scheduling, collaborative evaluation, and offer management. The HR module covers employee onboarding, document management, org charts, time-off tracking, and employee self-service portals. This is a significant advantage over Ashby, which focuses exclusively on the ATS side and requires you to purchase a separate HRIS for post-hire employee management. With Treegarden, you get a seamless handoff from candidate to employee in a single platform, eliminating duplicate data entry and reducing your software stack.

Treegarden's pricing is lower because we believe powerful recruiting software should be accessible to every growing company, not just enterprises with six-figure HR tech budgets. We achieve competitive pricing through efficient engineering, a focused product scope, and flat-rate plans that eliminate the per-seat or per-job pricing models that inflate costs as you grow. Our Startup plan at $299 per month, Growth plan at $499 per month, and Scale plan at $899 per month all include unlimited users, unlimited job postings, and the full ATS plus HR module. There are no hidden fees, no implementation charges, and no long-term contracts required. Ashby's enterprise-focused approach means custom quotes, lengthy sales cycles, and pricing that typically starts well above $1,000 per month for comparable functionality.