Kynto vs We Recruit
We Recruit and Kynto differ as much on pricing as on AI. We Recruit is a modular French ATS with published starting prices and AI available as an add-on feature. Kynto builds AI into the core of the product instead, executing the pipeline rather than assisting it. Here is how the two compare.
Quick verdict
Choose Kynto if
- You want to replace your traditional ATS with AI that sources, reaches out to, and scores candidates automatically, not just organize the work you already do
- You want to keep the final decision in your hands: Kynto executes the work, you decide who moves forward and who gets hired at every step
- You want interview scheduling (slots, reminders, rescheduling) to be automatic once a candidate is qualified
- You are a small team, a founder, or an SMB of 50 to 200 employees who wants to stop running hiring on spreadsheets and scattered tools
- You want explainable scoring, point by point, with a full audit trail
Choose We Recruit if
- You want a published starting price you can review before ever talking to sales
- You are a recruitment agency or staffing firm managing multiple clients and need dedicated multi-entity features
- You need integrations already built with French HR tools you use today (Eurecia, Lucca, AssessFirst, Performanse, Visiotalent)
- You prefer a human-led collaborative ATS with AI as an optional add-on rather than the core engine
Kynto vs We Recruit at a glance
| Dimension | Kynto | We Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Positioning | AI at the core of the product, assisting at every step of hiring | Modular, customizable ATS built around a human-led collaborative process |
| AI approach | AI executes every key pipeline step in one continuous flow | AI powers two specific features (scoring, CV parsing), gated to a higher-tier plan |
| Final decision | Always human. AI executes, you decide who moves forward | Always human, explicitly framed around collective intelligence among the team |
| Job description writing | Generated through a chat with Kynto, based on your company context | Not documented as AI-generated. Standard job posting with multi-channel diffusion |
| Sourcing | Automatic sourcing across 600M+ profiles, best matches selected, in one click | CV database, candidate pools, job board diffusion, and a browser extension for manual sourcing |
| Outreach | Personalized sequence generated automatically and sent across multiple channels (LinkedIn, email, WhatsApp) | In-platform messaging and templated bulk emails. No automated multi-channel sequencing publicly documented |
| Screening / scoring | Configurable scoring, explained point by point, full audit trail | AI-based scoring on the Avanced plan, capped at 500 CVs per month, plus manual evaluation grids |
| Interview scheduling | Automatic calendar access, slot suggestions, reminders, rescheduling | Shared recruiter calendar (2 to 5 depending on plan) with automated notifications |
| Interview prep | Automatic brief (resume summary, strengths/weaknesses, questions) sent to the manager before the interview | Interview notes and evaluation grids. No AI-generated prep brief documented |
| Career page | Fully customizable natively (logo, images, colors, font, built-in page builder) | Fully customizable native career site (logo, colors, photos, video, blog), no-code editor |
| Integrations | 60 job boards (Indeed, LinkedIn, Welcome to the Jungle, APEC…), other integrations not publicly detailed at this stage | Documented integrations (Eurecia, Lucca, AssessFirst, Performanse, Visiotalent) plus job boards and an API |
| Best fit | Small teams, founders, and SMBs of 50 to 200 employees replacing a manual process or spreadsheet | French SMEs and recruitment agencies managing multiple clients |
| Pricing | Quote-based, 14-day free trial, no credit card | Published starting prices, from 2,070 EUR excl. tax per year, 30-day free trial |
What is Kynto?
Kynto doesn't just organize your hiring like a traditional ATS: it directly executes the work (sourcing, outreach, scoring) and automates everything around the interview (scheduling, prep), while leaving the final decision in your hands at every step. AI is at the core of the product, not a layer added on top: every score and every recommendation is explained and traceable. Kynto serves small founders just as well as SMBs of 50 to 200 employees.
Learn more on the product page.
What is We Recruit?
We Recruit (also known as WeRecruit) is a French, modular applicant tracking system built to adapt to a company's existing recruitment process rather than impose one. It covers a native career site, multi-channel job board diffusion, a CV database, candidate pools, internal mobility, referrals, and collaborative hiring workflows shared between recruiters, managers, and external providers. Two features are AI-labeled on the product: automated candidate scoring and CV parsing, both available starting on its Avanced plan and capped at 500 CVs per month. We Recruit explicitly frames decision-making around collective intelligence among the hiring team, and hosts its data in France. It targets SMEs, mid-size companies, and recruitment agencies handling multiple clients. werecruit.com
Detailed comparison
AI & automation
At Kynto, AI isn't one feature among others: it executes the entire pipeline (writing, sourcing, outreach, scoring, scheduling) in one continuous flow. A recruiter doesn't need to operate each step manually, but keeps control of every decision. At We Recruit, AI appears as two specific, clearly labeled features, scoring and CV parsing, available starting on the Avanced plan and capped at 500 CVs per month, inside a process that otherwise stays manual and is explicitly built around collective, human decision-making.
Sourcing & outreach
Kynto automatically sources across 600M+ professional profiles, selects the best matches, then drafts and sends a personalized outreach sequence across multiple channels (LinkedIn, email, WhatsApp), without switching tools. We Recruit centralizes applications through a CV database, candidate pools, internal mobility, and referral programs, and offers a browser extension for manual sourcing from social profiles, plus an in-platform messaging module and templated emails for follow-ups, with no public documentation of an equivalent automated, multi-channel sequencing system.
Screening & scoring
Kynto offers scoring configured to your own criteria, with a detailed explanation of every score and a full audit trail of decisions. We Recruit's AI-based candidate scoring is available starting on its Avanced plan, capped at 500 CVs analyzed per month, and is complemented by manual evaluation grids and comment threads for the team; its public documentation doesn't detail a point-by-point explainability system.
Interview
Once a candidate is qualified, Kynto automates everything around the interview: finding shared time slots, sending invitations, reminders, handling reschedules, and a prep brief sent to the manager before the interview (resume summary, strengths/weaknesses, questions). The interview itself is still conducted by a human, at Kynto as at We Recruit; We Recruit provides a shared recruiter calendar (2 to 5 calendars depending on plan) with automated notifications, interview notes, evaluation grids, and deferred video interviews, but no automated slot-finding or AI-generated prep brief is publicly documented.
Career page & employer branding
Both platforms let you build a fully customizable career page without code. Kynto's built-in editor covers logo, images, colors, and font. We Recruit's career site editor covers logo, colors, photos, video, a map, and a blog section, natively integrated with its recruitment software so job postings and applications sync automatically. This is one area where the two products are genuinely comparable.
Integrations
We Recruit publicly documents integrations with HRIS tools (Eurecia, Lucca), assessment platforms (AssessFirst, Performanse), video interviewing (Visiotalent), major job boards, and an API for custom connectors. Beyond its 60 job boards, Kynto doesn't currently publish an equivalent integrations catalog, a real advantage for We Recruit today.
Pricing
We Recruit publishes starting prices on its pricing page: its Essentiel plan starts from 2,070 EUR excl. tax per year, and its AI-enabled Avanced plan starts from 3,270 EUR excl. tax per year, both under annual commitment, with a custom quote for its Premium tier. It offers a 30-day free trial with no credit card required. Kynto is quote-based with no fixed public pricing grid and offers a 14-day free trial, also with no credit card required.
Where Kynto is stronger
- AI is at the core, not a paid add-on module. Kynto combines writing, sourcing, outreach, scoring, and scheduling in one automated flow for every plan. At We Recruit, AI features are limited to scoring and CV parsing, gated to a higher-tier plan and capped at 500 CVs per month.
- Sourcing goes all the way to outreach. Once the best profiles are identified, Kynto drafts and sends a personalized sequence across multiple channels (LinkedIn, email, WhatsApp), without exporting contacts to a separate tool.
- Once qualified, the interview organizes itself. Slot finding, invitations, reminders, reschedules, and a prep brief sent to the manager, with no back-and-forth emails.
- Explainable scoring, no volume cap. Every criterion is configured by you, every score is justified point by point, and the full decision history is preserved.
- Execution is automated, so hiring can move faster. Because AI directly runs sourcing, outreach, and scoring rather than assisting a manual process, a team can move through a hiring pipeline faster than with a tool where AI is one optional module among several. The final decision still always stays with you.
- Covers a real limit at We Recruit. Its AI scoring is capped at 500 CVs per month even on the paid Advanced plan, and no automated pre-interview brief for the manager is documented; Kynto's scoring has no such cap and sends a brief by default.
Where We Recruit may be the better choice
- Published starting prices. Essentiel from 2,070 EUR excl. tax per year, Avanced (with AI) from 3,270 EUR excl. tax per year, publicly disclosed on its pricing page, against Kynto's quote-based model.
- A longer free trial. 30 days with no credit card and no commitment, against Kynto's 14-day trial.
- An established integration catalog with French HR tools. Eurecia and Lucca for HRIS, AssessFirst and Performanse for assessment, Visiotalent for video interviews, plus major French job boards, against a catalog not publicly detailed by Kynto at this stage beyond its 60 job boards.
- Built for agencies and multi-entity organizations. Dedicated roles and workflows for external recruiters, staffing firms managing multiple clients, and multi-subsidiary groups. Both Kynto and We Recruit host data in France/EU and are GDPR compliant.
Who should choose Kynto?
- A small HR team, a founder, or an SMB of 50 to 200 employees still hiring through spreadsheets, emails, and scattered tools
- A team that wants to cut the time spent on sourcing, first-round screening, and outreach
- An organization that wants objective, traceable scoring to reduce bias and document its decisions
- A team ready to let AI execute the work (sourcing, outreach, scoring) while keeping control of every final decision
Who should choose We Recruit?
- A recruitment agency or staffing firm that manages multiple clients and needs dedicated multi-entity features
- A team that wants to see a published starting price before requesting a quote
- A French organization that needs France-hosted data and integrations already built with tools like Eurecia, Lucca, or AssessFirst
- A team that prefers a human-led collaborative ATS with AI available as an optional module
Final verdict
Kynto and We Recruit don't address exactly the same need. We Recruit is a modular, French ATS built for teams that want a customizable, human-led collaborative process, published starting prices, and AI available as an optional feature on higher-tier plans. Kynto is built for small teams, founders, and SMBs of 50 to 200 employees who want to replace their traditional ATS with AI that directly executes sourcing, outreach, scoring, and all interview logistics, rather than simply organizing them differently. The final decision is always yours. Early Kynto users also report a faster time-to-hire, since the most time-consuming hiring tasks are automated rather than simply organized.
FAQ
Sources & methodology
Information about We Recruit verified on its official website and product pages: werecruit.com, Features, Pricing, Career site, Collaborative recruitment. Information about Kynto comes from the product and the site's feature pages.
Comparison maintained by the Kynto team. Verified by Alex Bonjean, August 27, 2026.