How to Switch from Lever to CurriculoATS

Leaving Lever is straightforward once you’ve decided. The migration itself is 15 minutes. The bigger question is why teams outgrow Lever in the first place.

Lever markets itself as a recruiting CRM plus ATS combo. The pitch is “one platform for sourcing and hiring.” The reality, once you’re inside, looks different.

• Sales-gated pricing. No public rates. Quotes vary wildly by customer.
• ~$6,000+/yr base with 40 to 60% add-on inflation on top
• LinkedIn Recruiter dependency: Lever’s sourcing is incomplete without LinkedIn Recruiter, which costs $8,000 to $10,000 per seat per year
• No native mobile app (iOS or Android)
• Custom reporting locked behind Enterprise tier
• No native onboarding module. Lifecycle ends at offer acceptance.
• Owned by Employ Inc., which also owns JazzHR and Jobvite. A private-equity HR tech rollup.
• API has legacy deprecations requiring backward compatibility workflows

Step 1: Export your data from Lever

Lever supports data export through the admin interface:

1. Log into Lever as an admin
2. Settings → Integrations → API, or use the built-in CSV export under Reports
3. Export candidates with: name, email, resume file, posting applied to, stage, source, owner, notes
4. Export your active postings separately

Step 2: Sign up for CurriculoATS

Visit curriculo.me/ats/pricing. Start with the free plan (no credit card) or Pro at $100/month flat ($50/month during early bird). Setup is 15 minutes. No implementation manager, no onboarding call, no multi-week rollout.

Invite your entire recruiting team. CurriculoATS has unlimited team members on every plan, including the free plan. If you had 5 recruiters on Lever at roughly $1,200/seat/year plus LinkedIn Recruiter, that’s $6,000 to $50,000 per year in seat fees alone. On Curriculo, adding your whole team costs $0 extra.

Step 3: Import the candidate CSV

Upload your Lever CSV to CurriculoATS. The import:

• Parses candidates, resumes, and pipeline stages
• Runs outcome-based AI scoring against your active jobs
• Writes a full reasoning paragraph for every 0-100 score
• Files candidates into the right stages of your Curriculo pipelines

Every candidate who was in Lever will have an AI-generated fit score with written reasoning, something Lever doesn’t provide at any tier.

Step 4: Rebuild your jobs

Post your active roles on Curriculo. Each job takes ~90 seconds. Paste the description, and Curriculo’s AI auto-generates a skills rubric for outcome-based scoring. Candidates from Lever get re-scored automatically.

Curriculo also gives you a branded careers portal, so you can redirect job board traffic from Lever’s hosted pages to your new Curriculo pages.

Step 5: Replace your sourcing workflow

If you were using Lever plus LinkedIn Recruiter for sourcing, here’s what changes. CurriculoATS doesn’t require LinkedIn Recruiter integration. Candidates apply via email. They send their resume to a unique inbox address for the job, the AI parses and scores it, and it lands in your Gmail-style inbox already ranked.

Step 6: Cancel Lever

Once your team is fully on Curriculo, cancel your Lever subscription. Check your cancellation terms. Lever typically requires advance notice for non-renewal. Also cancel LinkedIn Recruiter if it was tied to Lever’s sourcing workflow and you’re not using it independently.

What you gain

• Transparent pricing: $100/month flat (early bird $50), published on the website
• Outcome-based AI with written reasoning, something Lever doesn’t offer
• Email-based apply, no sourcing dependency on LinkedIn
• Mobile-responsive web interface (Lever has no native mobile app)
• Unlimited team members on every plan
• Custom reporting included, not locked behind Enterprise
• Independent, founder-led product, not owned by a PE rollup
• Cancel anytime, no contracts, prorated billing

Typical savings

A 25-person startup on Lever plus LinkedIn Recruiter typically pays $15,000 to $25,000 per year combined. Moving to Curriculo Pro drops that to $1,200/year ($600/year early bird). Year 1 savings alone run $13,800 to $23,800.

Start the migration: CurriculoATS vs Lever comparison or the free plan.