Sprad

Overview

Sprad is a web-based hiring and talent-management workspace best suited to recruiting teams that want candidate workflows and employee growth tools to share a talent record. Its appeal is that continuity; its main trade-off is that the free recruiting core does not include web-wide sourcing, and AI actions consume credits.

Atlas covers search and candidate assessment, while Growth supports reviews and career development. Sprad also connects with a broad set of ATS and HR systems, making it a stronger fit for organizations that want these workflows alongside existing systems than for buyers seeking only a lightweight hiring tool.

Key features

• Shared Talent Base: Living profiles can be kept current by the people they describe, and Sprad's modules can read and enrich them. This gives teams a common profile foundation across hiring and employee development, though organizations wanting only pipeline tracking may not need that breadth.
• Atlas hiring: Atlas searches profiles, drafts outreach, screens applicants, runs voice interviews and ranks candidates against role criteria. AI prepares and suggests, but people make decisions; Sprad says it does not automate rejections. That division may suit teams seeking assistance without delegating hiring decisions.
• Growth tools: Performance reviews, 360° feedback, 1:1s, career paths, skills, surveys and OKR tracking extend the product beyond recruiting. They are useful to teams connecting hiring data with employee development, but add little for a buyer focused solely on sourcing.
• Messaging and integrations: Referrals and screening can use WhatsApp, SMS and phone calls without requiring candidates to have a login, app or email address. Sprad lists integrations including Greenhouse, Workday, Personio, SAP SuccessFactors, Lever, Ashby and others, and says data flows both ways. This may help teams work with existing systems and reach candidates through familiar channels.
• Evidence and privacy controls: Ratings link to supporting evidence, and people can release profile data item by item and withdraw access. Sprad says data is encrypted in transit and at rest on independently certified infrastructure hosted in the EU, and designed for GDPR and EU AI Act requirements. It also says candidate data is not used to train AI models and that it does not scrape or sell people's data.

Pricing

Sprad is freemium, with free options and paid offerings starting at €0.10 per screening. Its pricing spans individual AI actions, recruiting workflows and employee talent management, so the right cost depends on which parts a team uses.

• ATS Core: €0 forever includes a career site, Google for Jobs, pipeline and candidate management, team, roles and analytics, plus an MCP / AI connection. Unlimited roles, pipeline, pool and search make it a useful starting point for core recruiting, but web-wide sourcing requires membership and AI actions use credits.
• Living Talent Pool: Free, with living candidate profiles and talent-pool management. It suits teams building a maintained pool without paying for sourcing automation.
• CV & skills screening: €0.10/screening, billed per screening, for AI application screening against role criteria and scored results. Per-use pricing fits variable volumes better than a fixed plan, but each screening adds cost.
• AI voice interview: €6/interview. This adds voice interviews without a stated subscription commitment, but costs rise with interview volume.
• Referral: from €99/mo for employee referral workflows. The price is a starting point; choose it if referrals are a priority rather than paying for the larger sourcing option.
• Active Sourcing: from €300/mo for automated candidate sourcing. It addresses the web-wide sourcing gap in the free core, at a higher fixed starting price.
• Sprad HR platform + Atlas AI Agent: +€5/employee for talent management and Atlas AI Agent. This is aimed at employee growth use as well as hiring, with cost scaling by employee count.
• Atlas Hiring — Free forever: 200 credits every month and 300 in the first month, with no card or term. It includes recruiting CRM and talent pool, unlimited roles and pipeline, plain-language search in its own base, candidate portal and whole-team access. Credit limits matter for teams using AI actions heavily.
• Referrals Start, Core and Enterprise: custom pricing. Start covers up to 300 employees, unlimited referrals, 10+ ATS integrations and email, Teams, WhatsApp, SMS and Slack. Core raises the employee ceiling to 1,000 and adds a dedicated account manager, three onboarding workshops and major ATS integrations. Enterprise includes unlimited employees and referrals, additional entities, advanced role and permission management, and enterprise onboarding.
• Atlas Base Max: custom pricing, with 65,000 credits on day one and monthly or quarterly credit packages at 30% off every credit. It also includes recruiter roles scoped per project, Talent Base Live for 500 profiles, a named contact and an onboarding workshop.

Sprad says expert coaching is included and customers can be live in under three hours; higher plans include named contacts or onboarding workshops. The higher tiers are the more suitable route for teams needing structured onboarding or larger referral programs.

Platforms

Sprad runs on the web. Its listed integrations with ATS and HR platforms make it relevant to teams that need recruiting and talent tools to exchange data with existing systems.

Who it's for

Sprad suits recruiting teams, recruitment agencies, and companies using employee referrals or employee growth tools. It is particularly compelling when an organization wants a maintained Talent Base shared between hiring and employee development. A team needing only free pipeline management can start with ATS Core, while a team dependent on external sourcing should budget for membership and credit-based AI use.

Pros and cons

• Pro: The free core provides unlimited roles, pipeline, pool and search, giving teams room to organize recruiting before paying for sourcing or AI actions.
• Pro: Hiring and employee growth share living talent profiles, useful for organizations that want profiles to remain current beyond recruitment.
• Pro: Human decision-making remains central; Sprad says AI does not automate rejections, and ratings are linked to supporting evidence.
• Pro: EU hosting, encryption and item-by-item profile access controls address privacy and governance concerns.
• Con: Web-wide sourcing is not part of the free core, so teams sourcing externally face a membership cost.
• Con: AI actions use credits, while screening and voice interviews carry per-action charges; frequent use makes costs less predictable than the free pipeline.
• Con: The broad hiring-and-growth scope may be unnecessary for teams that want only applicant tracking.

Alternatives

• Metaview is another freemium option with web and desktop platforms; its Pro plan is $100 a month per user and includes 200 sourced profiles monthly, while Max is $300 a month per user.
• Avery may suit buyers focused on searching vetted European profiles: its free web plan covers search across 125M+ profiles, ranked matches with explanations and market views, but no outreach or contact details.
• CandiSift is a free alternative with API, self-hosted and web options; its open-source self-hosted plan has no software fee stated, though LLM processing can incur per-token costs.
• HireMIQ offers a free plan with five job-description analyses a month, eight AI modules, Boolean search, candidate scoring, outreach templates and assessments; choose it for that bounded AI recruiting toolkit.
• Pin has a free plan with five contact lookup credits a week, one job position, one AI Agent and email-only sequences; it suits buyers whose needs fit those limits.
• Hirin is another option for teams comparing hiring platforms.
• Talview offers unit-based tailored pricing, typically with a minimum commitment of approximately 150 to 200 candidates; it may fit buyers seeking a feature bundle priced around candidate volume.
• SoWhat AI Recruiting Assistant uses custom pricing.
• Browse AI Recruiting Assistants, Employee Referral Software or Candidate Sourcing Software for more options by category.

Verdict

Choose Sprad if you want recruiting and employee development built around shared, maintainable talent profiles, with a free core for pipeline work and human oversight of AI-assisted decisions. Look elsewhere if you need web-wide sourcing without a paid membership, predictable unlimited AI use, or a narrowly focused ATS without growth tooling.