Humanly vs Nova Recruiter (2026)

Humanly

by Humanly

Nova Recruiter

by Nova Talent

Pros

• ✓Built specifically for hourly and frontline high-volume hiring, a segment general-purpose applicant tracking systems handle less natively, with dedicated industry pages across ten verticals including retail, hospitality, manufacturing and transportation.
• ✓Autonomous multi-channel candidate engagement across chat, SMS, voice and video, where the AI Recruiter and AI Interviewer run the full engagement and screening workflow without recruiter involvement at each step.
• ✓ATS integrations named openly on the vendor's own homepage, covering Workday, SAP, Dayforce, UKG, Oracle, iCIMS, Greenhouse, Avature and Employ Inc, so the platform can layer onto an existing hiring stack.

Limitations

• ⚠Quote-only pricing with no published rate and no self-serve tier, so procurement teams that require upfront cost comparison cannot evaluate Humanly without entering a sales cycle.
• ⚠Humanly publishes no security page or trust portal, and the SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS certifications named in its terms belong to Microsoft Azure as hosting provider rather than to Humanly, so its own attestation level cannot be confirmed from public sources.
• ⚠Humanly's terms state the service is not intended for use with protected health information under HIPAA or with financial account numbers, which sits awkwardly against its healthcare and finance industry pages and matters for regulated buyers.

Pros

• ✓Nova Recruiter publishes its own MCP server, so searches, shortlists, and outreach campaigns run directly from Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Cursor without opening the platform interface.
• ✓Integrates with 60+ ATS platforms bidirectionally, surfacing candidates already in the pipeline during a search and pushing new ones across automatically on a positive reply.
• ✓A dedicated privacy policy section rules out model training on customer, candidate, and message data, and Nova's contracts with its AI sub-processors require zero-retention, no-training terms.

Limitations

• ⚠No third-party security certifications of its own: the ISO 27001 and SOC 2 cited in the privacy policy belong to hosting provider Amazon Web Services, and Nova's own ISO 27001 is still in progress.
• ⚠Credit-based pricing meters contacts rather than searches: one credit equals one candidate contacted or exported, so the EUR 49 Starter tier covers 50 candidates a month before overage at EUR 1 per extra credit.
• ⚠Prices exclusively in euros with no USD option and lists both paid tiers exclusive of VAT, and data residency is EU-only, which adds friction for North American buyers.