<p>SmartRecruiters is a global talent acquisition and hiring platform founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is built mainly for enterprise hiring teams, in-house recruiters and organisations that need to manage attraction, selection, hiring and onboarding across different locations, departments and hiring models.</p><p>The platform is centred around SmartOS, its core hiring platform. It brings together applicant tracking, candidate relationship management, job distribution, onboarding, candidate messaging, offer management, analytics and integrations in one recruitment workspace.</p><p>For 2026, SmartRecruiters places stronger focus on AI-powered hiring. Its current product data highlights Winston Intelligence, AI-powered candidate screening, AI talent matching, AI hiring agent, conversational AI chat, dynamic scheduling and analytics designed to help hiring teams improve efficiency across high-volume and enterprise recruitment.</p><p>The Essential package includes applicant tracking, CRM, onboarding, SMS messaging, job distribution and dynamic scheduling. Higher packages add more advanced AI and enterprise capabilities, including AI-powered Hiring Agent, AI Talent Matching Engine and access to additional features.</p><p>Before choosing SmartRecruiters, buyers should look closely at the total annual cost, package limits, AI feature access, API availability, implementation effort and whether the platform is more than their team needs. Smaller teams, staffing agencies or organisations needing more flexible workflows, broader customisation, multilingual support and hands-on onboarding may want to compare SmartRecruiters with other recruitment software options before making a final decision.</p>