Comparison

Vayora vs JobAdder

The SEEK-owned ATS and CRM from Sydney, sized by seat band, with timesheets built in and the money handled by partners.

JobAdder is a real product with real customers, so this is structural rather than a hatchet job: the SEEK-owned ATS and CRM from Sydney, sized by seat band, with timesheets built in and the money handled by partners. The table is checked against JobAdder’s own pages and dated.

At a glance

VayoraJobAdder
Built aroundYour own database, with one agent in every workflowThe SEEK-owned ATS and CRM from Sydney, sized by seat band, with timesheets built in and the money handled by partners.
CompanyLondon, UK; founded 2026Sydney, Australia; UK company JobAdder Europe Limited registered in London; founded 2007; private; wholly owned by SEEK Limited
Built forSmall and mid-sized UK agencies, perm and contractLite for 1 to 5 users ('new and boutique agencies'), Essential for 6 to 20, Pro for 21 and more, Business for in-house teams; permanent and temporary
PricingPublished: Core £65, Pro £129 a seat a month, plus VAT; annual £55 and £109Quoted: Not published: 'Request pricing to get started'; no free trial
Getting liveAn import you run; no fee; 30-day trial, no card'Typically standard onboarding requiring no/minimal data migration takes around 2-4 weeks', complex migrations up to ten weeks, with an implementation consultant and a data analyst assigned; fees not published
Contract pay and billNative: timesheets, self-bill, invoicing, margin and pay runs (limited-company contractors)Partly native: Timesheets are native; invoicing, payroll and UK PAYE and HMRC reporting go through partners (Timesheet Portal, TemPay, Astute Payroll, Invoxy, Xero); self-billing and margin reporting are not stated
AIKit, one agent through the whole desk, in the Pro price and not metered: reads calls, email and notes and keeps the records current; ranks your own book with the evidence per candidate; drafts outreach, chase-ups, replies, client updates, briefs and packs in your voice; sorts replies by intent; opens the day with a brief; watches for business development signals; runs enrichment, scorecards and reference checks; sets the fee from signed terms on placement; four autonomy lanes, logged, one tap to undoAdder Intelligence (Smart Summary, Smart Sync; launched December 2025 for Australia and New Zealand), AI and skill matching, applicant insights, candidate overviews, job ad generation, record upkeep prompts; included from the Essential tier, none on Lite; models on AWS Bedrock
UK and dataUK company, GBP, hosted in Ireland, never trains shared modelsUK entity since 2015 and a /gb/ site; UK and EMEA core data on AWS in Ireland; ISO 27001:2022; no GBP prices published; IR35 covered only by a 2021 webinar
IntegrationsAbout 24 named plus signed webhooks'100+ integrations, 200+ job boards'

JobAdder column checked 22 October 2026; sources below.

Where JobAdder is strong

  • A long-standing product with a wide marketplace: 100+ integrations and 200+ job boards.
  • Clear statements on security and data residency: ISO 27001, UK and EMEA data on AWS in Ireland, and a published line that a human always makes the final decision on AI.
  • Native timesheets, with collection, approval and reporting handled once a placement is made.

Where we are built differently

  • Pricing is a tailored proposal and there is no free trial. Ours is on the page, and the trial runs on your own data with no card.
  • Invoicing, payroll and self-billing go to partners such as Timesheet Portal. Our contract desk runs timesheet to self-bill to invoice to paid in one place.
  • AI arrives by tier as enhancements, with the newest launched first for Australia and New Zealand. Kit is the whole product's way of working, not an enhancement.

AI-native or bolted on

Where the AI sits

Adder Intelligence arrives by tier as enhancements on a classic ATS, summaries and prompts to update records, and launched first for Australia and New Zealand. Kit is the product's way of working, live for UK agencies now: records kept current from calls and email, the book ranked with the evidence, outreach and replies drafted in your voice, the day opened with a brief, the fee set from signed terms on placement.

When JobAdder is the right choice

If your agency runs across Australia, New Zealand and the UK on one system, or you depend on a specific marketplace partner. The integration breadth and the SEEK backing are genuine advantages for that shape of firm.

To see where JobAdder sits against everything else a UK agency is likely to shortlist, read our ranking of fourteen systems.

The cases where you should not pick us at all, whoever you are comparing, are on the comparisons hub.

What JobAdder users say they would change

From public reviews and JobAdder’s own stated scope, sourced below.

  • Capterra reviewers: a 'basic recruitment dashboard that could be enhanced' and multi-currency reporting that 'should be improved'.
  • The Lite tier has no GenAI, e-signatures, calendar sync, dashboards or API, and there is no free trial.
  • Invoicing, payroll and UK PAYE reporting are delivered through partners; Adder Intelligence launched without a stated UK availability.

Questions

Does JobAdder publish its pricing?
No: not published: 'Request pricing to get started'; no free trial. Vayora: every price on the page.
Does JobAdder run contract pay and bill?
Partly native: timesheets are native; invoicing, payroll and UK PAYE and HMRC reporting go through partners (Timesheet Portal, TemPay, Astute Payroll, Invoxy, Xero); self-billing and margin reporting are not stated. Vayora runs it natively, to the self-bill and the client invoice; the pay and bill glossary entry explains the terms.
How long does moving from JobAdder to Vayora take?
An import rather than a project on our side. On JobAdder's side, its own guidance: 'Typically standard onboarding requiring no/minimal data migration takes around 2-4 weeks', complex migrations up to ten weeks, with an implementation consultant and a data analyst assigned; fees not published.
30 DAYS OF PRO. NO CARD.

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