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SquarePeg vs Lever Talent Fit: deeper, evidence-backed scoring inside Lever

Lever's Talent Fit gives applicants match badges and a score weighted across skills, experience, education and certifications. SquarePeg works inside Lever and goes further: it ranks every applicant, past candidate and sourced profile on criteria you write in your own words, explains every one with resume evidence, adds company data the resume leaves out, runs eligibility rules before anything is scored, and checks every candidate for authenticity.

SquarePeg vs Lever at a glance

Lever is a combined ATS and CRM for mid-market companies, owned by Employ Inc., which also owns JazzHR and Jobvite. Its AI Talent Fit shows match badges and insights and, since spring 2026, supports custom weighted scoring across skills, experience, education and certifications. Lever's Fraud Signals check email, phone, bot behavior and work-history consistency, and AI Screening by VONQ adds conversational screening.

SquarePeg
Lever
Screening
Scores every applicant against your criteria
✓
✓
A 0–100 score with a subscore for each criterion
✓
–
Shows the resume evidence behind each score
✓
–
Scores on company data the resume leaves out (headcount, funding, public or private)
✓
Unknown
Authenticity
Flags fake or misrepresented candidates
✓
✓
Beyond inbound
Rediscovers past applicants
✓
Unknown
Outbound sourcing
✓
Unknown
Plain-language agent or assistant
✓
Unknown
Candidate CRM
✕
✓
AI interviews or screening calls
✕
✓

Based on each company's public website and announcements, checked October 2026. Unknown means we couldn't find it described there.

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How SquarePeg and Lever compare in detail

Lever's AI now covers scoring and fraud. SquarePeg works inside Lever and goes deeper on the evidence and on finding more candidates.

Screening

SquarePeg

Every score shows its evidence. SquarePeg scores applicants as they apply, plus past candidates and sourced profiles, against criteria you write in plain language or generate from the job description, each marked Required, Preferred or Bonus. Every criterion gets a 0–100 subscore with a written explanation and the resume lines it's based on, so you review the best people first and can explain every ranking. Eligibility rules (location or radius, time zone, screening answers, a previous rejection reason or the application source) run first, so ineligible applicants are never scored or charged.

Lever

Talent Fit shows match badges and insights, and since spring 2026 lets you weight four categories: skills, experience, education and certifications. SquarePeg scores against criteria you write yourself, like "has sold into hospital systems" or "worked at a Series B startup", and checks the company data behind them.

Fits your stack

SquarePeg

SquarePeg connects to Lever, Greenhouse, Ashby, Workable, iCIMS, Recruitee and other ATSs and syncs your jobs and applicants. SquarePeg makes rejections and stage changes in your ATS just as if you had made them there, so your ATS emails and automations still run, and the Chrome extension opens it right next to the job or candidate you're viewing. No migration and no new system for your team to learn.

Lever

Lever is the ATS, so Talent Fit works natively. Lever's parent, Employ Inc., also owns JazzHR and Jobvite.

Authenticity

SquarePeg

Every candidate gets an authenticity confidence rating (High, Mixed, Limited, Low or Unknown), kept separate from their score. It's built from LinkedIn, phone, email and resume signals, and it also flags a phone, email or resume shared with a differently named applicant. It's included in the credit that scores the candidate. Signals inform your review; nothing is rejected automatically.

Lever

Lever's Fraud Signals label candidates verified, suspicious or flagged using email, phone, bot behavior and work-history consistency. Employ also announced an identity verification partnership with ID.me in July 2026.

Beyond inbound

SquarePeg

Rediscovery searches past applicants in your ATS for people who fit a new opening and scores them on the same criteria as today's applicants. Outbound sourcing finds new candidates outside your ATS on the same scale, and you reveal an email only for the people you want to contact. Every resume gets company context such as industry, headcount, funding and public or private status. And you can find, compare and fine-tune just by asking: the SquarePeg agent finds past candidates who fit a new role, compares your top applicants, explains any score, and can review and update a job's criteria and eligibility rules, in the web app or inside your ATS.

Lever

Lever includes a CRM for nurturing candidates. AI Screening by VONQ runs conversational screening at intake, and Lever's Interview Companion supports interviews.

Pricing

SquarePeg

Credits work across every feature, there are no seat fees and no platform fee, and your whole team can log in. Scoring an applicant or a rediscovered candidate uses 1 credit; sourcing a candidate uses 1 and revealing their email 2. Rediscovery also has a one-time fee to index your ATS, charged at cost. Rescoring is always free, the agent is free, applicants who fail your eligibility rules cost nothing, and new accounts start with 2,000 free credits, no credit card required. See the pricing page for current rates.

Lever

On Lever's legacy packaging, Talent Fit comes with the AI Screening Companion add-on. Lever doesn't publish prices.

When to choose which

Choose SquarePeg if
•You want to score on criteria in your own words, not four fixed categories
•You want a subscore and the resume evidence behind every criterion
•You want company data and eligibility rules in the score
•You want past applicants and sourced candidates on the same scale
When Talent Fit alone is enough
•Match badges and category weights are enough for your volume
•You want conversational screening at intake through Lever's VONQ partnership
38%
less recruiting workload at JupiterOne

"I know how you're scoring, why you're scoring it a certain way, and I can actually see it. That has been a really big game changer."

Kat Walenty, Director, Human Resources, JupiterOne · Uses Workable
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Frequently asked questions

Does SquarePeg work inside Lever?

Yes. SquarePeg syncs your Lever jobs and applicants and makes rejections and stage changes in Lever exactly as if you had made them there. The Chrome extension opens SquarePeg beside the Lever job or candidate you're viewing.

Isn't Talent Fit the same thing?

Both score applicants against what you're looking for. SquarePeg shows a written explanation and the resume lines behind each criterion's subscore, runs eligibility rules before scoring, and also scores past applicants and sourced candidates on the same scale.

Can I try SquarePeg before connecting my ATS?

Yes. The demo on our homepage lets you score up to three of your own resumes or LinkedIn profiles for free, or explore sample jobs that are already scored, without connecting an ATS. When you connect your ATS, you start with 2,000 free credits and no credit card.

How is SquarePeg priced?

Credits work across every feature, there are no seat fees and no platform fee, and your whole team can log in. Scoring an applicant or a rediscovered candidate uses 1 credit; sourcing a candidate uses 1 and revealing their email 2. Rediscovery also has a one-time fee to index your ATS, charged at cost. Rescoring is always free, the agent is free, applicants who fail your eligibility rules cost nothing, and new accounts start with 2,000 free credits, no credit card required. See the pricing page for current rates.

Last checked October 2026. Lever details come from Lever's public website and announcements; SquarePeg details describe the product as it works today.

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