Compare/Head to head

Avature vs Yello

Same facts, side by side: starting price, free tier, MCP, API and what each one is actually built for.

Starting price

Avature

Sales-quoted

Highly configurable enterprise talent CRM for campus, alumni and very large hiring programmes. Quote-based.

Where Avature fits

  • Global talent teams running campus and alumni programmes
  • Enterprises with an implementation team
  • Recruitment marketing at large headcount
  • Buyers who have outgrown a mid-market CRM

Yello

Contact for pricing

Campus and early-talent CRM for events, sourcing, and interview scheduling. Pricing is sales-quoted.

Where Yello fits

  • Enterprise campus recruiting programs
  • Early-talent teams that live on career fairs and events
  • Companies that need event-to-interview scheduling next to the ATS
  • TA orgs already on Lever, Workday, iCIMS, or LinkedIn Recruiter

At a glance

DetailAvatureYello
Starting priceSales-quotedContact for pricing
Free tier–No–No
MCP server–No–No
Public API✓Yes–No
Listed underCRM, Recruitment marketingRecruitment marketing, Scheduling
Capterra4.6 from 69 reviews3.8 from 18 reviews

Where they pull apart

Avature

Stands out: You shape the data model to the organisation rather than fitting into a fixed pipeline.

Watch out: It needs a team to configure and maintain, so it is not a quick deployment.

Not the right fit for

  • Small businesses
  • Teams that need to go live quickly without consultants

Yello

Stands out: It is purpose-built for campus: event capture, school planning, on-the-spot scheduling, and a campus AI agent for admin work, which general-purpose Workday recruiting still does not replace for university desks.

Watch out: This is a quote-only early-talent platform, not a general ATS. If you do not run a campus or event program, you will pay for a workflow your recruiters will not open. The AI agent is a product pillar on the vendor site; it is not a self-serve add-on with a public price.

Not the right fit for

  • Teams with no campus or event hiring
  • SMBs that need a self-serve scheduler
  • Buyers who need a public seat price

Pros and cons

Avature

  • Built for campus and alumni at scale
  • Configurable to your own data model
  • Public API
  • No published price
  • Needs an implementation team
  • No MCP

Yello

  • Purpose-built campus planning, events, and scheduling
  • LinkedIn Recruiter CRM Connect and Lever integrations
  • AI agent aimed at event and scheduling admin, not a generic chatbot
  • Sales-quoted, no public seat price
  • Wrong tool if you do not run campus or events
  • Not an ATS of record

What each one costs

Avature

Sales-quoted

Enterprise. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 4 Nov 2026

Yello

Contact for pricing

Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.

Checked 4 Nov 2026

Common questions

Can you try Avature or Yello for free?
Neither carries a free tier on our listing.

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Editorial listings, never paid rankings. Prices checked 4 Nov 2026. Confirm current terms on the vendor site. Spot an error?