Head to head

Avionté vs Clockwork

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

Avionté

Sales-quoted

US staffing ATS, CRM, payroll and compliance in one back-office stack. Quote-based, and built for staffing operations rather than corporate hiring.

Where Avionté fits

  • US staffing firms
  • Desks that need tracking plus payroll
  • Compliance-heavy staffing operations
  • Teams leaving a front-office-only CRM

Clockwork

$149/user/mo

Executive search CRM for retained desks, at $149 per user/month.

Where Clockwork fits

  • Retained executive search firms
  • Desks that run on relationships rather than requisition volume
  • Teams that want a search CRM with a published seat price
  • Firms working in Google Workspace or Microsoft 365

At a glance

DetailAviontéClockwork
Starting priceSales-quoted$149/user/mo
Free tier–No–No
MCP server–No✓Yes
Public API✓Yes–No
Listed underATS, Payroll, CRMCRM
Capterra3.9 from 168 reviews4.4 from 51 reviews

Where they pull apart

Avionté

Stands out: Payroll and compliance sit next to the staffing ATS rather than as afterthoughts.

Watch out: No published price, and it is the wrong shape for a corporate talent team.

Not the right fit for

  • Corporate in-house talent teams
  • Small teams that want self-serve pricing

Clockwork

Stands out: A relationship CRM built for search firms rather than a high-volume tracker.

Watch out: Wrong shape for volume hiring, and it is not an ATS.

Not the right fit for

  • In-house high-volume talent teams
  • Agencies running hourly hiring

Pros and cons

Avionté

  • Tracking, CRM, payroll and compliance in one stack
  • Public API
  • Shaped for US staffing operations
  • No published price
  • No MCP
  • Wrong tool for corporate hiring

Clockwork

  • Published per-user price
  • Built for retained search specifically
  • Connects to the executive-search toolchain
  • Wrong tool for high-volume hiring
  • Not an ATS

What each one costs

Avionté

Sales-quoted

Quote-based. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 17 Sep 2026

Clockwork

$149/user/mo

One plan with every feature: $149 per user per month when paid annually. Monthly billing is offered at a higher rate. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 20 Sep 2026

Common questions

Can you try Avionté or Clockwork for free?
Neither carries a free tier on our listing.
Does Avionté or Clockwork have an MCP server?
Clockwork ships a first party MCP server, so an AI assistant can work the product directly.

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Editorial listings, never paid rankings. Prices checked 17 Sep 2026. Confirm current terms on the vendor site. Spot an error?