Compare/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.

Starting price

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

Detail	Avionté	Clockwork
Starting price	Sales-quoted	$149/user/mo
Free tier	–No	–No
MCP server	–No	✓Yes
Public API	✓Yes	–No
Listed under	ATS, Payroll, CRM	CRM
Capterra	3.9 from 168 reviews	4.4 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 4 Nov 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 4 Nov 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 4 Nov 2026. Confirm current terms on the vendor site. Spot an error?