Cooper
AI-native ATS from Berlin with three agents for sourcing, screening and AI interviews, built for lean teams hiring at volume.
Quote-based pricing Free trial API
Bottom line
Cooper is an ATS from Berlin's CooperHire GmbH that bundles three AI agents: Coo for sourcing, Scout for screening and Robin for AI interviews. Platform pricing is quote-based with a free trial, while Coo sourcing can be bought on a 5% to 10% success fee. It fits SMBs and scaleups hiring at volume that want EU data hosting.
Stands out for: Each hiring step has its own named agent, and Scout's Ideal, Good, Needs review and Flagged groups make screening output easy to act on. Coo searches 900M+ profiles and can be used without the Cooper ATS. All data stays on European servers and is not used to train AI models.
Watch out for: No platform price is published, so budgeting requires a sales call. Security and compliance messaging is written for European hiring under GDPR, and the customer quotes on the site come from German companies, so US teams should confirm fit. Coo's success fee of 5% to 10% of salary adds up on high-volume hiring.
Overview
Cooper is built by CooperHire GmbH, a Berlin company whose founders previously worked at the developer hiring platform Honeypot. It began as a simple ATS for growing businesses and now layers AI agents on top of that ATS foundation.
Coo handles sourcing in two modes. Active Search matches roles against Cooper's network of people who are job hunting, and Passive Search looks across 900M+ public professional profiles. Coo can hand candidates to Cooper or to another ATS.
Scout reviews every application against must-have criteria and screen-out rules, then groups candidates as Ideal, Good, Needs review or Flagged with strengths, risks and suggested next steps. Robin runs structured interviews and clarification calls around the clock and stores recordings, transcripts and summaries on the candidate profile.
The ATS covers pipelines, candidate profiles, scheduling, job distribution and hiring team feedback. Cooper also documents a public API with job listing, job detail and candidate sync endpoints, plus an embeddable careers widget for WordPress and React sites.
Who it's for
Best for
- SMBs and scaleups introducing their first ATS
- High-volume and frontline hiring teams
- European employers that need EU data storage
Not ideal for
- Buyers who need a published price before a demo
- Enterprises wanting a large integration marketplace
- Teams that only need a sourcing database
Key features
Coo sourcing agent. Coo matches roles against Cooper's own network of active job seekers and searches 900M+ public profiles for passive candidates. It can run inside Cooper or feed another ATS.
Scout AI screening. Scout applies must-have rules and screen-outs such as licenses, work authorization, location and shift availability. It sorts applicants into Ideal, Good, Needs review and Flagged groups with fit reasoning.
Robin AI interviewer. Robin runs structured first-round interviews and follow-up clarification calls at any hour. Each conversation is saved with a recording, transcript and per-answer summary.
Built-in ATS. Pipelines, candidate profiles, scheduling, job distribution and team feedback sit in one workspace. Teams that already have an ATS can use the three agents on their own.
AI features
| What the AI does | Plan |
|---|---|
| Coo sources active candidates from Cooper's network and passive candidates across 900M+ profiles | |
| Scout screens and ranks applicants into Ideal, Good, Needs review and Flagged groups | |
| Robin runs structured AI interviews with recordings, transcripts and per-answer summaries |
Only features named in the vendor's own documentation. Anything sold separately is marked as an add-on.
Pricing
Cooper does not publish a price for its ATS platform. The quote is based on team size and hiring volume, and a free trial is offered with no credit card required. The Coo sourcing agent is priced separately: Active Search charges a success fee of 5% to 10% of annual base salary per hire, with a full refund if the hire leaves within 90 days, and Passive Search is sold as monthly seat-based access with 100 free profiles to start. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.
Checked 28 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
Is Cooper expensive?
Cooper does not publish a price. It is one of 97 quote-based tools among the 190 ATS tools in our directory. 21 have a free tier, and those with a public price typically start around $83 a month.
- 97 quote-based
- 21 free tier
- 76 public price
Worked out automatically from every ATS listing, so it updates as the directory changes.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Three named AI agents cover sourcing, screening and interviews
- Free trial with no credit card
- EU data storage and no AI training on customer data
Cons
- No published platform pricing
- Few named third-party integrations
- Product and customer base centered on Europe
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How Cooper compares
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| Tool | Free tier | From | MCP | API | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper (this tool) | – | Quote-based | – | ✓ | |
| | – | $15/user/mo | ✓ | ✓ | Compare |
| | – | $299/mo | ✓ | ✓ | Compare |
| | – | Quote-based | ✓ | ✓ | Compare |
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Teamtailor is a European ATS centered on career sites and employer branding, while Cooper leans on AI agents for sourcing, screening and interviews.
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