Pitch N Hire vs Rakuna

Pitch N Hire is a web-based applicant tracking and hiring platform for recruiters and talent teams. It brings ATS, HRMS, interviews, and sourcing together around a shared record, with candidate and job management, resume parsing, assessments, automation, talent pools, and a branded career site. Teams can distribute jobs to boards and use a Chrome extension to capture candidate profiles from public pages. Interview tools include self-service booking, calendar sync, panel scheduling, reminders, and structured or asynchronous AI video interviews. The Free Forever plan allows one user and five jobs per month, includes 10 credits, and requires no credit card. Startup costs ₹500 a month for up to five users and 10 jobs monthly; Pro Plan costs ₹1,000 a month for up to 10 users and 50 jobs monthly. Both paid plans list extra credits at ₹10 each and 18% tax. Pitch N Hire lists integrations with email, calendars, job boards, and payroll, along with a REST API and webhooks. Its security page says the SOC 2 Type II audit and ISO 27001 certification are in progress; GDPR and India DPDP controls are listed as in place.

Rakuna is recruiting software for employers and recruiting teams managing campus recruiting, hiring events, and candidate engagement. Its tools support in-person, virtual, and hybrid events, alongside campus features for student engagement, application workflows, and employer branding. The mobile app uses AI-based OCR to capture and parse paper resumes, and can collect candidate details and evaluations offline before syncing them when connectivity returns.

Interview Scheduling offers candidate self-scheduling and supports one-on-one, panel, phone, video, in-person, and back-to-back interviews. It connects to Google and Outlook calendars, with .ics import and export also available. The Recruiting CRM groups candidates for search and provides profiles, personalized email campaigns, and pipeline visibility. Text Recruiting supports bulk and individual SMS, saved templates, automated campaigns, and two-way conversations. Named ATS integrations include Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Greenhouse, iCIMS, and Lever; Rakuna also says it can connect to ATS products using secure API data exchange. Approved newly signed-up organizations can try Interview Scheduling for one week.