What are Kepler and JobAdder?
Kepler is an AI-first recruitment CRM sold on one plan. Its centre is AI Chat, on every page: you ask a question in plain English, and it searches your candidates, CVs, notes, emails and call transcripts, then creates or updates records once you approve.
Around AI Chat sit the parts of a working desk:
- pipelines, jobs, tasks, and email and calendar sync
- one inbox for email and WhatsApp messages
- a notetaker for Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet calls
- CV parsing and branded CV formatting
- AI email drafting, campaigns and automations
- a client portal, consent records and reporting from real placements
- a careers site on your own domain
Kepler also has contact enrichment, and single sign-on is available on the Enterprise plan.
JobAdder is an applicant tracking system and recruitment CRM for agencies and in-house teams, weighted to Australia and New Zealand with a UK business. Its published features lean towards distribution: posting to job boards, an integration marketplace, several portals, SEEK and LinkedIn connectors, and AI under the name Adder Intelligence.
What is the main difference between Kepler and JobAdder?
The main difference is how you work. In Kepler you ask AI Chat: “which candidates mentioned relocating to Singapore on a call?” It reads every CV, note, email and call transcript, returns the people with the evidence, and saves them as a list for you.
Kepler is one product with nothing to assemble. One plan at USD 99 per user per month billed annually, every feature switched on, and AI Chat included. Nobody has to tag skills first for the search to work.
JobAdder’s model is a platform built for getting jobs out and connecting other tools. It posts an ad to many boards in one click, connects to a marketplace of apps, and sells six add-ons beside its plans. Its AI is four features, each working on the record or screen in front of you.
How does JobAdder’s AI compare with Kepler’s?
Kepler’s AI is AI Chat, built into every page. It searches the whole workspace, answers questions about your database and drafts emails. Every result is something you can act on, and nothing is written until a person approves it.
JobAdder publishes four Adder Intelligence features:
- Smart Summary writes a candidate overview and a relevancy rating from the resume, notes and job description
- Smart Sync spots missing or inconsistent information in notes and activities and suggests record updates
- Smart Skills reads a resume and suggests skills to tag
- Smart Job Descriptions writes job ad copy from a few points
Adder Intelligence is not on Recruiter Lite, JobAdder’s cheapest plan. It starts at Recruiter Essential.
Search
Kepler searches the text as written, by meaning and keyword together, across CVs, notes, emails and call transcripts. A phrase said on a recorded call is as easy to find as a job title on a CV.
JobAdder’s recruitment CRM page lists predictive search, Boolean resume keyword search, saved searches and skill tags. Its platform updates add bulk skill coding, so teams can tag many candidates at once and then search the tags.
Matching
Kepler scores every candidate from 0 to 100 against the job. The score is based on criteria taken from the job description, which you can edit. Each criterion shows the line from the CV, call or email behind it, so a consultant can check it and explain it to a client.
JobAdder publishes AI and skill matching, with Smart Summary giving a relevancy rating on every applicant. It does not publish how the rating is worked out.
Calls and record updates
Kepler’s notetaker joins Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet calls and files the summary, next steps and transcript on the right record. Kepler then turns emails, calls and messages into proposed updates, each with the message it came from, for a person to accept or reject.
JobAdder does not have its own meeting notetaker. Call notes and summaries come through marketplace partners. Smart Sync suggests updates from notes and activities, but it does not read resumes or call transcripts yet.
How do Kepler and JobAdder compare feature by feature?
| Area | Kepler | JobAdder |
|---|---|---|
| How you work | Ask AI Chat in plain English. It finds people and updates records once you approve. | Four AI features on specific screens, not on Recruiter Lite |
| Search | Ask in plain English and AI Chat searches your CVs, notes, emails and call transcripts. | Boolean resume keyword search, saved searches and skill tags |
| Matching | Every candidate gets a score from 0 to 100 against the job. | Relevancy rating from Smart Summary |
| Meeting notes | A notetaker joins Teams, Zoom and Google Meet calls and files the summary and transcript on the record. | No notetaker of its own. Call notes through marketplace partners. |
| AI drafts emails in every composer and summarises a thread in one click. | One-click messaging by email, SMS or WhatsApp | |
| Campaigns | Multi-step email campaigns that send for you, with reminders when it is time to call or reach out on LinkedIn, tracked through to placements. | Does not have email campaign sequences yet |
| Client portal | Clients rate, comment on and request interviews with the candidates you share for a job. | Client, Candidate and Agency portals, with the Hiring Manager Portal as a paid add-on |
| Jobs | A careers site on your own domain that search engines can index. | Ads posted to job boards, plus a hosted Careerspage, widget or XML feed |
| Placements | Records the fee, invoice and payment status, and connects to a pay-and-bill system through the API. | Exports placement data to payroll and billing partners |
| Connections | A public API, webhooks and an MCP server, all included. | Marketplace of integrations, with API + sandbox as a paid add-on |
| Price | USD 99 per user per month billed annually, with everything included | Not published. Tailored proposal after a demo. |
| Migration | Done for you, free on every plan, in days | Managed by JobAdder’s team, cost not published |
How much does JobAdder cost compared with Kepler?
Kepler is USD 99 per user per month billed annually (USD 1,188 per seat per year), or USD 129 monthly. That is one plan with every feature, unlimited records and free migration. AI Chat is included on every plan, monthly and annual, with no add-on or upgrade needed.
JobAdder publishes no price for any plan. The plan to compare is Recruiter Essential, the cheapest tier whose card lists Adder Intelligence (Smart Summaries, Smart Sync, Smart Job Descriptions, Smart Floats). The pricing page, read 13 Sep 2026, offers a tailored proposal after a demo.
Other lines on JobAdder’s pricing page:
- Recruiter Lite, the cheaper tier, is also unpriced and does not include Adder Intelligence, standard automations and analytics, or API access
- six paid add-ons: dedicated IP, API + sandbox, single sign-on, Broadbean, Smart Forms and the Hiring Manager Portal
- API + sandbox is only for contracted customers, and free only on Recruiter Pro
Which agencies is Kepler built for?
Kepler is built for an agency that wants a modern CRM with the AI included and nothing to assemble. It suits a desk whose real asset is years of CVs, notes, emails and call transcripts that nobody tagged consistently.
For that agency, Kepler:
- answers questions across the whole database and acts on the answer once you approve
- scores every candidate from 0 to 100 against the job, with the line behind each criterion
- files transcripts from Teams, Zoom and Google Meet calls on the right record
- runs outbound email campaigns that send for you and remind you when it is time to call or reach out on LinkedIn
- puts every role on a careers site under the agency’s own domain
It does this at one published price, USD 99 per user per month billed annually, with the migration done for you.
Can you migrate from JobAdder to Kepler?
Yes. Kepler runs the migration for you, free, on every plan, however large or messy the export. You send a JobAdder export plus any loose CVs and spreadsheets, and Kepler maps, cleans and checks the data.
Custom fields are rebuilt as real fields, and activity, stages and history come across. You review fifty of your own records before the full load, and the migration is done in days.
The CV parser behind it comes from RemakeCV, a CV tool built by the same team and used by 300+ recruitment agencies. Kepler also exports your whole workspace at any time, with no exit fee.
Frequently asked questions
Is JobAdder better than Kepler?
It depends on how you want to work. If you want a simple, easy-to-use CRM with the AI included, choose Kepler. You ask AI Chat in plain English and it searches your CVs, notes, emails and call transcripts, scores candidates against the job and proposes updates for you to approve, with nothing to tag first. It is one plan at a published USD 99 per user per month billed annually, with the migration done for you.
If you want a platform built around posting jobs to many boards and connecting a marketplace of add-on tools, JobAdder is built for that.
How much does JobAdder cost?
JobAdder publishes no price for any plan. Recruiter Essential, the cheapest tier with Adder Intelligence, is quoted as a tailored proposal after a demo (checked 13 Sep 2026). Six paid add-ons, including single sign-on and API + sandbox, sit outside every JobAdder plan. Kepler, for comparison, is USD 99 per user per month billed annually, or USD 129 monthly, with every feature and AI Chat included.
What AI does JobAdder have?
Kepler’s AI is AI Chat, across the whole workspace. It searches, drafts emails and proposes updates you approve. JobAdder publishes four Adder Intelligence features, not included on Recruiter Lite: Smart Summary for candidate overviews and relevancy ratings, Smart Sync for suggested record updates, Smart Skills for skill tags, and Smart Job Descriptions for ad copy. JobAdder’s AI does not read call transcripts yet.
Does JobAdder have a meeting notetaker?
Kepler’s notetaker joins Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet calls and files the summary, next steps and transcript on the right record, where the transcript becomes searchable. JobAdder does not have its own meeting notetaker. Call notes and summaries come through marketplace partners.
How do Kepler and JobAdder compare for an agency in Australia or New Zealand?
Kepler suits an Australian or New Zealand agency that wants to get more from its own database. It searches CVs, notes, emails and call transcripts in plain English and publishes roles on a careers site under the agency’s own domain, at USD 99 per user per month billed annually. JobAdder is weighted to Australia and New Zealand and publishes a SEEK Talent Search Connect integration for searching SEEK candidates from inside JobAdder.
How do Kepler and JobAdder handle sign-in and security?
Single sign-on is available on Kepler’s Enterprise plan, and MFA is available to every member, with an admin switch to require it. Kepler keeps field-level history with the source of every AI-suggested change, and stops two people editing one record from silently overwriting each other. JobAdder’s trust centre states that UK and EMEA core account data is stored on AWS servers in Ireland.
How long does it take to move from JobAdder to Kepler?
Kepler’s migration is done in days, free, on every plan. You send a JobAdder export plus any loose CVs and spreadsheets, review fifty of your own records, and then Kepler runs the full load with activity, stages and history included.
Sources
Every claim about another vendor on this page comes from that vendor's own public material. Where a vendor does not publish something — pricing is the usual one — this post says so rather than estimating.
- JobAdder — Pricing No figure in any currency for any plan, and a “tailored proposal” after a demo. Recruiter Essential lists Adder Intelligence (Smart Summaries, Smart Sync, Smart Job Descriptions, Smart Floats). Recruiter Lite’s feature list. The six add-ons. “API + Sandbox only available for contracted customers (free for Pro customers)”.
- JobAdder — Job boards Job board posting, including SEEK and LinkedIn.
- JobAdder — Native job posting Single-click distribution, and the careers-page options: JobAdder Careerspage, JavaScript widget, XML job feed and the API.
- JobAdder — Integrations marketplace The integrations marketplace.
- JobAdder — AI recruitment software (Adder Intelligence) Candidate shortlisting with an instant summary and relevancy rating, AI-generated candidate overviews, job description generation and database maintenance prompts.
- JobAdder — Platform updates Smart Summary, Smart Sync, Smart Skills and bulk skill coding. Smart Sync for resumes and transcripts and the Campaigns email sequencer not yet generally available. Call summaries and interview notes from marketplace partners (TalentLynk, RecView).
- JobAdder — Recruitment CRM Predictive search, Boolean resume keyword search, saved searches and skill tagging. One-click messaging by email, SMS or WhatsApp.
- JobAdder — Platform features Client Portal, Candidate Portal, Hiring Manager Portal, Agency Portal, SEEK Talent Search Connect and LinkedIn Recruiter System Connect. No meeting notetaker or call transcription listed.
- JobAdder — Placement management “Export to payroll, billing or onboarding” systems.
- JobAdder — Trust Centre AWS hosting with UK and EMEA core account data in Ireland.
- JobAdder — FAQs Migration managed end to end by the JobAdder team, with the cost not published.
- Kepler pricing USD 99 per user per month billed annually (USD 1,188 per seat per year), one plan with every feature, unlimited records and storage, free migration, and full export with no exit fee.
Kepler is a recruitment CRM and this post is published by Kepler, so read it as an interested party's account. We have tried to describe JobAdder as its own team would recognise it, and every factual claim is sourced above. If something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will correct it.