Elevato is a Polish ATS from Bielsko-Biala, serving mid-market companies and recruitment agencies. Element was built by recruiters who needed a system without gated features. Both offer kanban boards and multiposting. Where they part ways is pricing model, API access, and what you actually get at each tier.
Elevato works well for organizations with established processes. The challenge comes when you need to change something quickly. In Element, you reshape stages, add fields, and modify automations yourself in seconds. No support ticket, no waiting. If your process changes next quarter, the system changes with it.
Both systems have kanban views, but Element's is noticeably faster. Load 500 candidates into a single process and the board still responds smoothly. Drag a card, drop it, move on. The same view covers onboarding, offboarding, and talent pools. Elevato separates these into modules or requires a higher pricing tier.
In Elevato, hiring managers review candidates and leave comments. That's the industry standard. Element takes a different approach. You share specific kanban stages with a hiring manager. They move candidates between those stages and trigger automated messages on their own. Payroll sees only the "Hired" stage. The onboarding lead sees only "Onboarding." The recruiter stays in control without handling every step manually.
Element lets you add unlimited application questions of any type and assign points to each answer. Candidates don't see the scoring. The recruiter sees a ranked list right away and can filter by score, catching disqualifying answers without reading through 300 applications one by one. Elevato supports application forms but lacks built-in scoring.
In Element, you add unlimited custom fields to projects: department, lead recruiter, priority, process type, agency, status. Pick a data type (text, dropdown, multi-select, date), name the field, and define its values. Then filter all projects by those fields in one click. Elevato supports custom fields, but what you can add depends on the pricing plan.
Element includes a built-in search engine for LinkedIn, GitHub, and Stack Overflow. No paid LinkedIn Recruiter license required. Find a profile, add the candidate to your pipeline, and keep going. Elevato integrates with LinkedIn through the official API, which requires a separate paid license — often several hundred euros per month on top of the ATS cost.
Element logs nearly every event: stage changes, recruiter activity, time between stages, source effectiveness. You can export the raw data anytime to build reports in Excel, Power BI, or whatever you already use. Built-in dashboards cover standard metrics. Elevato has built-in reports too, but exporting raw data and accessing advanced analytics require higher-tier plans.
Job Monit scans 50+ Polish job boards every day (Pracuj.pl, LinkedIn, OLX, Indeed, and more) and pulls their listings into Element. You see what competitors are hiring for, which portals they use, and at what salary ranges. Recruitment agencies use it to spot potential clients before reaching out. No other ATS on the Polish market has an equivalent feature.
Elevato reserves API access for its Custom plan, which means individual pricing negotiations. Email sync requires the Pro plan. In Element, API access comes with every subscription — you connect it to your own tools on day one. No extra charge, no quote request.
Elevato charges 219-369 PLN per user per month. For a team of five, that's over 1,000 PLN/month on the basic plan alone — and key features like API and email sync require pricier tiers. Element bundles all features into one price that works out lower for comparable functionality. No hidden fees. No long-term contract, so you can cancel anytime.
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