People · Recruitment
VanVed vs Keka Hire
for Recruitment
Why businesses choose VanVed over Keka Hire
VanVed's parsing is honest in a way that matters: the AI call is never fired on the anonymous public apply endpoint, so a bot cannot run up a bill; an unreadable file says why it is unreadable instead of silently producing an empty profile; and parsed fields sit beside the candidate until a recruiter accepts them, so the model never overwrites something a human typed. The pipeline is also complete end to end — stage history, scorecards, interviewer double-booking prevention — and hiring someone creates their employee record in the same system that will pay them.
Capability by capability
Every row below is what our 2026 research found — including the rows we lose.
| Capability | VanVed | Keka Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Resume parsing | Real — text pulled out of the PDF or DOCX on the server, fields extracted by a model, and applied to the candidate only when a recruiter chooses to. A scanned PDF is refused with a reason rather than parsed into blanks | AI parsing into structured, searchable profiles |
| Custom pipeline stages | Seven fixed stages, hardcoded — a tenant cannot add one | Custom hiring stages per job |
| Interview scheduling | Scheduled with a double-booking guard on the interviewer, and the candidate is emailed when a round is set or moved — but no calendar sync and no calendar invite | Scheduling with Google and Outlook calendars, and Zoom / Meet / Teams links |
| Structured interview scorecards | Yes — an org-level competency set with a 1-5 rating and a comment per competency | Yes |
| Careers page | The public API exists and resolves the tenant from the hostname — but nothing in the product renders it, so no customer has a careers page | Branded careers portal; role-specific pages on the higher tier |
| Job-board distribution | None | One-click posting to LinkedIn, Naukri and others |
| Offer letters | An offer is a row with a salary and a joining date. There is no letter document, no signature and nothing is sent | Templated letters with the salary structure filled in, an approval workflow and a candidate portal |
| Email to candidates | Three plain-text emails: application received, interview scheduled or rescheduled, offer sent. No templates, no rejection note, and nothing leaves the building unless the tenant has configured its own mail provider | Email templates and a candidate experience survey |
| Hired candidate becoming an employee | One action creates the employee record, gated on the HR module, and it is safe to press twice | Yes, into the same HR suite |
Where Keka Hire is ahead of us today
Keka Hire is a hiring product; VanVed's recruitment module is a hiring database. A candidate does now hear from it — an acknowledgement on apply, a note when an interview is set or moved, a note when an offer goes out — but they are plain-text messages with no templates, there is no rejection email, and none of them send at all unless the tenant has configured its own mail provider. The other thing a candidate experiences still does not exist: the public careers API is built, tenant-resolved and throttled, and nothing anywhere in the product renders it, so a careers page ships switched off in practice. There is no offer letter document and no e-signature, no job-board posting, no assessments, and the seven pipeline stages are fixed in code.
We publish this because a comparison that only flatters us is worth nothing to you. If one of these gaps is the thing you actually need, Keka Hire may well be the better buy.
What VanVed's Recruitment module does
- Job openings
Post job openings and track them through to close.
- Candidate tracking
Keep every candidate and application in one pipeline.
- Interviews
Schedule interviews and capture feedback.
- Offers
Track offers from draft to acceptance.