Co-founder & CPO, Metix AI
Gene Dai leads product at Metix AI. He built hiring products at BOSS Zhipin, Liepin and Zuoyebang before this, and studied at Beihang University.
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Fourteen AI recruiting tools, every price read off the vendor's own page, most of them on 10 August 2026. Eleven publish at least one number, Paradox, Findem and GoPerfect publish none, and the gap between sticker and spend comes from three places: seats that multiply, quotas that run out, and tiers that only exist behind a sales call.
Read →Recruiter Lite is $170 a month, published on a help-center page rather than the marketing site; Recruiter Corporate publishes no price at all. The full LinkedIn Recruiter ladder priced from LinkedIn's own pages, with the annual math derived in the open. Checked August 2026.
Read →A seat bills the same in a zero-hire month; a candidate meter bills for what arrives. Worked break-even arithmetic on published prices, checked August 2026: Recruiter Lite $170 a month, SeekOut Core $149 on annual billing ($179 monthly), hireEZ $494, against Metix AI plans at $49 to $299, with the crossover near 30 candidates a month.
Read →Five of eight ATS vendors publish a price, three publish none, and not one puts an implementation fee on its pricing page. Entry prices, what each meter counts, and what the list price leaves out, checked August 2026.
Read →One arms the recruiting team you already have, on top of the ATS you already run; the other books qualified, interested candidates on your calendar and spends a credit only when one is delivered. Published pricing and the trade-offs, checked August 2026.
Read →Nine tools people move to when Juicebox stops fitting, with every price read off the vendor's own page on 27 July 2026, plus the widely repeated figures that do not survive a check.
Read →One is a network, one is a search engine, and one books interviews on your calendar. Published pricing and the trade-offs for all three, checked July 2026.
Read →Every hiring tool sells one slice of the work and hands the rest back. How the market really splits, why outcome pricing wins, and how Metix AI delivers interview-ready candidates.
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