What AI recruiting tools actually cost in 2026,read off the vendors' own pages.

Compare the work and the payment term

GoPerfect now publishes $300 per concurrently open position per month. Leonar's current Professional software starts at $149 per user per month when prepaid annually, with $1,788 due for the year. The old GoPerfect quote-only description and $95 Leonar Starter entry are no longer current. Keep the billing unit beside each price when you compare them.

A sourcing seat, an ATS and a recruiter-operated service buy different work. First, define the work you need. Record the required capacity and commitment. A low monthly equivalent can require the entire year in advance. Monthly invoices can also require an annual contract.

Download the fourteen-vendor price evidence table (CSV), the worked budget examples (CSV) and the workbook instructions. Each vendor row has its own source and scope. Empty price cells mean unknown. Metix publishes this comparison and appears in it; this is a cost reference, not a performance ranking.

Recruiter seats and sourcing subscriptions

LinkedIn Recruiter

LinkedIn's current English US pricing page says Recruiter has no single standard price. Licenses, region, hiring volume, selected products and contract term affect the quote. Its Recruiter, Hiring Assistant and Jobs package uses a one- to multi-year agreement; Hiring Pro is a separate self-serve product with different billing.

Do not insert an old universal dollar price for Lite into a current team budget. The LinkedIn cost guide retains its individually dated help-page checks and distinguishes Lite from broader packages. Obtain the applicable account offer and included messaging capacity before comparing totals.

hireEZ

hireEZ lists Solo at $494/month with a seven-day trial. Twelve unchanged monthly payments would total $5,928, our arithmetic rather than a published annual offer. Enterprise pricing is configured around the stack being replaced; seats remain part of the model. Multiplying $494 by recruiter headcount does not produce an Enterprise quote.

The wider platform describes sourcing, CRM, outreach, screening, scheduling and analytics over an existing ATS. Ask which modules the actual offer includes. Our hireEZ pricing guide separates Solo, Enterprise and the work a buyer must still verify.

SeekOut

Sourcing Core lists $179 billed monthly or $149/month equivalent with $1,788 paid annually upfront. Its published allowances are 500 contact credits and 1,000 exports per month. Sourcing, Sourcing + Integration and Full Recruiting Funnel have custom prices.

The Core card describes an individual recruiter's first seat, while the comparison matrix says three seats are included. That conflict remains unresolved. Confirm the order's included users before multiplying the subscription price. The SeekOut cost worksheet keeps those scope questions visible.

Juicebox

Juicebox Starter is $119/seat/month on the monthly selection or $99 on the yearly selection. Growth is $199 or $179 respectively, with up to five paid seats. Business is custom and available annually. A free plan has limited search access.

Juicebox Agents add $199 per Agent per month with a paid plan. The page separately lists 500 monthly contact/export credits for Starter, 1,500 per seat for Growth, and unlimited contact/email credits for the Agent add-on. These are different allowance scopes. Confirm which activity belongs to which allowance. The matrix still distinguishes email and phone-credit costs, so a credit balance is not a count of guaranteed reachable people. See Juicebox alternatives for workflow choices.

Leonar

Leonar's current Professional offer has three USD terms, excluding tax: $199/user/month without an annual commitment; $169/user/month under an annual commitment paid in twelve installments; or $149/month equivalent with $1,788 prepaid for each user. The page opens on annual prepaid. Its current software card no longer supplies the old Starter entry used in our August survey.

Professional lists ATS/CRM, AI-assisted sourcing, Copilot, sequences and contact enrichment. Included enrichment volume belongs in the subscription terms. The AI Agency Programme and tailored in-house work have separately quoted licences, implementation and support; the software price does not buy those services. Optional transcription also has its own fee.

Wellfound Reach

Reach is self-serve sourcing: Explore is free with 20 monthly contact reveals, Starter is $135/seat/month with 250, and Growth is $199 with 1,000. Scale requires a quote. These are the monthly figures on the page; this review did not verify an annual discount. Wellfound's managed Autopilot service has a different unit, below.

Company-size plans and ATS fees

Ashby

Foundations prices by company workforce band. For 1-10 employees the widget shows $300/month, or $270/month equivalent on its yearly selection. The default 11-25 selection shows $400 monthly; higher bands reach $900 at 76-100 employees. A startup's workforce count therefore matters more than recruiter-seat arithmetic. Plus, Enterprise and standalone Analytics require quotes.

The feature table includes 200 sourcing email lookups monthly, with more available as an add-on. The expanded FAQ says workforce-based startup pricing is reassessed annually. It lists extra candidate SMS at $90 per 1,000 and Foundations SSO at $100/month. AI Notetaker and advanced scheduling have separate plan/add-on conditions. For an ATS purchase, use the ATS pricing comparison to record the features your actual band and offer include.

Gem

Gem + Your ATS and Gem All-in-One both use custom pricing based on company FTE count. One retains the ATS; the other includes a replacement system. Compare the route you would buy rather than attributing every module to the cheapest visible price.

The startup programme advertises six free All-in-One months for companies under 30 employees, followed by 50% off, with reduced rates for 30-100 employees. Its calculator also depends on company size and payment term. A displayed discounted monthly equivalent does not establish the first invoice or the bill after six free months. Confirm eligibility, what the discount applies to, its duration and the post-offer bill. The Gem pricing guide separates these offers and their individually dated checks. Recruiting-firm prices are a different buyer/SKU, not a universal employer rate.

Dover

Dover's free ATS includes unlimited users, jobs and candidates. Premium is $199/month and adds features such as AI resume review, a notetaker, bulk actions and broader permissions. Unlimited records do not mean every feature is free. Marketplace recruiters set separate hourly, retainer or pay-per-hire terms; the ATS subscription does not include their work.

Open roles, service and Agent capacity

GoPerfect

GoPerfect now publishes $300 per open position per month, with unlimited seats. Its five-position display is $1,500/month and an $18,000 twelve-month estimate. The FAQ says every position includes all modules and there are no AI-credit add-ons. This replaces the old quote-only tier description in this survey.

The meter counts simultaneously open positions. Close a filled or paused role and another can take its place. Budget peak concurrent capacity month by month; total annual hires are a different measure. The displayed twelve-month estimate does not establish an annual minimum or upfront invoice. Confirm those terms. Calls and AI interviews also depend on account enablement and supported markets/formats.

Wellfound Autopilot

Wellfound's Autopilot service lists $500/month per open role plus a 10% placement fee on a successful hire. A dedicated recruiter performs the work. The page says no contract and pause anytime. Confirm the compensation basis and other placement terms before estimating that fee. Reach seats and Autopilot service are separate purchases.

Metix AI

Metix plans are $99/$199/$299/$499 per month. They include 1/2/3/5 AI Agents and 5,000/10,500/16,000/27,000 monthly Credits. Starter's yearly selection is $89/month equivalent, with the published $1,068 annual total. Each active Agent runs one hiring workflow through interview booking; activity inside that workflow uses 0 Credits. Fast Search and Deep Search come with every plan.

Standalone email unlocks cost 10 Credits and phone-number unlocks cost 20 Credits, Deep Search lists cost 100, and an additional Agent costs 3,000 Credits to activate. Credits are not candidate-delivery units or interview guarantees. Your team defines the role, reviews evidence, approves outreach and takes interviews; the hiring decision stays yours. The interview scheduling guide distinguishes a confirmed slot from an attended interview. Self-serve plans do not include Metix staff reviewing a shortlist. Delivery is a separately quoted service when you need our team to operate the search.

Fetcher: historical plans and migration

Juicebox's asset-acquisition announcement says Fetcher is retiring its platform. Fetcher is not a current new-purchase option in this comparison. This October 27 status check does not refresh its historical prices, verified October 15. Existing customers should confirm permitted exports, contract treatment, balances and transition timing without assuming automatic transfer. The historical Fetcher pricing guide keeps that distinction.

Where a quote is still required

Paradox's pricing URL redirected to its homepage, where the reviewed content provides demo requests and no applicable dollar price. Findem's pricing URL redirected to its platform page with a demo path and no dollar figure. That observation applies to those pages and enterprise offers. It does not establish that every product or separate Studio surface has no public price.

Leave these amounts unknown until the vendor supplies an applicable quote. A buyer still needs that number to finish a budget; the quote requirement says little about product quality. GoPerfect now supplies an official price, so it belongs with the position-based offers above.

Fourteen vendors on one grid

These are entry offers and selected limits, not equivalent product baskets. Public pages were checked October 27, 2026; Fetcher remains a historical/status row. All dollar figures below are USD.

Charges the base fee leaves out

Evaluating Loxo alongside this grid? Our Loxo pricing and quote-gap workbook separates its current Core starting offer from Professional team pricing that needs a quote, with selected-seat Boost-pool examples. It is a separate vendor guide; the fourteen-vendor grid above is unchanged.

For a usable budget, add the tools you will retain, required usage, modules, onboarding and operating time. Buying a sourcing product does not remove the ATS bill automatically. A vendor's claim that several contracts can be retired needs verification against your own workflows.

Record the amount and reset period for contacts, exports, messages and AI actions separately. Ask what happens at the limit: the action might stop, consume prepaid credits or trigger another invoice. Similar allowance names across vendors do not establish interchangeable capacity. A successful lookup establishes contact data. Fit and interest still need verification.

Use your own staff hours and rates if you want an operating-cost estimate. Keep that estimate separate from the software invoice and avoid treating all saved minutes as cash savings. The cost-per-hire guide covers the wider denominator.

Calculate the year and the first payment

For a constant base subscription, units × monthly equivalent × months gives the period cost. The contract determines when cash is due. Our worked CSV uses six explicit hypothetical scenarios; its totals exclude tax, extra usage, other tools, services and staff time.

For GoPerfect, three positions kept open throughout twelve assumed months produce 3 × $300 × 12 = $10,800 in base charges. If capacity varies, sum each month's open-position charge instead. Three positions for two months and two for ten months produce (3 × 2 + 2 × 10) × $300 = $7,800. That example counts 26 position-months, regardless of how many people are eventually hired. Neither calculation predicts hires or establishes the minimum term. Metix Starter produces $1,188 across twelve monthly payments versus its $1,068 published annual total. Those products cover different workflows, so the examples are not a cheapest-tool ranking.

To use the downloads, retain the vendor/source/date columns, write your required capacity beside the applicable offer, and add each known cost line. Mark an unresolved required line unknown. The instructions explain how to keep a base subtotal usable without presenting it as the complete bill.

An unknown required add-on leaves the full budget incomplete. Keep a known base subtotal, label the missing amount, and request it. Filling a blank with zero makes an unpriced offer look artificially cheaper.

Get unresolved terms in writing

• Which product, country, currency, paid users and workforce band does this offer cover?
• What is the billable unit, included allowance and reset period? How do extra usage and paused roles work?
• Which AI capabilities, integrations, SSO and implementation services cost extra?
• What leaves the account at signing, what is the minimum commitment, and what changes at renewal?
• Who operates search and follow-up, who approves messages, and which records remain in our ATS?
• For an introductory offer or migration, when does it end and what happens to data, balances and the contract?

Write the answers beside the source/date in the workbook. Then use the vendor evaluation template to test the required workflow on an approved vacancy.

Sources, dates and limits

We read the complete AI recruiting articles from Pin and Juicebox, then checked the official pages linked above. Both reference publishers sell recruiting software. Their rankings, response rates, customer stories and claims about eliminating bias are not our findings.

This October 27 revision checks current public prices and scopes rather than rerunning a purchasing test. We read Juicebox's monthly/yearly variants and allowances, Leonar's three USD billing controls, Ashby's workforce/payment selections and expanded FAQ, Gem's current offer and Metix's pricing table/FAQ. We did not purchase all products, validate private discounts or obtain enterprise quotes.

LinkedIn's business pricing page was readable; its help page could not be re-read, so earlier help-plan details are not newly verified here. Findem's captured enterprise page supplies no dollar quote; a separate Studio pricing path returned 404 and its price remains unknown. Fetcher's current status notice and October 15 historical price check retain separate dates. Reopen official sources and confirm the applicable offer before signing, especially if publication or procurement happens later.

Price a workflow your team can review

Metix AI fits an employer who can define a real role, review candidate evidence, approve outreach and take interviews. A recruiter can run the search with Fast Search and Deep Search, or hand the role to an AI Agent through booking. An ATS or a recruiter-operated CRM is a separate requirement, and staff-run Delivery is a separately quoted service. For the self-serve sourcing-to-booking workflow, Create your real role in Metix AI. The fourteen-day trial includes one AI Agent and 500 Credits, with no card required. Compare the evidence and remaining work before selecting a paid plan.