Nine tools people move to when Juicebox stops fitting, with every price read off the vendor's own pricing page on 27 July 2026. Where a tier is quote-only, this article says so instead of guessing.
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) sells fast natural-language search over an aggregated profile index. Teams usually look elsewhere for one of three reasons: the seat count on the published tier runs out, contact reveals cost credits on top of the seat, or they wanted somebody else to run the process instead of running it faster themselves.
Five of the nine publish self-serve prices for their main product. hireEZ publishes a single solo-recruiter rate, Gem publishes per-seat rates only to recruiting firms, and two publish nothing at all. Almost every comparison article in this category repeats at least one price the vendor does not publish; the five most-repeated ones are traced below, and two of them trace back to nothing.
Disclosure: Metix AI publishes this article and appears on the list, so read that section the way you would read any vendor's.
Juicebox is a search engine for people. You describe who you want in plain English, PeopleGPT queries an index the company reports at 800 million profiles across 30 or more public sources, and you get back enriched profiles with a note explaining the match. Searches are unlimited on every paid tier. The company raised an $80 million Series B in March 2026 and shipped new features as recently as this month, so vendor risk is not the reason to look elsewhere.
The friction is in how it is priced. Search is unlimited, but contact details are not: revealing an email costs one credit and a phone number costs three, against 500 credits a month on Starter and 1,500 per seat on Growth. The autonomous agents the product is currently marketed on are a separate $199 per agent per month, stacked on top of the seat. Growth stops at five seats, and ATS integration, single sign-on, usage analytics and invoice billing all live in the custom-quoted Business tier. So one recruiter on Growth running one agent is $378 a month on annual billing, and a team that needs Greenhouse to sync is on a sales call. None of that is exotic. It does mean the credit burn is worth working out before you start comparing search quality, because on Starter the 500 credits run out well before the searches do.
Every tool here was priced from the vendor's own page on 27 July 2026. The figures below are the ones that recur across comparison articles and software directories, and five of them are wrong. Here is where each came from:
Some of the received wisdom errs in the vendor's favour instead. hireEZ and SeekOut are both widely described as quote-only, and both now publish an entry price. hireEZ is explicit about why it changed: its own pricing FAQ says it used to list a flat per-seat rate and that the rate stopped reflecting what the product does. Every number below is what the vendor showed on 27 July 2026, Metix AI included, and vendors reprice without announcing it.
Most of these bill per seat, which only pays off if you already employ a recruiter. Vendors charging per contact credit have decided the scarce thing is a verified email, which is why unlimited search sits so happily beside metered reveals; Fetcher's delivered leads are a version of the same bet. GoPerfect bills per open role, so if your hiring is three roles this quarter and none next, you are not paying for a seat through the quiet months. Metix AI bills per booked candidate. Dover's free tier meters nothing at all, which makes it the odd one out in a list otherwise organised around what gets counted.
These are the closest swaps. You still write the brief and judge the list, and in most cases you run the outreach too.
SeekOut indexes public professional data and enriches it. Where it goes deeper than the others is technical, security-cleared and academic profiles, and the company reports 40 million technical profiles built partly from GitHub, published papers and patents. For engineers with a real public footprint the search is better than most; outside that, less so.
Recruit Core is $149 a month paid annually, which is $1,788 up front, or $179 billed monthly, with a 14-day trial that does not ask for a card. That buys 500 contact credits and 1,000 exports a month. Above Core, the Sourcing, Sourcing plus Integration and Full Recruiting Funnel tiers are annual and quoted. Worth knowing before a demo: the advanced diversity filters SeekOut is best known for sit in the paid tiers above Core, not in the $149 plan. Reviewers on Capterra, where it rates 4.7 out of 5 across 188 reviews, raise credits being consumed separately for revealing and for exporting, and thinner coverage outside the United States.
hireEZ sells itself as a layer on top of your existing ATS instead of replacing it, and it now leads with agents: EZ Agent runs research, sourcing, engagement and screening semi-autonomously, pausing for approval. The index is company-reported at more than a billion profiles across 45 or more channels.
There is exactly one published price, $494 a month for a solo recruiter, with a seven-day self-serve trial. Everything above that is quoted, and hireEZ says it prices against the stack it replaces rather than by headcount. It rates 4.7 out of 5 on Capterra across 103 reviews. Reviewers there keep hitting the same two things. Search is tag-driven, not fully Boolean, and the automatic tagging needs correcting. Contact data also ages unevenly; one reviewer found a work email eight years out of date.
Leonar, out of Paris, puts sourcing, outreach, an ATS and a client CRM behind a single seat, and runs outreach across email, LinkedIn, SMS and WhatsApp from accounts you connect yourself. Built for agencies rather than in-house teams.
Starter is $119 per user a month with no commitment, and Professional is $199. Read the toggle before you quote those numbers to anyone, because the page opens on annual prepaid, so the first prices you see are $95 and $149 and both require paying a year up front. Contact reveals are metered separately at 100 credits per user a month on Starter and 300 on Professional, and multichannel sequences, API access and the AI agents are Professional-only. Two of the three agents were still marked coming soon on that date. The independent evidence base is thin: Capterra, GetApp and Software Advice each showed zero reviews, so there is little to check the vendor's claims against.
GoPerfect works both directions of the funnel. It sources passive candidates and triages inbound applicants, scoring each one to five in a way it describes as explainable, then runs outreach over email, LinkedIn and SMS. The company reports integrations with more than 60 applicant tracking systems.
Pricing is quoted at every tier, and the company states that all plans require an annual commitment and that month-to-month is not offered, which rules out a short pilot on a paid plan. The billing unit is a position, defined as a role you have opened and started sourcing for, and unused positions stay available through the billing cycle. Unlimited candidate unlocks appear only on the top tiers, so the metering applies below that. The Capterra listing showed no reviews on 27 July 2026, which makes it hard to benchmark.
Two of these are not really Juicebox swaps. They get bought when the sourcing tool was never the problem in the first place.
Gem sells one platform two ways: keep your ATS and layer sourcing, outreach, scheduling and analytics on top, or replace the stack with Gem's own ATS. Four AI agents are shipping, for sourcing, application review, talent rediscovery and fraud detection. Analytics carries pipeline forecasting and benchmarks.
In-house pricing is quoted on your employee count, with no seat rate published. Three things are public and easy to miss. The startup calculator on the pricing page showed $130 a month at one to ten employees on yearly billing, which is the only in-house figure Gem puts on screen. Companies under 30 employees get Gem All-in-One free for six months and then half price, with reduced rates up to 100 employees and no sales call. And recruiting firms, explicitly not in-house teams, get a separate published line: Essentials at $99 per user a month billed yearly, capped at three users, and Professional at $149, capped at ten, both with a seven-day trial.
Findem builds what it calls 3D profiles. Career history over time gets layered onto the usual snapshot, so searches run on attributes and trajectory instead of keywords. Since late 2025 the product has pushed well past search into agentic screening, scheduling and job-post automation; a $51 million Series C landed that October.
No pricing is published anywhere, and the pricing URL now redirects to a product page, so any figure you see quoted for Findem came from somewhere other than Findem. Expect an annual enterprise contract shaped by seats and modules. The most consistent theme in verified Capterra reviews is data freshness, with reviewers reporting stale profiles and missing contact details, which is worth probing in a demo given that the whole pitch rests on data depth.
Metix AI is an AI recruiter, Mira, that searches 860 million profiles, writes to candidates after you approve the message, sorts replies by whether the candidate wants the conversation, and books interviews on your calendar. A human delivery lead reviews quality before candidates reach you. The meter is a credit. It is spent when a qualified, interested candidate is unlocked, and if nobody clears the bar the credit stays on the account.
Plans run $49, $89, $159 and $299 a month. Those buy 3, 12, 30 and 75 interview-ready candidates against 1, 3, 6 and 12 active roles. Annual billing is 10 percent off, and the 14-day trial runs on one real role with no card. Volume hiring and specialized searches go through a quote path, which is the one part of the pricing that is not on the page.
Metix AI reports first interviews within 24 hours on 95 percent of roles, and about five times the response rate of standard outreach. The limits: outcome pricing costs more per candidate than a search seat, and it is the wrong shape if you already have a sourcer who mainly needs a faster tool. Teams hiring one or two roles at a time get more out of it than high-volume recruiting operations.
Fetcher pairs automated search with its own sourcers, so you get batches to approve or reject, the rejections train the next batch, approved names drop into email sequences, and a light CRM catches the replies.
Self-serve is $115 a month for 300 leads, and it includes no Fetcher-sourced candidates, so at that tier you are buying software. The human sourcing starts at Growth, $379 a month on annual billing or $499 month-to-month, which includes up to 500 Fetcher-sourced candidates a year. Amplify is $649 annual or $849 monthly and adds a dedicated sourcer covering roughly four to six roles. Capterra reviewers rate it 4.6 out of 5 across 33 reviews, and the criticism clusters on candidate relevance and platform stability, with one reviewer describing recurring bugs and a platform that is often down. Downtime on a tool that is mid-sequence with candidates costs more than downtime on a search box.
Dover is a free applicant tracking system with a marketplace of vetted fractional recruiters bolted on. The free tier really is free: unlimited users, unlimited jobs, no card, plus a LinkedIn sourcing extension and one-click posting to the major boards.
One change matters because most write-ups predate it: archived snapshots of the pricing page from January and April 2026 show AI applicant scoring and AI note taking moving out of the free tier and into Premium at $199 a month. On the marketplace side, recruiters set their own rates and work hourly, on retainer, or per hire, and Dover publishes a table of past hires with what each one cost. Independent review sites report that resume parsing is English-only, and buyer review coverage is close to nonexistent, with zero reviews on both Capterra and GetApp.
Most teams comparing sourcing tools are also deciding whether to keep paying LinkedIn. Recruiter is the largest pool of candidate-maintained data anywhere, profiles are updated by the people they describe, not scraped, and InMail lands where candidates expect a recruiter to appear. Recruiter Lite reaches only your third-degree network, so the full pool is what the Recruiter tier sells, and Lite includes 30 InMails a month.
Pricing takes some finding. LinkedIn's marketing pages carry no figure, but its help centre publishes Recruiter Lite at $170 a month for a single licence, or $1,680 a year, with licences two to five at $270 a month each. Those are USD list prices and vary by region. The full Recruiter tier is sales-quoted, so any per-seat number you see for it is a reported figure and not a listed one. That distinction is worth keeping straight, since most articles quote Recruiter and Recruiter Lite prices interchangeably. A three-way comparison on this site goes further into how Lite and Recruiter differ.
Every alternative above on one grid, with Juicebox and LinkedIn Recruiter as the two baselines. Entry price is the lowest number the vendor shows without a sales call.
| Tool | Entry price you can see | What the meter counts | Quoted, not listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juicebox | Free tier, then $99/seat/mo yearly, $119 monthly | Seats, plus contact credits | Business tier, and ATS or CRM sync |
| LinkedIn Recruiter | $170/mo Lite, single licence | Seats, plus InMail credits | The full Recruiter tier |
| SeekOut | $149/mo yearly, $179 monthly | Seats, plus contact credits | Everything above Core |
| hireEZ | $494/mo, solo recruiter | Seats, priced against your stack | All team and enterprise plans |
| Leonar | $119 or $199 per user/mo | Seats, plus contact credits | Nothing, both tiers are listed |
| GoPerfect | Not shown | Positions | Every tier, annual commitment |
| Gem | $99/user/mo for recruiting firms | Seats, by employee count in-house | Both in-house plans |
| Findem | Not shown | Seats and modules | Everything |
| Metix AI | $49 to $299/mo | Interview-ready candidates | Volume and specialized hiring |
| Fetcher | $115/mo, $379 with sourcers | Leads, plus sourced candidates | Enterprise |
| Dover | Free ATS, $199/mo Premium | Nothing on the free tier | Recruiter rates, set individually |
Prices read from each vendor's own pricing page on 27 July 2026. Where a cell pairs an annual and a monthly rate for the same tier, as with Juicebox and SeekOut, the annual one comes first. Where a cell shows several numbers, those are separate tiers: Fetcher's $115 and $379 are different plans, and Gem's $99 and Fetcher's $379 are annual rates. LinkedIn Recruiter, Leonar and Metix AI are shown at monthly rates; the last two cost less annually. Profile counts and performance claims throughout this article are company-reported, Metix AI's included.
If you already have a recruiter who is good at sourcing and the problem is their tooling, stay on a seat. Which seat depends on the roles: SeekOut holds up best on technical and cleared work, where its GitHub and patent data actually earns the price. Agencies tend to prefer Leonar, because the client CRM sits in the same seat instead of in a second product. hireEZ is the one to look at if the goal is retiring three or four tools without moving off your ATS.
If your hiring is lumpy, three roles this quarter and none the next, a per-role meter fits better than a seat you pay for during quiet months. GoPerfect bills that way, though it will not quote a number until you take the call, and it wants a year.
If the constraint is that nobody has time to run the process, buy output. Fetcher for volume sourcing with human help, Dover if you want a free ATS and a fractional recruiter for one hard role, Metix AI if you would rather pay per interview-ready candidate than per seat. And if the real problem is that your ATS, CRM and sourcing tools do not talk to each other, none of the above fixes it. That is what Gem and Findem are for, and both will quote you.
On headline price, Metix AI starts at $49 a month, below Juicebox Starter at $99 per seat a month billed yearly. Fetcher's self-serve tier is $115 a month, slightly above that Juicebox seat, and Dover's ATS is free, though Dover is an applicant tracking system, not a sourcing engine. Cheapest depends on what the meter counts: a $49 plan that includes three interview-ready candidates and a $99 seat that includes 500 contact credits, where an email costs one and a phone number costs three, are not the same purchase.
SeekOut, Leonar, Fetcher, Dover and Metix AI publish real numbers you can read without talking to anyone. hireEZ publishes one. Gem publishes per-seat rates only for recruiting firms, and the only in-house number on screen is a startup-calculator figure. GoPerfect and Findem publish nothing. LinkedIn publishes Recruiter Lite on its help centre but quotes the full Recruiter tier.
Because most articles copy each other. The errors traced here were a monthly rate quoted as annual, an annual discount applied twice, a struck-through list price treated as a live one, and two figures with no source on the vendor's site at all. Vendors also reprice without announcing it, which is why the date on a price matters as much as the number.
It depends on what is actually short. Juicebox makes a recruiter faster, and the recruiter still runs the process. Metix AI runs sourcing and outreach with a delivery lead checking quality, and bills per interview-ready candidate. Founders without a recruiter usually want the second model. If you already have a sourcer who is good, the first one is the better buy.
Every price came from the vendor's own pricing page, read on 27 July 2026, including the billing toggles, because several pages default to the annual rate and quoting the visible number as the monthly one is the most common error in this category. Two pages only show a price after a script runs; on both, the raw figure came from the network response rather than the rendered summary. Capterra appears more often than G2 below because its listings opened directly and G2 returned 403. Profile counts, response rates and time-to-hire claims are company-reported unless attributed otherwise.
Every price above is on a public page and can be checked directly. One is easy to get wrong: Findem's pricing URL redirects to a product page, which is why it has no link below.