LinkedIn Recruiter cost: Lite vs Corporate pricing

How much does LinkedIn Recruiter cost now?

LinkedIn Recruiter cost depends on your plan, country, paid licenses and contract. Recruiter Lite has online monthly or yearly checkout. Full Recruiter, often called Corporate, and the staffing products RPS and RPS+ need sales quotes. The current English US official pages do not publish a universal dollar amount.

LinkedIn Recruiter Lite pricing

Open Recruiter Lite's official purchase page and record the recurring monthly price and full yearly price shown for your account, country and license count. A $0 trial promotion does not establish the later bill. The current help comparison sends buyers to signup rather than displaying the older USD price grid still quoted in some guides.

LinkedIn Recruiter Corporate pricing

For full Recruiter, ask sales for paid sourcing licenses, the full contract amount, term and invoice dates. Price Hiring Assistant and jobs separately. LinkedIn's official pricing explanation says hiring volume, team size, company size, region and contract terms affect the quote. A third-party starting price is not an offer for your team.

Lite, RPS, RPS+ and full Recruiter buy different access

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These message allowances count InMail capacity, not replies or interviews. RPS and RPS+ do not provide the same network access as full Recruiter. Confirm the specific ATS partner and workflow instead of treating the partner count as proof that your integration works. Official access, messaging and integration rows.

Lite has 20 search filters; the other three list 40+ advanced filters. The current grid also lists collaboration for up to five Lite seats. Check the collaboration your team needs before paying for a full Recruiter upgrade.

Paid sourcing seats and free collaborator access have different permissions. The grid lists 20 free collaborator licenses per full Recruiter, RPS or RPS+ license, while Lite has no free collaborator licenses. Count the people who need to search and send before multiplying a per-seat quote.

For comparison, LinkedIn's Lite product page lists the same 30-message and third-degree limits, but a trial promotion is not a published ongoing subscription price. Read the amount, payment details and cancellation conditions shown at signup before starting an eligible trial.

Calculate monthly spend versus an annual commitment

Use the amount shown at checkout or on your written quote. For the same license scope, monthly-plan spend is paid licenses × monthly quote × paid months; the annual commitment is paid licenses × full annual quote. Count paid sourcing operators, not free collaborators.

If your quote has different rates for different licenses, run each group separately and add the commitments. A three-month hiring project still owes the full annual amount unless the contract grants an early exit or refund. The calculator covers the first paid year and assumes an upfront annual invoice. For a multi-year agreement, record the full minimum-term obligation separately; the first-year amount is not the cost of exiting that contract.

Download the LinkedIn Recruiter budget worksheet (CSV) to capture Hiring Assistant, job promotion, retained tools, setup and measured operator time alongside the license. Leave an unquoted cost blank until confirmed; record zero only when the item is confirmed free or unnecessary.

Get the add-ons into the quoted total

Ask for the paid sourcing licenses, term and any volume discount as separate lines. Then itemize Hiring Assistant, extra InMail, job promotion, integration requirements and any separately purchased reporting product. An advertised capability does not establish that your order includes it at no extra cost.

Hiring Assistant is available as an add-on to Recruiter. The help grid also lists it as an add-on for RPS+, and excludes it from Lite and RPS. Its current product page describes intake, sourcing, applicant evaluation and outreach assistance, so a comparison that calls all LinkedIn work manual is out of date. Hiring Assistant product details and purchase FAQ.

Version matters. That page marks enhanced outreach, voice prescreening and interview scheduling under Hiring Assistant 2 as coming soon; its FAQ says rollout begins in early November. A preview does not establish that your team can use those features today. Have sales confirm your version, availability and incremental cost.

Keep job promotion separate from the recruiting license. LinkedIn's current pricing page describes Hiring Pro as a self-serve product using cost-per-click pricing. A click budget for attracting applicants is not a Recruiter seat price, an InMail top-up price or a fee per qualified candidate.

LinkedIn's comparison says Lite can purchase additional InMail, but the current official pages used here do not establish a universal dollar rate for top-ups. Ask what resets, pools or rolls over under your plan. An allowance is also a poor outcome forecast: three monthly Lite base allowances sum to 90 messages, with no implied number of replies.

Before approving the order, save the country and currency, paid license mix, complete annual commitment, invoice dates, add-on availability and renewal/cancellation notice. Also confirm what happens to projects, notes and exports when access ends. The worksheet gives these questions a place beside the software and operator-time budget.

Is LinkedIn Recruiter worth the cost, or should you test Metix AI?

Lite sells LinkedIn network reach and 30 monthly InMails. Full Recruiter adds full-network access and a supported ATS connection. Price either one when InMail is the route your candidates answer. For staffing work, compare the specific RPS or RPS+ access instead of assuming Corporate and agency plans are interchangeable.

Test Metix AI on the same approved role when the bottleneck is finding and following up with suitable people. A recruiter can search with Fast Search and Deep Search. An AI Agent then runs approved email outreach, reply handling and booking while your team handles hiring decisions. Outreach goes by email, and LinkedIn InMail credits are not part of the plan.

If an ATS or CRM replacement is also on the shopping list, price it separately. Gem, for example, has both a keep-your-ATS package and an All-in-One option. Our Gem pricing guide separates its company-size rates and offer-expiry budget. For a wider choice, see LinkedIn Recruiter alternatives.

Metix Starter costs $99 monthly or $1,068 billed yearly, including one AI Agent and 5,000 monthly Credits. Twelve monthly charges total $1,188. An Agent carries a recruiting workflow from search through booking. Keep any ATS and LinkedIn costs you still need in the comparison. Metix plan details.

Outside an active Agent workflow, email unlocks use 10 Credits and phone-number unlocks use 20 Credits per candidate; a Deep Search list uses 100 Credits and an extra Agent above the included allowance uses 3,000 Credits. An active Agent's workflow uses 0 Credits. The Credit consumption terms distinguish email and phone. Credits do not guarantee a suitable candidate, an interview or a hire.

Your team writes the brief, reviews candidates and approves outreach on a Metix AI self-serve plan. Metix AI staff do not review the shortlist. Staff-run Delivery is separate and quoted. If your team still needs LinkedIn's network, keep that cost in the comparison and run both on the same role.

Test how much work Metix AI removes on one approved role

Bring a job brief with title, location and work arrangement, required evidence and exclusions. Name the person who will review candidates and approve outreach. If you retain LinkedIn, compare the same role and record its subscription cost alongside Metix rather than assuming the trial lets you cancel it.

1. Create an account and set up one AI Agent during the 14-day trial.
2. Check the first matches against your brief and record review time. Revise the criteria if the evidence is weak.
3. Approve outreach when ready. Track interested replies and booked interviews separately from messages sent.
4. Before choosing a paid plan, check candidate fit, remaining team effort and Agent capacity. Keep the product that supports your actual workflow.

The trial includes one AI Agent and 500 Credits without a credit card. Your team owns approval, interviews and hiring decisions; the trial does not promise a hire.

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If you need Metix staff to operate the search, discuss a separately quoted Delivery search. This is a different purchase from a self-serve subscription or Scale support.