Hiring managers who still need interviews this month
You own the bar and the interviews. Mira runs sourcing, outreach, and booking so the req is not stuck behind someone else's queue.
Read →Hiring when nobody on the team owns recruiting
Nobody on the team has the continuous hours a search actually takes, and a paused search decays fast. The bottleneck was never finding candidates.
Read →Hiring when the recruiting team is buried in sourcing
In-house TA keeps intake, the bar, and the interviews. Mira runs sourcing, outreach, screening, and scheduling. Subscriptions start at $99/mo.
Read →Keep the search-firm fee. Compress the pipeline hours.
Sourcing, first outreach, screening, and scheduling can sit on a usage-based subscription. Intake, the client, and the placement stay with the firm.
Read →Usage-based recruiting pricing
Credits meter product usage rather than candidates or outcomes.
Read →Metix AI vs a recruiting agency: the fee versus the booked interview
SHRM's 2016 guidance puts contingency fees at 20 to 25 percent of first-year cash. On a $120,000 hire that is $24,000 to $30,000, a derivation. Metix AI subscriptions run $99 to $499 a month. When the agency earns the fee, and when subscription software fits.
Read →Pay-per-candidate recruiting: what the credit actually buys
Pay per candidate covers several different meters. Metix is included as a contrast because it now charges a $99–$499 subscription with usage Credits, not per candidate. Picked is $0.99/inbound vet; Recruo is $300–$2,500; Hire22 uses INR unlocks.
Read →Interview-ready in 24 hours: what the clock actually starts
On Metix, 24 hours means a confirmed calendar slot: 95 percent of roles, vendor-reported, first interview scheduled, not a same-day meeting. Other vendor clocks opened August 2026.
Read →7 best AI recruiting tools for startups in 2026
No overall winner. If nobody can run a search, Metix AI Starter is $99/mo with 5,000 Credits and 1 AI Agent. Dover is the free ATS. Juicebox Starter is $99/seat/mo yearly.
Read →7 best AI recruiting platforms for startup recruiting teams
Seven recruiting platforms for startups that already have a recruiter. Search control, ATS relationship, and published price, checked August 2026.
Read →AI recruiter vs human recruiter: tasks, cost and outcomes
AI recruiter and human recruiter compared by task, cost unit, and outcomes. Hybrid is the usual answer. The employer keeps the decision.
Read →Metix AI vs Gem: which recruiting platform fits your team?
Gem is the system your recruiters operate. Metix AI delivers interview-ready candidates with subscriptions from $99/mo. Gem startup widget $130/mo at 1-10 FTE.
Read →Best AI recruiting tools 2026, ranked by the job they do
Fourteen tools, five jobs, no single winner. The pick is whoever publishes a price for the work you cannot do yourself. Every figure carried from our August 2026 vendor-page reads.
Read →hireEZ vs LinkedIn Recruiter: which one fits your team?
One searches 45 or more platforms and covers most of the recruiting process. One owns the network the profiles live on. Data model, InMail limits and the credit cap that quietly deletes them, ATS depth, security review and published price, checked against both vendors' own pages in August 2026.
Read →Metix AI vs Fetcher: sourcing desk or booked interview
Fetcher hands a recruiter the sourcing desk, and on Amplify, $649 a month on annual billing, a dedicated human sourcer along with it. Metix AI hands back a qualified, interested candidate already booked for a first interview. Published pricing for both, and the trade-off each buyer accepts, checked August 2026.
Read →What AI recruiting tools actually cost in 2026, read off the vendors' own pages
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 →The real cost of LinkedIn Recruiter, from Lite to Corporate
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 →Everything that goes into cost per hire, including what nobody invoices you for
SHRM's benchmark average is $4,683 and its median is $1,244 (2021 data, published 2022), but the biggest cost-per-hire line appears on neither: hiring-manager and interviewer hours, which nobody invoices. The full component list, tool prices checked August 2026, and the hours-times-loaded-rate method for pricing the invisible slice.
Read →Per-candidate vs per-seat pricing: compare the full cost
A seat and an AI-agent subscription both bill for access, but include different work and usage. Published prices: Recruiter Lite $170 a month, SeekOut Core $149 annual, hireEZ $494, versus Metix AI at $99 to $499 with Credits and AI Agents.
Read →Agency commission versus software subscription: where the break-even sits
A contingency fee is 20 to 25 percent of first-year pay in SHRM's 2016 guidance, and a year of recruiting software runs $1,680 to $5,928 at list, checked August 2026. We work the break-even at three salary levels and show why the sticker comparison misleads.
Read →ATS pricing compared, and what the per-seat number leaves out
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 →Metix AI vs SeekOut: talent search versus delivered candidates
SeekOut searches a claimed 1B+ profiles behind 300+ filters and hands campaigns back to your recruiters; its quote-only Spot service delivers screened candidates. Metix AI subscriptions run $99 to $499 with Credits and AI Agents, checked August 2026.
Read →Metix AI vs hireEZ: recruiting engine or finished interview
One arms the recruiting team you already have on top of the ATS you already run; the other books qualified, interested candidates through subscriptions with usage Credits and AI Agents. Published pricing and trade-offs, checked August 2026.
Read →LinkedIn Recruiter alternatives for startups without a recruiting team
Six alternatives to LinkedIn Recruiter, with the published price for each and the recruiting work each one leaves with you. Written for startups that have nobody running recruiting.
Read →Juicebox alternatives in 2026, priced from the vendors' own pages
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 →Metix AI vs LinkedIn Recruiter vs Juicebox (PeopleGPT): who does the work?
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
Every hiring tool sells one slice of the work and hands the rest back. How the market really splits, how usage-based pricing works, and how Metix AI delivers interview-ready candidates.
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