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 →AI recruiter vs recruiting agency: who does the work?
An AI recruiter or a recruiting agency? A contingency agency charges 20 to 25 percent of first-year cash in SHRM's 2016 guidance. Metix AI plans, with Mira as the AI recruiter, run $99 to $499 a month. Who does which part of the work, and when the agency earns the fee.
Read →Pay-per-candidate recruiting: what the fee actually buys
Pay-per-candidate recruiting covers several different meters: Picked charges $0.99 per inbound AI vet, Recruo $300 to $2,500 per delivered engineer, and Hire22 sells INR unlocks. Metix AI does not charge per candidate; it is a $99 to $499 monthly subscription with usage Credits, shown as a contrast.
Read →AI recruiters that claim to book interviews within 24 hours, compared
Metix AI and Leelu claim scheduled interviews within a day; Hire22's 22 hours times a match and Picked's 48 hours an inbound shortlist. Metix AI reports a first interview scheduled within 24 hours on 95 percent of roles, a confirmed calendar slot, vendor-reported. Vendor clocks opened August 2026.
Read →7 best AI recruiting tools for startups in 2026
Seven AI recruiting tools for startups, ranked by who will operate them, with 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 →Best AI sourcing tools for recruiters: 5 tools and 2 alternatives
Five AI sourcing tools for recruiters who run the search themselves: SeekOut, Juicebox, LinkedIn Recruiter, hireEZ and Gem. Workable adds an ATS, and Metix AI runs sourcing, approved outreach, screening and interview booking. Search control, ATS fit and published price, checked August 2026.
Read →AI recruiter vs human recruiter: tasks, cost and outcomes
AI recruiter vs human recruiter, compared by task, cost unit, and outcomes. An end-to-end AI recruiter can handle search, follow-up, reply organization, and scheduling; human recruiters handle ambiguity, trust, and exceptions. The employer keeps the hiring 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 on a yearly term.
Read →Best AI recruiting tools 2026, ranked by the job they do
The best AI recruiting tools in 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?
hireEZ searches 45 or more platforms and covers most of the recruiting process. LinkedIn Recruiter owns the network the profiles live on. Data model, InMail limits and the credit cap, 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 →AI recruiting tools pricing 2026: what 14 vendors actually publish
AI recruiting tools pricing from fourteen vendors' own pages, most read on 10 August 2026. Eleven published at least one number; Paradox, Findem and GoPerfect published none. 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 →LinkedIn Recruiter cost and pricing, from Lite to Corporate
In our August 2026 check, LinkedIn Recruiter Lite cost $170 a month or $1,680 a year for one license, published on a help-center page rather than the marketing site. RPS, RPS+ and Recruiter Corporate, the full-network tier, were quote-only. The full ladder from LinkedIn's own pages, with the annual math derived in the open.
Read →Cost per hire breakdown, including the hours nobody invoices
Cost per hire is total external plus internal recruiting costs divided by total hires. SHRM's average is $4,683 and its median $1,244 (2021 data, published 2022), but the biggest line appears on neither: hiring-manager and interviewer hours, which nobody invoices. The full component list and the hours-times-loaded-rate method.
Read →Per-seat vs usage-based pricing for recruiting software
Per-seat vs usage-based pricing for recruiting software: a LinkedIn, SeekOut or hireEZ seat bills for access and assumes someone runs it, while a Metix AI subscription adds Credits and AI Agents. August 2026 list prices: Recruiter Lite $170 a month, SeekOut Core $149/mo billed annually, hireEZ $494, versus Metix AI at $99 to $499.
Read →Recruiting agency fees vs software: compare the full cost
Recruiting agency fees: SHRM's 2016 guidance puts contingency fees at 20 to 25 percent of first-year cash and retained search at about 33 percent. The sourcing seats compared here cost $1,680 to $5,928 a year at August 2026 list prices, before the labor to run them, which is why the sticker comparison misleads.
Read →ATS pricing comparison 2026: what 8 vendors publish and leave out
ATS pricing comparison of eight vendors, checked August 2026: five 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.
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 booked interview
hireEZ arms the recruiting team you already have on top of the ATS you already run. Metix AI books qualified, interested candidates through subscriptions with usage Credits and AI Agents. Published pricing and trade-offs, checked August 2026.
Read →LinkedIn Recruiter alternatives in 2026: six options, priced
LinkedIn Recruiter alternatives for recruiting teams: Juicebox, Gem, SeekOut, hireEZ and Metix AI, with Recruiter Lite as the lower-cost LinkedIn option. Published prices checked 27 July 2026, and the sourcing, outreach, screening and scheduling each one leaves your team to run.
Read →Juicebox alternatives in 2026: nine recruiting tools, priced
Nine Juicebox alternatives: SeekOut, hireEZ, Leonar and GoPerfect for sourcing; Gem and Findem for broader workflows; Metix AI for an AI-run workflow; Fetcher for sourcing support; and Dover for a free ATS with a paid recruiter marketplace. Prices read off each vendor's own page on 27 July 2026.
Read →Juicebox vs LinkedIn Recruiter vs Metix AI: who does the work?
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) is a search engine, LinkedIn Recruiter is a network, and Metix AI's AI Agents carry a role through to a first interview booked on your calendar. Published pricing and the trade-offs for all three, checked July 2026.
Read →Recruiting agency vs RPO vs software: what each hands back
Recruiting agency vs RPO vs software: self-run software leaves the recruiting labor with your team, an agency runs a search, and RPO provides an outsourced recruiting operation. What each takes off your desk, how each charges, and where Metix AI fits.
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