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 →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 →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 →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 →A seat bills the same in a zero-hire month; a candidate meter bills for what arrives. Worked break-even arithmetic on published prices, checked August 2026: Recruiter Lite $170 a month, SeekOut Core $149 on annual billing ($179 monthly), hireEZ $494, against Metix AI plans at $49 to $299, with the crossover near 30 candidates a month.
Read →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 →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 →SeekOut searches a claimed 1B+ profiles behind 300+ filters and hands the campaigns back to your recruiters; its quote-only Spot service delivers screened candidates instead. Metix AI prices the delivered interview itself, $49 to $299 a month, checked August 2026.
Read →One arms the recruiting team you already have, on top of the ATS you already run; the other books qualified, interested candidates on your calendar and spends a credit only when one is delivered. Published pricing and the trade-offs, checked August 2026.
Read →A credit is spent only on an interested, hire-ready candidate. Outcome pricing moves screening-quality risk from you to us, and that changes the incentives.
Read →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 →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 →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 and hands the rest back. How the market really splits, why outcome pricing wins, and how Metix AI delivers interview-ready candidates.
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