# AI sourcing tool vs AI recruiter: what's the difference?

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A sourcing tool hands you a list. An AI recruiter hands you interviews. Where each one stops, what stays on your desk, and how to tell them apart on one live role.
A sourcing tool hands you a list; an AI recruiter hands you interviews. Where each product stops, what stays on your desk, how to tell an AI sourcing agent from an end-to-end AI recruiter, and how to compare vendors on one live role.
## Related questions

**Is Metix AI a recruiting agency, an ATS, or an AI tool?**

Metix AI is a hiring platform, so it does not fit any of those cleanly. Unlike an applicant tracking system, the listed plans find and contact candidates instead of only storing people who apply. Unlike an agency, the plans charge no placement fee of 20 to 25 percent of first-year cash compensation, the band SHRM publishes, and you do not hire a roster of recruiters. Unlike a self-serve sourcing tool, Metix continues through approved outreach, interest screening, and booking. Delivery service is a separate, quoted search we run for you. It is not one of the four listed plans.