# hireEZ vs LinkedIn Recruiter: which one fits your team?

Canonical: https://metix.ai/compare/hireez-vs-linkedin-recruiter

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.
Third-party comparison of hireEZ and LinkedIn Recruiter, checked against both vendors' own pages on 11 August 2026. hireEZ searches 45+ platforms plus employer ATS records and covers CRM, applicant review, email and SMS outreach, phone screening, scheduling and analytics; its only published price is a $494/mo solo plan with a 7-day trial. LinkedIn Recruiter offers first-party network access, member activity signals, InMail, Jobs and Projects; Recruiter Lite is $170/mo for one license with third-degree reach, 30 InMails, no ATS integration and no Hiring Assistant, while Corporate (150 InMails/seat) and RPS (100/seat) are quote-only. Covers the 120-per-seat Lite credit cap at renewal, the 13 percent InMail response-rate policy, ATS integration questions procurement should ask, security document review, and a one-role live test. Metix AI publishes it and sells into the same market; that disclosure and a single link appear only in the closing note.
## FAQ

**Where does LinkedIn publish Recruiter Lite pricing?**

$170 a month for a single license, published on LinkedIn's help center rather than its marketing pages and checked 11 August 2026. Licenses two through five cost more each, so sign in and confirm the rate for your country, currency, seat count and billing term before budgeting. Recruiter Corporate and Recruiter Professional Services publish no price at all. Recruiter Lite is also not currently available to members in China.

**Do LinkedIn InMail credits expire?**

Purchased credits do not expire, but the balance is capped. On Recruiter Lite the cap is 120 per seat and it is applied when the billing cycle renews, so a recruiter holding 115 credits at renewal receives 5 and the remaining 25 are skipped and cannot be recovered. Full Recruiter caps at four times the monthly allotment instead. Monthly allowances are 30 per user on Lite, 100 per seat on Professional Services, and 150 per seat on Corporate.

**Does hireEZ publish its pricing?**

One number, checked 11 August 2026: a solo plan at $494 a month with a 7-day free trial. Everything above that is a configured quote, and the price depends on which functions the package consolidates. hireEZ covers sourcing, candidate CRM, applicant review, email and SMS outreach, phone screening, scheduling and analytics, so the fair comparison is against the total cost of the tools it would retire rather than against a single sourcing seat.

**Is Hiring Assistant included in LinkedIn Recruiter?**

No. LinkedIn lists it as a paid add-on for qualifying Recruiter Corporate and Professional Services plans, and the add-on price is not published. It is not available on Recruiter Lite. That matters for any spreadsheet comparing hireEZ's platform-wide AI against a Recruiter Lite license, because the two do not include comparable AI.