--- title: "Metix AI vs Juicebox: pricing, Agents and which to choose" canonical: https://metix.ai/compare/metix-vs-juicebox published: 2026-11-10 updated: 2026-11-10 author: "Metix AI" --- # Metix AI vs Juicebox: pricing, Agents and which to choose Canonical: https://metix.ai/compare/metix-vs-juicebox Juicebox sells a search seat and adds Agents by the month. Metix AI includes recruiter-run search and AI Agents in every plan and carries the role through to a booked interview. Metix AI editorial team The short version Both let a recruiter search profiles in plain English and email the people they find. Juicebox sells that as a seat and adds Agents at $199 each a month. Metix AI includes Fast Search, Deep Search and AI Agents in every plan, and Starter is $99 a month with 1 AI Agent. An Agent runs the outreach you approve, handles replies, checks interest and books interviews. Choose Metix AI to get the search and the work after it in one subscription. Decision guide ## Which part of the hire do you want to hand off? 1. ### Scope Both offer search a recruiter runs and email sequences. A Metix AI Agent continues to interview booking. 2. ### Price One Juicebox seat plus one Agent is $318 a month. Metix AI Starter is $99 a month with 1 AI Agent. 3. ### Access Juicebox MCP reads analytics and sets up Agents. The Metix AI Platform serves people, job and company data. Prices and features were read off both vendors' pages on November 10, 2026. Metix AI publishes this page, and no matched product trial sits behind it. ## The difference in one paragraph Both products let a recruiter describe a person in plain English, search a large profile index and email the people they find. Juicebox sells that as a seat. Its Agents cost $199 each a month on top, and its product pages do not describe interview booking. Metix AI gives a recruiter the same hands-on search, called Fast Search and Deep Search, across 900M+ profiles in 190+ countries. Every plan also includes AI Agents. An Agent runs the outreach you approve, handles the replies, checks interest and books the interview. You get the search and the work after it in one subscription, from $99 a month. Metix AI publishes this comparison and sells one of the two products. Every Juicebox fact below was read off juicebox.ai and its documentation on November 10, 2026, and every Metix AI fact matches our pricing page. We have not run a matched trial of both products on one role. Swipe horizontally to see all columns. **Metix AI and Juicebox side by side, checked November 10, 2026** | Question | Juicebox | Metix AI | | - | - | - | | What is it? | AI sourcing platform: search, email sequences and optional Agents | AI recruiter: search you run yourself, plus AI Agents that carry a role to a booked interview | | Search a recruiter runs | Natural-language search | Fast Search and Deep Search, refined round by round | | Profiles searched | 800M+, company-reported | 900M+ in 190+ countries, company-reported | | Email a recruiter sends | Email sequences with follow-ups | Sequences sent from your own mailbox | | Entry plan | Starter: $119 per seat a month, or $99 billed yearly | Starter: $99 a month, or $1,068 billed yearly | | Agents | Add-on: $199 per Agent a month on any paid plan | Included: 1 AI Agent on Starter, up to 5 on Scale | | After a candidate replies | The sequence stops; the pages describe no interview booking | The Agent handles the reply, checks interest and books the interview | | Contact data on the entry plan | 500 contact credits a month | 5,000 Credits a month; an email unlock costs 10, and work inside an Agent's workflow costs 0 | | Connecting your systems | ATS or CRM integration on the Business plan, quoted and annual only | REST API and MCP server on the Metix AI Platform, under one API key | | For AI assistants | MCP server for account analytics and Agent setup | Platform API, MCP server and agent skills for people, job and company data | | Free start | Free plan with limited searches and 5 one-off contact credits | 14-day trial with 1 AI Agent and 500 Credits, no card | ## Search it yourself or hand the role to an Agent A Metix AI subscription works three ways, and a recruiter can mix them role by role. **Fast Search.** You write the criteria and get ranked profiles back. Results are ordered by skill match and by meaning, and you can filter by language. Change the criteria and run another round. A profile you saw in one round is removed from the next. The search itself uses 0 Credits. **Deep Search.** You describe the role in a conversation and get a candidate list. Add a requirement and the search continues, and you can switch between the lists from each round. Candidate details include a company panel for context on each employer. One Deep Search list uses 100 Credits. **AI Agent.** You approve the brief and the outreach, and the Agent carries the role from there. The next section covers that part. From Fast Search or Deep Search, a recruiter can start a Sequence and send it from a mailbox they connect by IMAP. A team that wants to write every message and take every reply can work this way all month. The Agents are there for the roles the team cannot get to. [Fast Search and Deep Search, with recordings](https://metix.ai/blog/fast-search-and-deep-search) ## What happens after the search Here the two products part. Juicebox's product pages describe three things: natural-language search, email sequences with automatic follow-ups, and reply tracking. When a candidate replies, the sequence stops and a recruiter takes the conversation from there. Juicebox Agents keep sourcing in the background and can be set to auto-email or auto-shortlist. The pages we checked do not describe interview scheduling. [Juicebox Agents](https://juicebox.ai/agents) and [Juicebox outreach](https://juicebox.ai/outreach) A Metix AI Agent keeps going. You approve the brief and the outreach. The Agent then sends the messages, reads the replies, checks whether the person is interested and books the interview on your calendar. Metix AI reports that 95% of roles get a first interview scheduled within 24 hours, meaning a confirmed calendar slot. That figure is company-reported. [How the Agent workflow runs](https://metix.ai/features/ai-recruiter) A simple test separates the two. Count the steps your team still does by hand after the tool has found the right people. With a search seat, that list includes the replies, the screening and the scheduling. With an AI recruiter, it is the brief, the approval and the interview itself. [AI sourcing tool vs AI recruiter](https://metix.ai/compare/ai-sourcing-tool-vs-ai-recruiter) draws the same line across the whole category. ## Metix AI vs Juicebox pricing Juicebox prices the seat and sells Agents on top. Starter is $119 per seat a month, or $99 on yearly billing, with 500 contact credits and 500 export credits. Growth is $199, or $179 yearly, for up to five seats. Business is quoted and annual only. Each Juicebox Agent costs $199 a month on any paid plan. [Juicebox pricing](https://juicebox.ai/pricing) Metix AI includes the Agents in the plan. Starter is $99 a month with 1 AI Agent and 5,000 Credits. Growth is $199 with 2 AI Agents, Professional is $299 with 3, and Scale is $499 with 5. Yearly billing brings Starter to $1,068. Work inside an active Agent's workflow uses 0 Credits; Credits pay for standalone contact unlocks, Deep Search lists and extra Agents. [Metix AI pricing](https://metix.ai/pricing) Swipe horizontally to see all columns. **One user with one Agent, published prices in USD** | Setup | Monthly billing | Twelve months | | - | - | - | | Juicebox Starter, one seat, no Agent | $119 | $1,188 on yearly billing, from $99 × 12 | | Juicebox Starter plus one Agent | $318, from $119 + $199 | $3,576, from $1,188 + 12 × $199 | | Metix AI Starter, 1 AI Agent included | $99 | $1,068 billed yearly | | Metix AI Growth, 2 AI Agents included | $199 | $2,148 billed yearly | With one Agent running, Juicebox costs $318 a month and Metix AI costs $99. The gap is $219 a month. Over twelve months it is $2,508, using the yearly seat price and twelve Agent months for Juicebox. These are subscription sums only. They leave out tax, extra usage, your ATS and your team's time, and the two Agents do different work, so treat a lower bill as a reason to run a trial. ## API and MCP access for AI assistants Both companies publish an MCP server, and the two do different jobs. Juicebox MCP connects a paid account to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or another MCP client. It reads your recruiting analytics and creates or manages Agents, and its project tools need the Business plan. Each user signs in through OAuth. [Juicebox MCP documentation](https://docs.juicebox.ai/juicebox-mcp) The [Metix AI Platform](https://platform.metix.ai/) is a data interface. One API key covers a REST API, an MCP server and agent skills. An assistant or your own code can search people, job and company data directly, then read the records and unlock contacts. Usage is billed in API Credits. If you are building an agent that needs talent data as an input, test this surface. [Metix AI developer resources](https://metix.ai/for-assistants) ## Why Metix AI is the better fit Metix AI is the stronger pick in five cases. **Your recruiters run their own searches.** They keep doing that with Fast Search and Deep Search, and they send Sequences from their own mailbox. When open roles outnumber recruiters, the same plan has an AI Agent that takes a role through to booked interviews. On Juicebox that step is a $199 add-on for each Agent. **Nobody on the team has time to work the replies.** A founder or hiring manager with no recruiter gets little from a faster search. The work that stalls is the follow-up, the screening and the scheduling. That is the part a Metix AI Agent runs after you approve the outreach. **You want an Agent without a second line on the bill.** Every Metix AI plan includes AI Agents. A Juicebox seat with one Agent costs $318 a month at monthly rates. Metix AI Starter costs $99. **An assistant or your own code needs talent data.** The Metix AI Platform serves people, job and company data by API and MCP. Juicebox MCP manages a Juicebox account. **You want published outreach numbers before you start.** Metix AI publishes a production extract from five customer accounts: 22,062 people contacted, a 7.8% reply rate, and 84.9% of replies interested. The chain stops at a confirmed interview, and the page claims no hire rate. [Customer results](https://metix.ai/customers) On self-serve plans your team stays in control. You write the brief, approve the outreach and run the interviews, and no Metix AI staff member reviews the shortlist. If you want the Metix AI team to run the search from day one, Delivery is a separate, quoted service. ## Test both on one role You can try both before you pay. Juicebox has a free plan with limited searches and five one-off contact credits. Metix AI has a 14-day trial with 1 AI Agent and 500 Credits, and it needs no card. Use one real opening and the same written brief for both. Count three things: the people who meet the brief, the replies that show interest, and the interviews on the calendar. Then write down the minutes your team spent to reach each number. The product that needs fewer of your hours for each booked interview is the one that fits. Still choosing among more than two tools? [Juicebox alternatives](https://metix.ai/compare/juicebox-alternatives) covers eight current options, and [Juicebox vs LinkedIn Recruiter](https://metix.ai/compare/metix-vs-linkedin-recruiter-vs-juicebox) adds the LinkedIn plans. ### Bring one current role Write the requirements, review the matches and approve the outreach. The Agent takes it from there to the calendar. [Scope separately quoted Delivery](https://book.metix.ai/?campaign=metix-vs-juicebox&source=site&cta=delivery) ### What is the difference between Metix AI and Juicebox? Both let a recruiter search profiles in plain English and email the people they find. Juicebox sells that as a search seat over 800M+ profiles and charges $199 a month for each Agent. Metix AI includes the search a recruiter runs, called Fast Search and Deep Search, and AI Agents in every plan. A Metix AI Agent runs the outreach you approve, handles replies, checks interest and books interviews on your calendar. ### Is Metix AI cheaper than Juicebox? For one user with one Agent, yes, on the published prices checked November 10, 2026. Juicebox Starter is $119 per seat a month, or $99 billed yearly, and each Agent adds $199 a month, so one seat plus one Agent is $318 a month. Metix AI Starter is $99 a month, or $1,068 billed yearly, and includes 1 AI Agent and 5,000 Credits. The two plans include different work, so compare what each one does for the role and run a trial. ### Does Juicebox book interviews the way Metix AI does? Juicebox's product pages, checked November 10, 2026, describe search, email sequences, reply tracking and Agents set to auto-email or auto-shortlist. They do not describe interview scheduling. A Metix AI Agent handles replies, checks interest and books the interview after you approve the outreach. Ask Juicebox directly if scheduling decides your purchase. ### Which one works with ChatGPT, Claude or other AI assistants? Both do, in different ways. Juicebox MCP connects a paid account to an AI assistant to read recruiting analytics and create or manage Agents, and its project tools need the Business plan. The Metix AI Platform gives an assistant or your own code direct search over people, job and company data through a REST API, an MCP server and agent skills, under one API key and billed in API Credits. ### Can recruiters run their own searches in Metix AI? Yes. Fast Search returns ranked profiles from your criteria, and you refine it round by round. Deep Search builds a candidate list in a conversation and continues when you add a requirement. From either one, a recruiter can send a Sequence from a connected mailbox. The same plan includes AI Agents for the roles a recruiter wants to hand off. ### Who should choose Metix AI over Juicebox? Choose Metix AI when you want the search and the work after it in one plan. That covers recruiters who run their own searches and want an Agent for extra roles, founders and hiring managers with no recruiter, and teams building agents that need talent data by API or MCP. One user with one Agent pays $99 a month on Metix AI and $318 on Juicebox, on prices checked November 10, 2026. About the editorial team ## [Metix AI editorial team](https://metix.ai/about) Research & buying guides The Metix AI editorial team writes hiring guides and product comparisons. We publish source dates, distinguish vendor claims from observations, and keep worked examples separate from measured outcomes. Metix AI also sells recruiting software. [About Metix AI ↗](https://metix.ai/about) ## Related questions **How is Metix AI different from Juicebox?** Both let a recruiter search profiles in plain English and email the people they find. Juicebox sells that as a $119 seat ($99 billed yearly) over 800M+ profiles and adds Agents at $199 each a month. Metix AI is an AI recruiter: its AI Agents run the outreach you approve, handle replies, check interest, and book interviews, and the $99 Starter plan includes 1 AI Agent and 5,000 Credits. One user with one Agent costs $318 a month on Juicebox and $99 on Metix AI, on prices checked November 10, 2026. A recruiter who prefers to search personally uses Fast Search and Deep Search in the same Metix AI plan and sends Sequences from a connected mailbox. ## Next step See plans, Credit rules, and trial terms on the [Metix AI pricing page](https://metix.ai/pricing). A 14-day trial includes a one-time 1 AI Agent and 500 Credits, with no card required.