Screening · Crelate pricing
Crelate pricing: what Crelate costs per user, the two floor prices its pricing page does not show, and the renewal clause in the contract
Crelate publishes more of its pricing than most agency platforms, and still leaves the two numbers that decide a mid-sized deal off the page. Read on September 6, 2026, crelate.com/pricing shows Essentials at "$85 per user/month, paid annually" and Business at "$119 per user/month" with an Annual and Monthly toggle. Business Plus and the Enterprise platform tier both read "Custom".
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Except they are not entirely custom. Crelate's own structured data on that same page carries a minimum price for both: Business Plus "Starting at $149 per user, per month, billed annually" and Enterprise "Starting at $299 per user, per month, billed annually". Neither figure appears anywhere a visitor can read it. The page tells crawlers two prices it does not tell you.
There is a third number that matters more than either, and it is in the contract rather than the pricing page. Crelate's terms apply an "annual innovation price enhancement" at every renewal, defined as the greater of 7 percent or US CPI, and they state that any discount you negotiate is one-time and does not renew.
Why it works
What a published screening rate gets a recruiting firm
Every tier has a number
Prescreener publishes $199, $499 and $1,290 a month as standing rates. There is no Custom tier holding the feature you came for, and no floor price kept in the markup instead of the page.
The rate you read is the rate that renews
Crelate's contract applies the greater of 7 percent or CPI at every renewal, and states that discounts do not renew. Our published rates are standing rates, so year two is arithmetic rather than a surprise.
Priced on resumes, not seats
A per-seat platform charges the same whether a recruiter reads 40 applicants or 4,000, and seat minimums make small teams pay for logins nobody uses. Screening volume is what actually varies, so that is what we meter.
What it handles
Parsed, scored and ranked on autopilot
Prescreener reads every inbound resume, applies your knockout and eligibility criteria, asks the screening questions you set, scores role-fit against consistent criteria, and ranks the applicant pile so your recruiters review the top matches first.
- Reads 100 percent of inbound applications, not a sampled shortlist
- Published pricing on the tier that does the screening, not a quote
- Applies your knockout and eligibility rules identically to every applicant
- Returns the pile ranked, with written evidence behind each placement
- Runs alongside Crelate, Bullhorn, Loxo, Recruiterflow or Recruit CRM
- Metered on resumes screened, a number an agency already tracks
- Never auto-rejects: it ranks and flags, and a recruiter decides
- Bias-audited to support EEOC standards and NYC Local Law 144
Why Prescreener
One step that screens the whole inbound pile
Not a full ATS, not a six-figure assessment suite, and not a staffing agency. Parse, score, rank and hand off in one place, shaped to the criteria you already hire on.
Reads every resume
Prescreener parses every inbound application, applies your knockout and eligibility criteria, and asks the screening questions you set. Applicants consent and are told AI is screening their application, so no qualified person sits in a backlog for days.
Scores role-fit consistently
Every applicant is scored against the same criteria, with a transparent reason on each candidate, so the pile is compared consistently and the scoring stays bias-audited to support EEOC standards and NYC Local Law 144.
Ranks the pile
The strongest matches rise to the top of a ranked pile your recruiters review first. Prescreener never auto-rejects, it ranks and flags candidates for review, and your team makes every decision.
In depth
Crelate pricing, plan by plan and figure by figure
How much does Crelate cost?
Crelate costs $85 per user per month for Essentials and $119 per user per month for Business, both paid annually, with Business also offered at $149 per user per month on monthly billing. Business Plus and Enterprise are marked Custom on the page. Read from crelate.com/pricing on September 6, 2026.
Essentials is narrower than the rate suggests, and the limit is printed on the card rather than buried: "Up to 2 users and 20k contacts." So Essentials is not a cheap way to run a five-person desk, it is a two-seat plan. It covers applicant tracking, recruiting CRM, a job portal, resume parsing and sourcing, with self-service and AI support. It does not include the AI Assistant.
Business is the tier most agencies actually price. It adds the AI Assistant, client and team portals, job posting, the Resume Toolbox, reports and analytics, technical support, email connections and access to professional services. At $119 annually that is $1,428 per user per year, against $1,788 on monthly billing. Those annual totals are our arithmetic on Crelate's per-month rates rather than figures Crelate states.
One caution on a widely repeated figure. Several comparison articles state that the Business plan carries a five-seat minimum, putting the floor at $595 a month. Crelate's own structured data does attach the words "5-seat minimum" to a plan, but it attaches them to Essentials, not Business, and the visible Essentials card says "Up to 2 users" instead. Those two statements cannot both describe the same plan. No seat minimum is printed anywhere a buyer can read it, so treat every version of this claim as unconfirmed and ask for the minimum in writing before you sign.
| Plan | Published rate | Billed monthly | What the tier is for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials | $85 per user / month, paid annually | Not offered | ATS, CRM, job portal, resume parsing. Up to 2 users and 20k contacts |
| Business | $119 per user / month, annual | $149 per user / month | Adds the AI Assistant, portals, Resume Toolbox, analytics, support |
| Business Plus | Marked Custom on the page | Not offered | Structured data states a floor of $149 per user, billed annually |
| Enterprise | Marked Custom on the page | Not offered | Structured data states a floor of $299 per user, billed annually |
| Crelate Data Sync Service | Priced on volume and frequency | Not published | Back office, HCM, payroll and CRM integrations |
| Crelate Hire onboarding | Priced per hire | Not published | Onboarding checklists, tax forms, WOTC, employee portal |
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What do Crelate Business Plus and Enterprise cost?
Crelate does not show a price for either tier, but it publishes one. Business Plus starts at $149 per user per month and Enterprise starts at $299 per user per month, both billed annually, according to the SoftwareApplication structured data Crelate serves on its own pricing page.
The visible cards say only "Custom". The structured data is more specific than that. It lists four offers with an aggregate range from $85 to $299, gives Essentials and Business exact prices, and gives Business Plus and Enterprise a minimum price each, using a UnitPriceSpecification with the unit set to one user per month. The Enterprise entry adds "Custom platform and usage-based pricing, with Enterprise security and compliance."
This is worth knowing for two reasons. The obvious one is that you can walk into the call with a floor: if a Business Plus quote comes back at $140, Crelate's own markup says the tier starts at $149, and if it comes back at $260 for Enterprise, the same markup says $299 is the floor. The less obvious one is that AI assistants and search engines read structured data directly, so the numbers Crelate is not showing buyers are exactly the numbers a machine reading the page will quote.
We checked whether this was stale markup left over from an old rate card, because that is a common source of wrong prices in this market. It is not. The aggregate range and the two exact prices match the visible cards for Essentials and Business precisely, so the same block is being maintained alongside the page. Treat $149 and $299 as current floors rather than as quotes: a floor tells you where a tier starts, not what your configuration costs.
| Tier | What the visible card says | What Crelate structured data says |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials | $85 per user/month, paid annually. Up to 2 users | $85.00, "Per user, per month, billed annually. 5-seat minimum." |
| Business | $119 per user/month, Annual and Monthly toggle | $119.00, per user, per month, billed annually |
| Business Plus | Custom. Per user, paid annually | Starting at $149 per user, per month, billed annually |
| Enterprise | Custom. User or Site Licenses Pricing | Starting at $299 per user, per month, billed annually |
| Range across the lineup | Not stated | Low $85.00, high $299.00, four offers |
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Does Crelate raise prices at renewal?
Yes, automatically, and the amount is defined in the contract rather than negotiated at renewal. Crelate's Terms of Service apply what it calls an "annual innovation price enhancement" at the start of every Renewal Term, set at the greater of 7 percent or the increase in US CPI over the preceding twelve months.
The sentence that follows it is the one to read twice: "Any discounts, co-investments, or similar reductions in the original price, are one-time and do not renew." So if you negotiate 20 percent off year one, year two is not year one plus 7 percent. It is list price plus at least 7 percent. On a ten-seat Business desk that is the difference between roughly $11,400 and something closer to $15,300, and nothing about the pricing page prepares you for it.
Three more clauses in the same agreement shape the real cost. Subscription fees are billed in advance and are non-refundable, with no pro rata credit if you terminate mid-term. If you do terminate early, "all remaining fees for the remaining contract term shall accelerate and become immediately due and payable", so leaving early does not reduce what you owe. And the term renews automatically for successive twelve-month periods unless you give written notice at least 30 days before expiration, through an in-app cancellation request form in Settings.
None of this makes Crelate unusual in enterprise software, and none of it is hidden: it is all in the published terms. It does mean the honest way to compare Crelate against a platform with a standing published rate is to model year two and year three, not year one, and to get any discount, any seat minimum and any cap on the annual increase written into the order form rather than agreed on a call.
| Contract term | What Crelate states |
|---|---|
| Annual increase at renewal | Greater of 7 percent or US CPI over the previous twelve months |
| Do discounts carry over? | No. Stated as one-time, they do not renew |
| Auto-renewal | Successive twelve-month terms unless notice is given |
| Notice to cancel | At least 30 days before expiration, via in-app form in Settings |
| Refunds | Fees billed in advance, non-refundable, no pro rata credit |
| Early termination | Remaining fees accelerate and become immediately due |
| Late payment interest | Lesser of 1.5 percent per month or the legal maximum |
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Does Crelate include AI resume screening?
Crelate parses resumes on every tier and puts its AI Assistant on Business and above. What it does not publish is a candidate score or a ranked shortlist produced automatically from your inbound pile.
Essentials includes standard resume parsing and what Crelate calls Self Service and AI Support. Business adds the AI Assistant. Business Plus upgrades that to an Advanced AI Assistant. Crelate's platform pages describe three named agents: a Discovery Agent that finds companies and candidates across more than a billion profiles, an Insights Agent that continuously cleans and enriches your database, and Co-Pilot, which brings generative AI into the context of a record so you can ask questions about your data and see suggested next steps.
Read that list carefully against what you are shopping for. Discovery is sourcing, which is outbound. Insights is data hygiene. Co-Pilot is assistive, and it acts on the record you are already looking at. That is a genuinely useful set of tools for a search firm working a shortlist it built on purpose, and it is a different job from reading 600 unread applications and telling you which 30 are worth a call.
Premium Resume Parsing is also metered rather than unlimited: the feature grid lists limits of 100 on Business and 500 on Business Plus and Enterprise. If your desk is inbound-heavy, that number is worth pricing before the seat count is, because it is the line that actually tracks application volume.
| Capability | Essentials | Business | Business Plus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard resume parsing | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Premium resume parsing limit | Not listed | 100 | 500 |
| AI Assistant | No | Yes | Advanced |
| Automatic score on every applicant | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Ranked shortlist from the inbound pile | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Client portal limit | Not listed | 5 | 20 |
| API access | Not listed | 60 requests per minute | 60 requests per minute |
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Is Crelate worth it compared with the other agency platforms?
On published entry rates Crelate is the cheapest of the per-seat agency platforms that publish anything at all, and the gap widens once you notice it is the only one of them offering a genuinely low two-seat tier. The comparison changes at renewal.
Against Bullhorn, Crelate is cheaper to start on Business than Bullhorn Core at $165 and dearer than Bullhorn Starter at $99. Against Loxo, Crelate's $119 undercuts Loxo's $149 Core, and Crelate does not label its rates a limited time offer or demand the year up front the way Loxo does. Against Recruiterflow, Crelate is cheaper on the annual line, $119 against $119 monthly-equivalent but $149 on Recruiterflow's monthly billing, and both keep their strongest AI behind a tier with no visible price.
The pattern across all four is the same, and it is the reason we keep writing these pages. Every one of them publishes a rate for the system of record and stops publishing at the point where the AI that reads candidates begins. Bullhorn stops at Pro. Recruiterflow stops at the AIRA Plan. Crelate stops at Business Plus, except that its markup quietly says $149. You can price the database. You cannot price the screening.
Which is the practical case for buying the two separately. A per-seat platform charges by how many recruiters have logins, a number that has nothing to do with how many applications arrive. A screening layer priced on volume sits on top of Crelate, Bullhorn or Loxo, reads every inbound application, and hands back a ranked pile with written reasons, at a rate published before the call rather than after it.
| Platform | Published entry rate | Cheapest plan that includes AI matching |
|---|---|---|
| Crelate | $85 Essentials (2 users), $119 Business | Business at $119 for the AI Assistant |
| Bullhorn | $99 per user / month, Starter | Pro, no published rate |
| Recruiterflow | $119 per user / month, annual | AIRA Plan, no published rate |
| Loxo | $149 per user / month, annual, paid up front | Core includes AI search; agents from $199 |
| Ceipal | No rate on its own site | Not published |
| Prescreener | $199 per month, published | Included at every tier |
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