SeekOut pricing: SeekOut AI pricing, the $149 Recruit Core plan, and what AI inbound screening costs

How much does SeekOut cost?

For the entry plan, $149 a month. SeekOut Recruit Core is the only tier with a price on seekout.com: $149 a month paid annually and up front, which is $1,788 a year, or $179 a month on monthly billing. SeekOut advertises the annual option as saving $360 a year, which matches the arithmetic ($179 times 12 is $2,148). The 14-day free trial gives full access to Recruit Core with no credit card and no contract commitment.

Above Core, SeekOut will not publish a number. Recruit Sourcing is per-seat pricing that "adjusts with volume", Sourcing + Integration is packaged to team size, and Full Recruiting Funnel is fully configurable with volume-based pricing available. All three are billed annually and start with a demo. SeekOut's FAQ says it offers volume discounts and custom pricing based on team size, hiring volume and product requirements.

The strongest outside number is Vendr's. Its SeekOut page shows a median buyer paying $20,000 a year, across 65 purchases, in a range of $5,820 to $54,920, with buyers saving 16 percent on average off the first quote. Vendr also publishes seat-band estimates (roughly $15,000 to $35,000 a year for 1 to 5 seats and $40,000 to $90,000 for 6 to 15), which are useful for a sanity check but are Vendr's modelling, not SeekOut's rate card.

Discount the "$10,000 to $30,000 per seat" figure you will find in several competitor articles. It is presented as a budgeting band, not a sourced price, and it does not sit comfortably with Vendr's own $20,000 median for a whole contract. Treat it as an upper-bound guess for enterprise seats, not a quote.

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SeekOut pricing plans: what each tier includes

SeekOut sells SeekOut Recruit in four tiers, and each adds something you cannot buy below it. Recruit Core is self-serve and aimed, in SeekOut's words, at "individual recruiters getting started": unlimited AI search across 1B+ profiles, 30+ filters, 500 contact credits and 1,000 exports a month, email integration with send-on-behalf, AI multi-step campaigns and talent pool insights. The feature table on the same page lists 3 seats included on Core, which does not quite square with the solo framing on the plan card, so confirm the seat count before you pay for a year up front.

Recruit Sourcing adds 750 contacts and 5,000 exports a month per seat, custom and inferred power filters, inferred security clearance, advanced diversity filters, SSO and a dedicated customer success manager. Sourcing + Integration adds the ATS connection: rediscovery of past applicants and silver medalists, unified search across the 1B+ external profiles and your ATS, recruiter usage reports, messaging analytics and market intelligence. Full Recruiting Funnel adds inbound applicant evaluation and AI screening, job-specific rubrics, agentic AI workflows, custom integrations, custom SLAs and white-glove implementation.

Two rows in the table decide most buying decisions. ATS integration does not exist on Core or Recruit Sourcing, so a team that wants SeekOut to see its own applicant database needs at least Sourcing + Integration. And AI Inbound Screening is not available on Core at all.

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SeekOut AI pricing: what AI inbound screening costs

SeekOut does not publish a price for it. Its pricing FAQ describes AI inbound screening as evaluating and scoring "every applicant against your role rubric, so recruiters start from a ranked shortlist", and states that it is "an add-on for Team and Enterprise plans and included at the highest tier". The feature table says the same thing in grid form: dash on Core, Add-on on Recruit Sourcing and Sourcing + Integration, Included on Full Recruiting Funnel. So the real entry price for SeekOut reading your applicants is a custom contract plus an add-on, or the top tier.

The product behind it is SeekOut Sam, launched as SeekOut's inbound evaluation and AI screening solution. Sam reads each applicant's resume against role-specific criteria and surfaces the strongest matches with plain-language explanations, and it can invite candidates to a structured, AI-led screening interview whose transcript, summary and score land with the recruiter. SeekOut says Sam connects to your ATS, evaluates applicants as they apply, never auto-rejects, avoids protected-class signals, keeps audit trails for EEOC and OFCCP reviews, and is SOC 2 Type II audited.

That is a serious product, and for an enterprise already buying SeekOut for sourcing it may be the right add-on. The pricing problem is for everyone else. A team whose bottleneck is the inbound pile, not a shortage of candidates, has to buy a sourcing platform first to get the screening. Candidate scoring software built for the inbound pile prices that job on its own.

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SeekOut cost per month: one Core plan against a team contract

For one Core account the arithmetic is simple: $149 a month if you prepay the year, $179 if you pay monthly. Both give you search, outreach and exports, and neither gives you ATS integration or AI screening of applicants.

For a team, divide Vendr's figures by twelve. The $20,000 median is about $1,667 a month, and the $54,920 high end is about $4,577. Those are contract totals across seats and modules, so the useful question when a quote arrives is which modules push it above the median: extra seats, the ATS integration tier, AI Inbound Screening, or healthcare search, which SeekOut lists as an add-on below Full Recruiting Funnel.

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What should you get in writing in a SeekOut quote?

Because everything above Core is custom, the quote is only as good as its scope. Five items are worth pinning down before you sign.

First, the seat count and what each seat carries, since contact credits and exports are counted per seat on the custom tiers. Second, the tier and the add-ons by name: AI Inbound Screening and healthcare search are add-ons below the top tier, and ATS integration only starts on Sourcing + Integration. Third, the term: all custom tiers are billed annually, and Vendr reports that multi-year prepayment is common and lowers the per-seat rate, so ask for a renewal cap in writing. Fourth, what happens to unused contact credits at month end. Fifth, if screening applicants is the real need, ask for the AI Inbound Screening price on its own and compare it with a dedicated screening tool.

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SeekOut vs Prescreener: which fits a US hiring team?

They solve different ends of the funnel. SeekOut is built for teams that need more candidates: technical, cleared or healthcare roles where the right person is not applying and a recruiter has to find them among a billion profiles and run the outreach. If that is your bottleneck, SeekOut's search depth and its cleared-talent and healthcare data are the reason to pay for it, and Core at $149 a month is an inexpensive way to test it.

Prescreener fits when the pipeline is already full. A role that draws 250 applications, a recruiter who reads the first 30, and qualified people buried under the rest: Prescreener reads every one, applies your knockout and eligibility rules the same way to everyone, scores role-fit with the evidence behind each score, and ranks the pile, with a person making every decision. Plans are $199, $499 or $1,290 a month for the account on the Prescreener pricing page, month to month.

If SeekOut is on a shortlist with hireEZ, our SeekOut vs hireEZ comparison covers the head-to-head, including which plan of each scores inbound applicants. The hireEZ pricing page covers the closest sourcing rival, the Eightfold AI pricing breakdown covers the enterprise talent-intelligence option, and the ATS pricing comparison lists every vendor that publishes a rate.

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