SeekOut Pricing: What Recruit Core Costs, What Its Three Seats Include, and Where the Custom Tiers Start

SeekOut Recruit Core costs $149 a month when paid annually and up front, which SeekOut prints as $1,788 a year, or $179 a month when billed monthly, which works out to $2,148 a year. The page states the annual term saves $360 a year, and the arithmetic is exact: $2,148 less $1,788 is $360. That is the only dollar figure on the page.

Three more plans sit beside it, each labelled Custom and billed annually. Recruit Sourcing is described as per-seat pricing that adjusts with volume. Sourcing plus Integration is packaged to team size. The Full Recruiting Funnel tier is described as fully configurable, with volume-based pricing available. None of the three shows a starting number, a seat minimum or a range, so anyone above the self-serve seat is quoting rather than reading.

The FAQ on the same page confirms the shape: SeekOut says it offers volume discounts and directs teams to sales for custom pricing based on team size, hiring volume and product requirements. In practice that means the published price answers the question for a solo sourcer or a very small desk, and is silent for everyone else.

Core is a real product rather than a teaser. The plan card lists unlimited search, what SeekOut describes as 1B+ profiles, AI search, 30+ filters, standard power filters, 500 contact credits a month, 1,000 exports a month, Excel, PDF and ATS export, email integration with send on behalf, AI multi-step campaigns, talent pool insights and the help center. The comparison table adds that there is no cap on search results and no query limit at any tier.

The two numbers to underline are 500 and 1,000. Contact credits are what reveal a candidate's email or phone, and exports are how the profile leaves SeekOut for your ATS or a spreadsheet. Both are stated per month for the plan, not per seat. A solo sourcer gets 500 reveals a month. A three-person desk sharing the plan gets the same 500, or about 167 each.

What Core does not include is also explicit: no SSO, no custom or advanced inferred power filters, no inferred security clearance, no advanced diversity filters and insights, no ATS integration, no dedicated customer success, and no healthcare search. Those start on the Sourcing tier or above.

Yes, and it is the most generous trial in this category. The page offers 14 days of full access to SeekOut Recruit Core with no credit card and no contract commitment, and the FAQ repeats that the trial runs real searches against the full database. hireEZ offers seven days. Loxo offers a seven-day trial of Professional with no card. Recruiterflow and Bullhorn publish no self-serve trial at all and route through a demo.

There is no free plan. The trial is only listed for Recruit Core; the comparison table shows a dash under free trial for the three custom tiers.

It makes sense when sourcing is the bottleneck. A recruiter who cannot find enough qualified, passive candidates in the first place has a database problem, and $149 a month with a real two-week trial is the cheapest published way to test whether a bigger index fixes it. The three shared seats make it an unusually good fit for a two or three-person agency desk that would never clear the seat minimums elsewhere.

It makes less sense when replies are the bottleneck. SeekOut Core includes AI multi-step campaigns, but 500 contact reveals a month is the ceiling on how many people a desk can even address, and the campaigns send through your existing mailbox rather than through warmed sending infrastructure with suppression and per-desk reporting. If your consultants already have candidate lists and the problem is that outreach goes unanswered, the outreach layer is the thing to buy, and it is buyable on its own for about a quarter of SeekOut's price. Our recruitment outreach tool covers how candidate sequencing and client business development run in one account, and the RPO outreach software page covers the per-client separation an RPO desk needs that a shared sourcing seat cannot provide.

The honest split is that plenty of desks need both, and the two do not compete for the same budget line. SeekOut finds the person. The outreach layer gets them to answer. The wider comparison of every tool in the category is on best outreach tool for recruiting agencies, and the ATS side of the same decision is worked through on Bullhorn pricing and Recruiterflow pricing.