First, the disambiguation Google keeps fumbling: this is about Juicebox the AI recruiting platform, formerly known as PeopleGPT, not the JuiceBox that charges your electric car. If you came here for the EV charger, that one runs $430 to $700 and this is the wrong article.
For the recruiting tool, the pricing story has a gap in it. Juicebox advertises plans from $99 a seat, the pricing page opens on that number, and a solo recruiter who sets the product up the way Juicebox itself recommends, one seat plus one always-on agent, pays $298 a month before doing anything else. None of those numbers is a lie. They answer different questions, and the sales page volunteers the smallest one.
This is the full breakdown: every tier, what unlocks where, what the agents cost, and what your real monthly bill looks like by team size. All numbers read on Juicebox's pricing page on 7 September 2026.
How much does Juicebox cost in 2026?
Juicebox has four tiers and two billing modes, and the toggle is where most of the confusion comes from. The page loads on the annual view, so the first number you see is the discounted one: Starter at $99 per seat per month, Growth at $179. Pay month to month and those become $119 and $199. Business is custom and annual only. Juicebox Agents, the always-on sourcing automation, are a separate add-on at $199 per agent per month on any paid plan.
| Plan | Annual billing | Monthly billing | Contact credits | What is gated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 5, one-off | Trial searches only, no export, no outreach |
| Starter | $99/seat | $119/seat | 500/month | No phone numbers, no ATS or CRM sync, 1 seat, 1 mailbox |
| Growth | $179/seat | $199/seat | 1,500/seat/month | Still no ATS or CRM sync, max 5 seats, 3 mailboxes |
| Business | Custom, annual only | Not offered | Unlimited | ATS and CRM integrations, SSO, invoicing live here |
| Agents add-on | $199/agent/month | $199/agent/month | Unlimited inside the agent | Available on all paid plans |
One warning about that table, and about every other article quoting Juicebox prices. The billing toggle does not visibly change state when you click it, so the annual and monthly numbers are easy to swap by accident. We have done it ourselves. If a figure you read somewhere is $20 off from ours, that is why.
Tier by tier: what unlocks where
Free is a test drive, not a plan. You get the natural-language search, five one-off contact credits, and the agent setup screen. Five credits is enough to confirm the reveal works and nothing more, and there is no export at all. Its job is to sell you Starter, and to be fair, the search demo usually does.
Starter gives you unlimited searches, which matters because the search really is the product's best feature. You describe who you want in plain English and get a usable list without Boolean gymnastics. The credits column is where it bites: 500 contact credits a month, and this is the one place Juicebox contradicts itself on its own page. The plan card says "500 contact credits (email + phone)". The comparison table below it puts a dash against phone numbers on Starter and prices them at three credits on Growth. Read the table, not the card, and if calling candidates is part of your workflow, assume Starter does not do it.
Growth is where the product becomes what the marketing describes. Phone numbers arrive at three credits each, personal emails at one, credits go to 1,500 per seat, Talent Insights unlocks, and you can add up to five seats. What still does not arrive: ATS and CRM integrations. A five-person agency running Greenhouse or Bullhorn cannot sync Juicebox to it on Growth. You export CSVs and import them by hand, per candidate batch, forever.
Business is custom-priced, annual only, and it is where Juicebox keeps everything an agency operationalises on: the 41 ATS and 21 CRM integrations, unlimited contact credits, SSO, invoice billing, network sourcing, priority support. There is no published number, so plan on a sales call and four figures a month for a team. The structural point buyers should see clearly is that the integration you probably consider table stakes is the top tier's moat, and that reaching it means giving up monthly billing entirely.
The pattern across tiers is consistent. The price you see assumes you never call a candidate, never sync your ATS, and do not want the agent. Each of those assumptions costs extra to remove.
Juicebox Agents: what $199 a month actually buys
The agent is Juicebox's flagship idea and, credit where due, a real one. You configure a role, and the agent runs around the clock against the 800M-profile index (vendor-reported), delivering fresh matches and adjusting to your thumbs-up and thumbs-down feedback. You can set it to auto-shortlist or to auto-email candidates, and contact credits are unlimited inside an agent, which quietly matters given how tight the Starter allowance is.
The irony is in the packaging. The feature Juicebox markets as its differentiator is a $199-per-agent monthly add-on, so the teams most price-sensitive about the seat fee are the least likely to ever experience the product's main argument. One seat plus one agent is $298 a month on annual billing, $318 month to month. That is the realistic entry price of the AI recruiting platform experience, not $99.
How the agent stacks against the category (LinkedIn Hiring Assistant, Gem, Pin, and the rest) is a separate article; we compared ten of them with the same test in our AI sourcing agents roundup. Philosophy note for context: Juicebox's agent will auto-send outreach if you let it, while some competitors, ours included, deliberately keep a human review gate before anything sends. Which default you want is a real decision, not a feature checkbox.
The real monthly bill, by team
Sticker prices do not describe real setups, so we did the arithmetic for common ones. Both columns, because the gap between them is the whole point.
| Team | Setup | Annual billing | Monthly billing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solo recruiter, email outreach only | Starter + 1 agent | $298 | $318 |
| Solo recruiter who calls candidates | Growth + 1 agent | $378 | $398 |
| 3-seat agency, 2 roles on autopilot | Growth x3 + 2 agents | $935 | $995 |
| Agency that needs ATS sync | Business + agents | Custom; plan on four figures | Not offered |
The credit math on Starter is worth doing yourself rather than trusting the headline. 500 contact credits is one candidate's details per credit. At a steady 15 to 20 new candidates a day you land between 450 and 600 a month, so Starter either just covers your pace or runs out in the last week, and there is no middle setting. It is a tighter fit than the number suggests, and one busy fortnight tips it. We put the per-credit prices across the whole category side by side in what one contactable candidate actually costs.
What users actually complain about
Read through review sites and the r/recruiting threads on Juicebox (this Reddit discussion is representative) and the same themes repeat.
The praise is consistent: the natural-language search genuinely works, and it is fast. The complaints are consistent too. Results skew toward candidates with big public footprints, meaning the same people every other tool also surfaces. Output quality tracks prompt quality closely, so vague briefs return vague lists and there is a real learning curve nobody mentions in the demo. Reviewers also flag the absence of a Chrome extension for enriching profiles while browsing LinkedIn, and English-only search, which matters for anyone hiring across non-English markets.
None of this is disqualifying. It is the profile of a young product that nailed one thing, conversational search over an aggregated index, and is still building out the workflow around it.
The LinkedIn Recruiter money math
Juicebox's favourite comparison is LinkedIn Recruiter, and on raw price it wins in a walk: $119 to $398 a month against Recruiter Lite at about $1,680 a year and Corporate seats at $10,800 to $15,000 a year. A Corporate seat is roughly $900 a month, so a solo Juicebox setup with an agent runs at about a third of it. Our LinkedIn Recruiter pricing breakdown has the full seat-by-seat math.
Price is not the whole trade, though. Leaving LinkedIn Recruiter means leaving InMail, and LinkedIn profiles stay fresher because candidates maintain them personally, while aggregated indexes lag on job changes. The overlap between what both tools surface is also large, since strong candidates exist in every major index. Which is why the smarter frame for most solo and agency recruiters is not to replace LinkedIn with a cheaper database, but to keep the LinkedIn presence you need and put the heavy sourcing on a tool with better unit economics. That stack logic is what our for-recruiters page is built around, and it applies whether the second tool is Juicebox, Glozo, or Pin. For the full field ranked by price and search quality, see our guide to LinkedIn Recruiter alternatives.
Alternatives worth pricing out
Glozo. Intent-based search over profiles aggregated from 30+ sources, and the part Juicebox charges $199 a month for comes free: the Sourcing Agent runs your search continuously in the background at no cost, in manual mode (it surfaces and explains matches; you decide who gets contacted, it will not auto-send). Every profile also carries a Market Value estimate and an Open to Offers signal, so you know who fits the budget and who is likely receptive before spending credits, which is the part of the sourcing stack that aggregated databases do not do. Free tier to start, then $79 a month for a solo seat with 300 reveals. Where Juicebox wins instead: if auto-sent outreach from the agent is specifically what you want, Juicebox ships it and we deliberately do not yet.
Pin. The packaging counterweight: $99 to $249 per user a month on annual billing with agents included in every plan rather than sold as an add-on. Young company, fast-moving product, published pricing.
hireEZ. Closer to enterprise sourcing, and it moved this year: it now publishes a solo seat at $494 a month and quotes everything above it, with a median contract around $13,000 a year. That makes it roughly four times the Juicebox entry, with deeper outbound tooling and its own credit-and-renewal fine print. We broke it down in the hireEZ pricing guide.
SeekOut. The biggest index of the group (1B+ profiles, vendor-reported), and now with a self-serve seat at $149 a month on annual billing before the custom tiers start; see our SeekOut pricing review. For agencies that want a recruiting CRM at the centre instead, Loxo's pricing starts at $149 per user per month, annual and paid up front.
When Juicebox makes sense, and when it does not
Juicebox is a good buy for a solo recruiter or small team without LinkedIn Recruiter budget, hiring in English-speaking markets, mostly tech and tech-adjacent roles, and specifically wanting outreach to run on autopilot. The search is real, the published pricing is a category rarity that deserves respect, and $298 a month all-in still comes in at about a third of one Corporate LinkedIn seat.
It is a poor fit if your workflow needs phone numbers on a starter budget, which is a Growth-tier feature whatever the plan card implies. Or ATS sync without an enterprise contract, which is the custom tier, and annual billing with it. Or non-English sourcing. Or if what you actually lack is signal about candidates rather than more names: nothing in Juicebox tells you what a candidate likely earns or whether they are open to moving, and at these prices the tools that do are worth pricing against it.
Whatever you pick, do the one exercise this whole article argues for. Write down your real setup, seats, agents, phones, integrations, price that, and ignore the number in the ad.