hireEZ vs SeekOut vs Juicebox compared
Three candidate search platforms compared on published price, how wide each one reads, contact credits at the entry tier and the outreach.
All three do the same first job, which is turning a description of a person into a list of people. They differ after that. hireEZ adds the middle of the funnel, with screening, scheduling and analytics, and prices larger teams against the tools it replaces. SeekOut is the data play, with the widest database here and the option to search your own past applicants beside it. Juicebox is the cheapest published way in, with plain language search and a free tier you can try before anyone calls you.
| Criterion | hireEZ | SeekOut | Juicebox |
|---|---|---|---|
| A price you can read without a call | A published monthly rate for a solo recruiter, with a trial of a week. Larger teams are quoted against the tools it replaces | A published monthly rate for the entry plan, cheaper paid annually, three seats included. Everything above it is custom | A free tier, then two published per seat monthly rates, with a discount for annual billing. The top tier is custom |
| How wide the search reads | More than forty five platforms | Over a billion people, and on the higher tiers your own tracking system searched alongside them | Eight hundred million records from dozens of sources, searched in plain language |
| Contact credits at the entry tier | Not published as a credit count | Five hundred contacts a month, rising to seven hundred and fifty a seat | Five hundred contacts and five hundred exports, rising to fifteen hundred each a seat |
| Outreach and links to your own systems | A talent pool, a scheduler and native links to dozens of tracking systems | Integrated mail with sending on your behalf, and rediscovery of your own past applicants higher up | Mail with one mailbox at entry and more above it, and links to dozens of tracking systems and customer records |
| What sits on top of the search | Conversational screening, a scheduler and hiring analytics | Market intelligence, and agentic workflows on the top tier | An agent add on, priced per agent per month |
| When it is the right choice | You already run a tracking system and want the whole middle of the funnel in one place | Breadth of data matters most, and re-reading your own database is worth money to you | A small team wants plain language search at the lowest published entry price |
Which one is the right choice
Take hireEZ if you already have a tracking system you are keeping and the bottleneck is everything between the list and the interview. It is the only one of the three that sells the screening and scheduling part as a first class piece, and it prices the larger teams against the stack it replaces rather than per seat, which is either a better deal or a longer conversation depending on how many tools you actually retire.
Take SeekOut if the constraint is data. Over a billion people is the widest reach here, the diversity filters are real rather than a checkbox, and searching your own past applicants next to the open market is worth more than it sounds when a role has been open before. Take Juicebox if you want to see whether this whole category helps you at all. A free tier and a published per seat rate is a small bet, and plain language search means nobody has to learn Boolean first.
Read the credit line, not the database size
The number that decides what a seat is worth is not how many people the tool can see. It is how many it lets you contact in a month. A database of a billion with five hundred contact credits is a five hundred person tool, and if the relevant pool for your role is larger than that, the credits run out before the market does. Compare the credit lines, per seat, at the tier you would actually buy.
What the tools hand you, and what they do not
Every platform here ends the same way. You get a list and a blank message. Working out which forty of the three hundred names actually fit, writing to each one about your specific role rather than a template, answering what comes back within a day, and keeping that up for a month is the work, and it is the part that stops when the quarter gets busy. That is not a criticism of the tools. It is what a tool is.
Where a monthly search sits beside it
We do that part instead of selling you the licence. For one hard to fill role we find the most relevant people in your market whether they are looking or not, tell each of them about that role, answer the replies, and bring the best few to a call with your team, at about a tenth of a recruiting agency. Nobody on your side logs into anything. If the post is a narrow one, say a GenAI engineer, see the alternatives to a full recruiter seat or read how it works.
If we would be a fit, we will bring a shortlist of the best few candidates for your role to the call.
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