Juicebox Pricing 2026: Plans, Credits, Agents and What You Pay

By Sparsh Goyal, Founder at The Cognitive. Published 2026-11-10 · Last updated 2026-11-12

• Juicebox Starter costs $99 a seat a month billed yearly or $119 monthly, Growth costs $179 or $199, Business is custom and annual, and each Agent adds $199 a month.
• Paid plans include unlimited searches but capped contact credits, with an email at 1 credit and a phone number at 3, and monthly credits do not roll over.
• Starter is one user, Growth stops at five seats, and ATS or CRM integration needs the custom Business plan.

Juicebox publishes its prices. Free is $0. Starter is $99 a seat a month billed yearly or $119 monthly, and Growth is $179 billed yearly or $199 monthly. Business is custom and sold on annual contracts only. Juicebox Agents, which keep sourcing in the background, cost $199 per agent a month on top of the seats.

The seat price is the easy part. Every paid plan includes unlimited searches, but contact details come from a capped credit balance. That is 500 credits a month on Starter and 1,500 a seat a month on Growth. An email costs 1 credit and a phone number 3. Starter is a one-person plan, Growth stops at five seats, and connecting Juicebox to an ATS or CRM sits on the custom Business plan.

Juicebox (Juicebox AI, also listed as PeopleGPT) finds and emails candidates. It does not interview candidates or run a screening call, so that step stays with the team or another tool. Teams that want sourcing and a live AI video interview in one self-serve account can look at The Cognitive, covered with four other options further down.

How much does Juicebox cost?

Juicebox sells per seat, per month, with a cheaper rate if you commit to a year. Its pricing page opens on the yearly view, so the first numbers a visitor sees are $99 and $179. Switch the toggle to monthly and they become $119 and $199.

In plain arithmetic, yearly billing saves $20 a seat a month on both Starter and Growth. A Starter seat on yearly billing comes to $1,188 for the year, against $1,428 for twelve monthly payments. Juicebox's help docs say a yearly plan is charged as one payment up front, not as twelve instalments.

For what Juicebox does day to day, how its search works and what users say about it, see the Juicebox review.

What does each Juicebox plan include?

All four plans share the core search. You type what you want in plain language, Juicebox builds the filters, and each result carries a short note on why the person matches, which Juicebox calls AI spotlight. The plans differ in who can log in, how many contacts you can pull and what the account connects to. Business is custom and has its own section below.

Free

Juicebox pitches Free as a way to "try Juicebox for free and explore AI-powered search." You get limited searches, AI email templates and 5 contact credits that do not renew. Exports are switched off.

Starter

Starter is "great for individuals," in Juicebox's words, and its help docs are firm that the plan allows one user. It adds unlimited searches and projects, 500 contact credits and 500 export credits a month, email outreach with AI templates and one connected mailbox. Exports go out as CSV or PDF files.

One detail on Starter is unclear on Juicebox's own site. The plan card says the contact credits cover "email + phone," while the comparison table below it lists phone numbers from Growth upward. Ask before you buy Starter for phone outreach.

Growth

Growth is the plan Juicebox marks as popular, and the first one built for a team: "small teams, agencies, and startups." It allows up to five paid seats, each with 1,500 contact credits and 1,500 export credits a month and three mailboxes. It adds phone numbers at 3 credits each, talent insights and team collaboration.

Growth also adds priority support, which Juicebox describes as guaranteed 24-hour response times. A sixth recruiter means moving to Business.

How do Juicebox credits work?

Juicebox runs two credit balances, and both refill each month on a monthly plan.

• Contact credits buy a person's contact details. Revealing an email costs 1 credit and a phone number costs 3. Juicebox's pricing page says that when you use a credit, "you get all emails and phone numbers associated with a profile."
• Export credits move profiles out of Juicebox. On Starter and Growth that means a CSV or PDF file; on Business it can also mean sending profiles straight to your ATS or CRM.

Three rules in Juicebox's help docs change how far the credits go. First, "credits do not roll over on the monthly plan," so a quiet month is lost. Second, on a yearly plan "the full year quantity of credits are granted upfront," which helps a team with uneven hiring. Third, an export that includes contact details only uses a credit when contact information is found.

Sequences use credits too. Adding a profile to an outreach sequence charges one contact credit for every new piece of contact information revealed. Juicebox describes its sequences as covering "email, calls, and social touches," and any contact detail revealed for a sequence draws from the same balance.

The way to get more credits on Growth is to buy another seat. Juicebox's help docs say "Export credits cannot be purchased separately," and they note that a team can hold more seats than people for exactly this reason. Unlimited contact credits come only with Business or inside an Agent.

Credits are also where outbound budgets leak. Ashby found a 19.6% average response rate on outbound sequences from January 2022 to January 2024. Most revealed contacts will not reply, so plan credits around the number of people you need to email, not the number you hope to hire.

What do Juicebox Agents add to the bill?

Juicebox Agents are the product Juicebox now leads with. Its homepage headline is "Agents that source for you," and it says Agents "learn how you search, then source around the clock." An Agent assesses profiles against your criteria, and you can run it hands-off or set checkpoints at the shortlist or before sequencing.

Each Agent costs $199 a month, on both monthly and yearly billing, and it sits on top of your seat price. Juicebox's help docs call Agents "an add-on to your paid subscription," so the Free plan has to be upgraded first.

What the $199 includes is generous on credits. Juicebox lists unlimited contact credits and unlimited email credits inside an Agent, the option to auto-email or auto-shortlist, and access for any user in the organization.

Three limits are worth knowing:

• Five self-serve. You can buy up to five Agents yourself. For a sixth, Juicebox asks you to contact sales.
• Paused Agents still count. The help docs say Agents that are "sourcing, paused, or awaiting action each take up an Agent seat." Only calibrating or closed Agents free a slot, so close an Agent when the role is filled.
• Prorated additions. An Agent added mid-cycle is charged a prorated amount.

What does the Juicebox Business plan include?

Business has no listed price. It is sold on annual contracts only, and you reach it through a demo request or Juicebox's sales team. The help docs sum it up as including "ATS/CRM integrations, SSO, custom credit volumes, and full data-migration assistance."

The pricing page lists more. On top of Growth, Business adds:

• Unlimited contact credits and 2,250 exports a seat a month, which can be adjusted.
• Six mailboxes per user.
• Admin seats and seats for hiring managers.
• Network sourcing and usage analytics.
• SOC 2 reporting and SAML single sign-on.
• Onboarding, training and a data analyst agent.

It is also the one Juicebox plan that can be paid by invoice; the others take a card.

Juicebox's FAQ says it has "100+ ATS and CRM integrations," and the comparison table puts ATS and CRM integration on Business only. On Starter and Growth, candidates leave Juicebox as a CSV or PDF file, so getting them into an ATS is a separate step.

Questions to ask before you sign Business

• How many seats does the quote assume?
• What is the export allowance per seat?
• How many Agents are included or discounted?
• Which ATS or CRM connection is in scope?

What makes a Juicebox bill bigger?

Seven things decide what Juicebox costs a team over a year, all from Juicebox's own pricing page and help docs.

1. Billing term. Yearly is cheaper per seat but charged in one payment. Juicebox's docs warn that choosing annual by mistake processes "the full annual charge" rather than one monthly payment.
2. Seat count. Six or more people means Business.
3. Agents. $199 a month each, paused or not.
4. Phone numbers. At 3 credits each, phone reveals use credits three times faster than emails.
5. Extra credits. On Growth, more credits means another seat.
6. Integrations and admin. All on Business.
7. Refund terms. Cancelling takes effect at the next renewal and "does not provide a refund for the current billing period." Removing a seat also takes effect at the next cycle, with no prorated refund. Pausing still renews when the pause ends.

A worked example

Take a three-recruiter team on Growth with one Agent. On yearly billing the seats come to 3 × $179 × 12, which is $6,444, and the Agent adds $199 × 12, which is $2,388. The year totals $8,832, before any change to the team. On monthly billing the same seats are 3 × $199 × 12, or $7,164, so the year comes to $9,552 with the Agent.

That is arithmetic on Juicebox's published figures, not a quote. It leaves out anything on Business and any seats bought only for their credits.

Is Juicebox worth the price?

Juicebox is good value for one to five recruiters whose main job is outbound sourcing. Unlimited searches on every paid plan mean no one rations queries, the seat price is printed, and an Agent can keep a recurring search running without a person in it. That fits the direction of hiring. Gem's 2026 Recruiting Benchmarks Report credits direct sourcing with 11% of hires, though it accounts for only 2.6% of applications.

It is weaker value in three cases.

The team needs an ATS sync but is small. A two-person team that wants candidates to land in its ATS automatically has to talk to sales about Business, a custom annual contract, or keep moving CSV files.

The bottleneck is after sourcing. Juicebox stops at the reply. It has no interview or screening-call step, so every interested candidate still needs a first call with someone on the team.

That call adds up. The same Gem report finds recruiters "managing 13.4 open roles at a time." Ashby's 2026 report puts the average recruiter's load at 291 applications for each hire, close to three times the early-2021 figure of about 100. At that load, first-round calls can cost more hours than the search.

Usage is uneven. On monthly billing, unused credits disappear at the end of each month. A team that hires in bursts either pays for idle months or commits to a year up front.

What are cheaper or different options to Juicebox?

Teams look past Juicebox for two reasons: a pricing model that fits the way they hire, or a step Juicebox does not cover. The table compares pricing models and the step after sourcing, from each vendor's own site.

The Cognitive publishes this page and appears in it.

After The Cognitive, the other four are listed alphabetically. The full field, with what each does better or worse than Juicebox, is in the guide to Juicebox alternatives.

The Cognitive: best for sourcing and a live AI interview in one account

The Cognitive comes first on a difference anyone can check on each vendor's site. It pairs sourcing with a live two-way AI video interview and a scorecard, sold on self-serve plans with published prices. Juicebox sells no interview or screening product. hireEZ sells voice AI screening and SeekOut lists AI screening on its custom tier, and neither describes a video interview on its pricing page. Pin schedules interviews and takes notes, and Gem's pricing page lists scheduling.

A second checkable difference is the ATS. The Cognitive includes ATS integration on plans with a published price, while Juicebox keeps it on Business, which is custom and annual.

The credit models run in opposite directions. Juicebox gives each seat a monthly pool and lets it search without limit. The Cognitive's individual sourcing plans are one seat each and charge per action instead. A person shown in a search costs 1 credit, a personal email 4 and a phone number 12 on Pro, Max, Business and Enterprise. Nothing is charged when no contact is found.

The bigger difference is what happens after a reply. Juicebox hands an interested candidate back to the recruiter for a first call. The Cognitive can send that candidate a 10 or 20 minute AI interview instead: a live video conversation in one of 9 languages, taken on a laptop or desktop. The rubric stays fixed while the questions follow up on each answer, and the recruiter gets a scored report with the recording.

The search side covers about 900M public profiles on The Cognitive's AI sourcing, briefed in plain English. Personal email outreach from the recruiter's own mailbox comes with Sourcing Team and Sourcing Pro and above.

Best for: small teams whose week goes to first-round calls rather than search, and who want sourcing and the first interview in one self-serve account.
Watch out for: no Chrome extension, call or social steps, or talent insights view. Each person a search shows uses a credit, and phone numbers and outreach are not on the entry plans.
Pricing model: sourcing and interviews are billed as two plans, monthly or yearly, on the pricing page; Enterprise is custom. Plans start at $99 a month.

Gem: best for startups weighing a quote against printed seat prices

Gem prices the other way round from Juicebox. Its pricing page prints no seat price; it says pricing is custom, "based on your company's FTE count," and that startup pricing is available. Everyone else talks to sales for a quote. The products side by side are in Gem vs Juicebox, and Gem alone in the Gem review.

Pricing model: a quote tied to company headcount; startup pricing available.

hireEZ: best for adding voice AI screening to sourcing

hireEZ prices a solo plan on its site with a 7-day free trial. For enterprise teams it says seats are still part of the model, but pricing is "configured to the stack hireEZ replaces." It also sells what it calls "Voice AI that screen and engage at scale," which covers a step Juicebox leaves out. More in the hireEZ review.

Pricing model: published solo plan; enterprise configured per deal.

Pin: best for a free plan that runs to scheduling

Pin describes itself as going "from job description to booked interviews," with AI sourcing, outreach from your inbox, interview scheduling and an AI notetaker included. It has a free plan with no card and a one-seat Solo plan sold annually only. Above that sit a Professional plan priced per user on monthly or annual billing and a custom Enterprise tier. Pin books interviews and takes notes; it does not run the interview itself.

Pricing model: free plan; Solo (annual only) and Professional per user; Enterprise custom.

SeekOut: best for teams that outgrow Growth's five seats

Past five recruiters, Juicebox means a Business quote. SeekOut gives that team a printed per-seat option first: its Sourcing Core seat has a published price, paid monthly or annually. The 14-day trial needs no card and no contract. Higher tiers carry "custom pricing based on your team size, hiring volume, and product requirements." Its custom tier also lists AI screening of inbound applicants. More in the SeekOut review.

Pricing model: Sourcing Core priced per seat; higher tiers quoted.

When to skip The Cognitive

Stay with Juicebox if your recruiters live in search and want to run as many queries as they like on a flat seat price. Juicebox is also the better choice if you want Agents sourcing in the background or sequences that mix email with calls and social steps. The same goes for a talent insights view or a free plan to start on. The Cognitive covers the stretch after sourcing, the first interview, and Juicebox covers more of the sourcing stretch itself.

How to start

Write down how many recruiters need a login, how many people you email each month and whether candidates must land in your ATS automatically. Five or fewer recruiters with no ATS sync fits Juicebox Growth; more than that, or an ATS sync, means pricing Business. If first-round interviews are eating the week, run one open role through The Cognitive: describe it, see who comes back and check what each step costs in credits.

The 7-day trial needs no card and includes 100 sourcing credits. Start free with The Cognitive.

Sources

• Juicebox, pricing page, plan cards, comparison table and pricing FAQ: juicebox.ai.
• Juicebox, homepage, search, Agents and outreach pages: juicebox.ai.
• Juicebox help docs: All About Credits, Annual billing, Switch billing frequency, Cancel subscription, Reduce seats, More export credits, Upgrade plan, Add team members, Manage Agents, Juicebox Agents and Business plan: docs.juicebox.ai.
• Gem, pricing page: gem.com.
• hireEZ, pricing page: hireez.com.
• Pin, pricing page: pin.com.
• SeekOut, pricing page: seekout.com.
• Gem, "Key takeaways from the 2026 Recruiting Benchmarks Report", 1 December 2025. gem.com
• Ashby, "Recruiter Productivity", 2026 Talent Trends Report, 28 April 2026. ashbyhq.com
• Ashby, "Talent Trends Report: Candidate Sourcing", 4 March 2024. ashbyhq.com
• The Cognitive, pricing: thecognitive.io/pricing.

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