Metaview

Metaview sorts, finds and screens, and you pay for each part separately

You can try it free, and every applicant gets a reason

It suits teams with piles of applications, hard roles or big LinkedIn bills

More than 7,000 organisations trust Metaview. Its customer stories cover companies from 50 to more than 1,300 people.

Fit is not quality, and the contract favours Metaview

Every part starts free, and Sourcing then costs $100 a user a month

Metaview prices each part on its own. All fees are in US dollars.

Application Review has a free plan for 50 applications a month. The Pro plan costs $150 a month for 500 reviews, with unlimited users. Each review uses one “credit”, a prepaid unit. Free credits come back every month. Unused credits do not carry over. When credits run out, active reviews pause. If you resume a paused review, it may use credits for every candidate who arrived in the meantime.

Sourcing is priced per user. Pro is $100 a month for 200 profiles. Max is $300 a month for unlimited profiles. The free plan covers your first 100 profiles and its credits do not refresh. Free trial seats also cap the number of searches and profiles you can view. Enterprise pricing is tailored. Each person using Metaview needs their own account. A seat can move to another person once a calendar month. Single sign-on is not in the free plan or standard Pro plans. It lets staff sign in with the company’s own login.

Outreach has 500 free credits an account each month, shared and not carried over. Extra credits cost $10 per 100 and last six months. You only pay for an email address or phone number when Metaview finds one. Screening uses one credit for each finished interview. New accounts get free starter credits. Credits you buy expire, and the date shows at purchase. New candidates can enrol only while you have credits.

Paid seats can run month to month. Subscriptions renew for the first term or one year, whichever is shorter. They require 30 days’ written notice before the term ends. Fees are not refundable. Metaview does not refund late cancellations. A plan change takes effect at the next renewal if you ask at least 24 hours before it. Once you cancel, the account moves to a free plan. The free plan can change at any time without notice.

UK law governs the terms. The parties first spend at least sixty days trying to settle a dispute, and then go to binding arbitration. When the contract ends, Metaview deletes or returns personal data, except data held on backups. Backups stay isolated until they can be deleted securely. The default retention period is 2 years and can change on request. Ask what that period covers. The data processing agreement commits Metaview to tell you about a personal data breach within 48 hours.

Eight questions before you sign

1. Which of our applicant system actions come back from Metaview, and which stay in Metaview? Good answer: A written list for our system, covering decisions, notes and outreach.
2. Will you give us a notice period and an uptime promise in our order form? Good answer: Yes, in writing, instead of the standard terms that promise no availability.
3. Do we get a warning before credits run out? Can we skip the backlog when reviews restart? Good answer: Yes to both, in writing, so no credits go on a backlog we did not choose.
4. Who on our side can switch on Reject at deadline or Auto-enroll, and is every change logged? Good answer: Only named admins, with a log we can export.
5. Which outside data suppliers behind the sourcing database do you use for our region? Good answer: A named list and the countries involved.
6. What does one finished Screening interview cost, and what does a pack of interviews cost? Good answer: A written price per interview, with the expiry date of bought credits.
7. Can a sequence send WhatsApp messages on its own? Good answer: A clear yes or no for our account, in writing.
8. Will you remove the right to use our de-identified data for machine learning? Good answer: Yes, as a change to the terms in our order form.

Alternatives to Metaview

If Metaview does not fit, look at Ashby, Greenhouse, Gem, SeekOut, Juicebox, HeyMilo and Humanly, or buy nothing.

Ashby and Greenhouse are applicant systems that carry their own AI review of applicants. In Ashby you set the criteria for a job and AI shows which applicants match. Greenhouse sorts applications by how well they match the job criteria you define. Using one of these means one supplier and one contract instead of two. Gem also sells AI application review, which scores and ranks every applicant. Gem has a separate AI assistant that searches more than 800 million profiles.

SeekOut and Juicebox are closer to Metaview’s Sourcing. SeekOut searches nearly one billion public profiles and also reviews applicants. Juicebox is built around typing a search in ordinary words. Its pool holds more than 800 million profiles. HeyMilo and Humanly are closer to Screening. HeyMilo screens applicants by voice, video, text message and forms in more than 20 languages. Humanly is built for hourly, frontline and high volume hiring.

Buying nothing is also a real choice. Metaview’s free allowances let you test that choice before you pay.