Pin finds people who have not applied, writes to them and books their interviews

Pin sources, scores, writes and books for a recruiter, from $99 a month

Where Pin gives you control and safeguards

Who Pin is sold to and the results it shows

Recruiters accept 83% of the candidates Pin recommends into pipelines. That means a recruiter keeps them for a role. Hiring managers approve 84% of the candidates Pin shortlists. Pin’s 2026 survey of more than 2,000 organisations using Pin found an average time to fill of 14 days. More than 2,000 recruiting teams use Pin. Love Thy Recruiting, Inc. makes Pin. Steven Lu founded it in 2024 and Expa backed it with $3M of seed funding.

Where Pin stops, from regions to LinkedIn

What Pin costs and how you leave

Pin has four plans. Free has a hard cap on lookups, and you cannot buy more on it. Solo costs $99 a month for one user on annual billing and includes 500 lookups. Professional shows two prices, $135 and $179 a month per user, and includes 1,000 lookups per user each month. Paying yearly takes 25% off. Business is priced by quote. It includes unlimited seats, lookups and AI agents.

Pin charges a credit, also called a lookup, each time it finds an email address or phone number. A phone lookup costs 1 credit. Automatic phone searches in a follow-up series cost 2 credits for each number found. Credits are shared across the team and unused ones do not roll over. Extra credits come in packs of 250 for $50.

Connecting an applicant tracking system is an add-on on the paid plans. Premium integrations cost $100 a month. Free Mode has no phone lookups and no applicant tracking connection. A Free Mode user can review 50 candidates a week.

The online Terms of Service set a subscription period of one month, paid automatically. You must give 30 days’ notice before the period ends to stop it renewing. Pin can change its prices on 30 days’ notice. If you sign a separate cover page with Pin, it replaces the online terms while it runs. Pin’s liability is capped at the fees paid or payable in the 12 months before a claim.

When you cancel, Pin deletes your data after 30 days. You can restore it inside those 30 days.

Eight questions to put to Pin

1. Which countries can we search today, including ours? Good answer: A written list of countries, with the date it was last updated.
2. How many lookups and active jobs does the Free plan give? How long is the free trial, and what does it include? Which Professional price applies to us? Good answer: A written number of lookups and active jobs on the free plan. A stated trial length and the features it unlocks, in writing. The one Professional price we would pay.
3. Where do Kombo, Unipile and the companies that find email addresses for you process our candidates’ data? Good answer: A named country for each company and a signed data processing agreement.
4. Can we read the August 2026 Algorithmic Fairness Report before we buy? Good answer: The full report, the name of whoever ran it, and results by group.
5. What can Autopilot send without a person reading it first? Good answer: A written list, and a setting that makes a person approve each message.
6. Which features we would use rely on LinkedIn, and what changed after September 2026? Good answer: A named list of features and a dated confirmation of each.
7. How do we take every candidate, message and note with us when we leave? Good answer: One export covering all jobs and outreach history, inside the 30 days before deletion.
8. Does a yearly plan fix our price for the year, or do the monthly online terms still apply? Good answer: A written answer on the price and the term, in a signed order form.

Alternatives to Pin

If Pin comes off your shortlist, look at Juicebox, SeekOut, Gem, hireEZ and LinkedIn Recruiter, or buy nothing.

Juicebox is an AI recruiting platform built around PeopleGPT, a search engine where you type the request in ordinary words. It searches 800M+ profiles from 30+ sources and is built for recruiters. SeekOut searches nearly one billion public profiles. Its Core plan is designed for small businesses and solo recruiters. SeekOut also scores applicants against role requirements and returns a ranked shortlist.

Gem has an AI sourcing agent that searches 800M+ profiles. Its AI application review agent scores and ranks every applicant. Gem also sells its own applicant tracking system. hireEZ runs agents on top of an applicant tracking system. Its EZ Agent gives every candidate a screening conversation by voice or chat, and you decide who moves forward. LinkedIn Recruiter is the paid LinkedIn tool for searching its members. Its Hiring Assistant add-on is an AI agent inside Recruiter, and LinkedIn is rolling it out gradually.

If you are unsure, Pin’s Free Mode lets you try the search and scoring without paying first. Our guide to AI sourcing and screening covers the whole market.