Recruitee

Who Recruitee suits and who should look elsewhere

Readable reasons, built-in fairness checks and EU hosting

It counts criteria, reaches only careers-site applicants and leaves the legal duties to you

Who uses Recruitee

The price depends on your plan and your headcount

Recruitee prices a subscription by plan, number of employees and billing period. Paying a year at a time earns a 20% discount. The minimum commitment is one year, payable monthly. Recruitee’s plans include Start, Advance, Lead and Optimize. Optimize includes the Screening Assistant in full and 65 Matching Assistant searches a month. Advance includes 100 screenings and 3 Matching searches a month.

The free trial lasts 18 days and does not turn into a paid plan on its own. Tellent counts your employees before each contract year starts. If you pass your limit, you pay the fee of the lowest-priced plan that fits your headcount. WhatsApp Hiring costs extra. Meta, the owner of WhatsApp, charges for some messages beyond the first 1,000 a month. Ask Tellent what that would cost you.

Subscriptions run for yearly terms and renew on their own unless either side gives 90 days’ notice. At renewal Tellent can raise fees by up to 5% for each year since the last term began. It can raise them by the change in consumer prices instead if that is higher. You can end the contract at any time. Fees committed for the term, including renewals, then become due at once, and none are refunded. If Tellent causes a loss, the most it owes is six months of your fees.

Tellent promises 99.5% availability each quarter for most features. It makes this promise in a separate addendum for the Lead and Optimize plans. If Tellent misses the promise, you can ask for a credit of 10% of the quarterly fee.

After the contract ends you can download your content for 30 days. Tellent may delete it once those 30 days end. Tellent returns or deletes all personal data as you choose. It deletes the data within 60 days if you make no choice.

Eight questions to ask Recruitee

1. What does our plan cost at our headcount? What is the price if we pass the employee limit? Good answer: A price in the order form for our current headcount, and the next price written down.
2. Does the Screening Assistant on Optimize have any usage limit? Are the limits fixed in the order form for the whole term? Good answer: No limit, or a written limit that cannot change during our term.
3. Will you agree in writing that our candidate data never trains AI models? Does that include the copy you use to improve your services? Good answer: Yes, in the order form, with the anonymised copy defined.
4. If you remove an AI feature during our term, do we get a lower price or a way out? Good answer: A written right to a lower fee or to leave without paying the rest of the term.
5. Which outside AI providers see our applicants’ data, and where? Your support provider, Intercom, processes data in Virginia, USA. Good answer: A named provider and country for each, and a list of what each one receives.
6. Will you confirm in writing that we may use the service in every country we hire in? Good answer: A written confirmation for each country we hire in.
7. Does the 99.5% availability promise cover our plan, and how do we claim the 10% credit? Good answer: Our plan named in the addendum, with a simple way to claim.
8. When we leave, how do we get every candidate record, screening result and note out in bulk? Good answer: A file format and a time window written into the contract, longer than 30 days if we ask.

Alternatives to Recruitee

Teamtailor, Breezy HR, Pinpoint and Workable are other applicant tracking systems with AI built in. Buying nothing is a fifth route.

Choose Breezy HR or Pinpoint if you want a score for each applicant. Breezy HR’s Applicant Insights scores every applicant from 0 to 10 against criteria you control. It drafts up to five scoring categories from your job description. Breezy HR charges from $30 per 100,000 Breezy Intelligence credits. Pinpoint gives a score out of 10 with a written verdict, strengths and concerns. Pinpoint’s AI Match Scores use Pinpoint Credits. Its AI Hiring Copilot also searches your talent pool in everyday language.

Teamtailor’s Co-pilot searches your talent pool for strong matches and evaluates candidates against your criteria. An admin must switch it on. Workable’s Workable Agent also finds people who have not applied. It launched in March 2026. It sources, screens and qualifies candidates and hands over a shortlist. It searches a database of more than 400 million profiles. You add it to any plan and pay in Workable’s AI credits.

Buying nothing means screening applicants by hand. If you already use an applicant tracking system, ask its vendor which screening and search tools it includes. Our market guide covers the wider field.