What hiring really costs when you pay per seat

The seat you pay for, and the work you don't do

Per-seat sourcing tools charge for access. You buy a seat, and you pay for it whether you find ten candidates that month or none. For a busy agency that balances out. For a small team hiring in bursts, it means paying in the quiet months too.

Add up the quiet months

Take a typical per-seat plan at tens of dollars per user, per month. Multiply by the number of people who need access, and by twelve. Then ask how many of those months you actually ran a search. That gap is the real cost — the seats you paid for and barely opened.

What per-candidate pricing does

MiniSourcer flips it. You start free with credits, and each credit is one sourced candidate you keep. Plans start small and get cheaper per candidate as you grow:

• Launch — 180 candidates for $19.99, about $0.11 each.
• Boost — 480 candidates for $49, about $0.10 each.
• Scale — 850 candidates for $79, about $0.09 each.
• Studio — 2,100 candidates for $179, about $0.085 each.

No per-seat fee, so the whole team can look at the same pipeline.

The comparison in one line

A per-seat tool asks "how many people need this?" A per-candidate tool asks "how many people did you find?" For small teams, the second question matches the work.

See the side-by-side on the compare page, or read how it works to try it.