Greenhouse Pricing and Greenhouse Cost per Year for Core, Plus and Pro Plans

We opened greenhouse.com/pricing on 31 October 2026. It compares three plans, Core, Plus and Pro, by feature, and every plan ends in a Get a demo button. There is no dollar figure, per user rate, per employee rate or term anywhere on the page. The FAQ says the cost depends on the plan you choose, your hiring volume and organizational complexity, and the features you need.

The plan tiers are the useful part. Core includes sourcing and CRM, structured interview kits and scorecards, an AI notetaker, scheduling, reporting and SSO. Plus adds Sourcing Automation, texting, a BI connector and fraud and spam detection. Pro adds unlimited CRM events, an audit log, a developer sandbox and enterprise data and security controls.

One detail trips up buyers who research the price. Vendr's Greenhouse guide still calls the tiers Essential, Advanced and Expert. Greenhouse's own page calls them Core, Plus and Pro. Any cost note that quotes an Essential price is describing a plan name the vendor no longer shows, so confirm which plan a figure belongs to before you use it.

Expect a low five figure annual contract for a mid-size employer. Vendr, which aggregates real software purchases, shows a median of $26,553 a year across 887 purchases, with observed deals from $10,218 to $73,846, read on 31 October 2026. Buyers saved about 16% on average against the first quote.

Then add services. Onboarding, data migration and training are reported as separate lines with no published figures. Our survey of AI recruiting software pricing shows how the same quote-first pattern runs through most of the category, and how rare a published rate card has become.

Greenhouse says neither. It prints no per user and no per employee rate, and its FAQ ties the cost to plan, hiring volume and complexity. A per seat price you find elsewhere is unsourced.

In practice that means adding a recruiter changes the quote less than adding a business unit, a brand or a region. Ask the account executive what the number assumes for annual hires, open requisitions and user count, and what happens to the price if any of them grows by half.

We found none. greenhouse.com offers a demo request and a chat with an expert, with no free plan or self-serve purchase, read on 31 October 2026. Every evaluation runs through sales.

If you want proof before a contract, ask for a sandbox or a scoped pilot with agreed measures: time to fill, recruiter hours per hire and interview scheduling lag.

Get the term, the year two price, the cap on increases and the renewal notice window written into the order form. Multi-year terms usually trade a lower annual price for lock in, and Vendr names a competing quote and fiscal quarter end as the strongest levers.

Ask which of Sourcing Automation, texting and the AI notetaker are inside the plan you are quoted, and which are metered. If you hire in New York City, AI that scores or ranks candidates also falls under Local Law 144, which requires a bias audit and candidate notice; our guide to AI hiring laws and compliance covers the obligations.

Greenhouse is worth its price when you need a structured, auditable hiring process across several teams: interview kits, scorecards, scheduling rules, approvals and reporting that stand up to an executive or a regulator. At a $26,553 median that is a reasonable cost for a company hiring steadily.

It is not the tool that finds the people. Sourcing and CRM sit inside it, but the searching, the screening against your criteria and the first message still fall to your recruiters unless you add something on top. That is the gap an AI recruiting agent fills. HireAgent sources candidates against your criteria, screens and ranks them into an explainable shortlist, and pushes the ones you approve into Greenhouse. If you are considering replacing the ATS itself, our Ashby pricing page and the Greenhouse alternatives comparison cover the ATS side.