Pin vs Juicebox pricing, AI agents and contact credits per seat for recruiters

Both vendors publish a head-to-head page, and both rank for this search. Pin's version, which says it was last verified in September 2026, describes Juicebox Growth as "up 81% since April 2024" and its seat cap as having "fell from 10 to 5". We cannot check the history, but today's Juicebox card does show Growth at $179 a seat annually with "Add up to 5 seats", so the current figures Pin quotes are accurate.

Pin's comparison also says Pin has "ATS integration on every paid plan". Its own pricing table, read on 5 October 2026, marks ATS integration as an add-on on both Solo and Professional, with no price printed. The two pages disagree, and the pricing table is the one you will be invoiced from, so ask for the add-on price in writing.

There is a second contradiction inside Pin's pricing page itself. The Professional card promises 1,000 contact credits per seat a month, while the structured data in the same page describes Professional as "500 contact lookup credits per user per month" and says ATS integration is included. Juicebox has a smaller version of the same problem: its structured data lists Growth annual at $159, while both cards show $179. Our Pin pricing and Juicebox pricing breakdowns cover each card in full.

For a team, yes. Pin Professional costs $135 per user a month on annual billing against $179 for Juicebox Growth, a $44 gap per seat or $528 a recruiter a year. On monthly billing the gap is $20 ($179 against $199). Pin also includes two AI agents per seat, which Juicebox sells at $199 each.

For one recruiter, no. Pin Solo and Juicebox Starter are both $99 a month on annual billing with 500 contact credits. Pin Solo cannot be bought monthly, while Juicebox Starter can at $119, so a single recruiter who will not prepay a year pays less on Juicebox.

The comparison flips if you count contact credits instead of seats. Juicebox Growth reveals 1,500 contacts a seat a month for $179, which is 11.9 cents a credit. Pin Professional reveals 1,000 for $135, which is 13.5 cents. A desk that reveals contacts by the thousand and does not need agents can find Juicebox the cheaper tool per contact.

This is the real difference between the two rate cards. Pin treats agents as part of the seat: two on Solo, two per user on Professional, unlimited on Business. The agents spend the same contact credits a recruiter does, so heavy agent use runs into the 500 or 1,000 credit limit.

Juicebox treats agents as a separate product at $199 per agent a month, and gives each agent unlimited contact credits and unlimited email credits. An agent can be shared with any user in the organization. That opens a pricing shape Pin does not have: three Juicebox Starter seats at $99 plus one shared agent costs $496 a month, $41 less than three Growth seats, with unlimited contacts on whatever the agent runs.

So the useful question is how your desk works. If every recruiter wants an agent running their own searches, Pin is cheaper. If one agent running a few searches all day covers the team, the Juicebox add-on can be the better buy. Our Loxo vs Juicebox comparison shows the same agent pricing against a vendor that bundles agents into a $199 seat.

For a growing agency, Pin is usually the better fit on paper. It has no seat cap, five mailboxes per recruiter for outbound, a shared inbox and agents in every seat at $135. Juicebox Growth stops at five seats, and seat six moves the whole team onto a quoted plan.

Juicebox fits the agency that lives on contact volume and plain-English search. 1,500 contact and 1,500 export credits per seat is the larger allowance at a printed price, and its PeopleGPT search builder writes the query from a plain-English description, with no Boolean needed. Juicebox says on its pricing page that 25,000 teams, recruiters and hiring managers use it.

Neither gives you an ATS connection at the published team price. If candidates need to land in Bullhorn, Greenhouse or another system of record automatically, price the Pin add-on or the Juicebox Business plan before you decide. For the wider field, our guide to AI sourcing tools for agencies prices the other options the same way.

Pin and Juicebox both answer the question "who should I contact?". They return people who match a search, with contact data and a sequence to send. The next step, deciding which of those 80 profiles actually meets the client's must-haves, is still the recruiter's job on both.

That step is where HireAgent works. You describe the role, and the agent sources candidates, screens each one against every must-have with the line from the profile that proves it, ranks the pool, drafts personalized outreach and books interviews. Plans start at $299 a month, or $1,794 a year billed annually, with Growth at $4,794 a year for three seats and ten open roles including Greenhouse and Lever sync. It is priced close to a three-seat Pin team, and the output is a ranked shortlist instead of a contact list.

If you are leaving Juicebox specifically, our Juicebox alternative page lists the priced options, and candidate screening software covers tools built for the screening half.

One, from Pin, whether Professional includes 1,000 or 500 contact credits per seat, since the card and the page data disagree. Two, the price of the ATS integration add-on on Solo and Professional, since the table prints none.

Three, from Juicebox, the annual Growth price, since the cards say $179 and the page data says $159. Four, the Business price per seat for your headcount if you have six or more recruiters. Five, from both, what happens to unused credits at month end and the renewal price after year one, which neither page states.