How Much Is LinkedIn Recruiter? [2024 Edition] (2024)

If you're a recruiter or talent professional evaluating LinkedIn Recruiter, you'll likely want to know how much it costs—without signing up for a 30-minute demo with LinkedIn Recruiter's sales team.

In this post, I'll provide a comprehensive breakdown of LinkedIn Recruiter's available plans and pricing for 2024, saving you time in your evaluation process and helping you get to the right recruiting solution faster.

But before we jump in, I'll address the most frequently asked question by those just starting to evaluate the platform: what is LinkedIn Recruiter?

What is LinkedIn Recruiter?

LinkedIn Recruiter is a virtual recruiting solution enabling recruiting professionals and agencies to search 770M+ contacts by job titles and industries, identify and save ideal job candidates to lists, and perform on-platform outreach using InMail.

LinkedIn Recruiter sets itself apart from other recruitment and hiring platforms by its ability to leverage first-party data from its social network, making it one of the most accurate and up-to-date platforms in its category.

For that reason, it has become a popular, if not core part of most companies and recruiting organizations' workflows—with pricing to match.

Now that we've established an understanding of the platform, let's look at how much LinkedIn Recruiter will cost you and your team.

How much does LinkedIn Recruiter cost?

Pricing for LinkedIn Recruiter is straightforward, offering plans that can be paid monthly, or annually to unlock a discount.

At a high level, LinkedIn Recruiter pricing looks like this:

1. LinkedIn Recruiter Lite: $170/month per single license and $270/month per 2-5 licenses; or $1,680/year per single license and $2,670/year per 2-5 licenses
2. LinkedIn Recruiter Professional Services: $500-$850/month per single license (reports vary); or $6,000-$10,200/year per single license (reports vary, suggesting it's negotiable or discounts are available by # of licenses)
3. LinkedIn Recruiter Corporate: $1,080/month per single license; or $10,800/year per single license (discounts available by # of licenses)

Now, let's look at what is included in each plan.

1. LinkedIn Recruiter Lite

Best for recruiting professionals and small recruiting agencies

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Pricing plans (per user)

• Monthly: $170/mo per single license and $270/mo per license (2-5 licenses); includes a 30-day free trial for eligible users
• Annual (save ~18%): $1,680/year per single license and $2,670/year per license (licenses 2-5)

Key features

• 20+ search filters for candidate searches
• Search candidates that are 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degree connections
• 30/month InMail credits per seat (can purchase up to an additional 70/month InMail credits per seat, although no seat can hold more than 120 credits per month)
• 10 candidate search alerts per seat (daily or weekly)
• Multi-user dashboard and collaboration for up to 5 seats
• InMail analytics report
• Job analytics report

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2. LinkedIn Recruiter Professional Services

Best for growing and established staffing and recruiting firms

• Monthly: $500-$850/month per single license (reports vary)
• Annual: $6,000-$10,200/year per single license (reports vary, which means annual pricing is likely dependent on team size and/or can be negotiated)

Key features

• All LinkedIn Recruiter Lite features
• 40+ search filters for candidate searches including years at current company/role, spoken languages, and open-to-contract work status
• Search for candidates up to your 3rd-degree connections, with 30 unlocks per month for out-of-network profiles
• 100/month InMail credits per seat (can purchase additional credits) with the ability to bulk send 25 InMail messages at once
• 50 candidate search alerts per seat (daily or weekly)
• 20 collaborator licenses per recruiter license to support external hiring managers and clients
• Integrations with 28+ ATS partners as well as LinkedIn Talent Insights, LinkedIn Talent Hub, and LinkedIn recruitment marketing solutions
• Reporting for recruiter usage, pipeline analytics, cross-contract, and custom reporting
• Tracking for OFCCP compliance

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3. LinkedIn Recruiter Corporate

Best for corporate recruiting and enterprise human resources departments

Pricing plans (per user)

• Monthly: $1,080/month per single license
• Annual (save 20%): $10,800/year per single license

Key features

• All LinkedIn Recruiter Professional Services features
• Search for candidates with complete access to LinkedIn's network (770M+)
• 150/month InMail credits per seat (can purchase additional credits) with the ability to bulk send 25 InMail messages at once

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How to purchase LinkedIn Recruiter

You can purchase and receive a 30-day free trial of the LinkedIn Recruiter (Lite) plan by logging into your LinkedIn account, navigating to the LinkedIn Recruiter plans page, selecting a plan, providing payment information, and signing up.

For those of you interested in purchasing LinkedIn Recruiter, you can book a free demo with LinkedIn's team.

How to switch plans on LinkedIn Recruiter

Suppose you'd like to switch your LinkedIn Recruiter plans (upgrade or downgrade). In that case, you can do this by scheduling a call with the LinkedIn Recruiter sales team or creating a support ticket with the LinkedIn customer support team and including a request to change your plan.

Note: In addition to switching plans, LinkedIn Recruiter also enables you to switch billing cycles. Reach out to customer support to request a change.

How to cancel LinkedIn Recruiter

Provided you are the admin on your LinkedIn Recruiter account, you can cancel your plan by doing the following:

1. Navigate to your LinkedIn Recruiter dashboard.
2. Move your cursor over your photo at the top right of your homepage and select Product Settings from the dropdown.
3. Under Manage Account, click Cancel Subscription.

A popup will appear and will take you through the short cancellation process.

Getting more out of LinkedIn Recruiter

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