Juicebox vs hireEZ 2026: Pricing, Sourcing, Which to Buy

Key takeaway: Juicebox is the cheapest good search box in recruiting, hireEZ is the most expensive consolidated sourcing platform, and the real difference is what each one meters. Juicebox publishes Starter at $99 per seat per month on annual billing ($119 monthly) with 500 contact credits, Growth at $179 per seat ($199 monthly) with 1,500 credits and up to 5 seats, an annual-only custom Business tier, and Juicebox Agents at $199 per agent per month (juicebox.ai/pricing, read 14 September 2026). hireEZ publishes one number, $494 a month for a solo recruiter with a 7-day trial, and prices teams against the stack it replaces after a four-week verification (hireez.com/pricing, read 14 September 2026). Buy Juicebox if one or two recruiters need fast natural-language search and can live inside a credit budget. Buy hireEZ if you want sourcing, CRM, outreach, screening, and scheduling on top of your ATS and can carry the seat cost. If you want the sourcing, outreach, and scheduling done rather than a better place to do them, Noon is the stronger buy: one plan, unlimited sourcing, contacts, agents, and seats, no credit meter.

Both tools sell a faster way to find people at a moment when finding people is the constraint. 74% of employers report difficulty finding the skilled talent they need, near a two-decade high (ManpowerGroup, 2025 Global Talent Shortage), and recruiters at extra-large organizations absorbed a 67% increase in requisitions each (SHRM, 2026 Talent Acquisition Benchmarking). More reqs per recruiter is the number that decides which of these two pricing models hurts less, and whether either one is enough.

If you have already priced the wider field, our best AI recruiting software comparison covers 14 vendors. This page is the head-to-head.

What is Juicebox (PeopleGPT) in 2026?

Juicebox started as PeopleGPT, a natural-language people search: describe the candidate and it returns matching profiles without Boolean. It has grown into search plus projects, email outreach with AI templates, talent insights, and Juicebox Agents that run in the background to shortlist or email candidates.

• Published price (read 14 September 2026): Free ($0, limited searches). Starter $99 per seat per month on annual billing, $119 monthly, with unlimited searches, 500 contact credits (email and phone), 500 export credits, unlimited projects, and email outreach. Growth $179 per seat annually, $199 monthly, adding talent insights, 1,500 contact and 1,500 export credits, up to 5 paid seats, and 3 mailboxes per user. Business is custom, available on annual only, and is where unlimited contact credits, ATS or CRM integration, hiring-manager seats, usage analytics, and priority support live. Juicebox Agents are $199 per agent per month as an add-on, with unlimited contact and email credits inside the agent and a choice of auto-email or auto-shortlist (juicebox.ai/pricing).
• Scale claims (vendor-reported): used by 25,000 teams, recruiters, and hiring managers.
• Best for: an individual recruiter or a team of two to five who want the fastest search-to-shortlist loop at a published, card-checkout price.
• Limitation: the meters. Starter and Growth cap contacts and exports per month, phone numbers cost extra credits, and ATS integration is Business-only, so a Growth team moves candidates into its ATS by CSV export, which is itself metered.

What is hireEZ in 2026?

hireEZ (formerly Hiretual) is an outbound recruiting platform that runs on top of your ATS: aggregated candidate data from 45+ sources, AI-assisted search, a talent CRM, email sequencing, screening, scheduling, and analytics in one contract.

• Published price (read 14 September 2026): $494 a month for a solo recruiter with a 7-day free trial. For teams, "seats are still part of the model, but pricing is configured to the stack hireEZ replaces rather than a flat per-seat rate times headcount," and the number is validated in a four-week verification before signing (hireez.com/pricing). hireEZ's own worksheet frames the deal as collapsing five or six contracts (sourcing, CRM, outreach, screening, scheduling, reporting) into one.
• Scale claims (vendor-reported): 45+ data channels, 20-30% of roles fillable from an existing ATS database, and a 50-60% LinkedIn Recruiter seat-reduction range.
• Best for: enterprise TA teams with an ATS they like and several point-solution contracts they want to kill.
• Limitation: there is no published team price. Above one seat, you cannot know your number without a sales cycle and a four-week verification, which is a long runway for a team comparing three vendors in a quarter.

Juicebox vs hireEZ: side by side

Sources: juicebox.ai/pricing and hireez.com/pricing, both read 14 September 2026. Noon capabilities per noon.ai/product.

Which one finds better candidates?

They index the market differently, and that is the whole argument.

Juicebox is optimized for speed of query. Its search builder turns a sentence into a structured query, its AI filters handle list-building tasks like "top companies in cybersecurity," and results come back ranked. For a recruiter who knows exactly who they want, it is the fastest path from idea to a list of 50 profiles. The trade is that the index is the index: you are filtering a snapshot, and the contact data behind it is what the credits pay for.

hireEZ is optimized for breadth and rediscovery. It aggregates 45+ channels and, in its own framing, puts your existing ATS database back into play, citing 20-30% of roles as fillable from candidates you already have. Its search is more powerful and more work: filters, Boolean, and market insights that a sourcer tunes over time.

Both leave the qualification step where it has always been. The list comes back, a human reads it. Noon's AI Sourcer is built on the other assumption: it searches the open web for each role rather than a fixed index, evaluates every profile against the role's criteria and non-negotiables, and calibrates from recruiter feedback on the shortlist. The output is not a search result to work, it is a ranked slate that has already been read. Buyers in our own sales conversations most often ask whether "AI sourcing" just means LinkedIn results with a nicer interface; for Juicebox and hireEZ the honest answer is that both draw on aggregated profile data, while Noon's differentiation is that the search itself is agentic and not limited to any one network.

How do the pricing models actually compare?

Per unit of work rather than per month, because that is where the two models diverge.

Two things fall out of the table. First, Juicebox's entry price is roughly one fifth of hireEZ's, and for a solo recruiter that is decisive. Second, the gap closes fast: at Growth, three seats plus two agents is $935 a month on annual billing, and you still cannot connect an ATS without moving to the quote-only tier. hireEZ's number is opaque above one seat, but its model at least does not meter contacts.

Noon removed both meters. One plan covers unlimited sourcing, email enrichment, contacts, agents, and seats, so pipeline volume and team size stop being budget lines. Noon does not publish dollar pricing; see noon.ai/pricing for how the plan works, or the direct breakdowns on Noon vs Juicebox and Noon vs hireEZ.

What happens after the candidate replies?

This is the part both vendors' comparison pages skip.

Juicebox sends email from connected mailboxes (3 per user on Growth, 6 on Business) and its Agents can auto-email a shortlist, but there is no SMS step and no scheduling layer. A reply lands in a mailbox and a recruiter takes it from there.

hireEZ goes further: email sequencing, a CRM to hold the relationship, and scheduling inside the platform. The recruiter still authors the campaign, decides who enters it, and handles the conversation, which is the "recruiter-led with AI assist" model the platform is designed around.

Noon's AI Outreach writes and sends personalized email and SMS sequences to the candidates its sourcer approved, and the AI Scheduler handles the back-and-forth, books the interview against the hiring team's calendars, and answers candidate questions. That is the difference between a tool that helps a recruiter work a list and a system that works the list.

Which should you choose?

• Choose Juicebox if one recruiter, or a team of up to five, wants the fastest natural-language search with a published price, a real free tier, and card checkout, and your monthly contact volume fits inside 500 to 1,500 credits per seat.
• Choose hireEZ if you are an enterprise team with an ATS you plan to keep, four to six sourcing-adjacent contracts to consolidate, and a procurement cycle that can absorb a four-week verification before you know the price.
• Choose Noon if the bottleneck is throughput rather than search: more roles than recruiters, and you need candidates sourced, evaluated, contacted over email and SMS, and scheduled without a human driving each step. It is the only one of the three with no seat meter and no credit meter, which is why teams comparing Juicebox and hireEZ should shortlist it alongside them.

For the alternatives to each, see our Juicebox alternatives and hireEZ alternatives pages, the Juicebox pricing and hireEZ pricing breakdowns, or hireEZ vs SeekOut for the enterprise sourcing head-to-head.

FAQ

How much does Juicebox cost per year?

At list on annual billing, Starter is $1,188 per seat per year ($99 x 12) and Growth is $2,148 per seat per year ($179 x 12). Monthly billing is $119 and $199 respectively. Business is custom and annual only. Juicebox Agents add $199 per agent per month, or $2,388 a year each (juicebox.ai/pricing, read 14 September 2026).

How much does hireEZ cost per year?

The only published figure is $494 a month for a solo recruiter, which is $5,928 a year at list (hireez.com/pricing, read 14 September 2026). Team and enterprise pricing is not published; hireEZ configures it against the tools you are replacing and confirms it in a four-week verification.

Does Juicebox integrate with my ATS?

Only on the Business tier, which is custom-priced and annual only. Starter and Growth users export candidates by CSV, and exports draw down export credits (500 on Starter, 1,500 on Growth per month). If ATS sync is a requirement on day one, price the Business tier, not Starter.

Is Juicebox or hireEZ better for a small agency?

Juicebox, on price and time to value: Growth supports up to five seats at $179 each on annual billing, and search works without Boolean training. hireEZ's $494 solo rate and quote-only team pricing are built for enterprise procurement. The exception is an agency that lives inside its ATS and needs a CRM plus sequencing in the same tool, where hireEZ's consolidation case applies.

Which one automates outreach?

Juicebox automates email through its $199-per-month Agents (auto-email or auto-shortlist). hireEZ automates email sequencing that a recruiter authors and launches. Neither runs SMS outreach or interview scheduling autonomously. Noon does both as part of its one plan, which is the gap to weigh if outreach and scheduling, not search, are where your recruiters' hours go. You can book a demo to see it run against one of your open roles.