Key takeaway: TalentLyft's pricing page showed two priced plans on 27 September 2026: Essential from $61.25 per month and Growth from $123.75 per month for 2 job slots on annual billing, or $73.50 and $148.50 billed monthly. Prices scale with open job slots up to 50 (Essential $686.25, Growth $1,373.75 per month on annual billing), Growth's monthly price is twice Essential's plus $1.50 at every slot count, and Enterprise is quote-only. Annual billing saves 16.7%, and all plans include unlimited users.
TalentLyft is an applicant tracking system with a career-site builder, job-board syndication and a sourcing extension. Its pricing page pitches the Essential plan at "small businesses and startups" and Growth at "growing businesses". Unlike many ATS vendors, it publishes a full price matrix: pick the number of open jobs you need, pick monthly or yearly billing, and the page shows the price. That transparency makes it a useful reference point when you are comparing tools in our recruiting software pricing index, as long as you understand that the headline "$73.50 per month" is the price for two jobs, not for the product.
Every figure below was read from TalentLyft's rendered pricing page and its startup-program page on 27 September 2026. Third-party review sites were unreachable during the check, so nothing here is a buyer-reported estimate.
What does TalentLyft cost in 2026?
TalentLyft meters open job slots, not users. The pricing page's selector runs from 2 to 50 job positions in steps of 5, then "50+" for Enterprise. Here is the published matrix for the two priced plans.
| Open job slots | Essential (annual) | Essential (monthly) | Growth (annual) | Growth (monthly) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | $61.25/month ($735/year) | $73.50/month | $123.75/month ($1,485/year) | $148.50/month |
| 5 | $123.75/month ($1,485/year) | $148.50/month | $248.75/month ($2,985/year) | $298.50/month |
| 10 | $186.25/month ($2,235/year) | $223.50/month | $373.75/month ($4,485/year) | $448.50/month |
| 15 | $248.75/month ($2,985/year) | $298.50/month | $498.75/month ($5,985/year) | $598.59/month |
| 20 | $311.25/month ($3,735/year) | $373.50/month | $623.75/month ($7,485/year) | $748.50/month |
| 25 | $373.75/month ($4,485/year) | $448.50/month | $748.75/month ($8,985/year) | $898.50/month |
| 30 | $436.25/month ($5,235/year) | $523.50/month | $873.75/month ($10,485/year) | $1,048.50/month |
| 40 | $561.25/month ($6,735/year) | $673.50/month | $1,123.75/month ($13,485/year) | $1,348.50/month |
| 50 | $686.25/month ($8,235/year) | $823.50/month | $1,373.75/month ($16,485/year) | $1,648.50/month |
| 50+ | Enterprise, quote | Enterprise, quote | Enterprise, quote | Enterprise, quote |
The 35 and 45 slot steps follow the same pattern (Essential $498.75 and $623.75 per month annual; Growth $998.75 and $1,248.75). All prices are in US dollars. The page describes both priced plans as "2 job slots & unlimited users" at the default setting, and the Enterprise card as "Unlimited job slots & users".
Two things stand out in the matrix. First, Growth's monthly price is exactly twice Essential's plus $1.50 at every slot count except 15, where the page shows $598.59 rather than the $598.50 the pattern implies, which looks like a typo on the vendor page. Second, the marginal price per extra slot is flat above 5 slots: each additional block of 5 jobs adds $75 per month to Essential and $150 per month to Growth on monthly billing, so the per-slot price falls as you buy more. On annual billing Essential works out at $30.63 per slot per month for 2 slots and $13.73 per slot per month for 50.
What counts as an open job slot?
The pricing FAQ defines an active job as one in Published, Internal or Closed status ("candidate found, but recruitment is ongoing"). Jobs that are Archived or still in Draft do not consume a slot. That last point matters: a role you have filled but have not archived still counts, so teams that leave closed roles open for a few weeks will hit their slot cap sooner than the raw headcount suggests. If you downgrade, TalentLyft asks you to "archive excess jobs to match the new plan's limits", and the lower plan starts in the next billing cycle.
This job-slot model is the same one used by Recruitee and Homerun, and different from per-recruiter pricing at tools such as Workable. It favours small teams with several hiring managers and few concurrent openings, and penalises high-volume hiring.
What is the difference between Essential and Growth?
Essential covers the core ATS: a branded careers page, one custom recruiting and pool pipeline, interview kits and scorecards, job-board syndication, GDPR compliance and reporting, a Chrome sourcing extension, an employee referral program, unlimited users and pools, and one-on-one self-scheduling.
Growth adds "everything in Essential, plus" multiple branded careers pages, multiple recruiting and pool pipelines, a language kit, workflow automation, custom fields, a custom domain for the careers site, and job requisition and offer management. The page also notes that "Growth features are available as add-ons for all Essential plans", but publishes no add-on prices, so the cost of adding a single Growth feature to Essential is not public.
Enterprise, at 50+ slots, lists unlimited job slots, SSO, a custom reporting suite, multiple job-location advertising, custom import and data migration, a dedicated support channel, custom career-page creation and "up to 30% discount on job boards". There is no published Enterprise price.
How much does annual billing save, and are there other discounts?
TalentLyft publishes four discount mechanisms:
- Annual billing: "12 months at the price of 10", which the page labels "Save 16.7%". The matrix confirms it: $61.25 x 12 = $735 against $73.50 x 12 = $882 for Essential at 2 slots.
- Multi-year: two-year plans save 25% and three-year plans 27.78% versus monthly, described in the FAQ as six and ten months free respectively.
- Non-profits: a 50% discount. Recruitment agencies get "tailored discounts" with no published figure.
- Startups: the TalentLyft for Startups program takes 80% off in year one, 50% in year two and 25% in year three. Eligibility on 27 September 2026 was up to $2M in funding, up to 25 active jobs, 30 or fewer employees, less than 3 years old, and a new or non-paying customer. On the published annual total that makes Essential for 2 slots $147 in the first year.
Payment is by credit card for any plan; annual plans can also be invoiced and paid by bank transfer. Monthly plans "must be paid by credit card".
How does the free trial and cancellation work?
The trial is 14 days with no credit card required, and it includes all features. One restriction: you cannot post to job boards during the trial unless your account is verified, which TalentLyft describes as "our cautionary measure to protect our customers' data and ourselves from fraudulent users". Two days before the trial ends you get an email reminder; your data is kept, and entering card details reactivates the account.
On contract terms, the FAQ says monthly plans let you "upgrade, downgrade, or pause your plan at any time", while annual plans allow upgrades anytime (paying the difference, with the new plan applying for the next 12 months) and downgrades only when the subscription ends. Data is backed up daily on Azure, and TalentLyft says it will hand over all your data files at no cost if you leave.
Who is TalentLyft a good fit for?
TalentLyft's homepage cites ratings of 4.9 out of 5 on G2 and 4.8 out of 5 on Capterra (vendor-reported; neither review site was reachable when we checked) and advertises distribution to 3,000+ free and paid job boards plus HRIS and onboarding integrations. Its homepage lists high-volume, multi-location, seasonal and blue-collar hiring as use cases alongside early-stage and remote hiring.
On the published numbers, the sweet spot is a company with 2 to 10 concurrent openings that wants a polished careers site and job-board distribution at a predictable price. Compare it with the tools in our small-business recruiting software guide if you are in that bracket. The startup program is unusually generous for a company under 30 people. Above 20 open roles the annual bill passes $3,700 on Essential and $7,400 on Growth, and at that point the mid-market ATS tools in the pricing index are worth pricing side by side.
Where does TalentLyft stop, and what fills the gap?
TalentLyft is built to attract and track applicants: post widely, present a strong careers page, and manage the people who apply. Its sourcing tooling is a Chrome extension that adds profiles you find yourself to a talent pool. Finding and contacting candidates who have not applied is still manual work.
That is where Noon picks up. Noon searches the open web for candidates who match a role, evaluates and ranks them against your criteria, and runs personalised email and SMS outreach to the ones worth a conversation, then syncs the results to your ATS through a single integrations layer covering 20+ systems. Noon is sold as one plan with unlimited sourcing, contacts, agents and seats on quote-based pricing, so there is no job-slot ceiling to plan around; see the Noon pricing page for how that compares with slot-based tooling when hiring volume is unpredictable.
Sources and methodology
All prices were read from TalentLyft's rendered pricing page at https://www.talentlyft.com/pricing on 27 September 2026 (UTC). The job-position selector and the monthly/yearly toggle were exercised in the browser and the displayed prices recorded for the default state (2 positions, monthly), 2 positions yearly and 10 positions yearly. The full matrix for every selector option was then read from the rendered page's price data and the three exercised states matched it exactly. Plan feature lists, trial, payment, discount and upgrade terms come from the plan cards and the FAQ accordions on the same page. Startup-program terms come from talentlyft.com/startup-discount, which redirects to the "Early-stage Startup Program" page. Ratings, job-board count and integration claims come from talentlyft.com and talentlyft.com/integrations. Annual totals, savings percentages, per-slot figures and the startup-program example are arithmetic on those published prices. Every quote, URL and fetch timestamp is recorded in the source ledger committed with this article at seo/research/stats/talentlyft-pricing-2026/sources.json.
Search demand for "talentlyft pricing" was checked with DataForSEO on the same date: roughly 10 searches per month in the US, with the brand term "talentlyft" at about 70 per month.
Limitations
- Prices are a point-in-time reading and TalentLyft can change them without notice. Check the vendor page before buying.
- Enterprise pricing and the price of adding individual Growth features to an Essential plan are not published and are not estimated here.
- Third-party review sites (G2, Capterra) were unreachable during the check, so no independent rating or buyer-reported price is included. The ratings quoted are the figures on TalentLyft's own homepage.
- The 15-slot Growth monthly price ($598.59) breaks the otherwise exact pattern (twice Essential plus $1.50); we report the page as rendered.
- In the default monthly view the secondary line under each price card rendered a placeholder of "$1000 /year" that only updated after the billing toggle was used. The annual totals in this article are the values shown after toggling, which match the page's underlying price data.
- Whether taxes apply on top of the published prices is not stated on the pricing page.
FAQ
How much does TalentLyft cost per month?
For 2 open job slots, Essential is $61.25 per month and Growth is $123.75 per month on annual billing, or $73.50 and $148.50 billed monthly. Each additional block of 5 job slots adds $75 per month to Essential and $150 per month to Growth on monthly billing, up to 50 slots.
Does TalentLyft charge per user?
No. Both Essential and Growth include unlimited users. Pricing is based on the number of active job openings (Published, Internal or Closed status).
Is there a TalentLyft free trial?
Yes, 14 days with no credit card required and access to all features. Posting to job boards is blocked during the trial unless the account is verified.
How much does TalentLyft Enterprise cost?
TalentLyft does not publish an Enterprise price. The Enterprise plan applies at 50+ job slots and includes unlimited slots and users, SSO, custom reporting, data migration and a dedicated support channel; you have to request a quote.
Does TalentLyft offer discounts?
Yes: 16.7% for annual billing, 25% for two-year and 27.78% for three-year plans, 50% for non-profits, tailored discounts for recruitment agencies, and a startup program at 80% off in year one, 50% in year two and 25% in year three for companies with up to $2M in funding, 30 or fewer employees, 25 or fewer active jobs and under 3 years old.
Can I cancel TalentLyft at any time?
Monthly plans can be upgraded, downgraded or paused at any time. Annual plans can be upgraded at any time but downgraded only when the subscription period ends.
