As of August 24, 2026, Juicebox costs $119 per seat monthly for Starter or $199 for Growth. Annual billing lowers the displayed monthly equivalents to $99 and $179. Starter includes 500 contact and export credits; Growth includes 1,500 of each per seat. The real buying question is qualified candidates per reveal, not unlimited searches.

Juicebox pricing at a glance

Juicebox publishes prices for Free, Starter, and Growth. Business requires a quote. The vendor displays all prices in US dollars and labels its annual option “15% off.” The figures below come from the Juicebox pricing and plan-comparison page, checked on August 24, 2026.

The annual numbers are monthly equivalents, not month-to-month prices. One annual Starter seat therefore represents $1,188 for twelve months; one annual Growth seat represents $2,148. The Business plan is explicitly annual-only. Juicebox does not publish the Business total, implementation charges, minimum seat count, taxes, or any negotiated discount. Ask for all of them in one quote.

There is also a small inconsistency worth noticing. The annual toggle says 15% off, but the displayed Starter figures fall from $119 to $99, while Growth falls from $199 to $179. Use the dollar total in the order form, not the badge, when approving the budget.

What does a Juicebox reveal actually cost?

Searches are unlimited on paid plans. Contact data is not. Juicebox says contact credits are used for email and phone information. Its detailed comparison assigns one credit to a personal email, one to a professional email, and three to phone numbers. It also says a credit returns all emails and phone numbers associated with a profile. Those statements leave room for interpretation when several data types are available. Confirm the exact deduction in the free account before modelling a large campaign.

At full utilization, the simple software cost per unit of contact capacity is easy to calculate:

These are capacity calculations, not extra-credit prices. Juicebox does not publish a price for topping up contact or export credits. Unused capacity makes every actual reveal more expensive. On monthly Starter, 50 reveals cost $2.38 each in base subscription; 250 cost $0.48; 500 cost $0.24. The database size and number of searches do not change that arithmetic.

Export credits are a separate meter. Juicebox defines the export limit as the number of profiles moved through CSV, ATS, or CRM methods. Starter permits 100 profiles in one bulk export, Growth 250, and Business up to 500. Direct ATS and CRM integrations appear only on Business. A team that reveals a contact and then exports the profile should therefore track two allowances, even though they are not two charges in dollars.

When does Juicebox pay for itself?

There is no honest universal break-even search volume. Search is unlimited, and a search result has no financial value until it becomes a qualified, contactable candidate. Measure the funnel from query to booked conversation. A practical model is:

Monthly value = recruiter hours saved × loaded hourly cost + avoided data or agency spend + value of faster qualified conversations.

Monthly cost = seat fees + Agent add-ons + adjacent tools + recruiter review and correction time.

Use observed numbers from a two- to four-week test. If a recruiter’s loaded time costs $50 per hour, Starter monthly must save at least 2.38 hours merely to cover its $119 subscription. That does not prove it will save those hours. It gives you a threshold to test. If the tool saves search time but adds three hours of profile correction and outreach repair, count the net change.

The more useful volume breakpoint is between Starter and Growth. Growth costs $80 more per month under either displayed billing option and adds 1,000 contact credits plus 1,000 export credits. If you consistently need more than 500 contact reveals, Starter’s published allowance is insufficient and no public top-up price exists. Growth is then the first self-serve tier that fits. Below 500, Growth is not cheaper in absolute dollars; its case must come from Talent Insights, collaboration, mailboxes, or future volume.

A second breakpoint is precision. Suppose two searches both reveal 500 people. Search A produces 125 candidates who pass the recruiter’s review; Search B produces 50. The subscription cost is identical, but the software cost per qualified profile is roughly $0.95 versus $2.38 on monthly Starter. More importantly, Search B creates 450 profiles to reject. This is why a sourcing funnel measured through booked meetings is more useful than a dashboard count of profiles found.

What really drives the total bill

• Seats: Starter and Growth are per-seat. Growth allows up to five paid seats; larger deployments move into a Business quote.
• Commitment: Annual billing lowers the displayed run rate but converts a search experiment into a twelve-month commitment.
• Reveal mix: Emails are shown at one credit; phone data at three. Phone-heavy workflows consume the contact pool faster.
• Exports: Contact discovery and profile export have separate limits. ATS or CRM sync requires Business.
• Agents: One $199 Agent can exceed the base Starter seat price. Decide whether it replaces work or simply generates more profiles to review.
• Mailboxes and outreach: Starter lists one mailbox, Growth three per seat, and Business six per seat. The vendor’s outreach page describes email sequences, reply detection, and analytics, but the operating cost of domains, inboxes, deliverability, and human replies remains yours.
• False positives: Broad searches and indiscriminate reveals spend credits and recruiter time. Credit pricing rewards calibration only when the team resists revealing weak matches.

Three realistic budget cases

A solo recruiter validating one difficult role

Start with Free, define twenty known-good profiles, and test whether the ranking surfaces them. Free has no export allowance and only five one-off contact credits, so it is a relevance test rather than a production trial. Move to monthly Starter only when the shortlist is credible. Annual Starter becomes sensible when several months of repeatable demand are visible.

A three-person sourcing pod

Three annual Growth seats produce a displayed base commitment of $6,444 per year. Monthly billing is $597 per month, or $7,164 across twelve months if retained for the full year. The annual option saves $720 against that scenario. The decision should still depend on whether each seat needs its own 1,500-credit capacity. Shared work does not automatically justify three licenses.

A recruiter adding one autonomous Agent

An annual Starter seat plus one Agent has a displayed run rate of $298 per month: $99 for the annual seat equivalent and $199 for the Agent. Monthly Starter plus the Agent is $318. Juicebox does not state a separate annual Agent term on the public card, so obtain the term and cancellation rule in writing before multiplying the run rate into a commitment.

Juicebox alternatives: switch for a reason, not a logo

An alternative only makes sense when it removes the constraint that caused the review. Replacing a natural-language search box with another search box will not fix weak outreach, poor qualification, or an ATS workflow problem.

Sprad Atlas People Search is one option when reveal discipline and recruiter review time are the central concern. It should not be declared cheaper without a quote. Compare the same role, the same acceptance rubric, and the same downstream outreach. A credit-based system is economical when it helps you reveal fewer, better-matched people; broad search followed by broad reveal makes you pay once in credits and again in review time.

If LinkedIn-native access is the requirement, use the narrower Juicebox versus LinkedIn Recruiter comparison. If the issue is workflow consolidation, compare a dedicated sourcing tool with an ATS module. Those are different buying decisions and should not share one winner.

DACH buying checks before signing

Juicebox states that it has global candidate data and lists Personio, SAP SuccessFactors, Recruitee, and other ATS integrations on the Business tier. It does not publish a German or euro price list. DACH buyers should therefore request the contract currency, VAT handling, payment terms, data-processing agreement, subprocessors, support hours, and data-location details rather than infer them from a US-dollar card.

The Juicebox services agreement says AI output is probabilistic, must not be the sole basis of an employment decision, and requires independent human review. It also assigns customers responsibility for lawful inputs, notices, assessments, and oversight. The agreement refers customers to a DPA in the Trust Center. Review the actual DPA and security documents that will govern your account.

As of August 2026, the European Commission’s AI Act timeline says authorities have enforcement powers and certain transparency rules apply, while Annex III high-risk rules for areas including employment apply from December 2, 2027. Classification depends on the actual use. Keep a human approval step, document the purpose and acceptance criteria, and include legal and data-protection reviewers. Our EU AI Act recruiting guide provides a practical starting checklist, not legal advice.

FAQ

How much does Juicebox cost per month?

As of August 24, 2026, Starter is $119 per seat with monthly billing and Growth is $199. The annual-billing equivalents are $99 and $179 per seat/month. Business is custom-priced and annual-only. All public prices are in US dollars.

Does Juicebox charge for every search?

No. Paid plans list unlimited searches. Contact details and exports are metered separately. That means the economically relevant volume is not queries run but contacts revealed, profiles exported, qualified candidates accepted, and conversations created.

How many credits does an email or phone number cost?

The public comparison shows one contact credit for a personal email, one for a professional email, and three for phone numbers. Because another sentence on the same page describes all associated contact data together, verify the deduction for a profile with several data types in your trial.

Is Juicebox Growth cheaper than Starter at higher volume?

Growth costs $80 more per seat/month at the displayed monthly and annual rates. It becomes the first published self-serve fit above Starter’s 500 monthly contact-credit limit. Whether it is better value depends on utilization, qualification rate, exports, collaboration, and Talent Insights.

Is Juicebox available for DACH recruiting?

The vendor says its data is global and lists DACH-relevant ATS integrations, including Personio and SAP SuccessFactors, on Business. It does not publish DACH-specific prices in euros. Confirm regional coverage for your roles, contract terms, GDPR documentation, and support setup before purchase.