Free vs Paid: What You Actually Get at Each HelloVacancy Tier
Sarwar Hossain · Tue Sep 08 2026
What's the Difference Between HelloVacancy's Free and Paid Plans?HelloVacancy's Free plan includes unlimited job postings, unlimited applications, unlimited team members, and 20 AI requests per week, with no core feature locked away. The AI Pro plan, at $10/month, includes everything in Free plus 500 AI requests per month and priority support. AI request volume is the only meaningful difference between the two tiers.
Why It Matters
Most ATS pricing pages don't work this way, and the difference isn't cosmetic.
According to JuggleHire's 2026 ATS pricing survey, a common per-seat pricing structure means five hiring team members on a mid-tier plan runs roughly $125/month and expanding the same team to ten people can roughly double that cost, even though the actual hiring workload hasn't changed. The price scales with your headcount, not your usage.
That model punishes exactly the teams who need a tool most: small businesses adding a hiring manager, an interviewer, or a second recruiter. Every new person who needs visibility into the pipeline becomes a new line item.
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How Each Tier Actually Breaks Down
Free — $0/month. Unlimited job positions, unlimited applications, unlimited team members, full application tracking stages, candidate management, email notifications, a public job board, basic analytics, and 20 AI requests per week.
AI Pro — $10/month. Everything in Free, plus 500 AI requests per month instead of 20 per week, and priority support.
What never changes between tiers: team size, candidate volume, job postings, and core features. Nobody on Free is using a "lite" version of the product it's the same system.
What actually changes: how many AI requests (CV parsing, match scoring, JD generation, interview questions, email drafts) you can run before hitting a ceiling.
How to know which tier you need: start on Free. If your team regularly hits the 20-requests-per-week ceiling which typically means actively hiring for more than one or two roles at once that's the signal to upgrade, not a guess in advance.
Why We Priced It This Way
Most ATS platforms use tiers to gate core functionality team seats, candidate limits, reporting behind a paywall, then still call the entry-level version "free." We didn't want to build that. If a 3-person NGO and a 300-person company can use the identical feature set on day one, the only honest reason to charge anything is AI usage volume so that's the only thing the price is attached to.
Start Free
There's no trial clock running and no feature you'll discover is missing once you're already invested. Start free at hellovacancy.com — upgrade only if and when you actually need more AI requests, not before.
