AI Summary
About
Workable is a recruiting and HR platform: an applicant tracking system with a sourcing suite on the front end, and an HR package covering onboarding, time off, time tracking, e-signatures and payroll preparation on the back end. Its own job board describes the scale — “Since 2012, over 30,000 organizations have trusted Workable to hire more than 2.1 million candidates”. The contracting entity is Workable Technology Limited, and its sub-processor list names three operating affiliates: Workable Inc. in the United States, Workable Software Limited in the United Kingdom and Workable Software Single Member Private Company in Greece.
Commercially, Workable is the outlier in this cohort. Greenhouse and Workday, the two direct competitors this corpus has captured most recently, publish no dollar figure on any first-party surface at all. Workable publishes a complete rate card — three tiers across eight priced employee bands — and lets an admin buy it in-product with a card. In a category where the default answer to “how much?” is a demo form, Workable answers the question on the page.
That transparency has a boundary, and the boundary is 1,000 employees. Select the 1000+ band and all three prices are replaced by “Contact us for a quote”. Above that line Workable behaves exactly like the vendors it undercuts on transparency below it.
For the most current information on Workable’s pricing and market position, visit Workable.
Pricing summary : How Workable’s pricing model works
Workable sells one platform in two packages — Recruiting and HR — across three tiers, and prices the bundle by how many people you employ.
The meter is defined in the contract, not on the pricing page. Workable’s terms state that “Company Size” means “the total number of individuals engaged by the Customer and its Affiliates, where applicable, to work under the direction or control of the Customer, including all full-time and part-time employees and independent contractors, regardless of the duration of their engagement.” The help centre puts the same rule in plainer language: “Your company size refers to the total number of employees working for your company and any of its affiliates or subsidiaries. This includes everyone (full-time, part-time, and contractors) regardless of employment type or contract.”
The billing dimensions, in the order they hit an invoice:
- Tier — Standard, Premier or Enterprise, selected on capability rather than volume. Only Standard can be bought monthly.
- Employee band — nine steps from 1-20 to 1000+. Eight of them carry a published price; the ninth does not.
- Package — Recruiting, HR, or both. The pricing page’s headline number is the bundle, and the cards carry the note “BUNDLE RECRUITING AND HR TO SAVE UP TO 20%”.
- Premium tools — Texting, Video interviews and Assessments on the Recruiting side, Performance & Engagement on the HR side. Chargeable on Standard, included on Premier and Enterprise. Their prices also scale with the employee band.
- Workable Agent AI credits — a prepaid consumption meter, 1 credit to evaluate a candidate, 2 to source one, 10 for a candidate chat.
- Search with AI credits — a separate, subscription-included credit pool metered per profile result.
- Pass-through job-board spend — premium job-board postings and background checks, billed on the card outside the subscription.
What makes this different: Workable is the only company in this cohort that publishes a full rate card for a headcount-metered ATS, which makes it the one place a buyer can actually read what the headcount meter costs. That same transparency exposes the meter’s problem in public. Workable’s plans include unlimited users and unlimited active jobs, so nothing a recruiting team does moves the bill; what moves it is the company hiring people, in any department, through any tool. A 50-person company that grows to 105 pays roughly 2.3 times more for the same recruiting software whether or not it ran a single extra requisition through Workable to get there.
Pricing by product
All figures below are Workable’s own published prices, captured from workable.com/pricing on 2026-09-10.
Subscription tiers by employee band (annual billing, monthly-equivalent)
| Employee band | Standard | Premier | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 - 20 | $299/mo — $3,588/yr | $599/mo — $7,188/yr | $719/mo — $8,628/yr |
| 21 - 50 | $419/mo — $5,028/yr | $829/mo — $9,948/yr | $989/mo — $11,868/yr |
| 51 - 100 | $669/mo — $8,028/yr | $1,229/mo — $14,748/yr | $1,469/mo — $17,628/yr |
| 101 - 200 | $949/mo — $11,388/yr | $1,759/mo — $21,108/yr | $2,109/mo — $25,308/yr |
| 201 - 400 | $1,299/mo — $15,588/yr | $2,269/mo — $27,228/yr | $2,719/mo — $32,628/yr |
| 401 - 600 | $1,749/mo — $20,988/yr | $2,809/mo — $33,708/yr | $3,369/mo — $40,428/yr |
| 601 - 800 | $2,249/mo — $26,988/yr | $3,369/mo — $40,428/yr | $4,039/mo — $48,468/yr |
| 801 - 1000 | $2,799/mo — $33,588/yr | $3,959/mo — $47,508/yr | $4,749/mo — $56,988/yr |
| 1000+ | Contact us for a quote | Contact us for a quote | Contact us for a quote |
Enterprise runs about 20 percent above Premier at every priced band. Standard grows fastest across the ladder — 9.4 times from the first band to the eighth, against 6.6 times for Premier — so the gap between the tiers narrows sharply as the buyer gets bigger.
The monthly cycle, which only Standard has
| Employee band | Standard monthly | Standard annual | Actual discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 - 20 | $360/mo — $4,320/yr | $3,588/yr | 16.9% |
| 51 - 100 | $800/mo — $9,600/yr | $8,028/yr | 16.4% |
| 201 - 400 | $1,560/mo — $18,720/yr | $15,588/yr | 16.7% |
| 801 - 1000 | $3,360/mo — $40,320/yr | $33,588/yr | 16.7% |
The toggle is labelled “ANNUALLY - SAVE 20%” and the help centre repeats “Annual subscription (20% OFF)”. Neither figure is reachable at any band. Premier and Enterprise have no monthly option at all — their cards render a fixed “Pay annually” chip in place of the toggle.
Premium tools (Standard plan; included on Premier and Enterprise)
| Add-on | 1 - 20 | 51 - 100 | 201 - 400 | 801 - 1000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texting | +$89/mo | +$199/mo | +$339/mo | +$569/mo |
| Video interviews | +$109/mo | +$299/mo | +$509/mo | +$849/mo |
| Assessments | +$59/mo | +$169/mo | +$259/mo | +$449/mo |
| Performance & Engagement (HR) | +$39/mo | +$249/mo | +$579/mo | +$929/mo |
On the monthly cycle at the 1-20 band the same four read $105, $130, $70 and $50. The help centre states the band rule: “The price will be calculated based on your company size. For example, if you purchased a plan for 21-50 employees, the premium tool price will be calculated based on that number of employees.” The pricing card shows only the band currently selected, so the advertised $89 is the floor of a range that reaches $569.
Workable Agent AI credits
| Bundle | Rate | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 5,000 AI credits | $0.12/credit | $600 |
| 10,000 AI credits | $0.10/credit | $1,000 |
| 50,000 AI credits | $0.095/credit | $4,750 |
| Above 50,000 | Volume pricing | Contact us for a quote |
Consumption rates: “1 AI credit each time a candidate is screened against your ideal candidate profile”, “2 AI credits each time a passive candidate is identified and added to your pipeline”, “10 AI credits each time a candidate interacts with the chat.” Every paid account starts with 3,000 free credits. Credits “expire 1 year from purchase”, are “Non-refundable”, and the “Free trial does not include Workable Agent.”
Sales motions across products: self-serve for everything up to 1,000 employees and 50,000 AI credits — Workable’s help centre routes an Admin through a Purchase button to a card or US direct-debit checkout. Sales-led for the 1000+ band, for larger AI-credit bundles, and for manual invoicing (wire transfer or PayPal, “available in USD, EUR, and GBP”).
Hidden costs : What Workable users actually pay
Take a 300-person company on Standard annual — the 201-400 band — running Texting, Video interviews and Assessments, and buying one 10,000-credit Agent bundle after the free allowance runs out.
| Line item | Monthly cost |
|---|---|
| Standard, 201-400 employee band, annual | $1,299 |
| Texting | $339 |
| Video interviews | $509 |
| Assessments | $259 |
| 10,000 Workable Agent AI credits, amortised over a year | $83 |
| Estimated total | $2,489/mo — about $29,868/yr |
Four things this bill hides.
1. The add-ons cost more than the upgrade. Standard plus all three Recruiting premium tools is $2,406 a month at this band. Premier is $2,269 and includes all three, plus Referrals, which Standard cannot buy at any price. The inversion starts at the 51-100 band ($1,336 against $1,229) and widens with size — at 801-1000 it is $4,666 against $3,959. A buyer who adds tools one at a time, in the order Workable’s plus-icon UI encourages, walks past the cheaper answer without being told.
2. The band, not your hiring, decides the increase. Workable’s terms let it re-assess Company Size and charge the higher band: “For Customers signing up online to use the Services and paying on a monthly basis, if there is a Company Size Excess … Workable will charge the Customer under the applicable subscription plan and pricing in the next monthly billing cycle. Continued use of the Services after such changes will constitute the Customer’s acceptance of the new pricing. If the Customer does not agree to the changes, the sole remedy is to cancel the subscription and discontinue use of the Services.” Multi-year customers are re-assessed on each anniversary with “a prorated price increase for any Company Size Excess.”
3. Mid-cycle band moves are one-way. The help centre says moving to a higher band “will generate a prorated charge for the remaining days in your current billing cycle” and says nothing about a credit for moving down. Where Support has applied a band override, “you can update to a higher employee band, but selecting a lower band than the current override is not possible.”
4. Removing an add-on means cancelling the plan. “To remove an already purchased premium tool before your self-service plan renewal, you will need to: Cancel your subscription renewal (from your Plan page). When your plan expires, repurchase the plan without the premium tool.” Switching from monthly to annual has a similar trap: “If any premium tools have been purchased already, they will be removed, and you will have to purchase them again separately after the activation of the new subscription.”
On top of the subscription: tax is added in the UK (20 percent VAT), Canada, and fifteen US states plus DC; premium job-board postings and background checks are charged on a card outside the plan, and where a premium posting runs through a board integration “billing is handled directly on the job board — you will not be able to view or manage it in Workable.”
Third-party procurement trackers put the same Standard-plus-add-ons pattern at a 59 percent uplift over the advertised price, using the older $99 and $79 add-on rates. Those are third-party figures and are not sourced from Workable’s own surfaces; the first-party numbers above supersede them.
Want to estimate your own Workable bill? Use the Workable pricing calculator to model your cost from employee band, tier, premium tools and AI credits.
Pricing evolution : Workable pricing history and changes
Cadence
| Period | Price changes | Product / SKU additions | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013–2016 | Ladder re-priced | Starter / Standard / Enterprise | Job-slot ladder; annual is “12 months for the price of 10” |
| 2017–2021 | 1 ($50 to $99 per job) | Pay As You Go, later Paygo | One active job is the whole unit of purchase |
| 2022–2023 | 2 (Paygo to $129; Standard $279) | Employee-band selector, six steps | Company headcount becomes the base meter |
| 2024–2025 | 1 (Standard $279 to $299) | Starter $149 monthly-only; bands re-cut to nine | Last per-job plan leaves the page |
| 2026 | 2 (Enterprise added; add-ons +$10) | Enterprise tier; Workable Agent AI credits | Consumption metering returns, per candidate action |
Tracked range: 2013–present, from Internet Archive captures of workable.com/pricing plus a first-party capture on 2026-09-10.
Notable changes
- 2016-04-16 — Six-rung job-slot ladder, monthly $39 to $399 and annual $390 to $3,990, with the annual mechanic stated as “12 months for the price of 10.”
- 2017-09-04 — Pay As You Go introduced at “$50 per job, per month, billed monthly” (bounded from 2016-04-16).
- 2019-08-16 — The per-job rate roughly doubles to “$99 per job, per month” (bounded from 2018-06-26).
- 2022-07-03 — Company headcount replaces hiring activity as the base meter: Standard $279, Premier $559, six employee bands; Paygo rises to $129 per job (bounded from 2021-08-04).
- 2024-03-20 — Paygo retired. Starter appears at $149 a month, “monthly only”; Standard rises to $299 (bounded from 2022-07-03).
- 2025-09-16 — Bands re-cut from six steps to nine, and a new 1000+ band shows no price (bounded from 2025-04-29).
- 2026-03-17 — Enterprise added at $719 a month; “Unlimited active jobs” qualified as “Subject to fair usage limits” (bounded from 2025-12-10).
- 2026-09-10 — Workable Agent AI credits published at 1 / 2 / 10 credits per candidate action, in $600 / $1,000 / $4,750 bundles; Texting and Video interviews each rise $10 a month.
What’s unique : Workable’s distinctive pricing mechanics
1. A published rate card for a headcount meter. Greenhouse bills its ATS on the same variable — its Master Subscription Agreement states that subscription fees “are based on Customer’s employee headcount” — and publishes no price for it anywhere. Workable prints twenty-four prices, three tiers across eight bands, and lets an admin buy without a call. That is the single most unusual thing about this page: Workable’s headcount meter is the one in the cohort a buyer can audit before signing.
2. A self-imposed 5 percent cap on renewal increases. Workable’s terms state that a renewal adjustment “shall not exceed five percent (5%) compared to the price list of the preceding term for the same plan”, with at least 45 days’ notice. Very few vendors in this corpus publish any cap; most reserve an unlimited right to raise fees at renewal. Note the carve-out that follows it, though — “Fees may be further adjusted based on the Customer’s Company Size at the time of renewal” — so the cap governs the price list, not your bill.
3. Two credit currencies with the same name. Search with AI credits are included, shared across the account, refreshed each billing cycle and metered per profile result, with a 30-day duplicate exemption. Workable Agent AI credits are bought in bundles, metered per candidate action, and expire after a year. Nothing on either surface tells a buyer the two are different pools.
4. A per-action AI meter with published rates. “The Agent consumes AI credits for each distinct action it takes on a candidate” — Evaluate 1, Source 2, Chat 10 — is a genuinely legible outcome-adjacent meter, and Workable prices the bundles publicly. It sits oddly on top of a subscription whose whole logic is that usage does not affect the bill.
5. An entitlement cap the pricing page does not show. The plan cards say “Unlimited active jobs Subject to fair usage limits.” The help centre says “Each company size tier also includes a maximum number of active job slots. For example, if you choose the 1 to 20 employees tier, your plan includes up to 20 active jobs at the same time.” Both statements are Workable’s own, published at the same time, and there is no table anywhere that lists the caps.
Strengths & weaknesses
| Strengths | Weaknesses |
|---|---|
| Full published rate card across eight employee bands, in a cohort where nobody else publishes one | The base meter is company headcount, which the recruiting team that uses the product does not control |
| Genuine self-serve purchase: pick band, pick packages, click Purchase, pay by card or US direct debit | ”SAVE 20%” on the annual toggle is not achievable at any band; the real saving is about 16.7 percent |
| Renewal increases contractually capped at 5 percent with 45 days’ notice | ”Unlimited active jobs” on the card contradicts the help centre’s per-band job-slot cap, which is never published |
| Unlimited users on every plan, so adding recruiters and hiring managers is free | Buying all three Standard premium tools costs more than Premier from the 51-100 band up |
| The Agent meter is legible: three named actions, three fixed credit costs, three published bundle rates | Add-on prices scale with the employee band but the card shows only one band, so the advertised price is a floor |
| Monthly billing exists and can be cancelled any time | Only on Standard. Premier and Enterprise are annual commitments with no refunds for early cancellation |
Billing UX : Workable billing controls and transparency
- Purchase path — Admin-driven and in-product. Select the employee band and subscription type, choose Recruiting and/or HR, “You will see the total pricing based on your selections. Once you are ready, click Purchase.” Checkout takes card (Visa, Amex, Mastercard, Maestro, Discover) or US direct debit; a business card is required and a Super Admin must run it.
- Billing controls — The Plan page carries “Change payment cycle” for moving monthly to annual, and the Billing Information page carries the “Number of employees” field for changing bands. Moving annual to monthly is blocked while the subscription is active: “Moving from an annual plan to a monthly plan is not possible when your subscription is active.”
- Usage visibility — Thin, and asymmetric. For the new Agent credits Workable now ships an AI Credits Report, “a built-in dashboard that shows enterprises exactly how they are spending AI credits across every stage of recruiting”, free on all plans. For the older Search with AI credits there is no dashboard at all: “Contact us to learn how many remaining Search with AI credits you have.”
- Renewal notice — Annual plans renew automatically and Workable says it emails “some days before the automated annual renewal”. Price increases carry a firmer promise: at least 45 days’ notice, capped at 5 percent on the price list.
- Cancellation — Monthly can be cancelled any time. Annual cannot: the help centre flags it as “an annual commitment, so it won’t be possible to cancel your plan along the way”, and “Refunds are not possible for early cancellations/downgrades.” The terms agree: “Early termination does not entitle the Customer to a refund of prepaid Fees, and any outstanding Fees for the agreed Subscription Term become immediately due and payable.”
- After cancellation — The account drops to a Free plan that is a data-retention state rather than a product: “This plan is free, but you will not be able to post jobs or interact with candidates.” A payment failure produces an Expired plan instead, where “you can’t access any of your data”, auto-converting to Free after 30 days.
- Payment methods and tax — Card and US direct debit self-serve; wire transfer and PayPal only via manual invoicing arranged with sales, in USD, EUR or GBP. Tax is charged in the UK at 20 percent VAT, in Canada unless a business number is supplied, and in fifteen US states plus DC.
Strategic wins : Why Workable’s pricing decisions worked
1. Publishing the number in a category that refuses to
Workable’s competitive position on price is not that it is cheap; it is that it is knowable. A buyer comparing Workable against Greenhouse or Workday can only get a Workable number without a sales call, which makes Workable the default first quote in those evaluations and the anchor the others have to be justified against. This is the clearest example in the corpus of transparency itself operating as a distribution channel — see choosing the right usage metric for the trade-offs on the other side of that choice.
2. Moving the meter from hiring activity to company size
Per-job pricing was honest to the customer’s problem and terrible for Workable’s revenue: a customer who stopped hiring stopped paying, and the 2015 page said so out loud — “you only pay when you’re actively hiring.” Moving the base meter to headcount in 2022 converted a cyclical, activity-linked bill into a stable subscription that grows with the customer whether or not they hire, which is the same trade that AI companies making the same shift are working through from the opposite direction.
3. Reintroducing consumption where it is defensible
Having spent three years removing usage from the bill, Workable put it back in the one place a buyer will accept it: on the AI agent, priced per candidate action, with a free allowance to establish a baseline and a report that shows what was spent. “Pay for what the agent does. Nothing else” is a claim the subscription itself could never make, and shipping the AI Credits Report free on all plans on the same day removes the usual objection to prepaid credits — see outcome-based pricing trends for where this pattern is heading.
Areas to improve : Gaps in Workable’s pricing approach
1. The “SAVE 20%” label is not true at any band
Workable’s own published figures produce 16.9 percent at the 1-20 band and 16.7 percent at 801-1000. The claim appears twice — on the toggle and in the help centre’s “Annual subscription (20% OFF)” — and is contradicted by the numbers immediately beside it. The 2016 page said the real thing better: “12 months for the price of 10.” Reverting to that phrasing would cost Workable nothing and remove a discrepancy any buyer with a calculator will find.
2. “Unlimited active jobs” and the per-band job-slot cap cannot both be right
The plan card and the purchasing article disagree in public, and the hedge added in early 2026 — “Subject to fair usage limits” — does not resolve it, because Workable’s help centre describes a hard number, not a fair-usage judgement: 20 employees means up to 20 active jobs. A buyer at the 1-20 band running 25 requisitions has no way to learn the constraint before signing. Publishing the cap per band would turn the contradiction into a feature of the band ladder.
3. Two credit currencies with one name
Search with AI credits and Workable Agent AI credits differ on every dimension that matters — how they are acquired, whether they refresh, whether they expire, what one credit buys — and share a name, a product surface and a mental model. The Agent article’s own caveat makes it worse rather than better: the pricing page presents 1 / 2 / 10 as fixed rates while the help centre says “the number of AI credits an action uses can vary.” Naming them differently, and reconciling the two statements about variability, would cost a paragraph.
4. The add-on ladder walks buyers past the cheaper plan
From the 51-100 band upwards, the three Standard premium tools cost more in aggregate than the Premier upgrade that includes them and adds Referrals. Workable’s purchase UI invites tool-by-tool addition (“Just click the plus icon (+) next to one or more premium tools”) without ever surfacing the crossover, and removing a tool afterwards requires cancelling and repurchasing the plan. See bill shock and cost unpredictability for why this class of packaging generates renewal friction.
Monetization stack & signals : how Workable builds & buys its revenue engine
Buys 4 Builds 1
-
“Workable, an AI-powered applicant tracking system (ATS) and all-in-one HR software platform, has released its AI Credits Report: a built-in dashboard that shows enterprises exactly how they are spending AI credits across every stage of recruiting and what each hire actually costs.”
-
“Stripe United States Payment processing services for self-service customers.”
-
“Zendesk United States Customer support communications.”
-
“Content Square United States An analytics provider.”
-
“Mailgun Technologies United States An e-mail service provider.”
Signals reviewed · derived from press & filings, product docs
Key takeaways
- Publishing a rate card for an opaque meter is a real strategy, not just hygiene. Workable prices on the same variable as Greenhouse — company headcount — and the difference is entirely that Workable prints it. That alone puts it in front of the buyer first.
- A headcount meter breaks the link between value and bill, and the ladder makes the break visible. Workable’s own numbers show a 50-person company paying $419 a month on Standard and a 105-person company paying $949 for the same unlimited-jobs, unlimited-users product.
- Discount labels are audited by anyone who can divide. “SAVE 20%” sits directly beside the two figures that disprove it, on every band, in both the app and the help centre.
- Add-on ladders need a crossover callout. When three à-la-carte tools cost more than the tier that includes them, the packaging is generating avoidable regret at exactly the moment a customer is spending more.
- Consumption metering can coexist with a flat subscription if it is scoped to the new thing. Workable put usage back on the AI agent, not on the ATS, gave it a free allowance and shipped the spend report at the same time — the whole pattern the category is converging on.
UBP implications
- Meter legibility beats meter accuracy for acquisition. Workable’s headcount meter is a worse proxy for value than a per-job meter was, but it is published, and published beats defensible when the buyer’s first question is “how much?”.
- When you retire a usage meter, expect to reintroduce one for AI. Workable spent 2022-2024 removing per-job billing and 2026 adding per-candidate-action billing. The credit pool is where usage-based pricing re-enters a subscription business, and a free starting allowance plus a spend dashboard is the standard entry kit.
- Prepaid credits with an expiry are a forecasting problem you are handing the customer. 50,000 credits at $0.095 is 21 percent cheaper per credit than 5,000 at $0.12, but they “expire 1 year from purchase” and are “Non-refundable”, so the volume discount is only real if the usage forecast is — the sizing problem usage invoicing and billing cycles exists to manage. If a company runs more than one consumption currency, as Workable now does, the names have to differ too, or every support conversation about one becomes a conversation about both.
Sources
- Workable pricing page (accessed 2026-09-10) — captured in twelve states: annual default, monthly toggle, eight employee bands, and three monthly-plus-band combinations
- Workable plans, packages and pricing (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Purchasing a Workable plan (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Managing plan & package transitions (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Billing options for annual plans (accessed 2026-09-10)
- What payment methods are accepted? (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Recruiting premium tools pricing (accessed 2026-09-10)
- How can I update my company size? (accessed 2026-09-10)
- How do my Search with AI credits work? (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Using the Workable Agent (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Starter plan FAQs (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Managing a Legacy annual plan (accessed 2026-09-10)
- What taxes does Workable charge? (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Workable Terms and Conditions (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Workable Sub-processors List (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Workable AI Credits Report announcement, GlobeNewswire (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Internet Archive capture of workable.com/pricing, 2015-06-28 (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Internet Archive capture of workable.com/pricing, 2016-04-16 (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Internet Archive capture of workable.com/pricing, 2017-09-04 (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Internet Archive capture of workable.com/pricing, 2018-06-26 (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Internet Archive capture of workable.com/pricing, 2019-08-16 (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Internet Archive capture of workable.com/pricing, 2021-08-04 (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Internet Archive capture of workable.com/pricing, 2022-07-03 (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Internet Archive capture of workable.com/pricing, 2024-03-20 (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Internet Archive capture of workable.com/pricing, 2025-04-29 (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Internet Archive capture of workable.com/pricing, 2025-09-16 (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Internet Archive capture of workable.com/pricing, 2025-12-10 (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Internet Archive capture of workable.com/pricing, 2026-03-17 (accessed 2026-09-10)
- Internet Archive capture of workable.com/pricing, 2026-05-17 (accessed 2026-09-10)
Historical claims on this page are anchored to those Internet Archive captures of workable.com/pricing. Where a change falls between two captures it is stated as bounded rather than dated; captures between 2026-05-17 and 2026-09-07 are JavaScript shells that record no pricing content either way. Cross-corpus comparisons live at the pricing blueprint.
Bottom line
Workable is the transparency outlier in a category built on demand-a-demo pricing: three published tiers, eight priced employee bands, a real self-serve checkout, and a contractual cap on renewal increases that almost nobody else in this corpus offers. The cost of that openness is that its weakest design choice is visible too — a base meter that scales with company size while the product’s value scales with hiring activity, an “unlimited active jobs” claim its own help centre contradicts with a per-band slot cap, and a “SAVE 20%” label that the numbers beside it never reach. The Workable Agent’s per-candidate-action credits are the most interesting thing on the page: consumption pricing reintroduced in the one place a subscription buyer will accept it. Browse the pricing blueprint for more.
Want to compare Workable against other HR & People companies? Browse the pricing blueprint.
Pricing timeline : Major events on a vertical axis
Each milestone below corresponds to a public pricing change, product launch, or material adjustment. Major events use a filled marker; minor adjustments use a faded one.
Workable Agent puts a per-candidate-action credit meter back on the page
Workable publishes a consumption meter for the first time since retiring per-job pricing: 'The Agent consumes AI credits for each distinct action it takes on a candidate' — 1 credit to evaluate, 2 to source, 10 for a candidate chat — sold as 5,000 credits at $0.12 ($600), 10,000 at $0.10 ($1,000) or 50,000 at $0.095 ($4,750), with 3,000 free credits per paid account, a one-year expiry and no refunds. The same day Workable announced an AI Credits Report showing 'exactly how they are spending AI credits across every stage of recruiting', available 'for all Workable plans at no additional cost'. Bounded against the 2026-05-17 capture, the last complete archived page with no AI-credit section; the intervening captures are JavaScript shells and record nothing either way.
Texting and Video interviews add-ons rise by $10 a month each
At the 1-20 band on the annual cycle, Texting goes from $79 to $89 a month and Video interviews from $99 to $109, while Assessments holds at $59 and Performance & Engagement at $39. The 2026-03-17 capture carries the old figures. The increase compounds with a rule the card does not show: add-on prices scale with the employee band too, reaching $569, $849, $449 and $929 a month respectively at the 801-1000 band.
Enterprise joins the published rate card at $719 a month
A third published tier appears above Premier and, unusually for the category, carries a price rather than a demo button: $719 a month or $8,628 a year at the 1-20 band, running about 20 percent above Premier at every band. In the same window the Standard card's 'Unlimited active jobs' is qualified as 'Unlimited active jobs Subject to fair usage limits'. Bounded against the 2025-12-10 capture, which shows only Standard and Premier.
Employee bands re-cut from six steps to nine, with a quote-only 1000+ tier
The four bands above 100 employees replace two: 101-200, 201-400, 401-600 and 601-800 supersede 101-250 and 251-500, and a new 1000+ band replaces every plan price with 'Contact us for a quote'. Workable's published rate card now terminates at 1,000 employees. Bounded between the 2025-04-29 capture (six bands) and the 2025-09-16 capture (nine).
Paygo retired; Starter arrives at $149 a month, monthly only
The last per-job plan leaves the pricing page after roughly eleven years, replaced by Starter at $149 a month, explicitly 'monthly only', bundled with '200 AI sourcing profile views per month' and its own cheaper add-ons (Video Interviews +$49, Texting +$39, Assessments +$29). Standard rises from $279 to $299 a month and gains 'Unlimited active jobs'; Premier sits at $599 / $7,188. Bounded between the 2022-07-03 and 2024-03-20 captures.
Company headcount becomes the base meter; Paygo rises to $129
The structural turn. The 2022-07-03 capture is the first in which the subscription price is a function of how many people the customer employs rather than how many jobs it is running: Standard at $279 a month ('Total cost per year $3,348', 'Save $672') and Premier at $559 ('Total cost per year $6,708', 'Save $1,332'), both driven by a six-step selector reading 1-20, 21-50, 51-100, 101-250, 251-500 and 501-1000 employees. Paygo survives beside them at $129 per job. Bounded against the 2021-08-04 capture, which shows Paygo at $99 and no band selector.
The per-job rate roughly doubles to $99
The same unit — one active job for one month — goes from $50 to $99 with no repackaging around it. Bounded between the 2018-06-26 capture (still $50) and the 2019-08-16 capture ('$99 per job, per month'). The $99 rate is still on the page in the 2020-06-12 capture and again in the 2021-08-04 capture, where the plan has been renamed Paygo.
Pay As You Go arrives at $50 per job, per month
A named pay-as-you-go tier replaces the bottom of the ladder, described as 'A flexible, pay-as-you-go plan, $50 per job, per month, billed monthly', with Starter defined above it as 'Everything in Pay As You Go plus'. Bounded between the 2016-04-16 and 2017-09-04 Wayback captures of workable.com/pricing; Workable published no announcement the Archive retains.
A six-rung job-slot ladder, with two months free for paying annually
The earliest fully-priced page in the archived record sells Starter, Standard and Enterprise on a job-slot ladder: monthly $39, $89, $129, $199, $299 and $399, or annual $390, $890, $1,290, $1,990, $2,990 and $3,990. The page states the annual mechanic plainly — 'Annual plans are billed up front and include 12 months for the price of 10.' The 2015-06-28 capture shows the same shape one rung lower, with annual prices of $190, $490, $990, $1,990 and $3,990 and the promise that 'you only pay when you're actively hiring.'
- · Workable's annual toggle has said 'SAVE 20%' for years, but the published numbers have never produced 20 percent. At the 1-20 band the annual plan saves 16.9 percent; at 801-1000 it saves 16.7 percent. The real mechanic is the one Workable stated openly in 2016 and stopped stating later: 'Annual plans are billed up front and include 12 months for the price of 10.'
- · Buying all three Standard premium tools costs more than upgrading to Premier from the 51-100 employee band upwards. At 51-100, Standard plus Texting, Video interviews and Assessments is $1,336 a month against Premier's $1,229 — and Premier throws in Referrals, which Standard cannot buy at any price.
- · Workable's contract defines the thing it bills you for more broadly than 'employees': Company Size means 'the total number of individuals engaged by the Customer and its Affiliates ... including all full-time and part-time employees and independent contractors, regardless of the duration of their engagement.' Workable also reserves the right to verify that number 'based among others on public available information'.
Questions & answers
- How much does Workable cost?
- At the smallest employee band (1-20), Workable's published annual prices are $299 a month for Standard, $599 for Premier and $719 for Enterprise. Those figures rise with your company headcount band: at 201-400 employees the same plans are $1,299, $2,269 and $2,719 a month, and at 801-1000 they are $2,799, $3,959 and $4,749. Selecting the 1000+ band replaces every price with 'Contact us for a quote'.
- Is Workable priced per recruiter seat or per employee?
- Per employee. Workable's terms define 'Company Size' as 'the total number of individuals engaged by the Customer and its Affiliates, where applicable, to work under the direction or control of the Customer, including all full-time and part-time employees and independent contractors, regardless of the duration of their engagement.' The plans themselves include unlimited users, so adding recruiters does not raise the bill and hiring in an unrelated department does.
- Can you buy Workable without talking to sales?
- Yes. Workable's help centre describes an in-product path: an Admin selects the employee band, the subscription type and the Recruiting and/or HR packages, clicks Purchase and is 'redirected to the checkout process to add your company details and choose payment method: card (debit or credit) or direct debit (US only).' Sales is only required for manual invoicing, for the 1000+ employee band and for AI-credit bundles above 50,000.
- Does the annual plan really save 20 percent?
- No. The toggle reads 'ANNUALLY - SAVE 20%' and the help centre repeats 'Annual subscription (20% OFF)', but the published figures never reach that. At the 1-20 band, monthly billing is $360 a month ($4,320 a year) against $3,588 billed annually — a saving of 16.9 percent. At 801-1000 it is $40,320 against $33,588, or 16.7 percent. Every band lands on roughly two months free, not 20 percent.
- Are Workable's active jobs really unlimited?
- The pricing page and its own help centre disagree, so both are recorded here. The plan cards say 'Unlimited active jobs Subject to fair usage limits'. The help-centre article Purchasing a Workable plan says 'Each company size tier also includes a maximum number of active job slots. For example, if you choose the 1 to 20 employees tier, your plan includes up to 20 active jobs at the same time.' Workable publishes no table of those caps.
- How do Workable's AI credits work?
- There are two different credit currencies. Search with AI credits come with the subscription — 12,000 a year on Standard annual, 20,000 on Premier — are shared across the account, refresh at each billing date and cost 1 credit per profile result. Workable Agent AI credits are bought separately in bundles of 5,000 ($600), 10,000 ($1,000) or 50,000 ($4,750), cost 1 credit to evaluate a candidate, 2 to source one and 10 for a candidate chat, expire a year after purchase and are non-refundable. Every paid account gets 3,000 Agent credits free.