General AI assistant
Hands-onChatGPT for Recruiting
The general AI assistant most recruiters meet first, used for vacancy copy, outreach drafts, profile summaries and search strings, with a four-step consumer ladder and a per-seat business plan.
The short answer
- Best for
- One recruiter drafting vacancy copy, outreach and summaries, and rewriting the output
- Not ideal for
- Anyone who intends to send what it produces without editing it
- Price
- Free, then EUR 8, 23 or from 103 a month; business seats from EUR 21 a month
- Closest alternative
- Claude AICleaner writing that needs less editing, with a smaller library of recruiting prompts around it
At a glance
- Recruitment fitWeak
- Ease of useStrong
- ImplementationStrong
- Price transparencyFair
- Value for moneyFair
- ScalabilityFair
Why these assessments
- Recruitment fitWeak
- A general assistant. No candidate record, no vacancy object, no pipeline and no ATS integration; every piece of recruitment context arrives because somebody pasted it.
- Ease of useStrong
- From daily use it is the least demanding tool in a recruitment stack to pick up. The caveat is not usability but output: prompt quality changes the result enormously.
- ImplementationStrong
- For the buyer on the card, one recruiter, adoption is opening a tab. A team rollout is a different question, with SSO, spend controls and a policy on what may be pasted in, and this state does not cover it.
- Price transparencyFair
- Four consumer prices and both business cycles are published, but Pro is quoted as from EUR 103 for 5x or 20x more usage without saying more than what, and Go carries advertising the page mentions only in passing.
- Value for moneyFair
- EUR 23 buys a tool that saves real hours, but what you get for it is described in relative terms, so whether the tier is enough for your week is something you learn by hitting a limit.
- ScalabilityFair
- Business starts at two users and adds SSO, spend controls and a default of no training on company data. Above that it is an Enterprise conversation with no published price.
Our reading of the evidence on this page. No score, no formula.
Where it sits
- Discover
- Outreach
- Screen
- Interview
- Decision
The SourcrLab bottom line
The default AI assistant in recruitment, and the ladder has grown four steps wide: Free, Go at EUR 8, Plus at EUR 23 and Pro from EUR 103. Two things a buyer should notice. Go is cheaper because the vendor says it may contain advertising, which is a different product relationship from a paid tool and worth a thought before it drafts candidate messages. And the tiers are sold on usage described relatively, 5x and 20x, so nothing on the page tells you whether a tier covers your week. For a team, Business at EUR 21 a seat is where SSO, spend controls and a stated default of no training on your data start.
Best fit
The blank page. Vacancy text, an outreach message rephrased three ways, twenty profiles summarised against a brief, a search string reasoned out rather than guessed. From daily use it is the fastest way to get from nothing to something, and the recruiters who get the most out of it treat it as a drafting partner rather than a replacement for their own voice.
Think twice if
If you plan to send the output as it comes out. From our own use, copy-pasted text reads generic and polished in a way candidates recognise, and the reply rate pays for it. Budget editing time, not just the subscription. And nothing here is recruitment software: no candidate data lives in it, and anything pasted in is a data-protection decision.
Hands-on experience
Pieter Henderyckx's take
Recruiter and founder of SourcrLab
ChatGPT is the tool that changed everything. I use it daily: for writing job descriptions, rephrasing outreach messages, summarizing candidate profiles, brainstorming search strings, you name it. It's the OG of AI in recruiting. But here's the thing: if you just copy-paste what it gives you, people will notice. The output sounds generic and polished in a way that screams "AI wrote this." In practice, I use it as a starting point and then edit heavily. The recruiters who get the best results treat it as a drafting partner, not a replacement for their own voice. Also, the quality of your prompts matters enormously. Garbage in, garbage out. Learn to prompt well, and ChatGPT becomes incredibly powerful.
Why choose ChatGPT for Recruiting?
The ecosystem is the real advantage
More recruiting-specific prompts, templates and shared workflows exist for this tool than for any of its rivals. If you would rather start from somebody else's working prompt than write your own, that library is worth more than a feature comparison.
A free tier that does real work
Unlimited text chats subject to abuse limits, with limited uploads, image generation, voice, deep research, memory and Codex access. Enough to judge the writing on your own vacancies before spending anything.
Business states no training on your data by default
Alongside SAML SSO, MFA, centralised billing and spend controls, from EUR 21 a seat a month on annual billing with a two-user minimum. For a team pasting CVs and interview notes, that default is the sentence to put in front of whoever signs off your processing.
It connects to where the work already is
The business plan names Microsoft 365, Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, Linear and Figma. None of that is an ATS, but for a recruitment team whose documents live in Drive or SharePoint it removes a copy-paste step.
Main trade-offs
Unedited output announces itself
From our own use this is the failure mode that matters: copy-pasted text reads generic and polished in a way that tells a candidate exactly how it was written. The tool is a drafting partner. Treating it as a send button costs replies, and no plan tier fixes that.
The cheap tier may carry advertising
Go at EUR 8 is the only tier the page flags that way. That is a different relationship with the tool than a paid subscription, and it is worth a deliberate decision before it drafts messages to candidates on your behalf.
Usage is sold as a multiple of an unstated number
Pro is described as 5x or 20x more usage, from EUR 103 a month, without saying more than what. The one question a buyer actually has, is this tier enough for how I work, cannot be answered from the page.
Pasting candidate data is a decision, not a habit
A CV in a chat window is personal data leaving your systems. The business tier's no-training default helps and the enterprise tier adds more, but on the individual plans that governance is entirely yours.
No ATS, no pipeline, no candidate record
Every piece of context arrives by paste and every output leaves by copy. That is fine for drafting and analysis and useless as a system of record, so it sits beside your stack rather than in it.
Pricing and buying reality
Free, then EUR 8, EUR 23 or from EUR 103 a month; business seats from EUR 21 a month
- Free: EUR 0. Unlimited text chats subject to abuse limits, with limited messages carrying uploads, limited and slower image generation, limited voice chats, limited deep research, limited memory and context, limited Codex and desktop access
- Go: EUR 8 a month. More messages with tools, more uploads, more image generation, more voice chats and a larger memory. The vendor states this plan may contain advertising
- Plus: EUR 23 a month. Advanced reasoning models, more messages and uploads, extended deep research, extended memory and context, projects, scheduled tasks and custom GPTs, extended Codex use, and early access to new features
- Pro: from EUR 103 a month, described as 5x or 20x more usage, with Pro-level reasoning, maximum Codex tasks, unlimited and faster image creation, and maximum deep research, memory and context
- Business: EUR 21 per user per month billed annually with a two-user minimum, or EUR 26 per user per month billed monthly. Adds ChatGPT Work and Codex across web, desktop and mobile, connectors for Microsoft 365, Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, Linear and Figma, custom team agent plug-ins, centralised billing and administration, usage analytics, budgeting and spend controls, SAML SSO and MFA, and no training on company data by default
- Enterprise: custom pricing, contact sales
- Usage limits are described in relative terms rather than published as numbers. Euro prices served from Belgium
What we do not know
- The actual usage ceiling on any tier, in messages, words or hours
- What the two Pro usage levels cost individually
- What advertising on the Go tier actually looks like in use
- Where data is processed and which transfer safeguards apply
Checked on the vendor's pricing page, August 2026. ChatGPT pricing page, individual and business plans, euro prices from Belgium
How it fits your stack
Works with
- Microsoft 365, Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, Linear and Figma, on the business plan
- Whatever you paste in, on every plan
Likely replaces
- The blank page at the start of a vacancy text
- Reading every CV in full to find the ones worth reading in full
May overlap with
- Claude, which does the same job with cleaner default output
- The AI writing assistants already built into your ATS or outreach tool
Check before buying
- Whether your organisation allows candidate data in a general AI tool at all
- Whether the free tier already covers your week, since paying mostly buys room
- Whether the advertising on the cheapest paid tier is acceptable to you
- Whether you need the business tier's no-training default in writing
ChatGPT for Recruiting vs alternatives
Products a buyer would genuinely put next to this one, with the reason you would pick each instead.
Choose Claude when the writing has to need less editing: from our own use its output reads cleaner and less templated, at the cost of a smaller library of recruiting prompts.
Choose Jasper when the job is employer-branding copy at volume with brand voice controls, rather than open-ended drafting and analysis.
Used ChatGPT for Recruiting?
Tell other recruiters what worked, what did not, and who it suits. Positive, mixed or critical — all useful.
Evidence
- Consumer plan prices: Free, Go, Plus and Pro — checked against a primary source: ChatGPT pricing page, individual and business plans, euro prices from Belgium
- Business at EUR 21 a seat annually, EUR 26 monthly, two-user minimum — checked against a primary source: ChatGPT pricing page, individual and business plans, euro prices from Belgium
- The Go plan may contain advertising — vendor claim, not independently verified: ChatGPT pricing page, individual and business plans, euro prices from Belgium
- Business states no training on company data by default — vendor claim, not independently verified: ChatGPT pricing page, individual and business plans, euro prices from Belgium
- Business connectors: Microsoft 365, Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, Linear, Figma — checked against a primary source: ChatGPT pricing page, individual and business plans, euro prices from Belgium
- Daily use for vacancy copy, outreach, summaries and search strings — first-hand use: Pieter uses ChatGPT daily for recruitment writing and analysis
- Unedited output reads recognisably generated — first-hand use: Pieter uses ChatGPT daily for recruitment writing and analysis
- Numeric usage limits on any tier — not enough evidence
- Individual prices of the two Pro usage levels — not enough evidence
- Processing location and transfer safeguards — not enough evidence
Last reviewed: August 2026. How SourcrLab verifies information
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