Applicant tracking priced by concurrent open jobs, with unlimited users
ResearchedHireHive
HireHive charges for how many jobs you have open at once rather than how many people touch the system: $120 a month for three active jobs up to $500 for twenty-five, with unlimited users and an unlimited candidate database on every plan.
The short answer
- Best for
- A team that keeps a fairly constant number of roles open and wants everyone — hiring managers included — inside the system without a seat cost
- Not ideal for
- Teams with spiky or high concurrent job volume, and buyers who need enterprise-depth reporting and governance
- Price
- From $120/month for 3 active jobs, up to $500 for 25; Enterprise above that is quoted
- Closest alternative
- RecootyAnother small-team ATS with published pricing, worth comparing when your concurrent job count is low and the per-job meter would be the expensive part
At a glance
- Recruitment fitStrong
- Ease of useUnknown
- ImplementationFair
- Price transparencyFair
- Value for moneyUnknown
- ScalabilityWeak
Why these assessments
- Recruitment fitStrong
- A dedicated applicant tracking system with job posting, candidate database and hiring workflow, sold to recruiters rather than bundled into an HR suite.
- Ease of useUnknown
- No SourcrLab hands-on use. Reviewers describe an intuitive interface, but on a base of roughly sixteen G2 reviews that is an impression rather than a finding.
- ImplementationFair
- Self-serve with a trial available and no seat provisioning to negotiate, though no migration scope or onboarding commitment was established for this brief.
- Price transparencyFair
- Every plan below Enterprise carries a published price and a stated job limit, which is genuinely transparent — but the vendor's own pricing page also renders stale conflicting figures.
- Value for moneyUnknown
- Not assessed. Whether unlimited users offsets a per-job meter depends entirely on a given team's ratio of people to open roles, which is a buyer-specific calculation.
- ScalabilityWeak
- The meter is the constraint: cost steps up with concurrent open jobs, so a hiring surge raises the bill precisely when budgets are already stretched, and above twenty-five jobs there is no published price at all.
Our reading of the evidence on this page. No score, no formula.
Where it sits
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The SourcrLab bottom line
A transparent, small-to-mid-market ATS with an unusual and genuinely useful meter: active jobs, not seats. One caveat has to travel with the price, and it is the vendor's own doing — the English pricing page renders the current plan table and stale fragments of an older one at the same time, including different plan names, different job counts and a different Enterprise figure. The header table is what this brief carries. Confirm the plan you intend to buy directly with the vendor.
Best fit
Teams whose cost driver is people, not postings. If ten colleagues need to review candidates and you keep three to ten roles open at a time, an unlimited-user plan priced on active jobs is cheaper and simpler than counting seats — and it removes the incentive to keep hiring managers outside the system.
Think twice if
Anyone whose open-role count moves unpredictably, or who exceeds twenty-five concurrent jobs, where there is no published price to plan against. Buyers who need enterprise-depth reporting and governance should also look further up the market.
SourcrLab assessment
Everything on this page comes from the vendor's own pages, checked on the dates below. SourcrLab has not used this product in real recruitment work, so you will not find a first-hand opinion here.
Why choose HireHive?
Unlimited users on every plan
Hiring managers, interviewers and coordinators cost nothing to add. On per-seat systems, involving the wider team is a budget decision, which is the usual reason candidate feedback ends up scattered across email threads instead of in the ATS.
The meter matches how small teams actually hire
Concurrent open roles is a number a small company can predict, and it is the number that genuinely drives workload. Paying against it is more honest than paying per seat when the seat count is stable and the job count is what varies.
An unlimited candidate database on all plans
The database is not tiered, so past applicants remain searchable regardless of which plan you are on. That matters more over time than it looks on day one: an ATS whose value grows is one whose historical candidates stay reachable.
Prices published in more than one currency
The vendor publishes a euro ladder alongside the dollar one — €115, €265 and €475 against $120, $280 and $500 for the same job counts. For a European buyer that removes an exchange-rate guess from the budget conversation.
Main trade-offs
The vendor's own pricing page contradicts itself
The same English document renders the current header plan table together with stale fragments carrying different plan names, different job counts and a different Enterprise figure. This brief follows the current header table and deliberately does not merge the two into one ladder. Confirm your plan with the vendor before signing.
A job meter punishes a hiring surge
Moving from three active jobs to ten is a step from $120 to $280, and to twenty-five is $500. A team whose open-role count spikes will find the bill rising exactly when hiring pressure is highest, which is the opposite of how a seat-priced product behaves.
Nothing published above twenty-five jobs
Enterprise is contact-sales, so the transparency that makes the lower plans easy to evaluate stops exactly where a growing company would need it most. Plan for a quote conversation if your trajectory takes you past the Mega plan.
A thin independent review base
G2 held roughly 4.5 out of 5 across about sixteen reviews at the last check. Positive themes are the interface, automation and support; watch-outs mentioned include integration, email and mobile quirks. At that sample size, treat all of it as directional rather than settled.
Pricing and buying reality
From $120 per month for 3 active jobs
- Starter: $120 per month, 3 active jobs
- Super: $280 per month, 10 active jobs
- Mega: $500 per month, 25 active jobs
- Enterprise: contact sales, above 25 active jobs
- Unlimited users and an unlimited candidate database on all plans
- Euro ladder published alongside: €115, €265 and €475 for the same job counts
- A 14-day free trial appears in the vendor's material
What we do not know
- Which of the two plan ladders rendering on the vendor's pricing page is contractually current
- What Enterprise costs above 25 active jobs
- How an 'active job' is counted, and what happens when one is closed and reopened
- Whether annual billing carries a discount
Checked on the vendor's pricing page, August 2026. HireHive pricing page (current header plan table: Starter, Super, Mega, Enterprise; unlimited users and database; also renders stale conflicting fragments)
How it fits your stack
Works with
- Job boards, through the vendor's posting integrations
- Your team's mailboxes and calendars for candidate correspondence
Likely replaces
- A spreadsheet pipeline plus a shared inbox
- A per-seat ATS bought for a team where most users only need to review
May overlap with
- Careers-site and employer-branding tools, where the ATS's own posting and pages already cover the need
Check before buying
- Which plan table the vendor will actually contract on, given the page renders two
- Your realistic peak of concurrent open roles, not your average, since the meter charges on the peak
- Whether the reporting depth matches what you report to your leadership today
HireHive vs alternatives
Products a buyer would genuinely put next to this one, with the reason you would pick each instead.
Consider Recooty when your concurrent job count is low and steady, and a simpler published monthly price beats an active-job meter for your shape of hiring.
Consider Jobsoid if you want to start free for a single job and grow into paid tiers rather than beginning at a three-job minimum.
Consider Breezy HR when you want configurable pipelines and a broader feature set, and can accept pricing that scales differently as the team grows.
Choose Recruitee if collaborative hiring across a larger organisation matters most and you want a much larger independent review base behind the decision.
Used HireHive?
Tell other recruiters what worked, what did not, and who it suits. Positive, mixed or critical — all useful.
Evidence
- Starter at $120 per month for 3 active jobs — checked against a primary source: HireHive pricing page (current header plan table: Starter, Super, Mega, Enterprise; unlimited users and database; also renders stale conflicting fragments)
- Super at $280 for 10 and Mega at $500 for 25 active jobs — checked against a primary source: HireHive pricing page (current header plan table: Starter, Super, Mega, Enterprise; unlimited users and database; also renders stale conflicting fragments)
- Enterprise is contact-sales above 25 active jobs — checked against a primary source: HireHive pricing page (current header plan table: Starter, Super, Mega, Enterprise; unlimited users and database; also renders stale conflicting fragments)
- Unlimited users and unlimited candidate database on all plans — checked against a primary source: HireHive pricing page (current header plan table: Starter, Super, Mega, Enterprise; unlimited users and database; also renders stale conflicting fragments)
- Euro ladder at €115, €265 and €475 for the same job counts — checked against a primary source: HireHive euro pricing page (€115, €265 and €475 against the same active-job counts)
- The English pricing page renders stale plan fragments alongside the current table, and this brief follows the current header table without merging them — checked against a primary source: HireHive pricing page (current header plan table: Starter, Super, Mega, Enterprise; unlimited users and database; also renders stale conflicting fragments)
- Which plan ladder is contractually current — not enough evidence
- A 14-day free trial — vendor claim, not independently verified: HireHive pricing page (current header plan table: Starter, Super, Mega, Enterprise; unlimited users and database; also renders stale conflicting fragments)
- G2 rating of roughly 4.5 across about 16 reviews — a thin sample — checked against a primary source: G2 reviews (roughly 4.5 out of 5 across about 16 reviews; themes: intuitive interface, automation and support against integration, email and mobile quirks)
- Enterprise pricing above 25 active jobs — not enough evidence
- SourcrLab has not used this product in real recruitment work. — not enough evidence
Last reviewed: August 2026. How SourcrLab verifies information
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