Yardstick pricing
Run your first 3 Jobs free. Then pay for active hiring, not employee count or collaborator seats.
Active-Job pricing
Yardstick prices around the actual unit of hiring work: the Job. That keeps pricing tied to roles you are actively moving forward, not employee count, recruiter seats, candidate volume, or every person invited into the process.
Trying Yardstick on your first hiring loops
$0
First 3 Jobs free
Most flexible
Teams hiring occasionally or in bursts
$49/mo
+ $29 per active Job/month
Teams hiring regularly
$149/mo
+ $19 per active Job/month
Security, scale, procurement, and custom workflows
Custom
For complex operating requirements
Cost examples
Core has the lower base fee. Scale has the lower active-Job rate. The plans break even at 10 active Jobs.
| Active Jobs | Core | Scale | Lower cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $78 | $168 | Core |
| 3 | $136 | $206 | Core |
| 5 | $194 | $244 | Core |
| 10 | $339 | $339 | Either |
| 15 | $484 | $434 | Scale |
| 25 | $774 | $624 | Scale |
What counts
Active Jobs are open roles where you are accepting candidates, managing candidates, scheduling interviews, or making hiring decisions.
Open roles, published roles, roles accepting candidates, roles with active pipeline stages, upcoming interviews, pending evaluations, scheduling activity, open offers, or active workflow/calendar/agent activity.
Closed, archived, or paused Jobs do not count when they have no live candidate, interview, application, offer, calendar, workflow, or agent activity. Read-only hiring history is always free.
Active Jobs are open roles where you are accepting candidates, managing candidates, scheduling interviews, or making hiring decisions. A Job is not active when it is closed, archived, or paused with no live candidate, interview, application, offer, calendar, workflow, or agent activity.
Existing Jobs remain accessible and closed or archived history remains readable. Creating another Job or reactivating an archived Job into active hiring requires upgrading to a paid plan.
No. Yardstick does not charge per interviewer, hiring-manager collaborator, recruiter, or admin at launch. Invite the hiring team without turning each person into another seat to manage.
No. If the Job is only historical, it is free. If the Job is still being used to move hiring forward through candidates, interviews, offers, scheduling, workflow, calendar, or agent activity, it is active.
You are billed monthly for your workspace and active Jobs at the start of each month. Jobs added during the month appear as prorated usage on your next invoice. Jobs made inactive stop billing next month.
Yes. Calendar coordination is included on Free, Core, Scale, and Enterprise because scheduling is part of the core hiring workflow.
We don't, and that's intentional. Yardstick is monthly by design, so you keep maximum flexibility. When a Job is no longer active, billing for it stops the next month and your price drops automatically — you never prepay for hiring you are not doing.
Enterprise is for teams with security, procurement, scale, services, or workflow requirements beyond self-serve. Basic ATS usage, interview planning, scorecards, calendar coordination, and collaboration do not require Enterprise.
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