Top Echelon

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HR & People Unclaimed · our research only We found: from $79 🔎 3 cost-trap flags
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Our pricing checkRead on their own pricing page, 10 Sep 2026
Cost-trap flags🪑 Per-seat pricing 🧩 Add-ons extra 📅 Annual commit
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Our pricing check · 2026-09-10, read on their own pricing page, both billing togglesTE Recruit (the ATS and CRM) runs $79 per seat per month billed annually or $95 month-to-month on Standard, and $95 billed annually or $115 month-to-month on Professional.
What will cost you money if you skim itAlmost everything people shop for sits in Professional, not Standard: Smart-TE AI, automations, sequences, inbound email sync and API access are all one tier up, so Standard is a competent but plain ATS.

Cost-trap flags — each with its evidence

🪑 Per-seat pricing — Cost scales with every user you add
“(2026-09-10, read on their own pricing page, both billing toggles) TE Recruit (the ATS and CRM) runs $79 per seat per month billed annually or $95 mo…”
🧩 Add-ons extra — Key features are paid add-ons on top of the plan
“The bigger thing to price honestly is that TE Recruit and TE Network are two separate subscriptions.”
📅 Annual commit — Best price (or any price) requires an annual/quarterly commitment
“And taking the network month-to-month adds a $350 one-time startup fee that annual billing waives.”

Genuinely good for

recruiting agencies and SMB staffing firms that want an applicant tracking system and CRM in one place, especially ones that would actually work split placements with other recruiters

Skip it if

you are an in-house talent team hiring for your own company — this is built around agency and split-placement workflows, so you would carry a network you never use

The honest comparisonBullhorn or Recruit CRM — the agency-ATS incumbents

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