We raised $5.5M, and we're now Metix AI.

The short version

Metix AI prices hiring by the delivered candidate, not the seat. A credit is one interested, interview-ready candidate, booked on your calendar. If nobody clears your bar, no credit is spent. Plans run $49 to $299 a month with 3 to 75 credits, annual billing saves 10 percent, and every plan starts with a free 14-day trial: 3 New Roles, 12 Credits, no card required.

Seat bills whether anyone arrives the zero month still invoices

Credit moves when someone is booked one interview-ready candidate

Zero month consumes no credits the plan bills; the meter does not

A credit is a person, not a click.

Every pricing model names a unit, and the unit is the most honest sentence a vendor writes. Ours is a person. One credit unlocks one interested, interview-ready candidate, and if they're not worth meeting, you don't spend it.

Interested

Interested means the candidate has said yes to your specific role in a real conversation, not that a database flagged them open to work.

Interview-ready

Interview-ready means they match the role's must-haves and arrive ready to talk about the job rather than the basics.

Booked

Booked means a confirmed slot is on your calendar. The credit moves at that booking, not when a profile is found or a message is sent.

Miss any one of the three and the candidate does not count.

Behind the definition sits the pipeline. Mira, our AI recruiter, turns your role brief into a search, sources across 860M+ profiles in 190+ countries, sends outreach you approve first, and screens for genuine interest and fit. The system behind her is published research, not a black box. A credit buys the far end of all that work: the person, delivered.

The list of things a credit is never spent on matters just as much. Not a search. Not a profile view or a contact reveal. Not outreach, however many messages a role takes.

A credit is a person, not a click. One credit unlocks one interested, interview-ready candidate. If they're not worth meeting, you don't spend it.

The meter is here. The plan cards are on pricing.

This page owns the unit: what a credit is, what happens when nobody clears the bar, and how the meter stays honest. The pricing page owns the four plans, $49 to $299 a month, credit counts, and checkout. Annual billing saves 10 percent. There is no long contract; you can cancel anytime. Every plan starts with a free 14-day trial: 3 New Roles and 12 Credits, no card required.

The steepest comparison

The steepest comparison is not with software at all. A contingency search bills 20 to 25 percent of first-year cash compensation, the SHRM band our fee analysis uses. Retained search bills a higher share whether or not the role is filled; contingency search bills on placement.

A single senior placement fee can cost more than a full year on a Metix AI plan.

To be fair, the agency does finish the search, and finishing is exactly what we price too. The difference is the denominator: they divide the fee by one hire, we divide it by every candidate worth meeting along the way. On a role that takes four good conversations to close, those are very different numbers.

Speed is part of what the credit buys, because a slow qualified candidate is often a lost one. The delivery clock, and the care with which those figures are defined, lives on the interview scheduling page.

How outcome pricing gets gamed, and what stops it here.

Outcome pricing has a known failure mode: it is only as honest as its metric. Hiring has its own versions, they are predictable, and we would rather name them than hope you never ask.

Move one

Loosen the definition

A careless vendor stretches qualified until the inbox fills with people who pass on paper and fail in practice. Here the definition is not ours to stretch. You set the bar in the role brief, and you approve every outreach message.

Move two

Flood the funnel

Volume can imitate quality for a while. It fails against the meter. A credit moves only when an interested, interview-ready candidate is booked.

Move three

Creaming, the oldest trick in pay-for-results

Pour effort into the easy cases and park the hard ones. It has nowhere to hide here, because you point Metix AI at the role you choose.

So bring the hard one first. The canonical wording of what a credit unlocks lives in the FAQ, and the longer argument about gamed metrics is in the essay linked below.

When outcome pricing is the wrong buy.

Wrong buy one

You want to run the desk

A staffed sourcing team that wants an engine for its own funnel is often better served renting a seat. We walk that trade in Metix AI vs hireEZ.

Wrong buy two

You need the system of record

Credits do not replace an ATS. Applications, scorecards, offers, and audit history stay in the record system. The split is in ATS vs AI recruiter.

Wrong buy three

You wanted a cheaper list

A credit is a booked interview, not a cheaper search. Outcome pricing is for the buyer who wants the meeting itself, at a price that moves only when that meeting exists.

The cleanest test of a pricing model is a live role, ideally the hard one. Fourteen days, 3 New Roles, 12 Credits, no card required.

Move one

Define the bar

Must-haves and outreach copy you will actually sign. The standard each candidate is sold on is one you approved.

Move two

Let the meter sit

Searches, reveals, and quiet profiles cost you nothing. A credit moves only when someone worth meeting is booked.

Move three

Read the invoice

Check that it maps to people you met. A month that delivers nobody consumes no credits.

Screening quality is a risk, and someone has to hold it

Every pipeline contains a fraction that looks right on paper and is wrong in the room. Screening quality is therefore a risk someone has to hold. The real question in any hiring contract is who.

Under a seat license, you do. The vendor is paid in advance, in full, whether the month produced twelve strong candidates or none.

A credit moves the risk across the table. You decide whether they clear the bar. A miss that never becomes a booked interview costs you no credit.

That changes behavior on both sides. We have no reason to pad a shortlist, because padding is priced. You have no reason to ration your attention, because looking is free.

The contrast is sharpest in a slow month.

If nobody clears the bar, nothing is charged

The rule fits in one line: a credit only unlocks a candidate who is qualified and genuinely interested, so if no one clears the bar, nothing is charged. A candidate who misses your bar never reaches you and never costs a credit.

One footnote belongs next to that rule. The plan itself bills monthly, like any subscription. What the rule governs is the credit meter inside it: a month that delivers nobody consumes no credits.

What outcome pricing does not change

The interview is still yours, and so is the decision. We stop at a qualified, interested person booked on your calendar. Nobody here pretends to make the hire for you: you run the interview, you sign the offer, you employ the person, and you own the relationship from there.

Price it against a role you need to fill

The cleanest test of a pricing model is a live role, ideally your hard one. The trial is 14 days with 3 New Roles and 12 Credits, no card required. You define the bar, you approve the outreach, and the first credit moves only when someone worth meeting lands on your calendar. Then read the invoice and check what it maps to.

Questions before you start.

What does a Metix AI credit actually pay for?

One credit unlocks one interested, interview-ready candidate: a person who matches the role's must-haves, has confirmed interest in a real conversation, and is booked on your calendar.

What happens if no candidate clears the bar?

Nothing is charged. A candidate who misses the bar never reaches you and never costs a credit, so a month that delivers nobody consumes no credits.

How much does Metix AI outcome pricing cost?

Plans run $49 to $299 a month, with 10 percent off annual billing, and a free 14-day trial with 3 New Roles and 12 Credits, no card required. The plan cards and credit counts live on the pricing page.

What stops Metix AI from gaming its own outcome metric?

You set the bar in the role brief and approve every outreach message that goes out under it, and anyone who misses the bar costs no credit.