There is no public price: every deal is quoted on a demo call, followed by a three-month pilot, so budgeting before a sales conversation is not possible. The product lives in Slack, so teams on Microsoft Teams or without Slack should confirm fit first, and the vendor's customer logos and pricing examples lean European (it quotes agency fees in euros).
What we noted
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Worth keeping in mind: Laidback builds candidate profiles from what people have published (code repos, talks, papers, portfolios) instead of filtering the same licensed database every competitor uses, and it calibrates each search by simulating candidate personas against the brief before it starts. It will push back on the brief itself, for example arguing against a literal years-of-experience floor, and it chooses whether each message goes out under the hiring manager or the recruiter and over email, LinkedIn or WhatsApp.
| Tool | Free tier | From | MCP | API | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Laidback (the one you are on) | –No | Quote-based | –No | –No | |
| | ✓Yes | $99/mo | ✓Yes | –No | Head to head |
| | –No | Quote | ✓Yes | ✓Yes | Head to head |
| | –No | $99/mo | ✓Yes | –No | Head to head |
| | –No | $130/mo | ✓Yes | ✓Yes | Head to head |
$99/mo Free tier Free trial MCP
Why it comes up: Natural-language candidate search with a published $99/mo entry price, for teams that want to run the search themselves rather than hand the whole outbound process to an agent.
Stands out: Natural-language search plus a Chrome extension and 50+ ATS connectors.
Watch out: The Agents add-on costs extra on top of the seat price.
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Quote 8 day free trial MCP API
Why it comes up: AI sourcing agent built on its own candidate database with LinkedIn outreach, if you prefer a database-first approach to Laidback's open-web research.
Stands out: An AI recruiter that both sources and contacts, plus hosted MCP and REST.
Watch out: Outbound only (it does not handle inbound screening), and there is no published seat price.
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$99/mo 7 day free trial MCP
Why it comes up: People-search agent at $99/mo with a 7-day trial that also searches your own inbox and LinkedIn network, for buyers who want a published price.
Stands out: Every match opens to show why it matched, tracing each criterion back to the talk, post or profile the claim came from, and saying so when the evidence is not strong enough rather than filling the gap. It also reads your own side: connect a mailbox and your LinkedIn network and it can tell you who you already know inside a target account, which a database-first sourcing tool cannot do.
Watch out: The product is in private beta and everything runs on credits that reset at the start of each calendar month in UTC, not on your billing date, and do not roll over, so a heavy search week can outrun the plan. The 7-day trial is Pro only, takes a card up front and grants 2,500 of the 11,000 monthly credits; Max and Ultra bill from day one. The vendor describes SOC 2 as a programme on its Trust Center rather than a finished report.
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$130/mo MCP API
Why it comes up: Sourcing, recruiting CRM and sequences in one shared system, when the team wants to run outreach itself with a common pipeline and reporting.
Stands out: CRM and outreach layered onto the ATS you already have, with a hosted MCP.
Watch out: Pricing scales with company headcount, and anything past a small team is quoted.
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