Directory/Employee referrals
Employee referral software turns your staff into a sourcing channel. Employees see open jobs, share them or submit people they know, and track what happens next. Recruiters get referrals in one queue with the referrer attached, and rewards are calculated and tracked automatically instead of in a spreadsheet.
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Ease of use decides everything, because employees will only refer if it takes a minute. Look for sharing by link, mobile access and status updates that keep referrers informed. Check the integration with your ATS so referrals land in the right requisition with source credit intact. Reward rules should handle your real policy, including waiting periods and tiered bonuses.
Most vendors price by company size, usually as an annual subscription, and some ATS platforms include a basic referral feature. Many quote on request. Where a vendor publishes a starting price, it is shown on the card below with the date we checked it.
Launching the tool and going quiet. Referral volume follows communication, so promote priority roles regularly and pay rewards on time. Close the loop with every referrer, including when their contact is not hired, or people stop referring. The directory below lists the top tools in this category so you can compare features side by side.
Prices last checked 30 Sep 2026 against each vendor's own pricing page. How we check · Missing a Employee referrals tool? Suggest it
Employee referrals
Classic employee-referral portal with gamification.
Sales-quoted
Employee referrals · Sourcing
Network search for hiring and warm intros, not classic Boolean sourcing.
Free plan, paid from $24/mo
ATS · Employee referrals
Enterprise agentic ATS for campus, volume and referral hiring, sold by quote, with an MCP server.
Quote-based
ATS · Employee referrals · Onboarding
AI-assisted ATS with Standard, Professional and Enterprise tiers, sold by quote, with onboarding forms on Enterprise.
Quote-based
Employee referrals
Referral software aimed at staffing firms.
Sales-quoted
ATS · Employee referrals · CRM · Recruitment marketing
Career-site-first ATS, rising in mid-market mentions.
Quote-based
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17. Each listing records its starting price, free plan, free trial, MCP and API support the same way, so the cards can be compared line for line.
2 of the 17 list a US dollar starting price, and the median of those is about $299. Units differ by vendor (per seat, per month, per check or credit pack), so compare the unit on each card, not just the number. 16 are priced by quote, so the vendor sets the number after a call.
None of them have a permanent free plan. 1 offer a free trial.
3 of the 17 ship a first party MCP server, and 8 publish a public API. MCP is only marked where the vendor runs the server themselves, so an agent can query the tool directly.
The tools we use ourselves are marked as picks and listed first, then everything else runs A to Z. There is no paid ranking: a sponsored slot is labelled as such and never changes a listing, its category or its position.
Counted from every published listing in this category, so the numbers move with the directory.