Directory/Sourcing
Candidate sourcing tools help recruiters find people who are not actively applying for jobs. They search across LinkedIn, GitHub, portfolio sites, and other public profiles to build a list of potential candidates. Many also find contact details so you can reach out directly. Sourcing tools are the top of the recruiting funnel. Without them, you are limited to inbound applicants.
Coverage and filters matter most. A good sourcing tool searches more than one network and lets you filter by skills, location, seniority, and current employer. Next, check how it handles contact data. The best tools pair sourcing with verified email lookup so your outreach does not bounce. Look for Boolean search support, browser extensions for LinkedIn, and one click export to your ATS or CRM.
Most sourcing tools index public profiles and let you search them with filters. Some use AI to match profiles against your job description and rank the results. A few can even trigger outreach automatically once a candidate looks like a fit. The underlying data varies a lot between vendors, so the same search can return very different lists.
Pricing ranges widely. Browser extensions with basic search often start around 30 to 60 dollars per month per seat. Platforms with larger databases and AI matching can run into the hundreds per month. Many charge per credit, per seat, or per successful contact found, so read the pricing model before you commit.
Start with where your candidates live. Technical hires respond to tools that search GitHub and Stack Overflow. Executive hires need LinkedIn depth. Run a trial on a real role, compare the number of qualified profiles each tool returns, and check how many emails verify. The directory below lists the top tools in this category so you can compare features side by side.
Prices last checked 11 Nov 2026 against each vendor's own pricing page. How we check · Missing a Sourcing tool? Suggest it
Our 3 picks are listed first, then every other tool A to Z. How we pick
Sourcing · Email finders and Lead generation
Verified emails and direct dials from LinkedIn.
Free plan, paid from $57/mo
Sourcing · Email finders and Lead generation
Tech sourcing browser extension.
Sales-quoted
Sourcing · AI interviewing and Interviewing
AI voice recruiter for staffing agencies that sources, runs phone screens and scores every candidate.
From $99/mo
Sourcing · AI sourcing and Email finders, Healthcare recruiting, AI outreach
Betterleap is an AI sourcing and outreach agent for healthcare recruiting, with licensing data on 35M+ clinicians. Quote-based.
Sales-quotedNew MCP Oct 22
Sourcing · EOR and AI interviewing
Talent marketplace with 2M+ vetted freelancers, a 15% client fee and an AI interviewer called AIR for screening.
15% client fee on talent payments
Sourcing · Lead generation
Web data platform with an MCP server for search, scraping and LinkedIn profile, company and job data, with 5,000 free requests a month.
Free tier, paid from $1.50/1K results
Sourcing · ATS
AI Recruitment OS that layers on top of staffing ATS systems.
From $1/exported resume
Sourcing · Job boards and Recruitment marketing
Job board and resume database for US security-cleared professionals, used by defense contractors and federal agencies.
Sales-quoted
Sourcing · Email finders
B2B contact intel with buying intent signals.
Free plan, paid from $99/mo
Sourcing · Email finders and Outreach, AI sourcing
AI sourcing agent Sherlock searches 800M+ profiles from a brief or an ideal candidate, then reaches the shortlist by email, chat and WhatsApp.
Free plan, paid from €95/seat/mo
Sourcing · Email finders and Lead generation
Company and people enrichment APIs with official MCP.
From $49/mo
Sourcing · LinkedIn and Personal brand
LinkedIn MCP server, API and CLI for $10 per account a month, plus post boosting and auto-commenting tools.
From $10/account/mo
Sourcing · Email finders and Lead generation
B2B company, employee, and jobs data APIs with official MCP.
From $49/mo
Sourcing
Trust-first developer hiring channel that matches roles inside daily.dev and delivers double opt-in introductions.
From $350/mo
Sourcing · Email finders and Lead generation
Live people and company data API with an MCP server, for enrichment, sourcing and AI agents.
From $39/mo
Sourcing · Job boards
Free job board of early engineering roles that startup founders post on X and Hacker News, each one checked by a person before it goes live.
Free
Sourcing · Healthcare recruiting and Job boards, Outreach
Physician recruiting on the Doximity network: search 3M+ verified clinicians, message them with DocMails and post Smart Jobs.
Sales-quoted
Sourcing · Recruitment marketing and AI screening, AI sourcing
AI recruiters for manufacturing and skilled trades hiring that source passive candidates, market your jobs and screen applicants by conversation.
Quote-based
Sourcing · Email finders and Lead generation, Outreach
AI prospect discovery and multi-channel outreach platform with ranked matching, sequences and a developer API.
From $99/mo
Sourcing · Email finders and LinkedIn
Finds verified emails from LinkedIn, Sales Navigator and Recruiter searches, with AI-written outreach. Free plan, paid from $50/mo.
Free plan, paid from $50/mo
Sourcing · Job boards
UK job board for graduate jobs, schemes and internships with a searchable CV database, priced by quote.
Quote-based
Sourcing · Employee referrals
Network search for hiring and warm intros, not classic Boolean sourcing.
Free plan, paid from $24/mo
Sourcing · Healthcare recruiting and Job boards
US healthcare job board for hospitals, pharma and healthcare employers, with 30-day job posts from $299 and pay-as-you-go resume views.
From $299/job
Sourcing · Healthcare recruiting and AI sourcing
AI sourcing agent for healthcare, insurance, construction and other frontline hiring, with licences checked at source.
From $12,000/user/yr
Sourcing · AI screening
Chrome extension that scores LinkedIn profiles with AI, flags red flags and tracks candidates, free with 3 AI evaluations a day.
Free
Sourcing · Job boards and Healthcare recruiting
Healthcare job board with published pay-per-post and slot-subscription pricing, including candidate database access and bulk messaging.
From $150/posting
Sourcing · Healthcare recruiting and AI interviewing, Job boards
AI-powered nurse hiring marketplace for permanent hospital roles, with matching, automated outreach and an AI voice interviewer.
Sales-quoted
Sourcing · ATS and Interviewing, CRM
AI-native ATS and recruiting CRM for agencies and TA teams, with a first-party MCP connector for ChatGPT and Claude.
Sales-quoted
Sourcing · AI sourcing and AI outreach
Jill is an AI recruiting agent that introduces you to opted-in candidates from Jack's career network. Free plan, then $199/slot.
From $199/slot/month
Sourcing · AI sourcing and Reference checks
Pay-per-job AI sourcing for SMEs (Crystal AI) plus background checks, an AI CV typist, salary benchmarking and an agency service.
Quote-based
Sourcing · Job boards
US job board for logistics, supply chain, transportation and warehousing roles, with 60-day job posts from $335 and resume search from $345 a month.
From $335/job
Sourcing · Job boards
US job board for journalism and media roles at newspapers, TV, radio, digital outlets, nonprofits and academia, with five-week job ads from $100 including resume access.
From $100/job
Sourcing · Job boards
Job board running since 2003 where employers post 20 jobs free every 6 months, with paid plans from $59 per 6 months for CV views and Top Job listings.
Free plan, paid from $59/6 mo
Sourcing · Job boards and Recruitment marketing
Tech job board and employer branding on the Levels.fyi salary site, with free job posts and paid promotion plans.
Free tier, paid from $1,000/mo
Sourcing · Job boards
Searchable database of 1.2M+ US IT resumes with contact details, free for 10 downloads a month.
Free plan, paid from $175/mo
Sourcing · Lead generation and LinkedIn, Outreach
LinkedIn automation API with official MCP and cloud browser workflows.
From $49/user/moShipped Nov 8
Sourcing · LinkedIn and Outreach
Hosted LinkedIn MCP server with 50 tools for search, sequences and inbox work, with human review and per-account limits.
From $29/mo
Sourcing · AI sourcing and LinkedIn, AI screening
LinkedIn Hiring Assistant is the AI agent add-on to LinkedIn Recruiter that sources, evaluates and messages candidates. Quote-based.
Sales-quoted
Sourcing · Job boards and LinkedIn
The default sourced database.
Quote-based
Sourcing · Email finders and LinkedIn
LinkedIn’s separate sales prospecting SKU with advanced search, InMail, and lead alerts, not Recruiter.
From $119.99/mo
Sourcing · AI sourcing and AI outreach, Outreach
AI hiring assistant that finds candidates, writes from your own mailbox and books the intro call.
Free plan, paid from €49/mo
Sourcing · ATS and Outreach, CRM, AI sourcing
AI-native recruiting platform: source 800M+ profiles, multi-channel outreach, optional ATS/CRM, plus MCP.
Free plan, paid from €49/mo
Sourcing · Job boards and Healthcare recruiting
Nurse job board and candidate database with live leads and database unlocks, priced monthly from $365.
From $365/mo
Sourcing · Job boards and Healthcare recruiting, CRM
Job board for physicians, APPs and frontline clinicians with an opted-in candidate database, recruitment CRM, ATS feeds and career events.
Sales-quoted
Sourcing · Job boards and Healthcare recruiting
Physician and advanced practitioner job board with interviewed candidate databases, outreach tools and career fairs.
Sales-quoted
Sourcing · Email finders
People search and contact discovery.
Free plan, paid from €7.99/mo
Sourcing · Email finders and Healthcare recruiting
Physician recruiting database focused on residents and graduating physicians, sourced by an in-house interview team.
Sales-quoted
Sourcing · Interviewing and AI interviewing
AI recruiter agent for sourcing, screening, and ATS-connected hiring workflows.
From $49/mo
Sourcing · AI screening
Chrome extension that scores LinkedIn profiles against your job descriptions, with a free plan and Pro at $9/mo.
Free plan, paid from $9/mo
Sourcing · Lead generation and Outreach, AI sourcing
Four Slack specialists sharing one desk memory.
From $600/mo
Sourcing · AI interviewing and AI screening
Enterprise AI recruiting suite (SniperAI, JeevesAI, VScreen) for sourcing, screening and video interviews inside your ATS, sold by quote.
Sales-quoted
Sourcing · Email finders and Healthcare recruiting
Self-serve physician contact database of 250,000+ profiles with unlimited search and reveals, from $199/mo.
From $199/mo
Sourcing · Job boards
Curated job board for fully remote roles at remote-first companies, with 1,000+ active jobs and 80,000+ registered job seekers.
From $249/listing
Sourcing · Job boards
Remote job board for roles open to the USA, UK, Canada and Europe, with eligibility and scam checks. First employer post free, then from €99.
From €99/listing
Sourcing · Job boards
UK-focused CV database and job board for recruiters.
From $600/3 mo
Sourcing · AI interviewing and AI screening, AI sourcing
Low cost AI recruiter that sources from 800M+ profiles, screens resumes and runs AI interviews, from $49/mo.
From $49/mo
Sourcing · Candidate fraud & AI detection and AI screening, AI sourcing
Sources technical candidates from public evidence of their work and checks your CVs against the public record, with no tests or AI interviews. From €250/mo.
From €250/mo
Sourcing · ATS and AI screening, AI sourcing
AI recruitment copilot that sources and scores candidates from 400M+ profiles, with hiring services and custom AI agents for Saudi employers.
Sales-quoted
Sourcing · ATS and AI screening, AI sourcing
AI recruiter AiRA writes the job description, sources passive candidates, screens and schedules. Job slots from $199, 7-day free trial.
From $199/job slot
Sourcing · AI sourcing
Finds engineers by matching their GitHub work to their LinkedIn history, then ranks them and explains why each one fits. Usage-based, with an API and MCP.
Sales-quoted
Sourcing · Job boards and Healthcare recruiting, AI screening
Healthcare jobs marketplace of 2.8M+ nurses, allied and APP clinicians, with an AI assistant that engages and screens candidates.
Sales-quoted
Sourcing · Job boards
Candidate attraction, multiposting, and CV search for agencies.
Sales-quoted
Sourcing · Job boards and Recruitment marketing
Employer brand, job matching, sourcing and an AI ATS in one quoted suite; the platform that absorbed Otta.
Sales-quoted
Sourcing · Job boards
Y Combinator's job platform where YC-funded startups hire engineers and other staff from one shared candidate pool.
Free for YC companies
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181. 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.
101 of the 181 list a US dollar starting price, and the median of those is about $99. Units differ by vendor (per seat, per month, per check or credit pack), so compare the unit on each card, not just the number. 46 are priced by quote, so the vendor sets the number after a call.
43 of them have a permanent free plan rather than a timed trial. 37 offer a free trial.
60 of the 181 ship a first party MCP server, and 67 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.
