Workable Pricing 2026: Standard, Premier and Hidden Extras

Workable costs $299 a month on Standard, $599 on Premier and $719 on Enterprise for a company of 1 to 20 employees paying annually, per its pricing page checked on 18 October 2026. Standard billed monthly is $360. Every price climbs with your headcount band, the HR package is a separate line, and the AI agent runs on paid credits after a 3,000-credit allowance.

Workable's pricing page is a calculator, not a price list. It hides most of the figures behind a company-size menu, a recruiting-or-HR toggle and a billing toggle, so most buyers see one number and sign for another. This guide prints the whole matrix and costs out the add-ons the headline leaves out. For whether the product earns it, start with our Workable review.

What does each Workable plan cost?

Workable sells three plans priced by company headcount, not by recruiter seats or active jobs. Standard can be billed monthly or annually; Premier and Enterprise are annual only. The prices below are the recruiting package alone, for the smallest band.

Workable labels annual billing "save 20%", and on Standard in the smallest band the saving is $732 a year, the gap between $3,588 and twelve months at the monthly rate, or about 17%. It buys a twelve-month commitment for a tool that a 15-person company may only need during two or three hiring pushes a year, which is the real trade on this page. A company that hires in bursts should price the monthly plan for the months it recruits before taking the discount.

Premier's premium over Standard is $300 a month in the smallest band, and the included tools explain most of it. Texting, video interviews and assessments cost $89, $109 and $59 a month as Standard add-ons, or $257 together, so a Standard customer who wants all three is $43 a month from Premier and gets referrals, the hiring plan and extra languages in the difference. Enterprise's $120 over Premier buys the report builder and permission sets, which matter once several hiring managers need different views.

How much does Workable cost at your headcount?

The company-size menu is where the price moves. Workable prices every plan in nine bands, and the recruiting package roughly doubles between 20 and 100 employees. These are the annual-billing rates Workable's page shows for each band.

All figures are per month on an annual plan. A 60-person company pays $8,028 a year for Standard recruiting, more than double the $3,588 a 20-person company pays for the same features. The jump from the 20 band to the 21 band is $120 a month, so a company at 19 employees that hires two people pays $1,440 a year more for its ATS before the new hires have finished onboarding.

Standard's monthly-billing rates follow the same curve: $500 at 21 to 50 employees, $800 at 51 to 100, $1,140 at 101 to 200, up to $3,360 at 801 to 1,000. Each is about 20% above the annual rate in its band.

What does the HR package cost?

HR is a second product on the same page, toggled on or off, with its own price in every band. On Standard it costs $99 a month for up to 20 employees on annual billing, or $120 monthly, and covers the HR information system, onboarding, time off, time tracking, e-signatures for company files and payroll preparation. Payroll integrations, the report builder and permission sets are Premier and Enterprise HR features. Performance and Engagement is a $39 a month add-on on Standard HR and included above it.

The bundle saves less than the banner suggests. Workable says bundling recruiting and HR saves up to 20%, and in the smallest band the saving is $39 a month: $359 bundled against $398 for the two lines bought separately, which is 10%. At 51 to 100 employees the bundle is $1,039 against $1,158, again about 10%. Past 100 employees the HR line overtakes the recruiting line, so a 150-person company on Standard pays $959 a month for HR and $949 for recruiting, and $1,619 for both.

Premier HR costs $239 a month in the first band and $559 in the second, making the Premier bundle $749 and $1,249. Enterprise HR is $289 and $669, for bundles of $899 and $1,499. If HR is the main purchase, a dedicated HRIS may cost less for the same roster (our HRIS cost guide sets out the usual price models); our best HRIS for small business ranking prices those systems at the same headcounts.

What do AI credits add?

Workable Agent, the newly released AI recruiter, is priced by action rather than by seat. Every paid account starts with 3,000 free credits. Screening a candidate against your ideal profile costs 1 credit, surfacing a passive candidate costs 2, and each candidate interaction with the chat costs 10. Beyond the allowance, 5,000 credits cost $600 at $0.12 each, 10,000 cost $1,000 at $0.10 and 50,000 cost $4,750 at $0.095. Credits expire a year after purchase and are not refunded, and the free trial excludes the Agent entirely.

A worked example shows how fast the allowance goes. One role where the Agent screens 200 applicants, sources 100 passive candidates and chats with 50 of them uses 900 credits: 200 for screening, 200 for sourcing and 500 for the chats. The free 3,000 credits cover three roles of that shape. A company filling 15 such roles a year needs about 13,500 credits, which is a $1,000 pack of 10,000 plus a $600 pack of 5,000, or $1,600 on top of the plan. The chat is the expensive action, so a team that leaves it off stretches the allowance to seven roles.

What else is on the invoice?

The recruiting add-ons scale with the same bands as the plans. Texting is $89 a month in the 1 to 20 band and $129 at 21 to 50 on annual billing; video interviews are $109 and $159; assessments are $59 and $99. On monthly billing each costs more, so a Standard monthly customer with texting pays $105 for it rather than $89. Buy all three on Standard and the Premier comparison above applies in every band: at 21 to 50 employees the three add-ons total $387, which puts Standard at $806 against Premier's $829.

Two more lines sit outside the matrix. Companies above 1,000 employees get no printed price on any plan or package and are sent to sales. And "unlimited active jobs" carries a fair-usage note on every plan, with no published number, so a staffing-style account running dozens of concurrent requisitions should ask for the limit in writing. The applicant tracking systems ranking notes which rivals publish a hard job cap instead.

Which Workable plan fits your budget?

Standard on an annual plan is the right buy for a company under 20 employees that runs a few hires a year and wants sourcing plus an ATS. Add texting if your candidates are hourly and slow on email, and skip the other add-ons until the Premier comparison tips. Standard monthly makes sense only for a company that recruits in short seasons and will cancel between them: nine paid months at the monthly rate come to $3,240, still under the annual price, so three idle months a year are enough to favor monthly billing.

Premier is the plan for a company that already knows it wants video interviews, assessments and texting, because buying them separately on Standard costs nearly the same and gets less. Enterprise earns its extra $120 only when several hiring managers need custom reports and separate permissions. Above 100 employees, compare every band with Greenhouse and Lever, which quote rather than publish, and read the Greenhouse vs Lever comparison for what those quotes tend to include. Our how to choose an ATS guide covers the questions to ask before any of those calls.

Toolradar data: among the 13 applicant tracking systems with a verified entry price on Toolradar, the software directory we run, the median entry plan is $75 a month, and Workable's Standard entry price ranks ninth of 13 (October 2026). Its Workable profile also shows it listed as an alternative to 43 other tools, third of the 39 ATS tools in the ATS ranking. Workable is cross-shopped often and priced above the typical ATS, so a small team should get a second quote before signing for a year.

How we priced this

We read Workable's pricing page on 18 October 2026, including the plan cards, the company-size menu, the recruiting and HR toggles, the add-on prices for every band, the AI credit packs and the trial note. Every price on this page comes from that page; the figures for bands beyond 1 to 20 are the values the page's own calculator displays when a band is selected. Totals are our arithmetic on those list prices before tax. Rival prices appear only through links to our other guides, each dated on its own page. These are list prices, not negotiated rates, and nothing here comes from hands-on use of the product.

FAQ

How much does Workable cost per month?

Workable costs $299 a month on Standard, $599 on Premier and $719 on Enterprise for a company of 1 to 20 employees on an annual plan, per its pricing page checked on 18 October 2026. Standard is also sold monthly at $360. Larger companies pay more in each of nine headcount bands, up to $2,799 a month for Standard recruiting at 801 to 1,000 employees.

Does Workable have a free plan or free trial?

Workable has no free plan. It offers a 15-day free trial of the complete Standard feature set with no credit card required, but the trial does not include Workable Agent, so you cannot test the AI recruiter before paying. The free tiers in our best free applicant tracking systems guide cover the no-budget case.

Is Workable priced per user or per employee?

Per employee band. Workable prices every plan by total company headcount in nine bands from 1 to 20 up to 801 to 1,000, with a quote above 1,000, and the number of recruiters or hiring managers using the system does not change the price. A company that crosses from 20 to 21 employees moves from the first-band Standard price to $419 a month.

Does Workable still sell a Starter plan?

Not on its pricing page. As of 18 October 2026 the page lists Standard, Premier and Enterprise only, with Standard as the entry plan. Third-party pricing roundups that quote a cheaper entry tier are describing a plan the page no longer shows.

How much is Workable's HR add-on?

Standard HR costs $99 a month for up to 20 employees on an annual plan, or $359 bundled with recruiting, and rises by band to $3,899 at 801 to 1,000 employees. Premier HR starts at $239 and Enterprise HR at $289 in the smallest band. The bundle discount works out to about 10% at most sizes, not the 20% ceiling the banner names.

Does Workable charge for AI?

Yes, through credits. Every paid plan includes 3,000 AI credits; after that, packs cost $600 for 5,000, $1,000 for 10,000 and $4,750 for 50,000. Screening costs 1 credit per candidate, sourcing 2 and each chat interaction 10, and credits expire a year after purchase. Our best AI recruiting tools ranking compares how rivals price the same work.

Cite this: HRpresso, "Workable Pricing 2026: Standard, Premier and Hidden Extras", October 2026.

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