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Glassdoor pricing
Glassdoor publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the recruitment tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, Glassdoor pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Free for job seekers, employers pay for branding and recruiting products
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Glassdoor plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job seeker account | Free | 1 | Entry tier |
Where Glassdoor stops being free
Job seeker account, Free
- Free browsing of reviews, salaries and listings
No paid tier on record
Glassdoor lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Glassdoor feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Employee reviews
- Salary reports
- Interview insights
- CEO approval rating
- Job listings
- Company comparisons
People bring Glassdoor in for researching a company's culture and management reputation before accepting a job offer, comparing self-reported salary data for a role before a negotiation, reading anonymous interview reports to prepare for a specific company's process, checking ceo and leadership approval trends before joining a company. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Glassdoor are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Recruitment
Too few recruitment tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glassdoor (this page) | Free | Free for job seekers, employers pay for branding and recruiting products | - | |
| SeekOut | On request | Per user per month, self-serve entry tier then per seat by quote | - | vs Glassdoor |
| hireEZ | On request | quote, enterprise pricing set against the tool stack replaced | - | vs Glassdoor |
| ZipRecruiter | On request | Per active job slot per month, quoted individually | - | vs Glassdoor |
| Oracle Taleo | On request | quote | - | vs Glassdoor |
| Codility | On request | Per year by candidate invite volume, with platform user limits per tier | - | vs Glassdoor |
| Karat | On request | quote | - | vs Glassdoor |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Glassdoor badges page.
Before you pay for Glassdoor
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Glassdoor runs on ios, android, web, and is published by Glassdoor, Inc. (a Recruit Holdings company) of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the Glassdoor review, and the rest of the category is under best recruitment tools.
Glassdoor pricing questions
- How much does Glassdoor cost?
- Glassdoor publishes a single tier, Job seeker account, at Free.
- Does Glassdoor have a free plan?
- Yes. The Job seeker account tier costs nothing and covers free browsing of reviews, salaries and listings.
- Which recruitment tools can I use without paying?
- 1 of the 8 recruitment tools listed alongside Glassdoor have a free tier: Indeed.
- What am I actually paying for with Glassdoor?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for researching a company's culture and management reputation before accepting a job offer, comparing self-reported salary data for a role before a negotiation, reading anonymous interview reports to prepare for a specific company's process.
- Does Glassdoor charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Glassdoor prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Glassdoor against before paying?
- The closest recruitment tools in this directory are SeekOut, hireEZ, ZipRecruiter, Oracle Taleo. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Glassdoor covering price, platforms and features.