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Karat pricing
Karat 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, Karat pricing is on request. 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
- On request
- Model
- Quote
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Not on record
Karat 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karat | On request | 3 | Entry tier |
What the product covers
The full Karat 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
- Interview Engineers
- Structured scoring
- High-volume screening
- Interview intelligence
- Scheduling integration
People bring Karat in for a company scaling engineering headcount quickly and unable to free up enough internal engineer time for first-round technical interviews, a hiring team wanting a consistent bar across interviewers when growth has diluted interview quality, a seasonal hiring push, such as a new-grad or intern cohort, that needs a large volume of structured interviews in a short window, a company that has measured interviewer no-shows or inconsistent scoring as a source of candidate drop-off. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Karat 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karat (this page) | On request | quote | - | |
| SeekOut | On request | Per user per month, self-serve entry tier then per seat by quote | - | vs Karat |
| hireEZ | On request | quote, enterprise pricing set against the tool stack replaced | - | vs Karat |
| ZipRecruiter | On request | Per active job slot per month, quoted individually | - | vs Karat |
| Oracle Taleo | On request | quote | - | vs Karat |
| Codility | On request | Per year by candidate invite volume, with platform user limits per tier | - | vs Karat |
| Indeed | Free | Free for job seekers, employers pay for sponsored listings | - | vs Karat |
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 Karat badges page.
Before you pay for Karat
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 On request. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Karat against the tools that do have one before committing.
Karat runs on web, and is published by Karat of Seattle, Washington, United States. The full record is on the Karat review, and the rest of the category is under best recruitment tools.
Karat pricing questions
- How much does Karat cost?
- Karat publishes a single tier, Karat, at On request.
- Does Karat have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Karat is listed as quote. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- Which recruitment tools can I use without paying?
- 1 of the 8 recruitment tools listed alongside Karat have a free tier: Indeed.
- What am I actually paying for with Karat?
- The record lists 5 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a company scaling engineering headcount quickly and unable to free up enough internal engineer time for first-round technical interviews, a hiring team wanting a consistent bar across interviewers when growth has diluted interview quality, a seasonal hiring push, such as a new-grad or intern cohort, that needs a large volume of structured interviews in a short window.
- Does Karat 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 Karat 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 Karat against before paying?
- The closest recruitment tools in this directory are SeekOut, hireEZ, ZipRecruiter, Oracle Taleo. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Karat covering price, platforms and features.