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TL;DR.<\/strong> Indeed does not sell job ads at a fixed price. On 10 October 2026 its US employer pages showed a free job post, Standard and Premium Sponsored Jobs priced by a budget Indeed recommends for each role, and a Premium Plus tier in beta. The one figure Indeed printed for a sponsored job was “from $61 per day per job” for Premium. Smart Sourcing Professional, the resume search subscription, cost $520 a month, or $416 a month billed yearly ($4,992 a year), with 100 contacts a month and extra contacts at $5.20 each. Indeed’s APIs are for approved partners only and have no public price. This guide explains what each option buys, where an “Indeed AI agent” fits, and works through four scenarios with the arithmetic shown. In some of them an agent saves money. In others it is an extra cost, and we say so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

People who search for “Indeed pricing” are usually about to spend money. A founder has a role to fill and wants to know if a free post is enough. An office manager has been told to “sponsor it” and wants a number. A recruiter is deciding between paying per job and paying for resume search. Indeed’s own pricing page does not answer the question with a price list, because most of its prices are set per job by a recommendation system. That makes the decision harder than it should be.<\/p>\n

This article does three things. It sets out what Indeed actually charges, using only what Indeed published on its own pages on the day we checked. It describes the work that sits around those products, the screening, messaging, scheduling and reporting that no plan does for you. And it compares the cost of Indeed’s paid options with the cost of handing that work to an AI agent, with every assumption written down so you can replace it with your own. All prices are in US dollars, before tax, for the US market, read on 10 October 2026. Indeed says its pricing “will vary by market and are subject to change”, so check the page in your own account before you commit.<\/p>\n

What does Indeed charge employers?<\/h2>\n

Indeed’s employer pricing comes in two families: paying to make a job post more visible, and paying to search for candidates yourself.<\/p>\n

Sponsored Jobs: four tiers, no fixed price<\/h3>\n

The pricing page lists four tiers for a job post. The feature lists are fixed. The prices are not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Tier<\/th>\nWhat Indeed says it adds<\/th>\nPrice shown<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Free<\/td>\nPost appears in search results; manage candidates on Indeed; screening questions, analytics, message templates<\/td>\n$0, subject to terms and usage limits; some jobs are “sponsored only”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Standard<\/td>\nVisibility boost, email advertising, job seeker feed, automated messages<\/td>\nSet by Indeed’s recommended budget for the job; you can change it above a minimum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Premium<\/td>\nFirst page boost, matched candidates, advanced matching, urgently hiring label, brand promotion, SMS messages<\/td>\nFrom $61 per day per job (shown on the Smart Sourcing purchase page), with up to 30 matched-candidate invites per day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Premium Plus (beta)<\/td>\nAutomated invites, application scores and summaries, licence and certification gathering, AI follow-up questions<\/td>\nNo price published<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Three details from Indeed’s FAQ matter for budgeting. First, the minimum price depends on the market, competing job posts and the plan, and appears only when you sponsor. Second, you are free to set a budget different from the recommendation as long as it clears that minimum. Third, billing happens on the first day of the month or when your account spend reaches $500, whichever comes first, and the invoice reflects job seeker interactions such as clicks or started applications. In other words, Sponsored Jobs behave like an ad budget, not a subscription.<\/p>\n

Smart Sourcing: a subscription for resume search<\/h3>\n

Smart Sourcing is the subscription for employers who want to search Indeed’s candidate profiles and contact people directly rather than wait for applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Plan<\/th>\nMonthly billing<\/th>\nYearly billing<\/th>\nContacts<\/th>\nNotes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Professional<\/td>\n$520 a month<\/td>\n$416 a month, $4,992 a year (Indeed shows “Save $1,248”)<\/td>\n100 a month per user, 6-month rollover; extra contacts $5.20 each<\/td>\nIncludes the Sourcing Assistant, which finds candidates and sends outreach for up to 3 jobs at once; 14-day free trial<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Enterprise<\/td>\nCustom<\/td>\nCustom<\/td>\nCustom volume<\/td>\nDedicated onboarding, custom limits<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Premium Sponsored Jobs contacts are separate. Indeed states that inviting matched candidates from a Premium job does not use up Smart Sourcing contact credits.<\/p>\n

And the Indeed API?<\/h3>\n

Developers often look for an “Indeed API” to pull job listings or push postings. Indeed’s documentation site describes APIs for job postings (GraphQL), Indeed Apply, candidate sync and employer management, but credentials are “provisioned by Indeed” through its partner programme. The APIs are meant for applicant tracking systems and job distribution partners, not for one company that wants a data feed. There is no public price per call. If you are not an approved partner, the honest answer is that there is no API price to compare against, and you should not plan around one.<\/p>\n

What is an Indeed AI agent?<\/h2>\n

An Indeed AI agent is software that does the hiring work around Indeed for you, inside your own employer account, the way an assistant would. It is not a scraper and it is not a replacement for Indeed’s reach. Indeed decides who sees your job. The agent handles what happens before and after: writing the post, reading the applications, sending the replies, booking interviews and telling you where things stand.<\/p>\n

Indeed is building some of this into its own products. Premium Plus adds application scores and summaries, and Smart Sourcing Professional includes a Sourcing Assistant. A general agent such as Katteb works differently. It runs in a real browser where you are signed in, so it can move between Indeed, your inbox, your calendar, LinkedIn and a spreadsheet in one job. That matters because hiring rarely happens on one site.<\/p>\n

Use cases for an Indeed AI agent<\/h2>\n

1. Writing and refreshing job posts<\/h3>\n

The agent drafts a post from a short brief, checks it against Indeed’s job posting guidelines, adds sensible screening questions and, two weeks later, rewrites the title and opening if applications are thin. You approve before anything goes live.<\/p>\n

2. First-pass screening of applications<\/h3>\n

Every morning the agent opens new applications, checks them against the must-have criteria you wrote, and gives you a short table: name, fit against each criterion, one line on why. You still make the decisions. The agent only spares you reading thirty CVs to find the five that meet the basics.<\/p>\n

3. Candidate replies and status updates<\/h3>\n

Many candidates never hear back. The agent sends the message template you chose to people who were not shortlisted, and a scheduling message to those who were. Nothing goes to a candidate in a wording you have not approved.<\/p>\n

4. Interview scheduling<\/h3>\n

The agent offers interview slots from your calendar, sends a booking link and adds the confirmed times to your calendar. It does not invent availability.<\/p>\n

5. Cross-posting and comparing channels<\/h3>\n

If you also post on LinkedIn or a local job board, the agent tracks applications per channel in one sheet, so after a month you know which source produced the people you actually interviewed, and whether sponsoring on Indeed was worth it.<\/p>\n

6. Weekly hiring report<\/h3>\n

A short report each Friday: open roles, new applicants, shortlisted, interviewed, offers out, money spent on sponsorship to date. It reads the numbers from your dashboard, not from estimates.<\/p>\n

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Hand the hiring admin to an agent<\/strong><\/p>\n

Describe the job in one sentence, for example “every morning, read new Indeed applications for my sales role, shortlist the ones that meet my three must-haves and send me a table”. Katteb plans it, runs it in a real browser and reports back.<\/p>\n

Start my hiring agent<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What does Katteb cost?<\/h2>\n

From katteb.com\/pricing on 10 October 2026, billed in US dollars:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Plan<\/th>\nMonthly<\/th>\nYearly<\/th>\nWhat it includes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Lite<\/td>\n$19<\/td>\n$190<\/td>\n1 agent working on a goal every day, week or month; 30 hours of agent time a week; 1 user<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Business<\/td>\n$99<\/td>\n$990<\/td>\n10 agents, each on its own goal; 120 hours of agent time a week; schedules every hour; 3 users<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Enterprise<\/td>\nFrom $1,000 a month<\/td>\nCustom<\/td>\nUnlimited agents, white-label dashboard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Katteb does not include any Indeed product. It works inside the Indeed account you already have, at whatever tier you choose. So in most of the scenarios below Katteb is added to an Indeed cost rather than replacing it. We compare it with the Indeed upgrade it might replace, or with the staff time it might save.<\/p>\n

Pricing comparison: four worked scenarios<\/h2>\n

Assumptions for every scenario:<\/strong> US dollars, list prices read on 10 October 2026, before tax, US market. One month is 30 days for daily-priced items and 4.33 weeks for weekly workloads. Staff time is valued at $30 an hour. Sponsored Jobs prices use Indeed’s published floor of $61 a day for Premium; your recommended budget may be higher, which would widen the gaps shown. Engineering, ATS fees and job board fees other than Indeed are excluded.<\/p>\n

Scenario A: one role, a small business, 14 days<\/h3>\n

A caf\u00e9 owner needs one shift supervisor. A free post brings some applicants, and the question is whether to sponsor it with Premium for two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Option<\/th>\nCalculation<\/th>\nCost for the period<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Premium Sponsored Job, 14 days<\/td>\n14 days \u00d7 $61<\/td>\n$854 (floor)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Free post + Katteb Lite, 1 month<\/td>\n$0 + $19<\/td>\n$19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Difference<\/td>\n$854 \u2212 $19<\/td>\n$835<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

On paper the second option costs $835 less. It is not the same product, though. Premium buys reach: a first-page boost, matched candidates and an urgently hiring label. Katteb buys time: it reads, sorts and answers the applications you already get. If the free post brings enough suitable applicants and the problem is the hours spent dealing with them, the agent is the cheaper fix. If the post brings too few applicants, no agent fixes that, and sponsoring is the right spend. Many owners try the free post with an agent for a week first and sponsor only if the shortlist is empty.<\/p>\n

Scenario B: an in-house recruiter using resume search<\/h3>\n

A recruiter at a 60-person company sources for several roles at once and needs about 130 contacts a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Line<\/th>\nCalculation<\/th>\nMonthly cost<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Smart Sourcing Professional, monthly billing<\/td>\n$520 + (130 \u2212 100) \u00d7 $5.20 = $520 + $156<\/td>\n$676<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Same, yearly billing<\/td>\n$416 + $156<\/td>\n$572<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Add Katteb Lite to monthly billing<\/td>\n$676 + $19<\/td>\n$695<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Break-even for Katteb Lite<\/td>\n$19 \u00f7 $30 per hour<\/td>\n0.63 hours (38 minutes) saved a month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Here Katteb is an extra cost, not a saving. Smart Sourcing already includes Indeed’s Sourcing Assistant for discovery and outreach inside Indeed, so an outside agent should not be bought to do the same thing. It earns its $19 only on work Smart Sourcing does not touch, such as moving shortlisted people into the company’s ATS, chasing hiring managers for feedback, booking interviews or writing the weekly report, and only if that saves more than 38 minutes a month. For most recruiters that bar is low, but it is a judgement you should make on your own hours. The clearer saving in this scenario is Indeed’s own: yearly billing costs $104 a month less than monthly, $1,248 a year.<\/p>\n

Scenario C: a growing team screening by hand<\/h3>\n

A 15-person company runs free posts and receives about 50 applications a week across its open roles. A manager spends about 4 minutes on each first look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Line<\/th>\nCalculation<\/th>\nMonthly figure<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Screening time today<\/td>\n50 \u00d7 4 min = 200 min a week; 3.33 h \u00d7 4.33 weeks<\/td>\n14.4 hours<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Value of that time<\/td>\n14.4 h \u00d7 $30<\/td>\n$433<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Assumed time saved with agent summaries (50%)<\/td>\n14.4 h \u00d7 50% = 7.2 h; 7.2 \u00d7 $30<\/td>\n$217<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Katteb Lite<\/td>\nplan price<\/td>\n$19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Net result<\/td>\n$217 \u2212 $19<\/td>\n$198 a month in staff time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The 50% saving is an assumption, not a measurement. The agent prepares the first look and a person still decides. Treat it as a variable: at a 10% saving (1.44 hours, $43) the agent still covers its $19. At under 0.63 hours a month it does not. Indeed’s Premium Plus tier offers application scores and summaries inside Indeed, but because Indeed publishes no price for it we cannot put it in this table. If you are offered it, compare its daily price for the jobs you run against the line above.<\/p>\n

Scenario D: a developer who wants Indeed job data<\/h3>\n

A startup wants a feed of Indeed listings for a dashboard. Indeed’s APIs are available only to approved partners, with credentials issued by Indeed and no published price per call. So there is no API cost to compare a Katteb plan with, and we will not invent one. An agent in a browser is not a licence to resell or republish Indeed’s listings either. If your product depends on job data at volume, apply to Indeed’s partner programme or use a data source whose licence allows your use. An agent is useful here only for low-volume research in your own account, such as checking each week how many local postings exist for a role you are hiring.<\/p>\n

Which option should you choose?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Your situation<\/th>\nUsually the right spend<\/th>\nWhere an agent fits<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Few applicants for a role<\/td>\nSponsored Jobs (Standard or Premium)<\/td>\nRewrite the post and screening questions before you raise the budget<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Plenty of applicants, too little time<\/td>\nFree or Standard post<\/td>\nFirst-pass screening, replies, scheduling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
You source passive candidates every week<\/td>\nSmart Sourcing Professional, yearly if you will keep it<\/td>\nATS updates, hiring-manager follow-up, reporting outside Indeed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
You need job data for a product<\/td>\nIndeed partner programme or a licensed data source<\/td>\nNot a substitute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Several roles across several sites<\/td>\nMix by role<\/td>\nOne report across Indeed, LinkedIn and your inbox<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Questions to ask before you spend<\/h2>\n
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  1. Is the problem reach or time?<\/strong> Sponsorship solves reach. An agent solves time. Paying for one to fix the other wastes money.<\/li>\n
  2. What is the minimum budget for this exact job?<\/strong> Indeed shows it only when you sponsor, and it varies by title and location. Read it before you plan.<\/li>\n
  3. Will you keep resume search for a year?<\/strong> If yes, yearly billing on Smart Sourcing Professional costs $1,248 less than twelve monthly payments.<\/li>\n
  4. How many contacts do you really use?<\/strong> Every contact beyond 100 costs $5.20, and unused contacts roll over for six months.<\/li>\n
  5. What do you want the agent to send, and what must it never send?<\/strong> Write the templates and approval rules first.<\/li>\n
  6. How will you measure it?<\/strong> Track hours spent on screening for two weeks before and two weeks after.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    How to set up an Indeed hiring goal in Katteb<\/h2>\n
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    1. Sign in to your Indeed employer account in the browser Katteb uses, once.<\/li>\n
    2. Write the goal in one sentence, for example “keep my two open roles moving: shortlist daily, reply within 48 hours, book interviews into my calendar”.<\/li>\n
    3. List the must-have criteria for each role and the message templates the agent may use.<\/li>\n
    4. Choose the schedule: daily screening and a Friday report suit most small teams.<\/li>\n
    5. Review the first three shortlists closely and correct the criteria where the agent read them differently than you meant.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      When should you not use an Indeed AI agent?<\/h2>\n