Pricing
Slate's costs are a model call per screened candidate, a vendor charge per enriched contact, and compute per company in an M&A universe. The plans are shaped like those costs, so you can tell what you are paying for.
These prices are placeholders. They are reasoned from the cost drivers below and will be replaced with measured unit costs from the product's own spend tracking before Slate is sold self-serve. If you are talking to us now, you are talking about the real number.
Slate Recruiting
$149 per month, Solo
Driver: screening is one model call per candidate, so the included allowance is the thing that scales, not the seat. Overage is $0.40 per screened candidate.
Start with your LinkedIn seatSlate M&A Early access
$299 per month
Driver: ingestion costs compute per company in the universe and per document fetched, so universe size is the meter. Overage is $0.01 per additional company per month. Early access reflects two free sources and no licensed news feed yet.
Ask about early accessRecruiting plans
| Solo | Team | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $149 | $399 |
| Seats | 1 | up to 4 |
| Screened candidates included | 300 | 1,500 |
| Additional screened candidate | $0.40 | $0.35 |
| Playbooks | all | all |
| Slate Collector for macOS | yes | yes |
| Deciding board | yes | yes |
| Per-role scoping for a teammate | n/a at one seat | yes |
| Audit log | no | yes |
| Enrichment add-on | metered | metered |
Seats are an attribute of your workspace, not a limit compiled into the product: a plan sets the number. Four is where the table stops today because four is the account shape Slate is built and tested for. More than four is a conversation, not a hidden “contact sales” button — tell us what you need and we will say yes or no.
Usage
Screening and enrichment are things Slate buys from somebody else and passes on. Rather than hide that in a plan price, here is the cost, the margin, and what you pay.
| Item | What it costs us | Margin | You pay | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Screened candidate | One model call, priced per model and tracked per role | stated per plan | $0.40 Solo, $0.35 Team | Thinking tokens bill at the output rate, so a batch costs more than its visible reply. Slate records the real figure per batch and totals it per run. |
| Enriched contact | Vendor charge per contact, from the provider you select | provider cost + margin | you set the ceiling | The provider bills per contact, so this can never be unlimited. You set a monthly ceiling and Slate stops at it. |
| Company in an M&A universe | Compute per company and per document fetched | stated per plan | $0.01 per company per month above 25,000 | Ingestion work scales with universe size, so the meter is universe size rather than signals found. |
| LinkedIn profile view | — | — | not sold | Views belong to your own Recruiter seat and its daily limit. Slate sells the pacing and the protection, not the views, and could not sell them if it wanted to. |
$149 sits below a Recruiter Lite seat so the pair reads the way it is meant to: the seat plus the judgment. It covers the screening allowance at current model prices with margin, and it does not pretend the seat is included.
$399 is priced against a sourcer's hours, not against a per-seat table. A two-to-four person shop is buying back the afternoon somebody spends reading profiles. The per-candidate rate drops slightly because the fixed cost is already covered.
Enrichment is never bundled unlimited, because a provider bills per contact and an unlimited bundle would either be a lie or a loss. You set the ceiling and see the meter.
$299 for M&A is an early-access price against two free sources with manual evidence entry available and no licensed news feed. It is low because the product is young, and it will move when the sources do.
There is no annual plan, because there is no reason to offer one yet. There is no “most popular” badge, because there is no most popular plan yet.
Questions
One person, judged once against one role, by a model call that produced a verdict. Re-running screening for the same person against the same role after you change the role's requirements counts again, because it is another model call. A person who is collected but never screened does not count, and a person on two roles is two screened candidates.
One request to the provider for one person that returned at least one verified value. A request that comes back empty is not billed to you. Contacts already in your workspace are never re-enriched without you asking.
Yes. Slate collects through your session, on your machine, against your seat's daily limit. There are no Slate-operated LinkedIn accounts, so there is nothing to collect through if you do not have a seat.
A Mac. The Slate Collector is a macOS app because it drives a real signed-in Chrome profile. The rest of Slate is a website and works anywhere.
Collection stops and says so. The limit is LinkedIn's and belongs to your seat; Slate paces against it and will not spend past it. The meter is visible before and during a run.
Yes. They are separate product grants on one workspace, and a member can hold either, both, or neither.