Run your first 3 Jobs free. Then pay for active hiring, not employee count or collaborator seats.
Yardstick prices around the actual unit of hiring work: the open role. That keeps pricing tied to roles you are actively moving forward, not employee count, recruiter seats, candidate volume, or every person invited into the process.
Your whole panel interviews without paid seats: each interviewer opens their prep kit from a magic link, with no extra seats to buy.
Trying Yardstick on your first hiring loops
$0
First 3 Jobs free
Most flexible
Teams hiring occasionally or in bursts
$49/mo
+ $29 per open role/month
Teams hiring regularly
$149/mo
+ $19 per open role/month
Security, scale, procurement, and custom workflows
Custom
For complex operating requirements
Core has the lower base fee. Scale has the lower per-role rate. The plans break even at 10 open roles.
| Open roles | Core | Scale | Lower cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $78 | $168 | Core |
| 3 | $136 | $206 | Core |
| 5 | $194 | $244 | Core |
| 10 | $339 | $339 | Either |
| 15 | $484 | $434 | Scale |
| 25 | $774 | $624 | Scale |
An open role is one where you are accepting candidates, managing candidates, scheduling interviews, or making hiring decisions.
Open roles, published roles, roles accepting candidates, roles with active pipeline stages, upcoming interviews, pending evaluations, scheduling activity, open offers, or active workflow/calendar/agent activity.
Closed, archived, or paused Jobs do not count when they have no live candidate, interview, application, offer, calendar, workflow, or agent activity. Read-only hiring history is always free.
An open role is a Job where you are accepting candidates, managing candidates, scheduling interviews, or making hiring decisions. A role is not open when it is closed, archived, or paused with no live candidate, interview, application, offer, calendar, workflow, or agent activity.
Existing Jobs remain accessible and closed or archived history remains readable. Creating another Job or reopening an archived Job requires upgrading to a paid plan.
No. Interviewers never need a paid seat or an ATS license. Each interviewer gets their prep kit through a magic link: the schedule, the candidate's context and resume, the questions to ask, and the scorecard anchors to rate against. Your whole panel interviews with no extra seats to buy, and Yardstick does not charge per interviewer, hiring-manager collaborator, recruiter, or admin.
No. If the Job is only historical, it is free. If the Job is still being used to move hiring forward through candidates, interviews, offers, scheduling, workflow, calendar, or agent activity, it counts as an open role.
You are billed monthly for your workspace and open roles at the start of each month. Roles opened during the month appear as prorated usage on your next invoice. Roles you close stop billing next month.
Yes. Calendar coordination is included on Free, Core, Scale, and Enterprise because scheduling is part of the core hiring workflow.
We don't, and that's intentional. Yardstick is monthly by design, so you keep maximum flexibility. When a Job is no longer active, billing for it stops the next month and your price drops automatically — you never prepay for hiring you are not doing.
Enterprise is for teams with security, procurement, scale, services, or workflow requirements beyond self-serve. Basic ATS usage, interview planning, scorecards, calendar coordination, and collaboration do not require Enterprise.
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