Pin is an AI recruiting platform that searches a database of more than 850 million profiles, explains why each candidate matches, and runs outreach sequences by email, LinkedIn and text message. It launched in late 2024, has a free-forever plan and paid seats from $100 per user per month on annual billing. This review covers how Pin works, what each plan includes, what to check before you commit, and how it compares with other AI sourcing tools.
Plans and features below were checked on pin.com/pricing and Pin's own pages on November 10, 2026.
Quick Answer
- What it is: an AI sourcing and outreach platform — search, shortlist, multichannel sequences and scheduling — that plugs into your ATS rather than replacing it.
- Price: Free plan; Solo $100 per user per month (annual only); Professional $135 per user per month (annual); Enterprise custom.
- Best for: recruiters and hiring teams in North America and Europe who want AI to do the first pass of sourcing and the follow-ups.
- Check before buying: annual-only billing on paid plans, credits per seat, and how LinkedIn outreach works today.
What Is Pin?
Pin was founded by Steve Lu and launched in October 2024; it raised a $3 million seed round led by Expa that December. Pin says its team and advisors are working recruiters and talent leaders, and that it holds SOC 2 Type 2 certification. It sells to in-house hiring teams, agencies, independent recruiters and founders; agencies can run searches for several clients from one account.
How Pin Works
Search: start from a title and a company
You give Pin a job title and the hiring company (a job description is optional). Pin researches the company, drafts search criteria and asks follow-up questions, then searches its database — "850M+" profiles, with coverage of North America and Europe. It reads each profile for career trajectory, skills and the companies people have worked at, and explains why each candidate matches. You approve or decline candidates, which tunes the next batch, and can send a shortlist to a hiring manager.
Outreach: multichannel sequences
Approved candidates go into multi-step sequences by email (from your connected Gmail or Outlook), LinkedIn connection requests and messages, and text messages, with replies in one inbox. The free plan is limited to email-only sequences.
Scheduling, notes and integrations
Pin connects to Google Calendar, Calendly and Cal.com for interview scheduling, has an AI notetaker for Zoom, Meet and Teams, and integrates with Slack. It lists more than 120 ATS integrations, including Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Bullhorn and iCIMS. Pin does not have its own ATS: candidates move to the system you already use.
Pin Pricing 2026
| Plan | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0, "free forever" | 1 seat, 1 job position, 1 AI agent, 5 contact credits a week, 3 candidate searches a day, email-only sequences, AI notetaker |
| Solo | $100 per user/month, billed annually | 1 seat, 500 credits a month, unlimited positions, 2 AI agents, multichannel sequences, 1 mailbox |
| Professional | $135 per user/month, billed annually | Unlimited seats, 1,000 credits per user a month, 2 agents per user, shared inbox, advanced agent sourcing, 5 mailboxes per user; ATS integration as an add-on |
| Enterprise | Custom | Unlimited credits and agents, ATS integration included, SSO/SAML, SCIM, dedicated account manager |
What that means in practice: a solo recruiter on Pin pays $1,200 a year up front; a team of three on Professional pays $4,860 a year. There is no time-limited trial — the free plan is how you test it, and at three searches a day and five contacts a week it is a real test of quality, not of volume.
What Users Say
Pin's public review base is still small: about 4.8 on G2 from roughly 27 reviews, and a handful on Capterra and Trustpilot. Reviewers praise the quality of matches and the speed of setup — one Trustpilot reviewer wrote that Pin "has been great in helping me filter out the exact profiles I need." Critical reviews mention profiles reappearing after being rejected with feedback, and sequences occasionally contacting candidates who had already declined.
Pin publishes strong numbers of its own — for example an 83% match acceptance rate and a 5x reply rate. These are vendor figures; treat them as claims to test on your own roles, not as benchmarks.
Pin and LinkedIn: What to Know
On September 16, 2026, Pin's LinkedIn company page and its CEO's personal profile were removed from LinkedIn. In a public update, Pin said LinkedIn had raised concerns, that "the product is fully operational" and that "Pin does not depend on LinkedIn. It never has." Pin's pricing page still lists LinkedIn connection requests and messages among its outreach channels. If LinkedIn outreach is central to how you recruit, ask Pin how it works today and how it affects your own LinkedIn account before you commit.
Who Pin Is For
A good fit if
- You hire in North America or Europe and want AI to do the first pass of sourcing every week.
- You want email, LinkedIn and SMS follow-ups handled by sequences, plus scheduling and call notes.
- You already have an ATS and want sourcing on top of it.
Look elsewhere if
- You want to pay monthly — paid plans are annual.
- You need an ATS, job pages and applicant screening in the same tool.
- You prefer to see and edit the exact search criteria rather than approve and decline an agent's picks.
Pin vs Other AI Sourcing Tools
| Tool | Starting paid price | Free plan | Own ATS and job pages | Outreach channels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MindHunt AI | $29/seat/mo (Pro $49), monthly or annual | Yes, after a 14-day full trial | Yes — pipeline, job pages, AI screening | Email sequences, LinkedIn (own account, paid plans), Telegram, WhatsApp add-on |
| Pin | $100/user/mo, annual | Yes | No (120+ ATS integrations) | Email, LinkedIn, SMS |
| Juicebox (PeopleGPT) | $119/seat/mo ($99 billed yearly) | Yes, limited searches and 5 contact credits | No | Email sequences |
| hireEZ | Quote | No | No | Email; InMail with a LinkedIn Recruiter licence |
For a wider comparison, see our guide to AI sourcing tools, the Juicebox review and the hireEZ review.
Where MindHunt AI Fits
MindHunt AI takes a different approach to the same problem. Instead of an agent proposing candidates, you paste a job description and AI fills in the search — titles, skills, location — as fields you can see and change, with a free count of matching profiles before you spend a credit. You reveal verified emails and phone numbers for the people you pick and run email sequences from your Gmail or Outlook with AI-written personal intros; a reply stops the sequence. On paid plans you can search and message through your own LinkedIn account, and every profile has Telegram outreach.
It is also the ATS: a pipeline per position from Applications to Hired, a public job page with screening questions, an apply-by-email address for any job board, AI scoring of every application, and a client CRM with invoicing for agencies. What Pin has and MindHunt AI doesn't: autonomous sourcing agents, SMS sequences, built-in scheduling and an AI notetaker, and a 120-plus ATS integration list. MindHunt AI is $29 per seat a month on Lite and $49 on Pro, billed monthly or annually.
Verdict
Pin is one of the most complete AI sourcing tools launched in the last two years: a large profile database, explained matches, multichannel sequences, scheduling and deep ATS integrations, with a usable free plan to test it. Its trade-offs are annual-only paid plans, no ATS of its own, and an open question about LinkedIn outreach after its September dispute with LinkedIn. If you already run an ATS and hire steadily in North America or Europe, it is worth testing on the free plan. If you want search, outreach and the ATS in one tool, billed monthly, compare it with an all-in-one platform first.
Related Resources
- Best AI Sourcing Tools 2026
- Juicebox AI Review
- hireEZ Review
- LinkedIn Recruiter Alternatives
- MindHunt AI vs Juicebox
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