Eightfold AI vs SeekOut

Eightfold AI

Eightfold is an enterprise buy for HR organisations with thousands of employees and a formal ATS and HRIS stack: the skills graph is the asset, and it pays off when the same model drives hiring, internal mobility and workforce planning rather than a single recruiting funnel. Expect a sales cycle, integration work and a per-employee contract, not a trial. The AI Interviewer and candidate agents are the newest layer and the one to scrutinise for bias and candidate experience before switching them on.

Pros

• +Skills-based matching reused across acquisition, internal mobility, resource management and workforce planning
• +Agents cover screening interviews, recruiter assistance and candidate guidance while keeping humans on the decision
• +ISO/IEC 42001, SOC 2 Type II and FedRAMP Moderate, plus third-party bias audits of the AI Interviewer
• +TalentForge lets customers build on the talent data instead of waiting for the roadmap

Cons

• −Quote-only, with no public pricing, tiers or trial
• −Product documentation sits behind single sign-on, so API capabilities cannot be checked before a sales conversation
• −Case-study figures such as 33 percent faster fills and 1.3-day hires are vendor-selected
• −Value depends on clean HRIS and ATS data and a multi-month implementation

SeekOut

SeekOut earns its place on a corporate recruiting team's desk, not a small agency's: the ATS rediscovery and the clearance and healthcare filters solve problems that only show up at volume, and the customer list reads like the Fortune 500. The new self-serve Core tier at $149 a month lowers the door for a three-recruiter team, but everything that makes it distinctive — ATS sync, screening, agentic workflows — still sits behind a sales call. Teams that live in LinkedIn Recruiter and hire a few roles a quarter will not get their money back.

Pros

• +One query covers external profiles and the company's own ATS, including silver medalists
• +Inferred filters for clearance, healthcare licences and skills go beyond title matching
• +Self-serve Core tier with a 14-day trial and no card, unusual for enterprise recruiting software
• +MCP server puts search into Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude under the signed-in user's permissions
• +Integrations with Workday, Greenhouse, iCIMS and Lever are bidirectional

Cons

• −ATS integration and applicant screening are quote-only, annual-billing tiers
• −Contact credits and exports are capped per month on Core (500 and 1,000)
• −No public API found; the integration story is ATS connectors and MCP
• −Healthcare search is excluded from the Core plan

Is Eightfold AI cheaper than SeekOut?

SeekOut starts at $149/mo; Eightfold AI prices on request, so a quote is the only way to compare.

Which has a public API, Eightfold AI or SeekOut?

Eightfold AI ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for SeekOut is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.