Comparison
HireAll Boost vs LinkedIn job post: price, speed and results (November 2026)
Prices and facts checked 2 November 2026
- PriceTie
- To first interviewsTie
- Your timeBoost
- Who you reachTie
- Fake-CV riskBoost
- ContractTie
No card. 1 credit = one candidate who gets an invite.
In short: Meta Ads for hiring. Both spend a daily budget you can stop. A promoted post pays per click and leaves you the applications to read; Boost pays $0.50 for each passive candidate it invites and brings you the ones who said yes.
At a glance
Boost and LinkedIn job post, row by row
| HireAll Boostwins 2 of 6 | LinkedIn job postpromoted, daily budget | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Tiethe same $10 a day buys different things$0.40–0.50 per invite, 100 free. ≈ $14–17 per interview estimate | TieOne post free; promoted: a daily budget you set, e.g. $10 a day, paid per click2,5 |
| To first interviews | Tiedays, either way~3–7 days, by pace estimate | TieAfter you read and screen the applicants |
| Your time | ✓ Boost winsno applications to read10 minutes to brief, then approve or skip | Reading every application |
| Who you reach | Tiepeople who look, and people who don'tPassive: people who aren't applying | TieActive: whoever applies |
| Fake-CV risk | ✓ Boost winsnobody gets in by applyingLow only people who said yes and filled in your questionnaire | High open inbound |
| Contract | Tieboth stop when you stop themNone: prepaid credits that don't expire | TieNone: a daily budget you can stop |
Prices as of November 2026, from each vendor's public pages, or a published estimate where the vendor quotes privately. Product names belong to their owners; HireAll is not affiliated with them.
Price
What one role costs for a month
One open role for one month, side by side, at the same daily budget. LinkedIn's own example is a promoted post at $10 a day for 30 days: "$300 or less".2 Boost's Fast pace is 20 invites a day, also $10 a day, also $300 a month. The mechanics are those of an ad on Meta: you set a daily budget, it runs until you stop it, and you never pay more than you set.6 What the money buys is different.
A promoted post pays per click. LinkedIn counts a candidate's view of the post as a click, prices it by the market, the job title and the location, and says the price "cannot be determined until the job is posted".6 Industry estimates put it at $1.50–4.50 a click in the US and about $2.83 per applicant; LinkedIn publishes neither, so read them as a rough guide.7 Before any of that, one post at a time can be free: it stays up for up to 14 days and stops showing in search after 10–30 applications.4
HireAll Boost
Pick a pace: people invited a day
- Invites this month
- 600
- At $0.50 a credit
- $300
- With the 2,000-credit pack
- $240
- Interested people estimate
- ≈ 61
- First interviews estimate
- ~5 days
About $17 an interview estimate, $14 with the biggest pack. The first 100 credits are free.
LinkedIn job post
promoted, daily budget
- Free post
- One at a time: up to 14 days, 10–30 applications4
- Promoted, daily budget
- $10 a day, LinkedIn's example2
- 30 days
- $300 or less
- Price per click, industry estimate
- ≈ $1.50–4.507
- Clicks for $300
- ≈ 67–200
- Applicants at ≈ $2.83 each, industry estimate
- ≈ 1067
Interviews: as many as those 106 applications hold once you've read them, set the fakes aside and found a time.
Don't set $0.50 an invite against $2.83 an applicant: they're different steps of the funnel. An applicant raised their hand for your job; an invited person was picked by Boost and hasn't said anything yet. The step both end at is the interview. Boost's model puts one at about $17 estimate, $14 with the biggest pack, and you've read the person's questionnaire before it. For a job post nobody publishes that figure: it depends on how many of your applicants are worth meeting.
The bigger cost is the reading. Job posts now draw about 291 applications per hire, against roughly 100 in early 2021,1 and 34% of recruiters spend up to half their week filtering spam and junk applications.8 A promoted post comes with Hiring Pro's AI to presort applicants and help with the first round of screening,2 but the shortlist and the scheduling stay yours. With Boost there's nothing to sort: the people who arrive said yes, answered your questions and picked a slot.
estimate Boost's figures come from its product model, until the pilot reports: 2.9% of the people invited book an interview, and 10.1% say they're interested. A month here is 30 days.
Speed and effort
What you do with each, step by step
Where the hours go, from an open role to the first interview. A job post waits for people to come; Boost goes to them.
| With Boost | With LinkedIn job post | |
|---|---|---|
| Say who you want | Describe the role in a chat or paste the job description. Boost turns it into must-haves and filters, and you fix anything that's off. | Write the post, or let Hiring Pro draft it, and add screening questions.4 |
| Find the people | Reads every matching profile in full and invites only the people who meet your must-haves, at the pace you set. | Wait for applicants. A promoted post also recommends 25 candidates a day you can invite to apply, up to 350 invites a post.2,4 |
| First message | HireAll recruiters send a plain LinkedIn invite, then your intro once they accept, and at most two short follow-ups. | None for applicants: they came to you. Anyone else gets an invite to apply, or one of the post's 5 InMails.4 |
| Screen | Everyone who says yes gets your two-minute questionnaire. You read the answers first. | Read the applications, set aside the junk and the fakes, then call or message the ones left. Hiring Pro presorts them for you.2 |
| Book the interview | They pick a free slot in your Google Calendar. | Agree on a time by message or email. |
| Stop | Pause the pace any time. Credits you haven't spent don't expire. | Close the post to stop spending; on a daily budget it otherwise runs for up to 6 months.5 |
Applications start the day a post goes live, and LinkedIn advises keeping it open for at least 5 days.2 So with a job post, the time to a first interview is mostly the time it takes you to read and reply. With Boost it's set by the pace: the first interviews in about 3 to 7 days estimate, already in your calendar.
Quality
Whom you meet, and how they're checked
Active and passive candidates
A job post reaches people who are looking: they search, they see your post, they apply. LinkedIn also shows it to professionals whose skills match and suggests people to invite,4,6 but whoever lands in your list chose to apply. Boost goes the other way: it finds people who match your must-haves and aren't applying anywhere, usually because they're busy doing good work, and invites them. Neither group is better in general. For a role people seldom go looking for, only one of them exists.
Checked on substance, not keywords
A post gets you whoever applies, and Hiring Pro ranks them against your criteria.2 The ranking reads what applicants wrote, and on a busy post that's a lot of text written to be ranked. Boost reads profiles before anyone is contacted, against the must-haves you set, and shows you why each person fits. In Manual mode you approve each one before the invite and again before the interview.
Fake CVs
An open application form is how fake candidates get in. Gartner expects one candidate profile in four worldwide to be fake by 2028,3 and a single North Korean remote IT worker scheme reached more than 70 US employers.9 A job post takes everyone who applies, so the checking falls to you. Boost has no application form: you meet only people it invited who said yes and filled in your questionnaire.
Which one
When Boost wins, and when LinkedIn job post still makes sense
Choose Boost when
- The people you want have jobs and aren't reading ads: senior, specialist or simply in demand.
- You don't have the hours to read hundreds of applications, or to sort out the fakes among them.
- You like a daily budget you can pause, and want it spent on people who match your must-haves: $10 a day at the Fast pace invites 20 of them.
- You want the questionnaire and the booking done before you meet anyone.
LinkedIn job post still makes sense when
- The role is one people go looking for: hourly, entry-level or high-volume, where the number of applicants matters more than who they are.
- You have one role and time to read. A free post costs nothing for up to 14 days.4
- Your company's name already pulls people in, and you want to hear from the ones who chose you.
- You need a public posting anyway: for your careers page, a referral scheme or a rule you hire under.
Using both
Boost alongside LinkedIn job post
Keep a free post up. It costs nothing, collects the people who are looking right now, and gives anyone Boost invites a post to look up.4
Let Boost do the passive pass. Everyone who matches your must-haves and isn't applying gets an invite at the pace you set; the ones who say yes arrive with answers and a slot in your calendar.
Ask the same questions on both sides. Put your must-have screening questions on the post and into Boost's questionnaire, so applicants and invitees are compared on the same answers.
Move the budget, not the role. If the post's applicants are thin after a week, cut its daily budget and raise Boost's pace by the same amount. The money goes where the people are.
FAQ
LinkedIn job post vs Boost: questions people ask
How much does it cost to post a job on LinkedIn?
One job post at a time can be free: it stays up for up to 14 days and stops showing in search after 10–30 applications.4 To keep it running or reach more people you promote it, with a daily or a total budget you set. LinkedIn's example is $10 a day for 30 days, "$300 or less".2 You pay per click, and never more than your budget.6
What does a promoted job post cost per click, or per applicant?
LinkedIn doesn't publish it: the price of a click moves with the market, the job title and the location, and can't be known until the post is live.6 Industry estimates put it at $1.50–4.50 a click in the US and about $2.83 per applicant.7
What is LinkedIn Hiring Pro?
LinkedIn's job posting with AI on top. A promoted post gets it in full: it presorts applicants, recommends 25 candidates a day you can invite to apply (up to 350 a post), and adds 5 InMails a post and AI interview screening.2,4 It costs what you spend promoting the post. For teams that hire all the time, LinkedIn points to Recruiter with Hiring Assistant instead.2
Can I compare $0.50 a Boost invite with the cost per applicant?
Not directly. An applicant chose to apply; an invited person was picked by Boost and hasn't answered yet. Compare where both end, at an interview: about $14–17 with Boost estimate. For a job post nobody publishes that figure, because it depends on how many applicants are worth meeting.
Is HireAll Boost an alternative to promoting a job on LinkedIn?
For roles where the right people aren't applying, yes: it spends a daily budget the same way, but on inviting passive candidates who match your must-haves, and it does the follow-ups, the questionnaire and the booking. For roles people go looking for, a post is the cheaper way to reach them, and the two work side by side.
How do I stop paying for a promoted job post?
Close it. A post on a daily budget runs until you close it or for up to 6 months; one on a total budget pauses once the budget is spent.5 Boost stops when you pause its pace, and credits you haven't spent don't expire.
Why do job posts draw fake candidates?
Because anyone can apply. Gartner expects one candidate profile in four worldwide to be fake by 2028,3 and 34% of recruiters already spend up to half their week filtering spam and junk applications.8 Outbound sourcing doesn't open that door: you, or Boost, choose whom to contact.
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Sources
- Ashby, Recruiter Productivity Trends, reported by HR Dive, May 2026: "291 applications per hire, compared to roughly 100 in early 2021". Checked 1 November 2026
- LinkedIn, Hiring Pro pricing overview: "If you set a $10 daily budget and run a job post for 30 days, your total cost will be $300 or less"; "You can have only one free job post open at a time"; a promoted post "Recommends 25 new candidates per day that you can invite to apply", presorts applicants and helps with first-round screening; "Keep your job post open for at least 5 days"; the cost of a click (a view) comes from "an algorithm" weighing the location and competing posts. Recruiter with Hiring Assistant is pitched for hiring "consistently". Checked 2 November 2026
- Gartner, press release, 31 July 2025: "by 2028, one in four candidate profiles worldwide will be fake". A forecast. In its surveys 6% of candidates admitted to interview fraud, "either posing as someone else or having someone else pose as them"; 39% used AI while applying, 54% of those to write resume text; 62% are more likely to apply where interviews are in person. Checked 2 November 2026
- LinkedIn Help, Post a free job on LinkedIn: one free job post active at a time; it stays active for up to 14 days, then pauses, and closes after 30 days unless promoted; free posts have "an application limit, which typically ranges from 10 to 30 applications". Promoting adds "unlimited application evaluations, up to 350 invites to recommended candidates, 5 InMails per job post, and 40 AI video interviews". Hiring Pro can draft the post; screening questions can filter applicants out. Checked 2 November 2026
- LinkedIn Help, Promoted job posts: you pay only for clicks, never more than your daily or total budget; a daily-budget post runs until you close it, or for up to 6 months. Checked 1 November 2026
- LinkedIn Help, Billing for promoted job posts FAQ: the cost per click "fluctuates per day" with the job's location, title and competing posts, and "cannot be determined until the job is posted"; you pay only for views by candidates; "We'll never charge you more than your budget"; LinkedIn shares the job "to professionals whose skills and location match the job"; "To stop spending, you must close the job." Checked 2 November 2026
- Pin, LinkedIn Job Posting Pricing 2026: Full Cost Breakdown, updated 26 May 2026: "Average cost per click in the U.S. ranges from $1.50 to $4.50, and the average cost per applicant lands around $2.83", "according to multiple industry analyses". LinkedIn publishes neither figure. Pin sells a competing product. Checked 2 November 2026
- Greenhouse, press release, 19 November 2025: 34% of recruiters spend up to half their week filtering spam and junk applications. In the US, 91% of recruiters have spotted candidate deception; 65% of hiring managers caught applicants using AI deceptively: reading AI-generated scripts 32%, prompt injections in resumes 22%, deepfakes 18%; 36% of job seekers altered their appearance, voice or background in video interviews. Survey of 4,136 people in the US, UK, Ireland and Germany. Checked 2 November 2026
- US Department of Justice, press release, 13 October 2026: one of the North Korean remote IT worker schemes charged "impacted more than 70 U.S. company employers". Checked 1 November 2026