Comparison
HireAll Boost vs Pin: price, speed and results (November 2026)
Prices and facts checked 2 November 2026
- PricePin
- To first interviewsTie
- Your timeBoost
- Who you reachTie
- Fake-CV riskBoost
- ContractBoost
No card. 1 credit = one candidate who gets an invite.
In short: Pin is a recruiter's tool. It finds people and writes for you, but the mail goes from your mailbox, and LinkedIn and text steps come back to you as tasks.3 Boost is a service: HireAll recruiters write on LinkedIn for your company, and you get the people who said yes, with their answers and a time in your calendar.
At a glance
Boost and Pin, row by row
| HireAll Boostwins 3 of 6 | PinAI recruiter | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.40–0.50 per invite, 100 free. ≈ $14–17 per interview estimate | ✓ Pin winsless per contact, if you use the credits$100–179 a month per user; a free plan too2 |
| To first interviews | Tieboth book for you; days, not weeks~3–7 days, by pace estimate | TieDepends on replies to its outreach; it schedules the interviews |
| Your time | ✓ Boost winsno LinkedIn tasks left for you10 minutes to brief, then approve or skip | LinkedIn and text steps by hand, plus reviewing candidates3 |
| Who you reach | Tieboth reach people who aren't applyingPassive: people who aren't applying | TiePassive: by email from your inbox, and LinkedIn by you1 |
| Fake-CV risk | ✓ Boost winsyour questionnaire before any callLow only people who said yes and filled in your questionnaire | Low outbound |
| Contract | ✓ Boost winsno plan, credits that never expireNone: prepaid credits that don't expire | A plan per user: Solo yearly only, Professional monthly or yearly2 |
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. Pin sells a plan per user: Solo at $100 a month, billed only yearly, and Professional at $135 a month billed yearly or $179 month to month. There's a free plan with 5 contact lookups a week and email only.2 Boost sells credits, one per person invited, and the month costs what the pace you pick costs.
The two don't buy the same thing. A Pin credit buys a contact detail: an email address or a phone number.2 The email then goes out from your own mailbox, and the LinkedIn and text steps of the sequence come back to you as tasks.3 A Boost credit buys an invite that a HireAll recruiter sends on LinkedIn, with the follow-ups, the questionnaire and the booking after it.
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.
Pin
AI recruiter
- Solo, billed yearly only
- $100 a month, $1,200 a year
- Professional
- $135 a month yearly, $179 monthly
- Contact lookup credits
- 500 a month on Solo, 1,000 on Professional
- Price per lookup
- $0.14–0.20
- Mailboxes
- Yours: 1 on Solo, 5 per user on Professional
- LinkedIn and text steps
- Tasks you send by hand4
Interviews: as many as the replies to your emails turn into. Pin books them, but doesn't publish a reply rate, only that it's "5x" higher.1
On the invoice Pin is cheaper. A Solo month is $100 and 500 lookups; Boost at the Fast pace is $300 for 600 invites, or $150 for 300 at Steady. Boost brings that to about $17 an interview estimate, $14 with the biggest pack, and the first 100 credits are free. Pin doesn't say what an interview costs, so there's nothing to set against that figure.
What the invoice leaves out is whose accounts do the work. With Pin, the sequences go out from your Gmail or Outlook, in your name:1 your domain's reputation carries every cold email, and the replies land in your inbox. Every LinkedIn step is a reminder to log in and send a message Pin drafted.3 With Boost none of that touches your accounts. And Pin's Solo plan is $1,200 paid up front for the year, while Boost credits come in packs from $50 and don't expire.
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 work goes, from an open role to the first interview. Both are AI recruiters that search and write. The difference is who sends the LinkedIn messages and whose accounts carry the outreach.
| With Boost | With Pin | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Give it the job description; Pin searches 850M+ profiles and explains why each one matches.1 |
| Find the people | Reads every matching profile in full and checks each one against your must-haves. In Manual mode you approve each person before the invite. | An AI agent sources the candidates; a hiring manager can approve or decline the shortlist from a review link.1 |
| First message | HireAll recruiters send a plain LinkedIn invite, then your intro once they accept. You see and edit the wording before it starts. | Emails go out from your connected Gmail or Outlook, in your name.1 LinkedIn messages are drafted, and you send them.4 |
| Follow up | At most two short follow-ups, sent for you. | Email follow-ups on schedule; each LinkedIn or text step is a reminder for you to log in and send it.3 |
| Screen | Everyone who says yes gets your two-minute questionnaire. You read the answers first. | Pin answers what it knows and asks you on Slack for the rest.1 |
| Book the interview | They pick a free slot in your Google Calendar. | Pin offers the times you are free and books everyone who said yes.1 |
Both tools book the interview for you, so the time to the first one is mostly the time people take to reply. Pin gives a "5-day average" from the first search to a scheduled interview.5 Boost's model puts the first interviews at about 5 days at the Fast pace estimate, and its pace sets how many people a day hear from you. The hours you spend differ more: with Pin you keep a LinkedIn task list and a mailbox full of replies, with Boost the brief and, in Manual mode, a yes or a no on each person.
Quality
Whom you meet, and how they're checked
Passive candidates, two channels
Both reach people who aren't applying anywhere. That's the point of an AI recruiter: job posts now draw about 291 applications per hire, against roughly 100 in early 2021,6 and the people you'd most like to hire are busy doing good work. Pin's main channel is email, found across 850M+ profiles from dozens of sources.1 Boost's channel is LinkedIn, where people keep their work history current and where an invite from a recruiter reads as normal.
Checked on substance, then by you
Both read profiles against your role and say why a person fits. Pin lets a hiring manager approve or decline a shortlist.1 Boost checks every profile against the must-haves you set and invites only the ones that meet them; in Manual mode you approve each person before the invite and again before the interview, and your "no, because…" teaches it whom to skip. Then comes the step Pin's page doesn't describe: a short questionnaire everyone who says yes fills in before you meet.
Fake CVs
Neither opens your inbox to strangers, which is how fake candidates get in. Gartner expects one candidate profile in four worldwide to be fake by 2028;7 34% of recruiters already spend up to half their week filtering spam applications;8 and a single North Korean remote IT worker scheme reached more than 70 US employers.9 With both, you start the conversation, so the risk stays low. Boost adds your questionnaire: you've read real answers in someone's own words before you give them an hour.
Which one
When Boost wins, and when Pin still makes sense
Choose Boost when
- You're a founder or a hiring manager, and you want interviews rather than a tool to run.
- You'd rather keep your mailbox and your LinkedIn account out of cold outreach. Boost touches neither.
- You want LinkedIn done for you: with Pin each LinkedIn step is a task you send yourself.
- You want a questionnaire answered before anyone gets a slot in your calendar.
- You'd rather pay as you go: no plan per user, no year up front, 100 free credits and packs from $50 that don't expire.
Pin still makes sense when
- You're a recruiter or an agency running searches and email sequences for several roles or clients. Pin's plans are built for that, from one seat to a team with a shared inbox.2
- You want outreach by email and phone, not only LinkedIn. Pin looks up both, from 850M+ profiles.1,2
- You want every message to come from your own name and mailbox. With Boost, HireAll recruiters write, on behalf of your company.
- You send a lot and want the lowest price per contact: Pin's lookups cost cents each when you use the whole month's credits.2
Using both
Boost alongside Pin
Split the channels. Let Pin run email sequences, where it's strongest, and let Boost cover LinkedIn, where Pin hands the work back to you. The same role gets both inboxes without anyone keeping a LinkedIn task list.
Keep the two lists apart. Before you start a role in Boost, leave out the people already in a Pin sequence, so nobody hears from two places at once. One message from each channel is plenty.
Give hiring managers Boost for their own roles. If your recruiters live in Pin, a hiring manager with one urgent role can brief Boost in ten minutes and get people with answers and a time in their calendar, without a seat of their own.
FAQ
Pin vs Boost: questions people ask
How much does Pin cost in 2026?
Pin has a free plan with 5 contact lookups a week and email-only sequences. Solo is $100 a month per user, billed only yearly, with 500 lookup credits a month. Professional is $135 a month per user billed yearly or $179 monthly, with 1,000 credits per seat. Enterprise is priced on request.2
Does Pin send LinkedIn messages for you?
No. Pin drafts them, and LinkedIn steps show up in your sequence as tasks: a reminder to log into LinkedIn and send the connection request or message yourself. Text messages and calls are manual too.3,4 Pin sends email automatically, from your connected Gmail or Outlook.1
Does Boost use my email or my LinkedIn account?
No. HireAll recruiters write, on behalf of your company, and Boost keeps each of them under LinkedIn's daily limits. You don't connect a mailbox or an account, and nobody logs in as you.
Which is cheaper, Pin or Boost?
Per contact, Pin: $0.14–0.20 a lookup if you use the month's credits,2 against $0.40–0.50 a Boost invite. But a lookup is an address, and the sending is still yours; a Boost invite is sent, followed up, screened and booked. Boost puts an interview at about $17 estimate; Pin doesn't publish one.
Is HireAll Boost an alternative to Pin?
For a hiring manager or a founder who wants interviews without running outreach, yes. For a recruiter or an agency that wants an AI sourcing and email tool under its own name, Pin is the tool, and Boost can cover the LinkedIn side next to it.
Is there a free trial of Pin?
The free plan is free for good, not a trial; a 7-day trial of the full platform goes through Pin's sales team.5 Boost starts with 100 free credits and no card: 100 people invited.
How many profiles does Pin search?
850M+, across dozens of data sources, according to Pin.1 Boost searches LinkedIn, the network where people keep their work history current.
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Sources
- Pin, AI Recruiter, From Job Description to Booked Interviews: "850M+ profiles"; Pin "sends from your connected Gmail or Outlook account, in your name", "archives the no's, answers what it already knows, asks you once on Slack for what it doesn't, and books time with everyone who said yes"; "5x Higher reply rate"; a hiring manager can approve or decline a shortlist from a review link. Checked 2 November 2026
- Pin, pricing: Free: "$0 free forever", "5 contact lookup credits per week", "Email-only sequences". Solo: "$100 per month, per user, billed annually", "not available on monthly billing", 500 contact credits a month, 1 mailbox. Professional: $135 a month per user billed yearly or $179 monthly, "1,000 credits per seat / month", 5 mailboxes per user. Enterprise: custom. An email or a phone number costs 1 credit; ATS integration is an add-on below Enterprise. Checked 2 November 2026
- Pin docs, Custom tasks, texting & calling, updated 2 September 2026: "Sending texts, placing calls, and completing custom tasks are manual steps"; "LinkedIn tasks can be added to your outreach sequence to remind you to log into LinkedIn to either send a Connection Request or LinkedIn Message." Checked 2 November 2026
- Pin, Automated Candidate Outreach From Your Inbox: "LinkedIn steps show up as tasks for you, like \"Connect on LinkedIn\", with the message drafted. Text messages are drafted per candidate and you click send." Checked 2 November 2026
- Pin, llms.txt, Pin's summary of itself: "5-day average time-to-candidate from initial search to scheduled interview"; "used by hiring teams, agencies, and founders"; "LinkedIn and SMS outreach steps are tasks the recruiter sends"; a 7-day trial of the full platform through Pin's sales team. Checked 2 November 2026
- 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
- 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
- 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