Don’t rent the AI by the head
Ringover stacks an AI add-on on top of a per-seat plan, on a twelve-month commitment. Recruitly charges three cents a call — and gives every user 100 briefings a month free.
One recruiter, per month
Published figures put the mid plan near $44 per user per month and the AI add-on near $39 — around $86 a month for one recruiter to have transcription, whether they make forty calls or four.
The AI should cost what you use
A quiet week costs a quiet week. A busy one is still cents.
A per-seat AI licence charges you for silence
Recruitment is spiky. Some weeks are all phone; some are all sourcing, interviews and offer paperwork. A monthly per-head AI fee does not care which week you had.
A quiet week
Full per-seat AI fee
Per-seat AI add-on
Inside the free 100 briefings
Recruitly
A busy month
Full per-seat AI fee
Per-seat AI add-on
Cents per call, and visible per call
Recruitly
A consultant on leave
Full per-seat AI fee
Per-seat AI add-on
Nothing
Recruitly
Based on Ringover’s published plans and AI add-on, checked 21 August 2026. Pricing changes — check their site.
AI you can afford to use on every call
AI priced by the call
100 pre-call briefings per user every month are included. After that they are three cents. A recording, transcript and summary is three cents a call.
A quiet month costs less
Nobody pays a monthly AI licence for a consultant who spent the week on LinkedIn. You are charged for calls that happened.
The AI reads recruitment
It knows a shortlist, a second interview and a fee stage — so the briefing is about this candidate for this job, not a generic call recap.
The rest of the desk
Jobs, candidates, placements, billings, campaigns, WhatsApp and the CRM itself, in the same subscription as the phone.
Why ours can be cheap
A standalone AI product has to be a business on its own, so it is priced like one. Ours is one feature of the software your agency already pays for.
That is the quiet advantage of vertical integration. We are not selling you conversation intelligence; we are selling you a recruitment platform where the calls write themselves onto the records, and the marginal cost of that is cents.
It is also why the AI is any good at recruitment: it reads your pipeline, not a transcript in isolation. It knows this is a candidate at second stage on Thursday and that you owe them a salary band — because it is looking at the same database you are.
Recruitly vs Ringover
One rents you telephony and sells the intelligence separately. One includes both in the CRM.
| How the AI is priced | Per call — 3¢, 100 briefings free per user monthly | Per seat, per month, as an add-on |
| Cost of a quiet month | Almost nothing | The same as a busy one |
| Contract | No phone commitment | Twelve-month commitment on plans |
| AI briefing before the call | Included | — |
| Summary written onto the candidate and the job | Native | Via integration into your CRM |
| Callback queue filled by the AI | Included | — |
| What you licence | Numbers | Seats |
| Applicant tracking system | Included | — |
| Recruitment CRM | Included | — |
| Job distribution to 50+ boards | Included | — |
| Built for recruitment specifically | Included | — |
Capability comparison against Ringover’s published plans and AI add-on, checked 21 August 2026.
Questions before you move
How much does Ringover's AI actually add?
At the time of writing their mid plan publishes at around $44 per user per month and the AI product is a separate add-on at around $39 per user per month, so a recruiter with transcription and conversation intelligence lands near $86 per user per month, on a twelve-month commitment. Ten recruiters is a serious annual number before a single call is dialled. Check their site for today's figures — the structure is the point: the AI is a permanent per-head tax.
How is three cents a call cheaper than a monthly licence?
Because you are billed for what happened. A recruiter who makes 60 calls in a month and briefs before 40 of them is inside the 100 free briefings and pays under two dollars for the write-ups. Even a heavy phone month rarely approaches a per-seat AI licence, and the consultant who barely dialled costs you nothing. Recruitly also shows the cost per call and lets you set a spend cap for the account, so this is never a surprise.
Is your AI as good as a dedicated conversation-intelligence product?
It is aimed at a different target. A general conversation-intelligence tool scores talk ratios and keywords across any industry. Ours reads your recruitment database: it briefs you with where this candidate is in your process and what you owe them, then writes the summary onto the candidate and the job, scores sentiment, and queues the callback you promised. We would rather be excellent at recruitment than adequate at everything.
Can I keep the numbers we advertise?
Yes. Porting is built into Recruitly — raise the order, upload the paperwork the losing carrier needs, track it to the switchover date. Start it early, because porting runs on the carriers' timetable rather than ours, and the rest of Recruitly can go live while it is in progress.
We're mid-contract with Ringover. Can we start anyway?
Yes, and it is the sensible way to do it. Recruitly logs calls from the common recruitment dialers into the same Call Logs, so the CRM side is useful before the telephony moves. Migrate desks as the commitment unwinds, then port the numbers.
What am I getting besides a phone system?
Jobs, candidates, applications, contacts, companies, deals, placements, billings, interviews, campaigns, WhatsApp, e-signature, leaderboards for the office TVs, an AI hub for matching and CV formatting, and a Chrome extension that scores LinkedIn profiles against your live jobs. Ringover is telephony with an AI product attached. Here the phone is one part of the software your agency already runs on.
Pay for the calls you make. Not the seats you fill.
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