Juicebox is a paid sourcing tool built around natural-language candidate search, designed to sit on top of the ATS you already run. Dover is a free ATS with sourcing and outreach included. Here’s what each costs, where each is stronger, and how to tell which one you actually need.
Key takeaways
- Dover's sourcing tools are free - the Chrome sourcing extension and in-app sourcing are both on the free ATS tier, with no seat or credit charge.
- Juicebox is a sourcing tool, not an ATS. You still need somewhere to track the candidates it finds. Dover is both.
- Juicebox's search is stronger. PeopleGPT searches a large candidate index in natural language, and Talent Insights reports on the pool it returns. Dover has neither.
- Juicebox meters contacts and exports. Starter includes 500 contact and 500 export credits a month; Growth includes 1,500 of each. Dover doesn't sell credits.
- Dover lets you create multiple outreach campaigns and run them at once, each sending from its own email sender - useful when a founder's name opens more replies than a recruiter's.
Pricing
Dover's ATS and its sourcing tools are free, with unlimited seats and jobs. Premium is $199/mo with no contract, so you can turn it on for a hiring push and off again. Juicebox has a free plan limited to a single seat and a capped number of searches; real use starts at $119/mo and is metered by contact and export credits.
The two products meter different things. Juicebox charges per seat tier and then rations how many candidates you can contact or export each month, with sourcing agents sold separately on top. Dover charges nothing for sourcing at all, and the one paid tier is a flat $199/mo regardless of how many candidates you reach out to.
Dover
$0-$199
per month - free sourcing and ATS, or premium with no contract
Free - unlimited users and jobs
- Chrome sourcing extension
- In-app sourcing and outreach
- Candidate tracking and CRM
- 100+ job boards
- Careers page and candidate portal
- Reporting and analytics
Premium - $199/mo, everything free, plus
- Bulk email sourcing from a CSV upload
- AI Applicant Scoring
- AI Notetaker
- Advanced scheduling
- Bulk actions for emails and stage updates
- Data export
- Onboarding and premium support
Source: dover.com/pricing · verified August 2026
Juicebox
$119-$199+
per month by seat tier, plus credits and agent add-ons
What you get
- PeopleGPT natural-language candidate search
- Talent Insights reporting on your search results
- AI-drafted email outreach
- 500-1,500 contact credits per month by tier
- 500-1,500 export credits per month by tier
- 1-6 connected mailboxes by tier
- Sourcing agents as a paid add-on
Annual billing takes roughly 15% off. Juicebox Agents are a separate $199/mo per agent on top of any paid plan. The Business tier is not publicly priced.
Source: juicebox.ai/pricing · verified August 2026
Features
These two products only partly overlap. Juicebox is a top-of-funnel sourcing and outreach tool that plugs into whatever ATS you already run. Dover is a free ATS that includes sourcing and outreach. The comparison is really about how much sourcing depth you need, and what you want to pay for it.
| Feature |  | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing and getting started | ||
| Price | Free, or $199/mo premium with no contract | $119-$199/mo by seat tier, Business not public |
| Cost of sourcing | Included on the free tier | The product you're paying for |
| Free plan | Full ATS and sourcing, unlimited users and jobs | 1 seat, limited searches |
| Sourcing and search | ||
| Candidate search | In-app sourcing and a Chrome extension for LinkedIn profiles | PeopleGPT natural-language search over a large index |
| Talent pool analytics | No | Talent Insights reports on your search results |
| Browser extension | Free Chrome extension - find emails and send outreach in two clicks | Chrome extension on paid plans |
| Bulk candidate import | Free - upload candidates by CSV | Export credits, metered per month |
| Outreach | ||
| Campaigns | Multiple campaigns running at once, per role | AI-drafted sequences, agents sold separately |
| Sending from multiple people | Each campaign sends from its own email sender | 1-6 mailboxes depending on tier |
| Follow-up control | Set the number, the copy, and the trigger delay for each step | Automated sequences with AI-drafted copy |
| Contact limits | No contact credits | 500-1,500 contact credits per month by tier |
| Tracking what you source | ||
| Applicant tracking | Full ATS, unlimited jobs and users | None - integrates with your ATS |
| Job boards | 100+ job boards | Not a job-posting tool |
| Inbound applicant review | AI Applicant Scoring on premium | Not applicable |
Juicebox wins on search - a large candidate index queried in natural language, with reporting on what comes back, is genuinely better than what Dover's sourcing does. Dover wins on cost, on outreach controls, and on the fact that the candidates land in an ATS you already have. If searching a deep index is the job, Juicebox does it better; if the job is hiring a handful of roles without adding a line item, Juicebox is a tool you'd be buying alongside an ATS you still need.
Try Dover's free ATS
Unlimited jobs and users, set up in minutes.
Which platform fits
Which tool makes sense for your team and budget?
The honest split is whether sourcing is the hard part of your hiring or one part of it. A team whose whole job is searching a deep pool should look at Juicebox. A team hiring a few roles and needing somewhere to run them should look at Dover.
Dover fits
Teams that want sourcing inside their ATS
- Free sourcing - the Chrome extension and in-app sourcing cost nothing, with no per-seat charge
- No credits to ration - contact as many candidates as the role needs without watching a monthly balance
- One system - sourced candidates land in the same pipeline as your inbound applicants
- Outreach you control - several campaigns running at once, each from its own sender, with follow-up timing you set
- Flexible spend - premium is $199/mo with no contract, for bulk CSV sourcing and AI scoring
- Fast to start - self-serve signup, first campaign out the same day, no implementation
You want to source, reach out, and track candidates in one free tool.
Juicebox fits
Teams whose bottleneck is finding people
- A sourcing budget - $119-$199/mo by seat tier, before agents and extra credits
- Credit-based usage - contact and export volumes are capped per month and priced by tier
- An ATS already in place - Juicebox sources into your existing system rather than replacing it
- AI-drafted outreach - sequences written for you, with agents available to run them
- Search depth - PeopleGPT queries a large index in plain language, which Dover cannot match
- Pool reporting - Talent Insights tells you what the market for a role actually looks like
You need to search a deep candidate index, and you already have an ATS.
Why teams pick Dover
Dover's ATS has given us more time back to spend in the lab and the tools we need to build our team
Dover’s ATS simplifies the hiring process and provides an excellent level of support, ensuring a seamless migration during implementation!
Dover can automate scheduling so we could optimize bottom-funnel candidate experience, which was game-changing.
I have all the information that I need in Slack and then literally, I just click a button, and I decide whether to advance that person or not. It saved us so much mental energy and saved candidates time in waiting to hear from us.
The way Dover handles candidate touchpoints and scheduling saves me a lot of time, especially as I manage all recruiting efforts and have limited internal support with recruiting coordination.
Other Juicebox alternatives
If neither fits, these are the platforms teams most often shortlist alongside Juicebox.
FAQ
How much does Juicebox cost?
Juicebox has a free plan with one seat and a limited number of searches. Starter is $119/mo for one seat with 500 contact and 500 export credits. Growth is $199/mo for up to five seats with 1,500 of each. Business is custom-priced. Annual billing saves roughly 15%, and Juicebox Agents cost $199/mo per agent on top of any paid plan.
Is Juicebox an ATS?
No. Juicebox is a sourcing and outreach tool that connects to the ATS you already run. If you don't have one yet, budget for both. Dover's ATS is free and includes sourcing, so it covers the same top-of-funnel work plus the tracking underneath it.
Does Dover charge for sourcing?
No. The Chrome sourcing extension and in-app sourcing are both included on Dover's free ATS tier, with unlimited users and jobs. The one sourcing feature behind the $199/mo premium tier is bulk email sourcing from a CSV upload - importing the candidates themselves is free.
Can I use another sourcing tool and still use Dover?
Yes, and plenty of teams do. Source wherever you like - Juicebox, LinkedIn, a spreadsheet from an agency - then upload the candidates to Dover by CSV and run outreach, interviews, and offers in the ATS. Importing by CSV is free; emailing a whole uploaded list at once is a premium feature.
How does Dover's outreach compare to Juicebox's?
Dover lets you create multiple campaigns and run them at the same time, each sending from its own email sender, and you control each follow-up - how many go out, what each says, and when it fires, whether that's +3 days or +5 days after the last one. Juicebox drafts sequences with AI and sells agents that can run them for you. Dover gives you more manual control; Juicebox does more of the writing.
Does Dover have natural-language candidate search like PeopleGPT?
No. Dover's sourcing works from the Chrome extension on profiles you're looking at and from in-app sourcing, not from a natural-language query over a large proprietary index. If searching a deep pool in plain English is the capability you need, that's a real reason to pay for Juicebox.
What are Juicebox's pros and cons for a startup?
Pros: strong natural-language search, Talent Insights reporting on the pool, AI-drafted outreach, and a free plan to try it on one seat. Cons: it isn't an ATS, so it's an addition to your stack rather than a replacement; contact and export volumes are metered monthly; seats are tiered; and sourcing agents cost $199/mo each on top of the plan.
Start hiring for free today
Unlimited jobs and users, sourcing included, set up in minutes.
Get started free
On accuracy: Pricing, plan tiers, and feature availability change often and without notice. Every figure here was checked against each vendor's public pricing and documentation in August 2026. Feature comparisons reflect generally available functionality, not beta or enterprise-only capability. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we'll correct it.