Differences between Recruiter Corporate, Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS+), Recruiter Professional Services, and Recruiter Lite

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Discover the different LinkedIn Recruiter solutions available for various business needs, including Recruiter, Recruiter Professional Services (RPS), and Recruiter Lite.

To meet your hiring needs, LinkedIn Talent Solutions offers several LinkedIn Recruiter products from which you can choose to best suit your business demands.

LinkedIn Recruiter

LinkedIn Recruiter (Recruiter Corporate) is LinkedIn’s most powerful recruiting solution for teams and is best suited for mid-market to enterprise companies.

To learn more about the Recruiter Corporate solution, contact our Sales team.

Recruiter Corporate key features include:

  • Full LinkedIn network access (unlimited profiles)
  • 40+ advanced search filters
  • 150 InMail credits per month, per seat
  • Collaboration features (shared projects, tagging, centralized workflows, and more)
  • Additional filters and insights such as Open to contract work filter, Search insights, and more
  • ATS integration for 28+ partners
  • Advanced reporting
  • Advanced AI-assisted features
  • Hiring Assistant (AI-powered partner, add-on)

LinkedIn Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS+)

LinkedIn Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS plus) is a premium solution with advanced AI and Business Development tools specifically built for staffing agencies and large recruiting teams that are looking to boost efficiency and growth.

To learn more about the RPS+ solution, contact our Sales team.

RPS+ key features include:

  • Limited LinkedIn network access (Up to your 3rd-degree connections, with 50 unlocks per month for out-of-network profiles)
  • 40+ advanced search filters
  • 140 InMails credits per month, per seat
  • Collaboration features (shared projects, tagging, centralized workflows, and more)
  • Additional filters and insights such as Open to contract work filter, Search insights, and more
  • ATS integration for 28+ partners
  • Advanced reporting
  • Advanced AI-assisted features
  • Talent Insights
  • Business Development features (business development mode for AI-Assisted messaging, business development mode for search, and more)
  • Hiring Assistant (AI-powered partner) (add-on)

For more detail on how to use RPS+, visit our RPS+ Community page.

LinkedIn Recruiter Professional Services (RPS)

LinkedIn Recruiter Professional Services (RPS) is a solution best suited for staffing agencies and large recruiting teams managing multiple clients and job openings at scale. 

To learn more about the Recruiter Professional Services solution, contact our Sales team.

RPS key features include: 

  • Limited LinkedIn network access (Up to your 3rd-degree connections, with 30 unlocks per month for out-of-network profiles)
  • 40+ advanced search filters
  • 100 InMail credits per month, per seat
  • Collaboration features (shared projects, tagging, centralized workflows, and more)
  • Additional filters and insights such as Open to contract work filter, Search insights, and more
  • ATS integration for 28+ partners
  • Advanced reporting
  • Base level AI-assisted features
  • Talent Insights

LinkedIn Recruiter Lite

LinkedIn Recruiter Lite is the entry-level recruiting solution that is best suited for individuals, self-employed recruiters and small businesses with light hiring needs. 

Recruiter Lite can be purchased online as a monthly or yearly subscription, and you can cancel at any time. If it’s your first time signing up, you may be eligible for a free trial. Recruiter Lite is not currently available to members in China.

Recruiter Lite key features include:

  • Limited LinkedIn network access (Up to your 3rd-degree connections)
  • 20+ advanced search filters
  • 30 InMail messages per month

The following tables show some of the key feature differences and supported parameters between Recruiter Lite, Recruiter Professional Services, Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS+) and Recruiter Corporate.

Search
 Feature Recruiter Lite Recruiter Professional Services (for staffing firms) Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS +) Recruiter Corporate (for corporate companies)
LinkedIn network access

Up to your 3rd-degree connections

Up to your 3rd-degree connections, with 30 unlocks per month for out-of-network profiles Up to your 3rd-degree connections, with 50 out-of-network profile unlocks per month  Full access to entire network
Search filters  20+ filters  40+ filters, including advanced filters such as years at current company/position, and spoken languages
Open to contract work filter  No Yes  Yes Yes

 Spotlights

 No Yes   Yes, with Business Development Spotlights Yes
Candidate & company insights  No  Yes Yes Yes
Search insights (for example, company trends by talent pool)  No  Yes Yes Yes
Candidate search alerts 

Max 10 per seat (daily or weekly)

Max 50 (daily or weekly)

Max 50 (daily or weekly)

Max 50 (daily or weekly)

Ability to add tags to candidates for filtering & categorization  No  Yes Yes Yes
Messaging
 Feature Recruiter Lite Recruiter Professional Services (for staffing firms) Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS +) Recruiter Corporate (for corporate companies)
InMail Messages per month

30 per seat

100 per seat 140 per seat 150 per seat
InMail pooling across your account  Yes  Yes, InMail allotments are pooled across seats on your account (100-150 x number of seats), allowing active recruiters to utilize more InMail credits as needed.
Ability to bulk send InMail messages  No Yes, up to 25 messages at once  Yes, up to 25 recipients at once, with AI-assisted bulk personalization Yes, up to 25 messages at once

Purchase additional InMail credits

70 per month, per seat. (No more than 120 InMails may be banked per seat per month.) Yes   Yes Yes
Collaboration and Organization
 Feature Recruiter Lite Recruiter Professional Services (for staffing firms) Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS +) Recruiter Corporate (for corporate companies)
Multi-user dashboard Yes, up to 5 seats Yes Yes Yes
Ability to collaborate in shared projects Yes, up to 5 seats

Yes

Yes

Yes

Free collaborator licenses for hiring managers or clients No Yes, 20 per Recruiter license Yes, 20 per Recruiter license Yes, 20 per Recruiter license

Collaboration features

- @Mentions in Notes

- Message sharing

- Recruiting activity

Yes, up to 5 seats

Yes

Yes

Yes

Administration, Integrations & Reporting
Feature Recruiter Lite Recruiter Professional Services (for staffing firms) Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS+) Recruiter Corporate (for corporate accounts)
Data ownership Purchaser Admin: Data is owned by the Purchaser Admin. Company: Recruiter data is owned by and stays with your company.
Pricing $170/month (single license) 

$270/month per license (licenses 2-5)

or 

$1,680/year (single license)

$2,670/year per license (licenses 2-5)

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Contact our Sales team
Applicant Tracking System (ATS) integrations No Yes, 28+ ATS partners
Integrations with:

- LinkedIn Talent Insights

- LinkedIn recruitment marketing solutions
No Yes Yes Yes
Reporting InMail analytics report Job analytics report InMail analytics report

Job analytics report

Recruiter usage report

Pipeline analytics report

Cross Contract and custom reporting
OFCCP Tracking No  Yes Yes Yes
AI features
  Recruiter Lite Recruiter Professional Services (RPS) Recruiter
AI-assisted features No Yes Yes
Hiring Assistant (AI-powered) No RPS+: Yes (add-on) Yes (add-on)

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