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Tavi as a LinkedIn Recruiter alternative
LinkedIn Recruiter is the tool every recruiter learns first: the biggest professional network and 40+ filters to search it. The difference is who does the work. Tavi lives in Slack and runs the whole workflow there — sourcing, outreach, ATS updates, pipeline.
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The difference in one table
| Feature | LinkedIn Recruiter | Tavi |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | The industry-standard search seat: LinkedIn's own recruiting product, built around 40+ filters over its member network. Its AI agent, Hiring Assistant, is a separate add-on. | An AI recruiting agent that lives in Slack and handles the full workflow — like a team member, not a tool. |
| Where you work | A dedicated web app in another tab. Candidates get saved into Projects, and your team follows up there or pushes them to the ATS. | In Slack, in the channel your team already reads. No dashboard to learn. |
| Search | 1B+ members with 40+ filters and Boolean. Unmatched on self-reported career data — but it sees only what people chose to put on LinkedIn, and you build and rebuild each search by hand. | Agentic: picks a strategy from your brief, then searches, evaluates and refines. 1B+ profiles including GitHub, papers, patents and org maps. 97.03 on PeopleSearchBench — #1. |
| Agents | Hiring Assistant, an add-on to a Recruiter seat, covering intake, sourcing, application review and pre-screening. Currently English, German and French. | Tavi is the agent. Always on, learns your hiring bar, no add-on cost. |
| Outreach | InMail, rationed by credits — 30/month on Lite, 100–150 on Corporate, with extra credits sold on top. Messages land in LinkedIn inboxes. | Multi-step sequences set up right in Slack, with every message individually drafted from the role, the candidate and your company context. |
| Integrations | ATS and CRM integrations that sync candidates and activity back to your system of record. | Integrates with 400+ apps — Gmail, Sheets, Notion, Calendar, your ATS — automating workflows across the whole hiring process. |
| Pricing | Per seat. Recruiter Lite around $170/month; Corporate has no public rate card and is commonly reported at $10,800–$15,000 per seat per year with a three-seat minimum. | Per workspace, metered usage. No seats — one agent for the whole team. |
What you notice in the first week
Candidates get screened, not matched
Tavi researches every profile the way a human sourcer would — reading the full career and weighing it against your bar. A thorough, agentic assessment, beyond what a search engine can match.
It works your whole stack
With 400+ app integrations — Gmail, Sheets, Notion, Calendar, your ATS — Tavi runs recruiting ops across your tools like a real co-worker.
Where LinkedIn Recruiter still wins
The largest professional network there is, and candidates actually check it. Add employer brand, Talent Insights and a tool every recruiter you hire already knows how to drive.
One Tavi serves the whole workspace. On the independent people-search benchmark it scores 97.03 out of 100 — first of every platform evaluated.
What people ask before they switch
Is LinkedIn Recruiter ever the better choice?
Yes. Nothing matches LinkedIn's reach into self-reported career data, candidates read messages that arrive there, and every recruiter you hire already knows the tool. If your hiring runs on employer brand and volume outreach inside LinkedIn, keep the seat.
You both cover 1B+ profiles. What is actually different?
LinkedIn searches what people wrote about themselves, through 40+ filters you build and rebuild by hand. Tavi is agentic: it picks a sourcing strategy from your brief, runs and refines searches across 1B+ profiles plus GitHub, papers and patents, and keeps going until the shortlist holds up. It scored 97.03 on PeopleSearchBench, first among all platforms evaluated.
Does Tavi have a web dashboard?
No, by design. Search, review, outreach and pipeline live in Slack. When you want a structured view, Tavi writes to Google Sheets, Notion or a Slack canvas.
What does Tavi cost?
Per workspace with metered usage — no per-seat fees, no agent add-ons. The whole team shares one Tavi. LinkedIn Recruiter is per seat: Lite around $170/month, and Corporate commonly reported at $10,800–$15,000 per seat per year with a three-seat minimum, before InMail overages.
Can we replace LinkedIn Recruiter with Tavi?
Some teams do. Many keep a seat or two for InMail and profile browsing while Tavi runs sourcing, outreach and pipeline in Slack — they run side by side rather than wired together. The usual test is to give both the same brief and compare the shortlists.
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