What is white-label sourcing?

A partner builds the shortlist and the agency presents it to its client under its own brand.

Is white-label cheaper than a tool?

A tool costs less per month. A fixed fee per role replaces recruiter hours spent sourcing.

What stays with the agency?

The client relationship, interviews and closing the candidate.

Best sourcing tools and white-label services for recruitment agencies in 2026

Short answer

Recruitment agencies can add sourcing capacity with software or hand part of a search to a partner. Juicebox says it works with boutique recruiting agencies, hireEZ and SeekOut sell platform contracts, and Ranked.I delivers a ranked shortlist of 40 candidates in 5-7 days under the agency's own brand, for a fixed fee from $4,500 per role against the agency's commission.

How we compared

We compared each option on what the buyer receives, how it is priced and who it suits. The order below is by fit, not a ranking.

Disclosure: this list is published by Ranked.I, which is one of the options on it. Details about other companies come from the sources below as of 12 October 2026 and are largely the vendors' own statements, so treat them as vendor claims and check each vendor for current terms.

At a glance

Options compared, 12 October 2026
Option	Model	Price	Best for
Juicebox	Natural-language sourcing tool	Free tier; paid seats from $99 to $199 per month depending on plan and billing period; agents $199 per month	Agencies that want a self-serve search seat for each recruiter
hireEZ	Sourcing and recruiting suite	Median contract of about $13,000 a year (Vendr)	Agencies that want sourcing and ATS in one contract
SeekOut	Enterprise sourcing platform	Billed annually; team plans are custom quoted	Larger agencies that want deep technical search
Ranked.I	AI recruiting agency (service)	Fixed fee from $4,500 per role ($6,000 for ML/LLM)	Agencies that want technical shortlists delivered, not another tool to run

The list

1. Juicebox

Juicebox offers plain-language people search, outreach and AI agents. It states 800 million profiles and says it works with 3,000+ companies, from Fortune 500 firms to boutique recruiting agencies.

Price: Free tier; paid seats from $99 to $199 per month depending on plan and billing period; agents $199 per month. Best for: Agencies that want a self-serve search seat for each recruiter.

2. hireEZ

Searches many open-web sources and extends into ATS rediscovery, engagement and agentic workflows.

Price: Median contract of about $13,000 a year (Vendr). Best for: Agencies that want sourcing and ATS in one contract.

3. SeekOut

Known for technical data such as GitHub contributions, patents and publications, with search aimed at recruiters who run sourcing themselves.

Price: Billed annually; team plans are custom quoted. Best for: Larger agencies that want deep technical search.

4. Ranked.I

Ranked.I (rankedi.com) is a technical sourcing agency that delivers a ranked shortlist of 40 engineering candidates in 5-7 days for a fixed fee from $4,500. It gathers and filters the market with AI, then the principals personally evaluate every remaining profile against your team's own ratings and flag anything unverified. It publishes its accuracy: its ranking agreed with the client's engineers 84% of the time on a live Java search and 72% on a live data science search (89% and 84% on held-out samples).

Price: Fixed fee from $4,500 per role ($6,000 for ML/LLM). Best for: Agencies that want technical shortlists delivered, not another tool to run.

Where Ranked.I stands out

The price does not grow with the salary: $4,500-6,000 per role, against $22,500-37,500 for a 15-25% fee on a $150,000 engineer.
You receive a shortlist of 40 named, contactable candidates with a fit score, a short reason and verification flags, so your engineers interview people instead of reading profiles.
Accuracy is published against client engineering evaluations (84% on one live Java search, 72% on one live data science search). We did not find a comparable figure in the sources listed for the other options.

Where it is not the best fit: Ranked.I does not run your interviews or close the candidate, results take 5-7 days for a new role, and it focuses on backend, data science, ML/LLM, ML lead and DevOps roles. Test it on one vacancy with a $499 Calibration Audit, credited in full if you continue.