Chatkick ATS: $8.5K a month, self-reported in 2022, priced per user

Chatkick sells all-in-one recruiting, Talent CRM, and ATS software for staffing and recruiting organizations. Its $8.5K a month was founder-reported on the Indie Hackers product page (not independently verified), as of March 2022.

What it actually sells

Chatkick describes itself as “a TalentCRM & ATS all-in-one solution.” Its software service is designed for staffing and/or recruiting organizations, with recruiting, Talent CRM, and ATS functions in one product.

Its listed features include AI sourcing across more than 500 million candidate profiles, automated omni-channel outreach campaigns, private application tracking pipelines, interview insights, developer APIs, and a Zapier integration.

How it charges

The Growth plan costs $99 per user monthly. Enterprise pricing is custom. The site also promotes a 7-Day free trial with no credit card required.

Where customers come from

The site shows a 7-Day free trial with no credit card required, recruiting blog posts, and integrations. It publishes posts about sourcing passive candidates with social media and supports connections with ATS vendors, Gmail, Outlook, and Calendly.

What stands out

Chatkick lists sourcing, outreach, applicant tracking, interview insights, developer APIs, and a Zapier integration. Its site says Email Magic was trained on 20+ million recruiting emails, its contact data includes 400+ million personal email addresses, and it integrates with 27 ATS vendors.

From the official site

Our software service is designed for staffing and/or recruiting organizations.

Within Talent CRM, teams can automate omni-channel outreach campaigns to nurture new prospects.

7-Day free trial | No credit card required.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

Chatkick's $8.5K a month is higher than 65% of the 6,604 projects with founder-reported monthly revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $2K. Snapshot: 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

My view: the buyer is a staffing or recruiting organization that needs sourcing, pipeline management, outreach, and interview work in one system. Distribution would need to reach recruiting teams through useful content, integration ecosystems, and direct sales.

My view: the difficult parts are candidate-data handling, privacy and regulatory compliance, integration maintenance, product reliability, and support for recruiting workflows. Competition would come from established ATS products and separate sourcing, outreach, and CRM tools.

Verdict: Hard to replicate.

One thing to take from it

Chatkick presents a broad recruiting workflow inside one product, with a published per-user plan, a free trial, custom Enterprise pricing, and integrations that connect the software to other parts of a recruiting operation.

Sources

Chatkick official website, fetched October 1, 2026
Chatkick pricing page, fetched October 1, 2026
Indie Hackers product page: revenue founder-reported on the Indie Hackers product page (not independently verified), as of March 2022

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure