One active role on free, unlimited submissions. Here is why.

Pricing is the one place where the product strategy and the business strategy collide noisily. We thought hard about Submio's free tier. Here is what we landed on and why.

The shape: one active role, unlimited submissions on it

On Free, you can have exactly one role open at a time. On that one role you can submit as many candidates as you want. Hire a candidate or archive the role, and the slot frees up — you can open another. There is no time limit. No credit card. No "trial expires in 14 days" countdown timer.

Submio Free is not a trial. It is a real plan that real recruiters can run their first deals on.

Why "one role" and not "three" or "ten" or "free forever"

The standard SaaS playbook says: give them a quota, watch them hit the wall, charge them when they do. Three free roles, then pay. The problem with that for our use case is that most independent recruiters are not running ten roles at once. They are running one or two intensely. So a three-role cap would be functionally a forever-free plan for most of our target audience — which is fine for the user but bad for us as a business.

A one-role cap maps to the actual workflow of an independent recruiter: deal in, deal out, deal in, deal out. The Free user genuinely uses the product for one role at a time. If they want to run a second role in parallel — which is what success looks like — they upgrade. Everyone wins: the user gets to try the full product on a real deal, we get the upgrade signal at exactly the right moment.

Why every feature is in Free

Most SaaS gates the good stuff behind tiers. We hate that, so we do not do it. Free ships every feature: review pages, scorecards, activity timeline, sentiment, HM email handoff, all of it. The only differences across tiers are how many active roles you can run and whether you have teammates on the same workspace.

We think pricing is for scale, not extraction. Once you place even one candidate from a free role you have probably earned Pro back many times over — at which point upgrading is not a hard sell, it's a thank-you.

What you do not need a credit card for

Signing up. Submitting candidates. Sharing review links with hiring managers. Getting your first reaction. Closing your first deal on the Free tier. None of that requires a card.

We will tell you when you have hit your one-role cap. When you do, you decide whether to upgrade or to free up the slot by hiring or archiving. Both options work. Both are fine.