# Searchlight Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 Searchlight Software Review 2026: Features, Reviews, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

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Searchlight

## What is Searchlight?

Searchlight is the quality of hire platform that leverages references to remove bias in performance-driving hiring. Companies like Udemy, Talkdesk, and Zapier automate reference checks with 1 click and get predictive data on better hires. Our reference data then powers an analytics flywheel that the most innovative talent teams use to improve diversity, retention, and hiring for all future roles.

## What is Searchlight used for?

[Background Check](https://www.capterra.com/background-check-software/)[Reference Check](https://www.capterra.com/reference-check-software/)

Overall rating

Based on 2 user reviews

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## Compare with a popular alternative

Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status.

### Searchlight

5.0 (2)

VS.

[4.7 (468)](https://www.capterra.com/p/190447/RefNow/reviews/)

Starting Price

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Starting Price

$12.99

One Time

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

5.0 (2)

Ease Of Use

4.8 (468)

Value For Money

5.0 (1)

Value For Money

4.6 (381)

Customer Service

5.0 (2)

Customer Service

4.6 (397)

## Searchlight alternatives

Highest Rated

[4.9 (49)](https://www.capterra.com/p/183558/Vitay/reviews/)

Starting price

$699.00

Per User, Per Month

[4.6 (125)](https://www.capterra.com/p/127883/VidCruiter/reviews/)

Starting price

$5000.00

Per User, Per Month

[4.8 (18)](https://www.capterra.com/p/181402/Checkmate/reviews/)

Starting price

$17.00

Per User, Per Month

[HiPeople](https://www.capterra.com/p/211940/HiPeople/)

[4.8 (1,563)](https://www.capterra.com/p/211940/HiPeople/reviews/)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

[Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/211940/HiPeople/)

## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

Activity Dashboard

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Alerts/Notifications

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

API

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Applicant Tracking

Find and manage potential candidates and their applications and resumes through the recruiting life cycle

Assessment Management

Creation, administration, and evaluation of assessments or tests

Candidate Scoring

Assign a qualitative score to a candidate

Searchlight 25 features

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Find and manage potential candidates and their applications and resumes through the recruiting life cycle

Creation, administration, and evaluation of assessments or tests

Assign a qualitative score to a candidate

Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier

Add customized logos and colors to align with company branding

Alter the layout and content of reports

Pre-designed layouts that can be customized to match preferences and requirements

Reminders sent via email

Collecting, analyzing, and utilizing feedback from users or customers to improve a product or service

Identify and prevent suspicious activity

Access software remotely via mobile devices

Notifications that are delivered to users as soon as an event occurs

Active reporting of data and metrics

Process used by hiring managers to get more information about a candidate by contacting previous employers

Ability of the software to take the manual effort out of the process of requesting and collecting references

Timed notification for any upcoming task, deadline, appointment, or activity

Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Track the status over time for a request, process, asset, or transaction

Create and manage surveys

Repository of pre-built questionnaires that can be used as is

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

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Features

5.0 (2)

5.0

Based on 2 reviews

## Pricing

Value for money

5.0 (1)

### Starting price

Contact vendor  
for pricing

Free trial  
available

Value for money

5.0 (1)

5.0

Based on 1 reviews

## Integrations

[

ADP Workforce Now](https://www.capterra.com/p/155895/WorkforceNow/)[

Rippling](https://www.capterra.com/p/172127/Rippling/)[

BambooHR](https://www.capterra.com/p/110968/BambooHR/)[

TriNet HR Plus](https://www.capterra.com/p/133019/Zenefits/)[

Greenhouse](https://www.capterra.com/p/133100/Greenhouse/)[

Lever](https://www.capterra.com/p/142452/Lever/)[

SAP SuccessFactors HCM](https://www.capterra.com/p/144575/SuccessFactors-Perform-and-Reward/)[

SmartRecruiters](https://www.capterra.com/p/123833/SmartRecruiters/)

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## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

5.0 (2)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

5.0 (2)

5.0

Based on 2 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

5.0

Based on 2 reviews

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5(2)

4(0)

3(0)

2(0)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

CK

Courtney K.

Talent Operations Manager

Hospital & Health Care

### "Like a crystal ball for candidate's future"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

July 1, 2021

Searchlight is fairly quick and painless to implement. Support is phenomenal and our hiring managers love it!

Pros

The Searchlight team is constantly striving to evolve with the ever-changing demands of talent acquisition. One of my favorite features is their Onboarding Guide. This compiles the information previous managers and coworkers have shared about how to set your potential new hire up for success. I told them it's like being able to look through a crystal ball to see how you need to approach, communicate, and train this particular individual. How fantastic to have that information prior to onboarding so on Day 1 you know you can hit the ground running with your new hire in a positive, productive way?

Cons

Honestly, no complaints. Any issue I've run into has been user error and not for lack of explanation from the Searchlight team.

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

NA

Nikki A.

Founder

Staffing and Recruiting

### "Important and game changing technology"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

May 21, 2021

As an equity-centered startup recruiting firm, we care a lot about removing bias and barriers so that candidates can thrive. We've used Searchlight's guidance to move reference checking earlier in our process (both internally and with clients), creating a better case around candidates who might not have taken the originally envisioned path on a specific role, and used the reference feature to help ensure that we're matching soft skills for candidates based on those who have worked with them in the past.

Pros

I get real insights about candidates without having to schedule reference calls. I've personally hired based on these references and recommend the solution into every client.

Cons

I can't wait to use the new Intake functionality!

Reasons for choosing Searchlight

I use Searchlight over doing reference checks and soft skill alignment assessments internally on our own using more manual and ad-hoc methods.

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