Eightfold.ai
AI talent intelligence platform
About Eightfold.ai
Goes beyond keyword matching by analysing full career histories and inferring skills to predict candidate potential — not just whether someone has the right words on their CV. Covers talent acquisition, internal mobility, and workforce planning, with an AI that gets more useful the more it understands your organisation's actual skill needs.
How Eightfold.ai compares
| Directr tier | B | S | A | A |
| Price | From ~$650/mo | Custom (enterprise) | From $35K/yr | From ~$1,000/mo |
| Free tier | None | None | None | None |
| API access | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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