Peerlist Pricing

Is free Peerlist good enough?

For individuals, yes. A profile, Scroll posts and a free workplace check cost nothing, and the help center names no paid individual plan. The paid-looking parts are the ones Peerlist does not price, so the free route is the default and the fees are the exception. ^{[1] [5]}

Peerlist's Terms of Service, last updated 27 Nov 2024, contain no paid-service, refund or tax terms. The only payment language concerns usernames, so any fee you meet is set outside the Terms. ^[2]

Test the free route before you pay anything. Complete your profile to at least 70%, because Peerlist hides profiles below that level from others. Then ask one colleague to find you by name. If they can't, the problem is the profile, and a verification fee will not fix it. ^[12]

Identity verification is the one fee Peerlist hides

Identity verification has a one-time fee that Peerlist does not publish. The help center calls it nominal, but gives no amount, and it is non-refundable once verification starts. Ask Peerlist for the figure before you upload an ID. ^[3]

The check uses a government ID and Stripe's matching, and photocopies and expired IDs are rejected. Peerlist stores only the verification status, not ID copies or biometric data, and it honours deletion requests within 72 hours. ^[3]

Verification is optional. You can remove it in Manage Verification settings, so the test is simple: verify only if an employer or client will ask for proof you cannot show another way. ^[4]

Launchpad costs nothing, but a finished product is the real price

The help center shows no fee for a Launchpad launch and names no paid launch tier. Its Terms contain no paid-service terms either, so free is the position the published pages support. ^{[7] [2]}

The real cost is time and readiness. The product must sit on your profile and be 100% complete at launch time, and only the top five launches each week get a backlink. An unfinished launch fails whatever you pay. ^{[8] [7]}

Two help pages say a verified profile is required to launch, while the verification page says it is optional. Ask Peerlist which applies before the Monday you plan to launch. ^{[8] [4]}

Employers have no published price at all

The job-posting help article lists no plans, fees, approval step or listing length. Posting requires being an admin of a company profile, and a company profile needs verified work experience first, so the setup cost is your time before any money. ^{[9] [10]}

The optional Career Site hosts a company's jobs on a subdomain of its own domain, with DNS records set up by the company. Cost and branding are not stated, so budget for the job post and the site as unknowns until Peerlist names a price. ^[11]

Ads are priced on request, so you cannot compare them

Buildlist, a competing listing service, says Peerlist prices ads on request. Treat any figure on a third-party site as that site's claim, not Peerlist's rate card. ^[13]

Contra Pro is cheaper per month only on the yearly plan

Contra Pro costs $29 a month, or $16.58 a month billed yearly ($199 a year). Billed yearly, it saves $12.42 a month against monthly billing. It removes Contra's per-payment fee, which on its free plan is $15 or $29 per client payment, so it only pays off if you are the one absorbing that fee. ^[14]

Buildlist sells a featured listing for $19 or $49, one time. That buys exposure outside Peerlist's one-week launch window, and Buildlist's own comparison is written to sell it. ^[13]