No subscription while Dibs is in early access. You pay only when you hire, and the first record on your timeline decides which price applies. Every fee is shown in pounds before you say yes.
Pay whenyou hire.
Five prices. That's the lot.
£0
Your own applicants
Everyone who applies to your studio directly, from your website, LinkedIn, email or your own link to your Dibs profile. Always free.
3.75%
I'd work here New
Only when you hire a designer who found you on Dibs and tapped I'd work here on your profile. Their interest lasts 12 months. Half the price of an intro.
7.5%
Dibs Intros
Only when you hire a designer Dibs introduced. Full refund if they resign, or leave for performance or conduct, in the first 3 months.
£0
Recruiters you already use
Invite them in, free for 12 months. They bill you the way they do today, and Dibs records who got there first.
+7.5%
Recruiters you meet through Dibs
Each recruiter sets their own fee and keeps all of it. Dibs adds 7.5% and shows you the total before you open a role. One invoice, from Dibs.
What you'd pay.
£0
Applied direct
£1,687.50
I'd work here · 3.75%
£3,375
Dibs Intro · 7.5%
£6,750
New recruiter at 7.5% · £3,375 to them, £3,375 to Dibs
£9,000
New recruiter at 12.5%, or a typical agency at 20%
Fees exclude VAT. A typical agency charges 15 to 25% of first-year salary, and you rarely see what the recruiter keeps. On Dibs you see every line before anyone starts work.
Fair both ways.
01
Only on hire.
Nothing to pay until someone signs. We invoice when the contract is signed, payable within 14 days.
02
3-month refund.
If a hire through Dibs resigns, or leaves for performance or conduct, in the first 3 months, you get the fee back.
03
Already yours, no fee.
If someone applied to you, or talked to you about a role, in the last 6 months, there is no fee. Dibs checks your records first.
04
One hire, one fee.
The earliest record on your timeline sets the price. You never pay twice for the same person.
05
12 months, any role.
The fee applies if you hire within 12 months of the intro or their interest, in any role, or within 6 months of their last interview if that's later.
06
Interest that ends.
A designer's I'd work here lasts 12 months, then switches off. After that you can ask once more, at most every 6 months.
07
Graduates free for returning studios.
Paid a Dibs fee in the last 12 months? Your next graduate hire is free, one for each paid hire, for graduate roles up to £30,000.
08
Contractors too.
3.75% or 7.5% of a contractor's fees, for up to the first 12 months.
09
Designers never pay.
Not to join, not to be introduced, not ever.
These are early access prices. Full terms will be published before early access opens.
Asked and answered.
For studios
What does it cost when a designer says I'd work here?
3.75% of first-year base salary, only if you hire them within 12 months: £1,687.50 on a £45,000 hire. No fee if they applied to you in the last 6 months or came through your own link.
For designers
What happens when I tap I'd work here?
That studio, and only that studio, sees your profile, and you see what they'll see first. It lasts 12 months, you can take it back any time, and your current employer never sees it.
For recruiters
When does a submission count?
When the candidate confirms it in Dibs. The first confirmed submission has dibs, and unconfirmed ones lapse after 5 working days.
Call dibs.
Put your studio on the list. We'll email you once, on the day early access opens.