The short answer
LinkedIn Easy Apply is free and sends your application to the job poster without leaving LinkedIn, with daily and speed limits LinkedIn does not publish. Premium Career adds Top Applicant and Top Choice jobs, five InMail credits a month and profile insights, from US$39.99 a month or US$239.88 a year; LinkedIn shows the rupee price only at checkout. Horabbit finds the person who decides on a role and emails them in your voice, with a CV tailored to that role, from your own Gmail.
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Easy Apply is the fastest way to apply to a job on LinkedIn: a click, a couple of questions, done. Premium Career sits on top of it and is built to help you stand out inside the same system.
Horabbit works outside it. It finds the person who decides on a role and writes them an email from your own Gmail.
What are Easy Apply and Premium Career, actually?
Easy Apply is free. According to LinkedIn’s help centre, it lets you apply without leaving LinkedIn, and your completed application is sent to the job poster. Whether a job shows Easy Apply or a plain Apply button depends on the employer; Apply sends you to the company’s own site. LinkedIn also says it has introduced daily and speed limits on Easy Apply submissions, without publishing the numbers on that page.
Premium Career is LinkedIn’s paid plan for job seekers. As of November 2026, LinkedIn’s Premium Career page lists:
- Top Applicant jobs, roles where your profile is already a strong match.
- Top Choice jobs, a way to mark an application as your first choice.
- Five InMail credits a month to message people outside your network. LinkedIn’s help centre adds that a credit comes back if the recipient replies within 90 days, and that unused credits are capped and lost if you cancel.
- Who viewed your profile, profile-writing help, a message proofreader and AI insights on job posts.
- LinkedIn Learning courses.
LinkedIn lists Premium Career from US$39.99 a month or US$239.88 a year, with local prices for Australia, Canada, the euro area and the UK. It does not list a rupee price publicly, and notes that its prices may exclude GST. The India price is shown when you go to buy from your own account.
On refunds, LinkedIn’s legal refund policy says Premium subscriptions are generally non-refundable, while its help centre describes a case where a refund may be possible within 7 days of a charge if Premium was not used. If you cancel, Premium stays active until the end of the billing cycle.
What does Horabbit do differently?
Easy Apply puts your profile into the job poster’s applicant list. Premium Career helps you stand out in that list, and gives you five messages a month to reach people directly. Horabbit is built entirely around the direct message, and does it by email rather than inside LinkedIn.
- It finds roles that fit you.
- It finds the person who decides on that role: the CTO, the engineering lead, the hiring manager.
- It writes a short email in your own voice, with a CV tailored to that role, sent from your own Gmail. You can keep each one in your drafts, or let Horabbit send it.
- Replies come back to your own inbox.
A one-click application joins a queue of hundreds. An email to the person who owns the role joins a queue of a few and is read by a human.
Replies usually take three to ten days, and some never come. We do not promise replies, interviews or offers.
How do they compare side by side?
| LinkedIn Easy Apply + Premium Career | Horabbit | |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | One-click applications to LinkedIn job posts; Premium adds Top Applicant, Top Choice and InMail | Finds the role and the person who decides, writes them an email |
| Who reads your application | The job poster’s applicant list; InMail reaches a chosen person on LinkedIn | The CTO, engineering lead or hiring manager, directly |
| Does it sound like you | Your profile and resume; InMail you write yourself, with a proofreader on Premium | A short email written in your own voice |
| CV per role | The resume you upload; no per-role tailoring described | A CV tailored to each role |
| Where it sends from | Inside LinkedIn | Your own Gmail address |
| Volume | Many applications, within limits LinkedIn does not publish; 5 InMail credits a month on Premium | A few carefully chosen emails a day |
| Price | Easy Apply free; Premium Career from US$39.99/month or US$239.88/year (USD; INR shown at checkout, GST may be extra) | ₹499/week, ₹1,999/month, ₹3,999/3 months (INR, GST included) |
| Free tier | Yes: LinkedIn and Easy Apply are free | No |
| Refund / cancel | Cancel any time, active to end of cycle; Premium generally non-refundable, with exceptions | Cancel any time; refund within 7 days of a charge |
| Best for | Applying fast to roles posted on LinkedIn; being visible to recruiters | Job seekers in India writing to the people who hire, in India and abroad |
What does the price math look like?
LinkedIn does not publish its India price, so this is a conversion of the US list price at the European Central Bank reference rate of 30 October 2026 (1 US dollar = ₹94.95). The price you see in your own account may be different, and GST may be added.
| Period | Premium Career (USD list) | In ₹ at that rate | Horabbit (₹, GST included) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | US$39.99 | about ₹3,797 | ₹1,999 |
| 1 year | US$239.88 (about ₹1,898 a month) | about ₹22,777 | not offered; 3 months is ₹3,999 |
Easy Apply itself costs nothing, and nothing beats free. The paid comparison is between Premium Career’s five InMail credits a month plus its other tools, and Horabbit writing a few emails a day to the people who decide. Check your own Premium price before comparing; it is the one number here we could not source.
When is LinkedIn the better choice?
- You want to apply to many posted roles quickly. Easy Apply is built for that, it is free, and Horabbit does not do it.
- Recruiters already reach out to you on LinkedIn and you want to be seen more. Premium’s profile and Top Choice features are aimed at that.
- You want LinkedIn Learning or the other non-job-search parts of Premium.
- You only need to message a few people a month and are happy to write the messages yourself. Five InMail credits may be enough.
When is Horabbit the better choice?
- Your Easy Apply history is long and your replies are few. The click is cheap for everyone, which is why the applicant list is long.
- You want to reach the person who decides by email, in your own voice, from your own address, with replies in your own inbox.
- You want a CV tailored to each role rather than one resume for every application.
- You are in India and need visa sponsorship abroad. Horabbit skips teams that cannot sponsor you.
The verdict
Keep LinkedIn; your profile is the page the person you email will open. Easy Apply is a fine tool for volume, and Premium Career is a reasonable way to stand out within LinkedIn. If the one-click route has stopped working for you, Horabbit gives you a direct line to the person who decides, as an email in your own voice, a few times a day.
The full case for that is in why you are not getting interviews, and LinkedIn alongside every other way to apply is in every way to apply for a job, compared.
Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a512348
- https://premium.linkedin.com/careers/career
- https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a7474393
- https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a543695/inmail-message-credits-and-renewal-process
- https://www.linkedin.com/legal/l/refund-policy
- https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1337140
- https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a545578
- https://api.frankfurter.app/2026-10-30?from=USD&to=INR (ECB reference rate, 30 October 2026)
Questions people ask
- How much is LinkedIn Premium Career in India?
- LinkedIn does not publish a rupee price on its public Premium Career page; it lists US$39.99 a month or US$239.88 a year and prices in AUD, CAD, EUR and GBP, and says prices may exclude GST. The India price is shown when you go to buy from your own account. At the ECB rate of 30 October 2026, the US prices are about ₹3,797 a month and ₹22,777 a year.
- Is there a limit on LinkedIn Easy Apply?
- Yes. LinkedIn's help centre says it has introduced daily and speed limits on Easy Apply submissions, but does not state the numbers on that page.
- Is InMail the same as emailing the hiring manager?
- Both reach a person. InMail arrives in their LinkedIn inbox and Premium Career gives you five credits a month; an email arrives in their work inbox. Horabbit writes the email for you, from your own Gmail, with a CV tailored to the role.
- Can I use LinkedIn and Horabbit together?
- Yes. Keep your LinkedIn profile current, because the person you email may look you up. Easy Apply and Horabbit's emails reach different queues.