Bullhorn Pricing and Bullhorn Cost per User for Every CRM and Amplify Plan

We opened bullhorn.com/pricing on 13 October 2026 and read every card. The page is split into four groups: plans for small agencies, plans for larger agencies, AI and automation products, and Bullhorn Recruitment Cloud, the version built on Salesforce. Only two cards carry a number. Bullhorn Starter is $99 per user a month and Bullhorn Core is $165 per user a month. Both list free implementation.

Starter covers applicant tracking, resume parsing, client management, job posting with a career portal and expert support. Core adds the partner marketplace of more than 300 apps, custom fields and workflows, the LinkedIn integrations (Recruiter System Connect and Apply Connect) and the email sidebar. That is the complete list. There is no AI feature on either card.

The page does not say whether the $99 and $165 are billed monthly or annually, and it does not state a minimum number of users or a contract length. Some third-party roundups claim Starter is limited to one or two users and Core starts at three. We could not find that on the page today, so treat it as a question for the sales call rather than a fact. Bullhorn describes itself on the same page as serving more than 10,000 customers, with 1,400 employees in 14 countries.

Bullhorn Pro is marked "Most popular" and reads "Talk to us" where the price would be. It is the first plan with Amplify, the Bullhorn AI: AI search and match, Amplify Chat (Bullhorn calls it a staffing LLM), AI data enrichment, AI resume formatting and AI call transcription, plus the recruitment CRM sales pipeline, process automation, real-time analytics and a dedicated account manager.

Bullhorn Max, labeled all-new, is Pro plus Amplify agentic workflows: omni-channel candidate engagement, agentic screening, agentic matching, agentic enrichment, multi-step AI outreach, a website chatbot, interview scheduling and consultant services. Bullhorn also sells the same agents standalone as Amplify Digital Workers, with "over 15 skills", again by quote.

So the honest reading of Bullhorn pricing is that the published prices buy the database and the quoted prices buy the work. That pattern is not unique to Bullhorn. Our survey of AI recruiting software pricing found it at LinkedIn, Recruiterflow, Crelate and hireEZ as well. Loxo is the main exception, publishing $199 a seat with its agents included, which is why Loxo vs Bullhorn is the comparison most small agencies end up running.

At list price, one recruiter on Starter costs $99 a month or $1,188 a year, and one recruiter on Core costs $165 a month or $1,980 a year. Three recruiters on Core cost $495 a month, $5,940 a year. Five cost $825 a month, $9,900 a year. Ten cost $1,650 a month, $19,800 a year. Those figures assume the list price holds and no add-ons, and they include no AI.

Once you need matching, outreach or pay and bill, the number becomes a quote. For a contract or temp agency the line that usually moves the total most is the back office: timesheets, invoicing and pay and bill only appear in Middle Office or Bullhorn One. Our guide to staffing agency software with invoicing compares the platforms that bill clients from timesheets, including the ones that publish a price.

For a wider view of what agencies pay across the category, staffing software pricing lays out the published agency cards side by side, and contract staffing software covers the platforms that handle pay and bill for contractors.

If you need a dependable ATS that your future hires already know, Bullhorn Starter and Core are reasonable buys. Bullhorn has been the default in staffing for a long time, the marketplace covers most integrations an agency asks for, and implementation is free on the published plans. Recruiters moving between agencies often arrive already trained on it.

The case against is the gap between the price you can see and the product you are being sold. The demos and the marketing are built around Amplify, and Amplify starts on a plan with no list price. A small agency comparing Bullhorn Core at $165 with Recruiterflow at $119 or Loxo Professional at $199 is not comparing like with like, because those two include automation or agents and Core does not. Recruiterflow vs Bullhorn runs that comparison line by line.

Many agencies do not have to choose. HireAgent is not an ATS. It sources candidates against your criteria, screens and ranks them into an explainable shortlist with the evidence attached, drafts personalized outreach and books interviews, and a human makes every decision. Plans run $299, $799 and $1,999 a month, or $1,794, $4,794 and $11,994 a year on annual billing, priced on seats, open roles and sourcing volume. Keep Bullhorn as the record, put the sourcing and screening on an AI recruiter built for staffing agencies, and compare the total with a Pro quote. Full plan details are on HireAgent pricing.

Is the $99 or $165 billed monthly or annually, and what is the contract term? The page does not say. Get the term, the cancellation terms and any auto-renewal clause in writing.

Which AI features are in this quote, and on which plan? AI search and match first appears on Pro. If your rep demos Amplify agents, confirm whether they are in Max, in a Digital Workers add-on, or both, and get each priced as its own line.

What does pay and bill cost for our volume? Middle Office and Bullhorn One are quoted. Ask for the pricing unit (per user, per placement, per timesheet) so you can compare it with the invoicing tools other agencies use.

What is the renewal increase? List prices on the small agency cards may not survive renewal. Ask for a cap on the year-two increase while you still have leverage, and check any figure on this page against bullhorn.com/pricing on the day you build the budget. If you are still choosing, Bullhorn alternatives covers the platforms agencies most often shortlist against it.