Loxo Pricing and Loxo Cost Per Month: Core, Professional Plans and Credits for 2026

We opened loxo.co/pricing on 10 September 2026 and read the rate card directly. Loxo is one of very few recruiting platforms that publishes a per-seat price for a tier with AI sourcing in it, and the page is more specific than most roundups give it credit for. There are three plans: Core at $149 per user a month, Professional at $199 per user a month, and Enterprise on a custom annual agreement.

Both published prices carry the same three conditions printed underneath them: billed annually, "Annual plans, paid up front", and "New customer limited time offer". That last label is easy to miss and it matters. It tells you $149 and $199 are first-year prices for new accounts, and the page is silent on what the same seat costs at renewal.

Core is the applicant tracking system and recruiting CRM. It includes natural-language AI search over your own records, unlimited jobs, candidates and companies, pipelines and reporting, email and calendar sync, the Chrome extension, and an MCP connection to your own AI tools. It does not include Loxo Source, the agents or any credits. Professional adds Loxo Source, which Loxo describes as a talent graph of more than 850 million professionals, every agent on every seat, Full Agentic Mode, Loxo AI Chat, contact information delivered with shortlists when available, API access, and 2,500 credits per seat a month.

The $50 gap between the two plans is the most useful number on the page, because it is the price of sourcing. Core is a well-priced system of record for a firm that finds candidates somewhere else. Professional is the plan that finds them for you. Comparisons that line Core up against a sourcing tool's entry tier are comparing an ATS with a search engine, a trap we walk through in Loxo vs Juicebox.

Search for Loxo pricing and most of the first page is third-party breakdowns, several of which describe a rate card that is no longer there. The most common version lists a Free plan for one user, a Basic plan at $169 per user a month, and Professional and Enterprise as custom quotes. Another widely repeated claim is that Loxo does not list Professional pricing at all, and that Professional contracts land somewhere between $250 and $400 per user a month.

Neither matches the page as it reads today. There is no Free plan and no Basic plan. The only free access is a 7-day trial of the full Professional platform, with no credit card. Professional is published at $199. We cannot tell you what a particular firm negotiated, and a multi-year or heavily boosted deal can land anywhere, but a budget that starts from $169 or from $250 a seat starts from the wrong number.

The fix is dull and reliable. Take any figure you find, ours included, and check it against loxo.co/pricing on the day you build the budget. We re-read the page for this analysis and date every figure on it so you can see how old each one is.

Every Professional seat includes 2,500 credits a month. They pool across the whole team and refresh in full at the start of each monthly cycle. A five-seat Professional team therefore shares 12,500 credits a month, the same allowance as a single seat on Boost 5x, and capacity flows to whichever desk is busiest.

The part most comparisons get wrong, and an earlier version of our own arithmetic got wrong too, is what a credit counts. Loxo calls a credit "the meter for agent work". Credits are used when the agents screen, evaluate, reach out or complete a search, and contact details arrive with the shortlist when they are available. That makes a Loxo credit a unit of work rather than a revealed email or phone number, so $199 divided by 2,500 gives you about 8 cents per credit, not 8 cents per contact. Loxo does not publish how many credits a full search consumes, and the page states that its capacity figures are "figurative".

Two practical consequences follow. Unused credits do not carry over: each month starts again at the full pool, so there is nothing to gain by rationing them early in the year. And the cost of a heavy month is set by Boost, which has no published price. Before you sign, ask Loxo to show you the credit count of three searches like yours in the Agent Impact Center, which logs every action the agents take. That is the only way to turn the allowance into a number you can compare with a per-contact tool like Juicebox or SeekOut.

On the published rates, Core costs $1,788 per seat a year and Professional $2,388. Because the plans are paid up front, the useful figure is the check you write at signing: three recruiters on Professional is $7,164, five is $11,940 and ten is $23,880. On Core the same teams pay $5,364, $8,940 and $17,880.

The monthly equivalent for a five-person Professional team is $995, but nobody is billed $995. For a small agency that is the difference between a software line item and a cash-flow event, and it is worth weighing against any vendor that bills month to month.

If you are choosing between Core and Professional, the test is short. Add up what you pay today for a separate sourcing database and contact finder. If it is more than $50 per recruiter a month, Professional pays for itself before you count the agents. If you already own sourcing you like and only need an ATS, Core is the better buy. We run the same decision against Recruiterflow's $119 seat in Loxo vs Recruiterflow and against Bullhorn in Loxo vs Bullhorn.

For a staffing or search firm that wants one system of record with sourcing built in, the honest answer is usually yes. Loxo is the only vendor we track that publishes a per-seat price with its AI agents included. LinkedIn, Bullhorn, Recruiterflow, Crelate, hireEZ and 100Hires all publish a manual tier and quote the AI tier, so $199 is one of the few numbers in this category you can budget from without a sales call. Our survey of AI recruiting software pricing puts the whole field side by side.

The case against is narrower than it looks. Loxo replaces your ATS, so buying it is a migration project, and the value depends on your recruiters moving their daily work into it. If your firm is settled on another system of record, you are paying for a platform to get a search engine. And because the price scales with seats, a firm with many recruiters and few open roles pays for capacity it does not use.

That is the gap HireAgent is built for. It bills per open role instead of per recruiter, at $299 a month for up to 3 roles, $799 for up to 10 with ATS integration, and $1,999 for high-volume teams and agencies. It sources candidates against your structured criteria, screens and ranks them into an explainable shortlist with the evidence attached, drafts personalized outreach and books interviews, with candidate consent and AI disclosure, and a human makes every hiring decision. It works alongside the ATS you already run. The Loxo alternative page covers what firms compare Loxo against and why.

What will this seat cost at renewal? Both prices are labeled as a new customer offer, so get the year-two rate, or a cap on the increase, written into the order form while you still have leverage.

How many credits does one of our searches use? Ask for a live run on one of your own open roles during the trial and read the credit count in the Agent Impact Center afterwards. Multiply by your monthly search volume and you will know whether 2,500 pooled credits per seat is enough, or whether Boost belongs in the first-year budget.

What does Boost cost for the seats that need it? Boost is sized per seat and can be resized, but it is priced by your account team. Put it in the same proposal as the seats so the comparison with other vendors is complete.

What does migration cost on Professional? Core migrations are free at three seats or more. Professional migrations are fixed packages scoped before signing, which is good practice, but it is still a number and it belongs in the total you compare.