Loxo vs Atlas pricing, cost per seat and what each plan includes

Search for Atlas recruitment CRM pricing and the answer you get back is that Atlas does not publish pricing and you need to book a demo. That stopped being true in September 2026. The Atlas pricing page now lists two priced plans and a custom one, in four currencies, with a pay yearly toggle that says save 17%.

The page opens in British pounds, because Atlas is a London company, and that is the second trap. The GBP card reads 105 and 135 pounds a month on yearly payment. Switch the toggle to USD and the page shows $125 for Basic and $165 for Premium paid yearly, or $150 and $200 paid monthly. Those are the figures a US agency will be invoiced, and they are the ones used on this page.

Two lines on the card matter more than the price. One licence per recruiter, so this is ordinary per-seat pricing. And every plan runs on a 12-month commitment, so the monthly price is a payment schedule, not a month-to-month contract. Our Atlas recruitment CRM pricing guide costs out every plan at one to ten recruiters.

Yes, at both steps where the two can be compared. Atlas Basic at $125 lines up against Loxo Core at $149: both are an AI-native agency system with search and outreach over your own data and no contact data included. Atlas is $24 a seat a month cheaper, $288 a recruiter a year.

Atlas Premium at $165 lines up against Loxo Professional at $199, because both are the tier that puts contact details in front of the recruiter. Atlas is $34 a seat cheaper, $408 a recruiter a year. The full Loxo pricing card, including Boost and the up-front payment, is broken down separately.

The catch is that the two top tiers are not the same product. Atlas Premium adds verified mobiles and personal emails to profiles you shortlist, and Atlas says that is the only difference from Basic. Loxo Professional adds Loxo Source, a graph of 850M+ professionals searched alongside your own database, the full agent workforce on every seat, API access and 2,500 pooled credits. If what your recruiters lack is people to contact, Loxo sells that and Atlas does not publish an equivalent. If they lack phone numbers for people they already found, Atlas is the cheaper route.

This is the line that decides most agency purchases, and the two vendors meter it in opposite ways. Atlas Basic is sourcing on your own contact data: you get AI candidate sourcing, unlimited searches and outreach sequences, and the emails and numbers are whatever your database already holds. Atlas Premium adds verified mobile numbers and personal emails on every profile you shortlist, for $40 a seat a month more on yearly payment, with no allowance printed on the card.

Loxo does not sell contact data as a line item at all. Professional delivers contact information with shortlists when available, and the work that produces those shortlists draws on 2,500 credits per seat a month, pooled across the team and refreshed in full each cycle. A credit meters agent work, not a contact, so there is no cost per contact to compare.

For a US desk the question to ask Atlas is coverage. Atlas is a London company, its page opens in pounds, and its comparison pages are aimed largely at UK rivals such as Vincere, Firefish and Mercury. Ask for a hit rate on a sample of your own US candidates during the 14-day trial before you commit a year. Ask Loxo the same question about the share of Loxo Source profiles that come back with a mobile number.

Both vendors run a comparison page about the other, and they do not agree on much. The Loxo page describes Atlas as a small, new entrant relying on third-party AI from OpenAI. The Atlas page says Loxo layers AI onto an older ATS and makes claims about Loxo customer churn. Neither page prices the other vendor, and none of those claims can be verified from the outside.

What can be checked is on the pricing pages, and that is what this comparison uses: seat prices, payment terms, what each plan lists and what is left to sales. Loxo has operated since 2012 and states it has served more than 125,000 recruiters. Atlas is a much younger company. If vendor stability matters to you, ask each for three US agency references of your size, and ask Atlas which hours its support covers in US time zones.

For a two to five recruiter agency that sources mainly on LinkedIn and wants call notes, email and every conversation captured automatically, Atlas is the better value. Its Basic seat is the cheapest AI-native agency CRM with outreach sequences in this pair, Premium adds phone numbers for less than Loxo charges for its sourcing tier, and you can pay monthly.

For an agency whose recruiters spend half their week finding people, Loxo Professional is the better fit. It is the only plan here with a published profile graph and agents that run a search end to end, and at five seats the premium over Atlas Premium is about $2,040 a year paid yearly. The trade is cash flow: five Professional seats is $11,940 at signing.

For a team of ten or more, neither page gives you a final number. Get both quotes in the same week and use the published list prices on this page as the ceiling. If the third name on your list is a US-built agency CRM, our Loxo vs Recruit CRM and Loxo vs Crelate comparisons price those pairs the same way.

One, from Atlas, the USD price for your exact seat count and confirmation that the 12-month commitment applies to monthly payment. Two, whether Premium enrichment has any fair-use limit, since the card prints none, and what the US mobile hit rate looks like on your own candidates. Three, the migration price, since the page gives a two to three week timeline but no figure.

Four, from Loxo, the renewal price. Both seats are labeled a new customer limited time offer and the page does not state what year two costs. Five, the price of Boost if one recruiter will run the agents hard, since the credit pool is shared across the team.

Both products are platforms a recruiter drives. Whichever one you choose, someone still writes the search, reads each profile against the brief, decides who is worth a message and chases the follow-up. On a desk carrying ten or more open reqs, that is the time that limits placements, not the CRM.

That is the gap HireAgent covers. It sources, screens and ranks candidates against the client brief, drafts personalized outreach and books interviews, and returns a shortlist with the evidence behind every score. It works next to the system of record you keep and syncs with Greenhouse and Lever, so it can sit alongside Atlas or Loxo rather than replace either one. Plans start at $299 a month and scale with seats, open roles and sourcing volume.