Loxo vs Recruit CRM pricing, cost per seat and where each one puts the AI

Search for Recruit CRM pricing and most of page one still quotes $85 for Pro, $125 for Business and $165 for Enterprise per user a month on annual billing. That was the rate card. The current US card, which the pricing page ships in its own code and shows to US visitors, is $95, $135 and $215 on annual billing and $109, $159 and $259 month to month. Enterprise moved the most, up $50 a seat.

Two details make the page easy to misread. First, Recruit CRM prices by region. The same page loads its figures from a pricing service that checks where the visitor is, and a visitor in Europe gets a euro card of 49, 69 and 109 a month on annual billing. If a colleague abroad sends you a screenshot, it is not the price you will pay. Second, the annual toggle says save up to 20%, but on the US card the real saving is 12.8% on Pro, 15.1% on Business and 17.0% on Enterprise. None of the three plans reaches 20% in dollars.

None of this is unusual for the category, and Recruit CRM deserves credit for publishing a dollar figure on every tier, including Enterprise, where most agency platforms print Custom. It just means the right comparison starts from $95, $135 and $215, not from the numbers in older reviews. Every plan, add-on and team size is priced out in our Recruit CRM pricing guide.

At the bottom and middle, yes. Recruit CRM Business at $135 is the like-for-like match for Loxo Core at $149: both are a full agency ATS and CRM with unlimited sequences, reporting and AI assistance over your own records, and neither includes a proprietary sourcing database. Recruit CRM is $14 a seat cheaper, $168 a user a year, and it lets you pay monthly.

At the top, no. Recruit CRM Enterprise at $215 lines up against Loxo Professional at $199, and Loxo is $16 a seat cheaper. What each adds is different. Loxo Professional adds Loxo Source, a graph of 850M+ professionals, the full agent workforce on every seat and 2,500 pooled credits a seat a month. Recruit CRM Enterprise adds workflow automation, advanced analytics, LinkedIn messaging inside the CRM, 500 enrichment credits a user a month, calling and texting credits, a career site builder and job multiposting.

So the honest answer depends on what you would buy next. If your team already pays for a sourcing tool and needs enrichment and automation, Recruit CRM Enterprise replaces several invoices. If the bottleneck is finding people at all, Loxo Professional includes the database that Recruit CRM leaves to a Chrome extension and your own LinkedIn seats.

Recruit CRM spreads its AI across all three plans but rations it. Pro includes the AI resume parser, GPT integration and AI sourcing, and it also includes candidate matching, capped at 2 matches. Business raises matching to 50 and adds resume formatting and the executive search report generator. The named AI agents on the product page, for custom field parsing, candidate submission, resume formatting and candidate pitching, work on documents and emails your recruiters already handle. Recruit CRM also ships an MCP connection so your data can be used from Claude or ChatGPT.

Loxo concentrates the AI in one step. Core has natural-language AI search over your own records and MCP. Professional switches on everything else: sourcing agents over Loxo Source, the agentic workforce, Loxo AI Chat and contact data with shortlists. There is no in-between tier, and the credits meter agent work rather than contacts, so cost per contact cannot be worked out from the page.

In practice the difference is where the candidates come from. Recruit CRM AI makes your existing pipeline faster to work. Loxo Professional also fills the pipeline from outside your database. That is the capability worth pricing, whichever vendor you pick.

For a two to five recruiter agency that sources mostly on LinkedIn and wants monthly billing, Recruit CRM Business is the better fit. It is the cheaper seat, it includes unlimited sequences, bulk texting and SSO, and nothing is paid up front. Budget for enrichment credits, since the 25 free credits run out on day one.

For an agency whose recruiters spend half their week finding people, Loxo Professional is the better fit, and on a five-seat desk it is cheaper than the Recruit CRM tier that includes enrichment. The trade is cash flow: five Professional seats is $11,940 at signing.

For a contract or temp desk, look closely at Recruit CRM. It sells timesheets, invoicing and contractor pay as a separate product line, which Loxo does not. Confirm the price of that line with sales, because it is not on the pricing page.

One, from Recruit CRM, the US price for your exact seat count on annual and monthly billing, since the page is region priced. Two, which of the per-user add-ons (workflow automation, LinkedIn messaging, advanced analytics) you need, and whether they are billed on every user or only the ones who use them. The page says total users.

Three, 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. Four, the price of Credit Boost if one recruiter will run the agents hard, since the pool is shared. Five, from both, the migration quote and timeline in writing. Recruit CRM quotes paid migration on data volume at 10 to 14 business days; Loxo migration is free on Core at three or more seats.

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 ATS.

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 connects to the ATS you keep, so it can sit next to Recruit CRM or Loxo rather than replace either one. Plans start at $299 a month and scale with seats, open roles and sourcing volume.