The short list
- Kepler — for agencies whose asset is a database nobody can search.
- Recruiterflow — for boutique agencies that live on multichannel outbound sequences.
- Crelate — for US boutiques that want an optional back office.
- Bullhorn — for staffing firms that pay and bill contractors at scale.
- Recruit CRM — for small agencies that want the lowest published seat price.
- Spott — for EU agencies that want an AI-native product with breadth.
- Vincere — for UK and APAC agencies with temp desks inside The Access Group.
Why do agencies look for a Loxo alternative?
The reasons an agency shops around are structural, and every one of them is on Loxo’s own pricing page, read 13 Sep 2026.
- The AI is on the top priced tier. Loxo Source, the agentic workforce with its AI Notetaker, Loxo AI Chat and API access are all on Professional at USD 199 per user per month. Core at USD 149 keeps the ATS, CRM, natural-language search, email sync, the Chrome extension and MCP, but none of the agents.
- The AI is metered. Professional includes 2,500 credits per seat per month, pooled across the team and refreshed in full each cycle. Boost raises a seat to 5,000 or 12,500 credits, but Boost pricing is not published. Loxo AI Chat is billed by usage that varies with the model and the request, so it is not a fixed cost inside the seat price.
- Annual, paid up front, as a limited-time offer. Both priced tiers are annual plans paid up front, and both are labelled a new-customer limited-time offer on the pricing page; no monthly billing is published.
- Migration is free only for some. Migration into Loxo is free for Core teams of three seats or more; below that it is guided self-serve, and Professional, Enterprise and complex migrations are scoped as fixed-price packages.
- The product is the graph. Loxo calls itself a talent intelligence platform, and the 850M+ professional graph is what the Professional price pays for. An agency that does not need to buy reach is paying for the part of Loxo it uses least. Loxo’s careers page is also hosted at app.loxo.co rather than on the agency’s own domain.
Comparison at a glance
| Tool | Best for | Matched plan price (annual basis) | AI included in that plan | Publishes pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kepler | Searching the database you already own | USD 99 per user / month, one edition | Yes, with a monthly allowance | Yes |
| Recruiterflow | Multichannel outbound sequences | AIRA Plan: not published | Yes, every AIRA agent | Partly (Platform Plan only) |
| Crelate | US boutiques wanting an optional back office | Business Plus: not published | Yes, the Advanced AI Assistant | Partly (Essentials and Business only) |
| Bullhorn | Contract staffing with pay and bill | Bullhorn Pro: not published | Yes, AI search and match and Amplify Chat | Partly (Starter and Core only) |
| Recruit CRM | Small agencies on a budget | Business: USD 135 per user / month | Partly — fifty AI matches, add-ons for more | Yes |
| Spott | EU agencies wanting AI-native breadth | Pro: USD 199 per user / month | Yes, AI token spend included | Yes |
| Vincere | UK and APAC agencies with temp desks | From GBP 69 per user / month plus a Smart Pack from GBP 25 per agency / month, billed monthly | Add-on pack (Base Smart Pack) | Partly (UK “from” prices only) |
Loxo itself, for reference: Professional at USD 199 per user per month billed annually, with Source, the agents, AI Chat and the API included and 2,500 pooled credits per seat.
How we evaluated these alternatives
Every claim about another vendor on this page comes from that vendor’s own pricing page, product page or help centre, read on the date given in the sources; where a vendor does not publish a price, this post says so and does not estimate. The price shown is each product’s matched plan — the tier that carries the AI a buyer would compare — on an annual-billing basis, never the cheapest tier. Kepler is the publisher of this post and one of the seven entries; where each alternative is ahead of Kepler is taken from Kepler’s own review of it, unsoftened.
The 7 best Loxo alternatives
1. Kepler
Kepler is a recruitment CRM built around one assistant and a searchable database. It is the Loxo alternative for an agency with the opposite problem to reach: years of CVs, notes, email threads and call transcripts that nothing can currently search. Kepler’s search is hybrid semantic and keyword retrieval across all of that, its assistant sits in a sidebar on every page and can create and update records behind an approval step, and its matching ranks candidates against the criteria written on that job with a pass-or-gap verdict and the evidence under each. Around that sit pipelines, a meeting notetaker, CV parsing and formatting, a careers site on your own domain, campaigns, automations, a client portal, a consent ledger and one inbox for email, WhatsApp and LinkedIn.
Pricing. USD 99 per user per month billed annually (USD 1,188 per seat per year), or USD 129 monthly. One edition, every feature included, unlimited records and storage, a monthly AI allowance with additional capacity on request, and a done-for-you migration free on every plan. Volume pricing is available from 50 seats.
Where Loxo is ahead of Kepler. Kepler has no sourcing database of its own, so it cannot replace Loxo Source. Kepler’s campaigns send email only, with call and SMS steps assigned as tasks; there is no SMS inbox. Kepler has no job multiposting, no sales CRM or deals pipeline, no data-quality agents resolving against an external company graph, no SSO for customers, no ISO 27001 or SOC 2, and no paying customers to reference yet.
See Kepler pricing and what Kepler does.
2. Recruiterflow
Recruiterflow is an ATS and CRM for boutique and mid-size agencies built around outbound sequences and automation recipes, and the closest substitute for Loxo on this list: AIRA Source covers 850M+ profiles from inside the product, with phone and email finder agents, and its AIRA agents — Notetaker, Matchmaker, Field Updates, Submission and Task — cover the same ground as Loxo’s agentic workforce.
Pricing. The matched plan is the AIRA Plan, the tier carrying every AIRA agent, omnichannel communication sync and custom BI dashboards; its price is listed as “Let’s chat custom pricing” (recruiterflow.com/pricing, 13 Sep 2026). The cheaper Platform Plan is USD 119 per user per month billed annually or USD 149 monthly and has none of the agents. Self-serve Excel and CSV import is free; white-glove migration is paid, priced by data volume, and typically takes six to eight weeks, with a fee waiver discussed only on multi-year contracts.
Where it is ahead of Kepler. Recruiterflow’s sequences send email, calls, SMS and LinkedIn messages natively with branching logic and step-level tracking; Kepler’s send email and turn the other channels into tasks. Recruiterflow sources from 850M+ profiles, posts jobs to LinkedIn, Indeed and Glassdoor, models deals with a probability to close per stage, attaches interview scorecards to pipeline stages, and states 2,100+ search firms with a dozen named case studies. Kepler has none of those.
Read Kepler vs Recruiterflow side by side or the Recruiterflow review.
3. Crelate
Crelate is a US-weighted recruiting CRM for boutique and mid-size agencies with a strong pipeline UI and an optional back office. Like Loxo, its AI looks outward: the Discovery Agent searches an external pool Crelate describes as up to 1 billion people and 20 million companies, and Crelate Deliver adds a back office for firms with lighter contractor volume.
Pricing. The matched plan is Business Plus, the tier with the Advanced AI Assistant, automation and sequences, business-development workflows and the full API; it is priced “Custom, per user, paid annually” with no public figure (crelate.com/pricing, 13 Sep 2026). Business is USD 119 per user per month paid annually or USD 149 monthly without those; Essentials is USD 85 paid annually, capped at two users and 20,000 contacts. Texting, email campaigns, eSignature and contact enrichment carry an additional fee on every tier, and data migration is a separate Standard or Advanced package scoped by sales.
Where it is ahead of Kepler. Crelate Deliver runs assignments, timekeeping, invoicing and payroll export inside the platform, and Kepler has no back office of any kind. Crelate’s Discovery Agent searches an external pool of around a billion profiles; Kepler sells no candidate database. Crelate lists business-development workflows on Business Plus, texts contacts from the browser and from Crelate Connector, its iOS and Android app, and lists ISO and SOC 2 compliance among the enterprise options on its Platform tier. Kepler has no deals object, no SMS inbox, no mobile app and no certification.
Read Kepler vs Crelate side by side or the Crelate review.
4. Bullhorn
Bullhorn is the incumbent: the broadest ecosystem in the category and the heaviest to run, sold to enterprise staffing and large agencies. It is the alternative when the sourcing question is secondary to the back office: Bullhorn One captures time and expense, raises invoices and runs payroll, its Marketplace lists 300+ pre-integrated partners, and its Amplify digital workers include prospecting and enrichment skills.
Pricing. The matched plan is Bullhorn Pro, the small-agency tier that carries AI search and match, Amplify Chat and AI call transcription; it is quote-only (bullhorn.com/small-agency-software/pricing, 13 Sep 2026). Bullhorn Starter is USD 99 per user per month and Core is USD 165 per user per month, neither with Pro’s AI or the recruitment CRM; published prices exclude VAT and the billing basis is not stated. Implementation is free on Starter, Core and Pro; Onboarding and Back Office are optional and priced separately.
Where it is ahead of Kepler. Bullhorn’s integrated back office and pay-and-bill, its 300+ partner marketplace, its stated 10,000+ companies on the platform and more than 25 years in the industry, its SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance statement, SMS campaigns in its Automation editions, and VMS automation, onboarding, credentialing and middle office are all things Kepler does not have. Bullhorn also covers sourcing through Amplify and job multiposting through partners; Kepler publishes to its own job board only.
Read Kepler vs Bullhorn side by side or the Bullhorn review.
5. Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is a broad, inexpensive ATS and CRM for small and mid-size agencies worldwide, priced aggressively per seat. It is the alternative for an agency leaving Loxo on cost, and it covers a lot of ground: timesheets and invoicing, bulk SMS, in-product calling, job multiposting, native mobile apps, and AI Sourcing that searches across the internet with natural language.
Pricing. The matched plan is Business at USD 135 per user per month billed annually or USD 159 monthly, the first tier with the fifty-match AI matching allowance and open API access (recruitcrm.io/pricing, 13 Sep 2026). Pro at USD 95 annual or USD 109 monthly has two AI matches instead of fifty and no MCP or API. Enterprise at USD 215 annual or USD 259 monthly bundles the add-ons billed separately below it, such as Advanced Analytics at USD 25 and LinkedIn messaging at USD 12 per user per month. Done-for-you migration is paid, priced by data volume; the CSV import tool is free.
Where it is ahead of Kepler. Recruit CRM ships timesheets, invoicing and contractor pay, bulk SMS on Business and Enterprise, calling and recording inside the product, job multiposting to what it describes as 5,000+ channels, contact enrichment, AI sourcing across the open web, Android and iOS apps, and ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification. Kepler has none of those; its SMS is a one-off send from a connected phone line and it does no enrichment.
Read Kepler vs Recruit CRM side by side or the Recruit CRM review.
6. Spott
Spott is an AI-native ATS and CRM, EU-weighted, and the closest peer of both Loxo and Kepler in ambition. It ships many discrete AI features — CV diffing, enrichment, matching, inbound triage, call mining, scorecards — rather than one assistant, with an MCP server for cross-record work in ChatGPT or Claude. It sells no sourcing graph; its enrichment finds contact details for people already on your records.
Pricing. The matched plan is Pro at USD 199 per user per month billed annually or USD 249 monthly, which adds automations, multi-channel sequences, a marketing suite and data enrichment to Core’s notetaker, search and matching (spott.io/pricing, 13 Sep 2026). Core is USD 139 annual or USD 169 monthly without those four. AI token spend is included in every plan; enrichment credits cost extra. Spott runs migration itself, typically over four weeks, and publishes no migration fee.
Where it is ahead of Kepler. Spott has an opportunities pipeline with weighted value per stage, interview scorecards with a rubric per job, seven VoIP integrations including Aircall with live inbound call cards and an SMS inbox, job multiposting through Broadbean and idibu, contact enrichment through a waterfall of providers, company hierarchies, iOS and Android apps, and ISO 27001 certification with EU hosting. Kepler has none of those.
Read Kepler vs Spott side by side or the Spott review.
7. Vincere
Vincere is a recruitment operating system with a wide module list, sold to mid-size agencies in the UK and APAC and now part of The Access Group. It is the alternative for an agency whose growth is temp and contract rather than retained search, because Vincere TimeTemp covers timesheets, shift scheduling, pay rules and invoicing. Vincere’s AI — Copilot, candidate scoring and a content optimiser — comes as a Smart Pack added to the licence.
Pricing. The UK page publishes the CRM and ATS licence from GBP 69 per user per month billed monthly, plus the Base Smart Pack, which carries the AI, from GBP 25 per agency per month; no annual figure is published and the page says pricing varies and offers a tailored quote (theaccessgroup.com, Vincere pricing, 13 Sep 2026). The enrichment agent, chatbots and CRM automation need the Automate pack, from GBP 235 per agency per month, and advanced analytics and third-party connectors are paid add-ons.
Where it is ahead of Kepler. Vincere TimeTemp covers timesheets, leave, shift scheduling, pay rules and self-bill invoicing, with Access FastTrack360 Evo for payroll beside it; Kepler has no back office. Vincere multiposts jobs through Broadbean and idibu, sends SMS from the record, ships iOS and Android apps, runs recorded video interviews through Vinneo, offers candidate-facing portals, sits inside a large software group with a shared implementation organisation, and puts its base at 22,000+ recruiters. Kepler has none of those.
Read Kepler vs Vincere side by side or the Vincere review.
Which Loxo alternative should you choose?
If you are leaving Loxo but still need to buy reach — a new vertical, a market you have no coverage in — the honest answer is Recruiterflow or Crelate, because both sell sourcing from inside the product and Kepler does not. Recruiterflow if the desk runs on multichannel sequences; Crelate if you also want an optional back office. Both put their AI on a quote-only tier, so get the number before you compare.
If your real asset is the database you already have — years of CVs, notes, email threads and call transcripts that no keyword search reaches — Kepler is built for that problem. One assistant reads all of it and can act on the answer behind an approval step, and the price is USD 99 per user per month with the API, the AI allowance and the migration inside it.
If you place contractors and need pay and bill in the same system, Loxo was never the natural home and neither is Kepler. Bullhorn for enterprise scale and a partner marketplace, Vincere for UK and APAC temp desks inside The Access Group, or Recruit CRM if the budget is the constraint.
If you want an AI-native product with more of the workflow in one tool — opportunities with weighted value, scorecards, an SMS inbox, a mobile app — Spott is the broader AI-native choice and Kepler the deeper one. Spott Pro and Loxo Professional are both USD 199 per user per month.
Frequently asked questions
Is Kepler a good Loxo alternative?
Kepler is a good Loxo alternative for an agency whose problem is the database it already owns rather than reach into a market it does not. Kepler searches CVs, notes, email threads and call transcripts in plain English, ranks candidates against per-job criteria with a verdict and the evidence for each, keeps per-field history with undo, and costs USD 99 per user per month billed annually in one edition with every feature included and a free migration. Kepler is not a good Loxo alternative if you are buying Loxo Source: Kepler has no sourcing database of its own, no SMS or call steps in campaigns, no job multiposting and no deals pipeline.
How much does Loxo cost?
As of 13 Sep 2026, Loxo publishes two priced tiers, both annual and paid up front and both labelled a new-customer limited-time offer. Professional is from USD 199 per user per month and carries Loxo Source, the agentic workforce with the AI Notetaker, Loxo AI Chat and API access, with 2,500 pooled credits per seat per month. Core is from USD 149 and drops all of those, keeping the ATS, CRM, natural-language search, email sync, the Chrome extension and MCP. Enterprise is quote-only and is where SSO and SAML sit. Boost, which raises a seat to 5,000 or 12,500 credits, has no published price.
Which Loxo alternatives have their own sourcing database?
Of the seven on this list, Recruiterflow (AIRA Source, 850M+ profiles), Crelate (the Discovery Agent, up to 1 billion people), Bullhorn (Amplify prospecting and enrichment skills) and Recruit CRM (AI Sourcing across the internet) each sell some form of sourcing outside your own database. Kepler, Spott and Vincere do not sell a sourcing pool; Spott and Vincere offer contact enrichment for people already on your records, and Kepler does no enrichment at all.
Which Loxo alternative is the cheapest?
On the matched plan — the tier that carries the AI — Kepler at USD 99 per user per month billed annually is the lowest published figure on this list, followed by Recruit CRM Business at USD 135 and Spott Pro at USD 199, the same figure as Loxo Professional. Recruiterflow’s AIRA Plan, Crelate’s Business Plus and Bullhorn Pro are quote-only, and Vincere publishes only UK “from” prices billed monthly. Comparing a cheaper tier without the AI — Recruit CRM Pro at USD 95, Recruiterflow Platform at USD 119, Bullhorn Starter at USD 99 — is not like for like.
Can you migrate from Loxo to Kepler?
Yes, and Kepler runs the migration for you on every plan at no charge. You send an export from Loxo plus any loose CVs and spreadsheets; Kepler does the extraction, mapping, de-duplication and validation, rebuilds your custom fields as real fields rather than notes, and shows you fifty of your own records fully parsed before the full load. Activity, stages and history come across, not just names and email addresses, and a full workspace export is available at any time with no exit fee.
Which Loxo alternative is best for a temp or contract desk?
Bullhorn, Vincere, Crelate and Recruit CRM each ship some form of timesheets and invoicing: Bullhorn One and Vincere TimeTemp are full pay-and-bill modules, Crelate Deliver is an optional back office for lighter contractor volume, and Recruit CRM lists invoicing and timesheets on its plans. Kepler and Spott have no back office; Kepler records invoice and payment status on a placement but does not raise invoices or run timesheets.
Sources
Every claim about another vendor on this page comes from that vendor's own public material. Where a vendor does not publish something — pricing is the usual one — this post says so rather than estimating.
- Loxo — Pricing Professional from USD 199 and Core from USD 149 per user / month billed annually and paid up front, both a new-customer limited-time offer; feature lists per tier; 2,500 pooled credits per Professional seat; Boost at 5,000 and 12,500 credits, unpriced; migration terms; the 850M+ figure.
- Loxo Help Center — Show Open Jobs on Your Website The careers page hosted at app.loxo.co/
. - Recruiterflow — pricing AIRA Plan “Let’s chat custom pricing”; Platform Plan USD 119 annual / USD 149 monthly; migration FAQ.
- Recruiterflow home page AIRA Source across 850M+ profiles; 2,100+ search firms.
- Crelate — pricing Essentials USD 85 annual (2 users, 20k contacts); Business USD 119 annual / USD 149 monthly; Business Plus custom; add-on fees on every tier.
- Crelate home page Discovery Agent: up to 1 billion people and 20 million companies.
- Crelate — Deliver Assignments, timekeeping, invoicing and payroll export.
- Bullhorn — staffing software pricing for small agencies Starter USD 99 and Core USD 165 per user / month; Pro quote-only with AI search and match, Amplify Chat and call transcription; prices exclude VAT.
- Bullhorn — pricing The full plan and add-on list; Amplify digital workers.
- Recruit CRM — pricing Pro USD 95 / Business USD 135 / Enterprise USD 215 annual; USD 109 / 159 / 259 monthly; add-on prices; matching allowances; paid migration.
- Spott pricing Core USD 139 annual / USD 169 monthly; Pro USD 199 annual / USD 249 monthly; AI tokens included, enrichment credits extra; migration typically four weeks.
- Spott product documentation Opportunities, scorecards, telephony and SMS, multiposting, enrichment, company hierarchy, mobile app.
- The Access Group — Vincere pricing (UK) CRM and ATS from GBP 69 per user / month; Smart Packs Base GBP 25 and Automate GBP 235 per agency / month, all “from” and monthly; add-ons.
- Kepler pricing USD 99 per user per month billed annually (USD 1,188 per seat per year) or USD 129 monthly, one edition, unlimited records, free migration on every plan, additional AI capacity on request.
Kepler is a recruitment CRM and this post is published by Kepler, so read it as an interested party's account. We have tried to describe Loxo as its own team would recognise it, and every factual claim is sourced above. If something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will correct it.