What are Kepler and Loxo?
Kepler is a recruitment CRM built around AI Chat and a searchable database. You ask in plain English, and AI Chat searches every CV, note, email thread and call transcript the agency owns. It can then create and update records once you approve the change.
Around AI Chat, Kepler covers the rest of an agency desk on one plan:
- Matching that scores every candidate from 0 to 100 against the job
- Contact enrichment for work and personal emails, mobile numbers and LinkedIn URLs
- A notetaker that joins Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet calls
- Email and WhatsApp conversations in one inbox, plus calls and texts through five phone providers
- CV parsing and formatting, a careers site on your own domain and a client portal
- Campaigns, automations, reporting, consent records and a way for AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT to work in your data
Loxo calls itself a Talent Intelligence Platform. Its pricing page describes replacing “your separate ATS, CRM, sourcing, outreach, and data tools with one AI-native platform”. At the centre is Loxo Source, Loxo’s graph of professionals, with an ATS and CRM, outreach, an AI notetaker, a hiring manager portal and a set of AI agents around it.
What is the main difference between Kepler and Loxo?
The main difference is how you work. In Kepler you ask. A question like “data engineers in London who have run Kafka in production and could start within a month” reaches the line in a CV, a consultant’s note and a recorded call, not only the structured fields.
Kepler then does the follow-up for you. It returns the records as a list you can save, ranks a shortlist against the job, and turns emails, calls and messages into updates you approve. AI Chat is included on every plan, monthly and annual, with no add-on or upgrade needed.
Loxo makes you choose Claude, GPT, Gemini or Grok for each conversation, and Loxo AI Chat is priced by usage and only on the more expensive Professional plan.
How does Kepler find candidates compared with Loxo Source?
Kepler finds people in the database an agency owns and keeps that database growing:
- Search. AI Chat reads every CV, note, email thread and call transcript on file.
- Contact enrichment. Kepler finds work and personal emails, mobile numbers and LinkedIn URLs, for one record or in bulk, and you review them before they are saved.
- LinkedIn. Kepler can search LinkedIn, shows whether a person is already in your database and what has changed since you last spoke, and adds them if they are not.
- Your careers site. A site on your own domain brings in applicants, read, checked for duplicates and scored as they arrive.
Loxo Source searches Loxo’s graph and your private database. On the Professional plan, contact information arrives “when available” with a shortlist. Loxo Core does not include Loxo Source.
How does each one rank candidates against a job?
Kepler scores every candidate from 0 to 100 against the job. The score is based on the criteria taken from the job description, which you can edit, and each criterion shows the line from the CV, call or email behind it.
Loxo’s Shortlist agent ranks candidates across seven dimensions and, per Loxo’s pricing page, shows “evidence for every call”. Loxo’s help centre names job title, hiring company, job description, education and experience level as the main data points. The agents are only on the Professional plan.
How do Kepler and Loxo compare feature by feature?
Loxo cells come from Loxo’s own pages, checked 6 Sep 2026 (pricing 13 Sep 2026). Kepler cells describe the product as of 1 Oct 2026.
| Area | Kepler | Loxo |
|---|---|---|
| AI Chat | On every page and every plan. Ask in plain English and it finds and updates records once you approve. | Loxo AI Chat, only on Professional and priced by usage. You pick the AI model for each conversation. |
| Finding people | Ask AI Chat and it searches your CVs, notes, emails and call transcripts. Kepler can also search LinkedIn and runs your careers site. | Loxo Source searches Loxo’s graph and your database, only on Professional. |
| Contact details | Finds work and personal emails, mobile numbers and LinkedIn URLs, one record or in bulk, with a review before saving. | Contact information with shortlists, on Professional. |
| Matching | Scores every candidate from 0 to 100 against the job and shows the line behind each criterion. You can edit the criteria. | Shortlist agent ranks across seven dimensions with evidence, on Professional. |
| Record updates | Emails, calls and messages become updates you approve. Every change can be undone. | Self-Updating CRM Agent refreshes records from Loxo’s graph in the background. |
| Call notes | A notetaker joins Teams, Zoom and Google Meet calls and files the summary, next steps and transcript. | AI Notetaker, only on Professional. |
| Outreach | Email campaigns that send for you, with daily sending limits per mailbox. Kepler reminds your team when it is time to call or reach out on LinkedIn or WhatsApp. | Loxo Outreach: email and SMS sequences with A/B testing. |
| Phone and messages | Calls and texts through Ringover, RingCentral, Twilio, JustCall or Telnyx. WhatsApp messages sit in the same inbox as email. | Calls and meetings in the same platform as outreach. |
| Job advertising | A branded careers site on your own domain, with job data Google’s job search can read. | Careers page at app.loxo.co, plus job-board integrations including Indeed, Monster, Seek and Reed. |
How much do Kepler and Loxo cost?
Kepler costs USD 99 per user per month billed annually, or USD 129 monthly. The single plan includes every feature, unlimited records and free migration. AI Chat is included on every plan, monthly and annual, with no add-on or upgrade needed.
Loxo Professional is the like-for-like plan, from USD 199 per user per month billed annually and paid up front (checked 13 Sep 2026).
Loxo’s other terms:
- Core, from USD 149, keeps the ATS, CRM and search. It does not include Loxo Source, the agents, AI Chat or the API.
- Professional includes 2,500 credits per seat per month, pooled. Boost raises that to 5,000 or 12,500 at an unpublished price.
- Enterprise is quote-only.
Which agencies is Kepler built for?
Kepler is built for agencies whose main asset is the database they already own: years of CVs, notes, emails and call transcripts. It suits a team that wants to ask a question and get the right people back, rather than build a search by hand.
It fits agencies that want:
- AI Chat that searches everything and acts once you approve
- A 0 to 100 score for every candidate, with the line behind each criterion
- Updates suggested from their own conversations, with history and undo
- Contact enrichment, a client portal and a careers site on their own domain
- One published price, USD 99 per user per month billed annually, with no tiers or credit packs to assemble
Can you migrate from Loxo to Kepler?
Yes. Kepler runs the migration for you, free, on every plan. You send an export from Loxo, plus any loose CVs and spreadsheets.
Kepler handles the extraction, mapping, de-duplication and checks. Custom fields are rebuilt as real fields, and activity, stages and history come across with the records.
Before the full load, you review fifty of your own records, fully parsed, and the move is done in days. The parser is RemakeCV’s, built by the same team and used by 300+ recruitment agencies. Kepler exports your whole workspace at any time with no exit fee.
Frequently asked questions
Is Loxo better than Kepler?
It depends on how you want to work. If you want a modern, easy-to-use CRM with the AI included, where you ask the chat and it finds, ranks and updates your own records for you, choose Kepler. Kepler is a single plan at USD 99 per user per month billed annually, with contact enrichment, matching that shows its evidence and free migration. If you want a platform built around its own sourcing graph, with agents and credit-based usage, Loxo is built for that.
What is the difference between Kepler and Loxo?
Kepler is an AI-first CRM. You ask AI Chat and it searches your CVs, notes, emails and call transcripts, ranks people against each job and suggests updates for you to approve, all in a USD 99 seat. Loxo is a talent intelligence platform built around Loxo Source, its graph of professionals, with agents, outreach and AI Chat only on its USD 199 Professional plan.
How much does Loxo cost?
Loxo Professional, the like-for-like plan, is from USD 199 per user per month billed annually and paid up front, with 2,500 pooled credits per seat per month. Loxo Core at USD 149 does not include Loxo Source, the agents, AI Chat or the API. Enterprise is quote-only (checked 13 Sep 2026). Kepler, for comparison, is USD 99 per user per month billed annually, or USD 129 monthly, with every feature included.
How does Kepler find candidates and their contact details?
Kepler searches the records an agency owns, including CVs, notes, emails and call transcripts. It can also search LinkedIn, shows whether a person is already in your database and what has changed since you last spoke, and adds them if they are not. Contact enrichment finds work and personal emails, mobile numbers and LinkedIn URLs, for one record or in bulk, with a review before saving. Loxo Source searches Loxo’s graph alongside your database, on the Professional plan.
How does AI matching differ between Kepler and Loxo?
Kepler scores every candidate from 0 to 100 against the job. The score is based on criteria taken from the job description, which you can edit, and each criterion shows the line from the CV, call or email behind it. Loxo’s Shortlist agent ranks across seven dimensions with evidence for every call, on the Professional plan.
Does Kepler support single sign-on?
Yes. Single sign-on is available on the Enterprise plan. MFA is available to every member, with an admin switch to require it.
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 (Source, agentic workforce with AI Notetaker, AI Chat, API) and Core from USD 149 per user / month billed annually and paid up front; custom Enterprise with SSO and SAML; 2,500 pooled credits per Professional seat; Boost at 5,000 and 12,500 credits; shortlist ranked across seven dimensions with evidence; “replace your separate ATS, CRM, sourcing, outreach, and data tools”.
- Loxo home page Category positioning as a Talent Intelligence Platform and the module list.
- Loxo Source Searching your private database and Loxo's talent dataset together; contact information; customer data kept on separate servers.
- Loxo AI Chat Model choice per conversation between Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok; citation on every claim; usage-based pricing that varies with the model and request.
- Loxo Outreach Email, SMS, calls and meetings; multi-stage email and SMS sequences with A/B testing.
- Loxo — data quality agents The Self-Updating CRM Agent refreshing records in the background from Loxo's graph.
- Loxo Help Center — Loxo's AI FAQ The fields Loxo AI uses to suggest candidates: job title, hiring company, job description, educational institutions and experience level.
- Loxo Help Center — Show Open Jobs on Your Website The Loxo careers page URL format https://app.loxo.co/
. - Loxo Help Center — Loxo & Job Boards Job board integrations including CareerBuilder, Monster, Indeed, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter, Seek (AU), Reed (UK) and CV Library.
- Kepler pricing USD 99 per user per month billed annually (USD 1,188 per seat per year) or USD 129 monthly, a single plan with every feature included, unlimited records and storage, 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.