Loxo Pricing, Reviews and Alternatives in 2026

Loxo's two published plans start at $149 per user per month (Core) and $199 per user per month (Professional), both billed annually. Professional seats include 2,500 credits a month, and credits are what meter the AI agents' work. That price covers the whole platform: the Loxo ATS, the recruiting CRM, sourcing and outreach in one product. Most teams start looking at alternatives for one of three reasons: the credit model, contact-data quality, or the price of a full ATS when all they needed was sourcing.

This page covers Loxo pricing in detail, what its own users say in public reviews, and six tools to compare against it. If you are evaluating Loxo recruiting software for the first time, start with the pricing table below; if you are deciding whether to renew, skip to the reviews. We build one of the alternatives. It appears in the table with everyone else and gets no special treatment.

Loxo pricing in 2026: what it charges, and what a credit is

From loxo.co/pricing, accessed 31 August 2026:

The Professional plan carries the credit allowance — in Loxo's words, 2,500 credits “included per seat, every month, at no additional cost. Pooled across your team & refreshes in full each cycle.” Core includes AI search, but the agentic workforce and its credits are a Professional feature.

A credit is defined by Loxo as “the meter for agent work. When the workforce screens, evaluates, reaches out, or completes a search for you, the work is counted in credits.” Credits do not carry over: “Your full pool refreshes at the start of every monthly cycle.”

Two paid extensions exist — Boost 2× at 5,000 credits per user per month and Boost 5× at 12,500. Loxo does not publish what either costs. It also does not publish a seat minimum, which is not the same as there being none.

For scale, Loxo defines a full-market search as one “where Longlist screens approximately 10,000 candidates — the entire addressable market for a role — from the 850M+ talent graph together with your own private database.”

One data point on real contract sizes: Vendr puts the average Loxo contract at about $6,000 a year — but that figure rests on three completed deals, which is too small a sample to plan a budget around. Treat it as a hint, not a benchmark.

Loxo reviews: why teams start looking

The Loxo Capterra rating is 4.5 across 133 reviews, with Ease of Use and Customer Service both at 4.5 (Capterra, 31 August 2026) — these are good scores, and the complaints below are the minority view. But they are consistent, and they are the reason people search for this page. G2 keeps its review pages behind an access check, so check the current Loxo G2 rating there yourself; every quote below comes from review pages that are open to read.

Database freshness. A Capterra reviewer from a staffing agency wrote: “The AI was not very good, Loxo source was often outdated and didn't replace LinkedIn recruiter.” For a team buying Loxo specifically to stop paying for LinkedIn Recruiter, that is the whole business case in question — and it is exactly the claim worth testing in the 7-day trial against your own live roles.

The credit model. The mechanics are worth understanding before you sign: agent work consumes credits from a pool that resets every month regardless of what you spent it on, extra capacity comes as Boost packages with unpublished prices, and Loxo does not document what happens when you hit zero. None of that is hidden — but none of it is on the price tag either.

Price relative to value. Sean M., a managing partner at a small staffing firm, wrote on Capterra on 16 January 2026 that Loxo is “very expensive for what the platform delivers, w/ 5% increases every yr and high integration costs”; the same review describes a rushed database migration whose errors surfaced months later. The annual-increase claim is that reviewer's account of his own contract, not published Loxo policy.

Support is disputed. Julijana N., a head of operations at a staffing company, noted on Capterra that “the support team is based in the US, so those in Europe get a delayed answer.” But TrustRadius summarizes the opposite — customer service “described as the best users have ever experienced” with fast helpdesk response. Opinions genuinely split here; do not take either side as consensus.

What the Loxo ATS and CRM do well

If you are comparing honestly, these are the reasons people stay.

It is genuinely one platform. The Loxo ATS, the recruiting CRM, sourcing, outreach across email, SMS, phone and meetings, a sales CRM for business development, a hiring-manager portal, and reporting — in one place. Recent Capterra praise says exactly that: “everything in Loxo is fully integrated and user-friendly, making processes like emails, outreach, updating and sourcing candidates fast and easy” (Thais C., recruitment director, April 2026), and “texts, emails, and call recordings are all tracked within the platform, which makes it incredibly easy to stay on top of outreach and pick up right where a colleague left off” (Jason C., recruiter, April 2026).

It can replace LinkedIn Recruiter for some teams. TrustRadius's review summary describes Loxo as regarded by some users as “better than LinkedIn Recruiter at a fraction of the price.” Whether that holds depends entirely on your roles and geography — see the freshness complaint above.

The Loxo AI is not a thin wrapper. Loxo says its talent graph was “built ourselves. Not a GPT wrapper on rented data” and describes its agents as running on “50+ proprietary AI algorithms.” Its stated design principle for agents is worth quoting because it is unusually clear: “Autonomous through the shortlist. Never through the decision.”

It is well funded. Loxo announced a $115M growth investment led by Tritium Partners on 20 February 2025 (PR Newswire). For a platform you plan to run your agency on for five years, that matters.

Six Loxo alternatives to compare

All list prices below come from each vendor's own pricing page, accessed 31 August 2026. Where a vendor publishes nothing, the cell says so rather than guessing.

Two honest notes about this table.

First, these tools are not interchangeable. Loxo is an ATS and CRM with sourcing attached. Fetcher, hireEZ, Juicebox and SeekOut are sourcing tools that assume you already have an ATS, and Gem explicitly layers on top of one. If you are leaving Loxo because the ATS is the part you dislike, a sourcing tool will not replace it.

Second, published prices and real contracts diverge sharply in this category. Vendr's data puts the median Gem contract at $25,700 a year against the $130-per-month figure on Gem's own startup program, and small-team SeekOut purchases at $15,000–$35,000 annually against $1,788 per listed seat. Whatever you shortlist, assume the quote will not match the website.

Who should stay on Loxo

Renewing is the right call more often than replacement pages usually admit.

Stay if the ATS and CRM are load-bearing for your agency. Migrating a live candidate database, active pipelines, client records and email history is weeks of work and a real risk of losing data — and no sourcing tool on the list above will absorb that job.

Stay if your credit usage sits comfortably inside the Professional allowance and you never think about the meter. The credit complaints come from teams that run out; if you do not, the model costs you nothing in attention.

Stay if you are on Professional and using the API. It is not available on Core, so “downgrade to save money” quietly removes your integrations.

And stay if your recruiters like it. Ease of use rates 4.5 on Capterra, and adoption is the thing that actually determines whether recruiting software returns anything.

If you are switching, decide these four things first

Do you need an ATS, a recruiting CRM, or only sourcing? This single question eliminates most of the list. An ATS tracks the candidates already in your process; a recruiting CRM keeps the relationships and the client side warm; a sourcing tool finds people who are in neither. Loxo sells all three as one purchase, which is why replacing it with a single cheaper tool usually fails. Answer this before you book a demo.

What does your team actually spend credits on? Pull last quarter's usage. If the spend is contact lookups, a tool with unmetered contact finding changes your economics more than a lower seat price does.

Which languages and countries do your roles live in? Loxo's help center and documentation are English-only, and the company publishes no evidence of a localized interface. If you hire across non-English European markets, ask every vendor on your shortlist for their coverage in those specific countries — and ask for a sample, not a percentage.

What breaks when you leave? Check Loxo integrations and API access before price. Zapier, for instance, is not listed on Loxo's integrations page as of 31 August 2026, so if you have built around that, you built around something else — find out what. The API is a Professional-plan feature, so anything your team automated through it moves with the plan, not just with the vendor.

FAQ

How much does Loxo cost in 2026?

Loxo ATS pricing starts at $149 per user per month for Core and $199 for Professional, both billed annually, per loxo.co/pricing as of 31 August 2026. Enterprise is a custom annual agreement. The pricing model is per seat plus a credit allowance: every Professional seat carries 2,500 credits a month, pooled across the team.

Does Loxo have a free plan or a free trial?

No free plan. There is a 7-day Loxo free trial of the Professional plan with full access and no card required.

What is the Loxo ATS, and how is it different from the Loxo CRM?

They are two halves of the same purchase rather than two products. The ATS tracks candidates through your hiring process; the recruiting CRM holds the relationships and the business-development side, including a sales CRM and a hiring-manager portal. Sourcing, outreach across email, SMS, phone and meetings, and reporting sit in the same platform, which is the main reason teams buy it and the main reason leaving it is expensive.

What integrations and API does Loxo offer?

Loxo publishes its integrations at loxo.co/integrations; as of 31 August 2026 Zapier is not among them. The Loxo API is a Professional-plan feature and is not available on Core, so downgrading removes it.

Who are Loxo's main competitors?

On published prices, the closest Loxo competitors are Gem, Fetcher, hireEZ, Juicebox and SeekOut — compared in the table above. Note that only Loxo among them bundles an ATS and CRM; the rest are sourcing tools that assume you already have one. Agency ATS platforms such as Bullhorn, Crelate and Recruit CRM are the other common comparison, and are not covered here.

What happens when Loxo credits run out?

Loxo publishes Boost packages at 5,000 and 12,500 credits per user per month but does not publish their prices, and does not document what happens at zero. Ask before you sign — this is the single most common source of surprise cost in this category.

Do unused Loxo credits roll over?

No. Loxo states that “your full pool refreshes at the start of every monthly cycle.”

Is there a minimum number of seats for Loxo?

Loxo does not publish one. Free migration is offered for Core teams of 3+ seats, which is a benefit threshold, not a minimum.

What is the cheapest Loxo alternative?

Among tools with published prices, Juicebox's self-serve plan and Gem's staffing Essentials both list at $99, and Fetcher's self-serve tier at $115 per month, against Loxo Core starting at $149. But entry price is the least reliable predictor of annual cost in this market, because metering differs at every vendor.

Leadl.recruit searches many sources in parallel rather than one primary database, and every shortlisted candidate arrives with a written verdict: what matches, what does not, the risks found, and the questions to ask at interview. Pricing is a flat monthly subscription from €49, metered in runs rather than credits, and a run includes up to ten deep candidate dossiers. It will not be the right answer if what you need is an applicant tracking system — see how the sourcing works, how candidates are scored and the full pricing.

Sources

All accessed 31 August 2026.

• Loxo pricing, credit definitions and agent design — loxo.co/pricing
• Loxo integrations — loxo.co/integrations
• Loxo talent graph — loxo.co
• Contract-size data — Vendr: Loxo, Vendr: Gem, Vendr: SeekOut
• Reviews — Capterra, TrustRadius
• Funding — PR Newswire, 20 February 2025
• Competitor list prices — vendors' own pricing pages

Compare the others: SeekOut · hireEZ · Juicebox. Or see the full comparison: Best AI Recruiting Tools in 2026.