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Loxo pricing: what Loxo costs per user, what Core and Professional each include, and the credit question the pricing page leaves open
Loxo publishes real rates, which puts it in the minority of recruiting platforms. Read on September 4, 2026, loxo.co/pricing states Core at "Starts at $149 per user / month, billed annually" and Professional at "Starts at $199 per user / month, billed annually". Enterprise is a custom annual agreement with no figure. Both paid tiers carry the same two lines underneath: "Annual plans, paid up front." and "New customer limited time offer."
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Those two lines matter more than the headline numbers, and almost nothing written about Loxo pricing mentions either. Paid up front means the first year is due as one payment, not spread monthly. A limited time offer for new customers means $149 and $199 are promotional rates, and Loxo does not publish what they renew at.
There is also a $169 figure circulating widely as Loxo's current entry rate. It is not on the page. We found where it survives, and it is a genuinely interesting artifact, covered in full below.
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No paid-up-front year
Loxo sells annual plans paid up front, so a five-seat Professional team commits $11,940 before the first search runs. Screening volume is billed monthly here, and you can size it after you have seen the output.
Screening you can forecast
Loxo includes 2,500 credits a seat but does not publish what a search consumes, so the allowance cannot be converted into work. Prescreener meters on resumes screened, which is a number you already know.
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- Reads 100 percent of inbound applications with no credit pool to run down
- Published pricing that is not a limited-time new-customer rate
- Applies your knockout and eligibility rules identically to every applicant
- Returns the pile ranked, with written evidence behind each placement
- Runs alongside Loxo, Bullhorn, Ceipal, Recruit CRM or Greenhouse
- Priced on screening volume rather than on how many recruiters have logins
- Never auto-rejects: it ranks and flags, and a recruiter decides
- Bias-audited to support EEOC standards and NYC Local Law 144
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In depth
Loxo pricing, plan by plan and figure by figure
How much does Loxo cost?
Loxo costs $149 per user per month for Core and $199 per user per month for Professional, both billed annually and both described as "Starts at" rather than as a flat rate. Enterprise is a custom annual agreement. Read directly from loxo.co/pricing on September 4, 2026.
The word "Starts at" is doing real work in both cases. It signals a floor, and Loxo does not publish what moves a quote above it: no seat bands, no volume tiers, no minimum seat count. The only seat threshold stated anywhere on the page is that free migration is included for teams of three or more, with guided self-serve below that, which implies small teams are served but does not set a minimum.
Underneath each paid tier the page repeats two conditions that change the arithmetic. "Annual plans, paid up front" means you are committing the full year as a single payment, so five Professional seats is $11,940 due at signature rather than $995 a month. And "New customer limited time offer" means these are promotional rates for new business, with no published renewal figure.
So the honest version of the answer is that $149 and $199 are what a new customer pays up front for year one. What year two costs is not published, and it is the number worth asking for in writing before you sign.
| Plan | Published rate | Billing | What the tier is for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core | Starts at $149 per user / month | Billed annually, paid up front | ATS plus recruiting CRM with AI search, for firms running the work themselves |
| Professional | Starts at $199 per user / month | Billed annually, paid up front | Adds Loxo Source, the full agent workforce, API access and 2,500 credits a seat |
| Enterprise | Custom annual agreements | Annual, quote only | Adds SSO and SAML, advanced governance, roles and permissions, dedicated support |
| Boost 2x | Not published | Add-on, per seat | Raises a seat to 5,000 credits a month |
| Boost 5x | Not published | Add-on, per seat | Raises a seat to 12,500 credits a month |
| Custom capacity | Talk to sales | Quote only | Above Boost 5x, sized with you |
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Why do so many articles say Loxo costs $169 per user?
Because that number is still in the page, just not anywhere a visitor can see it. Loxo's pricing page ships a leftover block of JavaScript that swaps a price between two values: it sets the text to $169 in one branch and $149 in the other, driven by an element with the id "checkbox". We checked the served HTML on September 4, 2026, and none of the four elements that script reaches for, including the checkbox and the price element it writes into, exist in the document any more.
In other words the control was removed and the script that drove it was left behind. The visible page today shows a single static rate, $149, with no toggle next to it. The $169 lives on only as dead code.
That is almost certainly the origin of the figure. When Loxo last ran a toggle on this page, one of its two states read $169, and the comparison articles that were written then captured it. Those articles have been cited and re-cited since, which is how a retired promotional state becomes the number the whole first page of Google reports as current.
The same pattern shows up in the surrounding claims. Several widely cited pieces put Loxo's talent graph at 1.2 billion profiles; Loxo's own page today says 850 million and more. Others quote a Professional tier at roughly $299 per user as a third-party estimate, when Loxo now publishes Professional at $199. Where a vendor and a comparison article disagree about the vendor's own price, the vendor is the source. We are publishing only what loxo.co states, and dating it.
| Figure in circulation | What it is claimed to be | What Loxo states today |
|---|---|---|
| $169 per user per month | Loxo entry or Basic rate | Not on the page. Survives only in an orphaned script with no control attached |
| $209 per user per month | Loxo billed monthly | No monthly option is published. The page states annual plans paid up front |
| $299 per user per month | Professional, third-party estimate | Professional starts at $199, published |
| 1.2 billion profiles | Size of the talent graph | 850M+ professionals, per loxo.co |
| Free tier available | Loxo has a free plan | A 7-day free Professional trial, no credit card. No free plan is published |
| Automatic 5% annual uplift | Reported in user reviews | Not published by Loxo. Treat as unverified and ask on the call |
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What is the difference between Loxo Core and Loxo Professional?
Fifty dollars a seat, and it buys the entire agent layer. Core is the system of record: full ATS and recruiting CRM in one workflow, AI search that is natural-language and relevance-ranked, unlimited jobs, candidates and companies, pipelines, activities and reporting, email and calendar sync, a Chrome extension, and an MCP connection so you can point your own AI tools at Loxo.
Professional adds everything Loxo is actually known for. Loxo Source opens the proprietary graph of 850 million plus professionals and searches it in one motion alongside your private database. The full agent workforce arrives, on every seat, with Agentic Mode and an Agent Impact Center. Three Data Agents run under every record to keep it current. Loxo AI Chat is grounded in your own data. Contact information comes attached to shortlists where available. And API access starts here.
Two of those are worth flagging for anyone shortlisting on features. API access is a Professional feature, so if you intend to connect Loxo to a payroll system, a VMS or your own tooling, the $149 tier will not do it. And sourcing is the entire reason most agencies look at Loxo in the first place, which means the realistic Loxo price for most buyers is $199 a seat, not $149.
Enterprise is the governance tier. Loxo makes a point that SSO and SAML are "included, not an add-on" there, which is a fair dig at the market: Ashby charges $100 a month for SSO on its entry plan. Enterprise also adds advanced roles and permissions, a dedicated success team, priority support, and access to forward-deployed engineers.
| Capability | Core $149 | Professional $199 | Enterprise custom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full ATS and recruiting CRM | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AI search, natural language and relevance-ranked | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Unlimited jobs, candidates and companies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MCP connection to your own AI tools | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Loxo Source, 850M+ talent graph | No | Yes | Yes |
| Full agent workforce and Agentic Mode | No | Yes | Yes |
| Loxo AI Chat grounded in your data | No | Yes | Yes |
| API access | No | Yes | Yes |
| Included credits | None published | 2,500 per seat per month, pooled | Not published |
| SSO and SAML, advanced governance | No | No | Yes, included not an add-on |
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What do Loxo credits cost, and how many searches do 2,500 buy?
This is the one question the pricing page does not answer, and it is the question that decides whether $199 a seat is the real cost or the starting cost. Professional includes 2,500 credits per user per month, pooled across the team and refreshed in full each cycle. Loxo states that you only consume credits when work is completed for you, which is a genuinely fair metering policy.
What Loxo does not state is how many credits any unit of work consumes. The page describes a fully agentic search as the whole job: intake understood, a job description and Skill DNA written, up to 10,000 candidates screened across the 850 million profile graph plus your own database, a shortlist ranked on seven dimensions with evidence and contact details, and outreach launched. That is an impressive unit of work. It is also, on any plausible costing, not cheap in credits.
Without a published rate the allowance cannot be converted into anything a buyer can plan against. Two thousand five hundred credits a month is either twenty full searches or two, and the pricing page does not let you tell which. The Boost tiers show the shape of the answer without giving it: Boost 2x takes a seat to 5,000 credits a month, Boost 5x to 12,500, and neither has a published price.
Compare that against vendors who do publish the unit. Workable charges one credit per candidate evaluation, two per sourcing action and ten per chat, and sells credits at $0.12 down to $0.095 each. Spark Hire states a flat annual allowance of 6,000 AI resume reviews on its entry plan. TestGorilla charges one credit per candidate and includes resume scoring free on every tier. Each of those lets a recruiting manager multiply their own volume by a published number. Loxo, for now, does not.
| Vendor | What the AI allowance is | Is the unit cost published? |
|---|---|---|
| Loxo Professional | 2,500 credits per seat per month, pooled, refreshed in full | No. Credits per search are not published, nor are Boost prices |
| Workable | Metered per action on the Agent add-on | Yes. 1 credit per evaluation; packs from $0.12 to $0.095 a credit |
| Ashby Foundations | 1,500 credits a month, 18,000 a year flat | No. Credits per review are not published |
| Spark Hire | 6,000 AI resume reviews a year on the entry plan | Yes, as a flat annual count |
| TestGorilla | 1 credit per candidate, resume scoring on every tier | Yes |
| Breezy HR | 100,000 Breezy Intelligence credits included | Yes. Further credits from $30 per 100,000 |
| Prescreener | Screening volume, no credit pool | Yes. Published on the pricing page |
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Does Loxo have a free trial?
Yes. Loxo runs a 7-day free trial with full Professional access and no credit card required, stated on the pricing page. That is unusually good terms for this category, because the trial covers the top self-serve tier rather than the entry one, so you evaluate the agents and Loxo Source rather than the ATS shell.
It is also unusually short. Seven days is tight for a recruiting platform, because a meaningful test means running a live requisition through it, and most agency roles do not produce enough signal inside a week. Compare Workable at 15 days on the full Standard feature set, Manatal at 14 days with no card, Breezy at 14 days on every feature, or Zoho Recruit at 15 days backed by a 45-day money-back guarantee.
The practical read: plan the week before it starts. Have a real open role, a real batch of inbound applications and a comparison shortlist ready on day one, or the trial will expire while you are still importing data. There is no published free plan, so when the seven days end the next step is an annual contract paid up front.
How does Loxo pricing compare with other agency recruiting platforms?
Loxo is priced at the premium end of the per-seat agency market, and it is upfront about why: it is selling a replacement for a stack rather than one tool. Its own framing is that it removes the cost of stringing an ATS, a CRM, a sourcing tool and a data provider together. If you genuinely run all four, $199 a seat can be cheaper than what you pay now. If you run one, it is not.
Against Bullhorn, the closest comparison a staffing firm makes, the numbers invert depending on what you count. Bullhorn's published tiers, Starter at $99 and Core at $165 per user per month, undercut Loxo. But neither of those includes AI: Bullhorn's Amplify AI starts at Pro and its agentic screening only at Max, and both are quote-only. Loxo puts its agent workforce at a published $199. So Bullhorn is cheaper to start and unknowable to finish, while Loxo is more expensive to start and published to finish.
The pattern repeats down the table. Manatal is a quarter of Loxo's price and still scores candidates on every tier, but caps Professional at 15 active jobs per account and 10,000 candidate records cumulatively, which a busy agency exhausts quickly. Zoho Recruit's staffing edition starts at $25 a recruiter but pre-screening does not appear until Professional at $50. CVViZ charges per month with unlimited users, which is a completely different shape of bill for a large team.
One structural point applies to every per-seat vendor here, Loxo included. The bill scales with how many recruiters have logins, and screening work scales with how many applications arrive. Those two numbers move independently. A six-recruiter firm that wins a client sending 900 applications a month pays the same seat fee and does eight times the reading, which is the case for keeping the screening layer priced separately from the seat count.
| Platform | Published entry rate | Pricing unit | Does the published plan screen and rank resumes? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loxo | $149 Core, $199 Professional | Per user, per month, annual paid up front | AI search on both. The agent workforce that ranks starts on Professional |
| Bullhorn | $99 Starter, $165 Core | Per user, per month | No. Amplify AI starts at Pro, agentic screening at Max, both quote-only |
| Ceipal | None on its own site. $25 listed on Capterra | Per user, per month | AI Matching ranks, but its cost and metering are unpublished |
| Manatal | $15 Professional | Per user, per month, annual | Yes, on all three tiers. Caps at 15 active jobs and 10,000 records |
| Zoho Recruit (staffing) | $25 Standard | Per recruiter, per month, annual | No. Pre Screening starts on Professional at $50 |
| CVViZ | $99 Starter | Per month, unlimited users | Yes, screening plus matching and ranking on every plan |
| Recruit CRM | Geo-detected, no stable USD rate | Per user, per month | Parses on every tier. Matching capped at 2 on the entry plan |
| Lever | None published. Vendr median $15,400 a year | Quote only | Yes, AI screening is in the Core Platform |
| Prescreener | $199 Starter | Per month, by screening volume | Yes, on every plan, with no review allowance |
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What to ask Loxo before you sign
Loxo publishes more than most of this market, so the questions worth asking are narrower than usual. Five of them close the gaps the pricing page leaves.
First, what does the rate renew at? "New customer limited time offer" is on the page in writing, so year two is a different number and it should be on the order form, not discovered later. Second, how many credits does one fully agentic search consume, on a typical requisition? Without that, 2,500 a seat is not a quantity you can plan against. Third, what do Boost 2x and Boost 5x cost per seat per month? Those are the overage rates, and they are unpublished. Fourth, is there any minimum seat count, and does the free migration threshold of three seats also set a contract floor? Fifth, what happens to credits and to data if you drop from Professional to Core at renewal?
One more, prompted by user reviews rather than by Loxo: several Capterra reviewers report an automatic annual uplift written into their contracts. Loxo does not publish anything of the kind, so treat it as unverified, but a renewal-cap clause costs nothing to ask for while you still have leverage and a great deal to add afterwards.
Finally, be clear about which problem you are buying against. Loxo is built for outbound: finding people who are not applying to you. If your bottleneck is that 900 people already applied and nobody has read them, that is inbound screening, and an 850 million profile sourcing graph does not touch it. The two problems look similar on a dashboard and cost very different amounts to solve.
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