Loxo Pricing: What Loxo Core and Professional Cost per Recruiter

Loxo publishes two prices: Core at $149 per user per month and Professional at $199 per user per month, both billed annually and, in Loxo's own words on the page, paid up front. Enterprise is a custom annual agreement. There is no free plan and no published monthly option, though there is a free 7-day trial of the full Professional platform that does not ask for a credit card. Professional includes 2,500 AI credits per seat per month, pooled across the team and refreshed in full each cycle.

Every figure here was read at loxo.co/pricing on September 4, 2026. That date matters more than usual on this page, because Loxo restructured its plans during 2026 and most of the articles currently ranking for its pricing were written before it did. If you have seen a $169 Basic plan, a $209 monthly rate, or a free tier attributed to Loxo, all three are from the previous structure and none of them appear on the pricing page today.

How much does Loxo cost?

Three plans, two of them with a published number. Here is what the page lists.

Both paid tiers say "starts at", which is the usual signal that the number is a floor rather than a quote, and both carry a "new customer limited time offer" note. Free migration is included for teams of three or more seats, with guided self-serve migration below that.

Does Loxo have a free plan?

No. Loxo does not publish a free plan on its pricing page today. What it offers instead is a free 7-day trial of the full Professional platform, including Loxo Source and Full Agentic Mode, with no credit card required. The free tier that appears in older write-ups and in some comparison articles was part of the previous pricing structure and is no longer listed.

This is worth being precise about because the difference changes an evaluation. A free plan lets you run a small desk indefinitely at zero cost. A 7-day trial gives you one week to prove the platform on a live job order, which is a fair test but a short one if your search cycles run longer than that.

Is Loxo billed monthly or annually?

Annually, and the page states the plans are paid up front. There is no published month-to-month rate at either tier, which means the advertised per user per month figure is a way of expressing an annual commitment rather than a monthly bill you can stop. That distinction decides the size of your first cheque, so here it is worked out.

A five person desk on Professional is committing roughly $11,940 before it sends a single message. That is not a criticism of the price, which is competitive for what is in the box, but it is a very different cash conversation from a tool you can cancel next month, and it belongs in the evaluation early rather than at contract stage.

What are Loxo credits and what do they cost?

Credits are Loxo's second meter, and they pay for work the AI agents complete rather than for access. Professional includes 2,500 credits per seat per month. They pool across the whole team, refresh in full every cycle rather than rolling over, and Loxo says you only consume them when work is actually completed for you.

Above the included allowance, Loxo publishes capacity tiers but not prices. Boost 2x raises a seat to 5,000 credits a month and Boost 5x to 12,500, described as boosting only the seats that need it, resizable at any time, with anything beyond 5x quoted by sales. What the page does not say is what a Boost costs. So the platform fee is published and the usage meter above the included allowance is not, which is the single most important gap for anyone forecasting a Loxo bill.

Loxo is also unusually candid about the capacity numbers themselves. In small print under the credit tiers the page states that all capacity figures shown are figurative and that standard usage may vary. Take that at face value: the credits-to-searches conversion is illustrative, so plan to measure your own consumption during the trial rather than budgeting from the tier labels.

Which Loxo plan includes outreach?

Professional, on the published feature lists. Core's bullets cover the ATS, the CRM, AI search, pipelines, reporting and email sync, and do not mention outreach at all. Professional includes what Loxo calls the full agent workforce on every seat, and Outreach and Pursuit, described as personalized multi-channel sequences sent and followed through, is one of those agents.

So if sequencing is the reason you are buying, the number to plan against is $199 per user per month, not $149. On a five person desk that is the difference between $8,940 and $11,940 a year, and the $3,000 gap is buying the sourcing graph and the agent workforce alongside the outreach rather than outreach on its own.

How does Loxo pricing compare with other recruiting platforms?

Here are the published entry prices across the category, each read at the vendor's own pricing page rather than taken from a roundup. Treat any number you did not read at source as a rumor, which is exactly how the stale $169 figure spread.

Two things stand out. First, Loxo's Core price sits exactly on the category's crowded $149 line alongside Recruiterflow and SeekOut, so the tier choice matters more than the vendor choice at that level. Second, and more usefully, look at the Core to Professional step: $600 per user per year buys the sourcing graph. A standalone sourcing seat at SeekOut's published $149 a month is $1,788 a year. If you were going to pay for sourcing separately anyway, upgrading inside Loxo is roughly a third of the price of adding another vendor, and that is the cleanest argument the pricing page makes for itself.

Who Loxo pricing makes sense for

It makes sense when you actually need the whole stack. If you are replacing an ATS, a CRM, a sourcing database and a sequencer with one system, $199 per seat with 2,500 credits included is coherent, and the consolidation argument Loxo makes on its own page is the honest version of the pitch: one bill and one system of record instead of four subscriptions that disagree with each other.

It makes much less sense when the ATS is not the problem. Plenty of recruiting firms already run Bullhorn or Loxo or JobAdder perfectly well, their consultants live in it, and the thing genuinely missing is outreach that gets answered. Replacing a working system of record to obtain a better sequencer is an expensive way to solve a narrow problem, and the migration cost is measured in consultant hours rather than dollars. We worked that question through on its own terms in do you need an ATS for candidate outreach.

The arithmetic that usually settles it is placement economics rather than software economics. Published direct hire fees run about 15 to 18 percent of first year salary at junior level, 20 to 22 percent mid level and 25 to 30 percent for senior work, so a mid level placement on $75,000 is around $16,500 of revenue. Because the fee tracks first year compensation, the figure a candidate ends up negotiating on their offer moves your invoice too, which is why a few thousand dollars of annual software is rarely the binding constraint. The binding constraint is usually how many good candidates reply.

If that is your situation, the outreach layer is buyable on its own. Our recruitment outreach tool page covers how candidate sequencing and client business development run as separate motions in one account, including the sending capacity arithmetic that decides how many candidates a desk can safely reach in a week. The wider field, with all nine platforms compared on published entry pricing, is on best outreach tool for recruiting agencies, the per seat maths for a whole desk is in how much recruiting outreach software costs, and our own pricing is one flat number per plan with the research included rather than a second meter to forecast.

The three numbers to take away

First, Loxo is $149 and $199 per user per month, annual and paid up front, so a five person desk on Professional commits $11,940 a year before the first send. Second, outreach appears only in the Professional feature list, so $199 is the number to plan against if sequencing is why you are buying. Third, the credits above your included 2,500 per seat have no published price at all, so measure your real consumption during the free 7-day trial rather than trusting the capacity labels, which Loxo itself describes on the page as figurative.