TL;DR
Loxo bundles ATS, CRM, and sourcing into one seat, and the pricing question is really whether that bundle beats a best-of-breed stack once screening capacity is priced in.
- Loxo Basic lists at $169 per user per month on annual billing, per Loxo's own pricing page.
- The Free tier is a genuine $0 seat for one user, not a time-boxed trial.
- Professional and Enterprise are custom-quoted and third-party sources put them roughly between $250 and $400 per user per month.
- Multiple Capterra reviewers report automatic 5 percent annual price increases built into Loxo contracts.
- Loxo's price never covers Round 1 screening capacity, which for agencies is the line item that decides whether a bundled seat actually saves money.
What Loxo pricing actually looks like in 2026
Loxo's Basic plan is $169 per user per month on annual billing, as published on Loxo's own pricing page. Basic bundles the ATS, the CRM, job board distribution, and resume parsing into a single seat, which is the shape of Loxo's core pitch.
Above Basic sit Professional and Enterprise, both of which are custom-quoted rather than listed. Third-party pricing teardowns put Professional in the $250 to $400 per user per month range once Loxo Source and the AI agents are added, though the number a specific team lands on depends on seat count, term length, and the modules turned on.
Below Basic is a Free tier at $0 for one user with limited contact reveals. Unlike most free trials, Loxo's Free plan is not time-boxed, which makes it a real evaluation surface for a solo recruiter rather than a demo dressed up as a plan. It is also, deliberately, not a plan any agency of scale would run on.
The published number that matters for a comparison is Basic at $169. Everything else is a quote you have to earn.
How Loxo bundles ATS, CRM, and sourcing into one seat
Loxo sells itself as a Talent Intelligence Platform, which in practice means one login, one contract, and one seat covering the three tools most agencies otherwise buy separately. The pricing model is a direct consequence of that packaging choice, and it is the reason the per-seat number looks steeper than a stand-alone ATS.
A best-of-breed stack for an agency usually reads as an ATS, a CRM, a sourcing tool, and an outreach layer, sometimes with a fifth tool for enrichment. Each of those has its own seat price, its own admin overhead, and its own integration surface. Loxo compresses that into a single per-user line.
The question the pricing page does not answer is whether that compression saves real money once the tools you would otherwise buy are priced up. That is the maths the next section runs.
The bundle maths: does one Loxo seat beat best-of-breed?
For a five-recruiter agency, one Loxo Basic seat per user works out to about $10,140 per year on published pricing, or roughly $20,000 to $24,000 per year if the team upgrades to Professional at the reported $250 to $400 band. Both figures assume annual billing and no add-ons.
A comparable best-of-breed stack for the same five recruiters typically pairs a mid-market ATS at $8 to $15 per user per month with a dedicated sourcing tool. Vendr's marketplace data has sourcing-tool per-seat pricing at $3,000 to $7,000 per year for SeekOut, and hireEZ and similar platforms sit in the same neighbourhood.
Run that out and a five-seat best-of-breed stack lands somewhere between $16,000 and $40,000 per year, depending on which sourcing tool the team picks and how aggressive the ATS discounting is. The Loxo bundle wins on paper for the middle of that band, and loses at the top and bottom.
The number that actually decides is not the seat cost. It is how much of your time-to-hire is going to Round 1 screening, and whether the bundle covers that or leaves it as an extra line item.
What Loxo pricing does not cover: Round 1 screening capacity
Loxo's per-seat price covers the software that stores candidates and helps you find them. It does not cover a person or a system to run Round 1 interviews at any real volume. That is the line item every agency underestimates.
Screening consumes roughly 80 percent of time-to-hire in most enterprise recruiting functions, per SHRM's Talent Acquisition benchmarks. For a staffing agency working on volume roles, that time is either the recruiter's own or a coordinator's, and either way it is billable capacity spent unblocking a funnel rather than closing placements.
Fabric's AI Interview Engine screens, scores, and shortlists Round 1 candidates before a recruiter or panel gets involved. It is designed to sit alongside an ATS, not replace one, and its whole reason for existing is to move that 80 percent number down without adding seats. That is what makes the "bundled versus best-of-breed" argument real: a bundle that saves $6,000 a year on procurement but does not touch the screening cost has not saved you the money you actually spend.
On the bundle question specifically, it is worth comparing like with like. Fabric also covers requirement definition, sourcing, passive-candidate activation and outreach, so this is not one Loxo seat measured against a screening tool. It is one bundle against another, with the Round 1 evaluation included in the second.
The hidden costs Loxo's pricing page does not spell out
There are three costs behind the listed seat rate that consistently show up in buyer reports. None of them appear on the pricing page.
The first is the 5 percent annual escalator. Multiple Capterra reviewers describe an automatic year-over-year price increase written into their Loxo contracts. Compounded over a three-year deal, that adds roughly 16 percent to the year-three seat rate before any tier upgrade.
The second is the gap between Basic and Professional. Basic looks affordable at $169, but every AI sourcing feature Loxo markets sits behind the Professional tier, which is unpublished. A team that signs up on Basic to control cost usually finds the workflow it actually wanted is one tier up.
The third is contact reveal metering. Loxo Source, the sourcing engine that unlocks contact data, is metered rather than unlimited on the lower tiers. High-volume agencies exceed the included allocation and pay per additional reveal, so the effective per-hire cost is not the seat price alone.
Ask for the escalator language, the tier boundary, and the reveal meter in writing before signing. Those three answers change the total contract value more than the sticker rate does.
When Loxo pricing works, and when it doesn't
Loxo works when an agency's pain is tool sprawl, not screening cost. A five- to fifteen-recruiter firm that currently pays for a separate ATS, CRM, and sourcing tool is exactly who the bundle is built for. Consolidating onto one contract removes admin friction and usually beats the sum of three vendors on procurement alone.
It stops working at the two ends of the market. Solo recruiters and micro-agencies can get most of Loxo's value from the Free tier or from a $30-per-seat ATS with a sourcing subscription bolted on, and the Basic price is hard to justify against that. Larger staffing firms hitting fifty or more submissions a week hit the Professional-tier price and the screening ceiling at the same time, and the bundle no longer saves them the thing that costs the most.
The middle band is Loxo's home. Outside it, the bundle is priced against a problem the buyer does not have.
FAQ
How much does Loxo cost per month?
Basic is $169 per user per month on annual billing, with a free single-user tier at $0. Professional and Enterprise are custom-quoted and third-party sources place them between $250 and $400 per user per month.
Is Loxo an ATS or CRM?
Loxo is both, packaged as one Talent Intelligence Platform that bundles ATS, CRM, and sourcing into a single seat. That bundling is the whole point of the per-user price.
What is a typical fee for a recruiter?
Permanent placement fees usually sit between 15 and 25 percent of the candidate's first-year salary. That fee has to absorb the ATS seat, the sourcing tool, and the cost of Round 1 screening, which is why Loxo's seat price matters to agency margin.
Does Loxo have a free plan?
Yes. The Free tier is $0 for one user and is not time-boxed, though contact reveals and AI sourcing are limited compared with the paid tiers.
Are Loxo prices going up every year?
Reviewers on independent sites report automatic annual escalators of around 5 percent written into Loxo contracts. Ask about the escalator clause before agreeing to a multi-year term.
What are Loxo's main competitors?
On the agency ATS+CRM side Loxo competes with Bullhorn and Recruiterflow, and on the sourcing side its closest rivals are SeekOut and hireEZ. The choice almost always comes down to bundle simplicity against per-module depth.
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Conclusion
Loxo's pricing is coherent for the buyer it is built for. A mid-sized agency stitching together three tools will usually come out ahead on procurement by consolidating onto one seat, and the Free tier gives a solo recruiter a real place to start.
The number to weigh Loxo against is not another ATS seat rate. It is the cost of the Round 1 screening capacity the bundle never covers, which is where most of your time-to-hire actually goes.
Price the bundle, then price the screening. If the bundle saves you $6,000 a year on tools and leaves the 80 percent screening problem untouched, the sticker discount is not the win it looks like on the page.