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Atlas
AI-native recruiting CRM and ATS for enterprise agencies, built to auto-capture call and client context instead of relying on manual data entry. No public pricing; demo only.
Recruit CRM
Full-stack ATS + CRM built for recruitment agencies doing 10+ placements/month. Fast once set up; genuine 2-4 week learning curve to get there.
Atlas vs Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is the working mid-size agency system with a price on every plan; Atlas is the enterprise-agency platform that automates context capture and publishes nothing.
Quick verdict
ClearThe evidence points firmly at one of the two for the situations below.
Choose Atlas if
- You are an enterprise agency or executive search desk rather than a growing mid-size firm
- Automatic capture of call and client context is the capability you are actually buying
- A quote-led purchase is normal for you and per-seat transparency is not a requirement
Choose Recruit CRM if
- You bill placements and want a system working this quarter, not a platform programme
- You want a published price on every plan, including the top one — EUR 79, EUR 109 and EUR 189 per user per month on annual billing
- You want the one product in this pair SourcrLab has actually used in daily agency work
Neither, if
- You are a solo desk — Recruit CRM's own brief says the setup work outweighs the return below about five consultants
- You need contract or temp back office with timesheets and pay and bill
- Your team does not work in English and needs another interface language
Summary
Choosing an agency ATS and CRM where candidates, clients and placements share one pipeline
What they have in common
Both put the candidate side and the client side of an agency desk in one system, and both are sold to agencies that bill placements. Neither is an in-house ATS.
Where they really differ
Size of agency and transparency of purchase. Recruit CRM names its buyer — firms that bill placements, from small teams to large contract books — and prices all three plans in public. Atlas targets enterprise agencies and executive search, and prices nothing.
Who this decision is for
An agency at the point where it has outgrown spreadsheets and is deciding whether it is buying a working system now or a strategic platform for where it intends to be.
Side by side, on what decides it
The deciding criterion here is: Whether you are buying for the agency you are now or the agency you intend to become
| Decision factor | Atlas | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | None at any tier | All three plans public: EUR 79 / 109 / 189 per user per month on annual billing |
| Named target agency size | Enterprise agencies and executive search desks | Firms that bill placements, from small teams to large contract books |
| SourcrLab hands-on use | None | Used in Pieter's own agency recruitment work |
| How context reaches the system | Auto-captured from calls and client interactions | Consultant entry, with search that makes the database usable afterwards |
| What is not in the headline price | Unknown — nothing is published | Credit top-ups once workflow automation, multiposting, enrichment, LinkedIn messaging and analytics run past the included balance. The balance is published — 100 credits per user per month on Pro, 200 on Business — but the price of a top-up credit is not |
| The weaker half, per SourcrLab's research | Learning curve and gaps against legacy ATS features, per a verified reviewer | The commercial side is less clear than the candidate side, from daily use |
Also weighs on it: Full price transparency against none · Hands-on evidence against a small independent review base · Add-on line items against an unknown all-in quote
Commercial facts
Only compare claims that SourcrLab can currently support. Unknowns stay unknown; verify buyer-critical details before purchase.
| Decision factor | Atlas | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Enterprise | Per User (from From EUR 79/user/month) |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | No | Yes |
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Add SourcrLab in GoogleWhere Atlas wins
Nothing in Recruit CRM's pricing rewards growth
Recruit CRM's per-seat cost scales linearly — roughly EUR 9,500 a year at ten consultants, roughly EUR 23,700 at twenty-five — and only its credit pool improves with team size. Atlas is positioned at enterprise agencies from the start, so an agency planning for a much bigger desk is not buying against a ladder that only goes up.
The commercial side is the product, not the weaker half
SourcrLab's own daily use of Recruit CRM found the client side less clear than the candidate side, particularly when proposing candidates proactively rather than against an open vacancy. That is precisely the work Atlas's client-context proposition is aimed at.
Where Recruit CRM wins
Every plan carries a price, including the top one
EUR 79, EUR 109 and EUR 189 per user per month on annual billing. Publishing the Enterprise tier is unusual and it is the tier a growing agency needs to plan against. Atlas publishes nothing, so the growth path cannot be costed at all.
It is the one product here SourcrLab has actually used
Recruit CRM carries hands-on evidence from daily agency work: the search is what makes the database usable, and support answers quickly. That is a different class of evidence from a vendor demo, and no comparable evidence exists for Atlas.
A working desk on the entry plan
Pro already carries sourcing extension, resume parsing, connected mailbox, calling with recording, job posting, deal pipelines and reporting. It is a system an agency can run on rather than a demo tier — provided the capped limits and the credit pool the usage-based features draw on are priced in.
Trade-offs that apply either way
Recruit CRM's seat price is not its bill
Workflow automation, job multiposting, data enrichment, LinkedIn messaging and advanced analytics draw on one shared credit balance. The allocation is published — 100 credits per user per month on Pro, 200 on Business — and so are the rates, which is where it gets interesting: advanced analytics alone is 300 credits per user per month. Recruit Craft sits outside credits as a separate purchase below Enterprise. Price the usage you expect, not the seat — otherwise the transparency advantage over Atlas is smaller than it looks.
Both leave the growth path partly unpriced
Atlas publishes nothing. Recruit CRM publishes seats but not the migration cost or the trial's limits. An agency planning three years out is estimating either way; it is just estimating less with Recruit CRM.
Reading the two price models
- Recruit CRM is fully modelable: EUR 79 / 109 / 189 per user per month annually, EUR 95 and EUR 135 for Pro and Business billed monthly — roughly a 20 percent premium for flexibility.
- Add the usage before comparing. The vendor says the usage-based features are on every plan and drawn from one credit pool, but no plan's included balance is published, and Recruit Craft is a separate purchase below Enterprise.
- Atlas cannot be priced from public material. Treat any cost comparison as one-sided until a quote exists.
Best by scenario
A 6-consultant perm agency replacing spreadsheets
It names this buyer, prices it in public, and SourcrLab has run a desk on it.
A 60-consultant agency with a dedicated client-facing team
Recruit CRM's per-seat cost keeps climbing at that size, and the client half is where Atlas concentrates.
An agency whose consultants will not maintain notes
Automatic capture targets the problem directly; the evidence base is too small to take on trust.
What this comparison does not know
Unknowns stay unknown. Verify these with the vendor before deciding — they are the gaps that would change the answer.
- What Atlas costs, and how it scales per seat
- Whether Recruit CRM's free trial has any time limit. Its FAQ handbook says the trial is usage-based and not time-limited, capped at 50 candidates and 4 jobs; the vendor says 30 days
- Migration cost and duration for either product