Applicant tracking for staffing, RPO and agency recruiting, priced by utilisation
ResearchedBrightmove
BrightMove is an ATS built around agency and RPO work rather than corporate HR, and it prices that way: a base subscription from $125 a month, a per-recruiter RPO add-on, and back-office and analytics modules that each start higher than the base plan itself.
The short answer
- Best for
- An agency or RPO provider with mixed user types — recruiters, hiring managers, read-only executives — who does not want to pay a full seat for everyone
- Not ideal for
- Buyers who want one flat all-in rate, or polished business intelligence without buying a separate analytics module
- Price
- From $125/month for Standard; RPO add-on +$100 per recruiter seat; back-office and analytics modules from $499/month each
- Closest alternative
- JobAdderAlso sold to agencies and in-house teams alike, and worth weighing when you want agency workflow without assembling the system from priced modules
At a glance
- Recruitment fitStrong
- Ease of useUnknown
- ImplementationUnknown
- Price transparencyFair
- Value for moneyUnknown
- ScalabilityFair
Why these assessments
- Recruitment fitStrong
- Built for staffing and RPO desks specifically, with an RPO add-on priced per recruiter — that is a product shaped around agency work, not a corporate ATS with an agency page.
- Ease of useUnknown
- No SourcrLab hands-on use. Capterra reviewers rate usability well across a large base, while some describe a dated experience, and this brief does not adjudicate that from the outside.
- ImplementationUnknown
- No implementation duration, migration scope or onboarding obligation was established in the material read for this brief, and none is inferred from the product's size.
- Price transparencyFair
- A public configurator shows the entry price and the module prices, which is more than most agency systems publish, but Advanced and Enterprise are custom and the final number comes from sales.
- Value for moneyUnknown
- Not assessed. The entry price is knowable but the working configuration is not, because the modules a given agency needs decide most of the bill.
- ScalabilityFair
- Utilisation pricing means the bill tracks real usage rather than headcount, but the modules that matter at scale — back office and analytics — start at several times the base plan.
Our reading of the evidence on this page. No score, no formula.
Where it sits
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The SourcrLab bottom line
An agency-and-RPO ATS with unusually explicit utilisation pricing: you assemble the system from a base plan, user types and priced modules rather than buying a tier. That is genuinely useful for an agency with mixed roles, and genuinely harder to compare against a flat per-seat product. Note that the historic starting price shown on Capterra disagrees with the vendor's own current configurator; the configurator is what this brief follows.
Best fit
Agencies and RPO providers whose user base is not uniform. BrightMove's pricing explicitly recognises that a read-only executive and a full-time recruiter are not the same purchase, and the RPO add-on is priced per recruiter seat rather than folded into a single rate everyone pays.
Think twice if
Buyers who want to know their total cost from a pricing page. The base plan is published, but Back Office and the Wizdom analytics module each start around four times the entry price, and Advanced and Enterprise are quoted. An agency that needs back office and reporting is not buying a $125 product.
SourcrLab assessment
Everything on this page comes from the vendor's own pages, checked on the dates below. SourcrLab has not used this product in real recruitment work, so you will not find a first-hand opinion here.
Why choose Brightmove?
Pricing that recognises different user types
The configurator distinguishes between user types including hiring managers and read-only executives, so people who only need visibility do not consume a recruiter seat. On flat per-seat systems that distinction does not exist, and agencies end up either overpaying or leaving stakeholders outside the system.
RPO is a priced capability, not a positioning line
The RPO add-on costs $100 per recruiter seat, which is a more honest signal than a marketing page: a vendor that meters RPO separately has built something specific for it. For an RPO provider that is the difference between a system that fits and one that is being adapted.
A large independent review base
Capterra carried 4.3 out of 5 across 264 reviews when this was checked. That is a meaningfully broad base for a product of this size, and it is the one to weigh: the G2 profile showed 3.6 across only 14 reviews, which is too thin to carry an opposite conclusion.
The entry price is actually published
Standard starts from $125 a month on a public configurator, and the module prices are on it too. Most systems sold to staffing agencies publish nothing at all, so being able to sanity-check the floor before a sales call is worth something on its own.
Main trade-offs
The modules cost more than the platform
Back Office and the Wizdom analytics module each start from $499 a month in the public configurator — roughly four times the Standard base plan. An agency that needs pay-and-bill administration or real reporting should price those first and treat $125 as a floor, not an estimate.
Aggregator pricing contradicts the vendor
Capterra displays a historic starting price that does not match the vendor's current configurator. Where those disagree the vendor's own page is what a buyer will be quoted against, so the aggregator figure should be treated as stale rather than as a second data point.
Reporting is a recurring complaint
Reporting limitations come up repeatedly in the review base, alongside some dated-experience signals. That the vendor sells a separate analytics module from $499 is consistent with the complaint rather than an answer to it: check whether what you need is in the base plan before assuming it is.
Final pricing still comes from sales
The configurator establishes a floor and the shape of the meter, not a quote. Advanced and Enterprise are custom, and the vendor routes the final number through its sales team, so budget approval still needs a conversation rather than a screenshot.
Pricing and buying reality
From $125 per month, plus priced modules
- Standard: from $125 per month
- Advanced and Enterprise: custom, quoted by the vendor
- RPO add-on: +$100 per recruiter seat
- Back Office and Wizdom analytics: from $499 per month each in the public configurator
- Pricing is utilisation-based, distinguishing user types such as hiring managers and read-only executives
What we do not know
- What Advanced and Enterprise actually cost
- Minimum seat counts or contract terms attached to the entry plan
- Implementation, migration and onboarding cost and duration
- Whether the $125 entry price assumes an annual commitment
Checked on the vendor's pricing page, August 2026. BrightMove pricing configurator (Standard from $125/month, RPO add-on per recruiter seat, Back Office and Wizdom module pricing, user types)
How it fits your stack
Works with
- Job boards and candidate sources, through the ATS
- Back-office and pay-and-bill workflows, through the paid Back Office module
Likely replaces
- A separate agency ATS and a separate RPO tracking workaround
- Spreadsheet reporting, if you buy the analytics module
May overlap with
- Agency CRM systems such as Bullhorn, where the client and placement side of the desk is the primary purchase
Check before buying
- Which modules your desk actually needs, because Back Office and analytics change the order of magnitude of the bill
- Whether the reporting in the base plan covers what you report to clients today
- How user types are counted, since that is where utilisation pricing either saves or surprises you
Brightmove vs alternatives
Products a buyer would genuinely put next to this one, with the reason you would pick each instead.
Choose JobAdder if you want an agency-capable ATS bought as a system rather than assembled from separately priced back-office and analytics modules.
Choose Bullhorn when the client and placement side of the desk is the main purchase and you need a staffing system of record with a much larger installed base.
Consider Crelate if you want to shape agency workflow around how your desk already runs, with per-seat pricing that is simpler to model than a module configurator.
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Evidence
- Standard plan from $125 per month — checked against a primary source: BrightMove pricing configurator (Standard from $125/month, RPO add-on per recruiter seat, Back Office and Wizdom module pricing, user types)
- RPO add-on at $100 per recruiter seat — checked against a primary source: BrightMove pricing configurator (Standard from $125/month, RPO add-on per recruiter seat, Back Office and Wizdom module pricing, user types)
- Back Office and Wizdom analytics from $499 per month each — checked against a primary source: BrightMove pricing configurator (Standard from $125/month, RPO add-on per recruiter seat, Back Office and Wizdom module pricing, user types)
- Advanced and Enterprise are custom-quoted — checked against a primary source: BrightMove pricing configurator (Standard from $125/month, RPO add-on per recruiter seat, Back Office and Wizdom module pricing, user types)
- Pricing distinguishes user types including read-only executives — checked against a primary source: BrightMove pricing configurator (Standard from $125/month, RPO add-on per recruiter seat, Back Office and Wizdom module pricing, user types)
- Capterra rating of 4.3 across 264 reviews — checked against a primary source: Capterra reviews (4.3 out of 5 across 264 reviews at check time, recurring themes, historic starting-price field)
- G2 rating of 3.6 across only 14 reviews — too small a sample to weigh equally — checked against a primary source: G2 seller profile (3.6 out of 5 across 14 reviews at check time — recorded for completeness, too small to weigh against Capterra)
- Recurring review themes: support, usability and RPO fit against reporting limits — checked against a primary source: Capterra reviews (4.3 out of 5 across 264 reviews at check time, recurring themes, historic starting-price field)
- Capterra's displayed historic starting price conflicts with the current vendor configurator — checked against a primary source: Capterra reviews (4.3 out of 5 across 264 reviews at check time, recurring themes, historic starting-price field)
- Implementation duration and migration obligations — not enough evidence
- SourcrLab has not used this product in real recruitment work. — not enough evidence
Last reviewed: August 2026. How SourcrLab verifies information
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