Agency ATS + CRM
Hands-onRecruit CRM
ATS and CRM in one system for recruitment agencies, where candidates, clients, jobs and placements share the same pipeline.
The short answer
- Best for
- Agencies of roughly 5 to 25 consultants who bill placements
- Not ideal for
- Solo desks, and teams whose commercial flow must be as strong as the candidate flow
- Price
- From EUR 79 per user / month on an annual commitment. Add-ons billed separately below Enterprise
- Closest alternative
- BullhornBetter once per-seat pricing stops making sense and enterprise reporting matters more than setup speed
At a glance
- Recruitment fitStrong
- Ease of useStrong
- ImplementationFair
- Price transparencyFair
- Value for moneyStrong
- ScalabilityFair
Why these assessments
- Recruitment fitStrong
- Built around the agency desk: deal pipelines, client contacts and placements sit next to the candidate database.
- Ease of useStrong
- From our own daily use: the search is what makes the database usable, and the helpdesk answers quickly.
- ImplementationFair
- Pro is a working desk rather than a demo tier, but the cost and duration of migrating an existing database are not published.
- Price transparencyFair
- All three plans carry a public price, but six enterprise features are separate line items, so the seat price is not the bill.
- Value for moneyStrong
- From our own use: less than a Bullhorn and carrying most of the functionality, provided the add-ons you need are priced in.
- ScalabilityFair
- Per-seat pricing scales linearly: ten consultants is roughly EUR 9,500 a year before add-ons, twenty-five roughly EUR 23,700.
Our reading of the evidence on this page. No score, no formula.
Where it sits
- Discover
- Apply
- ATS + CRM
- Interview
- Hire
The SourcrLab bottom line
A reasonable default for a small to midsize agency, as long as you price the whole system and not just the seat. Workflow automation, job multiposting, contact enrichment, LinkedIn messaging and advanced analytics are separate line items on the Pro and Business plans, and only the Enterprise plan folds them in.
Best fit
Agencies that bill placements and want the client side of the desk in the same system as the candidate side, with a price they can see before talking to sales.
Think twice if
Solo desks and two-person teams, where the setup work outweighs what the automation gives back, and teams past roughly 25 seats, where per-seat pricing compounds faster than the value does.
Hands-on experience
Pieter Henderyckx's take
Recruiter and founder of SourcrLab
I use Recruit CRM daily. The search is what drew me in at the start, and the price made the case: it costs less than a Bullhorn and carries most of the functionality. You do pay extra for the additional features. The helpdesk is easy to reach and answers quickly, which counts for more than a feature list once you are actually live on the system. Where it is weaker is the commercial side. That flow is less clear than the candidate side: you can see the pipeline per stage, but it gets harder as soon as you start putting candidates in front of clients proactively.
Why choose Recruit CRM?
Built around the agency desk
Deal pipelines, client contacts and placements sit next to the candidate database, so the commercial side of agency work is not a second system you buy later.
Every plan is priced in public
All three plans, up to and including Enterprise, carry a price on the page. Bullhorn publishes its two smallest plans and quotes the rest, and Teamtailor publishes nothing at all, so this is the only one of the three where you can price the top tier yourself.
A working desk on the entry plan
Pro already carries the sourcing extension, resume parsing, a connected mailbox, phone calling with recording, job board posting, deal pipelines and the reporting suite. It is a working system rather than a demo tier, as long as you read the limits below.
Search you can work in
From our own daily use, the search is what makes the database usable, and it is what convinced us in the first place. A candidate database you cannot search back is an archive, not a tool.
Support that answers
Also from our own use: the helpdesk is easy to reach and comes back quickly. Once a system carries your desk, that weighs heavier than a feature list.
Main trade-offs
The add-ons carry a second bill
On Pro and Business, workflow automation (EUR 41/month), job multiposting (EUR 20/month), data enrichment (EUR 250/year for 3,000 credits), LinkedIn messaging (EUR 11/user/month), advanced analytics (EUR 20/user/month) and the Recruit Craft website builder (EUR 41/month) are priced separately. Price the combination you need, not the seat.
The entry plan is capped in ways the price does not show
On Pro the comparison table caps you at one hiring pipeline, one email sequence, 15 custom fields and 2 candidate matches, with no open API and no option to remove Recruit CRM branding. Business lifts those to multiple pipelines, 150 custom fields and 50 matches. Read the table, not the plan name.
Per-seat pricing scales linearly
Ten consultants on Pro is roughly EUR 9,500 a year before add-ons; twenty-five is roughly EUR 23,700. Nothing in the pricing rewards growth, which is where larger staffing organisations start looking at Bullhorn.
Monthly billing costs more
Pro is EUR 79 per user per month on an annual commitment and EUR 95 billed monthly. Business is EUR 109 against EUR 135. The flexibility premium is about 20 percent.
The commercial half is the weaker half
From our own daily use: the client side of the flow is less clear than the candidate side. The pipeline is visible per stage, but it gets harder as soon as you start putting candidates in front of clients proactively rather than against an open vacancy.
The trial is undefined in public
The vendor's FAQ confirms a free trial and says usage limits may apply during it, but publishes neither the length nor the limits. Ask before you plan an evaluation around it.
Pricing and buying reality
From EUR 79 per user / month
- Annual commitment: Pro EUR 79, Business EUR 109, Enterprise EUR 189 per user / month
- Billed monthly: Pro EUR 95, Business EUR 135 per user / month
- Enterprise features are billed separately on Pro and Business, and included on Enterprise
- Free trial available, length and usage limits not published
What we do not know
- What the free trial includes and how long it runs
- Discounts for larger teams or multi-year commitments
- The cost and duration of migrating an existing database
- Pricing outside the euro zone. The page served euro prices from Belgium
Checked on the vendor's pricing page, August 2026. Recruit CRM pricing page
How it fits your stack
Works with
- Your own mailbox and calendar, connected two-way
- Job boards, through the multiposting add-on
- Other apps, through the workflow automation add-on
Likely replaces
- A separate sales CRM running next to the ATS
- A standalone agency website builder, if you take Recruit Craft
May overlap with
- Contact data tools such as Lusha or Cognism. Enrichment credits are bundled on Enterprise and sold separately below it
Check before buying
- Which enterprise add-ons you actually need. That answer, not the seat price, is your real budget
- Export and data portability terms, before you move your database in
- Whether the trial covers the plan you intend to buy
Recruit CRM vs alternatives
Products a buyer would genuinely put next to this one, with the reason you would pick each instead.
Choose Bullhorn if you run a larger staffing organisation where per-seat pricing has stopped making sense and enterprise reporting matters more than setup speed.
Consider Loxo if sourcing and outreach are the bottleneck rather than client and placement administration.
Consider Crelate if you want to shape the workflow around how your desk already works instead of adopting the vendor's.
Consider Manatal when the seat price is the binding constraint and you can live with a smaller feature surface.
Recruit CRM head to head
Pairs SourcrLab has looked at as a single buying decision, with the trade-offs written out.
Used Recruit CRM?
Tell other recruiters what worked, what did not, and who it suits. Positive, mixed or critical — all useful.
Evidence
- Pricing and plan structure — checked against a primary source: Recruit CRM pricing page
- Add-on prices — checked against a primary source: Recruit CRM pricing page
- Free trial exists — checked against a primary source: Recruit CRM pricing page
- Plan features — vendor claim, not independently verified: Recruit CRM pricing page
- Day-to-day use in agency recruitment — first-hand use: Used by Pieter in his own recruitment work
- Search in daily work — first-hand use: Used by Pieter in his own recruitment work
- Support responsiveness — first-hand use: Used by Pieter in his own recruitment work
- Limits of the commercial workflow — first-hand use: Used by Pieter in his own recruitment work
- Implementation time and migration effort — not enough evidence
- Negotiated contract prices — not enough evidence
Last reviewed: August 2026. How SourcrLab verifies information
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