Loxo Lists Core at $149. Professional Is a Sales Call.

Loxo's pricing page, read on November 5, 2026, prints one number: Core "starts at $149 per user / month, billed annually," with annual plans paid up front. Professional and Enterprise carry no public seat price. Professional is where Loxo Source, the 850M+ talent graph, the agent workforce, contact information, and API access live. If you are budgeting a boutique desk, the only figure you can write down without a call is the Core floor.

Primary source: Loxo pricing page, accessed November 5, 2026.

What Core actually buys

Core is described as the "AI-native ATS + CRM of record for firms that run the work themselves." The page lists a full ATS and recruiting CRM in one system, natural-language AI search, unlimited jobs, candidates, and companies, pipelines and reporting, email and calendar sync, a Chrome extension, and MCP to connect Loxo to your own AI tools. Unlimited jobs matters for agencies. Several tools we reviewed this month cap active jobs per license. Loxo Core does not, on the page.

What Core does not list is just as important. Loxo Source, the talent graph, the agent workforce, AI Chat, and contact information all sit under Professional. A solo recruiter who buys Core for $149 a month is buying a system of record with search over their own data. They are not buying sourcing data.

The Core price is a floor, not a quote

"Starts at" is a floor. The page does not say what moves the number up. It also says "billed annually" and "annual plans, paid up front." So the real first invoice for one seat is twelve months at once. At the printed floor that is $1,788 before tax for one user. That is our arithmetic from the page figure, not a quote Loxo printed. Write it in your budget sheet as an estimate with the access date.

Loxo's only public price is a Core floor billed annually and paid up front. Everything that sources new candidates sits behind an unpriced tier.

Professional is priced in credits you cannot price

Professional includes 2,500 credits per seat per month. Credits pool across the team and refresh in full each cycle. The FAQ answers the carry-over question directly: the pool refreshes at the start of every monthly cycle. Unused credits do not stack into a bigger month later.

Boosts take a seat to 5,000 or 12,500 credits a month, or a custom level. The FAQ says "your account team sizes Boost pricing with you." The page also says capacity figures are "figurative" and that "standard usage may vary." That leaves a desk unable to translate credits into searches before a call. A full-market search is defined as screening about 10,000 candidates, but the page does not say how many credits one consumes.

Migration and trial terms

Migration is free for Core teams of three or more seats. Below that, the page offers guided self-serve tooling. Professional and Enterprise migrations are "scoped as fixed packages before you sign." A solo desk moving from another ATS should expect to do the migration work itself on Core.

The trial is seven days of the full Professional platform with no credit card. That trial shows the agents and Loxo Source. It does not show you what Professional costs afterward. Run the trial with one live job order, then ask for the Professional and Boost quote in writing before the seventh day.

Questions to send before the trial ends

Send these in writing on day one of the trial, so the answers arrive before day seven:

1. What is the Professional price per seat per month, billed annually, for our seat count?
2. How many credits does one full-market search consume on average?
3. What does a 2x Boost cost per seat, and can it apply to one seat only?
4. Is contact information charged in credits, and how often is it "available"?
5. If we start on Core, what does moving to Professional mid-term cost?

The page uses "when available" every time it mentions contact information. That phrase means coverage is not guaranteed. Ask for a coverage rate on a sample of your own target titles during the trial, and record it next to the quote.

What Enterprise adds

Enterprise is custom annual agreements. It adds SSO and SAML, advanced roles and permissions, a dedicated success team, and optional forward-deployed engineers. The page notes SSO is "included, not an add-on" at that tier. For a one- to five-person boutique, Enterprise is unlikely to be relevant. We mention it so you do not assume SSO exists on Core. It is not listed there.

Who should skip this

If you already pay for a separate sourcing database and a contact-data tool and only need a system of record, Core is the comparable tier, and $149 is the number to compare. If you want Loxo specifically to replace your sourcing and contact data, Core will not do that, and you cannot price the tier that does without sales. If you need monthly billing, the page offers only annual plans.

Budget fields to fill before the call

1. Core floor: $149 per user per month, billed annually, from the pricing page with access date.
2. First invoice estimate: seats times $149 times twelve, labeled as your arithmetic.
3. Professional seat price: blank until quoted in writing.
4. Credits per full-market search: blank until Loxo states it.
5. Migration: free only at three or more Core seats.

Do not compare Loxo Professional to another tool's list price using a guess. Compare Core to other systems of record, and hold the Professional column empty until a quote arrives.