Recruit CRM's Seat Price Leaves the Credit Tools Unpriced

Recruit CRM publishes a per-user price a recruiting firm can read without a sales call. That price is not the cost of the features that actually send messages and find contact data. Those features draw on credits. A one-person desk should price the seat and the credits as two lines before comparing it with any other CRM.

The pricing page we opened shows three plans: Pro at 95 dollars per user per month, Business at 135, and Enterprise at 215. Each line says the credits included per user per month are 100, 200, and 2,000, and that credits are pooled across the account. The same page lists LinkedIn messaging, data enrichment, job multiposting, workflow automation, and SMS as features that consume credits. A help article updated September 3, 2026 says the currency and the amount depend on the country where the company is based, and that unused time on a deactivated seat is not refunded. Recruit CRM pricing, accessed October 2026. Recruit CRM, managing your subscription, September 3, 2026.

The seat is the smaller number

At the published Pro rate, one user for a year is 1,140 dollars if the 95 dollar figure is billed every month for twelve months. The help article says annual billing charges a discounted per-month rate upfront for the year. We did not complete a checkout, so we are not reporting a separate monthly-versus-annual pair beyond the 95, 135, and 215 figures on the pricing page. A blog that quotes 109 or 159 is not this article's source. Reload the pricing page on the day you buy, and write down the currency it shows for your country. The help article is explicit that the amount differs by country.

Credits change the comparison. Pro includes 100 credits per user per month, described on the page as worth 10 dollars. Business includes 200, described as worth 20. Enterprise includes 2,000, described as worth 200. LinkedIn messaging and enrichment sit in the "consumes credits" list, not in the "included" list. A desk that lives on LinkedIn outreach can spend the credit pool before the month is over and still have paid only the seat. Ask what a credit costs when the pool is empty. The pricing page does not print that overage rate in the sections we read.

Record limits are an account pool

The September 3 help article sets paid record limits per user and then multiplies by the number of users. Pro is 10,000 candidates, 10,000 contacts, and 10,000 companies per user. Three users make a pool of 30,000 of each, shared by the account. Any user with permission can create records until the pool is full. The limit is not a private quota that protects one recruiter's list from a colleague. Jobs are unlimited on the paid plans. The free trial shown in that article is 50 candidates, 50 companies, 50 contacts, and 4 jobs.

That trial is large enough to learn the screen and too small to migrate a working database. The article also says you can buy an add-on of 10,000 more candidates, contacts, and companies without buying another seat. It does not print the add-on price. Treat "unlimited jobs" as the part that matches a desk with many concurrent searches, and treat the candidate cap as the part you will hit if you import an old spreadsheet on day one.

Credits are pooled, seats are not private

A second user does not get a private pile of 100 credits. The pricing page says credits are pooled at the account level. One person doing a heavy sourcing week can spend the whole firm's grant. That is acceptable if you planned it, and expensive if you thought each seat kept its own meter. Record the pool size as users times the per-user grant, then ask who on the team is allowed to run enrichment. The page does not describe a permission that stops a colleague from using the last credit.

Who should skip the 95 dollar comparison

Skip it if your work is InMail inside LinkedIn Recruiter rather than a database of your own. This product's LinkedIn tools, as listed, consume credits and sync messages. They are not a substitute for a Recruiter seat, and this article does not claim they reach people outside your network. Skip it if you need a price that already includes enrichment and multiposting. Those are in the credit list on Pro. Enterprise is the tier with 2,000 credits, still a credit pool rather than an unlimited meter.

Buy the trial only to answer one question: can you run a week of your real outreach before the 100 credits on a Pro user are gone? If the answer is no, the 95 dollar seat was never the product you were pricing.

Recruit CRM's published seat price does not include the LinkedIn messaging and enrichment tools. Those draw on a credit pool.

A firm of one person can start on Pro and learn the cap in a month. A firm that will add a researcher should decide the record pool and the credit pool before the second seat, because both pools are shared and unused seat-time is not credited back. We did not run a paid account for this review. The numbers are the ones on the pricing page and in the September 3 help article. If either page changes the credit grant, the seat price alone will not tell you.