Recruit CRM Review (2026)Agency ATS and CRM, From €79 a User
By Daan Haket · Researched and written with an AI assistant · who does what
The headline seat price is not the whole bill: the features recruiters use daily for outreach run on credits, and LinkedIn messaging alone uses 150 credits per user a month while Pro includes 100.
recruitment and staffing agencies that want an applicant tracking system and a client CRM in one place, with a Chrome sourcing extension, a hiring manager portal and, on Business, multichannel outreach and an API.
you are an in-house HR team hiring for your own company (the product is built around agency clients and placements), you will not use the credit-based features but still pay per seat at agency prices, or you need monthly flexibility with refunds.
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Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 25 Oct 2026
“no refunds will be issued for any unused portion of your subscription.”Source: help.recruitcrm.io, read 15 Oct 2026
Pro is €79 per user a month billed annually or €95 monthly, with 100 credits per user a month. Business is €109 annually or €135 monthly with 200 credits, and adds the resume formatting agent, the Recruit CRM MCP for Claude and other AI assistants, multichannel sequences across email, LinkedIn and WhatsApp, white-labelled pages, the open API, SSO, IP whitelisting and 30-day audit logs.
Enterprise is €189 annually or €225 monthly with 2,000 credits, Recruit Craft (the career-site builder) included and a named account manager. Credits are pooled across all users in the account and pay for AI sourcing (3 credits per 100 profiles), data enrichment (1 to 4 credits per record), job multiposting (25 credits per job), LinkedIn messaging (150 credits per user a month), WhatsApp (100 per user a month), advanced analytics (300 per user a month) and workflow automation; extra credits can be bought.
The help centre says annual billing charges the discounted rate upfront for the whole year. There is a 30-day free trial. Recruit CRM told us it has no discount code for our readers (October 2026). Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.
Category context: HR & People. Across the 14 tools in this category that we researched with a public US-dollar price, the median entry price is about $32 a month (lowest paid plan as listed, per seat where the vendor prices per seat). Compare pricing conditions in the Software Cost Atlas →
What the pricing page doesn’t say
The pricing table says unlimited candidates and contacts, but the help centre sets per-user record limits (10,000 each on Pro). Annual billing is charged upfront and the subscription article rules out refunds for unused time, so a wrong tier choice is expensive to undo.
What Recruit CRM does
Applicant tracking system and client CRM for recruitment agencies, with a Chrome sourcing extension, hiring manager portal, AI sourcing and multichannel outreach on a shared credit pool.
Business buys the outreach and the API
Pro at €79 per user a month (annual) covers the ATS and CRM itself: pipelines, the hiring manager portal, the Chrome sourcing extension, two-way email and calendar sync. Business at €109 is the step most growing agencies weigh, because it adds multichannel sequences across email, LinkedIn and WhatsApp, the open API (the onboarding guide says API access needs Business or higher), SSO and audit logs, and doubles the record limit per user from 10,000 to 20,000 candidates, companies and contacts each.
The credits are the hidden part of the bill. LinkedIn messaging alone uses 150 credits per user a month and Pro includes 100, so a recruiter who wants LinkedIn sync on Pro is already buying credits. Map which credit features you will use before you pick a tier.
How to actually use Recruit CRM
The 30-day trial is enough for a real pilot, but the help centre caps trial records at 50 candidates, 50 companies, 50 contacts and 4 jobs, so test the workflow, not your whole database. Connect your mailbox and your Google or Outlook calendar first, set up your profile, then customise the hiring pipeline stages to match how your desk works. Import existing candidates and companies from Excel or CSV once you have decided to stay; the onboarding guide allows up to 10,000 records per import.
Invite teammates last, because you pay per provisioned seat, and check which of your daily actions consume credits.
Distilled from Recruit CRM's own pages, read on 25 October 2026: the pricing page at recruitcrm.io/pricing/ (Annually and Monthly toggles, euro prices shown to a Netherlands visitor), the help-centre articles Managing your Recruit CRM subscription (help.recruitcrm.io/en/articles/4033085) and Recruit CRM onboarding part 1 (help.recruitcrm.io/en/articles/8659210). The note that there is no discount code comes from Recruit CRM's partner team by email on 22 October 2026. An earlier research pass on 15 October 2026 found the same euro prices.
Recruit CRM vs Top Echelon, side by side
Each column shows the vendor’s own published entry price, read on the date shown. Entry prices can cover different services or units, so check what each one buys. We do not average them into a score.
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The natural comparison is Top Echelon — Top Echelon is in our dossiers and lives on Office Software Marketplace: its TE Recruit ATS and CRM was $79 per seat a month billed annually or $95 month to month on Standard when we re-read it on 6 October 2026, and it adds a split-placement network priced per agency. Recruit CRM's Pro is €79 billed annually or €95 monthly (read 25 October 2026, in euros) and leans on AI sourcing, enrichment and multichannel outreach through credits; Top Echelon fits an agency that wants to work split placements with other recruiters..
Frequently asked questions
What does Recruit CRM cost?
Read on 25 October 2026 (prices shown in euros): Pro €79 per user a month billed annually or €95 monthly, Business €109 or €135, Enterprise €189 or €225. Each plan includes credits per user per month (100, 200 or 2,000) for features such as AI sourcing, enrichment and LinkedIn messaging. There is a 30-day free trial.
Is there a Recruit CRM discount code?
No. Recruit CRM's partner team told us in October 2026 that there is no discount code at the moment. The only saving on the pricing page is annual billing, which the page labels 'Save up to 19%'.
Can I get a refund if I cancel?
The subscription article says no refunds are issued for any unused portion of a subscription. Changes and payment issues have to be raised before the renewal date to avoid the renewal charge; after cancelling you are not charged from the next billing date.
Are candidates and contacts really unlimited?
The pricing comparison says unlimited jobs, candidates and contacts, but the help centre's subscription article, read the same day, lists record limits: 10,000 candidates, companies and contacts each per user on Pro, 20,000 on Business and 30,000 on Enterprise, pooled across the account. Jobs are unlimited on paid plans.
Do I need Business for the API?
Yes. The onboarding guide says API access requires a Business plan subscription or higher.
Is this a hands-on review of Recruit CRM?
This is a researched assessment, not a hands-on test — where we've used a tool ourselves, we say so explicitly. We name what each tool is good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.
- Read 2026-10-25 on recruitcrm.io/pricing/ with both the Annually and the Monthly toggle clicked, from the Netherlands, where the page shows euros; and in the Recruit CRM help centre.
- A dated screenshot of that pricing page, kept on this site as the receipt.
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