Compared with Kaspr, HeyTalent is the best alternative for agencies and headhunters who still have to find the candidate, not just the number, because it pulls profiles from LinkedIn, ranks them with AI criteria you define, finds their email and phone and messages them on LinkedIn, all on a single per-organisation fee with no cap on users. Kaspr, a Chrome extension that reveals the contact details of a profile you have already found, charges per user and per credit: its Starter plan is listed at €45 per user per month on annual billing on Kaspr's pricing page as of November 9, 2026. If the list is already built and only the phone numbers are missing, Kaspr covers that step with almost no setup; what decides between the two is the cost per qualified candidate on the same role.
What Kaspr and HeyTalent are
Kaspr is a B2B contact-data tool that works as a Chrome extension on top of LinkedIn: from a profile, a group or an event, it reveals business emails, direct emails and phone numbers. Every piece of data revealed uses up a credit.
HeyTalent is defined as AI sourcing software built for agencies and headhunters: it finds up-to-date LinkedIn profiles even outside your network, scores them against variables written by whoever is searching, finds email and phone and schedules invitations, follow-ups and InMails. It also comes with an ATS.
The core difference between Kaspr and HeyTalent is the starting point: Kaspr starts once the profile has been chosen, and HeyTalent starts at the job description.
HeyTalent vs Kaspr in 2026: comparison by criterion
In 2026, HeyTalent and Kaspr overlap on a single step, the contact data, and part ways on everything else. Kaspr's figures come from its pricing page as of November 9, 2026; HeyTalent's from its website.
| Criterion | HeyTalent | Kaspr |
|---|---|---|
| What it is for | Finding, filtering and contacting candidates | Revealing a profile's email and phone |
| Starting point | Job brief turned into a search | LinkedIn profile, search, group or event |
| AI filtering | Custom variables per role | Not listed in its plans |
| Email and phone | Included in all three plans | B2B email, direct email and phone credits |
| First contact | Automated LinkedIn invitations, follow-ups and InMails | Exports to sending tools such as Lemlist or Brevo |
| Process record | Its own ATS at no cost | Lead dashboard; CRM and, via Zapier, ATS |
| Pricing unit | Per-organisation fee, no cap on users | Per-user monthly fee, plus credit packs |
| Paid entry point | From €93/month on the annual plan | Starter, €45/user/month on the annual plan |
| Free plan | The ATS; sourcing is paid | Free with 5 phone credits a month |
What HeyTalent covers before and after the contact data
HeyTalent covers the three steps Kaspr leaves to the recruiter: deciding whom to look for, ranking whom to write to first and making the first contact. A couple of sentences describing the role are enough for HeyTalent to translate them into advanced LinkedIn filters; profiles are pulled live at query time, which keeps each work history as fresh as LinkedIn has it.
Next, HeyTalent scores the list against criteria the recruiter writes, for example professional English or startup experience. An inferred variable decides what to review first; it does not prove a skill.
On the step it shares with Kaspr, the phone number, HeyTalent publishes its hit rate: according to the figures HeyTalent publishes, it finds a phone number for 65% of the LinkedIn profiles it enriches, 92% of the numbers it returns are valid and the credit is refunded when a number misses. These are self-reported figures with no published methodology, and they do not apply to emails.
Once the data is found, HeyTalent sends the LinkedIn sequence; replies collect in one team inbox, sortable by vacancy and by recruiter, and a single click sends a candidate on to the ATS. The guide to data enrichment for recruiting places contact data within the whole process.
The ATS is part of the account: HeyTalent does not charge for it and bills the sourcing layer. It posts openings to a branded careers page and to Google Jobs, and the agency decides which pipeline stages each client gets to see.
HeyTalent's limit: if your team already has a closed list and lives on the phone, a contact extension handles that one task with fewer habit changes. And HeyTalent does not send emails: it finds them, but its campaigns run on LinkedIn only. You can see the full flow on HeyTalent.
How much Kaspr costs in 2026 and how it bills
Kaspr charges per user per month, with a pool of credits for each type of data. On Kaspr's pricing page, checked on November 9, 2026, Starter costs €45 per user per month paid annually and €59 paid month to month; Business, €79 and €99; Enterprise is quoted on request.
| Kaspr plan | Annual billing | Monthly billing | Phone | Direct email | B2B email |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | €0 | €0 | 5/month | 5/month | 15/month |
| Starter | €45/user/month | €59/user/month | 1,200/year | 60/year | Unlimited, fair use |
| Business | €79/user/month | €99/user/month | 2,400/year | 2,400/year | Unlimited, fair use |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Kaspr credits are shared among the users on the account and, on paid plans, unused ones roll over to the next month. Using Kaspr on LinkedIn Recruiter Lite is only available on Business; Starter works on LinkedIn and Sales Navigator. The same page caps the contacts you can export via CSV or integrations: 100 on Free, up to 12,000 a year on Starter, 30,000 on Business and unlimited on Enterprise.
Anything beyond the plan is paid in packs. On the same page, extra phone credits cost €88 for 250 (€0.35 each) and drop to €2,000 for 10,000 (€0.20 each).
HeyTalent measures in a different unit: Recruiter costs €93/month, Agency €182/month and Ultra €509/month on annual billing, each per organisation, all with email and phone lookup and a ceiling of 2,000, 5,000 or 14,000 candidates a month. To set them against other fees on the market, see sourcing tool pricing in 2026.
What Kaspr's free plan includes and where it falls short
Kaspr's Free plan gives, according to its pricing page as of November 9, 2026, 15 B2B email credits, 5 phone credits and 5 direct email credits a month, and according to its page for recruiters sign-up does not ask for a card. It is enough to test Kaspr's coverage in your niche, not to sustain a role.
Bulk enrichment is capped too: Kaspr lets you enrich in bulk from LinkedIn searches, groups and events with 3 launches a month of 500 contacts on Starter, and 10 of 1,000 on Business.
HeyTalent has no free sourcing plan; what is free in HeyTalent is the ATS. Its equivalent test is a demo on a real role, which measures how many relevant profiles appear before you look up a single phone number.
How to compare the cost per qualified candidate
The cost that matters between HeyTalent and Kaspr is the cost per qualified candidate: fee, extra credits and review hours, divided by the profiles that meet the essential requirements and have a usable contact. A test on the same search gives you that figure:
- Fix the conditions. Same Boolean search, location, experience and company size.
- Audit the list. Separate relevant, rejected, duplicate and out-of-area profiles, and note which have a usable contact.
- Compare the first contact. Same message and same window; log bounces and positive replies per 100 contacts.
- Work out the result. Divide the total cost by qualified candidates.
A hypothetical example shows why volume misleads: tool A uses 100 credits and delivers 20 valid profiles; tool B uses 150 and delivers 60. A spends 5 credits per valid profile and B, 2.5. That measures credits, not money: you still need the value of each credit and the human work.