HeyTalent is the best Recruit CRM alternative when what holds your roles back is filling the pipeline rather than organising it: it searches LinkedIn for people who are not yet in your database, finds their email and phone and launches outreach with unlimited users, whereas in Recruit CRM AI search, enrichment and LinkedIn messaging burn credits on top of a per-user licence. Recruit CRM, an ATS and CRM for agencies, does better when the work sits in clients, placements and contractor hours. As of November 9, 2026, its pricing page puts the Pro plan at $95 per user per month billed annually; HeyTalent starts at €93/month per organisation, with a free ATS. The choice depends on the stage of the funnel where your team loses its hours.
What Recruit CRM is and what HeyTalent is
Recruit CRM is recruitment software that combines an ATS and a CRM for agencies and executive search firms: one database holds candidates, client companies, contacts, jobs and placements, plus email and calendar sync, invoices and contractor timesheets. An ATS is defined as the official record of the hiring process, as the guide on what an ATS is explains.
HeyTalent is defined as an AI sourcing tool: it pulls up-to-date LinkedIn profiles of people outside your network, with no LinkedIn licence needed; it screens them with AI variables written by the recruiter, finds their email and phone, and schedules invitations, follow-ups and InMails.
Third-party listings such as Ooligo's Recruit CRM page describe it as an ATS and CRM sold per seat; the figures in this article come from Recruit CRM's own website.
HeyTalent vs Recruit CRM in 2026: comparison by criterion
The dividing line in 2026: HeyTalent acts while the candidate has no record yet, and Recruit CRM from the moment they do.
| Criterion | HeyTalent | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Profile search | Real-time LinkedIn extraction, Boolean search and AI variables | Chrome extension on every plan; AI search paid in credits |
| Candidate email and mobile | Included in Recruiter, Agency and Ultra | Enrichment at 1–4 credits per record |
| Outreach channel | LinkedIn sequences: invitation, follow-ups, InMail | Bulk email; LinkedIn and WhatsApp in exchange for credits |
| Candidate management | ATS included at €0 | The core of the product |
| Clients and invoices | Outside its scope | Companies, contacts, deal pipelines and invoicing |
| How it is charged | Per-organisation fee; unlimited users | Per-user monthly licence, with a credit pool |
| Cheapest plan (annual) | Recruiter, €93/month | Pro, $95 per user per month |
How HeyTalent fills the pipeline that Recruit CRM then manages
HeyTalent covers the stretch where a brief turns into names you can write to, before those people have a record in Recruit CRM. Describe the role, even in two lines, and HeyTalent turns it into a search with advanced LinkedIn filters.
HeyTalent extracts at the moment of the query, so every career history arrives up to date. On top of that result, HeyTalent applies AI criteria written by your team, such as the English level required or years in a sector. The variable orders the review; the decision stays with the recruiter.
Once the list is reviewed, HeyTalent fills in emails and phone numbers and starts the LinkedIn sequence: invitation, follow-up messages and InMails. All sending happens on LinkedIn; HeyTalent finds the email but does not send emails. As with any data enrichment, keep it to the data the role actually needs.
Of all the connection invitations that went out from HeyTalent campaigns between April and October 2026, 35% got a reply, according to the company's data. That is the aggregate of those campaigns, any message from the candidate counts as a reply, and it is not a market average.
Every reply arrives in one inbox, filterable by role and by the recruiter who owns it. One click from that thread moves the candidate into the HeyTalent ATS.
The HeyTalent ATS costs €0 and is not a bare-bones register: a careers page with the agency's branding, public job posts pushed to Google Jobs or private posts reachable only by link, configurable application forms, a candidate database with filter search, and one pipeline per job that you share with the client, choosing which stages and which CVs they see.
HeyTalent's limit: it has no client CRM, invoicing or timesheets, so an agency that bills contractor hours needs Recruit CRM or something similar at the centre.
How much Recruit CRM costs in 2026: plans, credits and limits
Recruit CRM charges per user per month and adds a monthly credit balance to each plan. As shown on Recruit CRM's pricing page on November 9, 2026, the Pro plan costs $95 per user per month billed annually and $109 paid month to month; the same page advertises savings of up to 17% on annual billing.
| Recruit CRM plan | Annual (per user per month) | Monthly (per user per month) | Included credits (per user per month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro | $95 | $109 | 100, worth $10 |
| Business | $135 | $159 | 200, worth $20 |
| Enterprise | $215 | $259 | 2,000, worth $200; bought through a demo |
Credits form a shared pool across the account and you can buy more; Recruit CRM also offers a 30-day free trial.
To visitors from Spain, the same page shows prices in euros: €79, €109 and €189 per user per month billed annually, and €95, €135 and €225 billed monthly, with savings of up to 19% on annual billing.
According to Recruit CRM's plan table, Pro leaves out open API access, custom roles, SSO, audit logs and executive search reports, and allows a single hiring pipeline (100 on Business), 15 custom fields (100 on Business) and one multichannel outreach sequence.
Which Recruit CRM features consume credits
In Recruit CRM, searching for profiles, enriching them and messaging them on LinkedIn is paid in credits, on top of the licence. Credit rates published by Recruit CRM as of November 9, 2026:
| Recruit CRM feature | Credits |
|---|---|
| Email or phone enrichment | 1 to 4 per record; nothing if no data is found |
| AI sourcing and matching | 3 per 100 profiles |
| LinkedIn messaging and project sync | 150 per user per month |
| Job multiposting | 25 per job |
Assisted data migration is also paid separately; the CSV import tool is on every plan.
HeyTalent pricing: per-organisation fee and a €0 ATS
HeyTalent bills per organisation with no user limit: Recruiter at €93/month, Agency at €182/month and Ultra at €509/month billed annually (from €109/month billed quarterly), according to its pricing page. The monthly ceiling rises from 2,000 candidates (Recruiter) to 5,000 (Agency) and 14,000 (Ultra); every plan includes email and phone lookup and unlimited CSV export.
What HeyTalent charges for is the sourcing layer (profiles, contact data and outreach); its ATS costs €0 on any of the three plans.
Recruit CRM's bill grows with each user and with the credits spent; HeyTalent's, with candidate volume and the LinkedIn accounts connected to campaigns (one to three). More context in sourcing tool pricing for 2026.