HeyTalent vs Wiza in 2026: from a LinkedIn profile to a conversation with the candidate

When what you need is to get from a LinkedIn profile to a conversation with the candidate, HeyTalent is the best Wiza alternative: Wiza stops at an exported list of emails and phone numbers, and HeyTalent carries on from there, ranking those profiles with AI variables, sending invitations and follow-ups on LinkedIn and logging the candidate in a free ATS. Wiza does better at bulk-exporting Sales Navigator or LinkedIn Recruiter searches into a CRM, for teams that already pay for those licences. On price, Wiza charges per user from $49 a month and HeyTalent per organisation from €93 a month on the annual plan, based on the rates both published on November 9, 2026.

What Wiza is and what HeyTalent is

Wiza is a contact-data extraction tool: it turns LinkedIn Sales Navigator and LinkedIn Recruiter searches and lists, or a CSV, into a list with emails and phone numbers that you download or push to a CRM. Its help centre also describes Wiza Prospect, a search tool over Wiza's own database whose company filters (revenue, technologies, funding) are the filters of sales prospecting.

HeyTalent is AI sourcing software built for recruitment agencies and headhunters, born inside a tech recruitment agency in Barcelona: it pulls up-to-date profiles from LinkedIn, including people outside your network, ranks them with AI variables you define, looks up email and phone, and runs LinkedIn invitations, follow-ups and InMails on a schedule.

HeyTalent vs Wiza in 2026: comparison by criterion

In 2026, HeyTalent and Wiza only overlap on contact data; HeyTalent adds search, filtering, first contact and a record of the candidate.

Criterion	HeyTalent	Wiza
Where profiles come from	Its own LinkedIn search, including outside your network	Sales Navigator, LinkedIn Recruiter, CSV and Wiza Prospect (Team plan)
Filtering	AI variables written for each role	The filters of the source search
Email and phone	Lookup included in all three plans	Monthly credit allowance; unlimited on the annual plans that include them
Outreach	Automated LinkedIn invitations, follow-ups and InMails	Not listed in any plan on its pricing page
Where the candidate ends up	Campaign inbox and its own free ATS	CSV or CRM integration
Entry price (Nov 9, 2026)	€93/month per organisation, annual plan	$49/month per user, Starter plan billed monthly
Users	Unlimited on every plan	Each user is paid for; Team starts at 3

How HeyTalent takes a LinkedIn profile to a conversation

HeyTalent covers, in one licence, the stages Wiza leaves before and after the contact data: finding profiles, deciding who to write to, writing to them and logging the reply. A short brief is enough for HeyTalent to build the search with LinkedIn's advanced filters and extract the profiles in real time, with work history up to date at the moment of the search.

HeyTalent's AI variables rank that list by the role's requirements, such as English level for a position with international reporting. Artificial intelligence applied to recruitment helps when each variable maps to a concrete requirement; the decision stays with the recruiter.

Once the list is reviewed, HeyTalent finds email and phone and launches a LinkedIn sequence: invitation with a note, follow-ups and InMails. According to HeyTalent's data, 35% of the connection invitations sent from its campaigns between April and October 2026 got a reply, counting any message from the candidate as a reply. Replies land in a single inbox, filterable by role and recruiter, and from there one click moves the candidate into HeyTalent's ATS.

HeyTalent's ATS is free: the subscription only covers sourcing. That ATS pushes job ads to your own careers page and to Google Jobs, and shares each role's pipeline with the client, who sees only the stages you choose.

HeyTalent publishes three plans per organisation, annual or quarterly: Recruiter at €93 or €109/month, up to 2,000 candidates a month; Agency at €182 or €214, up to 5,000; and Ultra at €509 or €599, up to 14,000 with priority support. All three come with the ATS, unlimited CSV export and email and phone lookup; there is no monthly billing. For more options sorted by pricing model, see how much sourcing tools cost.

HeyTalent's limits matter too. It does not advertise a native integration with external ATSs, so if the agency works in Teamtailor or Workable, the handover is a CSV export. And sequences are LinkedIn-only: HeyTalent finds emails and phone numbers, but it does not send email campaigns.

How much Wiza and HeyTalent cost in 2026

Wiza charges per user and HeyTalent per organisation. On its pricing page as of November 9, 2026, Wiza's cheapest paid plan is Starter, at $49 per user per month; HeyTalent starts at €93/month billed annually, with unlimited users. Wiza publishes one table per billing cycle:

Wiza plan	Billing cycle	Price per user	What it includes
Free	—	$0	20 valid emails and 5 phone numbers
Starter	Monthly	$49/month	100 valid emails and 100 phone numbers a month
Email	Monthly	$99/month	500 valid emails a month; phone numbers at $0.35
Email + Phone	Monthly	$199/month	500 valid emails and 500 phone numbers a month
Email	Annual	$83/month ($990/year)	Unlimited emails; phone numbers at $0.35; 2,500 exports a month
Email + Phone	Annual	$166/month ($1,990/year)	Unlimited emails and phone numbers; 2,500 exports a month
Team	Annual	Custom pricing	From 3 users; Wiza Prospect, API and CSV import

On Wiza's monthly plans, each valid email above the allowance costs $0.15 and each phone number $0.35. AI Research appears on the annual plans and on Team; Wiza Prospect only on Team.

Wiza credits, overages and export caps

Wiza credits do not accumulate: according to its help centre, checked on November 9, 2026, unused credits do not carry over to the next month or year. On annual plans, one-by-one profile exports are unlimited, but list exports (Sales Navigator, LinkedIn Recruiter, Wiza Prospect and CSV) have a hard cap of 2,500 export credits a month.

Each person on a list uses one Wiza export credit, including exports without an email lookup; people already exported or saved to the account are not deducted again.

How to compare email and phone data quality between HeyTalent and Wiza

Contact data quality is compared by usable contacts, not exported rows: a bouncing email and a duplicate weigh the same in a CSV. In its November 9, 2026 pricing, Wiza charges email overages only when the email is valid.

HeyTalent publishes its own phone figures: according to the company, 65% of the LinkedIn profiles it enriches come back with a number; of the numbers it returns, 92% are valid and reachable; and if a number fails or is invalid, the credit goes back to the account. These are self-reported figures with no published methodology; Wiza shows no equivalent rate on its pricing page.

Useful cost divides the subscription by valid contacts: at €200 a month and 60 valid emails, each contactable candidate costs €3.33. In 2024, 98% of Spanish companies felt that the shortage of professionals was affecting their productivity, according to Randstad Research and CEOE in Forbes Spain, but that pressure does not replace this calculation.

There is no independent accuracy benchmark for the Spanish market; the guide to data enrichment for recruitment explains how to validate with your own lists.

When Wiza is a better choice than HeyTalent

Wiza is the better choice when the job is getting whole LinkedIn lists into another system: a team that already pays for Sales Navigator or LinkedIn Recruiter and only needs the email and phone for each row in its CRM. HeyTalent is not a Sales Navigator export tool, and for that specific stage Wiza is the better fit.

Wiza is also cheaper to try: the Free plan gives 20 valid emails and 5 phone numbers, and Starter costs $49 per user a month with no annual commitment. Anyone who already has their own messaging setup would be paying, in HeyTalent, for stages they will not use.

If the goal is selling rather than hiring, this HappySales guide on how to export leads from Sales Navigator covers what LinkedIn allows and what routes are left; for that case, HeyTalent is not the tool.

What GDPR requires when enriching candidate data with HeyTalent or Wiza

GDPR requires a legal basis, data minimisation and informing the candidate, whether HeyTalent finds the email or Wiza exports it. The Spanish data protection authority's note on its guide to data protection and employment relations states that a public social media profile does not, on its own, authorise collecting and using its information.

The AEPD guide for employment relations, shared by the University of Valencia adds that keeping the data of an application that does not end in a hire, for future roles, requires the candidate's consent.

HeyTalent says it relies on legitimate interest for the public data it handles and does not resell it, which does not exempt the agency from documenting its own processing. From Wiza, ask in writing for the legal basis, the data processing agreement and the retention periods; the guide to sourcing tools and GDPR lists the specific questions.

What happens after exporting with Wiza and with HeyTalent

After a Wiza export, the candidate still has no message, no follow-up and no record: Wiza's pricing page includes no contact sequences on any plan, so that stage needs another tool or manual work. In HeyTalent, the same list goes into a LinkedIn campaign with 1, 2 or 3 connected accounts depending on the plan, and replies arrive in the shared inbox.

That delay has a cost: the EP+D 2025 report covered by Bolsamanía found that 20% of hiring processes in Spain were not completed for lack of suitable profiles, and in 2024, 82% of Spanish companies reported difficulty filling highly skilled roles, according to the Randstad Research and CEOE report covered by Servimedia.

How to test HeyTalent against Wiza in two weeks

To choose between HeyTalent and Wiza, an open role and fifteen days of data outweigh a demo, because they measure the first layers of the funnel:

1. Define the search with the hiring manager and write the criteria down.
2. Run the same search in HeyTalent and in Wiza on 100 reference profiles.
3. Review relevance blind with whoever will interview, without saying which tool produced each name.
4. Calculate six numbers: relevant candidates, usable contacts, cost per contactable candidate, bounce rate, positive reply rate and days to shortlist.

With 20 valid emails and 5 phone numbers, Wiza's Free plan does not reach 100 profiles: the test needs a paid plan.

HeyTalent or Wiza: which to choose in 2026

If your role stalls between the profile and the first reply, the first test I would run is HeyTalent, because search, contact data, the LinkedIn sequence and the free ATS sit under a single subscription per organisation, and the result is measured in conversations rather than rows in a CSV.

The exceptions are specific: if you only need to fill in emails for an already-clean Sales Navigator list, Wiza; if you are a sales team feeding a CRM, Wiza or a sales prospecting tool; and if your company has not reviewed its legal basis for processing candidate data, neither until it has.

To compare more export tools, see the Wiza alternatives; to measure the whole flow on a hard-to-fill role, try a search in HeyTalent.