7 best Carerix alternatives for recruitment agencies in 2026

The seven Carerix alternatives, in one line each

• Kepler — the AI-first CRM: ask AI Chat and it finds, ranks and updates, at one published price.
• Spott — an EU-weighted ATS and CRM with many separate AI features.
• Vincere — a modular recruitment platform from The Access Group, UK and APAC.
• Bullhorn — a large staffing platform with add-on modules and a partner marketplace.
• Tracker — an all-in-one system for staffing firms, UK and US.
• Recruit CRM — an ATS and CRM with three published tiers.
• Recruiterflow — an ATS and CRM built around multichannel outbound sequences.

Why do agencies look for a Carerix alternative?

The reasons are on Carerix’s own editions and pricing pages. Four come up most.

• No edition has a published price. Carerix’s demo page describes a fixed amount per user per month, depending on edition, users and integrations, with a price after the demo (13 Sep 2026).
• Features move up the editions. Automated CV Parsing starts at Premium. The automated matching assistant and the portals are only in Enterprise. Each edition has a task allowance of 1,000 to 50,000 “taken”, with no published definition of a task.
• The AI is fenced. Carerix’s Private AI is scoped to candidate, vacancy and matching support, and general questions return an error. It does not answer questions across your whole database.
• API access is a paid bundle. The API and webhooks are only in the Carerix Datasource bundle, requested through a Customer Success Manager.

Carerix alternatives compared at a glance

The matched plan is the tier that carries each vendor’s AI, not the cheapest one. Prices are on an annual basis where the vendor publishes one, checked 13 Sep 2026.

How we evaluated these alternatives

Every claim about another vendor comes from that vendor’s own public pages, read on the dates in the sources. Every price is the plan that carries the AI, and where a vendor does not publish a price, this post says so. Kepler publishes this page and is one of the seven.

1. Kepler

How it works

Kepler is an AI-first recruitment CRM. You ask AI Chat a question in plain English, about anything in the workspace, and it searches CVs, notes, email threads and call transcripts, then returns the people as a list you can act on. It creates and updates records once you approve.

Kepler scores every candidate from 0 to 100 against the job. The score is based on criteria taken from the job description, which you can edit, and each criterion shows the line from the CV, call or email behind it. Emails, calls and messages become updates you approve, and every field keeps its history with an undo.

What it does

• A meeting notetaker for Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet, and one inbox for email and WhatsApp.
• LinkedIn search that shows whether a person is already in your database and what has changed since you last spoke, and adds them if not.
• CV parsing and formatting, and contact enrichment.
• A consent ledger that records why you may contact each person and until when, flags consent before it runs out and keeps campaigns in line with it.
• Campaigns, automations, reporting, a client portal and a careers site on your own domain.
• A public REST API with webhooks.

Single sign-on is available on the Enterprise plan. For contract placements, Kepler records each placement’s fee, invoice status and payment status and connects to a back-office or payroll system through its API. Carerix’s secondment edition handles contracts, hours and invoicing in its own system.

Pricing

USD 99 per user per month billed annually (USD 1,188 per seat per year), or USD 129 monthly. Every feature is included, with unlimited records and storage. AI Chat is included on every plan, monthly and annual, with no add-on or upgrade needed.

Migration is done for you, free on every plan. You review fifty of your own records before the full load, and it lands in days. You can export the whole workspace at any time, with no exit fee.

See Kepler’s pricing and the feature pages.

2. Spott

Spott describes itself as an AI-native ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies, EU-weighted and EU-hosted. Its AI comes as many separate features, such as CV comparison, enrichment, matching, text-to-filters, inbound triage, call mining and CV reformatting, each with its own switch.

Pricing. Automations, sequences, the marketing suite and data enrichment are only on Pro, USD 199 per user per month billed annually or USD 249 monthly (13 Sep 2026). Core is USD 139 annual. AI token spend is included, and enrichment credits cost extra.

Side by side: Kepler vs Spott. The review: Spott review.

3. Vincere

Vincere is a recruitment platform for mid-size agencies in the UK and APAC, sold as Access Vincere Evo by The Access Group. A core CRM and ATS is surrounded by modules, including TimeTemp for temps, Engage and Portals for candidate sites, and Vinneo for video.

Pricing. The CRM and ATS licence is from GBP 69 per user per month. Copilot and candidate scoring are only in the Base Smart Pack, sold on top from GBP 25 per agency per month. Both are UK “from” prices billed monthly, with a tailored quote (13 Sep 2026). The enrichment agent, chatbots and CRM automation are only in the Automate pack, from GBP 235 per agency per month.

Side by side: Kepler vs Vincere. The review: Vincere review.

4. Bullhorn

Bullhorn is a staffing and recruitment platform: an ATS and CRM sold in editions, with add-on modules including Bullhorn One, Amplify for AI, and a Marketplace of pre-integrated partners.

Pricing. AI search and match, Amplify Chat and AI call transcription are only on Bullhorn Pro, which is priced on request, as are Max, Front Office, Bullhorn One and the add-ons (13 Sep 2026). Starter at USD 99 and Core at USD 165 per user per month are published without Pro’s AI. Prices exclude VAT.

Side by side: Kepler vs Bullhorn. The review: Bullhorn review.

5. Tracker (TrackerRMS)

Tracker describes itself as “the ATS & CRM built for staffing and recruiting agencies”, an all-in-one system sold in the UK and US across four plans. Its site is tracker-rms.com. TrackerAI writes job descriptions, summaries and outreach and ranks résumés. Tracker does not have a chat assistant across your records yet.

Pricing. The Sequencer, AutoAction, Watchdogs and the REST API are only on Professional, priced “Contact Sales” (13 Sep 2026). TrackerAI access varies by plan. Core is USD 99 and Launch USD 79 per user per month, billed monthly with a six-month minimum.

Side by side: Kepler vs Tracker. The review: Tracker review.

6. Recruit CRM

Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies, sold in three published tiers. Its feature list covers calling with recording, bulk texting, sequencing and a mobile app, with AI features layered across them.

Pricing. Business is USD 135 per user per month billed annually or USD 159 monthly (13 Sep 2026). The fifty-match AI allowance, MCP and open API access start on Business. Pro is USD 95 annual with two AI matches. Pro and Business charge extra for add-ons such as LinkedIn messaging (USD 12 per user per month) and Advanced Analytics (USD 25). Only Enterprise, at USD 215 annual, includes them. Done-for-you migration is priced by data volume.

Side by side: Kepler vs Recruit CRM. The review: Recruit CRM review.

7. Recruiterflow

Recruiterflow is an ATS and CRM for search and recruitment firms, built around multichannel sequences and AIRA, a suite of AI agents. Its sequences send email, calls, SMS and professional-networking messages with branching logic.

Pricing. AIRA Notetaker, AIRA Matchmaker and the Field Updates Agent are only on the AIRA Plan, priced “Let’s chat custom pricing” (13 Sep 2026). The Platform Plan is USD 119 per user per month billed annually or USD 149 monthly, without the AIRA agents. White-glove migration is paid by data volume and takes 6–8 weeks.

Side by side: Kepler vs Recruiterflow. The review: Recruiterflow review.

Which Carerix alternative should you choose?

Start from the questions that separate these seven, and check each vendor’s own pages for the answers.

• Do you want to ask, or to search? In Kepler you ask AI Chat about anything in the workspace and it finds, ranks and updates for you. Ask each vendor whether its AI reads notes, email threads and call transcripts, and whether it can act on the answer.
• How is AVG/GDPR consent recorded? Ask whether lawful basis, purpose and expiry are stored per person, what happens when consent lapses, and whether campaigns follow it.
• Is the price of the plan you need published? Kepler, Spott and Recruit CRM publish an annual price for their AI plan, and Vincere publishes UK “from” prices. Bullhorn Pro, Tracker Professional, Recruiterflow’s AIRA Plan and every Carerix edition are priced on request.
• Is the API in the plan? Ask whether API access and webhooks are included or sold as a bundle.

Where Kepler fits. Kepler is built for agencies whose database is their main asset and who would rather ask than build searches. It is one plan at USD 99 per user per month, with the client portal, matching, CV parsing, API, webhooks, contact enrichment and the migration in one price.