7 best Spott alternatives for recruitment agencies in 2026

The seven Spott alternatives, in one line each

• Kepler — a modern CRM where you ask AI Chat and it finds, ranks and updates records for you.
• Recruit CRM — an ATS and CRM with add-ons for automation and multiposting.
• Loxo — an ATS and CRM sold with its own sourcing graph.
• Recruiterflow — an ATS and CRM built around outbound sequences.
• Crelate — a US recruiting CRM with an AI Co-Pilot.
• Vincere — a modular suite with its AI sold as Smart Packs.
• Bullhorn — a large staffing platform with a partner marketplace.

Why do agencies look for a Spott alternative?

Spott is an AI-native ATS and CRM, in the same category as Kepler. The reasons agencies compare alternatives are on Spott’s own pages.

• The full feature set starts on the second tier. Spott Core is USD 139 per user per month billed annually and Pro is USD 199. Automations, Multi-Channel Sequences, the Marketing Suite and Data Enrichment start at Pro (spott.io/pricing, 13 Sep 2026).
• Enrichment is paid on top. AI token spend is included in every Spott plan, but enrichment credits for contact data cost extra.
• Ask AI works one record at a time. Spott does not have an AI chat that works across records inside the app. Its documentation sends those questions to ChatGPT or Claude through its MCP server.
• Career pages sit on Spott’s domain. Branded career pages are hosted under app.spott.io/careers/.

The full Spott review compares Kepler and Spott feature by feature.

Spott alternatives compared at a glance

The price column is the plan a buyer would put beside Spott Pro, the tier carrying the vendor’s AI, on an annual basis in the vendor’s currency.

How we evaluated these alternatives

Every claim about another vendor comes from that vendor’s own pricing page, documentation or product pages, read on the date in the sources. The price shown is the plan that carries the vendor’s AI, never the cheapest tier. Kepler publishes this post.

1. Kepler

What it is

Kepler is a recruitment CRM built around AI Chat and a searchable database. You ask AI Chat a question in plain English, and it searches CVs, notes, email threads and call transcripts, ranks the people it finds, and creates or updates records once a person approves.

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 WhatsApp messages become proposed updates you approve, with history and undo on every field.

Around AI Chat, Kepler includes:

• pipelines, email and calendar sync, and a notetaker for Teams, Zoom and Google Meet
• email and WhatsApp conversations in one inbox
• LinkedIn search that shows whether a person is already in your database and what has changed, and adds them if not
• CV parsing and formatting, and a careers site on your own domain
• email campaigns, automations, a client portal and consent records
• a public API and an MCP server for outside AI tools

Contact enrichment for emails, mobile numbers and LinkedIn URLs is available. Single sign-on is available on the Enterprise plan.

Pricing

USD 99 per user per month billed annually, or USD 129 monthly. Every feature is on that single plan, with unlimited records and a monthly AI allowance with more on request. AI Chat is included on every plan, monthly and annual, with no add-on or upgrade needed. There is no exit fee. See Kepler pricing and the feature pages.

Migration

Kepler migrates your data for you, free, on every plan. You review fifty of your own records before the full load, and custom fields, activity, stages and history come across.

2. Recruit CRM

Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for small and mid-size agencies. Its AI is a set of task-level helpers, including a 0–100 candidate match, a call transcript generator and AI sourcing, alongside bulk texting, multiposting and enrichment.

Pricing. Business is USD 135 per user per month billed annually, or USD 159 monthly, the first tier with fifty AI matches and open API access. Pro is USD 95 annual with two AI matches, and Enterprise is USD 215 annual. On Business, automation, multiposting and enrichment are add-ons, and done-for-you migration is paid by data volume. Read on recruitcrm.io/pricing, 13 Sep 2026.

Side by side: Kepler vs Recruit CRM. Review: Recruit CRM.

3. Loxo

Loxo describes itself as a talent intelligence platform: an ATS and CRM sold with Loxo Source, a graph of professionals with contact information, plus AI agents, Loxo AI Chat and multi-channel outreach.

Pricing. Professional is USD 199 per user per month billed annually and paid up front, with Loxo Source, the agents, Loxo AI Chat, API access and 2,500 pooled credits per seat per month. Those are only on Professional. Core is USD 149 annual without them. Read on loxo.co/pricing, 13 Sep 2026.

Side by side: Kepler vs Loxo. Review: Loxo.

4. Recruiterflow

Recruiterflow is an ATS and CRM built around outbound sequences across email, calls and SMS, with its AIRA agents sold as a second plan above the platform.

Pricing. The AIRA Plan, with AIRA Notetaker, AIRA Matchmaker and the Field Updates Agent, is “Let’s chat custom pricing”. The agents are only on the AIRA Plan. The Platform Plan is USD 119 per user per month billed annually or USD 149 monthly, with sequences, automation and API access. White-glove migration is paid and typically takes six to eight weeks. Read on recruiterflow.com/pricing, 13 Sep 2026.

Side by side: Kepler vs Recruiterflow. Review: Recruiterflow.

5. Crelate

Crelate is a recruiting CRM for US agencies with a pipeline interface, an AI Co-Pilot, a Discovery Agent over an external pool of people and companies, and client portals from its Business tier.

Pricing. The Advanced AI Assistant, sequences and the full API are only on Business Plus, which is priced on request, per user, paid annually. Business is USD 119 per user per month billed annually or USD 149 monthly without those. Essentials is USD 85 annual for up to two users. Texting, email campaigns, eSignature and enrichment carry a fee on every tier, and migration is a paid package. Read on crelate.com/pricing, 13 Sep 2026.

Side by side: Kepler vs Crelate. Review: Crelate.

6. Vincere

Vincere, sold today as Access Vincere Evo by The Access Group, is a recruitment suite for UK and APAC agencies. It is sold as modules, with the AI sold as Smart Packs on top of the licence.

Pricing. The CRM and ATS licence is from GBP 69 per user per month, plus the Base Smart Pack from GBP 25 per agency per month for Copilot, candidate scoring and the content optimiser. Both are UK “from” prices billed monthly, with the actual figure a tailored quote. Enrichment and CRM automation need the Automate pack, from GBP 235 per agency per month. Read on theaccessgroup.com, 13 Sep 2026.

Side by side: Kepler vs Vincere. Review: Vincere.

7. Bullhorn

Bullhorn is a large staffing platform sold in tiers, with a marketplace of pre-integrated partners, add-on products and an AI layer sold as Amplify.

Pricing. Bullhorn Pro, the small-agency tier with the recruitment CRM, AI search and match, Amplify Chat and call transcription, is quote-only. Starter at USD 99 per user per month and Core at USD 165 are published but carry neither the AI nor the recruitment CRM. Higher tiers and the add-ons are quote-only, and published prices exclude VAT. Read on bullhorn.com/small-agency-software/pricing, 13 Sep 2026.

Side by side: Kepler vs Bullhorn. Review: Bullhorn.

How do you choose a Spott alternative?

Ask each vendor the same questions and compare the answers. Here is how Kepler answers them.

• Is the AI in the plan you are pricing? Kepler has a single plan at USD 99 per user per month billed annually, and every AI feature is in it.
• What is paid on top of the seat? Nothing for AI Chat. Kepler includes a monthly AI allowance in the seat, with more capacity on request, and unlimited records and storage.
• Can you ask the AI about your whole database? Kepler’s AI Chat reads CVs, notes, emails and call transcripts across the workspace, and updates records after a person approves.
• Can you see why a candidate scored what they did? Kepler scores every candidate from 0 to 100, and each criterion shows the line from the CV, call or email behind it.
• Who does the migration, and what does it cost? Kepler does it for you, free, on every plan.

Where Kepler fits. Kepler is built for agencies that want a simple CRM with the AI included: you ask AI Chat instead of searching by hand, at one published price, with the migration done for you.