Talent First vs Loxo

Add BD intelligence
without rebuilding your agency.

Loxo is a full ATS, CRM, and sourcing platform that wants to be your whole stack. Talent First does one thing, client-side BD, and runs alongside the tools you already have. Here is how they compare.

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Keep Bullhorn. Add the BD layer.

Side by side

Where the two part ways.

What it is for

Talent First

A focused BD layer: finding and scoring client opportunities for your desk.

Loxo

An all-in-one platform: ATS, CRM, candidate sourcing, and outreach in one place.

Getting started

Talent First

Sits alongside your existing ATS, live in days.

Loxo

Replacing your current stack, which is a real migration.

Main focus

Talent First

Client-side BD, recruitment-specific.

Loxo

Mostly candidate sourcing across 1.2B profiles, with a newer Sales CRM module.

Market

Talent First

UK-built for UK desks.

Loxo

US-centric.

Pricing

Talent First

Published. £195 to £695 a month depending on team size.

Loxo

From around $209 per user per month, higher tiers custom.

Trying it

Talent First

A 7-day self-serve trial, no call first.

Loxo

Free basic ATS tier, paid tiers sales-led.

Loxo details reflect publicly available information, accurate to mid-2026. Pricing reflects each company's published figures.

Giving credit

Where Loxo is genuinely strong.

Loxo is well-funded, feature-rich, and its candidate database is huge. If you want to run your entire agency on a single modern platform and you are willing to move off your current tools, it is a serious option.

Talent First takes the opposite approach. Most UK agencies are embedded in Bullhorn and do not want to rip it out. Talent First adds the BD intelligence on top, so you get the new capability without the migration.

Why agencies switch

Three reasons recruiters choose Talent First.

Integrate, do not replace

Talent First runs alongside Bullhorn and the rest of your stack. No rebuild, no retraining the team on a new system.

BD-first and recruitment-specific

Not a sourcing database with BD bolted on. Talent First is built to find and score new-client opportunities for recruitment desks.

UK-built and transparent

Made in the UK for UK desks, with pricing on the page and a trial you start yourself.

Add BD without the migration.

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