Spott pricing, plans and limits
AI-native ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies, built in Leuven, with semantic candidate matching, an AI note taker and an MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT.
- Best for
- Recruitment agency owners and directors
- Not for
- Solo recruiters or very small teams wanting a permanent free tier
Should you use Spott?
Pick Spott when your recruitment agency has 20-plus recruiters leaving Bullhorn, Loxo, Vincere or JobAdder and you want AI built into matching, call notes and outreach rather than added on top. Skip it for in-house hiring, solo recruiters who need a free plan, or heavy phone-only work.
Official MCP servers for Claude and ChatGPT that let recruiters query and act on their candidate database directly from those AI assistants.
Spott lists official MCP integrations for Claude and ChatGPT on its integrations page, and names Bullhorn, Loxo and Vincere among the platforms its customers have moved off.
Also for
- Contingency and executive search recruiters
- Recruitment and staffing agency owners
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- Executive search and contingency recruiters
- Agency operations and RevOps leads tracking placement pipelines
- Agencies migrating off legacy ATS/CRM platforms like Bullhorn or Vincere
Also not for
- In-house HR/talent acquisition teams (Spott is built for agencies, not internal hiring)
Main trade-off
No permanent free tier, MCP and API access gated to Pro, and a mobile app reviewers call limited make it a harder sell for small or contract-light teams.
Spott pricing
| Plan | Monthly price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Core | $139/mo | AI search and matching, AI note taker and Ask Spott, Outreach sequences, Opportunities and weighted pipeline, Chrome extension and mobile app, Direct migration included |
| Pro | $199/mo | Everything in Core, AI tagging and marketing suite, Workflow automations, Integrations, MCP, API and webhooks, Advanced analytics and reporting, Dedicated account manager |
| Enterprise | Custom | Everything in Pro, Teams, shared mailboxes and office and brand management, Multi-track job pipelines, SSO, with SCIM coming soon, Guided migration and a Forward Deployed Engineer |
How the pricing works, in full
Prices are per user per month in USD. Core is $139 a month on annual billing or $169 a month billed monthly, Pro is $199 a month on annual billing or $249 billed monthly, and Enterprise is a custom quote. Every seat adds 1,000 credits a month to a shared workspace pool, where an email lookup costs 1 credit and a phone number 10; extra packs cost $75 a month for 5,000 credits, $140 for 10,000, $300 for 25,000 and $550 for 50,000, and unused credits do not roll over. There is no permanent free plan: the pricing page links a free-trial sign-up and a demo, and its FAQ says a trial is set up after the demo.
What each plan includes
Compare the plans feature by feature (9 rows)
| Feature | Core | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI tagging | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Workflow automations | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Marketing suite | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| API, webhooks and MCP server | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Advanced analytics | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Inbox channels | Email, SMS, WhatsApp | Email, SMS, WhatsApp | |
| Mailboxes per user | 1 | 2 | 3+ |
| Migration | Direct | Direct, or guided (paid) | Guided |
| SSO and team permissions | — | — | ✓ |
Before you commit
- Enrichment, automation steps and AI tagging draw on a shared credit pool of 1,000 credits per seat a month; extra packs start at $75 a month for 5,000 credits.
- Automations, the marketing suite, MCP and API access and advanced analytics require Pro, so the $139 Core price covers less than the headline suggests.
What Spott does
Spott is an AI-native ATS and CRM serving external recruitment agencies, started in Leuven, Belgium, in 2024 and backed by Y Combinator and Balderton Capital. It ranks candidates by meaning rather than keywords, transcribes calls onto records, and offers an MCP server that connects Claude and ChatGPT to the candidate database.
Semantic AI matching
AI ranks candidates against written criteria once hard filters cut the pool, explaining each match, and plain-language queries cover notes, attachments and call transcripts.
AI note taker
Transcribes calls and meetings onto the right record and suggests profile updates, included in every paid plan without using credits.
Unified inbox
Email in Core, plus SMS and WhatsApp from Pro, with one mailbox per user on Core, two on Pro and three or more on Enterprise.
MCP server and API
Spott's own MCP server connects Claude and ChatGPT to the candidate database, alongside a REST API and webhooks, from the Pro plan.
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Timesheets and invoicing
Added in October 2026: contract placements carry Timesheets and Invoices tabs, with invoices sent to Xero or QuickBooks Online and timesheets posted to RSM InTime.
In-house migration
A direct migration typically goes live in about a week on Core and Pro, and a guided one takes about four weeks.
Credit-based enrichment
Credits refill monthly at 1,000 per seat for the whole workspace; lookups cost 1 for an email, 5 for a profile and ten for a phone number.
Works with
- Microsoft 365
- Google Workspace
- Zoom
- Claude (MCP)
- ChatGPT (MCP)
- Xero
- QuickBooks Online
- DocuSign
- RSM InTime
Missing integrations
- SAP Fieldglass (listed as coming soon)
- Timesheet Portal (listed as coming soon)
Most users expect these and they are not currently supported.
Capabilities
- Ats
- CRM
- AI matching
- Recruiting AI
- Vector search
- MCP
Strengths and limits
Strengths
- Spott ships its own MCP server, so recruiters can query and update candidate records from Claude or ChatGPT without a third-party connector.
- Core features such as AI matching and the note taker never draw credits, which are reserved for enrichment, automation steps and tagging.
- Spott's own team does the migration, with a direct move typically live in about a week.
- The October 2026 update added timesheets, invoicing and Xero and QuickBooks export, closing the contracting gap that earlier reviews flagged.
Limits
- There is no permanent free plan, and the trial length is not published; a demo is the usual way in.
- The MCP server, API, webhooks, automations and advanced analytics need Pro, so Core users do without them.
- A PeopleManagingPeople review called the mobile app limited; it predates the October release.
- No built-in external candidate database: sourcing depends on integrations like LinkedIn Recruiter, Juicebox and Pin.
- SOC 2 is listed as in progress, so buyers who require it cannot rely on it yet.
Spott alternatives
| Tool | Price from | Free plan | Runs on | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spott This page | $139/mo | Trial | Web · iOS · Android | 3.6 |
 JuiceboxPick Spott to run placements, pipelines and client records in one system; pick Juicebox for AI candidate sourcing that feeds an ATS, which Spott itself lists as a sourcing integration. | $119/mo | Yes | Web | 3.8 |
 ReziAI resume builder and ATS checker with an in-chat agent and a one-time lifetime plan, used by 4.8M job seekers according to the vendor. | $29/mo | Yes | Web | 3.7 |
 Asendia AIAsendia AI is an AI recruiter that runs voice and video interviews around the clock, sources and screens candidates with its own multi-agent suite, then syncs ranked shortlists into your ATS. | $99/mo | Trial | Web · iOS · Android | 3.6 |
Spott facts
- Deployment
- Cloud
- Compliance
- ISO 27001 · GDPR (SOC 2 in progress)
- Works offline
- No
- Minimum skill level
- Basic
- Price band
- Mid-range
- Maker founded
- 2024
- Training-data policy
- Does not use customer candidate or client data to train foundation models; data is processed only to deliver results within the customer's own account.
- Training
- Documentation · Standard onboarding · Product update posts
- Total funding
- $24.2M per Spott's llms.txt: $3.2M seed (March 2025, led by Base10 Partners) and $21M Series A (September 2026, led by Balderton Capital)
Data and privacy
Proprietary
Questions about Spott
How much does Spott cost in 2026?
Core costs $139 a month per user on annual billing or $169 month to month, and Pro costs $199 annually or $249 monthly; Enterprise is quoted individually. Core covers AI matching, the note taker, outreach sequences and the mobile app, while Pro adds automations, the marketing suite, advanced analytics and API and MCP access. Enrichment draws on a shared credit pool, with packs sold on top.
Is Spott free to use?
No permanent free plan exists. Spott's pricing page offers a demo and a free-trial link, and its FAQ says a trial can be set up after a demo so a team can test it on its own data; the trial length is not published. PeopleManagingPeople's review, last updated on 29 August 2026, also notes a free trial but calls Spott a poor fit for buyers who want a free ATS.
Does Spott work with Claude and ChatGPT?
Yes. Spott lists Claude, ChatGPT and its own MCP server among its integrations, so a recruiter can query and update candidate records from either assistant, and the developer docs have an MCP page. On the current price list the MCP server, API and webhooks sit in Pro and above, not in Core.
Which systems can Spott migrate from, and how long does it take?
Spott says it converts candidates, contacts, companies, jobs, applications, placements, notes, tasks, files and custom fields from any ATS or CRM, naming Bullhorn, Vincere, JobAdder, Loxo and Recruiterflow. A direct migration takes about a week; a guided one takes about four weeks. Email history syncs once each user connects a mailbox.
Does Spott train AI models on my candidate data?
No. Spott states on its pricing and security pages that it does not use candidate or client records for model training, and it hosts them in Europe. Spott lists ISO 27001 certification and GDPR compliance, with SOC 2 in progress, and names OpenAI, Azure, PostHog and Sentry among its vetted subprocessors.
About Spott
Spott is an AI-native applicant tracking system (ATS) and CRM for external recruitment agencies, founded in Leuven, Belgium, in 2024 by Lander Degreve, Samuel Smeys and Manu Vanderveeren, whose work with recruitment businesses at McKinsey, Bain and BCG convinced them that agencies were stuck on ageing, fragmented software. It joined Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch, raised a $3.2 million seed round in March 2025 led by Base10 Partners, and announced a $21 million Series A on 22 September 2026 led by Balderton Capital, with Base10, Y Combinator and Fortino taking part; Spott's own llms.txt puts total funding at $24.2 million. It now works from offices in Leuven, New York and Sydney.
Read the full background
Search works in two stages, according to Spott: hard filters narrow the pool, then AI ranks the remaining candidates against written criteria, and recruiters can also search notes, attachments and call transcripts in plain language. A built-in note taker transcribes calls and meetings and suggests updates to the right record, a unified inbox pulls in email (plus SMS and WhatsApp from Pro), and enrichment fills in missing emails, profile data and phone numbers from a monthly credit pool.
Core and Pro are priced per user, and Enterprise is quoted. Outreach sequences, the Chrome extension and the mobile app come in Core. Pro adds AI tagging, the marketing suite, workflow automations, advanced analytics and the integrations layer, which includes the API, webhooks and Spott's own MCP server for connecting Claude or ChatGPT to the candidate database. AI search and matching, the note taker, Ask Spott and CV formatting use no credits.
The October 2026 product update, posted on 4 November 2026, answered the gap contract and temp desks had flagged: contract placements now carry Timesheets and Invoices tabs, timesheets post to RSM InTime, and invoices can be pushed to Xero and QuickBooks Online as drafts. The same update rebuilt analytics dashboards around per-recruiter targets and added a DocuSign integration.
Spott does its own data migration. A direct move from an existing system typically goes live in about a week and is included in Core and Pro; a guided migration, with a specialist and a separate validation environment, takes about four weeks and comes with Enterprise or as a paid add-on on Pro.
Where it loses: Spott describes its ideal customer as an agency of 20 or more users moving off Bullhorn, Loxo, Vincere or JobAdder, which puts very small teams and in-house departments outside its target, and Recruit CRM is another system it lists customers migrating from. External candidate sourcing runs through integrations such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Juicebox and Pin rather than a built-in database, and enrichment replaces separate tools like Lusha, per Spott's pricing page. A PeopleManagingPeople review dated 29 August 2026 also called the mobile app limited. There is no free plan, and Spott says it is not an in-house HR tool. Wider comparisons sit in the AI recruiting roundup and the AI recruiting directory.
Sources and guides
Official sources
- Spott official site Vendor
- Spott Documentation Docs
- Spott pricing Docs
- Compare Spott to Every ATS & CRM Docs
Product facts on this page (pricing, plans, integrations, compliance) are read from Spott's own pages and documentation. The verdict is Hokai's reading of them, not the vendor's claim.
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