Vitae vs Loxo: Which AI-driven recruiting platform is right for your agency?

Loxo was one of the first agency CRMs to lean hard into AI. Its sourcing engine and built-in AI tools have made it a popular choice for boutique and mid-market agencies. Vitae is the newer entrant, also AI-native, with a different philosophy on how AI should integrate.

Here is the head-to-head.

TL;DR

• Loxo wins on: established AI sourcing tooling, mature agency-specific UX, large existing customer base.
• Vitae wins on: native MCP, BYO-AI keys, no token markup, deeper composability, lower entry price.
• Pick Loxo if you have already built workflows on it and switching cost is high.
• Pick Vitae if you want the platform that treats AI as the substrate, not a feature.

Where Loxo wins

Loxo has been doing AI-driven recruiting for several years and has a polished sourcing engine, integrated AI scoring, and a recruiter UX optimised for agency workflows. It is a solid product with a real customer base.

For agencies who already use it and have built their internal playbook around it, the switching cost is real and Loxo continues to ship.

Where Vitae wins

• Native MCP server. Your Claude or ChatGPT can drive Vitae directly. Loxo keeps you inside its UI.
• Bring your own AI keys with zero markup. You pay Anthropic or OpenAI directly. Loxo bills its AI usage at marked-up token rates.
• Connect any external tool. Drop in API keys for Exa, CoreSignal, Apollo, your own systems. Loxo limits you to its built-in sourcing data.
• Composable schema. Custom objects, custom fields, custom pipelines from the Solo plan. Loxo is more rigid.
• Lower entry. Vitae Solo is $29 per month. Loxo entry is around $169 per recruiter per month.

Who should pick Loxo

• Agencies already running on Loxo with mature playbooks built around its workflows.
• Teams that need a single integrated AI sourcing experience and do not care to bring their own model.

Who should pick Vitae

• Agencies that want flexibility on AI provider choice and pricing.
• Teams that want to plug their own sourcing data sources into the AI workflow.
• Agencies frustrated with the per-recruiter cost ladder of legacy AI ATSs.
• New or modernising agencies starting fresh and choosing infrastructure for the next decade.

Loxo proved that AI-driven recruiting works. The next generation of platforms make AI provider-agnostic and infrastructure-grade.

The bottom line

Loxo deserves credit for showing the agency market what AI-driven recruiting could look like. The next wave goes further: AI you bring with you, integrations you choose, infrastructure that stays open. Vitae is built for that wave.

Compare Vitae’s pricing or read about how integrations and BYO-AI work.