Bullhorn Pricing 2026: Starter $99, Core $165 Per User

Short answer: Bullhorn publishes a price for two plans only (September 2026, excluding VAT): Starter at $99 and Core at $165 per user per month. Pro, Max (the Amplify AI tiers), larger-agency plans, Recruitment Cloud and every add-on are quote-only. Implementation is free on Starter, Core and Pro, and there is no free trial. Six users on Core cost about $11,880 a year.

Bullhorn is an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system designed specifically for the staffing industry.

For years Bullhorn published no pricing whatsoever, and this page used to say exactly that. That is no longer true. Bullhorn now publishes a list price for its two entry tiers. Everything above them is still quote-only.

So this guide covers three things: what Bullhorn actually publishes, what stays unpublished once you get past the published tiers, and when that price is worth it.

We'll answer these questions for you:

• Which Bullhorn plans are there?
• What does Bullhorn cost?
• When should I pay for Bullhorn?
• What are alternatives to Bullhorn?

Prices below were verified against Bullhorn's own pricing pages in September 2026. Bullhorn negotiates per company, so your quote will vary by geography, headcount and industry.

Which Bullhorn plans are there?

Bullhorn sells two different product families, and this is what makes most Bullhorn price comparisons useless.

The Bullhorn Platform is the proprietary ATS and CRM that most agencies mean when they say "Bullhorn". The Bullhorn Recruitment Cloud is the Salesforce-based line, and not one of its tiers carries a published price.

You will also still see Team, Corporate and Enterprise quoted as Bullhorn's plan names all over the web (this page did the same until we rechecked it). Those are legacy labels. The current small-agency lineup is Starter, Core, Pro and the new Max.

Bullhorn Starter: $99 per user, per month

• Applicant tracking
• Resume parsing
• Client management
• Job posting with career portal
• Live expert support

Bullhorn Core: $165 per user, per month

Everything in Starter, plus:

• App marketplace (300+ partners)
• Custom fields and workflows
• LinkedIn integration
• Bullhorn email sidebar

Bullhorn Pro: custom pricing

Everything in Core, plus:

• Recruitment CRM (sales pipeline)
• AI search and match, Amplify Chat, data enrichment and call transcription
• Process automation
• Real-time analytics
• Dedicated account manager

Bullhorn Max: custom pricing

Everything in Pro, plus agentic screening, matching and multi-step AI outreach, a website chatbot and interview scheduling.

Notice what sits behind the quote-only wall: the CRM. The sales pipeline half of "ATS and CRM" is not included in either of the two priced tiers.

Add-ons: priced separately

These are each a separate "get a quote" line on Bullhorn's pricing page, not part of a seat:

• Search and Match
• Onboarding
• Back office (pay and bill)
• Middle office, Analytics, Messaging
• Amplify Digital Workers, Recruitment Automation, VMS Automation

What does Bullhorn cost?

The two figures Bullhorn publishes, as of September 2026:

• Bullhorn Starter: $99 per user, per month
• Bullhorn Core: $165 per user, per month
• Bullhorn Pro, Bullhorn Max, Front Office Growth and Enterprise, Bullhorn One, the Recruitment Cloud and every add-on: custom quote

Read "per user" carefully, because this is the single most common mistake made about Bullhorn's price (including by the earlier version of this page, which said "$99 per month"). A six-person desk on Core is roughly $11,880 a year, not $165 a month.

Bullhorn's small-agency page states "No setup fees. No hidden costs". That claim is attached to Starter and Core. It does not describe the negotiated tiers, which is where most agencies of any size actually land.

What is not published above the priced tiers. We removed the aggregator seat and implementation ranges this page once repeated, because none traces to a primary source:

• Seats: no per-user price for Pro, Max or larger plans; third-party estimates vary too much to quote
• Implementation: free on Starter, Core and Pro, and scoped inside the quote for Max
• Renewal: no uplift figure or cap is published (Atlas), so price the second year, not just the first

There is also no free trial, as Bullhorn confirms. Past Starter and Core, evaluating Bullhorn means booking a sales call.

When should I pay for Bullhorn?

Bullhorn is a system of record for candidate and client data, with a distinct focus on staffing agencies. It is mainly used in the US but is globally available.

The useful question is not "is Bullhorn good", it is "am I buying the part of Bullhorn that costs this much".

Bullhorn is worth its price if:

• You run a temp or contract desk and need timesheets, pay and bill, and middle or back office in the same system as the ATS. This is the real moat, and it is why generic ATSs are not substitutes.
• You work through VMS portals and want that req intake automated rather than rekeyed.
• You are big enough that the 300+ partner marketplace and the API matter, because your stack is already built around them.
• You have the volume to absorb a negotiated price and any renewal increase without it changing your economics.

You are probably overpaying if:

• You are a perm-only desk. You would be paying staffing-grade prices for an ATS and never touching the modules that justify them.
• You are one to three recruiters. At that size, check whether Starter or Core covers you before entering a quote conversation for the tiers above.
• What you actually need is a pipeline and a client list, not a system of record.

Either way, consider your alternatives before you sign. There are other solutions in this market, and several publish their prices.

What alternatives do I have?

If you're not sure Bullhorn is worth the price, you have two realistic directions.

1. General-purpose tools

Plenty of small desks run on a spreadsheet plus a CRM before they buy staffing software. It works up to a point. You get no resume parsing, no career portal and no candidate deduplication, and the manual work scales with your placement volume rather than staying flat.

Here are the tools staffing agencies most often use this way:

• Google Sheets (genuinely free)
• HubSpot (free CRM tier, but no ATS)
• Smartsheet
• monday.com

Be careful with the word "free" here. monday.com's free plan caps at 2 seats and 3 boards, and its paid plans start at 3 seats and rise in buckets of 5, so a team of four pays for five seats. Its CRM product has a 3-seat minimum. It is cheaper than Bullhorn, but it is a work OS that you would be configuring into an ATS yourself, on your own time.

2. A cheaper recruitment ATS

The more direct comparison is a purpose-built recruitment ATS. Unlike Bullhorn, several of these publish a list price you can check without a sales call:

• Manatal: $15 per user per month annually (Professional, capped at 15 jobs and 10,000 candidates), $35 for Enterprise with no caps. Includes a recruitment CRM for leads and clients. No back office.
• Workable: $299 per month on Standard and $599 on Premier for 1 to 20 employees, priced per company rather than per seat.
• Recruitee: no longer publishes figures. Tiered by plan, company headcount and billing period, with a minimum one-year commitment and a 20% discount for paying annually.
• Teamtailor: quote only.
• Greenhouse: quote only, and built for in-house talent teams rather than agencies.

One caveat that applies to this whole list: Workable, Recruitee, Teamtailor and Greenhouse are built for in-house hiring. They track candidates against your own reqs, not clients, placements and margin. For an agency, that is a real functional gap, and it is why Manatal is the closest like-for-like swap for a perm desk leaving Bullhorn.

If your gap is finding candidates, not tracking them, HeroHunt.ai is an AI Recruiter (not an ATS) that searches up to 1 billion public profiles, screens with AI and contacts by email and LinkedIn. Plans start at $99 per month with an 8-day free trial (a card is needed, charged when the trial ends unless you cancel). More options: the best AI-native ATS for agencies.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Bullhorn cost per month?

Bullhorn Starter costs $99 per user per month and Bullhorn Core costs $165 per user per month, excluding VAT, per Bullhorn's pricing page. Prices are per seat, so six users on Core come to about $11,880 a year. Pro, Max, the larger-agency plans and add-ons have no published price.

How much does Bullhorn CRM cost?

Bullhorn publishes no price for its recruitment CRM. The sales-pipeline CRM starts at the quote-only Pro tier (or Front Office Growth for larger agencies), per the pricing page. Starter and Core do not include it, so ask for an itemised written quote.

How much does Bullhorn Amplify cost?

Bullhorn publishes no Amplify price. Amplify AI comes bundled in the quote-only Pro and Max tiers, and Amplify Digital Workers and Amplify Search and Match are each listed as "Get a quote" on the pricing page. Ask which Amplify skills your tier includes.

Does Bullhorn have an enterprise edition?

The nearest match is Front Office Enterprise, one of the plans for larger agencies alongside Front Office Growth and Bullhorn One (which adds timesheets and pay and bill). Bullhorn also sells four Recruitment Cloud editions on Salesforce. Every one is quote-only, with no published price.