Comparison
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) alternatives for recruitment agencies
Eight sourcing tools compared on match evidence, work email, built-in ATS and free trial. On PeopleSearchBench Recruiting, Kretsia scored 84.12 in our June 2026 run, against Juicebox's published 65.73. Competitor facts were read on each vendor's own page on 12 October 2026.
Written by Armin Barimani, co-founder of Kretsia
Compared on 12 October 2026. Last updated
What is the best Juicebox alternative for a recruitment agency?
Juicebox sells PeopleGPT, a plain-language people search. For an agency, Kretsia is our pick. Every requirement is marked met, partial or missing, with a quote from the profile, and Find email returns a work email in one click. The ATS, talent pool, career site and interview scheduling are in the same tool. On PeopleSearchBench Recruiting it scored 84.12 in our June 2026 run, against Juicebox's published 65.73. Pin, Loxo and Leonar are other tools aimed at agencies.
Juicebox alternatives at a glance
Facts come from each vendor's own pages, read on 12 October 2026. Kretsia's 84.12 is our own PeopleSearchBench Recruiting run; the Juicebox and Lessie scores are published in the benchmark's repository. Lessie is described below and left out of the table. Prices are in the sections below.
| Tool | Best for | Match evidence and benchmark | Work email | ATS and scheduling | Free trial | EU company / GDPR note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kretsia | Agencies that want a reason for each match, with ATS and interview scheduling in the same tool | Every requirement met, partial or missing, with a quote from the profile. PeopleSearchBench Recruiting 84.12 (June 2026) | Find email: one click on any sourced person. If none is found, it offers to reach out on LinkedIn | Built in: pipeline, talent pool, career site and interview scheduling | 14 days, no card needed | Swedish company (Gothenburg). DPA for every customer. App and matching in Swedish and English |
| Pin | Staffing agencies and independent recruiters, per Pin | No published score | Yes. Email 1 credit; charged only when found | CRM; integrates with your ATS | Free plan | US company. Hosted in the US. SOC 2 Type II |
| Leonar | Agencies that want an ATS, CRM and sourcing, hosted in the EU | No published score | Yes. Emails on demand, via credits | Built-in ATS and CRM | 7 days | French company (Paris). Hosted in France, per its privacy policy |
| Loxo | Agencies that want ATS, CRM and sourcing in one system | No published score | Yes. Credits: 2,500 per user a month on Professional | Built-in ATS and CRM | 7 days, no card, full Professional platform | US company. States GDPR and SOC 2 compliance; SCCs |
| SeekOut | Enterprise and mid-market recruiting teams | No published score | Yes. Core includes 500 contact credits a month | Integrates with your ATS | 14 days, Sourcing Core | US company. Lists GDPR, SOC 2 Type II; DPA supported |
| hireEZ | Enterprise talent acquisition teams | No published score | Yes | Talent CRM; integrates with your ATS | 7 days, solo tier | US company. EU-US Data Privacy Framework, SCCs, DPO |
| LinkedIn Recruiter | Teams sourcing LinkedIn members | No published score | InMail is the route; no email export on its page | Integrates with your ATS | None mentioned | Owned by Microsoft. GDPR not covered on its page |
| Juicebox For reference | Self-serve plans and a free tier | PeopleSearchBench Recruiting 65.73 (published in the benchmark repository) | Yes. Email 1 credit. Starter 500 a month, Growth 1,500 per seat | Integrates with your ATS (Business plan) | Free plan ($0), not a trial | US company. EU representative, DPA, SOC 2 Type II; no EU hosting stated |
1. Kretsia: best for recruitment agencies that want a ranked shortlist with the reason each person fits
Kretsia is a candidate sourcing tool with applicant tracking and interview scheduling in the same product. It searches public professional profiles worldwide, with matching built for English and Swedish.
The benchmark result
On PeopleSearchBench Recruiting, Kretsia scored 84.12 overall in our run on 25 June 2026: 30 queries, mean of three scoring runs, 13.3 of 15 results qualified per query. Juicebox's published score is 65.73 (11.3 qualified per query), a gap of about 18 points. Scores are from the benchmark repository.
The benchmark page has the full method and every score.
How a search works
- Plain-language brief. Describe the role in your own words or paste the full job ad.
- Check before you spend. Editable must-have and nice-to-have requirements and a pool-size estimate come first. Nothing counts against your plan until you run the search.
- A reason on every match. An AI judge checks each person against every requirement and marks it met, partial or missing, with a quote from the profile that backs it.
- Find email. On any sourced person, one click finds their work email. If none is found, Kretsia offers to reach out on LinkedIn. Emails found are reused across your organisation.
- One system after the shortlist. Save people to a talent pool or add them to a job. Candidates book interviews with Google or Outlook calendars.
Trial and data
14-day free trial, no card needed.
Kretsia AB is a company in Gothenburg, Sweden, and every customer can sign a data processing agreement. The app and the matching work in Swedish and English. Our privacy policy lists the safeguards for any transfer outside the EU. More on the candidate sourcing page.
Juicebox (PeopleGPT) in brief
Juicebox App, Inc. is based in San Francisco. PeopleGPT is its natural-language people search, and an Agents add-on runs searches for you. Its pricing page claims 800 million profiles and "3,000+ companies"; its docs say over 200 million profiles have contact data.
What Juicebox is
- A free plan and public pricing. Free is $0 with limited searches and five one-off contact credits.
- Security and funding. Its trust center lists SOC 2 Type II and a DPA, and its privacy policy names an EU representative in Dublin. pulse2.com reported an $80M Series B in March 2026. It acquired Fetcher's assets in October 2026, per Fetcher's own FAQ.
Juicebox pricing, checked 12 October 2026
From juicebox.ai/pricing, in US dollars per seat per month: Free $0. Starter $99 billed yearly or $119 monthly. Growth $179 yearly or $199 monthly. Business is custom and annual only. The Agents add-on is $199 per agent a month.
Starter includes 500 contact credits a month and Growth 1,500 per seat. An email reveal costs 1 credit (credits docs).
Why teams look for alternatives
- Credit caps. Credits are capped each month and, per its docs, do not roll over on monthly plans.
- The benchmark gap. Its published PeopleSearchBench Recruiting score is 65.73: relevance 66.1, coverage 75.3, utility 55.8. Kretsia scored 84.12.
- Data location. No EU data residency is stated in its trust center or privacy policy.
The other seven Juicebox alternatives
Prices are from each vendor's own page on 12 October 2026.
2. Pin
What it is. A sourcing and CRM product. Best for agencies and independent recruiters, by its own description. An email costs 1 credit, charged only when found; credits do not roll over.
Trial and price. A free plan, with limits that differ across its pages. Solo $99 a month, annual only. Professional $135 billed annually or $179 monthly per user (pin.com/pricing). Hosted in the US.
3. Leonar
What it is. An ATS and CRM for recruiting agencies, based in Paris. Best for European agencies that want sourcing inside their ATS. Emails come through credits.
Trial and price. 7 days. Per user a month, excluding tax: EUR 119 billed annually or EUR 159 monthly (leonar.app). Its privacy policy, updated 1 October 2026, says data is hosted in France.
4. Loxo
What it is. A US ATS, CRM and sourcing product whose pricing page addresses recruiting firms. Best for agencies that want one system of record. Its contact finder is paid in credits, and Loxo's docs say coverage is not uniform worldwide and is best in the US.
Trial and price. 7 days of the full Professional platform, no card. Core starts at $149 per user a month, billed annually. Professional shows "Book a demo" on its card and "included in $199" elsewhere (loxo.co/pricing).
5. SeekOut
What it is. A recruiting platform from Bellevue, Washington. Best for enterprise and mid-market teams. Core includes 500 contact credits a month. See our SeekOut page.
Trial and price. 14 days, Sourcing Core only. Core is $149 a month paid annually or $179 monthly; higher plans are custom and annual (seekout.com/pricing; currency not stated).
6. hireEZ
What it is. A US sourcing and engagement platform with a talent CRM, described as "end-to-end agentic recruiting for enterprise teams". Best for enterprise talent acquisition. See our hireEZ page.
Trial and price. 7 days on the solo tier. Solo recruiters "start at $494/mo"; enterprise pricing is configured per customer (hireez.com/pricing; currency not stated).
7. Lessie
What it is. A general people search engine from Singapore; recruiting is one use case. Best for teams that search beyond recruiting. LessieAI wrote PeopleSearchBench, which lists Lessie at 68.23 on Recruiting. Credits reset monthly: 2 per matching person and 3 to reveal an email.
Trial and price. No trial is stated. Per month: Basic $99 ($84 annual), Pro $299 ($254), Max $699 ($594); per-seat basis not stated (lessie.ai/pricing). No EU hosting is stated.
8. LinkedIn Recruiter
What it is. LinkedIn's own recruiting product, with a Lite version for individuals. Best for teams whose candidates are on LinkedIn: "more than 1 billion members", members only. InMail is the route to reach them.
Trial and price. No trial is mentioned. Pricing "depends on company size, number of Recruiter seats, and more" (LinkedIn). Third-party estimate: Dover lists Lite at $170 a month (5 August 2026).
How to choose a Juicebox alternative as an agency
- Name what you are replacing. Search, work email and the ATS are separate jobs. Kretsia covers all three in one tool.
- Ask for search quality evidence. Run the same three live briefs in every trial and count the people you would send to a client. Of the tools here, only Juicebox, Lessie and Kretsia have PeopleSearchBench Recruiting scores, from different runs.
- Find the meter, then price your team. Juicebox, Loxo and Leonar charge per seat and Pin and Lessie by credit. Ask each vendor for the total for your number of recruiters.
- Decide how you will get a work email. Kretsia's Find email works on any sourced person in one click and offers to reach out on LinkedIn if none is found. Pin, Leonar, Loxo, SeekOut and hireEZ include contact data. LinkedIn Recruiter uses InMail.
- Count the systems you pay for. Leonar, Loxo and Kretsia include an ATS in the same product as sourcing. Kretsia also includes a career site and interview scheduling.
- Ask about data in writing. Request the DPA and where data is stored. Leonar states hosting in France, and Kretsia is a Swedish company with a DPA for every customer and an app in Swedish and English. Juicebox, SeekOut, hireEZ, Loxo and Lessie state no EU residency.
Trials are 14 days at Kretsia and SeekOut, and 7 at Leonar, Loxo and hireEZ. Pin and Juicebox have free plans.
How this comparison was made
We read each vendor's own pricing, docs and privacy pages on 12 October 2026. Vendor claims are worded as claims, and the Dover figure is labeled as a third-party estimate. Juicebox and Lessie benchmark scores come from LessieAI's repository, a vendor source. We print no review ratings because we could only read G2 and Capterra as search snippets. Nobody paid to be included.
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FAQ
Questions about Juicebox alternatives.
Kretsia is our pick for agencies that want a ranked shortlist with the reason each person fits, requirement by requirement, with a quote from the profile. Find email adds a work email in one click, and the ATS, talent pool, career site and interview scheduling are in the same tool. It scored 84.12 on PeopleSearchBench Recruiting in our June 2026 run, against Juicebox's published 65.73. Pin and Loxo also market to agencies.
Juicebox's pricing page, checked on 12 October 2026, lists Free at $0, Starter at $99 per seat a month billed yearly ($119 monthly) and Growth at $179 yearly ($199 monthly). Business is custom and annual only, and the Agents add-on is $199 per agent a month. Contact credits do not roll over on monthly plans.
On PeopleSearchBench Recruiting, Kretsia scored 84.12 in our run on 25 June 2026 (30 queries, mean of three scoring runs). Juicebox's published score is 65.73, about 18 points lower. The full method is on our benchmark page.
Yes. On any sourced person, one click on Find email looks up their work email. If none is found, Kretsia offers to reach out on LinkedIn. Emails found are reused across your organisation. Every result also links to the person's public professional profile, and you can keep people in the built-in talent pool or on a job.
Leonar is a French company, and its privacy policy, updated 1 October 2026, says data is hosted in France. Kretsia is a Swedish company in Gothenburg, and every customer can sign a data processing agreement. Juicebox is a US company with an EU representative in Dublin and a DPA, but it states no EU data residency.
No. Fetcher still appears on older lists, but Juicebox acquired Fetcher's assets, and Fetcher's own FAQ gave 16 October 2026 as the date its platform retires and 19 November as the end of support (the announcement). We left it out of this comparison. If you still use Fetcher, plan your move before 19 November.
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