Kretsia vs Talentium for recruitment agencies

What is the difference between Kretsia and Talentium?

Both turn a plain-language brief into a list of candidates and explain why each one fits. Kretsia marks every requirement met, partial or missing with a quote from the profile, finds a work email in one click with Find email, and puts sourcing, applicant tracking, a talent pool and interview scheduling in one product, with the app and matching in Swedish and English. Talentium is a sourcing layer that sits on top of the ATS you already use. Kretsia suits agencies that want one system for the whole flow.

How Kretsia and Talentium each work

Kretsia

Kretsia is a candidate sourcing tool with applicant tracking, a talent pool and interview scheduling in the same product. It searches public professional profiles worldwide, in English or Swedish.

• Plain-language brief. Describe the role in your own words or paste the full job ad.
• Check before you spend. Kretsia turns the brief into editable must-have and nice-to-have requirements and estimates how many people match. Nothing counts against your plan until you run the search.
• A reason on every match. Each requirement is marked 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 the talent pool or add them to a job, where the application is scored against it. Candidates book interviews in their own time zone.

14-day free trial, no card needed. More on the candidate sourcing page.

Talentium

Talentium AB is based in Stockholm. Its homepage says, "Your ATS keeps the records. Talentium tells you who's right." It states that it searches 850M+ profiles.

• Sources. Talentium says one search covers the open web, your network and your applicants (AI search page).
• Matching. Each candidate gets a written case with a verdict per requirement and the gaps (matching page).
• ATS. Talentium says it works with the major ATS platforms, and your ATS stays the system of record (integrations page). Its pricing page also lists a pipeline on every plan.

Talentium pricing, checked 12 October 2026

From talentium.io/pricing, per user and excluding VAT. Free is EUR 0, with 15 saved candidates a month and no contact details. Starter is EUR 149 a month and adds contact details and 50 saved candidates. Growth is EUR 349 and adds unlimited searches. Enterprise is custom. A yearly toggle is marked "Save 20%"; the homepage FAQ says EUR 119 and EUR 279 billed annually.

Sources. Talentium's security page, its press release of 8 May 2026 and EQT's portfolio page, read 12 October 2026. Talentium here means talentium.io, not Talentum.

Where Kretsia is stronger

• One product instead of two. With Talentium your ATS stays the system of record, so sourcing and the ATS are two products. In Kretsia a sourced person goes to the talent pool or onto a job in one click, where the application is scored against the role.
• A quote behind every requirement. You check each verdict against the profile line without leaving the result.
• A work email in one click. Find email works on any sourced person. If no email is found, Kretsia offers to reach out on LinkedIn, and emails found are reused across your organisation.
• You check the search before it runs. You edit the requirements and see how many people match.
• Interview scheduling included. Candidates book in their own time zone, with Google or Outlook calendars.
• Swedish and English throughout. The app and the matching work in both. Talentium's website is in English, Dutch and German, and Swedish works there as a search language.
• A published benchmark result. Kretsia scored 84.12 on PeopleSearchBench Recruiting in our run on 25 June 2026, with 13.3 of 15 results qualified per query. The full method is on the benchmark page.

Choose Kretsia if...

• You want sourcing, applicant tracking and interviews in one system. Sourced people, applicants and the talent pool live together, and candidates book interviews in their own time zone.
• You want a work email without leaving the result. Find email works on any sourced person, and offers to reach out on LinkedIn if no email is found.
• You work in Swedish. The app and the matching work in Swedish and English. Titles and skills are matched in both languages.
• You want to see the evidence before you shortlist. Each match marks every requirement met, partial or missing, and quotes the profile for every requirement it meets.

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