Deskspark vs. the field
Everything included. One price. No exceptions.
Deskspark is built voice-first for recruitment agencies, with every AI feature included in one price, no add-on menu to work through. Here's what that means in practice, and how the numbers stack up.
Talk to your CRM
Vicki is a voice-native AI copilot wired directly into your pipeline. "Add client from Acme called Jane Smith" creates the record, no forms. She remembers who you're talking about mid-conversation, and flags deals gone quiet before you have to ask.
One price, everything included
One price, one plan, every AI feature. No tiers to climb, no metered add-ons, no per-feature upgrade requests: what you see on the pricing page is what you get.
Built for how a desk actually works
Candidates, clients, and jobs live side by side, with permanent and contract/temp placements both native to the same pipeline, not bolted on after the fact.
Live in minutes, not weeks
Self-serve signup, no sales call or onboarding queue. Your workspace is ready the moment you sign up.
Starting price, per recruiter/month
Each vendor's own published entry price, billed annually, read from their own pricing page. The table below says which currency each one publishes in, and when they were last checked.
We are not the cheapest line here, and we are not trying to be. Deskspark is one price with every feature in it, including the AI, against tools that either meter the AI separately or sit above us outright.
Deskspark
per recruiter/mo, billed annually. One price, every feature, no seat minimum
$149
Spott
Core, billed annually. Automations, sequences and marketing are Pro at £139
£109
Jarvi
single flat plan, everything included, billed annually (£129 month to month)
£117
Recruit CRM
Pro, billed annually. Business is £105, Enterprise £165, and enterprise features are billed separately
£75
Bullhorn
Starter, US list price. Core is $165; larger firms are quoted
$99
Recruiterflow
Platform plan, US list price. Their AI plan, AIRA, is custom-priced
$119
Loxo
Core, from, billed annually, US list price. Professional is $199
$149+
Each figure is the vendor's own published price, read from their pricing page on 4 October 2026. Where a vendor publishes to UK buyers in pounds, that is the price shown; the rest publish US list prices only, marked as such. Nothing here is converted — a converted figure is one no vendor actually quotes. Deskspark is shown in USD. Enterprise deals are commonly negotiated and can differ from list price.
What's included, not upsold
Deskspark is one price with one plan, so nothing already built is withheld for a higher tier. That's a deliberate guardrail, not a launch promise that quietly erodes later.
| Feature | Deskspark | Typical recruitment CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Full candidate & client pipeline | Included | |
| Voice-native AI copilot | Not offered | |
| AI CV parsing | Metered add-on | |
| AI candidate-to-job matching | Metered add-on | |
| AI-drafted submission emails | Metered add-on | |
| Semantic search — describe who you want in plain English | Metered add-on | |
| Interview tracking & auto-invoicing | Included | |
| Contract/temp placements & timesheet billing | Metered add-on | |
| Reporting by individual, team & company | Metered add-on | |
| Workflow automation | Metered add-on | |
| Two-way Outlook & Microsoft 365 mailbox sync | Metered add-on | |
| Calendar sync with interview scheduling | Metered add-on | |
| SMS and WhatsApp in one inbox | Metered add-on | |
| Click-to-call, with opt-in recording and transcription | Metered add-on | |
| Reference checking, answered without a login | Metered add-on | |
| Candidate self-service profile updates | Metered add-on | |
| Client submittal packs & placement confirmations | Metered add-on | |
| Hiring signals from your own notes and clients' job boards | Not offered | |
| Multi-step outreach sequences from your own mailbox | Metered add-on | |
| GDPR erasure, retention policy & subject-access export | Metered add-on | |
| Guided import from your current ATS — Bullhorn exports recognised on sight | Metered add-on | |
| Job/board multiposting automation | Metered add-on |
"Typical recruitment CRM" reflects patterns confirmed in published vendor pricing pages, not a feature-by-feature audit of every named competitor's current product. Job/board multiposting isn't built in Deskspark yet; see the note below.
Where Deskspark is still catching up
Job-board multiposting to LinkedIn and the wider board network, the kind larger platforms reach via an aggregator relationship built up over years, isn't built in Deskspark yet. Deskspark is newer and doesn't claim otherwise; it's built for agencies who want a faster, cheaper, voice-native alternative for the day-to-day of running placements, not a like-for-like enterprise back-office replacement in every dimension.
Common questions about switching
The real questions agencies ask before moving off their current tool.
How long does it take my team to get up and running?
There's no sales call or onboarding queue to wait on. Sign up and you're in your own workspace immediately. Vicki, Deskspark's voice and plain-English copilot, is built specifically to flatten the learning curve of a new tool.
Can I bring over my existing candidates and clients?
Yes. There are guided CSV imports for contacts, companies, jobs, deals and prospects, each with column mapping you can adjust. Paste in a Bullhorn candidate or company export and Deskspark recognises it and fills the mapping in for you; for anything else it suggests a mapping from your own headers. Before a single row is written you get a report of what is wrong with the file — missing emails, malformed phone numbers, duplicates inside the file itself — and the option to clean it on the way in rather than after.
What if I want to leave?
One click, any time: Settings has a real "Export All Data" button that bundles every contact, deal, job, task, invoice, and more into one JSON file, free, no support ticket required. Nothing about your data is locked to Deskspark.
Do you support contract and temp placements, not just permanent?
Yes. A deal can be flagged Contract instead of Permanent, with its own pay rate and bill rate. Log weekly timesheets against it and approving one drafts the client invoice automatically, so temp/contract desks aren't bolted onto a permanent-only data model.
Does Deskspark integrate with LinkedIn or our phone system?
Phones, yes. Connect Twilio and you can dial a candidate from their record and have the call log itself, with optional consent-gated recording. Without Twilio, Dial hands the number to whatever softphone you already use — any provider — and Deskspark asks how it went so the call still gets logged. LinkedIn, no: there is no messaging API for it, and tools that claim one are driving a browser against LinkedIn's terms and getting accounts restricted. We would rather say that than sell you something that gets your team locked out.
Do you help with the actual switch?
Yes. There is an onboarding session for your desk, the guided imports do the heavy lifting, and support is a real person rather than a ticket queue. If you are moving a larger desk, or need an integration scoped around systems you already run, that is a conversation rather than a plan you pick. See what's included.
See the difference on your own pipeline.
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