Stop paying per recruiter to make a phone ring
Aircall licences people. Recruitly licences numbers — so the whole desk calls, the AI briefs you before you dial, and the write-up lands on the candidate without anyone typing.
A bill counted in people
Their published entry plan is $30 per user per month billed annually, with a three-licence minimum — so the meter starts at $90 a month whether anyone dials or not.
Hiring a consultant shouldn’t raise your phone bill
Numbers are what cost money. People are what make you money.
The bill grows with your headcount, not your calling
Every recruiter you hire is another monthly licence, and every recruiter who spends the week on LinkedIn instead of the phone is a licence you paid for anyway.
A 3-person desk
3 licences, minimum
Aircall
The numbers you hold
Recruitly
A 10-person desk
10 licences, every month
Aircall
The same numbers
Recruitly
A 25-person office
25 licences — their custom tier's floor
Aircall
Still the same numbers
Recruitly
Based on Aircall’s published plans and minimums, checked 21 August 2026. Pricing changes — check their site.
What a phone can do when it can see your database
Briefed before you dial
The AI reads the record and the last conversations, then hands you talking points and what you still owe them. 100 briefings per user a month are included.
Written up before you hang up
Recorded, transcribed with real names, summarised onto the candidate and the job as a note. Three cents a call, not a tier.
A queue that fills itself
What you promised on the call becomes tomorrow's callback. Missed inbound calls from your own candidates resurface on their own.
The rest of the desk
Jobs, candidates, shortlists, placements, billings, WhatsApp, campaigns and the CRM itself — in the same subscription as the phone.
Horizontal phone, vertical problem
The same dialer is sold to support teams, estate agents, insurance brokers and you. It knows a phone number. It does not know what a shortlist is.
Recruitly’s phone system was built inside a recruitment CRM, so the AI knows this call is a candidate at second stage, a client changing a spec, or a fee at risk. It briefs you on that before you dial and writes the outcome onto the job afterwards.
No integration can reach that, however well engineered, because an integration does not own the pipeline it would have to read.
Recruitly vs Aircall
One is a phone system your CRM can talk to. One is the CRM, with the phone inside it.
| What you licence | Numbers | Seats — one per recruiter |
| Minimum to start | One number | Three licences |
| Cost of adding a recruiter | No phone fee | Another monthly licence |
| AI briefing before the call | Included, 100 per user monthly | — |
| AI summary written onto the record | Every plan, 3¢ a call | Via integration, into your other CRM |
| Callback queue filled by the AI | Included | — |
| Call recording retention | Your retention rules | Up to one year on the entry plan |
| Applicant tracking system | Included | — |
| Recruitment CRM | Included | — |
| Job distribution to 50+ boards | Included | — |
| Built for recruitment specifically | Included | — |
Capability comparison against Aircall’s published plans, checked 21 August 2026.
Questions before you move
Why does licensing numbers instead of seats matter?
Because a recruitment desk is not a call centre. Some consultants live on the phone, some are on LinkedIn all day, and everyone answers the client when the client rings. With a per-seat licence you decide in advance who is allowed a phone, and you pay for the quiet ones anyway. Recruitly licences the numbers you hold and charges for the minutes you actually talk, so a desk of ten does not buy ten phone licences before a single call is made.
Aircall integrates with my ATS. Isn't that the same thing?
An integration can carry a call record across after the fact. It cannot read your pipeline before you dial, because it has never seen it. Recruitly's briefing knows this candidate is at second interview on Thursday, that you owe them a salary band, and what was said on the last call — and the summary afterwards writes onto the candidate and the job as a note. That is not an integration doing a better job. It is the difference between a phone that talks to your CRM and a phone that is your CRM.
What does Aircall actually cost a small agency?
At the time of writing, published pricing is $30 per user per month on Essentials and $50 on Professional when billed annually, rising to $40 and $70 on monthly billing, with a three-licence minimum on both — so the floor is $90 a month before anyone picks up the phone, and their custom tier starts at a 25-licence minimum. Check their site for today's numbers; the shape is what matters. Ours scales with numbers and minutes rather than headcount.
Can I keep the numbers on our job adverts?
Yes. Porting is built into Recruitly — raise the order, upload what the losing carrier needs, track it to the switchover date. Your numbers belong to you, not to your provider. Start it early, because porting runs on the carriers' timetable, and everything else in Recruitly can go live while it is in progress.
We already use Aircall. Do we have to switch everything on day one?
No. Recruitly logs calls from the common recruitment dialers into the same Call Logs, so you can run both while you move a desk at a time. What you gain by moving fully is everything that only exists when the phone and the record are one product: the pre-call briefing, the automatic write-up onto the record, and the callback queue.
What am I getting besides a phone system?
The whole agency. Jobs, candidates, applications, contacts, companies, deals, placements, billings, interviews, campaigns, WhatsApp, e-signature, leaderboards for the office TVs, an AI hub for matching and CV formatting, and a Chrome extension that scores LinkedIn profiles against your live jobs. Aircall is a phone company. The call is one line of the desk here.