SkillGigs vs. Loxo: Which One Should You Choose in 2026?

Recruitment in 2026 can be a tedious process that also couples with staff shortages, timelines, finding the right candidate and skills verification but many tools make this whole process pretty easy. In this blog we are comparing two of the top tools for recruitment. Before we go any further, let’s be clear on what’s actually being compared here.

Loxo is a recruitment platform and SkillGigs is a workforce infrastructure company. So the fair comparison is between Loxo and SkillsRadar (SkillGigs’ sourcing tool for recruiters). The decision between these two comes down to one question that you should ask yourself. Do you need a sourcing tool that only verifies skills before you reach out, or do you need a tool that completes your entire hiring workflow from sourcing to placement in one place?

Those are two different priorities and the right answer depends on how your team is setup.

SkillGigs SkillsRadar vs. Loxo at a Glance

Bottom line: SkillsRadar wins on candidate quality and hiring ecosystem depth. Loxo wins if you need sourcing, ATS, and CRM all inside one tool. Both are worth considering—the decision is about which gap you’re trying to close.

What Is Loxo?

Loxo is a complete talent intelligence solution designed for recruitment professionals, staffing agencies, and corporate HR teams across healthcare, technology, engineering and life sciences. It brings together everything that the majority of agencies have to deal with in multiple tools such as sourcing database, outreach, ATS and CRM.

AI and Boolean search of vast candidate pool, Chrome extension for importing profiles in one click, multi-channel outreach, AI notetaker, workflow automation and real-time analytics. While Loxo’s free tier is more of a usable ATS and CRM rather than a trial, the sourcing and AI features are available for premium plans.

What Is SkillsRadar (by SkillGigs)?

SkillsRadar is SkillGigs’ premium hiring tool. It pulls up candidates from a pool of more than 850 million job profiles and it’s not just resumes. The verified skills profiles on the SkillGigs platform are created with SkillsCreed, through Skill Index scoring and by a 3D Resume system that represents the real skills gained through actual work experience and skills demonstrated in the field.

Recruiters search and pay credits only when they want to unlock a candidate’s contact details. The credit-based model means you’re only spending when you find someone worth reaching out to and there’s no burning through credits on profiles that don’t fit. You get 25 credits for free when you sign up, you can use these credits to search, reveal the contact information and reach out to the candidates via SMS, email or WhatsApp

SkillsRadar also connects to SkillGigs’ live job board, where candidates actively bid on roles. That bidding signal is very useful. A candidate who’s bid on a role is actively looking and already engaged, which is different from sourcing someone cold who may or may not be open to a conversation.

There’s no built-in ATS or CRM inside SkillRadar itself. Instead, SkilRadar comes with a Candidate Tracing System (CTS) which helps you track the right candidate for your job.

Key Differences Between SkillRadar and Loxo

How Skills Get Verified

This is the most significant difference between the two tools. SkillRadar verifies skills. Loxo infers them.

In SkillRadar, you see a candidate’s validated skills, which are based on SkillsCreed, a scoring engine that is based on demonstrated work outcomes, peer input and real performance signals. This creates a Skill Index that’s updated daily, using current market benchmarks. Before calling in the candidate, you know what they can actually do.

Like the majority of source tools available in the marketplace, Loxo creates candidates profiles based upon resume details and public profile information. Skills are included as the candidate reported them, they are not independently verified. That’s the usual practice for most of the sourcing tools. It’s important for recruiters who have gone through the experience of having a resume that doesn’t meet expectations.

How Each Tool Finds Candidates

SkillRadar matches candidates based on verified skills and intent signals. Candidates who have placed bids or are actively communicating on the site get promoted higher and you are targeting people who want to communicate, not people who are merely part of a database.

Loxo searches its database using AI and Boolean queries, with natural language search layered on. The search UX is refined and the database is big. It’s about finding profiles that fit your needs, and not about what they’re doing or if they would pick up your message.

Both methods are correct. Active-candidate intent and match quality set SkillsRadar’s approach apart from Loxo, which excels at volume and workflow consolidation.

Pricing

SkillRadar’s Starter plan costs $123/month billed annually or $149/month billed monthly.

Loxo’s Basic plan runs $169/user/month billed annually or $209/user/month billed monthly. That “per user” part matters as your team grows and each additional recruiter is another $169 per month. Loxo has also reportedly applied roughly 5% annual price increases at renewal, which is worth modelling if you’re comparing three-year costs.

Free Tier

Loxo’s free plan is a usable ATS and CRM so you can manage a pipeline and track candidates. The catch is that sourcing and AI features require a paid plan, so you can run the system for free but you can’t use it to find new candidates without upgrading.

SkillRadar’s free tier gives you 25 credits to unlock candidate profiles plus a 7-day trial, so you can actually run searches and test the sourcing quality before spending anything. It’s a different structure. Loxo lets you use the management side for free and SkillRadar lets you try the sourcing side for free and check whether SkillRadar serves your purpose or not.

Built-In ATS/CRM vs. Marketplace Bidding

Loxo has an advantage here. If you want sourcing, candidate tracking, client management and outreach all in one place then Loxo is built exactly for that. The consolidation is the product. For recruitment agencies which manage multiple clients and pipelines, that matters.

SkillRadar doesn’t have a built-in ATS or CRM. If you already have an ATS you’re happy with and you’re specifically looking for a sourcing upgrade, especially one where candidate quality is more important than volume then SkillRadar is perfect for you. But if you’re building your recruiting stack from scratch and want everything under one roof, Loxo solves that more completely.

What SkillRadar offers instead is the bidding system: candidates who bid on open roles are signaling active intent. That’s a different kind of signal than a cold profile and for recruiters who have spent time chasing candidates who weren’t actually open to moving, it changes how outreach conversations start.

What Industries Each Tool Covers

SkillRadar works across industries like healthcare, technology, engineering and others. Loxo similarly positions itself in similar industries. But if industry coverage is a deciding factor for you, confirm directly with both vendors for the specific niche you’re hiring in, since coverage depth can vary even when a platform claims broad reach.

Which Tool Fits Your Situation

SkillRadar is probably the right fit if:

• You are an individual recruiter or small company seeking to fill positions where the quality of the candidates is more important than the quantity.
• You’re paying for LinkedIn Recruiter or Loxo but not getting any real benefit in terms of match quality
• You want to try sourcing for free before committing to anything
• You can use your current ATS in combination with a more suitable sourcing layer.

Loxo is probably the right fit if:

• You want sourcing, ATS, CRM and outreach all in one platform
• You’re managing multiple client pipelines and need structured candidate tracking built into the same tool you source from
• You don’t have a separate ATS and don’t want to manage one

One thing to note is that when a company discovers they require more than sourcing down the road, there is a natural progression to SkillGigs: internal mobility, ATS data activation, direct contractor sourcing with no agency mark-up. That’s not an ecosystem that exists here in Loxo, which is built as a tool for recruiters.

Pros and Cons

SkillRadar

Pros:

• Skills are verified, not guessed so you know what a candidate can do before you reach out
• Free sourcing trial lets you test quality before paying
• Connected to a live marketplace where candidates actively bid on roles
• Part of a broader platform giving a way to grow

Cons:

• No built-in ATS or CRM
• Slightly higher starting price than Loxo’s Basic plan

Loxo

Pros:

• Built in ATS/CRM
• Free tier includes ATS/CRM usage
• Clean UX with strong consolidation value for agencies managing multiple clients

Cons:

• Skills are inferred from resumes and public profiles, not verified through demonstrated performance
• Per-user pricing adds up as the team grows
• ~5% annual price escalation at renewal is worth factoring into multi-year cost comparisons

Beyond SkillRadar — What Else SkillGigs Offers

SkillRadar is one of the module inside a larger platform. It is a perfect starting point for recruiters and sourcing teams. But SkillGigs is built to cover more ground.

On the internal hiring side, organizations can activate years of past applicant data sitting dormant in their own ATS. You can turn your screened candidates who never got placed into a live sourcing pool. There’s also an internal mobility system that maps employee skills and suggests internal candidates for open roles before a company looks outside.

On the contractor side, SkillGigs’ Contingent Talent Marketplace lets companies source and manage resources directly, without agency markups. Every resource is verified against the same skills standard as candidates on the SkillRadar side so there’s one consistent picture across the whole talent pool.

Companies that use multiple parts of the platform end up with something Loxo can’t offer: a private hiring marketplace they own. The talent relationships, the verified skills data and the candidate history belong to the company, not to an agency or a vendor. When a contract ends, the relationship stays in the company’s pipeline.

SkillGigs also recognizes AI agents as a deployable labor type, allowing organizations to search and hire AI agents via the same marketplace as humans. That’s an area of workforce management that Loxo doesn’t cover.

The Verdict: SkillRadar or Loxo in 2026?

When you’re fed up of sending out applications to candidates that seemed perfect on paper but dropped out during the process, this is where SkillRadar can come in handy. The skills verification isn’t a feature just a label. It changes what you’re looking at when you source a candidate. And the free tier means you can find out whether that difference matters for your roles before you spend anything.

Loxo is a solid, high-quality option for anyone who needs all-in-one sourcing, pipeline management, client CRM and outreach but isn’t looking for an ATS of its own. Consolidation value is true.

These two tools solve slightly different problems. Know which problem is bigger for your team and the decision gets easier.

Try SkillRadar for free — 25 credits and a 7-day sourcing trial.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is SkillRadar Cheaper Than Loxo?

Yes and by some margin. SkillRadar’s Starter is $123/month, billed on an annual basis ($149/month on a monthly basis) while Loxo’s Basic is $169/user/month on an annual basis ($209/user/month on a monthly basis).

The other important consideration is that Loxo’s per user pricing structure means charges increase when your business expands and they announced 5% annual price increases at renewal will increase the costs over time.

Does SkillRadar Actually Verify Candidate Skills, or Does It Just Search Resumes Like Loxo?

It is this that makes them different. SkillRadar uses SkillsCreed engine, which scores skills based on the candidate’s actual work history, peers’ input and real signals of performance and not only on self-reported claims. It produces a 3D Resume and a Skill Index score that is benchmarked against real market needs.

Loxo, like most sourcing tools, infers skills from resume and profile data. Both approaches can surface candidates. Only one tells you whether those skills are real before you reach out.

Can I Use SkillRadar For Free?

Yes. SkillRadar’s free tier includes 25 contact-reveal credits and a 7-day sourcing trial so you can search and unlock verified candidate profiles before paying anything.

Loxo also offers a free version, which includes only ATS and CRM features. Sourcing and AI features only available on a paid plan.

Does SkillGigs Offer More Than Just Candidate Sourcing?

Yes. SkillRadar is one part of the SkillGigs platform. SkillGigs also includes tools for internal talent mobility, ATS data activation, direct contractor sourcing without agency markups and AI agents as a deployable labor category.

Organizations that grow beyond sourcing have a natural path to these tools inside the same platform. That’s something Loxo, which operates as a standalone recruiter tool, doesn’t offer.