How much does AI interview software cost? Prices for hiring teams

Every row below comes from the vendor's own pricing page, opened on 28 September 2026 and linked so you can check it yourself. Prices change; each row shows the date we checked. Where a page offers several currencies or billing terms, the row says which one it quotes. Career1 is in the table on the same terms as everyone else.

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Read across the table and the market splits in two. Self-serve vendors print a price and let you start without talking to anyone. Everything above their top tier, and every enterprise-first vendor, is a quote.

These vendors were checked the same way on the same day. None of them prints a figure, so none is given here.

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Figures for several of these do circulate: annual contract values for HireVue and per-candidate rates for others, printed on other vendors' blogs, comparison pages and review listings. None of them appears on the pricing page of the company that would charge it, so we do not repeat them. A price that cannot be traced to the vendor is somebody's estimate, often a competitor's, and it is the number most likely to be years out of date. If you need a HireVue or Sapia.ai figure, the only reliable one is the quote they send you. If HireVue is the tool you are pricing against, the products that replace each part of it are compared in HireVue alternatives for hiring teams.

Dividing a plan's price by the interviews it includes gives the cost of one interview if you use every one that month. Where the vendor states that figure itself, the table says "stated"; where we did the division, it says "our division". The formats differ, so compare like with like: a 20-minute conversation, an eight-minute one and five recorded answers are not the same product.

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Two things follow from those rows. The spread inside each format is wider than the gap between formats, so a conversational interview is not automatically the dearer option. And the lowest figures on the page mostly need a yearly term or a large pool, which only pays if your volume is steady enough to use it.

Almost every price above is one of three shapes, and the shape matters more than the number, because it decides what a quiet month and a busy month cost you.

Per seat

The price follows how many recruiters log in. No vendor in the first table charges purely per seat, and several say outright that they do not: InterviewFlowAI says its plans are "based on interview credits rather than recruiter seats", Truffle and Goodfit list no seat fees, and Mokka offers unlimited reviewer seats. Seat caps inside tiers are common, though, and they bite when every hiring manager needs a login to review candidates.

Per interview or credit

You pay for use: a price per completed interview, or a monthly pool that interviews draw down. Goodfit charges per completed assessment; InterviewFlowAI, Interviewer.ai and Truffle sell credit pools; Career1, The Cognitive and Ribbon sell fixed monthly bundles of interviews in tiers. This shape suits uneven or modest volume. Check what counts as one use, whether unused interviews roll over, and what happens when you run out.

Flat or unlimited

One subscription, interviews unlimited or close to it. Hireflix prices by company size with unlimited responses, and Spark Hire sells video plans with unlimited interviews that vary "by company size". The marginal interview costs nothing, which is ideal for steady volume, but you pay through the months you are not hiring, usually on a yearly term.

The two that fit none of the three

Sapia.ai charges per hire, so the bill follows your hiring rather than your applicant volume. Willo Lite charges per live role per month, which suits a team with one or two roles open at a time.

A worked example rather than a benchmark: assume each hire takes 60 applicants and you want every one of them interviewed. Put your own number in place of 60; the shape of the answer barely moves.

Five hires a year

That is about 300 interviews a year, arriving in five bursts with quiet months in between. What fits is anything you can switch off.

• A monthly tier you drop between roles. On Career1, Pro covers 60 interviews for $99, so five one-month bursts cost $495 in a year, and you can return to the free plan in between.
• Pay per completed interview. At Goodfit's $5 a credit, 300 interviews come to $1,500 before its 20 free ones, and its credits never expire, which suits bursts.
• Pay per live role. Willo Lite's £49 per live role per month charges only for the months a role is open.
• A cheap annual flat plan. Hireflix Small is $75 a month billed yearly, so $900 a year for unlimited one-way responses. Good value if recorded video is what you want, but paid through the quiet months.

What does not fit: annual contracts sized for continuous hiring, and tiers whose price mostly buys seats a team of two will never use. Whether a team this size needs any of it is worked through in AI screening for small teams.

Five hundred hires a year

At the same 60 per hire that is 30,000 interviews a year, about 2,500 a month. Per-interview price now dominates the bill, and nothing self-serve reaches it.

• Career1 is the wrong size. Its largest plan covers 150 interviews a month and there is no overage to buy, so its pricing is simply not built for this volume.
• Published tiers top out well short. Ribbon's Scale covers 1,000 a month, InterviewFlowAI's Scale 505 and The Cognitive's Pro 225. Above that, each is a custom quote.
• This is where unlimited and per-hire pricing earn their place. Unlimited annual plans such as Spark Hire's, per-hire pricing such as Sapia.ai's, and quote-only vendors such as HireVue are built for this volume. The price will be negotiated, so the questions in the next section matter more than any list price.

Two plans at the same monthly price can cost very different amounts in practice. These are the lines to read before signing anything.

• What counts as one interview. Career1 counts an interview when the candidate starts it, so one abandoned halfway counts and an invitation never opened does not. Goodfit charges "only when a candidate actually completes it". Interviewer.ai reserves a credit at the invitation, returns it if the interview is not completed within 30 days, and counts each retake of a one-way interview as a new interview.
• What happens at the limit. The Cognitive says interviews are "never blocked mid-conversation" and bills overage. Truffle's Starter is a hard cap with no overage. Career1 pauses your live jobs until the allowance renews rather than billing more.
• Whether unused interviews roll over. InterviewFlowAI rolls credits over on Growth and Scale, Truffle from Core up for 12 months, to three times your pool, and Interviewer.ai month to month. The Cognitive and Career1 do not.
• The term. Spark Hire's applicant tracking system is annual only, Willo Enterprise runs one to three years, and Hireflix's listed prices are billed yearly. Career1 is billed monthly and can be cancelled from the workspace.
• Whether the evidence is paywalled. On Interviewer.ai, interview summaries and transcripts are listed on Professional, not Essential. On Career1 the scored report, the transcript and the recording come with every plan, the free one included.
• Whether candidates pay. They should not. HireVue's pricing page says it "is free for candidates", and Career1 never charges candidates either.

Career1's price is its row in the first table, and nothing sits behind a sales call. The free plan covers 2 interviews a month with no card, enough to put a real applicant through and read the report. Starter is $49 a month for 25 interviews, Pro $99 for 60 and Max $199 for 150, billed monthly. Every plan includes the scored report, the transcript and the video recording, and there is a complete sample interview report to read before you spend anything. Current figures are always on the pricing page.

What the money buys is the first-round interview. The AI recruiter interviews every applicant by voice, in the browser, for about eight minutes, with questions built from the role and the applicant's resume and follow-ups when an answer is thin. Your team gets a ranked shortlist and decides; Career1 recommends and rejects nobody, and its scores are decision support, not a verdict.

It is the wrong price, or the wrong product, when:

• you need more than 150 interviews a month, because there is no overage and no larger plan yet;
• you need an annual contract or an ATS integration, since Career1 bills monthly and does not sync with any applicant tracking system;
• you specifically want recorded one-way video, where flat unlimited plans are cheaper per response at volume;
• you interview in a language other than English, because the interview is English only at the time of writing;
• you need customer references or an independent bias audit before buying, which a new product cannot give you yet;
• you hire once a year from a handful of applicants. Call them.

If you are still deciding whether any of this is worth paying for, the arithmetic of screening by hand is in what screening applicants really costs.

Each pricing page was opened on 28 September 2026 and read as served to a visitor, with no account and no sales call. Where a page shows several currencies, the row names the one it quotes. Where a pricing address redirects to a demo form or a homepage, the row says so rather than guessing. Nothing here comes from review sites, software listicles or one vendor's page about another.

We aim to re-open every page each quarter, and whenever a vendor tells us a row is wrong; the date in each row is the last time we did. If you find a stale figure, the contact page reaches the people who can fix it. Career1 is not affiliated with any vendor named here.

Every page below was opened and read on 28 September 2026.

• Career1 plans: career1.ai/pricing.
• Hireflix: hireflix.com/pricing.
• Spark Hire: sparkhire.com/pricing.
• Willo: willo.video/pricing.
• Truffle: hiretruffle.com/pricing.
• InterviewFlowAI: interviewflowai.com/pricing.
• The Cognitive: thecognitive.io/pricing.
• Goodfit: goodfit.so/pricing.
• Interviewer.ai: interviewer.ai/pricing.
• Ribbon: ribbon.ai/pricing.
• Mokka: gomokka.com/pricing.
• HireVue: hirevue.com/pricing.
• Sapia.ai: sapia.ai/pricing.
• VidCruiter: vidcruiter.com/pricing.
• Alex: alex.com/pricing and the alex.com homepage footer.
• HeyMilo: heymilo.ai/pricing.
• Tenzo: tenzo.ai/pricing.
• Paradox: paradox.ai/pricing.
• micro1: micro1.ai/pricing.